The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-05
GLEANINGs.

road brigade familiar with putting up
md destroying railroads.
2 The Lord Chancellor of England re-
;eives a salary equal TO that ofthe Pres
ldent Of the United States,
Horseshoes ofsteel, gold and diamond
tor earrings and brooches, are all the
rage in Paris.
Fire lays agrievous tax upon London
The losses from il amount to $500, 900 u
month
There have been 1S4 women students
at Michigan University during 1882. Of
this number 10 were in the library de-
| partmcnt
Crime is said to be increasing at
frightful rate in France. During the %
years ending 1880 it is said that 10000
murders were committed.
1t is said that the invention and sub
sequent Improvement of the American
pillow made a saving on last years crop
in this country of S90,000,000,
Mr. Bennett of Mississippi, felt that
his cook had done moro for his happi-
ness than his wife, and he therefore, left
her $4,000 and his wife 5000.
The grand staircase in the new Hotel
do Vile, Of Paris, will have 100 steps
Of Carrara marble, each OF which will
cost $50.
A certain drawing-room on Fifth av-
enue, New York, has ceiling Of cathe.
dral glass, said to have cost $1,000 It
is one Of the oldest ideas Of very odd
year
Milwaukee claims TO have the largest
brewery on this continent and the Sec
ond largest in the world. This estab-
lishment turns out 500, 900 barrels of beer
per annum.
Scientific men can tell us within
few million years the age of the earth;
astronomers have weighed the sun; but
the man isn't born yet who can tell why
tailor charges as much for suit for a
little man as for big one.
A Syracuse servant girl collected her
wages from the hotel proprietor by
standing with a knife and cleaver oven
the baked meats prepared for dinner
and refusing to allow anybody to
carve.
Dr. Agnew charges $500 day when
he "devotes all his energies to case.
The patients bank account, when Dr.
Agnew is done with him, must look as
if a cyclone had passed through the
money vaults.
Bismarck's parents intended him for
the church. Don't you think | would
have been better MANI he said once
to his wife, who was present at the time
he told his story. We'll" she replied.
II think you would have been ahapper
man,
Mr.. D. l.. Allen, of Bandenburg, KY,
and Miss Mollie Westfall. of Leaven.
worth, Ind, were married at Wyandottc
Scave, few days ago. The couple
stood on top Of Monument Mountain,
l75 feet high, surrounded by 500 lighted
candles and in the painful stiffness
which prevailed, were married by Rev
Morris Woods.
The Hon. Leland Stanford has Just
enlarged his estate by purchasing the
celebrated Coutts farm, at Menlo Park,
Cal, consisting Of about ! 400 acres. 1t
was formerly the property of P Coutts,
a somewhat eccentric Swiss millionaire,
who is now in Europe, but intends soon
to revisit this country and make some
large purchases Of land on the Pacific
slope.
a new building material, called ''fos-
sill coral has been discovered in a
small island in the Bay of Suva, Fiji
When it is first removed il is not soft
and easily cut into square blocks or any
other desired shape, but when it is eX-
posed 10 the open air for some time it
grows very hard and assumes some of
the characteristics of re-brck. What
the actual origin Of this substance may
have been is uncertain and will form an
interesting problem for biologists. AT
any rate il has been found so useful for
building purposes that the Fiiian Gov
ernment have given q large order for
cubes of it.
The slender waist of the French officer
| ~ " biiihE VI NV IdoA' lIhNiIls, lN5ulu
to comfort rather than appearance the
authorities have replaced the tigbt-fit-
ting garment that has so much amused
foreigners by what is called the Austrian
tunic, comparatively loose and easy
affair, and certainly more becoming
than the former vcstment The power
ful protest of the corset makers was un.
availng.
Too good to be true is the news from
Berlin that BARRIERS congress there
have unanimously resolved that the
operation of shaving should be begun
on the loft check; that the lather should
be applied with brush that the nose
of the customer must not be pulled dur
ing the treatment, and last, but not
least, that conversation on the part of
the operator must be confined to the
business in hand 1t is again evident
that some of the institutions Of the eifete
monarchcs Of the old World are worthy
of imitation.
John A. Cockorll, who shot Colonel
Slayback in St. Louis is not entitled to
the rank of "Colonel," " and never claim
cd it. His father was 4 Colonel in the
Union army during the war, and John
l Al IL A