The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-05
GLEANINGs.

any line beyond medlocrty aspires 10
Camille. London Truth.
In probably no other place in the
world but Strobeck, Germany, does
chess form regular course OF study IN
the schools. i...t r.l
There are 400 cheese factories in the
province Of Quebec, and 1t is expected
that numerous creameries will be estab-
lished the coming season.
w Twenty-seven million barrels OF pc
troleum are pumped from the wells
YEARLY and the world has been searched
in vain for q market for this vast ocean
OF mineral oil.
A mastodon's tooth, between three
and four inches long and about the size
OF q mans thumb, was discovered not
long ago upon the Upper Willamette
river, In Oregon, forty feet underneath
the surface Of the ground by some
workmen who were digging a we'll
An old farmer in Texas having said at
q church meeting, II have belonged to
the church thirty years, and, bless the
Lord, it has never cost me dollar"
the good preacher arose and responded,
"The Lord bless your stingy old soul. y
Boston Globe.
The winter radish should be sown
about tho middle Of summer, and, like
the turnip makes its best growth in the
autumn. Pitted out of doors or buried
earth in cool cellar, it will keep
crisp all winter. An hour before using
place the winter radish in cold water
A big steam yacht is coming to be
necessary luxury with the millonaires
The Cramps Of Philadelphia, builders of
Jay Gould's Atalanta, have just con-
tracted to build an iron steam yacht 225
feet long for William Aston, and are to
begin next fall on another yacht for
James Gordon Bennett.
Mr.. Howells holds in the part Of "a
Woman Reason" in heJune Century,
that "the character of no man is fixed
till il has been tried by that of the
woman he loves. Till then he has only
the materials Of character, and they are
all to be shaped and ordered as newly
as if he had never had them before"
1t is said that inventors, fearful of be-
ing robbed of their ideas, deliberately
deceive their attorneys and the patent
Office about their inventions, obscuring
! the truth so that when they do get a
patent it is practically worthless for
the reason that it does not cover the real
points.
The Chinese Legation were happy
when the circus was in Washington, and
one of them told Congressman in a
burst Of appreciation that he had not
enjoyed anything so much since Con-
gress adjourned! They attended every
performance and the young attaches
spent all their pocket money in tickets.
Few people are probably aware of the
remarkable collections being privately
made by rich New Workers in the way
Of books, prints, and virtuoso The
book-buyersl say that Robert Hoe, Jr,
who is about forty years of age, is the
best connoisseur in the United States.
He has library more remarkable and
expensive than general.
1t is believed that Lydia Pinkham's
advertisements were on greater scale
than those of any one, Holloway, of
Lon on, excepted, whose charitable en-
dowments amount to $780, 900. News
papers can be seen at Holloway's which
can be found nowhere else in London,
rs those containing his advertisements
are forwarded from the remotest parts
Of the globe.
In China the market quotations are all
in Uncle Sans dollar marks. Handker-
chiefs are worth from &c to 7Sc per
dozen; black velvet, l9c per yard, 32
inches wide; wooden blankets; l2pounds,
per pair, 1913. Birds nests, rstqual-
ity, 81 $50 to So, 800 per "picul;" buffalo
robes, Sl2; coal, hard, $3.50 per ton;
American -four, per barrel of 200
pounds, $685..
There are at present erecting at Chat
tanooga q new furnace, to cost $3.50, 900;
stove factory, TO cost $75, 900; steel
mill, a hollowware factory, four-story
Touring mill and large cooperage fac
tory, The capacity of the pipe-works is
being doubled. Two more woodenware
factories are contemplated Beside all
this the town is TO have irst-cass fire
department.
1t is recommended that "a bottle of
carbolic acid should be kept in every
farmhouse, not merely as disinfectant,
but as a wash for wounds and sores.
For any purpose it should be diluted
with water. It's power to destroy fun
gus growths makes carbolic acid inval-
liable in pruning orchards of pear,
plum or peach where blight or other
disease is suspected. The pruning
shears should be frequently dipped in
carbolic acid water"
A horticulturist writes the MaSSachu-
sets Poughman that air-slacked lime
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