The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-09
The Daily Bulletin.
GLEANINGS.


homeopaths.
An advertisement in a New York pa
per offers family monument in eX-
change for gold watch and chain.
A coal dealer in Connecticut town
presents half ton OF coal TO every
newly married couple in the place
There are said to be 100 practicing
young lawyers in New Haven, Conn,
whose income does not average S15 per
week
James Gordon Bennett estimates the
value OF the New York Herald at Sl0,-
600, 900, and says it is paying per cent.
per annum interest on that amount,
Sea urchins are so tenacious of life
that on opening one it is not uncommon
to see the pieces of shell move off in diff
erent directions.
New Zealand wheat fields grow
twenty-six bushels to the acre--the
only ones in the world that do, except
England's.
The largest vessels in the English
navy cost Sl,250,000 to build and
nearly $1,000 day TO keep them at sea
afterward
Mexico City authorities put police
man on each horse car to see that it
does not carry more passengers than it
has seats for.
One OF the newspapers in Victor, n.
T., in referring recently TO new board
OF directors in a village bank, said
"they are thought to be honest men"
There is female barber in Haley,
Idaho, who makes from $50 to S2j
day. She is pretty, and charges four
bits for shave, While the male ton
serial artists get but two.
Rents have reached the limit Of their
upward advance in New York City,
and have begun to fall-the sure sign
that the end Of an era OF speculation is
near.
Horse flesh is sold in some parts of
london as beef 1t has the peculiarly
rosy appearance which people like, and
il must bc proved 10 be "unlit for the
food of man before its sale can be lie.
gally forbidden.
A plan for the education of women
by the same course of instruction AS
that afforded the male students, but at
a different place and time, is being con
sidered by the trustees of the Pennsyl-
vania University.
New Zealand is fast rising in impor-
lance as source of coal supply. The
magnitude of her coal-felds, and the
excellent quality Of their product,
have been recognized only within few
years.
The English are to-day the nation
whose dress controls the habits of the
civilized world, just as the French were
80 years ago, the Italians POO years
ago, the Spaniards 800 years ago and
little earlier Venice,
Delaware has increased the salary of
her Governor to the sum OF $4,000
year. At the same price per square
mile for governing, the executive of
Texas would have an annual salary Of
about S2j0,000
Mrs. Tabor, the wife of the ex-Sena-
tor OF Colorado, contded to Il friend
the other day that neither the famed
palaces Of the California bonanzas nor
the mansions OF the Stewards and Van
derbits should be so fine as the house
her husband will build. y
About IS per cent. of the land of the
United States, nearly 1000, 100000
acres in all, remains unsurveyed. OF
this amount there are 1868, 900, 600 in the
Indian Territory, S0,000,OOO in Monta-
ma. 66,O00,O0O in Dakota, and 12,000,-
600 in Minnesota.
New Orleans has the best fish market
in the country, San Francisco the best
fruit market, meat is cheapest az Chca-
90, and the best general market in the
world is on the Delaware and Chesa-
peake Bay, shared by Philadelphia and
Baltimore.
Lord Sudclcy, near Chetenham,
England who planted $4,000 currant
bushes, $4,000 goosebcrry bushes, 2j,-
coo raspberry bushes, tifty-two acres OF
Strawberries and numerous other small
fruits two years ago, is now building d
mammoth jam factory on his estate.
Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico,
lives in veritable palace. 1t is only
one story high, and is built of mud, but
is $50 feet long, nearly 800 years old,
has sheltered Spanish Governors with
out number, and always held the name
of palace
A reflective hunter in Georgia comes
to the conclusion that the vital force
brought into play by the killing OF
wild turkey gobbler would, if properly
exerted between plow-handles, prepare
forty-seven and half acres of land for
the cotton planter.
A man by the name of Charles Moon,
who is employed in Denver billiard
saloon, swallowed live bull frog on a
wager, after which he drank glass OF
whisky, and said he felt remarkably
well, The frog is reported TO have been
six inches long and two inches across
the breast,
The town of Concord, Mass, has no
hotel and, in view of the fact that the
sessions of the Summer School of Phi
losophy are held there, the people are
engaged in perfecting plans for coffee
house, TO be located in that historic
building known as 1.-The Old Wright
Tavern"