The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-30
diIIEANINGS.

Vandcrbilts household expenses arc
said to reach 100000 n year
A telephone fifteen years old has
been discovered in Now York.
About 10000 600 pennies were coined
in the United States last year.
The youngest recorded suicide last
year was eleven, the oldest eighty
three.
A sea lion weighing $500 pounds
was lately killed at the mouth Of tho
Coquillo River, Oregon, 1t yielded
thirty gallons of oil.
In an Indian mound opened near
Tower City, d, T., wcro found tho
skeletons OF three men in sitting post
urc, facing the East. Ono had tho
stem of a pipe in its mouth.
The cadets at West Point during tho
summer are taught how To swim, how
to rescue Il drowning person. and tho
quickest method OF restoring the APP
parently drowned,
There is n man in Norwich, Conn,
who swallows i39 grains Of opium
every week, and has repeatedly taken
fluid ounce Of laudanum without any
pcrcoptiblo Ill effects
Miss Sarah o. Jcwctt. according to
q Boston correspondent, is considered
"the handsomcSt woman among all
our female authors, with tho possible
exception OF Mrs. Blanche Howard"
The new uniforms of tho Russian
army are so severely simple that they
arc almost ugly, Even the timo honor
ed metal button is discarded, tho faston-
ings being hooks and eyes hidden
from sight.
A number OF Chinese farmers in
MERGED County, California, have be-
gun to cultivate tho opium-yiclding
poppy. As they are making II success
of il 1t is likely that others will follow
in their steps.
London covers an area of l22 square
miles, and yet land in several portions
of the city sells for $500 a square foot.
Over 1000, 600 gas lights aro required
to light lis streets.
Experiments made by M. Muntz
with various kinds of watcr-spring,
river, sea, and rain water, also snow
prove that alcohol may be found in all,
except in pure spring water.
India pays 100000 each summer
for the purpose OF keeping her officials
from melting under tho fervent heat.
When the hot season approaches the
government is moved, bag and baggage,
to the cooler upands of tho country.
The Irish prefer to kill themselves
by hanging. The German invariably
shoots or browns himself, and tho
Frenchman cuts his throat with knife
or razor. The American takes poison
or blows out his brains with II revolver.
Among the regulations Of n newly
formed church among the Iulus in
South Africa was the following; "NO
member Of this church shall be per-
mittcd to drink the white mans grog,
or native beer, nor touch it with his
lips"
From Berlin comes the report that
the rcddish-brown atmosphere and the
peculiar appearance of the sun and
sky which prevailed over so wide AZ
area of the globe have again become
noticeable. Tho colors are almost rs
vivid as before, and they como on
strongest when the air is pure and the
sun is covered by clouds.
Speaking of the blessing of Summer
holidays, the Providence J0HrnaS says:
From these golden days Of rest we
must exclude those spent by the slaves
OF fashion in their expensive resorts
There are many who fly from the
crowded cities only to double elsewhere
their follie5 and vices. They never
withdraw from their jewels and dis
play of styles to be for Il season the
simple children Of the air and LIGHT;
they never draw near to the dear,
blessed earth, bus go where they may
take with them their bondage, and
anguish aud die withouehaving seen
any world except that made by the
architect and miliiner."