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

The Navajo Indians of New Mexico
expect to take 100000 pounds Of wool
and 100000 skins to market this wear
The Kootenai Indians, of Idaho, pro.
duce about $500 a month in gold, but
they refuse to tell the white men where
the mines are.
John Houghton, Of Hamilton, GA,
cut down hollow tree and found six
coons, two possums, chicken snake
eight feet in length, and five gallons OF
honey in it.
The largest man in the British milit-
airy service is Lieutenant Sutherland
OF the Fifty-siXth Regiment. He is eight
feet four inches high, and weighs
about 1854 pounds.
An ex'employe Of Boston street rail-
way company writes 10 the manager
from England that he managed to steal
between two aud three hundred dollars
while in its employ, notwithstanding the
bell punch. %
The smallpox hospital of San Fran
cisco is filled with lcpers. The papers
OF that city advocate the building by
the Government, on an island, OF laz-
arctic where all cases Of leprosv through
out the country might be removed.
A Philadelphia physician told lady
patient that one Of two things must in.
evitably result from her illness; she
would either lose her reason or her eve
sight The poor woman committed sui
eide.
Savannah, is enforcing an income tax
on all incomes over $500. Legal lum-
inares in that city say the right to as
sess and collect such tax exists The
object OF the tax is to replenish the de-
pleted exchequer Of the city.
Edith A tirst-class Summer resort is
one at which the coltagers will not
speak to the hotel guests A second
class resort is one at which the hotel
guests will not speak to the cottagers.
A third-class resort is one at which
everybody tries 10 have good time.
Philadelphia News.
A Burlington, Iowa, tailor and hair
dresser got drunk together and the
tailor took the other man home. His
surprise was great when on ringing the
door-bell, the BARRIERS wife suddenly
appeared and gave him a sound thrash
ing with rawhido for keeping her hus-
band outall night.
While one jury at Gallatn, Mo, was
acquitting Frank James another at
Mexico, in the same state, was lining
Hamilton Hall IS for selling on SUNDAY
zone cigar Of the value OF ) cents and
one z ass of soda-water Of the value Of
3 cents, contrary to the peace and Dig
nifty OF the state.
Sparrows are eaten in England and
Germany. Neither the Irish or the
Scotch will modest the pert little birds,
and both in Ireland aud Scotland they
know no fear, because they never knew
any danger there. To harm a sparrow
in either country would be considered
an outrage.
The Anamese are huge eaters. Pub
lie dinners are great institution, and
the guests are allowed to carry of with
them the remnants Of the feasts. The
imperial chief is a person OF great con-
sequence, a he has to prepare twelve
or fifteen dinners daily for the Empcr-
or.
The Lawrence (Mass.) Eayie reports
scarcity OF help for the lac, cries in
that city Ia one room OF one OF the
largest weaving departments in the city
over one hundred looms are stopped for
want oil help. In a spinuing-room 20
children will be sent out 10 20 10 school
this week, Factory wages are advauc-
ing, and are likely to 90 higher before
all the heI p needed Is secured,
An old gentleman has just died in
Franco at the ripe are OF seventy, leav-
inc behind him logbook of all he had
drank for the last tifty years. II $ hab-
Its in this respect were very regular, his
daily allowance being four i,res Of wine
(Seven pints), couple of glasses of
absinthe before each of his three meals.
and twelve pctitS UerreS of cognac, rum
or some other spirit, "to drive away de-
spondency." The total for the half
century thus comes to: Wine, l27, S27
pintS; absinthe, l09, $50 glasses; spirits,
2l9, 1872 glasses, The old gentleman
boosted that he had never had a days
illness in his life. "
The first woman who ever edited a
newspaper in this country is Mrs. llar-
riet n. Prewett. She lives in small
farm house in Yazoo City, with wistcria
vines climbing over the doorways and
low windows, and magnolia trees shad-
ing the wide porches In lS4S Mrs.
Prowert was left a widow with three
small children and a newspaper and
for number of years she was editor,
proprietor, news editor, agent, and
bookkeeper, her paper being especially
famous in that region for its sparkle
and strong editorials She also kept
house aud did all the family mending,
and supported and educated her children
by means of her newspaper.
The city of Newark, N. j., Is noted
as the home of large number of liter
airy people, Mrs. E. G., Kinney, whose
husband founded the AdverttSer; her
son, the poet Stedman; DR. William II.
Ward, editor of the Independent; Ma
rian Harland and Amanda NJ. Douglas;
Ray Palmer the hymnologist, and Rev.
Dr. Hepworth; DR. Abraham Coles, the
author of "The Microcosm," translator
of the "Dies Irn," and an accomplished
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