The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-10-11
Daily argus.
OFFICIAL CITY g. COUNTY PAPER
CHIPS AND SPLINTERs.
Waiting g-msids-Elderly spinssers.
Backgammon-Al lady's waterfall.

Backgsmmon-A ladys waterfall.
To make Venetian blind-Put out his
eye.
A man with the suggestive name OF Bosch
Is running for office in Michigan.
The average salary of the clergyman in
New Hampshire is said to be only $3.50.
The yield this year of one mans orchard
near Tampa, Fla, will be 81, 900 pinespples.
The crops generally throughout South
Carolina give promise of sn abundant WELD
The school children ofTerre Haute, Ind s..
are about to be vaccinated by order of the
Common Council.
All the citizens Of St. Cloud, Minn., re-
Gently turned out to hunt the only rat ever
seen in that region.
Most of the salt used in California is
imported from Mexico, and is sold at an
average price of SO per ton.
The St. Ignatius Jesuit College at Chicago
has already cost the trustees upward OF
500 900. 1t is four stories in height.
Two twin brothers in Boston are said to
be so much alike that they frequently Dor
h
Among the bequests of the late John
Nesmith. of Lowell, Mass, is one leaving
$250,000 to that city for the benefit of the
poor.
The oldest Episcopal church in New
England (perhaps in the United States) is
st. PauPs WEXFORD, Rhode Islsnd. 1t was
erected in 1907.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Church mot Episcopal), which meets Nav
II, 1871, will meet at Pit,sburg, instead OF
Adrian, Mich.
The Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw
Railroad will soon be ready tor traffic. 1t
connects at Fort Wayne with the jackson,
Lansing and Saginaw Railroad.
A farmer of Unions Grove, ILL.,, recently
exhibited stalk of corn sixteen feet long
The ear was eight feet. He said he had
other stalks about the same length in his
corn6eld.
Time makes all things even In tn
battle of Sedan the Prussians captured
several guns marked 1918 and 1914, which
were doubtless used in the former wsrs
agains. Germany.
10 respect to population New Orleans is
nearly stationary. Ten years ago she had
population of 100 600. Now, with
considerable territory added, she can no,
show above 900
Four heroic young ladies have made the
ascent of Mount Washington, n. FL. By a
perilous path. They csmped out all nighr.
and reached the Tip-Top House at O'Clock
in the afternoon.
The people of Harrison county, Ind, were
excited few days since by the discovery
OF vein of gold, BY laborers who were en-
gagged in sinking a well. The excavations
will be continued.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
gives the names of q family resident IL
Sangamon county, H.. whose united age.
foot up 900 wears. The father is ninety
seven and the mother ninety-oae.
\ large soup house for the benefit OF tn
poor is in contem plstiou at Atlanta, Ga
Ten gentlemen have pledged themselves 70
contribute $50 per year each TO maintain
it. An ale brewer has headed the sub
scription with $4,000.
A new system of postal service is abou'
TO 60 into operation on the Michigan Ceu
tral Railroad. Hitherto great delay wa,
occasioned along the line in distributing the
mail Offices. This work will in future b.
done on board the cars.
The city Of Washington has population
of III, 1876, an increase of 0,073 since 1860
No city has gained more from the political
revolution than this. Richmond, the afore
time Confederate capital, has q population
of about $4,000.
The census takers throughout the country
in com pairing notee, find that the highes1
age attained by unmarried women is twenty
six years. Heretofore it used to be twenty
three. 1t is well to have the time dehnitei,
fixed when women cease to grow older.
Iowa claims a young and very pretty CIR
who has worked in the field all summer
wearing male attire. Her personal attrac
tions are indicated BY the fact that while
hoeing particular two acre patch of pota-
toes she received three offers Of marriage
from well-to-do young farmers.
A St. Louis Judge was so affected, il
common with the audience, by the Shrek
and lamentations of the relatives of q pris
oner Just sentenced to twenty years impris
onment that he discharged, by mistake, q
man found guilty of having been aceessor
to murder, the criminal being himself IL
tears.
An average Egyptian can see noshinI
distinctly at q distance of more than so
Yards, and has no acuteness in detecting al
object within as many feet. A recent trav
eer saws that when the railway was con
structed the utmost difficulty was found il
procuring men capable Of seeing or recog
nizing the difference between signals only
hundred yards off Many candidates came
bn. few passed the test. One man wa
nearly passed, but the engineer was nc
quite satisfied that the fellow had not bee
making good shots" at the colors. SO
held up his hat at $50 yards, and the hsE
less signaiman pronounced it to be "the re
flag "