The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-25
GLEANINGs.

John Denfijohn, OF Peru, Ind, re1us-
ed to change his name and thereby lost
wife worth 100000.
The Mormon missions in the Sand
witch Islands have published a report
claiming membership of $500. The
church owns large sugar plantation
Mineola has the longest wagon road
bridge in Texas, if not in the world.
1t is across the Sabine River and swamp
"a mile and three quarters.
The remains of Harvey, discoverer of
the circulation of the blood. have been
placed in thousand-dollar marble
coffin by the Royal College of Physi-
clans.
During the last thirty years the
Church of England has raised $3.50, 0OO,.
600 for the building and repairing OF
churches and cathedrals and $500, OOO,-
600 for endowments.
The wine products of California the
present year will be about 100000 900
gallons, 100000 gallons less than that
of 1882, and about 100000 gallons
less than the expected product.
King Cetewayo has now entirely re-
covered from his wounds, but is in a
very unhappy state of mind. His
army" has dwindled down to about
sixty men and women.
The highest point on the Rocky Noun.
tains reached by the Northern Pacific
Railroad is 1900 feet below the summit
of the Sierras, on the Central Pacific
Railroad.
The elegant pastime known as the
"cake walk" hitherto known among
the colored circles of society, has been
introduced at elite entertainments in
Philadelphia with great success.
It is somewhat noteworthy that,
while the aggregate vote for Governor
in Ohio was rs, l66, there were, as the
official count shows, onl y eleven scatter
ing votes, all the rest being given to
the four regularly nominated candi-
dates.
One of the Chinese generals named
Fang seems to have fancy for tall
grenadiers something like that of the
old Prussian King Frederick. Not long
ago he gave man eight feet and five
inches high large salary for acting on
his bodyguard.
1t is said that no arrests for carrying
concealed weapons have been made in
Kentucky since Proctor Knott inaugu-
ration az Governor Whether the boys
have left their guns at home or con-
ceaed weapon is no longer cOntraband
OF war Is not stated.
The Georgian's mouth waters while
he talks of 'possum, hedged in with
brown gravy and sweet potatoes with
sugar on them. A Georgia editor, who
attended hunt and the subsequent
feast, remarks: 1t was the first pos
sum we ever ate, but if our legs hold
out it will not he the last one.
Jonathan Davis was bachelor Of
sixty-fve and Elizabeth Elyett maiden
of sixty, They had lived in the same
county in Georgia all these years, but
they met for the first time at an evening
party last week. 1t was case of love
at first sight on both sides. Jonathan
proposed, and they were married then
and there.
Silas H. Darlington, of Bristol, Conn,
has, it is said, probably the largest col
lection of shells in the state, and an ex-
cellent collection of stones, among
which is an agate that is said to be the
| largest yet discovered. He is farmer
but has spent the past two winters in
Florida, where great part Of his col
lection was obtained.
One Mormon superstition is that
children, when i'll, may be cured by the
laying-on of hands. More than 5000
of the little ones are said to have died
in the last twenty-five years who might
have been saved by medicine, The
lavng-on of hands is of no benefit TO a
child, except whom he talks back to the
! old man.
| William Mather, who is in this coun-
try under commission from the Brit
ish Government, to investigate and
report upon the condition and progress
of technical education in America, finds
in the United States "a manufacturing
skill and engineering ingenuity that
cannot be observed anywhere else in
the world. y
DR.. Philip Livingstone Jones, &
Brooklyn physician, was reported to bt
worth sl,000,OO0. According to hi
will offered for probate recently. he i!
worth only about $1,000, but it i.
thought he had forgotten he was thu
owner of several valuable pieces o
suburban property, being very absent
minded about everything except mat
tiers relating to his profession.
An ingenious English manufacture
has bya simple and workable invention
of coiled spring succeeded in dispens
Ing with the need of driving SEWN,
machines by hand or foot. A few turn
OF handle winds up sufficient powe
to keep machine going at full spec
for over an hour 1t is completely III
der control as to the rate Of stitchin
and stopping, and can be applied t
any existing machine at moderate cos
Connecticut's Board of Health is in
vestigating n poisonous wood fror
Panama, termed cokobola. II takes
brilliant polish, and is much used 70
knife-handles and ornamentation, bt
poisons the men who work it. Chile
rem playing in its sawdust have ha
their feet poisoned, and at a large factt
ry in Elm street, Bridgeport, CHECKER
have died after eating the dust that ha
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