The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-15
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A HELPLESS invalid lady III California
climbed tree in lively manner upon
seeing a grizzly bear after her. $
The West Point cadets are forbidden by 5
the authorities to lend their sashes or oth-
err military accoutrements, except ther
arms, to their young lady friends, ;
1t is proposed that the beautiful mlis t
back of this city be called Rock IsSa"d
Heights. There's no law to prevent peo-
ple using that term if they wish to. (,
There is a good deal Of sound wisdom IN
the suggestion of the farmer who said II
You want your boy to stay at home don
bear too hard on the grindstone when he
turns the crank
As u shoddyite was looking at some
paintings the dealer pointed to a line one
and said There is dog, after Land
seer" is it really, exclaimed the ken |
osher." "What is the dog after him Tor ?
An ingenious Yankee seamstress makes
a squirrel, in his revolving cage, turn her
sewing machine, but her ALDERMAN com
petitors cant understand how she man
ages to do long seams with such a little
haste
A Buffalo girl pretty and eighteen, has
sold over five hundred sewing machines IN
the last two wears She travels with
horse and wagon. smiling when she leaves
machine and shedding tears if anybody
refuses to keep it. That does the bust
ness
Olive Logan tells OF nice young man
who waited superbly. All the girls went
for him. Nobody else could catch their
pace as well as he When asked how he
managed it so handsomely, he replied he
never thought about it, he never tried
hard-alI he did was to hold his partner ii
his arms and let her kick.
The Cincinnati Enquirer protests vlgor
ouslv against its party dropping the namt
d of Democratic, whatever else ii may dc. L
y thinks that if the name were discarded
6 would be Immediately snapped up by SOM
: other organization, aud that the Republ
r can party would change for it and give
large amount of boot.
This is the season for sneak-thleves
horse thieves, etc People. in these sultr
nights, leave their doors and windows oper
of and the light fingered loaters are thus er
n, abed to ply their vocation quite success
a fully. Many attempts at robbery are r'
er ported in every locality, and people al
ny cautioned to be on their guard.
rs There is some consolation for aspirir
e? youths studying for journalism in the ia
that the Rhode Island Weekly Mercury
bt rs years old, has never missed public
,is tiou day. and the veteran reporter who h
- been on the paper since its birth, in l15
ri now gets 50 Il week salary and manages
Inf pay his wash bills by passes to negro mi
-- -trcl shows.
>, \ bewildered gentleman from MoliI
n, not long ago dared. the dangers Of a la
steamer, and while gliding about the mus
- mirrored cabin, clinging teuderly to
~ carpet bag, espied somebody carrying
" bag suspiciousIy like his own. tiorriti
and enraged, he rushed frantically at
II" <he vision. and wa, about dashing direc
~, tl>lugh one Of the long mirrors when
10y polite attendant explained his slight II
take Clasping the precious carpet-t
her to his heart. he smiled, while tear sto
en- in his manly eve.
xa- The Louisville Commercial man rec
aw. nizes a taste for the beautiful on the p
,su- OF the Cincinnatians, thusly The Gu
ma waited taste of the CincinnatianS for beal
full pictures finds a soulful qualification
,ru- gazing at the sketches Of pork manutact
lble ing and hog-killiug which have been e
,eir cuted with great skill, and exhibited
use the Chamber of Commerce. One retl
the lady, looking at a porkers last strug
ual- with knife in his throat, murmured in
re- ecStacv of admiration How hesutii
An he looks like dying gladdyature ~