The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-10
GLEANINGS.

| eiO pVu vi lhc palmetto Tree. III can
be made of any length and dyed any
color
A. Oakley Hall is taking an active
interest in London politics. He is fol-
lowing in the footsteps of Judah p
Benjamin rs an american counsel, /"
and is very successful, too.
A Catskill On, " man has a curi.
osity in the shape of lemon and
range combined. On one side Is n
perfect lemon skin and the juice sour,
while the other is an orange and sweet.
Mr.. Corson, in the Journal de Phar-
mac'e, says that piece of borax weigh-
ing two or three grains will, if allowed
to dissolve slowly in the mouth of q
singer, remove all trace of hoarseness.
The Abyssinian mountaineer war
riors frequently banquet on masses of
raw and steaming beef, freshly cut
from tho recently slaughtered beast.
lhey use seasoning composed of salt
and red pepper.
Guadalupe county, Texas, claims the
honor OF the first conviction for fence
cutting under the new law. The fence
cutter was tried, convicted, and sent
enced to one years Imprisonment in
the penitcntiary.
The recent report of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters shows that
no fewer than 1872 hotels in the
United States have been DESTROYED bv
fire during the past eight years, an av.
erage of $50 yearly.
Few cities in this country contain so
much beauty within their limits as Sa-
vannah, Ga. Twenty-four parks, or
squares, each with several acres of
tall trees and smooth lawns, adorn diff
fercnt parts of the city, and give
breathing places for the inhabitants.
1t has been decided by the British
courts that when person insured has
not been seen or heard of for seven
years, according to evidence by rela-
tons or others, the presumption is
death, and the company must pay up.
The streets of Washington resemble
tulip bed in bloom Just after four
o'clock every afternoon, when the va
rious departments have disgorged
their thousands of clerks. Gay toilets,
new fashions, flowers, feathers and
furbolows give a bright appearance to
the crowd.
A girl living at Short Beach, Conn,
broke her collar-bonc while coastine
last winter. Recently tho bone was
found to have Tapped over an inch.
Had the discovery been postponed q
few months she would have lost the
use of one arm. The bone was sawed
in two and reset.
Camels utterly wild may be seen on
the desert lands at the head of the Gulf
of California, where they find q con-
genial home and multiply steadily.
These are remnant of a herd which
many years ago was imported by the
Government to act as beasts of burden
in New Mexico and Arizona.
There is kind of monkey in NADIA
gascar that throws stones so hard and
well-aimed that the natives seldom try
TO capture specimen, but one has |
been brought to New Haven, where its
tierceness in flinging whatever missiles
it can get hold Of causes visitors to |
keep at respectful distance.
Three tramps commanded woman |
at Crestine, Ohio, to cook breakfast
for them. She said coolly that she
would do it; but she brought in
cooked pistol instead of food, and they
fled for their lives. She had moro
bravery than strength, however, and
las since been raving maniac.
A number of the First Corps of the
Army of the Potomac, while at Frode-
Va, recently visited the
Alsop farm. One of the party handed
| son of Mrs. Alsop, who was present
IS bill, saying: "On this day twenty
years ago | stole side of bacon from
your mother, and | want you to give
her this 10 pay for it.
Paul Morphy, of New Orleans, the
greatest chess player Of the world, is a I
gently demented wreck. A very small
man, spare Of flesh, scrupulously neat
and stylish in dress, cane in hand up
and down he goes iabbcring softly to
himself. His insanity, not ALWAYS ap- t
parent, was not caused from over5tudy.
but from the loss of a lawsuit. !
The destruction of ployer cres in
England to crafty the greed of the !
poultry dealers and the Questionable"
appetite of the rich for these dainttcs t
has been so great that fears are enter {
tanned of the extinction of the birds i
About 100000 of plovers' eges reach {
the London markets every Sprinr,
The nests are robbed and robbed arain |
until the poor birds are exhausted and ,
can lay no more. |
An English statistician maintains
that the daily increase of wealth in the i
United States is upward of So. 600 I
900, or about $3.50, 100000 a year S
which is one-third as much as the en- '
tire increase in wealth of the whole of !
the rest of the world, England, whose ,
increase in wealth is next to our own, 9
makes only profit on all her business {
Of $500, OOO 900 year, or but little c
over third of our own. '
1t is proposed that a railroad Shall c
be built along the Pacific coast to the {
extremity of Alaska, where q ferry t
across Behring's Strait, would connect t
with the Russian railway system, and /
grant the traveller an over |
land passage into Europe. The scheme |
is not yet clearly developed, and it is q
hardly worth the while of scasick tour |
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