The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-13
The Daily Bulletin.
GLEANINGs.

known novelist, Is clesA in the Sur
geon Generals office, in Washington,
The largest milk-pan on record, hold
ing 800 gallons, has just been made for
an Iowa creamery. ua
In a recent speech the Prince Of Wales
said London had now about 5000, 900
inhabitants.
y Every man who carries pistol ought
to be Obliged by law to wear it In a belt
at his side, and have it labeled "emo-
tional insanity. "-Springfeld Union.
The sword presented TO General An
drew Jackson by the General Assembly
OF Tennessee, in honor Of his victory at
New Orleans, is to be placed in trust
with the Tennessee Historical Society.
Myopia is spreading TO an alarming
extent in Germany. OF $1,000 school
children recently examined, one-half
were near sighted II this continues
the German eye may so degenerate rs
to be merely rudimentary.
Theodore Tilton's once fair brown
locks, says contemporary, now hang
over his shoulders in ragged tangles OF
gray, his eyes look heavy and jaded,
and there are deep wrinkles all over his
face.
We are sometimes disposed to think
that the administration Of justice in
modern society is a vast absurdity, a
huge Renaissance of the middle ages
numbering the nineteenth century,
Buffalo Courier.
There is new French gun twenty
nine feet six inches long, weighing fifty
tons, costing f25, 600 1t is wire-wound,
and is expected to put ball through
fifteen inches of armor at distance of
seven and a half miles.
A woman writes 10 the Boston Globe
that, finding she could earn more in
business than her husband, they revers-
ed the usual order Of things. She now
goes 10 business, and he does all the
home work, and ~ itexcellently. The
plan works very satisfactorily.
A butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead, says the best butter color is
apailful Of corn meal mash, fed warm
once a day, the corn to be Of the yellow
variety; adding that it will increase the
milk and butter, rs well as give good
color
The San Francisco Post is responsible
for the story that during the latter part
Of the war David Davis was challenged
TO fight duel by a fire-eating, Southern
ex-member of Congress. The former
it is added, very properly declined, be-
cause his antagonist refused to permit
him to stand three fifths behind a stone
wall.
Business is duller at Denver at pres
ent than it has been for several years.
Every department of labor is over full
1t is estimated that there are now 5000
people in Denver out OF employment,
and this state of affairs applies TO clerk
ships and such occupations as well as TO
the day laborers that WELD the ak and
spade.
In 1858 the rich alluvial lands Of Ash
ley County. in the southeastern portion
OF Arkansas, readily commanded from
$25 to $50 per acre, and the uplands
from 50 to SO per acre, but now these
lands average only about - to SIS per
acre in the lowlands and the hill lands
can be bought for from 81 to 3. The
excessive cultivation of cotton is the
cause.
An architectural paper, says the Bos-
ton Transcript, prints plans of cottage
aHpr "a nf - n "a IA "A
position" Next issue will probably
contain drawings of q ranch for an old
fellow Of no position to speak of and
with character blacker than IA stack
of black cats in a mooncss night The
unexceptionable young men ncedn ex'
pect to have all the good things in ar
chtecture.
IN The nature of the bite of the leech ha,
been examined by NJ. Carlet He de-
tached the animal from the shaved Skin
of rabbit at different stages, Suppose
scaritier with three toothcd and eaui
blades withdrawing from one another
while they press into the skin, and oper
ating several times successfully in tn
the same place; this gives pretty ex
act idea of the mechanism.
President McCosh may be right in hi
estimate of the influence of Carlyle up
on the English language, but report
published by leading American journal
of prize fights, chicken mains and do
matches show that the rugged element
OF our mother tongue are not to be sap
ped by the demoralizing slush spattere
over the domain of literature by the au
thor of "The French Revolution.
1t is now proposed to change the nam
Of Washington Territory upon her ad
mission into the Union as State to Tia
homa, which is said to be the prope
photography for the name usually writ
ten Tacoma. Tahoma Is an India
word meaning almost to heaven, an
was the name given by the Indians T.
Mount Rainier on account of the grea
height of that mountain.
The people of Pittsburg, Pa, hav
Just discovered that they have an inter
esting relic Of the colonial times in thei
city. 1t is old Fort Duquesne bloc
house, for which nations strove a cen
tury and half ago, lis how SUI
rounded by all kinds of dilapidated ten
ements, and is itself domicile for
poor family. There is movement o
foot to acquire the property and Great
a public park, of which it shall be tn
principal attraction.
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