The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-25
GLEANINGS.

Numerous PURCHASES VI caie hOio0o
in England for American account are
reported.
Boston has female hygiene club
that goes about inspecting the plumb
ing in houses.
The Smith family occupies fifteen
closely-printed pages of the London
city directory this year.
The British Columbia Assembly pro-
poses law limiting the amount OF
land that one man can own to GAO
acres.
The National and Mercantile banks,
in the City of Mexico, are to be CONSOLE
dated. Their combined capital will be
$50,
Matthew Arnold will write book
about America when he gets back. lie
will pay us off for our failure to APP
preciate him.
Crows first appeared in Russia after
the French retreat from Moscow, and
the people still hate them and call
them Napoleon's scavengers.
n W OICcSicI, MISS, uiuicl ua"Ou
Riedl took his old instrument to be re-
paired, when the repairer found it to
be an Amatis of 1870, worth $4,000.
The largest school in the world is
probably the Jews FREQ School in
Spitalfields, London. 1t has a daily
attendance of nearly 5000 people.
A Detroit man, who has not received
o valentine in nine years, wants con
gross TO pass law authorizing letter
carriers to dump all old valentines
through an air hole in the river
Fifty years hence" says Detroit
lake captain, "the sight of bark, brig
or schooner on the inland waters will
draw q crowd as curiosity. Steam is
knocking out the sail-craft by the doz-
en-"
Two colored members of the Texas
legislature sit apart from the other
members, and appear to be spectators
merely of the proceedings. They never
join in the debates, but vote without
molestation.
In 1875, when William B. Aston died,
he had 720 houses on his rent-roll.
The present number of Aston houses
exceed 1900, the whole estate being
valued at about $50, 900, 900, producing
an income of 100000 a year.
There is big shoe on exhibition in
Providence. R. l., made for negro
preacher in the West. The sole meas
ures q l-2 inches in length, around the
instep q, and around the sole lSinches.
The future wearer weighs 40 pounds.
The supreme court of Iowa decides
that a wife deserted by her husband,
without her fault, and left with no
means Of providing for her family of
young children, has authority to sell
the personal property of her husband
to obtain money.
1t is now being found out that the
terrible volcanic eruptions which took
place recently in Java were not an un-
mixed evil, as the enormous masses OF
ashes hurled out Of the craters are ex-
cellent fertilizers, which, with proper
treatment, may make Java bloom
again.
A friend of Jay Gould says: 81 don't
believe there is a soul that conides in
him. Thousands fear him. And yet
he is one OF the nattiest, most agree
able little men, perfect in polish; but,
after all, a Fra Diavolo in business.
With him the human heart is hollow
muscle
"Ouida' writes Of life in Italy:
Here one wants so little; the air and
the light, and little red wine, and the
warmth OF wind, and handful of
maize or of grapes, and an old guitar,
and niche to sleep in near fountain
that murmurs and sings to the MOSES
and marbles--these are enough in
Italy"
The Hungarian patriot, Kossuth, is
now 81 years of age, and lives quietly
at Milan. He neither believes in the
alliance of the Latin races, nor in that
OF the Teutonic. He fancies that Aus.
tria and Russia will ere long be al
daggers drawn, and hopes that, as he
has no infirmities save those of old
age, he may live to see it.
The Boston Post tells of some col
lego boys who after dark took an en-
tire load of wood from farmers sled
left in the street over night, and witt
great labor piled it up in citizen
woodshed under the impression tina
he'd be charged with stealingit. They
found the next morning that the citi
zen had bought that wood the nigh
before.
on the authority of a lady in Wash
ihgton MIR. J. r. Randall relates the
loliow'ng: IA rich master machinist
every now and then, fancies he is ,
boller and about to burst He throw,
hiinSe1 prone upon the floor and in.
sists upon his family drenchinp him
with cold water. They ALWAYS SO bn
NOR him. When about half drowno ~"
his right senses return, and, to ali in
tents and purposes, for weeks at
time, he is sober, clear-headed, mon
ey-making business man."
Mr. Sanderson, the superintendent
of the government elephant-catchin
operations in Bengal, who speaks wi,
more authority than any other Eur
pean, states that 'there is not, n,
ever was, such creature as n viii
elephant, in the ordinary acceptable
of the term" The so-called sacr,
white elephants of the kings of Blu
nah and Siam are ordinary elephant
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