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

william Lone, 81. LOUIS, IL whiting
duplicate Strasburg clock with $780,
900 pieces.
Sixty-four of III New Jersey school
teachers say in reports that whipping
is indispensable,
More than $4,000 hOmesteads have
been entered in Florida during the last
two years.
Newbern, Tenn, has law that i'm
poses fine of not less than $25 or more
than $50 on any person who goes into
saloon on Sunday.
This was the very concise verdict of
q coroner's jury in Idaho; I'VE find
that the deceased came to his death by
calling Tom Watlings liar"
The ebony tree grows to be Is feet
in circumference. The outer wood is
pure white, the heart only being per-
fectly black.
In game of foot ball at Annapolis
muscular cadet kicked the ball fifty
yards. His friends are willing to back
him against any opera singer in the
country.
A Saratoga, New York, man is quite
certain that he has invented a wholly
successful electric motor for railways.
By some odd chance his name is
Daft.
Samuel Jones, of Philadelphia. has
had his old father arrested for EN-
bezzlement He sent him out with a
little money to buy fruit and he failed
TO return.
The first railway in Spain was laid
in l8iS 1t was but fifteen and half
miles long. The system has not grown
very rapidly. however, and now only
covers 5000 miles.
Texas farmers have sold this year
$50, 900, 900 worth of cotton. $5S, 900, 600
worth of cattle, 100000 worth Of
wool and mutton. and $1,000, 900 worth
of horses and hides.
DR.. Bliss has over 1000 letters re-
ceived by him during the eighty days
he had charge Of the wounded Garfield,
all Of them bringing suggestions, and
some Of them bearing threats of vio-
lence.
1t is standing joke in Italy that
Salvini carries about with him the
| Kings pardon, to be used in case his
realism on the stage should carry him
to the point of an actual smothering OF
some Desdemona.
At stations on Russian railroads
there is a grievance book, in which the
traveller can inscribe his wrongs in any
language, and which is periodically
read by the authorities. Whether
results follow the perusal is not stated.
/ On July there we're II, $50, 900 cat
tie in France and 5,962,0OO in Grea,
Britain; there were 2,75O,0O0 pigs in
France and 1850, 900 in Great Britain
there were 500, 900 sheep in France and
$4,000, 900 in England.
! An old lady In Portland. Me-. who
was acquainted with Ralph Waldo EN-
erson, and knew him well in later life
says he was 50 indolent that she WA
not at all surprised when he gave W
preaching and went to live in Concord
| supply W tuiuA-
A pair Of Queen Elizabeth's gloves
can be seen in an English museum
She had a hand like q brakeman. Thu
thumb of the glove is five inches Ions
and the palm measures three and I
half inches across. No wonder the
kingdom trembled when she brought i,
down.
Hanlan, the oarsman. says that he
owes his success In great part to hav
ing hit upon winning stroke, for it is
there he shows his superiority. 1t is 8
thing which cannot be governed by
mathematical calculation, though. bu,
is more the result of an accident or in.
born knack.
A tribe Of Indians having tails from
six to eight inches in length is said te
have been discovered in Paraguay,
Should this announcement prove true
the Journal of Science protests in ad
vance against their being paraded a
1.-THE missing link" since the anthro-
poid apes have no tails.
Surgeons probed Intellectually for the
bullet that entered the hip of George
H. Fredericks, of Fort Wayne, in the
battle of Okolona, Miss, twenty-one
years ago. The other day he felt q
sharp pain just above the right knee
joint. He worked the flesh with his
finger and out came the ball.
An inventor in Brussels claims to
have contrived a perpetual clock. II
was started in that city about one year
ago, and up to recent date is said to
have been running perfectly. An up.
draught is obtained in tube or shaft
by exposing it to the sun. This draught
turns fan which winds up the weight
Of the clock.
| For the first time since the invention
Of printing, German book has reach.
cd Its 1,00Oth edition, each Of them
numbering 5000 copies, thus making
in all 5000, 900 copies. 1t Is primer
by Haester, published by G. d. Bae.
decker, of Essen. which first appeared
in 1853, and reached it's Tooth edition
in 1868.
In England there is more land lying
idle in sporting grounds, game re-
serves and landlords parks than the
whole kingdom Of Belgium, which sup
ports in happiness and prosperity g.,
600, 900 people and sends large food
| oxnorts m London. An income al