The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-13
The Daily Bulletin.
GLEANINGS,


grown from small village to a city OF
over 5000 population.
The powerful electric light at the
Calumet and Hecla mines can be seen
forty-two miles away by vessels on Lake
Superior.
A stranger offered to drink in bar
room in Wadsworth, New. all the whisky
the loungers present would pay Tor
He drank sixteen times and died
Nebraska has probably reached the
climax of absurdity in the way Of nam
ing towns. One Of the towns OF that
State has Just been named Base Ball.
Certain fastidous citizens of Mem
phis, Tenn, wish the telegraph and tele-
phone poles to be painted some bright
and fashionable color.
w. j. Barlow, of Live Oak, Fla, is
l02 years old His father lived to the
age of LOG, and his grandfather, it is
said, was 126 years old when he died.
Humming-birds in Huntington, Mass,
are tanned on sweetened water. 1t IS a
woman's device, and seems to answer
well.
At Port Jervis he who has fancy fol
it may, at low water, stand on rock in
the river with one foot in New York,
the other in Pennsylvania, and touch
with his hand New Jersey,
A Chinaman and his wife have been
arrested at North San Juan, Cal, for
torturing heir little daughter by band
aging her feet so as to prevent them
from growing.
In England children Of the best soci-
ETY. are taught to say father and
mother, = and to regard papa and
mamma" as vulgarisms, on a par with
daddy and NANNY"
When a married couple at Island
Pond, Vt, who had fought like cats and
dogs for years, were at last divorced,
they left the courtroom together, had
their pictures taken and then separated.
Lately Ex-Governor Proctor, of Yer
mont, gave the people of Switzerland
Falls, VT, burying ground. Now the
first burial there is his own daughter,
who died suddenly of heart disease.
The machinery of an oleomargarine
factory was recently sent to little
place above Vancouver, w. T., where il
was intended to establish factory. The
residents, however, objected, and one
night took the machinery and dumped
it into the Columbia River.
Miss Leslie Aver, daughter of the late
James Aver, patent medicine celeb
brity, is the latest American target for
the aim of impecunious foreign Counts.
The young woman, with her dot Of $5,-
100000, receives much attention in the
aristocratic circles of Paris
1t is said that the largest grapevine in
the United States grows on the prem
Uses of Mr. Madden, in Pike county, Ga.
1t is IS years old, is thirty-four inches
in circumference at its base, is quarter
of mile long, and yields five wagon
loads of grapes.
One Mormon superstition is that
children, when i'll, may be cured by the
laying on of hands. More than 5000 of
the little ones are said to have died in
the last twenty-five years who might
have been saved by medicine. The lay
ing on of hands is of no benefit to
child except when he talks back to the
old man.
Norman Mcclellan, Of Petosky, Mich,
is small boy who does mischief every
day Of his life. His latest caper was
the wedging of bullet half way down
the bore of Alex. Tann's rifle, and than
shooting it off The stock was shattered
and the barrel split, but the boy was
uninjured.
young lady at San LeaAdro writes,
informing Us that she has found an ill.,
fallible hint to remind prosy guests
chronic stay-lates to take their leave at
a seasonable hour. She merely asks
the 'sticker' to see whether the morn
ing paper is on the front steps. San
Francisco Post
Mr.. Tennyson's life and labors CORE.
spond in point of time as nearly as pos.
sible to my own but Mr.. Tennyson's
exertions have been on a higher plane
Of action than my own. He has worked
in higher field, and his work will be
more durable. Ii is our business to
speak, but the words which we speak
have wings and fly away and disappear.
The work of Mr.. Tennyson is Of high
er order. | anticipate for him the i'm
mortality for which England and Scot
land have supplied in the course Of their
long national life many claimants. The
poet laureate has written his own song
on the ''hearts of his countrymen. -
William Il. Gladstone.
In August, 1881, NJ B. Thum, of New
ark, Mich, sunk two salt barrels in the
ground, placing the top barrel about
two feet below the surface of the ground
thus. making the well eight feet in depth.
Nothing unusual was discovered about
the well until July, 1882, when fish in
large quantities were found in it.
MIR. Thum says that last year he fat
about $3.50 worth of pork by fish
taken from this marvellous we'll
The water is muddy and the fish are live
ly and frisky. There are no streams or
lakes within several miles ofMr. Thum 8
farm, and the onlysolution of the mys-
terry is that there is subterranean
passage from some river or lake to the
we'll
Lang Zip, laundryman at Oil City,
Pa, is going back to China to be married
He has never seen nor had any CORE
snOndence with his intanded and knows