The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-10
GLEANINGS.

There are 10000 varieties of beetles
waiting to be named.
Mrs. Southworth is now at work on
her siXty-siXth novel.
Mobile has a tax on travelling men OF
So day or 1925 per week.
Two white children are in possession
of Indian squaws at San Diego, Cal.
1t is said that over 8, 100000 trees
were planted in Great Britain in 1883
Carolina exports 10000 boxes OF
oranges, and grapes without end TINS
year.
Montana's drummer tax is 800 per
year for each county, with S25 local
extra in Butler City.
Clarence Threc-Stars, the son of a
Sioux chief, is employed packing goods
in a Philadelphia store.
The crop of wheat this year bids fair
to reach j20, 600, 900 bushels, 100, 0O0,-
600 in excess of last year.
The Medical Summary recommends
the external use of buttermilk to ladies
who are exposed to tan or freckles
A Houston county. Ga, man made
$3.50 clear profit off II acres of peanuts
last year. besides fattening a drove of
800 hogs.
A rosebud at Chambersburg, Pa,
has Welded over 10000 buds in the
past three years, which have been sold
at SIS per 100.
Coffee-cups become smaller and
smaller for "after-dinner service
The newest size is a triile larger than
the fat woman's thimble,
Although Frenchmen are spoken of
as frog eaters" it is asserted as a
factthat more frogs are now eaten in
New York alone than in all of France.
The cadets at West Point during the
summer are taught how to swim, how
to rescue drowning person, and the
quickest method of restoring the APP
parently drowned.
The newspapers are mentioning the
somewhat curious fact that Mr.. Blaine
was for q time a teacher in deaf
mute college, and Mr.. Cleveland was
teacher in an asylum for the blind.
The Government spends about $50
600 q year for the repair of mail
pouches, says the Albany Journal;
there are about one hundred thousand
mail bags in use, and about ten thou
sand new ones are bought yearly.
Most of the expense is in repairing the
staples in the opening of the bag
The bridegroom in an Oregon we'd
ding was 10 and the bride was 40.
Moreover, the man was handsome and
the woman plain. But he had been
for year hcrder on lonely range,
without feminine face of any kind to
look at, and when she visited the place
with some tourists the courtship was
rapid and resultant.
The celebrated Alderbach echo has
at last been eclipsed by seventeen
tongued one in Silesia. If the traveller
sounds his horn at a point called
Garves Rub, near Charlottenbrunn, he
will hear, after the lapse of few Sec
onds, succession of sweet, clear notes
coming back to him at brief intervals
until seventeen in all have answered.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson is agitatine
for an improvement in the construction
of New England cotton mills, arguing
that outside the largest cities one
storied buildings would be healthier
and in less danger of conilagration, a:
well as cheaper to construct and tC
run, than the present five-story struct
ures.
The Boston Herald thinks that tn,
, watermelon is much-abused fruit
Eaten when it is fresh and ripe. at tn,
proper time-which means as the frs
course at breakfast--it is a wholesome
and harmless article of diet. Eater
when under-ripe or stale, or on top O
big dinner late in the afternoon, i
often "creates a disturbance. AM
no wonder.
A German engineer has just obtaine,
} etters patent on device for buildin,
mine shafts and bridge piers upoi
quicksands. His method, says cor
J respondent, is to introduce pipes int
the quicksand and pump through Their
, freezing mixture by which the entir
mass of quicksand is frozen solid
when it may be worked through wit
no more difficulty than a stratum G
rock.
Some time ago man in Edmonso
'ounty. KY, killed a rattlesnake O
his premises, cutting the body in two
short off behind the head. About tw
weeks afterward child playing aroun
accidentally strayed near the head
when thatsupposed-to- be-defunct men
Der made a spring and buried its fang
in the child's leg, and only the promI
application of powerful antidotes save
it life.
Philadelphia has five establishment
where plaster of Paris casts are made
They turn out chiefly Venuses an
Apollos and sometimes a Minerva an
a Bacchus. Life-size figures of thes
classic creatures cost $50. A fair bus
J ness is done in the busts of Socrate!
Webster, Shakespeare and Byron, cos
: ing ~ each. When a man orders hi
: own bust, the charge is $3.50, whic
, will only pay a small profit on the co.
OF making the cast and the mold. Th
: mold once made, hundred husts ca
! be turned out but the person VIII
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