The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-03
VOTES WERE AND THERE.

Fresh maekerel right from Salt water
IT the Harper house to-day.
Education produces great results III the
United States. 1t is said to make good
children even out of the Moline boys
When naughty little boy breaks WIN
dow he should be punished, on the prlncl-
pie that panes and penalties go together
Bad boys OF Alexandria, Va, get Tree
admission to menageries by taking cats 1or
the animals to feed upon
A man from Placerville, Cal, when ask,
ed by a Saratoga waiter what he would
have for breakfast, replied We'll /
rather guess I'll flop my lip over chick
en-.
John Henderson, suing for divorce In
Indiana, alleges that his wife trapped him
NV means of false hair false eyebrows,
false complexion, a big hustle and a deceit
full tongue.
A lawver named Taylor undertook to
bully a female justice in Wyoming but she
stabbed him in the ear with parrot shears
and her dog fixed him so that he couiuu I
sit down for month,
At Banchory, lately the parish school
m,ster. out of curiosity, put the question
~ the scholars, What is nothing A
n,use eusued. until an urchin, whose pro
cliyities for earning penny were we'll
known among his school fellows, gotupand
replied, Its when man asks We to baud
his horse and jist says thank ye.
At a large public meeting in BROOKLYN
IN. Y, the other night, held for the pur
pose of divising ways and means for bet
ter schools, the principal speaker, IN his
address. said I'VE demand high schools
so that Protestant children need not be
compelled to complete their education IL
Roman Catholic academies and colleges
A party of excursionists from Fayette
Iowa, in honor of the completion OF thu
Duck Greek 4 St Paul railroad to tina
Mace. visited Davenport to-day. The!
were met at Duck Greek and taken arount
town and to the Rock Island Arsenal Il
carriages. This evening there is to be
ball in their honor at Hills new hall o.
Brady street.
1t wasn't Moline lady who tapped he
-, husband gently with her fan at party tn
other night and said Love, it's GROWN
- late, think we had better go home,
q but who. after getting home, shoe
. the rolling pin under his nose an
y said "You Internal old scoundrel, yo'
if YOU ever look at that mean, nasty ,ealot
faced. maekerel- eyed thing that you looI
ed at tonight, III bust your head wi,
x open
u \ school boy being requested to write
l. composition upon the subject OF pins
oil produced the following Pins are We
N useful. They have saved the lives OF
De great many men, women and children
r fact whole families. How 500" ask
the teacher: and the boy replied "Wi
by not swallowing them" This match
re the story of the other boy who defined s.
as the stuff that makes the potatoes ta>
bad When You don put on any.
'F' The Davenport Democrat speaks OF
@i % Dugapor, bridge report, 7 There Is
e~s such bridge aud no such report. The "a
n road and carriage bridge, at this point,
- tween the Island of Rock Island and
= Iowa shore, and which was built by
United States Government and the c
. caso, Rock Island 4 Pacific Railroad Go
- pany. under the direction Of the L nj
:. States authorities. is known in law and
a. the War Department as " The Rock lsla
Bridge.