The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-08
UNFAMILIAR FACTS.

: ! UNFAMILIAR FACTS.
Plush car seats have been banished
from Kentucky as collectors OF disease
germs
For taking match into a Welsh
coal pit collier was sentenced to
two months Imprisonment.
Railroads of China are financially
wide field for railroad enterprises.
In New York Prison the educa
tionaI course for conyiets will be
broadened to include lectures on law.
The simple stripping of red and yell
low in the flag Of Spain was sug
gested by the arms of Aragon.
Under the new California marriage
certificate law the young couple must
swear that they are not insane,
The French Government INTENDS TO
make experiments in the Congo col
ony in the cultivation Of wild coffee
tree discovered by the explorer, M.
Cheyalier
A FISHING frog weighing sixty
pounds. has been landed at Yarmouth
England. 1t was several feet long,
with mouth Of large size.
In the early days of railroading
horses were used to help the loco
motives on upgrades.
Four hundred and twenty million
eggs aud 1,780,000 hundredweight Of
butter were exported from Denmark to
the United Kingdom during 1904.
Spain has lawsuit that has been
before the courts since 1517 1t is
the most conspicuous legal example
Of 'manana" in the history Of the
world.
Metal beds in China sell for about
twice the price they command in the
United States To meet demands they
must be supplied with mosquito net
frames
The largest white sapphire in the
world is supposed to be now at Berlin
having been taken there from Brazil
short time ago by mine owner.
II weighs Ais carats.
Cape Horn was SO named by Spon
ten, Dutch sailor, who first "dou.
bled it," from the name of his birth,
place HORNE, village on the Guy
der Zee.
In Sheffield and some other North
ern English cities whenever child Is
lost the relatives chalk an announce.
ment on the sidewalk describing the
wanderer and giving the name and al
dress of its relatives.
The new sand lot agitation in Cali
fornia against the admission of the
japanese into this country is carried on
by a league in which the leading Off
GERS bear those fine old American
, names, Tyitmoe and Yoell.
While record was made in New
York the other day by the sale of a
piece of ground at Broadway and Wall
street for 81 square inch the sale is
recorded of a lot on the Strand, Lon
don, for $31 square inch.
Eight hundred Paris butchers made
an excursion to London recently and
stayed five hours. They were cordially
received. Such excursions are fashion
able now, on account of the entente
cordiale. Several hundred sewermen
recently paid days visit to Paris.
The most costly uniform in England
is worn by the Earl Marshal. whose
dress represents an outlay Of 81, 250.
not including jewels or ornaments
Seventeen thousand yards of EN-
broidery are worked upon the coat in
! lace until but little of the origina,
cloth may be seen.
The colors Of nearly all the British
infantry regiments which marched
| past King Alfonso at Adershot the
| other day were emblazoned with Go.
runna, Salamanca, st. Sebastian, Ba,
| daios. Vittoria, Nive," names Of vic.
! tories won by the British and Span.
iards against the French In Spain.
! Inventors are now turning their at
| tention to the smaller details of ths,
I automobile. One of the most recent
patents is applied to a wire frame ar
ranged to sweep the rubber tires.
This, it is claimed, will avoid many
punctures, since it will remove lacks
and bits OF glass as soon as picked
up.