The daily Cairo bulletin., 1884-11-25
GIEA NINGS.

zen pOulus'
A homing pigeon went from Liberty,
Va, to Newark, n. j., $40 miles, in
493 minutes, or 5,026 feet, nearly one
mile minute.
Lieutenant Greely will pay visit to
England, as soon as his health is re-
stored, to arrange for the simultaneous
publication there and here Of his work
on "Arctic Exploration
Mr. Coxwell, the English aeronaut, is
writing an acronautcal novel, His OBJ
iect is TO show up in humorous fash
ion the humbug and extravaganza
which at present surrounds ballooning'
The city of st. Augustine will ccle-
brate on March ~ 1885, the anniyer-
sary of the landing of Ponce de Leon in
1912, and at the same time will COM
memorate the founding Of the city by
Mencndcz in 1865.
The great Comstock silver mine is
said to be giving out. a San Francisco
paper speaks of it as IA squeezed
orange" and adds that it has been
worked for the last six years without
yielding anything of value to the share
holders.
The Empress Mothu, of China, is OPP
posed to foreign innovations. When
her son, the Emperor, who diedin 1874,
was attacked with smallpox, she pre-
ferred to depend upon the god Tamien
to accepting the services of European
physician.
A citizen of Troy is said to have re-
Gently papered the stalls in his stable
with paper that cost him 500, 1000, Part
of the covering consisted Of bonds OF Il
defunct steam-heating company, and
the balance was bonds Of other "busted
bubbles
The school books now made with
thin and highly glazed paper should re-
ceiye the attention of some authority"
says the Boston Transcript, "if the eyes
of the rising generation are worth saw
inc. The reflection from the glazed
surface and the transparency are equal
ly bad for the sight,
The Louisiana state weather service
bureau will hereafter cooperate with
the United States signal service to
transmit weather reports throughout
the state, particularly the sugar dis
tricts, Timely notice of the approach
Of cold waves will be of the greatest
value to the planters
\ Boston spirit medium was detected
using a telephone in his cabinet. lie
allowed his mouth to be filled with
marble, and sealed with cou plaster.
BY attaching the telephone to conceal
ed wires that ran to a confederate in
another part Of the house he ncycr,he-
less produced ghostly voices,
\ Partisan once remarked to Long
fellow that there was one American
word he never could understand or find
in any dictionary. "What is it?' in
quircd the poet "Ihatldo,' was the
reply Presently a servant came in to
rcplcnish the fire. After putting on
little fuel, Longfcllow remarked to him,
That will do "lla,' exclaimed the
Frenchman, "that is the very word
which has troubled me-
France may be rich enough to pay for
her glory, but she seems to find it very
inconvenient to do so in cash down.
The warlike enterprises in which she is
engaged are simply running her iinan-
ccs, This year French authorities cs-
innate the probable deficit at as much
as eight millions sterling, and that
without making any allowance for
much outlay for the Chinese war.
With all its Spcndor Paris is little
more than u whited Scpulchcr. 4 re-
cent writer on the city says that for ey-
cry 1000 900 inhabitants there are 1jl,-
GOO helpless poor Two hundred and
fifty thousand ParisianS roughly class
ed as blackguardS have no visible
means OF support. Besides these pau
perS and criminals, there are 100000
| licensed women OF the town. OF these.
$4,000 are under IS, 1000 under lj,and
5000 under Is years of age
A Germantown correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Record says that forty
years ago Erasmus Pierce, who lived at
Mount Airy and did business at Third
and Market sire is, Philadelphia, wrote
pamphlet predicting that "s,cam vcs-
sells would cross the ocean in six days
inside forty years" Mr.. Pierce was
considered crazy and his predictions
impossible of yeriGcation, but it now
turns out that he was not far out of the
way.
Americans in London contemplate
building on the Thames cmbankment
an Anglo-American Exchange, which is
to include under one roof a gigantic ho-
tel, banking establishment, theatre
for the production Of purely American
dramas, and an aSsemblyroom in which
travellers from the United States may
be fairly certain TO meet their compa-
lriots who are doing the touro of Europe
Ample funds for carrying ont the
scheme have been subscribed or are
within easy reach, and II site for the
building Is now being secured,
A Paris correspondent says Mrs
Mackay's extravaganza has been cXng.
gcNtcd. She never pays more than
5000 for a dress. She makes the most
ludicious use of her money, not only in
dressing herself and her daughter prc,.
tily and artistcally and IN decorating
her lovely house with beautiful works
IF UN, but I'm guuporlinr and hplpinu