The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-04
The Daily Bulletin.
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Wyoming Territory, turn out 10000
bricks week.
One of the judges appointed by Gov
ernor Butler finds that woman came
to her death by being struck by "cll-
lender Of locomotive engine.
An eccentric lounger in Tazewell
county, Iowa, has placed thirteen large
arm-chairs in rs many stores, so he can
always have q seat when he calls.
Three hundred and four suits for di-
vorce were brought in Cuyahoga coun-
ty, Ohio, last year, seventy-one OF them
on the ground of marital iniidelity.
The registered debt Of Berlin is about
10000 900 marks, on which the surplus
profits of the gas works pays the entire
interest
Most of the deyiltry done in Ger
many, England and Ireland now is
blamed on Commandments, Irish
Americans and Observation-Disclosures.
Lawns can be cured of ants by blow
ing Persian powder into the holes the
ants make in the ground. Anyway,
q Boston man who has tried it says So
There is a man up in Vermont whose
brains, according to one of the medical
journals. have dried up, so that they
rattle around like beans in bladder
every time he shakes his head.
The largest object-glass in use is the
twenty-siX inch lens at Washington,
with focal length of thirty-three feet
It's light gathering power is l6, 900 times
that of the unaided eye.
The favorite perfume of the Empress
Josephine was musk. A Boston editor
sensibly suggests that people who blame
Napoleon for divorcing her should stop
to consider this.
Large quantities of land are being
leased in Lima, Livingston County, n.
Y, for the purpose Of boring for salt
1t is believed that Lima is over rich
salt bed.
Over 700 miles of subterranean tele-
graph lines are completed in France
and 1900 miles are in course of con-
struction to be completed by the end of
this year
One firm in Gates county, North Car
DINA, owns thirty miles of narrow
gauge railway, connecting five of its
saw-mills. 1t does the largest lumber
business in the State.
Prof Alexander Graham Bell is col
lecting books, pamphlets, etc, on cleo
tricity, and preparing photography
of the science He has already indeXed
the titles of more than 40, 900 works.
There is now no living member of the
group pictured by Carpenters cele-
brated painting of Signing the Procla-
nation. - Montgomery Blair was the
eighth and last,
Mr.. Edison has had all he wants of
Photographs. The more | think of
that photograph, he says, the more
am convinced that it would have been
a terrible thing to set a machine TO work
recording all that a person said.
A prussian law requires peddlers to
"behaye politely, clean their boots on
entering a house, and bow when offer
ING wares" The peripatetic vendors in
this country evidently never heard of
that law.
Those who have seen the old burying-
ground at Provincetowp will appreciate
the remark Of the bright young Boston
girl who said she should not want to be
buried there when die. said she,
81 would rather be cremated once for
all than to be buried there and sizzle,
The shad, although until seven years
ago stranger on the Pacific coast, has
multiplied since its introduction to an
extent truly remarkable. They are now
to be found all along the coast Of Cali
fornia, and northward are making their
way rapidly.
Matrimony between persons of the
same blood in France is forbidden by
law only to params. gra%dparents, and
full AM nal.-0:o0rr, anu sisters, Mar
ria-os o''weaH uaalc> and nieces, aunts
and ncnhra> permissible,
The Pecatonica NcUS has this I'VE
set up a notice yesterday for a boy
wanted, and last evening before our
forms went TO press one made its adj
vent in our household Weight eight
pounds. Who says advertising doesn't
pay?'
Observation-Disclosures extends very far
along the animal series. Parrots hold
their food by preference in the right
foot, and, though we cannot speak pos.
itively,waspS, beetles, and spiders seem
to use the right anterior foot most com.
monty
The factory bells of Lawrence, Mass,
have always been noted for their har-
mony Of tone and tune. This is the
work Of Henry X. Oliver, who is an ac-
comp.ished musician. and who was CON
nected with the manufacturing inter-
ests of the city in its infancy. He
selected all the bells with reference to
harmony.
Nature in mood Of uncommon. not
to say lavish, iberality, has provided a
recently-born Alabama girl with three
tongues, If this Singuarly-gifted young
lady should ever reach years of matur.
ity and get married it is safe to say tia,
her husband will not overstay his limit
at the club more than once Ncw Yorl
Hour
A bachelor who wa, tired of single