The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-12
GIEANINGS.

pronounced his case hopeless in 1871.
A Fort Keogh, M, r., dispatch says
a horse tumbled 1900 feet down the
side of Sheep Mountain and walked of
uninjured
There are 1868 900 women in Eng
land and Wales who figure as wage
earners--a fact which would seem to
indicate that the right to work at least
is being granted to women with cheer
full alacrity.
NJ. n. Foster, farmer living near
Haywards, Cal, has a hog which
spends his time with flock of geese.
Every day when the geese 90 into the
pond for their accustomed swim, the
hog plunges in at the same time, and
remains as long as the geese do.
The state authorities of Massachu-
sets have consented to allow another
Sunday train to be run through the
Hoosac Tunnel, thus to enable the Wa
bash line to run train through from
St. Louis every day in the week.
A German industry is the coloring of
meerschaums. The pipe or cigar hold
er is suspended in tightly closed box,
and smoke from damp, strong, black
tobacco is blown over and through it
until the desired color is gained.
While the business of canal boat nav
igation has been very largely overshad-
owed in this country by the introduce
ton Of and development Of railroads it
is still of sufficient importance to sup
port a population estimated at 60,0O0
a number about equal to that of the
persons engaged in our cOasting trade.
Many trnement-house cigarmakers
receive from their employers 100 pounds
of tobacco, for which they have to re-
turn l02 pounds Of cigars Complaints
are made that when the tobacco falls
short cigar stumps, willow, oak and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency, and that in some instances
100 pounds of tobacco have thus been
made to produce 200pounds Of cigars.
A Brooklyn girl writes to the papers
that in her inion "strict fathers are
at the bottom of these Opponents"
She says her papa finds some fault with
all her young gentlemen friends, and
orders her to give them their walking
papers without either rhyme or rcas-
on And when the fright one" comes
along she declares she will elope with
him, if she can't ret him in any other
way
One Of the newest and most helpful
electric inventions Is the dental and
electric lamp, for the purpose Of il
Illuminating the mouth and other parts
OF the human anatomy. The battery
used to produce this light is only six
inches square, but the light it produces
so brilliant that it penetrates the skin
and actually shows through it the root
of a tooth, enabling dentist to know
at once what causes any Of its diseases.
Some years ago travellers in Dalma-
tia noticed large tracts Of land covered
by a wild flower, near which not
sign Of insect life was visible. The
bloom was the pyrethrum, whose odor
deals death to the lower forms Of life,
and whose powdered leaves form the
basis Of "insect powders. The seed
of this flower has been distributed in
the United States, and a Dalmatian has
been growing it with great success in
Stockton, Cal.
Much interest has recently been ex-
cited in English engineering circles by
the announcement OF the discovery of
new motive power by Mr.. Edwin
Sturge, who has patented the means Of
application. According to report, the
new motive power threatens to dis
place steam as the motive power for
driving light machinery and for all
purposes Of light locomotion, either on
land or water Arrangements are in
progress to give the invention public
test.
The Schenectady Union tells sad
story Of how two lives were blasted by
a ily's misstep. A couple were mar
ried two years ago, and have lived hap
PLY until few days ago, A few morn
ings since a fly fell into the wife's cof-
fee, was pulled out by her husband,
o.'N oNNI''utdIIN losH'u uDOH UcI pldlc'
She became angry, got her bonnet and
left the house. Her father has since
removed her effects to her parents
home. The separation is final,
Although the nineteenth state in the
Union in population, New Jersey is
seventh in the amount Of capital in
vested in manufacturing, sixth in the
number of workmcn thus employed,
and sixth in the value Of her manufac-
tured products. OF the seven great
manufacturing states she is second only
to Massachusetts in the proportion Of
her total population that Is directly en-
gagged in manufactu ing, and second
only to Massachusetts in the relative
value Of manufactured products to
population.
Ella Wheeler, the poetess, says that
when she began to write She didn't
know a soul connected with the press,
not even country editor She did
not even know where but two or three
wcll-known literary papers and maya
zines were published. A little girl OF
her own age went 10 book store and
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