The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-30
GLEANIEGs,

A county CLERK IN texas enjoys the
distinction of having himself issued the
license for his own marriage.
The Cossacks now serving in the
Russian army number $500 their
officers, S,9i2,
A Jackson, (Tenn.) dog goes on two
legs, both on the right side of his body.
The other legs are broken.
Mr.. William Black is supposed to be-
making the largest income Of any Eng.
lish novelist living.
Cheesequake Creek, for which $40.
900 has been appropriated. is, according
TO the Atlanta Constitution, only twelve
inches deep.
Boston proposes to have a college
which is TO educate doctors and "pay as
much attention to their moral as to their
medical training"
The report comes from Victoria,
British Columbia, that Chinese women
are struggled into the United States dis
guised as Indians. Thirty-two are said
to have crossed the line in that garb.
Moncure D. Conway says that moth.
ing is more common than for intelligent
Englishmen to conhde 10 American
friends their wonder that Americans can
endure such personal power as that
possessed by the President.
Madagascar is rather larger than
France. A belt of almost virgin forest
runs around the island. The population
is about 100000, aud the soil will
easily support 80, 100000 India-rubber
is a principal export. The mineral
wealth is enormous.
The inscription "Ysnatn on a jar in a
Philadelphia Indian doctors shop, puz-
lied reporter until be discovered that
it was "Tansy' spelled backward.
With this clue he read other names Of
mysterious medicines with clearer I'M
derstanding than before.
Is the war over? The Ninth and
Tenth Regiments of Rhode Island Vol
unteers, who we're in the service Of the
government in 1868 for three months,
claim that they were never mustered
out, and are entitled to full pay to date.
1t will require So, 100000 to pay them.
A San Francisco doctor has restored
lady of that city to perfect health by
removing one of her kidneys. This
operation, called rephrectomy, is so
rarely undertaken that the world has
only seventy-three cases of the kind re-
corded.
Two boys have been convicted in Cal
ifornia ofrobbing Cinnamon, and San
Francisco journal sees in this a reaction
from the feeling against the Chinese,
who have hitherto been unable to get
protection from the law against thieves
and DULLES.
A Reading (Pa.) journalist interviews
q tramp; I'VE read the papers, and the
latest, too, often feel amused to see
yer editors ofterin' rewards for the ar
rest Of them persons as steals papers
from doors It's tramps almost every
time"
A richly attired Boston lady took
from a wagon, standing by the curb
stone, a large blanket and carefully
covered the shivering horse attached to
tho vehicle. She departed unconcerned
at the applause which spontaneously
came from the crowd which her unusual
but kindly act had collected
In this fertile land OF plenty it seems
incredible that 100000 bushels Of pc.
tatoes should be imported in single
year. and yet this was the case last
year as shown by the government reve-
nue. records. Import duties amounting
to considerably over $1,000 200 were
paid,
General John b, Gordon, of Georgia,
comes home from Europe proud Of his
country. He said to n reporter; ut is
enough to mako an American proud to
ride through the streets of London,
with It's civilization OF 1000 years, and
see American implements, American
sowipg. machines, American tools and
! American goods displayed on every
hand, and know that American watches
are hcing sold In the streets, aud AM
erican fields are feeding the English
people and American factories begin.
ming 10 clothe them"