The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-05
GLEANINGs.


The Marquis of Lorne is nearly SO
years old, and Princess Louise is just
over 80.
Princess Louise pieces out her hus-
bands $4,000 income with an income
OF $4,000 of her own.
The novels of Miss Evans, Mrs. South
worth and Mrs. Holmes have been
banished from the Cleveland Public
Library.
ITO add one mile an hour to the speed
of an ocean steamer you must almost
double your consumption of coal, says
an old Cunard commander.
The Hon. Oliver Ames expects 10
spend 100000 in building his new
house on Commonwealth avenue, Bos-
ton.
The Fox river region of Illinois, o,
which Elgin is the center, is estimated
to produce 2O,O0O,00O gallons of milk
annually.
A Nevada Indian has just been award
ed $4,000 damages from the South
ern Pacific Railroad for the loss of 8
foot.
About one soldier in every five on
the frontier becomes deserter, and
nearly one man in six of the army as a
whole.
Hops are now so dear that taey are
called brewers diamonds, and $3.50
600 worth is not an uncommon stock
on hand at a large brewery.
Schuyler Colfax says: 1T is my firm
conviction that many of the anecdotes
that are attributed to Abraham Lincoln
were never uttered by him."
Ex-senator Tabor proposes to build
n house in Denver which shall rival
Vanderbit's and the famed palaces of
California. So his new wife says.
Alexander Mitchell, the Wisconsin
railway magnate, has in his house in
Milwaukee, probably the finest library
in the West
The moncy-order system will be ey-
tended to 1874 additional postoflices in
July next, principally in Western and
Northwestern states.
Eli Perkins says that liar who lies
to make his fellow-men happy is ben
efactor; but the liar who lies to make
the world miserable could trade seats
with the devil and cheat him.
Bi-Sulphidc of carbon is attracting at
tention in England as new motor. In
vcntors have been experimenting with
it for years here, but no one has yet
made it work, easy as it looks in theory
Three thousand depositors in Con
necticut savings bank have not made
inquiries about their money for twenty
years past. The larger part of them
will never be heard Of
Sir Charles Dixie has framed col.
lection of caricatures of himself, clipped
from the comic papers, which is already
nearly as large as the Disraeli cartoon
collection of Punch.
The courts of Arkansas have decided
that a man who burns his own house
cannot be punished for arson. The Of
Tense, to be criminal, according to state
lasw- must be committed on the property
The fumes from the wine stored in til,
great wine vaults in London are Sc
strong that Il person entering them vii
Immediately become intoxicated unles,
he fortitics himself beforehand with d
glass Of strong wine internally.
George Alfred Townsend Gath ha,
bought house in New York with tn,
proceeds of his pen, which, like a goot
husband, he has promptly given to hi
wife and in which he expects to enc
his literary days.
In every tobacco factory at Key Yves
there is reader" Cubans cannot tall
without gestculaton, and in order t,
keep them from talking a person is EN-
ployed to read aloud to The ''hands
during working hours.
In San Francisco. owing to the spring
fogs, winter rains, earthquakes and
danger of lire, the houses are built, de-
tached from other buildings, of the Sc.
quoio. or redwood tree, which burns
slowly
The waves of the Atlantic Ocean at
tain the various heights Of "a, 80 and 43
feet; those of the Pacific sometimes as
much rs 30 feet high; in the Mediter-
ranean they are II! feet, and in the
North Sea 1871 feet
Some dealer in old newspaper tiles
down inMaine has discovered that the
widow Ross, of Lyman, advertised in
the Kennabunk Gazehe, May 9, 1880,
for information about her son, Charlie
Ross, who had mysteriously disap-
peared.
The Boston Sheriff who made the an
neXed remark is level-headed: "Nany
women come to me at the jail and want
to read and talk to the criminals; but i
tell them to go and read and talk 10 the
same class that are not as yet criminals,
and keep them from being such. "
A remarkable instance of the ingenui-
ty developed by necessity is afforded by
a convict in Louisiana prison, who
made n saw ont of the buckle on his
trousers and constructed q key from n
splinter of wood, with which he unlock
ed the chain that bound him to the
floor.
More than half million people are
employed in the coal mines of Great
Britain, and last year more than n
thousand were killed in them, the aver
age of accidents being about three for
every working day in the year. The an