The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-11-25
eLEANlNos AND GOSSIP.


Smoking was penal offense at one
time in Turkey.
The population of Scotland Is now
estimated at nearly 100000.
Milwaukee claims to have increased
in population a bit over $4,000 since
1900.
A man at Norwich, Conn, went crazy
recently because his wife inherited
fortune.
During the past ten years over 325,
600 people have left England to settle
on Canadian farms.
There is no malaria in the Barbados
and it is said that this is so because
there are no mosquitoes there.
Lake Superior is tie largest body OF
fresh water in the world, and It's area
is about equal to that of Ireland
Gov. Fernald, of Maine, is going to
appoint commission to look into the
pollution of streams and suggest a
remedy for the trouble.
The department of agriculture has
set aside the Bogeslof islands in the
Aleutian group as a preserve and
breeding ground for birds
One western paper seems to think
that now as flying machines can dc
many things birds do that they should
be made so that they can lay eggs
Burbank is now trying to raise g
| seedless watermelon. Why not try to
grow one loaded with quart OF
champagne and make it worth while
A little more than 200 people wer,
killed in the mines of Lancashire
Eng, last year, which was more thai
| 60 in excess of the average for tht
past few years.
The aluminium coins that have beef
| in use in some places in East Africi
| have been found to be no good, an'
| are gradually being replaced by none,
| made of nickel-bronze.
John Salmon, Yankee in Ceylon
has got rich by detecting pearls il
| oysters by X-ray. The best part is
| detects seed pearls, and such oyster
are put into special plants to develop
A Waterman on wharf at Ney
| York stopped a girl who vas goin
1 past the customs inspector the othe
day eating bit of chocolate. H
claimed that she had not paid dut
on it.
The Welcome Research College c
Egypt has a floating laboratory o
the Nile and all it's tributaries. Sue
little ship of science will turn gu
greater blessings than twenty dreat
naughts -New York Press,
Austria is now getting much inter
asted in the airship problem and ha
ordered two dirigible balloons for tn
Use of her army. Every German arm
corps now has six balloons attached
it for signaling and observation pu
poses.
/ Edward p. Sterling, of Trenton,
T., has discovered in the outskirts {
the town the largest specimen of pol
porus on record. The mushroo
| NElSuC TO pCbidCs - ~ AhA~hN'
height and measures 105 inches
circumference.
The Kansas City Star seems to
much worried about what becomes
all the corn that is raised 1t is II
/. much to worry over, yet the questiC
comes nearer to being alive than
. did before so many Of the southel
. | states went dry.
2 During some recent excavation
! uear Willendorf, on the Danube.
chalk figure and instruments al
weapons characteristic of the stoi
age were found in chalk cliff FL
little statue is quite arusttc, al
shows traces of once having bee
I painted
Q Forty years ago the stretch b
!. ween III Monte, in Los Angel
4 | county, and San Bernardino vi
Y known as the Forty Mile desert, al
! was somewhat dreaded by teamstel
! Today. thanks to irrigation, there a