The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-13

The height Of impertinence-asking a
Jew what his Christian name is.
The Titusyillc Pres tells the story of a
Nocturnal serenader, who sang, When the
mo-moon is shi-hi Inning err the la-hake.
Oh, the-hen I'll thi-hi.hi-hi-hink of thee
ee-eel The music aroused dog about
the size of -four barrel. and the mu-
stefan is doing as well as could be ex-
pected.
A young drug clerk committed suicide
in Bristol, few days ago At the inquest
the Coroner asked tcllow.clerk Of the
deceased If he knew Of any cause for the
suicide, No, was the reply, he was get
ting along nicely, and was going 10 be mar
ried next month Going 10 be married,
was hep exclaimed the Coroner. That
will do We've got got at the bottom of
this business,
A loving heart and a pleasant counte-
nance are commodities which man should
never fail 10 take home with him. They
will best season his food and soften his
pillow II we're great thing for man
that his wife and children could truly
say of him He never brought
frowu or unhappiness across his thresh-
hold"
A good thing happens now and then in
those diversified channels of travel, the
street cars, aud friend sends us
one which will bear repetition The scene
Is a street car, the time last evening the
drGmdtis persona two gentlemen in calling
attire First gentleman, briskly-'We
who Is going 10 be bored tonight p
Second gentleman as briskly-'1 don't
know. Where are you Roing?'
Coal was discovered in England in 1894,
and first dug under a charter granted the
town Of Newcastle By Henry III. 1t was
first used about 1920. Dyers, brewers,
etc, began 10 consume il extensively in
1880. In consequence Of an application
from the nobility and gentry, Edward l.,
IN 1898, published proclamation against
il as a public nuisance
The October elections will hereafter be
shorn Of much of their significance in
Presidential years, and are likely 10 be
abolished altogether, since the apportion-
ment act Of Congress provides for the
uniform election of Representatives and
Delegates, in all States and Territories, on
the Tuesday after the first Monday in
November Of every second year, beginning
in 1876.
Theodore Tilton closes an article in his
Golden Age, as follows.
Il have but small desire for profession
al and nOne-not shred-for political
distinction but If my life is spared, and if
the stuff Of which it is made proves not
wholly inadequate 10 the higher uses of a
manly character, think l foresee INV title
clear 20 at least one sort Of honorable
fame and that is by proving that ! can
be the target of more scandal, and at the
same time the tale-bearer Of less than any
other man in America"
Can a woman endure a college course
Of study2' il is woman herself who re-
plies, II would like you 10 take 100
young men, lace them up, and hang ten OF
twenty pounds Of clothes on their waists,
porch them upon high, narrow heels, COW
or their heads with rats and mice, and
stick 10000 bair-pins into their heads, and
Il they can stand all this, as the women
do they will stand college education"
The instinct of domesticity is as strong
ana deep in woman as in man. She is nc
more gregarious, boarding house animal
than Is ne The occupations, the inter.
ests, the pleasures OF home are peculiarly
hers, aud whenever woman dislikes hel
nome aud prefers boarding house, III,
hrst thing Is for the husband 10 have Orea
searchings Of heart, and ask b;mself
WI hat sin have ] committed of wha
neglect am l guilty; into what dullnes
nave 1 sunk, that my wife is thus force,
Iorego her natural inclinations 2"-Ga,
HamiItoH, '"'