The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-13
The Daily Bulletin.
GLEANIEGS.

Rock, says: "lf the newspapers Of the
South would pay more attention 10 cdu-
catlonal matters and less to politics the
difference would show Itself, "
Ostric.' chicks are Matching out at the
California ostrich farm at the rate OF
one day, When they come on Of the
egg they are about the size Of half
grown duck. They grow rapidly.
That anachronism, steamboats, in the
Grand Canal at Venice, has unpleasant
results. The paddlc-wheels stir up the
deposited sewage Of centuries, and the
smell is far from romantic.
Wannamaker, the great Philadelphia
merchant is said to have done 100000
600 worth Of business last year OF this
sum II, 900, 900 were net profits, His
advertising expenses amounted 10 800,
600.
A Jersey City dog that had bitten a
man was taken out five miles at sea and
cast overheard 10 drown, He succeed
ed in swimming to land, and now his
master swears by the great horn spoon
that he shall not die,
Ischia has always born an enyiabIc
reputation. Sirabo and Pliny, who lived
at the ,mc Of Jesus, speak Of its vol
canic character, and /, !, ,aitihaI three
colonic, bad been driven from the is
land by earthquakes.
The three oldest living composilors in
Pennsylvania reside in HARRISBURG. They
are General Simon Cameron, aged
eighty-siX years; George W. Scott, aged
eighty-iive wears, and Jacob Babb, aged
eighty.thrcc years.
The widow of Lord Frederick Caven.
dish, who was murdered in Phmuix
Park, Dublin will be married again ne
fore the termination OF the present
year The second marriage, it is stated.
ha, the approval OF her late husbands
relatives.
A curious fact has been observed BY
Professors Ayrton and Perry: Soft
iron. when heated between q red and
white heat, ceases 10 be- attracted by \
magnet. When soft iron is bent between
red and white not iron it cease, TO be
attracted by a magnet
II is not for simple money that the
pine torcs, along the Adriatic al Raven
ma, italy, celebrated by Dante and By
ron and which furnished the ,hip-yaris
Of Rome and Venice, are 10 be- cut
down, but because an excavation for a
railroad has ,odraiued the soil the trees
have died.
A Paris dispatch says gentleman
was found in,eu,ible in hrN-c.asb
railway carriage between Plri, and
Lyons who had been stabbed and
robbed. Until 4 Prince or a Bishop is
killed the absurd plan OF locking up
passengers in their compartments viii
likely be continued
For ffty.four wears was an iuvoi-
crate cigar-smokcr, ' say, Ihurlow
Weed in his autobiography Though
never using tobacco in any other form
During that period learn, by some
what careful computation. that | must
have smoked or given to friend, at least
eighty thousand cigars
Speaking Of the use OF the cypress
tree, Georgia paper gives the number
Of shingles taken from such trees on a
certain plantation as follows: First
tree, $40; second tree, 1890; third
tree, 1853; total 23,l99 It's manager
stated that he would yet 5000 more
from the third tree, thus maknga total
of %, 1893 shingles.
Mr.. Labouchcre says that the greater
part Of the Duchess Of Edinburgh 5
trousscau was sold in London few
years ago as the property OF lady Of
rank The royal family, with the eX-
ccption Of that amiable and popular
prodigal, the Prince OF Wales, appears
TO be very frugal, as if a rainy day were
coming,
An English company, with Il capital
Of 100000, has been organized to de-
vclop the Haycock iron mines, Just OPP
tie Ottawa, Thcgoycrnmcnthas
sted the enterprise by offering a bonus
of -. 80 for every ton Of ore Smelted tor
hreo years. This encouragement Is
lfscly to lead to the development of i'm.
mepse deposits OF iron in the Hull
Mountains,
The suggestion is made that steam
gongs COR locomotive, could bc 80 con-
structed as 10 send the sound forward
along the track, somewhat on the prin-
ciple on which rays from tie headlights
are reflected The frequent screaming
of the whistle is diSagrecaDlr to some
passengers and TO people who live near
to railroads We fear the forward pro-
lection OF sound g., hardly practicable,
There is an apple tree in an orchard
in Adair County, Missouri that meas
ureS six feet ten inches in crcumtcr-
cnco near the ground aud six feet at u
distance Of six fee, from the ground.
The largest limb measures four feet ten
inches, This mammoth of the orchard
has yielded forty bushels each year for
the last ten years, aud tho fruit is Of cN-
cellent variety.
The house Of Mrs. John ". BigcIow,
at Newport, is furnished with Ven
etian portico which looks oUt on the
bay, ailordiug one OF the best pictures
in that city Mrs, Bgelow asked her
friend, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, TO say
something about this piazza some
thing to be- remembered, Mrs, Howe
knitted her fine brows and purscd up
her nervous mouth Every one waited
for the oracular u,torancc of the author