The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-02
GLIIANINGS.

deep.
Sallie McCollum, of Allentown, Pa.
claims TO be the handsomest woman il
the state.
Tennessee now has thirty-three cot
ton mills, with l,16l looms and 70, 81;
spindles.
A trip across the salty ocean anC
back gives the Maine sardine the true
foreign flavor.
In thirty-eight years the number o.
English daily papers has increased
from IA to 179.
Walt Whitman has purchased house
in Camden, n. j., which he says he in
tends to die in.
There are fifty Illicit distilleries and
only three licensed ones in one district
in North Carolina.
Mr.. Charles Oakley has lived in New
York for ninety-seven years, and is
now approaching his 1O2nd birthday.
1t requires three days in which to
complete the marriage ceremony in
China, but when it is done it is strong
job.
A Boston Gas manufacturer asserts
that the demand for GAS has increased
i'll that city since the introduction of
electric lights.
Buffalo Bits suit to recover sixty
one acres of land in Cleveland, valued
at several million dollars, has been
thrown out of court.
Wolves are 50 tame in the northern
part OF III Paso county, Texas, that
they come right up to the settlers
doors to eat children.
DR.. Vessmayer, an English vegeta-
rian, tried TO live on food costing no
more than penny n day, and he
is now at the point of death.
A Michigan minister who was about
to be married asked the official to
whom he applied for license if he
didn't make a discount to the trade.
Hundreds of young women work for
45 cents a day making shirts in New
York City. They think it more re-
spectacle to do this than to go out to
service.
Pittsburg boasts of the possession of
a marvel in boy who from sunrise
to sunset enjoys good health and romps
around like all children of his age, but
at dusk becomes entirely unconscious,
and remains 50 until morning"
Tiller and McFadden remained for
three days few doors from the scene
of their express robbery in St. Louis
and mingled freely with the crowd. 1t
never occurred to the shrewd detectives
to look right under their noses for the
thieves.
When the Indians Of Chilli desire rain,
they plant sacred tree, which q sorcer-
ess climbs to pray, while the others
dance around and howl. Then they all
get drunk. If it doesn't rain, they get
drunk again, and remain drunk until
they fetch a shower.
A prize of $4,000, open to all ma
tionalities, is offered in France, in De-
cember, 1877, for a discovery enabling
electricity to be applied economically
either as a source of heat, light, chemi-
cal action, mechanical power, or rs u
means Of transmitting intelligence.
During the year 1889 there were
posted in Great Britain 100000 let
tiers, Of which one in every thirteen
was franked. Next year the number
arose to l69,00O,0OO, although franking
was abolished. At the present time the
number reaches the grand total of l.
2S0 600, 600 year.
By the last official returns, PA per
cent. of the births in Nairnshire, Scot
land, are iIlegitimate, while in Aber-
deenshlre 80 per cent. are Of the same
kind. In the county OF Wigton 1.24 Of
the births are Legitimate, and most o.
the northern counties present an un
clean bill of health.
About $50 miles north of Missoula,
NJ. T., region has been discovered by
an exploring party in which are TWEEN.
ty-fve cascades over 500 feet in height
and true glacier with mile of front
age and five hundred feet fall. 1t i
said to be more wonderful region
than the Yellowstone.
The Chattanooga Times SAYS tina
that city is now really but nineteen
years old. The war left it a wreck. II
1867 it had not single wholesal
house. Iron mills and furnaces bega
in 1871. In 1872 the population wa
5000, now $4,000; manufacturing cap
tai in 1880, $3.50, 900; in 1884, $4,000
600.
On the occasion of Baker Pasha'
battle at Ell Teb an English officer plat
: ed revolver to the head of an EgyI
tian and commanded him to advanc,
The Egyptian, quietly putting aside tn
weapon, said, in an astonished tone: .
advanced adding proudly, mo; | al
an Egyptian" and he took to hi
heels.
Nearly fifty years ago woma
named Lois Lyman, of Cabot, Vermont
began to plat the combings of her hal
into a rope. 1t was half an inch thick
and of various shades, the hair havn
changed very materially during tn
half century. When she died fe,
days ago the rope was nearly 100 fec
long.
A new and formidable fighting shi
has been built in England for the 90,
eminent of Brazil. She is named tn
Riachuelo, and is n steel armorcd tu