The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-16


gems.
At the Salem, Mass, Normal School
the ladies' are instructed in carpenter
work.
Many Of the new ladies' hats for
spring have a tiny stuffed cap on top
the latest thing in millinery.
Five men have disappeared from Bay
City, Mich, in the last three years, ana
nothing has been heard from any OF
them.
Jefferson Davis has erected tine
monument over the grave Of Mrs, Dor
sey, the New Orleans lady who wllled
him fortune.
During the last year Mrs. Horace
Turner, Of South Adams, Mich, has
broken one of her legs twice and made
900 yards Of cotton.
The Niagara Suspension Bridge is
2, Z6O feet long, that OF kief, Russia, IS
2, j62 feet, and that between New York
and Brooklyn $3.50 feet.
do not think it would be wrong for
me to say that the religion Of the Uni
ted States is the worshiping of the
golden calf,-Ngr. Capel
Vanda,s have much mutiated the
soldiers monument on Boston Com
mon, and loud demand is made for
close fence to protect it from further
injury.
1t has been figured out that there is
enough railroad travel in this country
to give every man, woman, and child
in the United States ride OF ia miles
each year.
The New York Hour says; The nov
elites for next season here will be Mr..
Barnum's elephant, which is sacred but
not white, and Sara Bernhardt, who is
white but not sacred.
The Man, curious New York publ
cation, demands that all women, on ar
irving at the age of twenty-one, be per-
mtted to use the prefix Mrs. to their
names, whether married or not.
The proposed Constitution for the
State Of Montana provides that the
Governor shall be paid So, 600 per year,
the Secretary of State 81 POO, and the
other executive officers $4,000 each.
Nearly $4,000 gallons fewer of sher-
~ and claret were imported by En-
gland last year than the year before.
But the figures for port show total of
6j, 7SS pipes, which is the largest on
record.
Francis Parkman, the historian, says
that two-thirds Of the few hundred
women who want the ballot in Massa-
chusetts have a standing quarrel with
the Almighty for not making them
men.
Twenty deaf mutes in Norwich,
Conn, are members of Congregation
al Church, and they have formed n
Bible class under the charge Of teach
er familiar with their method Of con-
versation,
The counterfeit presentimcnt' Of
General Hancock is to be found in the
Philadelphia Rogues Gallery, the pho
tograph being that OF John Clark, the
shoplifter The likeness to Hancock
Is startling.
Fifty partridgcs Gagged in a Charles
ton, 5. c.. restaurant window are a
constant nuisance to hunting dogs, who
stop and point the birds, and bump
the window glass when they try to
flush them.
Mr.. Dimilry, Of the New York Mail
and Express, has captured the $500
prize offered by Swinton's Story T.ll1
for the best story. The author is the
son of the late Professor Dimtry, OF
New Orleans, long one of the most
prominent educators of the South.
The man whose ''heart is in the right
place has been frequently heard from.
But Philadelphia has man, a Major in
the United States army, whose heart Il
on the right side. 1t is the second case
of the kind known TO medical men.
According to japanese custom, age
is counted from the first day of the
January succeeding birth. At that
date child is one wear old, whether
born the previous January, at mid
summer, or on the 3lSt of December.
Eighty-thrce per cent of the popula-
ton OF the United States is composed
of white natives and the immigrants
from Germany and Great Britain, leav-
inc per cent from other countries
and Is per cent for those Of African de-
scent.
l.. Q. c. Lamar is sail by his Miss
issippi friends to be one Of the few poor
men in the United States Senate. OF
late years most Of his salary has gone
to pay old debts, obligations OF Il ma
ture that only man of scrupulous in
tegrity would think of paying.
In Henry James recent article on
Turgencif the personal pronoun, first
person, singular, occurs seventy times
on the first four pages. The average
is certainly no lower throughout the en-
tire paper, the writer using az fifteen
times on the last page, always in alIu-
sion to himself.
England's wealthicst heiress now is
Miss Hamilton, n lady of about40 She
has some $3.50, 600 Il year. and fine res
licences in Scotland. The great heir
esses are not prolific. Lady Holmes
dale, the last CORVALLIS, died childless
last year. Lady Lindsay. who Inherit
ed Lord Overstone's millions, is also
childleSs, and Lady b. Coutts has not
vet become mother.