The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-02
GLEANINGS.

to kiss any man who chews tobacco.
England makes 990,0O0,O00 gallons of
beer every year, Germany 900,000,000
and the United States 600,000,000
Paris alone has seventy schools for
mechanical trades, against one when
France first started industrial educa-
ton.
The Crescent Steel Works at Pitts
burg can turn out in an emergency an
ingot OF steel weig ing 5000 poundsin
one heat.
Switzerland is the only country in
Continental Europe where peasant wo-
men are not obliged to do most Of the
hard work.
Mgr. Capel said in lecture in New
York. THE worship of the golden calf
is as certain fact in your great cities
as it ever was under Sinai. "
Lieutenant Shufeldt, United States
navy, the first foreigner ever permitted
to explore the island of Madagascar, is
at Washington working on his report.
Mr.. Bergh has in his possession wills
giving half a million of dollars to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, which is now self-sustaining.
"Quick as mushroom solid as
granite" is the way the Atlanta Con-
Stitution epitomizes the growth and
prosperity of that go-ahead Southern
city.
Ex-Empress Eugene has once more
returned from her restless wanderings
on the continent and has settled down
for the winter in her English home at
Chselhurst.
The two islands in the Straits of
Sunda, Steers and Calmeyer, which
sprang up last year at the time of the
Krakatoa eruption, have again been
swallowed up by the sea.
A genuine wild hog was killed few
days ago in canon near Southport,
Coos County, Ore, after it had whip
ped dog and attacked man. 1t had
tusks over three inches long.
One man in Mississippi has twenty
three cotton plantations, comprising
from three thousand to four thousand
acres, under cultivation. He employs
one man to every ten acres.
An electric light has been introduced
into lighthouse at the entrance to the
outer harbor of Rio de Janeiro. 1t is
of 1000 candle power and is visible a
distance of thirty-iive miles.
Cyrus w. Field exhibits with pride
piece of the cable of 1858, which was
the first cable laid across the Atlantic.
but which failed after 1872 messages had
been transmitted through it.
In his superb garden at Varzin,
Prince Bismarck makes speciality of
roses of all varieties, and whenever at
nome takes great pleasure in attending
to them with his own hands,
The Republic of Nicaragua is the
only Latin-American country that has
no foreign debts. There are, moreover,
in the treasury surplus funds 10 wipe
ut the domestic Indebtedness at any
time.
DR.. Edward Davy, who is now living
in the wilds of Australia at the age of
years, was one of the
originators of the electric telegraph in
England, but others stepped in and
reaped the reward.
A man who recently claimed to con-
troll $40, 100000 Of railway capital, is
in a Boston jail for failure to pay
debt of $50 His name is neither Fer
dinand Ward nor Mulberry Sellers, but
his methods are akin to theirs.
Miss Mary Garrett, the daughter of
the late John W. Garrett, of Baltimore,
is now said to be the richest unmarried
lady i the land She receives a third
of her father wealth, whchis various
ly estimated from Sl5,000,000 to $780,
100000
Cattlemen and stock owners of the
Yellowstone valley are waging a war of
determination against the numberless
bears, prairie wolves and coyotes tha
are committing ravages on the cattle
herds on the north side of the Yellow
stone River.
The dog is a valued member of socie-
ty in the South. The Nashville An,eri-
can declares that 1.-THE people of North
Carolina would rather destroy her poll
ticians who are unfriendly to the dog
than exterminate this great enemy to
the sheep
The me lowness of old wine has been
found by experiments in Germany to be
due to an increase in the quantity of
glycerine that it contains, rather than
to a decrease of tannin. The mellow
ness of the drinker depends on the
quantity of the wine.
Lord Rose, son of the famous astron-
omer, and owner of the largest teles-
cope in the world, is in Philadelphia.
THE Times of that city say ''He looks
about 40 years old, is ruddy, and has
more the appearance of a jolly farmer
than stupendous earl
The great Arizona Canal, in the Salt
River country, to Phoenix, A. T.. is
about finished. 1t is seven and half
feet deep, twenty-six feet wide at the
bottom, and forty miles long. 1t cost
nearly 100000. The water OF Salt
River is being diverted into the Aqua
Fria.
Of the seven great manufacturing
states New Jersey is second only to