The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-04
The Daily Bulletin.
GLEANINGs.

Texas will nave no more convict
camps.
John w. Mackey INDUCES in no rec
reation but poker. ..
There are twenty-eight legitimate
theatres in New York City.
Thomas Jackson, colored, of Peel,
Ont, lifts llS pounds with his teeth.
Mrs. Randall and Mrs Dubois, sis
ters, living near Lowell, Mich, went
crazy the same day.
An Indianapolis women is suing for
divorce because her husband muzzled
her with base ball mask.
Tennessee claims to be the second
state in the Union in possession of
thoroughbred cattle.
New York's gilded youths hide the
marks of dissipation on their face by
liberal applications of rouge and lily
white.
Sitting Bull has developed an ambi-
ton to get rich like the railroad kings
and German Barons he has recently
met.
Miss Fletcher, the charming Ameri-
can girl who wrote "Kismet," has fin
ished another novel. She has forgotten
the English lord who Tilted her.
A policeman at Charlotte, S. c., who
had whipped every tough in town, final
ly got into fight with circus ele-
plant and conquered him also.
Despite frequent eggings, the Nor
mon missionaries in the Southern
States continue at their work. They
have their headquarters in Chattanooga.
England imported over 800,000,000
eggs last year, in addition to the enor-
nous production of Great Britain and
Ireland.
An accident insurance company sets
up the claim that murder is not an ac-
cident, and refuses to pay on a muir
! dered man.
Baltimore cooks have way all their
own Of using bread crumbs instead of
cracker-dust to fry oysters in, and the
result is delicious.
A Kentucky paper has noticed that
insane murderers are always sane
enough to employ the most celebrated
lawyers to defend them.
A New York actress wore string of
cranberries around her neck, and the
papers the next morning referred to her
magnificent coral necklace"
| AS men were scarce women were en-
| ployed to help the masons constructing
the bridge at Springfield, N. j., and
| they did the work well and received
mems pay.
Conductors on the Denver & Rio
Grande railway are provided with med
icines and surgical instruments, with
illustrated instructions for their use in
case of accidents.
The school board at Kingston, Ont,
has replaced the straps long in use in
the schools with gutta percha ferules.
The feelings of the small boy appear
not to have been consulted.
'Plunger' Walton took contract
for cleaning the streets of New York
last winter and made a good job of it.
He is now rewarded by London paper
which calls him ''scavenger.'
An eight-day clock belonging to
Thomas Shourds has stood in the same
place it now occupies in his home in
Salem county, New Jersey, for l24
years.
In San Francisco recently man and
his wife, alleged to be worth about
$4,000, were arrested for compelling
their children nightly to peddle fruit
about the streets.
II has been rashly said that women
never invent anything. At the Boston
fair there were a score of inventions by
women, among them double piano
stool, carpet stretcher, stove damper,
| etc.
Mrs. Labouchere is down on Mrs.
| Langtry. She says she went out on the
street in London one night and collared
the first woman she met, and that she
| is much prettier than the lilly. She
will come to America with her next
winter.
| Whitelaw Reid sympathizes with W.
d. Howells, who can find no congenial
companionship with the human race,
and says he feels that way himself He
will pay liberal reward to the discov-
erer of higher and nobler sphere than
this.
1t is a singular fact that, despite
Irish hatred of Chinese, in all cases of
marriage in California between Chinese
and whites, the women have invariably
been young Irish girls. This is an
anomaly which no one yet has been
able to explain.
DR.. j. V. Shoemaker says that
freckles can be removed by the careful
application of the ointment Of the oleate
of copper at bedtime He makes the
ointment by dissolving the oleate of
coppern sufficient oleO-palmite to make
| amaSs.
| A San Francisco paper says that the
fastest time ever made between that
port and Honolulu by sailing vessel
was made by the American bark Comet
in 1910 days and 20 hours, and that
the quickest steamers time was made
by the Mariposa-6 days and 8 Is
hours
| Jefferson Davis is not rich, but fairly
comfortable. He has the plantation hit
brother Joe" Davis left him below
Vicksburg, which brings him some
thing, and he has the cottage property