The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-18
GLEANINGS.

VN'"'"~N ~ "'' P"iAoi h"uSOS
this year.
Thirty years ago General Phil Sheri-
dan was Lieutenant and known as
the best song-and-dance man on the
Texas frontier.
Most Of the more than 1000 women
employed In the government service at
Washington are from the Middle and
New England States.
Sunday. says California paper, is
devoted to athletic sports at the peni-
tentiary-quoiting, running. leaping.
and similar acts OF worship.
Out Of Japan's total population OF
| 5000, 600 there are only 10.050 paup-
ors, and Of these more than 1000 are
at Toxic, in the work-house.
The Duke Of Westminster. one OF the
largest property owners in London, al
lows no liquor sold in any building or
on any land rented from him.
Bob Toombs, Of Georgia, is now rs.
blind in one eye from cataract, and
partially blind in the other. He is
rich. and quite as original as ever.
An old man in Cincinnati makes q
living by going round between 8 and 6
o'clock in the morning waking people
whose employment necessitates rising
early.
The East Indies are overcrowded
with goats. There are millions in the
islands, and the land from one
end to the other smells like an i'm
mense stable.
In Chicago there is one doctor to
every 548 inhabitants; in ST. Louis, one
to every ATS; in Denver, one to every
260; in Idaho. ono to every 81, and in
Wyoming Territory, one to every 80.
A farmers work on wet DAYS in
cludes, according to an agricultural
paper, this miscellany: MEND the
tools, oil the harness, pick out the de-
cayed fruit and vegetables in the cellar,
read, write and visit the school"
There is nothing very brilliant
about our Bremen dentists" said a
lady to an individual who practiced the
art in Berlin, "but they are obliging.
II you wish tooth extracted with gas
they forthwith light the chandelier"
Hygienic pillows are now in vogue.
Three form full equipment for a bed,
Of which one is filled with hops, Sec
ond with pine needles, and third with
marine moss. They are believed to
cure sleeplessness and nervous disord-
ers.
| Last year Paris consumed 107, 426,-
900 gallons Of wine. This was about
forty-seven gallons to each person. or
over pint day to each man. woman,
and child. 1t is a very common thing
to see French mothers feeding wine to
babe.
| According to the latest census the
people OF the United States engaged in
active business pursuits are thus en-
ployed In agriculture, $4,000. 600;
professional and personal service, r.
900. 900; manufacturing and mining,
II, 600, 600; trade and transportation,
5000, 900.
The Dutch have not controlled the
nutmeg trade for many years. They
tried to confine the growth of the nut
meg to the Banda Islands, which they
owned, but the nutmeg pigeons carried
the nuts into all the surrounding coun-
tries, and the trees grew and flourished
in spite of the would-be monopolists.
In the Luray cavern, the guide re-
marks, Now | will show you the
GROWING wonder Of all, )" and points to
a little circular depression in the rock
"a perfect birds nest--and there, to
carry out the illusion, is little white
egg, smooth and perfect in shape as re-
atty. There were three, but some
vandal stole the others.
The question whether or not the use
Of natural gas is safe, as now conduct
ed, is being agitated in Pittsburg.
Many persons living along the routes
of the pipe say that it is only ques-
ton of time when the people will be
Mortified by disastrous explosion.
The same unrealized fears prevailed
when the artificial gas was introduced.
The development Of the lumber
manufacturing business In many parts
Of the South is remarkable. From
South Kentucky 70 Chattanooga, Tenn,
is an extended and vast line OF saw
mills and stave, spoke and handle
factories. Large numbers Of people
are crowding into that region, Of which
the town Of Dayton. Tenn, is the
active business center.
A cement which ressts damp and
firmly attaches labels to iron and tin
work consists of paste of rye meal
and little solution of glue and water,
to which as much Venetian turpentine
is added as may be required. Ordin-
airy flour paste. when well made, and
some glycerine thoroughly incorporated
with it. does very well for fixing print
ed labels on timed sheet-iron boxes.
The California ostrich farm covers
200 acres, has twenty old birds and
eighteen young ones. The proprietor
is hopeful Of large profit. One-half
the feather product of Africa is market
ed In TIE United States. and the de-
mand is increasing. Each bird ought
to yield fifty long white feathers twice
a year. The feathers have to be washed
and curled. and are then worth 81 to
| IS each, Wholesale.
A correspondent Of the Boston Globe
gives the following cure for catarrh:
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