The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-06
GTEANINGS.

street announces. ~ "''''H- '+H'Ho
Five artists constantly in Attendance. y
No less than $4,000 human beings
have been transported to Siberia dur
inc the past ten years
Since the act OF Congress- went into
effect against the importation Of spuri-
Gus teas, 225,O pounds OF the y..ely
aiulterated stuff has been condemned.
A boy in New York bought and read
fifteen j-cent novels, and then delioer-
ately murdered his emp,oyer-al IN
four weeks.
Chang, the Chinese giant, is to be
married in five years to a Chinese wo-
man nine feet high. They will then
open a tea store in New York,
Since the opening OF the Suel Canal
tea has, 1879 excepted, declined each
year in price. 1t has never been lower
in England than now
Charles Delmonico was the owner Of
valuable library, which includes
books on cooking from ancient times to
the present day.
The search for pearls in the mussels
of Ohio has been a considerable indus
try for years. Pearl hunting has lately
been reported in Tennessee with favor
able results.
John Harris, "the Cornish poet"
who has Just died, was so poor in his
youth that he used the juice OF black
berries for ink with which to write his
rhymes.
In Mulhall's Dictionary OF Statis-
tics" Just published the total number
of Catholics in Europe is estimated at
47,430,000, while the Prostestants are
put down at 70, 302, 900
The best macaroni consumed in this
country is, according to the Philadel-
phia Press, made of California wheat.
New York, Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco make more macaroni than is i'm
ported.
Harvey O. Parker" says the Ok
ford, Me-, Democrat, sis remembered
when he sold apples from the Hiscoe
farm in Oxford county. The same
Parker is taxed this year on about
100000 work of property in Boston. "
President Porter, of Yale College. is
reported to have advised graduating
students, in recent address, thus
wise: Don't marry until you can
support wife. Read the papers. Adj
vertise your business, Love your God
opI fnllov.nnan
Thomas Van Vain, OF Syracuse,
who recently celebrated his 104 birth
day, comes of long-liyed family, his
father having been accidentally killed
at the age of l05 years. His grand
father lived to be 1lj, and brother of
his grandfather lived TO the age Of l12
years.
Joseph X. Emmett, the actor, who
some time ago lost a valuable and
highly-pr,zed ST. Bernard dog, has
bought another of f. Il. Hoarn, OF Pas
sale, n. j., giving $4,000, said to be the
highest price ever paid for q dog. The
dog is thirty-seven inches high, and
weighs 1875 pounds.
T. Thomas Fortune, the colorcd edi.
tor of the New York Globe, the only
newspaper in the world devoted TO the
interest of the colored race, is about
35 years old, feet high, has thin
oval face, Roman nose, thin lips, and
his entire physiognomy, barring the
color, is that of the Caucasian race.
Every seventh year has been a dry
year in California for a long period
The last dry year was in 1876, whel
only nine inches Of water fell in TIN
rainy season. This year the quantit
is very small, and unless all precedcn
is overturned this will be a dry ycal
in which case there will be short crop
of grain.
Red Jackets bones lie IN the vault {
q savings bank in Buffalo. Red jacket
Seneca chief, was famous rs an orr
tor. Some years AGO wanIerin
phrenologist robbed his grave, but tn
remains were recovered. 1t sthe pul
pose of the Buffalo Historical Societ
to inter the bones along with those c
other Seneca chiefs.
Last year not a single passenge
riding in q passenger train on tn
Massachusetts railroads was killed, G,
cept from his own fault, and there wer
over 6l,000,000 passengers carried a
average distance Of fifteen miles cacl
This is probably the most remarkabl
record yet made in the way of safety
travelling by rail.
The editor of an English scientif
paper satisfies correspondent as
why he does not print his article:
louf original theory was propounded
quarter Oh century since, and prob
ply not Tor the first time. 2. 1t a
oeeh reiuted over and over and prov,
logically unsound and physioIogicol
impossible. 3. We have NO room for
Matters must have come to y nro,
pass in Boston, when the HraId tail
out In this strain Between garrotc
on the streets and bald-headcd q
Washers in the horse cars maxi
themselves disagreeable to ladies, B,
ton is not improving her reputation.
few straight shots or long sentences
the footpads, and woman or two "
spirit enough to grind the corns or :
the faces Of the salacious old wrelcl
will help to restore good order and
cency."
The magnificent fleet Of Ironcl
which the Italian Government e.
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