The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
GLEANINGS.

obtained patents IOr Inc use VI sdN-
dust, instead OF sand in plastering
compositions.
A lady at Morrillton, Ark, is the
lively widow Of eleven husbands. The
eligible bachelors Of that town think
seriously Of fleeing to the North.
Captain George A. Perkins, L. 5. ~,
who married daughter Of the late
William F. Weld, Of Boston, received
with his wife fortune Of $1,000, 600,
The Rochester Union would like TO
see monument erected to the memory
of Sam Patch, whose motto waS:
Some things can be done as well as
others.
In Woodbury., Conn, salmon trout
put in the streams four years ago are
now being taken, and some Of them
weigh from one TO two and a half
pounds,
The Atlanta Constitution argues that
the Wall street panic, by closing the
avenues, to speculation, will force
millions of dollars OF Northern capital
into investment in the South,
Artificial dimples can be made in
cheeks and chin by a clever French
man, who has established himself in
New York, and only operates upon
ladies who can afford to pay literally.
To Colonel John P. Fort, of
Dougherty county, Georgia, apparently
must be accorded the credit of first
employing artesiau borings for the
purpose Of draining stagnant ponds in
that region.
A Chinese doctor is practicing with
great success at Deadwood, Dakota.
Patients come from all the surround
ing towns, and their remains are
often sent homo to their weeping
friends by express.
Henry p. Rowe will put down 49,
900 bushels of shells on his oyster farm
at East Haven, Conn. His losses from
startish, which recently appeared in
great numbers upon his oystcr-b beds, is
estimated at SO, 900.
Lord Beaconsfeld said. Few great
men have hourished who, were they
candid, would not acknowledge the
vast advantage they have experienced
in the earlier years Of their career from
the spirit and sympathy of woman"
A year ago the Board of Freeholders
in Trenton, n, j., adopted q plan of
putting tramps at work. making them
break stone and cut wood. Ii has
proved q complete success and to-day
the wise tramp shuns Trenton n. j.
A shoal of Goldfish one mile in superb.
cial extent contains 10000, 900 fish.
Yet not more than half of that number
of these fish are taken in one wear on
the coast of Norway. The cod lives on
herring, and such shoal will eat 49,
700, 1000 herring in q week.
A Spanish dagger, in fine state of
preservation, was discovered recently
in digging the foundations for bridge
across the Scheldt, at Client. 1t had
probably belonged to one of the victims
OF the catastrophe in 1911, when the
Old bridge existing on the spot fell in.
Dr.. Vinke writes in the ST. Louis
Courier Of Medicine that more persons
are killed by the enormous amount of
whisky they take when bitten by a
snake than by the bite itself. He has
himself used large doses of quinine in
snake bite with success, and wants
physicians to test the remedy.
Senator Fair lately surrounded his
lot on Mob Hill, San Francisco, with u
massive granite wall. He owned half
OF the square bounded by four streets,
now he has bought for $50, 200 tho
remainder of the square, which gives
an unriyaled building site, with ample
space for ornamental ground.
A woman who kissed Patti on the
singers departure for Europe writes to
the Cincinnati EaQVtrer that her lips
were moderately full and quite soft;
her breath was aromatic with the last
glass of champagne which she had
drank from the parting bottle, and her
momentary hug was graceful, though
not at all demonstratiye
A neat brass medal found in Wiscon-
sin recently, proves to be Democratic
token, which was issued in 1910. On
one side is the head of Martin Van
Buren, and the date OF his birth, 1882.
On the reverse are the figures 1910 and
q pair Of scales. The rising scale is
marked wings" and the descending
one Democrats" while around the
whole is the inscription, weighed and
found wanting"
Suicides by drowning are more fire.
quent during the Summer, while hang
ing and poisoning are preferred in
Winter. Poisoning was once the
iiaYorite mode of suicide, but hanging
mas gradually become more popular.
IN france, mature men generally hang
themselves, and young men shoot
themselves in the head. Women
throughout Europe, except Russia,
prefer death by drowning
Professor st. 6. Mivart, in q paper
on the relations between instinct and
other vital processes, contends that
instinct can not be divided by n very
hard and vast line from such vital pro.
cesses as reflex action, processes of
repair after injuries, and the process of
development of the individuals; and
that these latter were more readily
explained as activities especially in.
stinctiye than that instinct could be
explained BY reflex action or by lapsed