The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The bicycle Is taking on import
ahce as vehicle. In Germany, joui-
neyman artisans ride them about the
country.
- ondon ladies who make them
sc yes conspicuous by wearing black
and white striped dresses are termed
"magples,'
Cremation is making great strides
in France. The Project OF the Seine
means 10 establish Siemens furnaces in
several of the cemeteries OF Paris, and
proposes to cremate all persons whose
bodies are not claimed by their friends.
The cruel practice Of dishorning
cattle still continues in Ireland, it be-
ing estimated that $4,000 head are dis
horned annually. In a late suit insti-
tuted by the Society Tor the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals against dis
horner, Judgment was rendered against
defendant.
The pictures in the homes OF
Pompeii were not articles of furniture,
but were worked into the walls; and in
to the walls pictures will again be
worked when the world has woven its
new inventions and appliances thor
oughly into its civiliza ion, and has d.
gested them as thoroughly as the ko-
mans assimilated the more I'm ted
knowledge OF the Greeks and of the an
cient civilizations preceding them.-
Philadelphia Record.
"A correspondent at Lucerne, Swift
zerland, says there is little to do there
aside from 'tne excursions on the lake,
but one could spend week just look
ing across the water. OF music there
is variety such as one rarely finds =
every night half dozen new concerts.
All the strolling singers, and mando-
line players and either players and
cymbal players of all countries seem to
flock to Lucerne in the summer, and it
is The custom to perform at the differ
ent hotels during dinner"
"A tren h newspaper has discov-
cred that it is the custom of marriage
in .,lthuania for the BRIDES mother to
publicly box her daughters ears. The
object of this proceeding is, that,
should the daughter subsequently de-
sire to get rid o her husband. she can
plead t at was 10 ced to marry h m by
vic ence. 1t is pointed out with regret
that the compiler Of the new French
divorce law might have studied the Gus
toms of lithuania with advantage. -
Paris Morning. AeOS.
On the night Of the 10th instant
there were dreadful tempeSts in Hun
gary, which caused much devastation.
In the village of Lehegeny whole fami-
ly persisted. The water having penetrat-
into room, the husband b oke hole
in the ceiling and drew the inmates
through ii up into the loft But soon
afterward the entire house fell in, and
the wife, four children and a servant
were drowned. The man was saved by
clnglng to q rafter, and was drifteC
some four miles further down. o. tn,
line OF the State hallway no fewer thar
seventy houses were destroyed.
The walkers and runners of tn
4, present age are pigmies by the side Q
Y Gle professional runners of the days be
fore railroads and teIegraphs. Evel
fifty years sin g we find that Ern s
Meusen was famed for h swift locomo
ton. He once ran from Paris to Mos
COW, dlStan e of |, 10 miles, in thir
teen days and ghteen hours. In 1881
he ran from Calcutta to Cons antino
pie. DBL miles, in fty-nine days. lii
always oItstripped mounted courers.
Invariably he took a direct, climbing
mountains, swimming rivers and run
ming through forests. His food was 6
small quantity of biscuit and raspberry
syrup. He died in 1893, while running
through PIPER Egypt.