The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-04

necessltate the massing Of a strong corps in
the Southern French Provinces and the
garrisoning of cham of frontier posts for
many hundred miles which would mater
Tally weaken her power Of resistance to
Germany. As a naval power, Spain is
something more than respectable, a few Of
her ships, such as the Almanac
and the Vittoria, being really powerful.
The Germans navy is as yet not sufficiently
developed to cope with the French marine,
but if it were allied to that of Spain and
still further, it Italy were to take a part,
the French coasts could be harried as thor.
oughly as by England herself, if she were
at war with France. It requires but an
understanding Of such points for SO change.
able people as the French to resort to
some new form Of government
Among the postmasters in this state
whose salaries are increased, are: Alton,
5000; Cairo 5000, Champaign $500 Chica-
60, $4,000; Decatur $500 Delevan, $500;
Elgin. 5000; Eureka, 500; Evanston, 1900;
Fairfield, $500 Jacksonville, 1900; Mt.
Carmel, S400; Mt, Sterling, $500; Nokomis,
$3j8i Peoria, $500; Pullman, SAT-; Rock
ford, $780, Roodouse, 1855 Shawneetown,
$3.50. Among those decreased are: Au.
rora, $500; Clinton, 800; LaSalle, $4OO;
Mendoza, $500; Morrison, s4O0; Mt, Pulss.
Xxi, $500; Olney, $500; Paris, 5000; Havana,
5000; JerseyviIle, 5000; DAnville, $500;
Shelbyville, $500, Petersburg, 800; Pitts
field, $780, Taylorviile, 800.
"A new brick walk was laid around the
Bross property, corner Commercial avenue
and Eleventh street, and another is being
laid on the north side Of Tenth street, be-
tween Washington aud Walnut. The walks
Of the city, by the end of 1888, will be in
better condition-buit in a more substan-
tial manner than has generally yet been
done. The majority of new walks are
Of brick or stone and all laid the full width
between curbstone and line Of lot. The
worst and toughest Of the new walks is that
from the Catholic church on Washington
around to and on the south side of Tenth
street This is a villanous job The mater
ial was all good but the masons lost sight
of value received and their reputation as
builders of sidewalks and bent their whole
energy toward making extraordinary days
wages-an1 they did it.
An elaborate and logical article recent
ly appeared in the New Orleans Times
Democrat in favor of the cremation of dead
bodies. 1t is true that the popular feeling
is against the practice. The populace,
however, are all more or less superstitious.
Under the inspiration of their religious
teachings they acquire notions which are at
variance with common sense and ordinary
intelligence. And the popular feeling
against cremation is akin to the nonsenscal
prejudice against vaccination if the
Lord had not designed people to have
smallpox He would nevor have sent tho
scourge among US. The recent expert
ment of Brazilian physician prove con-
clusively that the germs Of yellow fever i'm
pregnate the earth in which the bodies of
the victims of that disease are buried. 1t
ia fair to presume that other contagious
diseases may be communicated 10 the same
way. Hence the argument in favor of
cremation. BY the burning of the bodies
Of our dead we certainly destroy the ability
of the inanimate corpse to do any further
mischief in the world. The only agent
that is yet known to chemistry which will
destroy the germs of certain diseases is
intense heat. That fire will do IL as an e.
tablished TACT Again, the News does not