The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-10
GLEANINGs.

than skim milk.
This years crop of Rio coffee is now
estimated at from 5000, 900 10 10000
bags.
Joe Jefferson believes in spirluaIism,
Old rip Van Wiuklc' believed in
spirits also.
Dead meat is now shipped to England
from Russia as well as Australia and
America
The best authorities assert that cows
should 90 dry at least six week before
caying.
Kentucky colonies are said TO be
amazed at the statement that it took
Prince Alexander, of Hesse Cassel, thirty
years to become a colonel.
News item in Tennessee paper: "A
dog killed woman near SCOTS Hill
on Sunday, Further particulars next
week "
The Empress Eugene, who has sui
fered from dyspepsia, walks much and
continues to improve in health and in
spirits.
An old frame house in Winthrop, Me,
built ia years ago, was moved for half
a mile last week without even cracking
the plastering.
A clergyman who, five years ago was
paid So 900 year by Brooklyn
church, is loaiing around the seashore
resorts of the Connecticut coast, habit
ually drunk.
According to recent computation,
there are II, l79 newspapers and maya
zines published in this country. OF these
1927 are daily newspapers and $3.50
weeklies.
Italy is terrifying the frontier in Pied
mont at cost of from 5000 900 to u
100000 francs The work will, it is be-
lieved, render the Alps impossible to
any army even though led by a Hanni-
bal or Napoleon.
The vast population, traffic and tur-
MOL of the worlds metropolis are strik-
ingly suggested by the simple statement
that 2,2O0 trains leave the railroad
stations of London every twenty-four
hours
Nearly everybody who lives at New
burg, n. Y, is more or less bow-lcgged
from walking up and down the hill on
which the city Is built. The same pecu-
liarity is familiar in Poughkeepsie, an
other city on the Hudson river bank.
Louisiana claims that during the past
year great success has been achieved in
prip 10 li,,l,
state of efficiency, The embellishments
resisted the great flood of last year be-
ter than even the most sanguine could
have expected.
Timothy Shields, of Howard County,
Maryland, stands six feet eight inches
in his stockings, and weighs 220 pounds
He has four children, three Of whom
are sons, averaging six feet two inches
in height, and weighing 22S, 230 and
2iO pounds, respectiyely.
The first newsboy who ever sold
copy Of the New York Sun in the
streets Of that city became famous and
rich. He was ten years old and from
Cork. Iii, name was Bernard Flaherty,
but he was afterward known as Barney
Williams, the comedian.
A young man living in Leadyille
shipped to his brother in St. Louis
choice donkey Of the diminutiye species
known as the Mexican burro. The
agent, in making out his manifest, con
cluded that "burro" meant bureau"
and reported accordingly to his super.
Tor, zone bureau missing and one jack
ass over
A farmer in Essex county, n. Y. had
five Of the fresh air fund boys from New
York City, and tough lot they proved
TO be- The first afternoon they were on
the farm they hung the farmers large
pet Newfoundland dog to an apple tree,
and in the afternoon they placed bis
light wagon across the railroad track
rs the train was approaching. and OF
course the wagon was Knocked INFO
smithercens.
Some one has taken the trouble to find
out how far farmer must walk to put
IN and tend forty acres Of corn. 10
pillow the ground with Siylccn-inch
thrce.horse pillow he travels $50 miles;
to harrow the ground thoroughly be-
fore planting he will have to travel 100
niles 10 mark out the same he travels
80 niles 20 cultivate ii afterwards he
viii have to travel 800 miles making
grand total Of 800 mile. beside, the
gathering
II the farmers who will keep dogs
woald get rid Of their worthless curs
aud substitute one wcll.brcd shepherd
pup not more, to each farm. the wealth
oi every farming community would be
vastly increased IN many ways. Farm
ors soon find the colly saving them
many step. Eager and anxious 20
learn, willing 10 do anything within his
power, the young dog need, only n
wise and patient restraint and in,cni.
gent direction, to become most useful
hand on the place
Two years ago n lady at Middletown.
n f"tOund little tree-toad on large
calla lily which she had poited in the
house He was adopted rs tho pet of
the household, and made his home on
'he NY until last fall, when he disap.
pcared' presumably IN the depths of the
PoI lie was not seen or beard OF until
lew days ago, when he reappoared.
bringing his wife with him Whether
he evolved her from ,ne dcp,hs Of Lis
CONSCIOUSNESS, or whether he found her
IN the earth is problem that is puz.