The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-08

trust that when next the News man reaches
the "bitter end" of any little project, he
will not be hoggish about it, but bite of
few very small crumbs and throw them to
that large class of hungry Paducahsne who
are, like himself, hsnkering after "bl't-r3"
of some kind, by way of killing the time
that hangs so heavily over them.
An exchange says, "One of the be ID
ties and charms of an editors lite is his
dead-heading on all occasions. No one
who has never tasted of the sweets Of the
bliss, can begin to take in its glory AMI its
happiness. He does 800 worth of work
| for a railroad, gets "psss" for year,
rides % dollars worth, and then he is look
ed upon as a dead-head or half blown
dead beat. He "putfs' a concert troupe ten
dollars worth, and gets one dollar in
mplimentsries, and is thus passed
"tree." ii the hall is crowded he ia be-
grudged the room he occupies, for if com.
plimentaries were paying tickets the troupe
would be SO much in pocket. He blows
and puts church festival to any desired
extent, and does the poster printing at half
rates, and rarely gets thank YOU" for it,
1t gees IS a part of his duty as an editor.
He does more work grstuitously for the
town and the community than all the rest
oil the population put together and gets
cursed for it al, while in many instances
man who donates few dollars for the
Fourth of July, base ball club, or church,
is gratefully remembered. Oh, it is a
sweet thing to be an editor, he passes
free you know
There is loud complaint among COM
mission men on the levee, at the recently
introduced practice of the Wabash road, in
the matter of storing fret Ib.s that come in
on that road for them. They complain
that, since the 1st OF this month, if any one
of them receives AGAR loa of hay or other
stuff, the car is side-tracke,i away up along
the Mississippi levee, near the brick yard,
aud consignees are compelled to have it
hauled from there to their houses or on the
wharf boat; at an outrageous cost. Often
the streets out there are very muddy;
teams must cross several tracks in order to
reach the cars, and are frequently much de-
layed by switching; so that some times it
takes two double teams whole day to un-
load single car. Formerly the freight in
tended tor Cairo merchants was stored on
side tracks on lower Commercial avenue,
but now these side tracks are occupied with
cars loaded with through freight and the
local freight Is showed out OF the way This
is, Of course, bad condition of things, but
the railroad company will probably silence
all this complaint by saying that all avail
able track room everywhere in and about
the city is crowded with through and way
freight, so that it is impossible for the
company to accommodate our merchants in
the matter complained of, as they would
like to do.
The New York Sun says the sstrono-
mers who have been watching the approach.
ing comet have concluded that it will be in
periheIion on January 25, when it will be
about twO-thrds as far from the earth as
the sun Is, According to their calculations,
it will not be visible 70 the naked eye for
six or eight weeks yet, but it has already
had one sudden and unexpected outburst,
increasing about fifteen times in brilliancy
in two or three days, and nobody can tell
what it may do in the spectacular line. II
be much more brilliant object than 1t
was in 1912. Although it will not present
as distinguished an appearance as the great
comet in 1882, it will probably be seen by
more persons, because it will be visible in
the evening sky while the dazzler of last
year was morning comet. Since its great
outburst and increase in size last month, it
has behaved like an ordinary comet, and
has now very modest tail and an uncertain
sort Of head that seems to be enveloped in
mist. Nobody has yet discovered what
happened to 1t when it blazed up SO sud
denly. The assertion that it had a COLI
son with an asteriOd, or some other cees.
tlal body, furnishes an explanation Of the
appearance presented, but no indications Of
such an accident have been detected in the
subsequent motions of the comet. 1t will
be at nearly its greatest brightness during
the holidays, and will furnish singular
Christmas and New Years spectacle. It is
not often that the sun has such New
Years caller from the depths Of space.
WESTERN RAMBLINGS.