The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-03
GLEANINGS.

In Vermont, on one of the stage
roads, beautiful girl of about eighteen
drives the stage and manages the four
horses with great deXterity.
The editor of the Waco (Tex.) Senti-
mel, having been blown up by theeXplo-
sion of q saw-mill boiler, we suppose it
will now be in order to allude to him rs
"our highly steamed contemporary. -
life
Mr.. Gould's principal holdings now
are Western Union, S30,000,00O; Mis-
souri, Pacific, $l0000,000; Wabash Pa
cific, $4,000, 900; Denver Il Rio Grande,
$4,000, 600, the balance of his $780,
100000 being invested in bonds and
real estate.
Charles Smith, of Providence, r. l.,
slapped a strangers face for staring at
his wife in street car, and he was be-
ginning to feel himself hero when the
car stopped, and little girl helped the
impudent fellow off, He was stone
blind.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will not
give the usual reduced rates to tent
shows wishing TO stop in Altoona, Pa.
The company's shops are there, and the
management claim that crcuscs demon
alize the workmen, swallow up their
earnings, and are q nuisance,
A sneak-thief stole clock in a Mon
treal store the other day, and, conceal
ing il under his coat started for the
door. 1t happened to be an alarm clock,
and the machinery being started it rails
ed such din that he quickly dropped
it, but did not escape arrest.
An Essex New York; County jury
gave man aged l06years, for the loss
of his son through the negligence of the
mining firm employing him, verdict
Of only $500 damages, because 1.-THE pc
cuniary loss TO the old man was not
great, as his chances of life are small. "
A correspondent of the British Med
zeal Journal states that he has found the
application OF a strong solution of chro-
mic acid three or four times by means
Of n cancels hair pencil to be the most
efficient and easy method of removing
warts, They become black and soon
fall of.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who is
taking great interest in the information
nj fisheries exhibition in London, has
commissioned an artist TO paint pic
ture twenty-five by fifty feet in size, at
a cost of 500 guineas, to adorn one of
the departments, The painting will
represent morning fish sale on the
sands at Carborough
After a dinner at Holland house, the
other day, at which many Of the guests
were authors, well-known society"
man said TO a friend In condolences II
can imagine one wanting TO know an
author after reading his book; but |
cannot now imagine any one desiring
toread book after knowing its au-
thor
London Punch, which never is re-
markablo for superabundancc of wit,
has this week coolly adopted from an
American journal of caricature joke
at the expense of the fashionable Brit
ish snob. He remarks to an American
belle, "Aw! aw! II must be very un.
pleasant for you Americans to be gov.
erned by people, aw, whom you wouldn'
ask to dinner To which she promptly
replies, "Well, not more so, perhaps
than for you in England to be governed
by people who wouldn't ask goa TO din.
ner.
The commonly.received advice to or.
chardists, TO scrape the rough bark from
the old apple trees, has been contra
dicted some having tried it and conclu
ded that the practice did more harm
than good. The rough bark is pro
lection to the tree from sudden changes
Of temperature. The benefit often claim
ed from scraping the trees comes from
the greater attention paid TO them il
other respects by men who take thi
trouble.
Two Boston ladies are the Joint own
ers OF model, or "dummy,n such al
dressmakcrs use, which they have nam
cd Miss Grace, and which has to b,
frequently transferred from one TO tn,
other, according TO the terms of tn,
partnership. One Of the ladies sent
her coacbman for the dummy the 9th
or day, and, forgetting that he was d
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