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

Oscar Wilde has petered out COM
pletely. No one responded to the an
nouncement of his recent lecture in
Dublin.
North Carolina will levy no State tax
next year The Western North Carroll
ma Railroad will pay into the treasury
5000, 800, which sum will carry the
State government.
A New York bookseller says that
women do not buy such books as
"Guides to Gentility," and "Habits OF
Good Society,"" Men buy them. Wo-
men prefer "How to Beautify the
Skin," and 1.-THE Art of Dress"
Leo Daft, the inventor of the electric
motor which has just come into notice,
was born in England about twenty
years ago, and was trained in science
under the late Sir William Siemens.
He has lived in this country about
eighteen years.
The total number of assertions from
the British army in 1882 was 4,l45. OF
whom 1927 rejoined. In the house.
hold cavalry the assertions were 3 in
the 1000; in the foot guards, Is; in the
cavalry Of the line, 25; in the infantry
of the line "a.
Shooting cats with air guns and pea
rifles has been INDUCED in by men and
boys at Virginia City, New, until cat
is scarcely to be found in the town; but
swarms Of rats are, and now there is
demand for more cats and less air gun
sport Of that kind
According to the Wytheville (Va.)
Enterprise, Miss Willie Withers,
daughter Of ex-senator Withers, OF
that State, can handle q shotgun with
an accuracy of aim that exceeds that
of many pretentious sportsmen, and
many birds are brought down on the
wing by her seldom-erring aim.
The st. Ignace (Mich.) Nea0s tells a
story Of a young man who went into the
lumber woods Of Canada last summer
weighing only ninety six pounds, and
has come back, after season OF breath
ing the bracing breezes Of Pine River,
with his avoirdupois increased to 2O2.
The curiosities exhibited in the win
dow of New York pawnbroker's sale
shop are huge gold medal of 1910
with President Thomas jefferson face
engraved thereon, and bible printed
in the Irish language, said to have
come from the press in 1880
One of the survivors of the Black
Hole OF Calcutta was Sir David Birch.
When his mother, canny, undemon-
strative old Scotch lady, was told of
the awful horrors of the Black Hole on
that awful night by the survivors, she
merely remarked: Lord help the mon
that was chained to ma Davie"
Maria Van Zandt; the famous vocal
list now in Europe, was born and
brought up in Brooklyn, N. Y, and is
now "a years old. This corrects the
Paris story that she was born in the
South, afterwards taken to the Indian
Territory, and there ''cut up all sorts
of capers with the redskins.
II. B. Philbrick, who recently deliv-
cred lecture on the subject of kissing
in New York, declares that the reason
kissing is so pleasant is because the
teeth, jawbones and lips are full of
nerves. and when the lips of two per-
CONS meet an electric current is
generated.
John Huntington. of Cleveland,
some years ago put $26,00O into the
Standard Oil Company. and has drawn
large dividends ever since. The other
day, in New York, he was offered 81
OO0, 600 for his interest and sold it. He
went home with the deed for a $780,
900 house in one pocket and drafts for
$500, 900 in the other.
Frederick Koskul, now Of ST. Louis,
lived in Egypt in the employ of the
present Khediye. To a reporter he
said the other day:"The vilest epithet the
people of Soudan can fling at a passing
stranger-in their estimation-is Mis-
rany or Christian. The entire popu-
lation is made up of religious fanatics.
Relirion is the only industry"
1t is related of the late Joseph H.
Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign
Mails in the Postoffice Department
Washington, that when his attention
was called to the complimentary men
ton made of him in Anthony Trollope's
autobiography, he was surprised to
learn that Mr.. Trollope, whom he had
known only as postal officer, was also
a distinguished novelist.
Old Jubal Early is character in
Virginia. He is drawn up in hard
knot with rheumatism, and has face
like hickory nut. His voice is pitch
ed on very high key, and he is COM
pound Of shrewdness and sarcasm in
equal parts. He was strongly opposed
to secession at the beginning Of the
war, although he fought valiantly
when fighting was inevitable.
Fannie B. Ward writes from Saltillo
that at whatever hour person dies in
Mexico, it is customary to appoint the
funeral just twenty-four hours later
and that rs the mortality is greatest
all over the world at night, the most Of
funeral ceremonies in Mexico are per
formed at night, no women be permit
ted to attend. The poor hire collins In
which their dead are borne to thu
grave.
There are in France thousands o
windowless houses, supposed to have
been built when the window tax Law
was in force. There is no such law il
Kentucky or Tennessee, but there are Il
be seen along the Southern Railroad
great many houses that have no win