The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-10
GLEANINGs.


subscriptions to restore It.
A novel suit in the Vermont Supreme
Court 10 that u . man who claims dam
ages from the prison officials who made
him cut of his whiskers.
Old Ned, the alleged last domestic OF
Henry Clay, and who assisted in dig
ging the grave Of the Sage of Ashland,
is said to have died recently in Texas.
The works Of Zola have been sup
pressed in Germany, and now the Ger
mans are, of course, so interested that
the books will havea large surreptitious
sale.
Liberty enlightening the world will
set her torch ablaze on Bedloe's Island,
in New York .harbor, November rs, the
centennial anniversary Of the evacua-
ton. eH
Canada is recklessly piling up its
debt. In three years it has increased
S45, 900, 900. Perhaps the mother country
will pay it-when she pays her own
debt.
The late Louis Blanc has left So, 900
to Partisan children who have been de-
serted by their parents. The deserving
of each year are to receive savings bank
books with $40 set down to their credit
An English nobleman, who died late
| ly, left instructions by will that his fun
eral should not cost more than ESQ.
"My father's," he wrote, "cost $500,
which consider o shameful waste Of
money
Albert Hires, who is prominent in po-
| litica affairs in Nevada, once saved his
| life by the use Of a Masonic sign. He
was attacked by Indians in New Next
co, and was recognized by an Indian
Mason, when about to be scalped.
The hair of girl employed in the
Elgin watch factory was caught in the
machinery and violently pulled. From
that time all the new growth was white,
and now the receding color has reached
a point half way to the ends.
There are about 10000 working wo-
men in Boston whose average pay is "a
a week, and whose board costs them an
average of $3.50 week. This leaves
them 1926 year for clothing and incl
dentals.
The ups and downs of life were never
more strikingly illustrated than in a
Georgia village, few days ago, when a
pOverty-stricken young man died at the
house of an old negro woman who was
his fathers slave before the war.
An American went to see M. and
Nine. Damala, in Paris, and asked Sa-
rah's husband what he could wish him.
The ex-actor Qor he will never tread the
boards AGAIN. responded, after reflect
ing for some seconds: "Wish me pa
tiencer' Sarah is trying when in bad
temper
The children of public school at
Hamilton, Can, had been told what to
do in case of fire, and so, when some
woodwork broke into flame from the
heat of stove-pipe, they coolly and
steadily formed files under the direction
of the teachers, and marched uncon-
fusedly out of the building.
A West Virginia maiden walked thir-
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started to walk back to whence she
came. Three miles out she gave out.
The new husband left her at wayside
house, with Instructions to come on in
the morning.. He trudged along alone
and she followed next day.
1t is said that the ordinary Hindu o.
to-day has q vague impression that after
death he will be absorbed, body ant
soul, into supreme being who is be
yond all the gods and goddesses. If yor
look around, says the Boston Herald
man. you will find those who are MOI
Hindus that seem to have a similar i'm
preston.
Uncle Fielding billiard, one of the
most esteemed citizens of Oglethorpe,
Ga, has pointer dog that takes the
cake, not surreptitiously, as heather
dogs do, but piously and on the square.
His master is sincere Christian and
has family prayers night and morning,
and when this dog sees his master open
the bible to begin services, he comes
and lies down close to him; then when
Mr. D. kneels down to pray, he will
stretch out on the floor and groan as il
he were responding.
Russell Sturges was poor Boston
boy, and became q tcn-millionaire in
London through his connection with the
famous banking house Of Barring Broth
ers. He always attributed his success
in life to the fact that he got on the
wrong steamer by mistake, andthus led
to make the acquaintance of the firm in
which he made his money. II the name
of that steamer were given it might
have practical interest to other fortune
hunters.
Among the many amazing things told
by Professor Langley about the sun is
that if bed Of coal Of the size of the
state Of Pennsylvania, and ten feet thick,
were suddenly showed into the sun, il
would be used in keeping up the pres.
ent energy Of the sun for Just one-hnnd
redth part Of a second. Another illus
tration is his estimate that the rainfall
on Manhattan Island for three months
loaded as ice, would fill a train extend
ing from Jersey City to San Francisco
Samuel Scott of Wartburg, Tenn.
has just died, his weight being $50
pounds. 1t is thought that his death was
due to his extreme obesity. He was
about five feet eight inches tall but his
body was pulled out to an abnormal
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