The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-23
LEANINGs,

G., has sold to n Missouri gentleman u
pack of twelve fox-hounds for $l30,
An Arkansas editor says that the
stingest man in his town talks through
his nose to save the wear and tear on
his false teeth
Another professional English beauty,
Mrs. CORVALLIS West, will visit this
country. She will be a guest at the
British legation at Washington.
A perfectly formed and healthy child,
weighing less than one pound, was re-
Gently born to a woman in Ashland,
Ohio.
ut is the little bits ov things that fret
and worry us, says Josh Billings; 1--WE
kan dodge an elephant, but we kant II
Ivy
There is q man in Luzerne County,
Pa, who placed so much confidence in
Virgins prophecy that he cut down a
bic tree in front of his house, and the
tree in its fall crushed the house
There is an apple tree in Rabun
county, Georgia, that is probably the
largest on this continent. One year the
owner gathered 204 bushels OF apples
from it,
People should remember all the time
that the act of Congress reducing the
postage will not 60 into effect until next
October. This is to give time TO use up
all the Scent stamps one has on hand.
About 1900 cattle, one for every two
acres of its surface, exist on the Island
of Jersey, it being not quite seven
miles each way II il were square, Ii
also exports one COW for every ten acres
of the surface.
One of the youngest married couples
on record was seen at Castle Garden a
few days ago. The husband was seven
teen and the wife sixteen years of age,
and they had two children Of their own.
They were from Hamburg.
When Mrs Carey, the wife of the
Dublin informer, was told that II would
be better for her husband to tell all he
knew, she replied: well, would
rather see him on the scaflold than in
the witness box.
Elsie Ryland, forgeress Of New
York out on bail, has disappeared in a
bad time for her, as her spouse has just
learned that legacy of 100000 has
been bequeathed him by a deceased
English relative.
Col. Delaney Aston Kane, hero of the
Tally Ho' coach, and for many years
one OF the most prominent society
men in New York City, soons sails for
England where he will run a coach"
from London to the suburbs.
James Wiley, of East Haven, Conn,
wrote his will with a typewriter. After
his death, recently, the validity of the
will was questioned on the ground
that the document had been printed,
but the court decided that a printed
will is all right.
The latest case of juvenile depravity
on record is that of boy in Mobile,
Ala, who burned down two buildings in
order TO win bets to the amount OF 81,
which he had made, that there would
be two fires in the city before certain
date.
A well-clad and respectable man re.
Gently created great stir in London by
promenading the street sandwiched be-
tween two boards, which bore these
placards; General Postoflice, Dis
charged fornot saluting a clerk Twenty
five years her Majesty's servant"
The Mayor of Brooklyn recently at
tended an exhibition at a kindergarten,
and in closing his address TO the child
rem quoted that classic rhyme, 1.-The
rose is red, the violet blue; the pink is
sweet, and so are you And he didn't
quote it right, either.
A favorite experiment among medical
students is to open the abdominal vein
OF a frog and eject salt water into it un
til every drop Of blood in the body is
washed out. The animal hops around
Ms lively as ever for two or three days,
when it begins to droop and finally dies
in about a week.
A man ifty-four years Of age, living
in Kentucky has nine sons-in-law. He
is willing to wager Sl00,0 that he and
his daughters husbands can outwrestle
any other man and his sons-in-law in
this country. This amounts 10 bet that
no other man in the country has as many
as nine sons-in-law.
The Chinese merchants Of Waynes-
boro, Ga, do not intend to be expelled
from trade circles without making a
vigorous effort at self-protection. Three
of them, acting upon the advice Of the
Chinese Minister at Washington, have
begun suit in the United States District
Court, at Savannah, for $1,000 There
are eighteen defendants.
The first thing city man does when
he gets rich, says the Philadelphia
NeocS, is to buy farm, move into the
country and bankrupt himself trying to
raise enough TO keep himself from starry
ing. A rich countryman, on the other
hand, buys brown stone front in the
city, and becomes interested in stocks,
with like result.
A French chemist claims to having
discovered method Of overcoming the
danger threatening vineyards from the
ravages Of the phylloxera. His process
is to inoculate the vines with the pheonol
poison. The phylloxera do not attack
plants thus treated, and are extirpated