The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-13
The Daily Bulletin.
GLEANINGS.


potato digger which, il is claimed, will
do the work Of twenty men.
Estimates have been prepared show
ing that Peter Cooper gave away Si,-
100000 during his life.
The late Surgeon General Barnes, Of
Washington, in will Of fifty words left
all his property to his wife.
The annual cattle sales in the United
States are reported to amount TO $780,
600, 900
Twenty-Five pounds Of unmarked dy-
Mantle were found travelling alone in a
seat in Western railroad train.
In Rio Janeiro they cover their bur
ial ca kets with black, red or velvet ma
terial, bordered with gilt tinsel
The first metal found in the ruins Of
the Tuileries was coined into medal
and presented TO Victor Hugo.
The Kansas man who was blown of
the roof Of his house by a tornado
says he doesn't want any more wind
falls.
Fifty thousand dollars is the estimated
annual income in rents for the arches
at the New York end Of the East River
bridge.
The late A. II. Stephens, Of Georgia,
loaned money to l20 young men, to en-
able them to get an education. Most Of
the money was repaid.
Interest in Emerson Is constantly in
creasing in England. Cheap editions Of
his works are beginning to be printed
there.
Mr.. james c. Flood, Of bonanza
fame, will build a sl,OO0.O00 house on
the top Of the highest San Francisco
hill.
Jefferson Davis, told an interviewer
the other day that John Quincy Adams
was the most genial gentleman he ever
knew
San Diego is pronounced the best Of
the health resorts of the Pacific Coast,
as far as dry and equable climate
is concerned, by recent investigator.
MANY farmers who secure for them.
selves all the labor-saving improve
ments are slow in arranging similar
helps for their wives.
Thomas McElrath, Horace Greeley's
first partner in the publication Of the
Tribune, is said TO be writing a history
Of New York journalism.
All the locomotive manufactures in
Prussia cannot make twice as many en-
gines in a year as the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works alone.
By the order OF Prince Alexander, Of
Bulgaria, an official history is being
prepared of the part played by the Bull
garian volunteers during the Russo
Turkish war.
Rattesnake skins are much used in
Florida for ladies' belts, and slippers
are also made OF the same material, the
rattles serving rs ornaments thereon in
stead Of bows or tassels
In a recent letter TO the Ohio State
Forestry Association, Mr.. John G. Whit
tier says that he is panied and indignant
at the wanton destruction OF the forests
in the New England States.
Young Daniel Boone, a great-grand-
son of the explorer of Kentucky, de.
'liyers parcels for one of the gleat Broad.
way firms Of New York on salary OF
$50 a week.
Four convicts in the Ohio penitentiary
have each chopped finger off in order
to enjoy n rest in the hospital. Another
poured melted lead in his shoe, and will
probably lose his leg.
The Auglo-Swiss Condensed MilE
Company founded by United State
Consul Page in 1866 with Sl2, 900, hal
now a capital of s., 600, 900, and turned
out 30,000,0OO cans last year
The modern philosopher who declared
that ''the men of isms are the men o
genius will, on second thought, find al
exception to his rule in the man witt
the rheumatism.
Professor L. Stone Virgins, of Can
ada, who doesn't know much about tn,
weather of the future, is about to star
on lecturing tour. He has alread,
been well advertised.
A man in st. Tammany, La, freed
wildcat, and set fire to the underground
to smoke him out. The fire got ava.
and burned forty panels Of fence for
neighbor, and the wildcat got away also
The Norwegian Storthung has re
solved that every able-bodied adult il
Norway shall receive musket AM
be taught to use it, at the States OK
pense.
The block from which was cut tn
pedestal for the statue of Peter tn
Great at ST. Petersburg weighed abou
1900 tons, and yet it was transporter
four miles.
II is said that when General Daz learn
ed what programme OF entertainment
had been prepared for him in Boston h
gasped-in Spanish; Great heavens
II only live through it!'
A slab of marble, marked &c. eros
Brock" has remained in the freight OF
flee at Grcenville, Ala, for the pas
seventeen years. 1t was originally in
tended to be erected over some soldier
grave. Whosop WhereP
Chinese cheap labor turns out not
DO so cheap after all. The railroad cor
tractors Of the Pacific coast have nov
discovered that Scandinavian and me