The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-17
GLEANINGS.

town.
Mason county, West Virginia, has
the richest tin mine in the world, and
thousands of people are flocking to the
place.
Miss Fairy G. Shafer, of Madison
burg, Pa, recently patched quilt con-
tanning 4,9lS distinct pieces. The
Young lady is doubtless the champion
quilt maker of the Keystone state.
Cassius NJ. Clay lives quietly on his
Kentucky farm, taking little notice of
current politics. I'm not alone" he
SAYS. II have my sheep, cattle, dogs,
birds, flowers, and books, and l am
writing book-my memoirs"
A 'humpback'' turtle was found
floating in Monterey Bay. California,
the other day, and captured. 1t was
seven feet seven inches long, four feet
across the back, and had two fins three
feet long. 1t weighed one thousand
pounds.
A limestone cave with beautiful sta
lactite and stalagmite formations, like
that Of Luray, Va, has recently been
discovered by chance in the depart
ment of Ain, near the road from Gene
va to Lyons. 1t has been explored for
800 yards.
One thousand pounds of strictly ''gilt
edge butter are sold every week in the
P5ston market at from 60 to 50 cents
per pound. New York takes from 5000
to 400 at the same price, and in both
cities the demand is not equalled by
the supply
1t has been officially ascertained by
the French government that every sug-
gestion proposed for the cure of the
vines infested by the phylloxera has
proved to be aDortiye. A special COM
mission TO Investigate the several pro-
cesse: has lately been established.
Built-up wood, ike that employed
for good many years back in bottom.
ing chairs, already completes with can
vas for the purposes of the artist, and
with binders board for book covers.
Is lightness almost entire absence of
cleavage lines ard non-lia bility to split
sc among its mos! commendable fea-
lures
There has lately been constructed BY
NM Chslliot and Gratiot, of Paris,
new tool 10 which theY have given the
name Of the bi-raiial drilling machine.
The arm Is iointed or hinged in the
middle so that the drill can be brought
10 sny point on the table without lift
ing the latter. Beyel gear transmits
t-s power.
TIE new port recently opened at
Trieste, Austria, has cost altogether
about $4,000 Three jetties 700
feet long BIZ 800 feet broad have been
built, AMI thus has the former north
eastern harbOr Of Trieste been convert
Cd into three basins with nearly two
miles Of qusy. These basins have a
depth Of water varying from % to 45
fest
Oae Of the high caste families in Jap
~ possesses 8 stone called a "barome-
ter stone" which changes its color
when change Of weather is imminent.
/: Is naturally Of a pinkish white hue,
and several days before it rains it be-
comes green, while storm is indicated
~ dark aspect. 1t is to be presented
10 the emperor when he moves into his
low palace.
We mentioned last week the death Of
Mr. Wyatt Hare, Mr.. Hare had some
Pecullar!ties, among them this one: He
never bought a match. A fire, either
open or banked, was kept up continu-
any On the hearth. In this he trod in
the footsteps Of bis father, and the fire
upon that one hearth was a continuous
hre Tor more than one hundred years.
--helSoa (Va,) Examiner.
CAST iron may be so hardened as to
resist cutting by an ordinary file by the
toIoWlng method: When the iron is
brought to cherry red heat, sprinkle
some cyanide OF potassium on it, raise
me temperature then little above the
'ed heat, and, lastly, dip in the tenn
Perlng tank Cyanide of potassium
may also be used for case hardening
'ron with decided effect.
henry Bergh believes "that on hy-
slenlc principles the cemeteries should
ri Ts GRADUALLY removed and abandoned.
a Inc water flowing through the earth
anouid De uncontaminated and not car
~ lhe refuse of decaying and lifeles,
humanity AS we advance in human
ny and civilization the cremation prob
ZEN will be solved just as the relief o
suffering animals has been solved"
A dentist at Calgary, has been bus
IsVeiy extracting teeth from Indians
=! Is stated that before the advance Q
elyllIlzatlon, when the natives subsiste
1Uieiy on buffalo meat decayed teet
mI,e unknown among them. Brave
WIZ stand the tortures of the sun-danc
W. %i. ah;i hinching are reduced to stat
VI e,; ap!ect terror when they feel the col
s'Ip Vi inc lorceps. Winnipeg Time.
An old Arkansas darkey who h,
spent his life In the cotton fields, in q,
planning to Northern man the n 40 90
sity OF keeping the grass and weeds su or
OF the cotton patch, said: "De liz,
cotton am mighty easy DISCOURAGE,
Jes one little blade err foxtail will sEe
1t outen a weeks growth. Dew is n,
full shy. De eazies touch O de bah,
fingers ain ez soft ez natur. Nobod
makes no difference how gentle. k
shove de ten'er cotton sprout in de d
without mashin' it, but natur ken sho
n fhrnuph a hard clnd -