The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-20
GLEANINGS.

barrels OF cranberrles IN 1888.
More than one-half, and probably
two-thirds, Of the lawyers of Berlin arc
Hebrews.
Tho White House cook, considered
the best in Washington, receives sal
AIRY of 81, 800 year.
Henry Irving's criticism on Indian
apolis is: at Is one-horse town and
has too many fat ladies.
Colonel Frazier, of Lexington, Mo-,
found nest of forty rattlesnakcs and
killed most of them with club.
Sloncwall Jackson's fellow officers
are suggesting simple monument OF
some sort to his memory at Manassas.
4. G. Baylor, of Atlanta, Ga, Is in
possession Of John Browns sword, Ia
ken from him when he wos captured.
The cathedral at Um, Wurtemburg,
the largest Protestant church in tho
world, is to have u spire 534 feet high.
Denis Kearney says 5000 working
men could find employment in San
Francisco He runs an employment
agency.
Colonel Knox, the celebrated author of
young peoples literature, composes on
the typewriter without putting pen to
paper
In Montana the law prohibits q wo-
man from marrying until she is eigh-
teen years old, and man cannot marry
until he is twenty one.
Nearly 10000 petroleum wells have
been sunk during the past three years
The number sunk last year was almos
exactly 1000 fewer than in 1881.
New York City has 1856 butches,
bakers, and groccrs, while there ae
0,000 liquor dealers, or about one II
uor dealer to every l75 inhabitants.
New Haven, Conn, reports the di-
coyery of new value in printers I'M.
1t is an excellent vermifuge, and vii
protect shade trees from the ravags
Of worms.
One man testified before a committa
Of the New York Legislature that thu
liquor that runs from oleomargarnd
butter will eat through pair of cow
hide boots.
The latest prodigy in Ohio is n Agar
old colored child, who has never at
tended school nor had any private in
struction, and yet can read correctly
anything given her.
Experiments made with gases upon
insects proved the Colorado beedle
hardest of all. 1t took prussic acid va
por to kill it outright, and was paralyz-
ed in ordinary illuminating gas.
Over the piano in the parlor of an
Eastern hotel bangles placard in
scribed as follows: inexperienced
performers are requested to deny them
selves the use of this instrument
Jacob Hoffman, of New York, worth
$50, 900, white-haired, and seventy-four
years old, Tilted Mrs. Meyers, forty
and fair She sues for $4,000 He ran
away on the wedding day.
In the canton of Valais, Switzerland
cheese is sometimes made when d
child is born and not cut until the flu
neral feast, perhaps seventy years la
ter Wealth is computed by cheeses.
Miss Beatrice Parsons, Of London,
was the winner of the highest honors
of the recent Cambridge University ex-
animation, in which no less than three
thousand bright British girls competed.
Ben Thompson, the Texan despera-
do, seems to have been diligcnt in bus
mess. He leaves property valued at
SIG, 600. An insurance company was
found to have taken risks of $4,000 on
his life.
d. N. Murray, Of Baltimore, BRUSHED
aside what he supposed was smtll
rope, and was instantly bent double
and rendered unconscious for sevenl
hours. He had touched an electic
light wire.
Mrs. Mary Channel, widow, of Net
buryport, lately deceased, was tb
mother of sixteen children-nine son
and seven daughters. Seven of tn.
sons served in the rebellion, three OF
whom were killed
The newspaper columns headed
Born" Married" and "Died" have
been variously paraphrased in the
West. One paper has it Matched,
Matched, Despatched" and another,
Buds, Blossoms and Cypress"
Several years ago, when it looked as
If the cinchona trees of Bolivia were
likely to all be destroyed, the Jesuit
fathers induced the government to re-
quire the bark gatherers to plant five
seedlings for every tree destroyed
Alfred Chadwick yoked his wife to
pillow with steer, for which Judge
Jennison, of Detroit, gave her d.
vorce. He insisted that he only fol-
lowed the general usage among the
market gardeners of Western Canada.
The New York police keep their fad
ed uniforms constantly dampened with
salt water in order to brighten their
color, so they will not have to buy new
ones. The trick was discovered by the
man who has the contract for furnish
ing the uniforms.
A Newburyport man, who was the
owner of kicking COW, suspended n
sharp spade in the rear of the stall,
and let her kick away all night In
the morning he found the COW lying
dead on the floor of the barn. She
had cut into the cords of the leg
and bled to death.
Postmaster Thomas Coggeshal, Of
New Bedford, Mass, has been in the
employ of the office without break