The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-20
GLEANINGS.

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The young women taking pattern
after the masculine gender, have begun
writing to the Superintendent OF Castle
Garden asking for husbands.
A noted "horse man" says a quart of
oatmeal in pail of water will freshen
horse after hard driving and prepare
his stomach for more solid food.
A seat in the New York stock ex-
change recently sold for $2l, 900, which
is the lowest price in five years, the
highest price ever paid being $S5,500.
Five large springs of water in the
county of Ximines, Mexico, have sud-
denly burst forth on the open plains
where there has been continued
drought for many years.
Three Iowa girls, neither of whom
was eighteen years old, ambushed a
school teacher and walloped him half
to death for showing favoritsm toward
a fat girl in the geography class.
Several British noblemen were re-
Gently arrested in Yellowstone Park
and heavily fined for chipping off spec
linens from curious lodges, which they
proposed to carry away with them.
The jury system at Bowdoin College,
which aims to place the power of col
lege government more in the hands OF
the students, has been proved wise and
successful by the past years expert
ment
Fashion now requires the Partisan
dandy to wear an ornamental cane. On
or near the head should be an eye glass,
watch or cigarette holder. These
trihes range in price from 10 to 1000
francs.
The tallesttree in California is known
as the Father of the Forest 1t is
$50 feet high. The largest tree in cir
conference is known as the Empire
State" and is "a feet around the
trunk.
A New York man with an income of
SlS0,000 year lives continually in a
Pullman car at an expense of S35 a
day. He is regular traveller on the
limited express between Chicago and
New York.
In Germany boy under II cannot
for any oflense 60 before magistrate;
the schoolmaster must infict the neces-
sary chastisement; between II and Is
he may be sent to reformatory and
detained till 20.
A Leesburg, Ca, negro has an extra
Gnuar ~, aonh hand about =, ;pob 1pnCr
bearing a nail, but homeless His faith
er, brethren and children are also SINH
larly gifted, some of them having also
extra toes.
The New Zealand Government has
authorized an agent to collect 200 stoats
and weasels, for the purpose of thin
ming out the rabbits in that colony.
Each animal is expected to cost about
$50 before tbs landed.
Georgia papers are complaining be-
cause the contract for building the new
State Capitol has been given to a nom
resident and because the materials of
which it is to be built are to be brought
from other States.
The port of entry for Puget Sound
ranks forth in point of tonnage in the
Union, being only surpassed by New
York, Boston and San Francisco, and
it is predicted that San Francisco will
soon be passed in the race.
An English aeronaut says ballooning
has saved his life, and he believes that
the pure, unadulterated oxygen which
exists about mile above the surface of
the earth would be of Unreasonable
benefit to invalids if they would make
the ascent
Colorado, Mitchell Co., Texas, Offers
great inducements to single ladies'. The
Clipper tells of young man who was
Disguised TO find, on going to call on a
young lady, eleven other young mer
ahead Of him in the parlor and two sit
ting on the fence.
The attempts to raise vegetables IA
Greenland are not marked with any
great success. At 64degrees longitude,
however, carrots prosper, turnips come
to perfection, and cabhages produce
tolerably large leaves. Potatoes never
get larger than marbles.
The ten children of Joseph Pettijohn,
of Prescott, w. IT,, are marvels OF
height and weight. A soventeen-year
old son is seven feet high and weighs
265 pounds. The average height of the
whole Is six and a half feet and the av-
erage weight 224 pounds.
Tho family of Widow Elizabeth Ellis,
Of Abbeville County, South Carolina, has
! just held reunion at her home. She
had seventeen children, and her direct
descendants, children, grandchildren,
REORGANIZATION, and great-great.
grandchildren now number 1876.
Statistics show that there are 1865.
Ooow women in England and Wales who
figure as wago-earners, covering wide
range of employments. Oyera million
are employed In domestic service, anc
6l6,425 "sing the song of the shirt Ii
'olne of the varieties Of ncedlework.
| Birds in Sweden and Norway ar
better protected than in any othe
country, and the consequence Is tina
they are tame and familiar. A residen
Of Sweden says that every mornin,
t'ocks Of sparrows come into the room
while he Is eating breakfast and rul
about the room picking up crumbs o
washing themselves In basins.
A remarkable discovery Of topaze