The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-10-25
GLEANINGS.

The oyster interest in New York en-
ploys $50, 000 900 capital and about
5000 men in the wholesale trade
alone. Gotham's average daily con-
sumption OF the bivalve is IS, 900 BUSH
els.
About GOO German newspapers are
published in the United States, OF
which Z are in the New England
States, 20S in the Middle States, IS in
the Southern States, and $50 in the
Western States.
Mr.. d. II. Elliott whose services in
the development of transportation ia
cilities have built up the Florida orange
trade, estimates the crop of 1884 and
1885 at million boxes, against the
$4,000 boxes of last season.
The quadricycle is the name given to
wheeled vehicle invented by James
o. Brown, of Boston. 1t has two
small wheels in front and two large
wheels behind The inventor says
that it is far superior to the bicycle or
tricycle..
There are now in the Treasury vaults
at Washington 1876. 000,0 900 silver dol
lars, weighing nearly 5000 tons. If
placed in ordinary coal carts. ton in
each it would make continuous pro-
cession fourteen miles long. The above
figures do not include the silver bullion
and fractional silver, of which there is
thousand tons more.
Miss Nellie Arthur carries doll.
When she was with her father at Kings
ton, N. Y, woman said: "My good
ness! why does that big girl carry
dollP" An answer was quickly given
by another woman, who said: "Well,
if the Kingston girls would carry dolls
until they were little older instead of
running after the boys before they got
their short dresses off it would be
much more TO their credit"
What is claimed to be the largest
grain elevator in the world has been
erected at Newport News, Va, by tho
Chesapeake u Ohio Railroad Company.
1t is 80 feet wide, 1856 feet long and
about l6i feet high, with engine and
boiler rooms 40xl00 and 40 feet high.
The storage of the house is 1000, 900
bushels, with receiving capacity of
10000 and a shipping capacity of TO-
900 bushels per hour.
The Chinese have what is termed the
kite festival on the ninth day of the
ninth moon. Sometimes the kites re-
semble scrpents 30 feet long, at other
times group of hawks lowering
around center, all being suspended
by single strong cord, but each kite
moved by separate line. Sometimes
the kites are cast adrift under the be-
lief that they will carry away with
them all pending disasters.
A benevolent woman in Cincinnati
has undertaken to supply poor, lonely
bachelors in the West with wives. For
81 she will send an applicant list of
names of farmers daughters with whom
he can correspond with matrimonial
intent. Ii he cannot, with this advan-
tage, capture companion, he ought to
be doomed to everlasting loneliness.
Several able works on the art of letter
writing contain some effective ammu-
milton for this purpose. Having tho
girls name to begin with, he has only
to fire it at the mark.
Coral fishing is largely followed in
Algeria, AZ, 900 to As, 900 pounds of cor
al, valued at about 5000, being the
yearly production; La Gale Is the CEN
ter of this industry, and there are en-
ployed annually 100 boats and 1900
men. The coral is obtained by means
of a wooden apparatus in the shape of
cross, having in its center a leaden
slug or stone for ballast. Nets, the
meshes OF which are loose, are hung
on the bars of the cross and dragged at
the bottom OF tho sea, and among the
crevces Of the rocks. These nets,
winding about the coralne plant,
break up or tear off It's branches, which
adhere to the meshes The apparatus
Is drawn up by the fishermen whenev-
or he thinks 1t sufficiently laden. There
is also net which is provided with
large iron nails, having thus great
force TO break the coral, but this APP
paratus is forbidden 10 be usod