The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-01
GLEANINGS.

Edward PaysOu Weston, the former
champion pedestrian, is now success.
iul temperance lecturer in London. y
New York City pays $1,000, o0Oa year
for It's religion and ~22,OJJ,0)O for its
drinks.
President Arthur Is said to have
caught "the largest sllmon ever taken
with>a fly on this Continent
Russia has thirtr.three schools in
which to educate men to manage and
operate railways,
The music for a SUNDAY night bull
light IN Arizona was provided By the
band Of a United states cavalry regi-
ment.
A chap in Harrisburg isgetting ready
to fight duel whenever be i insul,ed.
He can spit bullets on the edge Of
balcn"t sixty feet away.
a Missouri Qpack not only promises
to cure nasa, catarrn at one sitting, but
makes iae astounding statement that lie
will remove the catarrh and place it on
q saucer
III, cometh not, she said aud she
was "snund on the goo-e;' he didn't
arrive His intentions were all right,
but they failed 70 successfully combat
the bulldog that was screened in the
moon-ki,,ed brubbery,
Mushroom towns are not wholly re-
strcted to new states. -Four months ago
dense Virginia forest covered the site
OF POCahOHtaS, which now mas pOpu-
laton OF 1000 A coal mine was the
cause.
There died at Lyons, France, couple
OF weeks ago one Niue. Laceue, a
sistcr-in.law Of Camille Jordan, who
had in her youth been personal friend
Of Nine de Stael and Nine Recamier.
She was l0j years old.
The champion oyster glutton on rec
ord is the BaldwiDsyille On. ~ man
who ate two quarts Of raw bivalves.
Cider and crackers in corresponding
proportions accompanied the oysters to
their cavernous retreat
An observer states that the best pro-
duct Of French vineyards is only 1874
gallons Of wine per acre. In California
il is 700 gallons, and in New York it is
reported as still larger Even Canada
boasts Of producing more wine to the
acre than any portion Of France.
The froth was blown from s250000..
900 worth Of beer, being 95,000000 gal
Ions, in this country last year, and the
probabilities point strongly toward the
belief that an equal amount was snugly
slowed away beneath the jackets of
thirsty Americans.
A fruit-grower placed tobacco-stems
around the trunks OF peach trees, and
there is not the sign OF borer in any OF
the trees so treated. He set the stems
around the butts of the trees, and tied
them at the tops. II keeps of rabbits
as WELL in winter,
What are YOU looking around for so
much?n asked an Austin mother of her
l6-vear-old son, with whom she was
walking. II am looking around on
your account" ''0n my account"
Yes. | want to pick you out good
looking daughter-iu-law. "-leras SIT
ingS.
The apple industry in Pennington,
Maine, is a RAPIDLY growing one. The
various firms in that vicinity have put
up this season 1900 gallon cans, 5000
three-Quart, and 800 two-quart cans Of
apples, and evaporated II ~ tons. All
the fruit used was raised in Franklin
County, and brought good prices.
Some lady of indianapolis, Ind,
young, it is to be presumed, who signs
herself "A Constant Reader" has writ
ten to a Cincinnati paper asking chow
LONG lady would have to live in the
state of Ohio to enable her 10 be legally
married according TO the laws OF that
state9n Long enough to have some fell
low ask her.
A New Years Day testvity in Phil.
adalphia hotel was a chase 10! a creased
pic. The cellar of the building was
used for the sport, and all the partici.
pants, except the pig, were blindioided
and their hands covered with lard. Had
the pig not crawled into a barrel and
given one OF the men a sure thing on
catching him by Impending the barrel,
the game, would not yet be finished.
Experiments in potato culture during
1880 and 1881 on the Munster farm and
dairy school of the Cork (Ireland) Agri-
cultural society, show that potatoes
MANFRED with large quantities OF ammo
meal mauures were among the first af'
fected by the disease, while those
grown with phosphates were wholly
unaffected, though in proximity q,
either side with diseased potatoes
Hall chairs are now generally covered
IN gided leather that known as Span
ish being the most popular. Such
chair may cost forty-iive dollars if fin
ishcd in handsome wood. An ordinary
drawing.room chair in embossed
leather and handsome frame will cost
thir,y-iiyc dollars, but both will have
the merit OF being practically indestruc
| tihlc.
Queen Victoria has her own Parlia-
mentary reporter, and whether she is al
Windsor, Balmoral, or in the Isle Of
Wight, she is acquainted with the pro-
ceedings of both houses long before any
of her subjects. On ordinary occasion:
brief abstracts of the debates are tele
graphed to her Majesty; but, should the