The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-01
GLEANINGS.


see this spring.
a man in North Tisbury, Mass, says
he has recently drawn up eighty-nine
snakes from his well.
Boys st the forks of Coos River, in
Oregon, receive 81 for each crane killed
in that neighborhood.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society
have admttd women to membership
and indorsed vivisoction.
Jews have been so prosecuted in
Limerick, Ireland, lately that numbers
OF them have left the city.
Ii has been found out that Bartholdi
has made an idealized portrait of his
mother in the figure of Liberty.
OF the 1888 who graduated from
Middleburg College since 1900, GIG are
still living, and 500 became clergymen.
Political arrests continue daily in
Russia, and the question of new and
larger jaiIs will soon come up for seri-
Gus consideration.
Thousands of painted sparrows are
sold in London for canaries, and the
fraud is seldom detected until the new
feathers begin to sprout.
There are over 700 lighthouses and
% floating light stations on American
coasts and rivers, supported by q
yearly cost of 81, $4,000.
De Voc, the New Jersey weather
seer, says we are to have cold weather
in July, some very hot weather in
August, and long, mild Fall.
Mr.. Whistler admits that it took him
only twenty minutes to make some of
the drawings recently sold at from
twenty to eighty guineas each.
Governor Stanford and Remi Nadeau,
Of Los Angeles, are rivals in the vine
yard business Nadeau is now 1000, 600
vines ahead, having 100000 in all.
A Cincinnati paper says: There is
one square on North Fourteenth street,
in Richmond, Ind, where reside twenty
one young ladies of marriageable age"
The Boston U'atchman says that
within the last nine years nearly 800
churches have been burned in America,
mostly through defective heating appa-
ratus
j. +. Hall, of Marietta, Ohio, ninety
one years old, is said to have built the
first wharf on the Ohio river, and his
son is married to a granddaughter of
Martha Washington.
DR.. Cuyler, writing in the Erangcltst,
says that cheap pews, and even free
pews, are very desirable for all who
have a scanty purse. But cheap re-
ligion he pronounces an arrant delu
sion.
1t is said that only one small herd
OF butialOes, the remnant Of what was
known as the great Southern herd,
remains in Texas. These are being
killed as fast as their flesh can be dis
posed Of
The number Of horses in the United
States in 1884, according TO the iates
official statistics Is II, 1853 GS3-show
ing an increase over 1883 Of 3Sl, 81
head. The number Of mules IN thi
country is now estimated at l,9l4, l2G
Twcn,y-eight years ago Henry Clark
Of Haukiusville, Ga, put a catfish j
his well, and it has grown from tw
inches in length 10 sixteen. Every yea
when the well is cleaned the fish
carefully caught and replaced after tn
cleaning.
A man in Spokane Falls, Montana
didn't ike his wife, and his wife like
charming imported Frenchman. III
little family trouble was adjusted |
the Frenchman paying the husbar
1900 in good spot cash, and takir
the woman. The first circles Of Sp
kane Falls are in hutter over Il
affair.
In Dann's anecdotes Of the early hi
tory of Vermont a story is told OF
man who, Standing in the hollow ST.
of tree, fell backward aud hun
downward, with one foot lodged in Il
tree. In his desperation he cut h
foot off at the ankle with his jack-kni
and crawled toward home, some ~
miles before he obtained help.
Not long ago a big whale got stran
ed on one of the Shetland Islands.
venturesome small boy thought he W
dead, and sat down on his snout. 7
whale showed that he objected TO Il
liberty by giving snort-which sc
the small boy flying into the water I'll
feet away. When he swan ashore
knew more about whales than he ey
did before
Tucson is the pride OF all Arizoniar
They even claim it TO be the oldest C!
in America, and declare that its orig
antedates that Of Santa Fe Before /
advent Of Americans it was a Mexic
hamlet, and still earlier it was an !
dian village. No traces Of its first {
cupants are to be seen to-day. but t
adobe houses and narrow, windiI
streets are Mexican.
Mr.. Bookwaltcr, the democratic @,
didate for governor Of Ohio whom &c
Foster defeated, is said TO be wor
$1,000, 900, He derived his forth
from his invention Of u turbine wat,
wheel. Several years ago he had b.,
magnificent house at Springfield.
and had in it the best private art o
lery in the state. When his wife.
whom he was most devotedly attach,
died, he left that house, and has me-
entered it since, and has only been
Springfield but once since
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