The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-31
GLEANINGS,

| Some crank mas written to the Detroit
| Times solemn asserting that the tire
which recently destroyed its Office was
visitation Of Providence.
Holding cartridge between her
fingers Julia Pegg, OF St. Louis, be-
gan experimenting with lighted
match. The explosion cost her two
fingers and thumb.
| William Nowland, King of the Dirk
ney gypsics, has just died at the ace of
lO2, and his widow, aged over 90. was
able to smoke a pipe vigorously during
the funeral services.
London has seyenty-six guilds, en-
| dowed by wealthy beneiactors for the
benefit of the different trades, and their
trust property alone yields an income
of 600, 900 annually.
1t has been decided that the inscrip-
| ton placed upon the bust of Beacons-
field. in Westminster Abbey, shall be
simply: lord Beaconsfeld, twice
Premier of England.
Captain Rodney Baxter, of Hyannis
Cape Cod, offers to pay $500 ito any
person who will produce materializcd
spirit in my presence, within my reach.
witness being present, and that will
there remain even five minutes"
Jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept
away by the crash of 1873, is to-day
one of the wealthiest men of Pennsyl-
vania. He has investments in iron,
coal, gold, and silver mines, and rail-
roads reaching far into the millions
Justice Massey, of Brooklyn, has
sent Miss Emily Vogel, eighteen years
of age, to the pcnitentiary to complete
reunion of the family. all of whom,
father, mother, two brothers, and u
sister, had preceded her TO that cstab-
lishment.
In the city of New York alone it is
estimated that there are at present no
fewer than 400 millionaires, thirty of
whom own from s., 900, 600 to $50, 000,-
600 apiece, while there are about ten
VINO possess from 500, 100000 to $780,
900, 900 each.
Travellers rave about the soft purple
light which fills Italian skies and gives
J peculiar beauty to Italian mountains.
The light has now been discovered on
the mountains of Southern California,
and tourists are so informed by the
railroad companies interested.
7. b. Aldrich is taken to task for
making the word Mel Gin describing q
Marechal Mel rose in a poem in the
May Atlantic) rhyme with steel.
His critics urge that the French word
Mel of two syllables might rhyme with
"well" or "dwell,' but hardly with
"steel.'
There is q birch tree in York, Maine,
only about forty feet high, two roots of
which have been able to lift, some
twelve inches, block of granite COM
| putcd to weigh twenty tons. The tree
| is still growing, and the rock continues
to be raised and pushed sideways at
the rate of nearly an inch year.
A little boy was buried in Meridian,
| Miss, the other day, and behind the
| hearSe in the funeral procession
walked his pony with its saddle draped
with Grape. Strangers even looked
with mostened eyes upon the little fell
lows pet, upon which he had been
often seen to ride through the streets
| but a little while ago.
The general rule of law is that
person having pecuniary interest in a
will is disqualified from acting as y
subscribing witness thereto In re-
cent case before the Supreme Court of
Iowa this rule was sought to 1e extend
ed to a case where the witness was
corporator of charitable institution
and q distributee upon the dissolution
thereof, the will containing bequest
thereto. The Court declined to SO ex-
tend the rule.
A scientific physician says 'In the
morning there is an acrid state of the
secretions, and nothing is so well cal
culated to correct it as peaches, apples,
etc. The small seed fruits, such as
figs, blackberrics, raSpberries, may be
claSsed among the best fruits and medi-
cinNs. The sugar in them is nutritious,
the acid purifying and the seeds laxa-
tive. We should look more to our
gardens for our medicines and less to
our drug stores
The New York Graphic says; "San
Francisco and Chicago have been using
cable surface railroads for many wears
past. New York now talks about
adopting the system. Isn't this really
reversing the order of things? Does
| the star of progress take its way Eastp
Is it not possible that somebody here
has invented something y great deal
better than that which our Young folks
out West are calling already half obso-
| leteP"
The president of the French repub-
lie sent some little time ago to the
French ambassador at Constantinople
three handsome cimeters made in exact
imitation of the much-prizcd Damascus
blades, for presentation to the sultan's
three sons. An Oriental potentate re-
ceiving present from such quarter
would probably have preferred some
product of European art to counter
felt of what he can get better at home.
'If you want to make an Englishman q
present." says French paper, criti-
cising NJ CREWS Gift, you would not
offer him dozen of pale ale, an article
OF Sheffield cutlery, or coat made by
Poole"
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