The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-14
GLEANINGS,

WtCHdHICS OF Dullt, NJ l., nave on ue-
post at the three banks of that city
about 100000
Mammoth City, in the Yellowstone
country, hardly comes up to its name.
1t has fifty buildings--log cabins, slab
shackS, and canvas tents. Half of the
structures are saloons. There is a pop
ulatiOn of about $50.
Boston is said to be one of the three
places where the business of counter
feiting postage stamps, expressly to de-
Jude collectors, is most largely carried
on. Glasgow and Hamburg are the 9TH
er members of the trio.
The famous mud-hole at Hot Springs,
Ark, will hereafter, by order of the
government authorities. be free at all
hours to pauper bathers, and the pro-
posed erection of hotel over the spot
isprohibted Heretofore paupers have
been excluded at certain hours.
They are selling in Georgia this year
a great many farm bells Of large size
for use in country neighborhoods as
alarms in case of tramps. Neighbor-
hoods are thickening so in the best To-
calities that farm bell would summon
dozen families,
Mrs Francis Hodgson Burnett, the
novelist, is reported to have said that
the three things necessary for writing
novel are pen, ink and paper; the first
TO be used with brains, the second with
Imagination and the third with generos-
ity.
Alabama has fourteen iron and steel
manufactures eighteen cotton factories,
eighteen foundries and machine shops,
SO7 Touring and grist mills, and 1874
lumber mills, The capital invested in
these industries is SS,842, 223 Employ
ment is given $3.50 hands, who receive
Sl59, l79 wages,
What is known in insane asylums as
"the Utica crib is a large crib bed
stead, very strong and with massive
Stat cover closing down upon it, inclos-
ing the frcnzied patient. The victim
lies on mattress with bed clothing,
but is allowed ample room to turn over,
and suffers nomore real discomfort than
- ~ "H 'A''h'ts 'N''
The latest report of the British consul
General at Havana expresses the opin-
ion that, although the definite abolition
of slavery in Cuba will not be accom-
plished until 1888, slavery will have
practically ceased TO exist before the
end of 1850 In 1880 more than 5000
slaves were freed, in 1881 more than
10000, and in 1852 about 1900.
The dispute about the boundary line
between Massachusetts and New llamp-
shire, which has been in existence since
l7iO, is in no fair way OF being settled.
The error Of boundary gives to Mas,a-
chusetts 10000 acre, that properly be-
long to New Hampshire The error
was made by the agents of New Hamp-
shire appointed to act with like agents
on the part of Massachusetts to run the
line.
Christopher NJ, Spencer, the million.
aire inventor of the repeating rifle, last
year employed nurse from hospital
in Providence % attend his wife, who
was dying of consumption. The young
lady's name is Gcorgctta Rogers, and
she is the daughter Of retired sea cap.
tain. She was 50 attentive to the invalid
as to excite first Mr. Spencer gratitude
and then his love; and the other day
the millionaire and the nurse were mar.
ried He is fftyyears Of age and she !.
twenty-five.
For mice-gnawed trees, a corrcspon
dent of the Germantown Telegraph rec.
ommends covering the wounds witt
grating wax at once then pile earth
apd pack it around high above the place
TO keep covered, As it will settle and
wash down some. This, if done early,
will save thousands of trees that have
been injured by mice and rabbits Make
wax Of one pound beeswax to foui
pounds resin and half pint of linseec
oil If too soft, add more resin if toe
hard, more oil. The wounds must not |
be neglected until they are hard and |
dry.
Mrs, Margaret Haughcry is TO have a
lie-si2e statue in New Orleans. For
forty years she was the most self.sacri-
iicng philanthropist in that city. Many
instances Of her hcroism are borne in
mind by her admirers. On one Occas-
ION, when she applied at large grocery
for provisions, she was laughingdy told
by a member Of the firm; "Wc'll give
you all you can pile on a whcelbarrow,
If you will take it 10 the asylum your.
self y She accepted the offer and rolled
the barrow in triumph through the
streets.
The Gwnnett (Ga.) Herad says that
when DR.. Moore removed the rope from
Stevenson : neck at the Lnwrcnccyille
hanging, a woman who had pressed her
way to the rope asked permission to
enter. She hurried 10 the Sheriff, and,
Selling the moose which had just been
removed and was still warm, rubbed it
rapidly across goiire on her neck
There is a superst,ious idea in the
country that rubbing the unpleasant
protuberance with rope with which
fclon has been hanged will remove IL.
Proctor Knott, candidate for Govern.
or OF Kentucky is a man of medium
height, and is quite stout. His head Is
large and well covered with a good
crop OF silver-gray hair, cut short In the
neck. His mustache Is snow-whitc and
small, curling in at the corners Of his