The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-09
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The Washington Monument will stop |
this season at 942 feet. And this Is the |
difference between it and the average
Washington politician, for he stops at
0.-Boston Transcript.
Richard Busted, Of Brooklyn, has
asked the New York Central Park Com
missoners for the privilege of inclosing
the Egyptian obelsk in glass case,
means Of preserving it.
The old mansion built by Gen. Philip
Schuyler in 1850 upon Clinton street,
Albany, is offered for sale in the expecta-
ton that 1t will be replaced by build
ing for business purposes.
England in 1880 and 1881, under an
adulteration act, refused to permit 3d.
600 packages of tea to be landed Most
Of it was shipped to this country, hence
"gift' tea stores. ..,,,.s.i.,tpass M
"A three-yesr-old child, born IN Arkan.
sas, has three distinct tongues She also
has a well-defined snake mark, extend
ing from the middle Of her back up over
the shoulder blade and almost to the
elbow. The young one seems to suffer
no inconvenience from her three
tongues, but cannot talk quite so well as
can other children Of her age.
The local option law of Maryland has
provision requiring a physician TO
write In ink all his prescriptions for
liquor and to record them fully for the
inspection of the State Attorney. The
total abstinence people have begun to
enforce this, and doctor is under six
indictments in test case. He had
given prescription to all his friends who
asked for them.
The princely way in which Long Isl.
md City teachers are salaried is Illus
trated by the following item, taken from
the proceedings Of the school board:
Miss Emma Locke was promoted to
the position of acting principal of the
Second Ward School and her salary in
creased to $3.50" And even this pit
lance is only on paper. The teachers
have not been paid in money for six
months.
One day last week Judge Greer, of
Oglethorpe, Ga, heard loud call from
the street, what do you wishP" ask
ed the Judge of u young man who sat
in buggy, pretty girl being by his
side. "Please marry u.s. said the
youth. "Shall -" inquired the official,
looking at the girl. yes" she said,
and the lovers were married as they sat
in the buggy. After the couple had rid
den away, the girls father drove hur-
riedly up, to swear at empty air.
The following recipe for the manu-
facture Of whisky was, in the most
solemn earnest, made the text OF tenn
perance lecture in Washington recently:
Five barrels half full of water; one
barrel Of molasses; one water bucket,
or two and a half gallons of brewers
yeast; one bar Of common laundry soap;
one pound of washing soda one bucket
of wood ashes; tive ounces of jalap.
Hong All Duck, Chinese murderer
at San Rafael, Cal, anticipated his
hanging with the utmost satisfaction
He implored the Judge to fix an early
day for the execution, believing that af-
ter death he would be in purgatory for
period of not less than one year nor
more than twenty, during which period
he would be able to return to the earth
and torment his enemies. This doctrine
caused him to look forward with so
much pleasure to his death that he at.
tempted suicide, and when taken to the
scatfold literally jumped for JOY,
That portion of the report Of the exc.
cutive committee Of the New York
Prison Association, which refers to the
Kings County Penitentiary, reads like
Charles Reade's Never Too Late to
Mend. The contract system is in
operation in the worst form, The con-
victs and free lsborers work together,
young girls being seated at the same
table with the convict women, and
prisoners who are suspected OF being
concerned in attempts to escape are con.
fined in an underground dungeon OF
solid masonry, totally dark and cold,
with the object of extorting from then a
confession of their implication.
Miss Chamberlain, upon whom has
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burdensomc title of "rhc Beautiful
American, Is spending the winter very
quietly at Cannes with her mother. Her
quiet and gentle manners have male
her great favorite with the elderly
English ladies who frequent that oxclu-
sive little town. She received great
deal of kind attention from the ladies Of
the royal family before leaving London,
and attended several official ceremonies
in the suite Of the Princess Of Wales
A writer in the Boston Herald claims
that the star Of Bethlehem will reap.
pear in 1887, The general belief Is that
this star is the one which blazed ont in
the constellation of Cassiopeia in tho
in the time of Tycho Brahc, in 1872.
This remarkable star reached the bril-
liancy of Jupiter and then slowly faded
to inviSlbiIlty It's temperance is
merely coniectural The character OF
the forces at work TO produce this re-
markable display are mystery. The
Spectroscopc, had 1t been invented at
the time, might have thrown some light
on the matter. 1t il impossible TO csti-
mate the forces required to make such
a light at the distance Of the fixed stars
Rochester Democrat.
Scohers make merry over the par
TALLY shown by Bostonlans for baked
beans. The Advertiser Optipntlv hears