The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-16
GLEANINGs.

| tOOk nm ABOUT III Hour per uay W IT,
quite their dsobedence.
If Mrs. Carter,of Bellair, Ohio, had not
applied for divorce no one would have
suspected that her husband had COM
PEELED her to swallow spools and buttons
TO punish her for smiling at a railroad
man.
Rutland, VT, elected Miss Isabella NJ
Brown town clerk at the recent election.
She is the first woman ever elected to
Office in Rutland The Office has been
virtually in charge of her family for
nearly quarter of Il century.
Large baskets of artificial violets are
now used to decorate the center of the
table at dinner parties, and are sprinkled
with perfume somewhat like that of
violets to heighten or make better the
| fraud.
II is said that Mr.. Burnand, the editor
of Punch, has been married twice, is
the father of fourteen children, and is
an incessant jester Herein lies an ex-
| PLANTATION of the righteousness of that
alleged funny publication.
When Gen, Spinner was asked by a
Florida man, few days ago, how old
he was and if he was in good health yet,
he said 81 am 81 years of age, still in
good health, and believe can whip men
of my size yet"
Hoodlums in New York are said to be
thieves and villains, and hundreds of
them are growing up 70 be our worst
criminals. Here is a chance says the
Boston Globe, for missionaries from the
South Sea Islands.
The late Col. Gilmore met Gen. Grant
in New York, and approaching the ex-
President saluted him and exclaimed:
General, suppose you forget me?"
mo, " replied Gen. Grant, you are one
of the hornets who stung us so badly
during the unpleasantness"
A two-year-old girl fell fiat while play.
ing with her little brother, and she
thought that sharp stick punctured
her neck. So did her parents; but, af-
ter the wound refused o heal, and
physician had extracted bullet, the
boy confessed that he hal shot her with
toy pistol.
The Prince of Wales Is, it appears,
to be held responsible for he popularity
of the cigarette. Fifteenyears ago they
were not only unfashionlble, but were
considered fast" Albert Edward con-
tracted the habits OF smoking cigarettes
in his travels, and, preso, it became the
fashion of Pail Mall AMI st. James.
According to the Bosom Herald, it was
at first proposedto sentence young Cush-
man, who swindling the wise men of
Concord, to attend thee full terms Of
the Concord School of Philosophy.
After mature deliberation it was decided
that the proposed punishment would be
altogether too severe. and Cushman was
sent to States Prison for three years in
stead.
New England thrift is highly COM
mendable in many respects, but when it
embraces the cleaning of ordinary wood
en- toothpicks, that they may be used at
the next meal, as is done by st. AL
bans, VT, housewife, the average man
will discard it for the reckless extrava-
are used at every meal and butter may
be had at dinner,
1t was not many years ago that the
best American dictionary defined the
familiar word "boil" as ''circumscribed
simultaneous Inflammation character
lied by pointed pustular tumor and
suppurating in central core; per-
uncutus. What was simple and famil-
lar was made ludicrously complex. In
the ''lmperial' the same word is dis
posed of satisfactorily as ian infamed
and painful suppurating tumor."
Some time ago gray squirrels placed
on the Boston Common killed the song
birds. Neighboring cats made nocturnal
warfare on the squirrels. Next day the
policemen killed the cats. Then the old
maids who owned the cats "went for''
the policemen. 1t was like 1.-THE House
that Jack Built, regularly ascending
series. How the war came out the Bos-
ton newspapers never reported.
There was servants ball at the Angel,
and Mary Jane went. Pretty early in
the evening she founded in with an in
famed countenance. "Why, Mary
Jane, said the missus, "surely it's not
all over yetPn. "No, mum, but I've been
insulted! As was comm out of the
supper the bakers young man he says
to me, 4 hope, miss, says he, your
programs not quite full, and me that
had eaten hardly anythink!"
There was once in Georgia most re-
markable old man who, at the age Of
one hundred and one years, became the
father of boy whom he lived to see
cast ballot. This son is now seventy
five years of age, is as full Of vim and
energy as person in the prime OF life,
can split rails as well as anybody. and is
said to be able to outrun any man OF his
age in the world. His Oldest brother,
were he living, would be one hundred
and fifty years of age.
Experiments lately made at Leipsic
with cuirass made Of steel, the formula
of which is not stated, indicate that the
new material combines both tenacity
and ductlity in the highest degree. The
steel plate Of the cuirass in this case was
only .06 inch thick and lined inside with
layer of wool; and Of eleven rounds
from Martini breachloading rifle, fired
at distance of l75 yards, only two Of
the bullets pierced the metal, and even
these were completely ilattened and