The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-30
GLEANINGS.

There are not more than two or three
women whose wealth is greater than
Queen Victoria's.
A calf that was born without eyes OF
tail is frisking around in Simpson
County, Kentucky.
The Chautauqua Literary Society has
enrolled over 10000 names since its
organization in 1878.
Eight hundred and ninety-four thou
sand nine hundred and three dogs were
last year licensed in England
Thousands of canary birds have been
shipped during the first quarter of this
| year from Mexico to Europe.
A woman in Canada has been fined
for persistently wheeling baby carri
age in front OF neighbours door.
Amdn-eating shark has been caught
in the Hudson, near Cornwall n. Y.
nine feet long and weighing 500
pounds.
Sea spray writing paper, delicate
pale green, with a fishing net or boat
stamped in one corner, is one of the
caprices of the season.
William H. Montague, of Boston, has
in his possession the bullet with which
General Warren was killed at the
battle of Bunker Hill.
Swedish botanists have discovered
along a railroad seven species of plants
which were unknown to the region be-
fore the track was laid.
Pittsburg is noted as the dirtiest city
in America and also as the healthiest
But it is "clean" dirt SO far as effect
on health is concerned.
Lieutenant Emory has brought back
to this country a number of Esquimaux
dogs. He will try and demonstrate
that they can live in this country as
well as in the Arctic.
They are complaining in Texas that
all the professors for the State Uni
verSity are chosen from other States,
and that only the porters and bell
ringers are taken from home.
The astonishing fact is brought out
by writer in the September Century,
that out of our total population of over
$4,000, 600, the white population of
native parentage is only 2S, Col, &c.
Congressman O'Hara. the colored
member from North Carolina, is
graduate of Harvard and lawyer by
profession. He lives in good style and
has white tutor for his four children.
The fire OF London exterminated the
plague of London. Paris, in June,
lS49, waskilling 800 people day with
cholera. - A great storm washed all
the filth out OF the city and the cholera
subsidized.
Dark compilations coming into favor
it is said there is now what is known
as sunburnt powder introduced for the
makeup of ladies' faces, both young
and old, who would fain keep up with
the procession.
The THO Republics published in the
City of Mexico, has an interview with
gentleman who knows, name not
given. in which he states that the
Panama canal will not be completed
inside of fifty years.
There are 35, 900 more women than
men in Philadelphia. In the country
generally thirty States and Territories
have more men than women, and
seventeen States and Territories have
more women than men.
Of l25, 900 miles of railroad in the
United States and Canada all but f.
600 miles are operated on standard |
time. The most important exceptions
are the several Pacific systems. East
OF the Mississippi only about twenty
miles adhere TO solar time.
Over hundred schools in Paris are
now provided with workshops. At
present they turn out articles of wood
from planning benches and lathes 1t
is proposed soon to add iron to the
material to be operated on.
A Vermont man and his wife publish
the following card in the local paper;
Our sincere thanks 10 our brother
and sister and nephew for their kind
ness in sharing with us the expense
for the burial of our aged father"
A garbage sitting machine in use in
New York will make way with 40 tons
OF rubbish day. One hundred tons
is found to be valuable, and so only
forty tons are carted away as waste.
The coal, iron, tin, glass, rags and
paper are saved.
The largest cotton plantation in Ala
bama is that of Messrs. Robert d Salter,
at Union Springs-900 acres-contain.
ing twenty-five miles of bitches, en-
pioying or supporting population OF
800 persons, ans producing 900 bales
OF cotton, beside $4,000 bushels OF corn.
NJ De Lesseps commends the French.
man for living on cereals, eight pounds
OF which cost no more than one pound
OF the Englishman's roast beef and for
buying American cottonseed oil at 8
cents a pound, purifying it and selling
1t back to America as olive oil al S. q
gallon.
Contrary to the generally received
opinion, M. Anne concludes from ex-
periments conducted on himself that
whole meal or household bread, con-
tanning all the ingredients of the grain.
is less wholesome and more indgestible
than pure white bread made of the
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