The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-17
GLEANINES.

1t costs the Bank of England $50, 600
n year to feed its clerks during business
| hours.
There are 4l9 type-setters, besides
apprentices, in the Government Print
ing Office at Washington.
Niagara has suffered its deepest hui
initiation. A travelling Scotchman has
alluded to it as "a grand spout,
Limoges, France, the ancient cradle
of enamel. is still flourishing manu-
featuring town of 10000 inhabitants.
A deed has been registered in Wyan-
dotte, Kan, conveying a certain lot of
land to William Henry Harrison Tyler
Tippecanoc Coon,
The importation of coffee in 1888
reached 527, 764, 40 pounds, or ten and
one-half pounds for each inhabitant OF
the United States.
Earlham College, at Richmond, Ind,
the leading Quaker college in tho
West, is to have new $1,000 building
and three additional professors.
From cork clippings, once thrown
away, thousands of yards of linolcum
are now made at Delmenhorst, Ger
many, where the industry is becoming
quite important
1t is claimed that there are forty
thousand people in New York city who
depend on gambling for n livelihood.
1t is not stated how many of this num-
Der do business in Wall street.
Popular editions both of Queen Vic
toria's book and of the Princess Alice's
letters will be published early in tho
autumn. The Queen is anxious to have
a sixpenny edition of the latter work.
Doting husbands who have bought
their wives the biggest diamonds they
could get, will be discouraged to learn
that small diamonds are now the style,
both for rings and the ears. Some Of
the latest New York earrings are like
small dewdrops.
Man is like an oil-painting. The
background of his character must be
well drawn, the perspective truthfully
brought out and the foreground hon
estly conceived, or the work will not
find a place in the temple of success
Whitehall Times.
Mr.. W. w. Corcoran, the millionaire
banker and philanthropist of Washing
ton, is said to be exceedingly proud OF
his ancestry. He glorieS in the fact
that his father was only poor, honest
shoemaker, and he treasures the old
cobbler's-shop sign-board among his
choicest possessions.
The five States of Delaware, Colo
RADIO, Florida, Nevada and Oregon
combined have not so great q popuIa-
ton by about 100000 souls as the city
of New York. Yet New York City has
but eight representatives in Congress,
while the five States have sixteen, be-
sides their ten Senators.
Miss Nellie Kane, formerly q school
teacher at Glenwood, VT, is now doing
o successful stock and brokerage bust
ness in San Francisco. She is reported
to be rich and charitable. A Boston
family, out OF funds in Frisco, were
recently given the means for returning
East, and other little kindnesses are at
tributed to her.
The latest novelty in church enter
tainments has struck Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. 1t is an evening of cradle
songs, in which the different customs
of nations in singing their babies to
sleep will be told in song and illustrated
in pantomime. Each representative
mother and child will be in the cos
tune of the country, and the lullaby
will be sung in the native language.
Charles GRADER, farmer near PENIS
burg, Pa, last Friday was Mortified TO
find that q black snake had coiled it
self about his leg Mr.. GRADER used
his fists with good effect and then,
when he discovered that he was stand
ing over two more reptiles of the same
species, and that there was another in
his path, the a1righted farmer sue
ceeded in killing two of tho snakes,
two escaping. The reptile which had
encircled his leg was nearly five feet in
length.