The daily Cairo bulletin., 1884-08-05
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lam are LAs pccH MSOC d ~ ~ -
the University Of Tennessee.
Tae old Garfield Memorial Church
s.: Washington has been sold for SlS2
Nea-,7 800 women are employed in
tte various government offices in En-
gland.
Queen Victoria was instrumental IN
causing women TO be employed in tele-
--zY1 offices.
\ co1v.c. from Clark county, in the
O-.1 Psu..eu,iary, cut off two fingers
70 keep from work.
George Augustus Sals says that he
azs written during his journalistic
ca-ee. oi S. years more than 1000
newspaper essays.
james Watts workshop at Heath.
field Ha.. IS preserved just as he last
wen. on: Of it-even 10 the leather
ay-52 thrown across the wise
On, q Japan's total population of
SL0u.9Jl there are only 10, $50 palp-
e.. and Of these more than 1000 are
g. Toxic, in the wOrk-hOuse
The forests Of Europe are estimated
o. cover 10000. 90 acres, or nearly 20
rer cen. Of the surface Of the contin-
en-.
Turleys are in demand among the
vine--rowers of Fresno, Cal, who
want them to range the vineyards and
catch the slugs that are now attacking
the vines.
There /: s concerted movement
among actors in combinations to Sc
cure the abolition Of the Wednesday
matinee, which they seem TO hold in
special detestation.
Pretty little baskets for sending
flowers By post are the latest novelty
in England. They fasten with a pad
lock, the person sending and the per-
son receiving each having key.
Cr0quet threatens to come again
iAto fashion in England, lawn tennis
being objected to a. making ladies
Greadtu.ly flushed, and as too rapid in
its movements for adequate Irritation.
In the eighteenth century the growth
Of population in Denmark was so small
as to be scarcely noticeable. During
the present century tine population has
increased from one million to nearly
two.
A man in Arizona is suing local
paper because it announced that he
was the father Of thieyiug boy a week
old. The editor meant to say "thriv-
ing but fate and the type-setter
ordered otherwise
There is fortune in so small a
thing as a device for fastening a neck
tie. One Of the patents in that line
has just been sold to a company for
Sl,OyO,D0O in cash, and royalties that
may amount to as much more.
Baron Tennyson very properly refus-
es to be bored. He announces Off
cially through the London Times thai
he will not answer the multitudinOu!
letters sent to him, will not look a
manuscripts nor even return them.
Johannes Scherr, the German critic
insists that sin the wide world ther
are perhaps hardly three women VIII
know, honor and love Shakespeare
W N.Y. Because he calls thn@s b
lhelr halhei because nc Is ha'uTaI
Ike nature
Coal is cheaper in Boston 3j4 mile
from the coal fields, than it is at Phila
delphia, only 80 miles from the fields
Bostonians pay $j.2j per ton Of 200
pounds and Philadelphians $3.50 pc
long ton OF 22i0 pounds, or S0'9J 10
2VyO pounds.
The story OF a North Carolina rub
is thus set forth bv the Asheyille CIT
zen: MIR. Daniel Sclford found
ruby in Clay county which he sold fc
SIS. Ii next sold for $1,000, then (,
$4,000, and lapidarv bought it, an
after working upon it, sold ii for Sl5
000."
A peculiar REPTILE is the horne
rottlesnake now on exhibition in II
Anre1es Il ;s oIort ff,oor irobos
ien9tb and has two hons which w.
loot from lie ho.d iYst oLnyc tto orlo r
Ue hos nni,- fro ro;tIo, ond b,,yo
and was nantrrod ot IrJia Statior
the Colorado Desert.
Ro,roo, .bo ooo, 90 ff.oo, o,
fortv.fye Iyon5n oan crow oh"
seven crons 81 bair II 80 avo-ooos C oTo
four onncps to M tbn crnn md wban %
the nrevaiIinr nonnior coIor brinrs