The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-14
GLEANINGS.

estate holders in Council Bluffs.
The Colorado historical society wants
mountain lion TO stuff
Susie Bates, of Clinton, Me, twelve
years old, weighs lS9 pounds.
Hundreds of men, out of work and
money are begging from door 10 door
in Portland, Oregon.
newspaper printed at the little
town of Medora, in Montana, is called
the Bad Land COR Boy.
The needed expenditures on roads in
the Yellowstone Park this year are es-
timaied at $4,000
A pearl weighing nearly two hundred
grains has lately been found on the line
Of The Panama canal
The London Saturday Rcris'c says
our tenth census was the best ever made
in any country.
Hiram Radclitf, a recluse who died
recently at Kingston, n. Y, left per-
sonal property worth $4,000, includ-
ing halt-barrel of pennies.
A citizen of GAINESVILLE Ga, now
worth $4,000, never wore pair Of
shoes until after he was twenty-one
years Of age.
The Arizona Legislature offers 81 for
every Apache scalp brought in, and it
is asserted that "a Connecticut genius
in that section of the country invented
and made q scalp which very nearly
passed muster. "
Frances Hodgson Burnett is still I'M
der thirty. She is full Of life, likes So
ciety, and is v.vacious and interest
ING talker She is Of medium height,
has dark auburn hair, a broad fore
head, and pleasant blue eyes.
The Duchess OF Z linburg is consider
ed the talker in the English royal fam
ily. She is said TO be very strong will
ed, the only person who dares to op.
pose Victoria, or even say Il won't
10 her, and to care nothing for popu-
larity.
AVermont physician who found a
neighbor in the road too drunk TO walk
and invited him to crawl into his sleigh
was astonished by the query: Say,
Doctor, my family physician is Dr.
-; do YOU think your carrying me
home will make any ditferenceP'
The London Daily Nc1CS says of the
late Wendell Phillips that he twas an
orator of imprisoned movement, which
stirred the public mind TO its profoud-
est depths, and Americans have reason
to be glad that such men have been
among them.
A pantaer mde contract to fresco
the interior of church in Michigan.
The design was left to his own taste,
which proved unsound, for he covered
the walls with neurological and idol
atrous pictures. The trustees not only
refused to pay him, but demanded that
he remove his work.
Manners impress as they indicate
real power. Nature forever puts pre-
MUM on reality. What is done for
effect is seen to he done for effect; what
is done for love is felt to be done for
love. A man inspires affection and
honor because he is not lying in wait
for these.
Four cents a piece was the price
promised a sewing-girl in Brooklyn for
making eight dozen shirts and then
she had to bring suit to get the money,
her employer alleging that the sewing
was detective. judgment for the full
amount and S. costs was rendered in
her favor
A man in Concord, n. H., advertised
for boy 10 learn the shoe business,
and received twenty-seven answers,
the ages Of the applicants ranging from
- wears to g. He says he believes in
advertising, but he wishes some Of the
New Hampshire boys were not quite SO
old
4 yender Of a nostrum in Baltimore
takes a position on street corner,
rolls up his shirt sleeves, disclosing
very muscular arms, and exercises
with a heavy dumb-bell. A crowd is
quickly attracted and to them he sells
a medicine which, he declares, will
make anybody as strong as he is.
A San Francisco man estimates the
property Of the three bonanza men OF
that city as follows: Flood, 500, OJO,-
600; Mackey, $6O,0OO,0 900; Fair $4Oe-
100000. Probably, if there should be
sudden necessity for anhonest liquid
ellOn, thCsc amounts WOuIu aHLIHh IHlO
amillion or two each.
Wages are steadily increasing in
Mexico. In the capital common labor
receives Sl2j a day. Mechanics get
rom rom $l'5 to 1925 Along the rail.
t ,o llhes the prices are about 81 9
eay LOT unskiIled laborers and $3.50 &c
~ ior mechanics. The laborers from
the rural districts are coming into the
railroad districts in large numbers.
A convict who escaped from III,
Loulsianastate prison, walked hard nj
night, and by daylight was forty mild
away. Fearing detection by means a
his striped garb he went boldly into
negro farmhouse, told the owner tha
he was circus performer disabled b
rheumatism, and offered to swap Ii
costume for any old suit of oriinar
clothes. The bargain was made, an
the runaway continued his fight
safety.
A married couple persisted in q
City of Columbus disaster, leaving
children, but considerable propert
As it is impossible to say surely viii
one died first the title to the estate W
have to be determined by inferenc
The courts have held in cases of shi
wreck that the woman being the weak