The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-24
NOTES, HERE AND THERE.

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Bright, clear pleasant day-the first
sunny day for some time.
Five tons of coal are consumed every
twenty-four hours in running the boiler at
the Harper House.
The thick ice made upon the sidewalks
near the scene Of the late fire is being re-
moved to-day, by the city authorities.
The ice has been removed from the
track in front Of May Bro. $ store and the
street ears are running through as usual.
Our exchanges from all parts of the
country are filed with accounts of fires.
Too much caution cannot be exercised in
regard to fires.
The finest specimens of arctic scenery
ever on exhibition in Rock Island were t.
be seen Sunday morning on the ruins of
the late fire on Illinois street.
California is making brandy from figs
The liquor is very pleasant, and after
drinking a quart or 50 a man will cheer
fully stand any amount Of abuse from his
wife
Children's Jubilee at the Trinity
Church this evening at6:3o Full service,
sermon, and holy communion tomorrow
at l0;45 \. al. Public cordially invited to
these services.
/ Two plugs Of tobacco in his pocket
stopped a bullet and saved a Kentucky
man life recently, hut you will never see
this circumstance related aud circulated in
the form of tract
The Messrs BuforI closed their Plow
Works Yesterday noon and they will re
main closed until Monday of next week,
when they viii be opened again, and con
tiuu2 operations as usual
Al railroad rains are more or less de.
layeI by the difficulties attending water
and steam in such cold weather as We arc
now experiencing: also by the great dan
ger IF breaking rails in such extreme cid
weather.
The friends Of Capt James F. CopG
will be glad 70 learn that he is able to he
out once III ne. He has suffered severely
and was in great danger IT losing mt only
his arm but his lie. Ills arm is stii in &
sling, but he hope, t,reeaverits Use again.
A little girl was one day reading the
history OF England with her g,yerness
and coming &, the statement that Henry |
never laughed after the death Of his sn
she Looked up and sand; " hat did h
ID when he was ticked?
The name of Edwin Stanton was n9ttaC
popular during it, pys>eS,ors Official ,iI,
but his worst enemies mast regret t. learI
that it Is associated with the cogmen o.
Sicklcs in the case Of an infant born to tht
misrepresentation Of the United States al
Madrid
/ One Of I'll, best improvements aDor
town. fr q liule one. is the new wide do,
. at Baker jeweiry store. Scores Of pee
pie have pa 7ed those little doors VIII.
world have been Glad t, csl il the en-
trance was easier. They viii call nov, f..
Bak has many attractions.
TIA. other day Il Ii,tle by. who had Gu
. his finger, ran u his ulotLcr and cried
Tie 1t u.. ua IT, i, up quick tor t.t
juice Is all running ,n, The same urc;,.a
on me of the late excessive hot d4Es. ap
psaied t. n 1ther tT help, saying Ma
h. TX me- tor | IL leaking all over
Ms Neil MS speech at Booth til,
I utlcg might reminds correspondent O.
one of Fanny Ell,lers at the Park theatre
on tle occasion Of her TEMPORARY depart
are from those boards, viz ''Goat-pye
/ / 20 away NV. but coined back soon an.
raAe-a ysu leatel d1lare
\ man in Youngstown, Ohio, bet s..
one bitter cold day last week that he couls
walk 20 Warren lie spoiled q $40 suit O
cloJhe~, a Sl4 pair of boots, paid a docto
$40 10 thaw out his ears, and was ARRESTED
at Warren as a suspicious character am
locked up two days in Jail He won hi
bet.
The thermometer at THE Argus ofic
has been hanging on the north side of tn
building, in the alley, but we think tn
I atmosphere there Is affected a little by tn
exhaust steam from our engine, and W
have therefore moved it to a point betweer
| THE ARGUS building and Bengst5n' :
where a fairer test viii be had
Mr. StilIson, who succeeds Croly a
managing editor Of the New York World
is young. clever, good-looking and jolly
and has made many notable hits as a CO..
respondent Craly IS a sour old customer
and nobody in the World Office gave him
good watch when he went away. He wa
celebrated for being the husband of Jenn
June.
\ Frenchman lately dreamed that tn
Emperor Of China had condemned him t
implement and waking up, was 81 col
vinced Of the reality of it that he expire
soon after, seemingly suffering all tn
pangs that the execution Of the sentenc
would involve. That should be dreadfr
warning against mince pie.
A current report strikes the Savanna
ldrrtjser in this way A pigmy in
giant boots rabbit in a lions den!
pop-gun in the port of columbiadl Co
fax in the chair Of Greeley. The pitifu
little Sinking, smiling, smattering, charla
tan will find as much room as Tom Thuu.
might in the breeches Of Daniel Lambert
We are emerging from the seaso
Of shortening days The sun entere
Capricornus on December u. and that
by few seconds, the shortest day of tn,
year. According to the aImanacs, how
ever, and disregarding seconds Of time, tn,
week from Wednesday the 18th until to
day, the 9th inclusive, contains sever
days in each Of which the time from sun
rise to sunset is nine hours and eighteel
minutes The actual time Of sunrise an,
sunset, however, day by day, gets triH,
> later Tomorrow, THE 18th the day