The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-06
GLEANINGS.

shoveling sand in the penitentiary, pre-
paratory to learning the moulding
trade.
Bismarck says gentlemen of elo-
ouence are like ladies who wear boots
much too tight and always try to show
their feet.
Tobacco has been found upon analy-
sis to contain sugar in quantity vary
inc from a mere trace TO as much as
10 per cent.
Springfield, Mass, has a local gym
mast who packs himself into box
measuring % inches long by II wide
and 10 high.
Mr.. Drummer j. Adams, a mechanic
of Kittery, Me-, claims to have discov-
cred a process by which he YIELDS cop
per as perfectly and securely as iron.
A new stalactite cavern has been
discovered in France near Gordon.
Naturalists are busy exploring, in the
hopes of finding some remains OF past
races
A wholesale tobacco dealer in New
York City claims that cigarette smok-
ing is dying out, and that $4,000, 900
less cigarettes were sold in 1883 than
in 1882.
According to the Constitution, "soci.
tyn in Atlanta, Ga, is giving evidence
that it demands greater intelligence
and higher education to meet its re.
quirements.
The population of Mexico, including
natives, Indians SpaniOrds and those
of mixed blood, numbers about 10000
600. The area of the country is nearly
800, 900 square miles.
Mrs. DubuyS, of Pass Christian,
daughter of General e. 7, Sherman, is
the owner OF one of the loyelest rose
gardens in Mississippi. She has $50
varieties of roses in it.
Rose Coghlan the actress, smokes
cigarettes, and is said TO be the only
woman in America who can puff rings
of smoke from her mouth. Rose is I'M
doubtedly very accomplished woman.
The FRANKLIN cottage atElberon has
one room entirely lined with cork, 1t
is arranged in fiat, narrow pieces about
one foot in length which are made to
fit in each other. 1t has the effect of
light-colored wood.
There are 8, 800 Edison lights in ten
cotton mills in Fall River, and so pop
ular are they that the hands in one
mill have struck against all work BY
gaslght in mill where they refused
to put in electricity,
The rage for armor continues, and
clocks now come in the steel breast
plates and shields ready to be placed
on a large frame of plush, shield-shape
with yizors, spiked balls, battle-aXes
and other warlike surroundings.
Oleomargarine has found its way
into the English market from this coun-
try, and is creating considerable talk
among the people there. 1t is certain
to encounter fierce opposition, and
there is strong probability that string
ent prohi5itory laws will be enacted.
DR.. Charles L. Clark, of Boston,
while rummaging around in Junk
shop in that city recently, found some
valuable Colonial documents, worth
their weight in gold. The papers were
bought by Abbott Lawrence and by
MIN they have been given to the Boston
public library.
Statistics recently gathered show
Ilat the colored population of the
United States IS increasing at the rate
OF nearly two hundred thousand a wear
"a fact that does not look much like
the immediate exstinction of the ra &C
which has been so freely prophesied in
some quarters.
Mrs Reeves, the wife of Sim Reeves
sad the other day: "Why, ladies com,
10 me and say, i have a daughter VIII,
sings well. want her to appear il
public How long do you think j
would take TO train her-nine months?
Nine years, madame. Even a boot
maker takes seyen.'
Charles Goodnight is a king anon
cattle kings in Texas, and has fence
IN $4,000 acres with $50 miles of Wi
renee at the head of Red River. in Il
lahhandle. His ranch contains near
twenty-five thousand acres moro III,
there are in the entire state az pho,
Island, and he bought the wboIo
from 80 cents to 81 an acre.
A few days ago lady entered
Grand Rapids store and asked to
shown some dress goods. She '
shown piece at 81 % yard, but t
not being good enough another at 81
was handed down, but she still obiC
ed. The clerk then took down
first piece shown her, telling her it v
the best in the store at 81 IS per va
She took ten yards at that price q
left perfectly satisfied that she had
ceived the best.
A Spanish Mormon has lust co
pleted the translation of the Book
Mormon into Spanish, and began III
sionary operations in Mexico.
makes out that the Mexicans are
scendants of the various tribes snok
OF in the book, and teaches that Me
co is to become the land flowing W
milk and honey. This suits the gre
ears exactly, as they are constitu,i,
ally opposed to work. The con
quence is he is making progress.
Bank of England notes will stand
most anything. They will hold toge
er at the bottom Of the sea and CO
out of furnace intact, but they '
not outlast the scrubbing, the biea