The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-10-07
LOCAL ITEMS

The Belya Lockwood show will be on
the road in few days and then the Blaine
menagery will be returned TO winter quar-
ters-or swamped. Belva will do all the
drawing.
There are sixty-seven Republican and
Independent papers in this country sup
porting MIR. Cleveland. OF these many are
the most influential in the land, such as
the N. Y. Times, Herald, Evening Post,
Harper's Weekly, Boston Herald, Adver-
tiser, Transcript, Gazette, Springfield,
(Mass.) Republican, etc. These carry a
mighty influence.
After twenty-five years Joe Howard
the newspaper correspondent, confesses
that he coined the story about Lincoln's
escape in disguise from Philadelphia to
Washington. Lincoln did escape an alleg.
cd plot to assassnate him, but Howard in
vented the Scotch cap and long cloak dis
guise because Lincoln had him locked up
to keep the matter out of the papers until
he YVES safe in Washington.
-Quoth James "My uncle has hen
Whose age is wondrous-very;
She turned her three score years and ten
Some time in January"
Says John: THAT hen is old and gray,
But have more than matched 1t;
Down at my boarding house to-day,
They cooked the hen that Matched it,
"A new industry has been started at
Rochester, New York. A company is en-
gagged in putting up ready Cooked farm
acicus food, and have put on the market in
two pound packages, dessicated, or ready
cooked oat meal, cracked wheat, hominy,
beans, and peas. With this preparation
and hot water only, mush, oat meal, bean
soup, &C., is ready for the table in three
minutes, and guaranteed absolutely pure
these goods are handled and for sale by
Stratton s. Bird, who have just received q
large invoice.
Gone is the day of the coat of mail,
When into the Tournament,
Crowned with his ladys shimmering veil,
The true knight boldly went.
And gone are the days, when a uniform,
And bit of the gold, gold lace,
Took The futtering female heart by storm
With glamour of martial grace.
Alack and alack for the wooing OF!
Alack and alack for mel
For a coachman's hat and buttoned coat
Are loves last livery Puck.
The Chicago editors have little fun
occasionally. A short time ago the editor
of the Chicago News charged that the edi-
tor of Chicago Journal wrote hand by the
side of which the hieroglyphics of the
ancient Egyptians were plain as print. The
editor OF the Journal denied this, but wrote
the denial in such way that the printers
set up Tribune instead of News. Then the
editor OF the Tribune grew indignant and
wrote note to Mr.. Shuman denying the
statement. The Journal editor could not
read the note, but printed it in the crop re-
ports, and wrote note to the editor of the
News, having by this time discovered the
mistake. The News man unfortunately
started to read the note upside down, and,
as it was sigued Shuman, made the very ma
tural mistake of thinking it was an article
on Seaman" and so sailed into the owners
of vessels who persisted in paying sailors
such small wages. By this time the editor
Of the Tribune grew indignant at not hav.
Ing his note answered, and wrote another,
saying; "Sir:-I desire you to rctract the
assertion that the editor of this sheet ever
published a line rejecting on your pen
manship. 1t is not the custom of this pa
per to indulge in idle jests at mans mis-.
fortunes or mechanical defects" And to
this the Journal man, not, of course, beng
able to read it, responds "Your apology
is sufficient. As you are aware, have long
favored high protective tariff, and am glad
10 know you are now convinced it is the
better plan" And the editor of the Trib
fne, as he threw it in the waste basket, ex-
claimed: "When will people learn that
the authors real name must accompany all
communications"
Fitzgoober, in the past few weeks,
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