The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-02

apply at once, as applicants will be sup
piled in the order in which applications are
filed. A can or bucket must be furnished
by applicant to forward fish in-this may
be sent to them, or the COM
mittee will furnish it and COL
lect its cost with other attending expense,
as applicant desires. Fish will be sent
either from Quincy, H., or Aurora, ILL.,.
Applicants should send the size Of pond
average depth of water, and whether con-
tanning other fish or not, as also their full
address, post office, county and town, name
of nearest railroad station, and name of ex-
press office doing business there. Appica.
ton can be made to either of the
board of commissioners, N. X.
Fairbank, Chicago, H.; s. p. Bartlett,
Quincy, H.. s. p. McDole, Aurora, III.
A baby can wear out dollar pair of
kid shoes in twenty-four hours. 1t can keep
its father busy advertising in the news
papers for a nurse. 1t can occupy both
sides of the largest size bed manufactured,
simultaneously. 1t can make the author
of its beings wash bills foot up TO IS a
week and not be feeling at all well. 1t can
crowd to suffocation the smoking car of a
railroad train with indignant passengers be-
tween two stations. 1t can cause its father
to be insulted by every second-class board
ing house keeper IN the city who "neyer
take children" II can make an old bache-
lor IN the room adjoining use language that,
if uttered on the street, would get him into
the penitentiary for two years 1t can, in
ten minutes, drive a msn frantically from
his home and cause him to seek the COM
psniouship of locomotive blowing of
steam.
Meeting are being quietly held by
some of the leading taxpayers of East St.
LOUIS with view to getting at the bottom
facts about the clty's finances. The receipts
of the treasury for June were the largest
for any one month since East ST. Louis was
settled and since Mayor Winton and the
so.called reform element of the council
came into office at least f25.O00 has been
hsnded IN by the taxpayers. And yet the
police and other city employees remain
unpaid, and the officials insists that there is
no money in the treasury. With the long
winter nights coming on, the police force
has been reduced to eight men, aud there is
no adequate protection against the thieves
and msrauders that nfest the neighbour
hood of every great city. The substantial
law abiding citizens who pay the taxes are
the greatest sufferers by this state Of things.
They propose to see what they can do
about it.
The Y. NJ. &. A. Railway reading
rooms, through its secretary, Mr.. CRANE,
are sending out a very artistically written
invitation (hectographically copied), invit-
ing all to "cOme to the rooms, write your
letters, inks, pens, paper, etc, tree. Cos
pei meeting Sunday AT p. H. Inc
rooms are well patronized, and the infu-
ences are such that much good must result
from its establishment. Among the papers
kept on file we find Puck, Scientific
American, Texas Siftings, Arkansaw Travel
Ter, H4rp9rs Magazine and Weekly, Tiffin
Ohio News, Frank Leslie's Illustrated,
Frank Lesiie's Popular Monthly, The Cen
fury, Pecks Sun, Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, Sanford fla Journal, Globe
Democrat, Truth, Weekly Cairo Bulletin,
Christian Herald, most Of the Chicago pa
pers and papers from other parts of the
country. Railroad men are especially in.
terested as they can drop in any time and
find their home papers. The rooms are
located on Commercial avenue below Tenth
street
The very latest style of confidence
game is the baby racket, which was played
on Chicago merchant who came down on
the G.. & A. to witness the Yelled Prophets
and Trades procession. The trick was
played by three young men who boarded
the train at Chicago and left at some point
unknown to any Of the passengers. The
Chicago man had a very fine diamond stud
adjoining his shirt front. This was not the
last thing the confidence men saw and he
WAS soon 'marked," Shortly after the
train left Springfield one of the young men
walked forward, carrying laughing baby
in his arms. Salu,ing one of his "pals'
the confidence man remarked what a heart.
less thing it Was TO abandon such pretty
child. The accompices stood up and in a
few moments the Chicago man was on his
feet chucking the infant under the chin and
playing peek-a-b boo and tootzie-wootzie. The
little thing laughed in great glee and the
Chicago man played monkey while the tenn
norsrv nurse hald IN his charge for the