The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-11
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

John f. Fleming is down with the small
pox, in St. Louis, but is getting along We'll
Alvin Hull has returned from his east
ern trip in fine health The smell OF salt
water did him good
A sensation was created in a saloon at
Lyons, Iowa, the other day by snake crawl
ing among the liquor bottles Another in
stance of the eternal fitness OF things.
Eight hundred children attend the Cath
Ole parish schools, over the river, as fol- |
lows: at St. Marguerites $50 at St, An
thongs, $50: at St. Kunigundi $, 200.
The Ottumwa Courier says Fishermen
tell us that the Desmoines river is filling
up with splendid FISH, thanks to the anti
seining law. In a short time our beauti
full river will be filed as of yore with the
best varieties of bass, pike, salmon, &c.
The Dubuque Telegraph says that the
assets of the Savings Bank of that city will
realize about thirty cents on the dollar to
depositors, and thinks what is due from
stockholders will realize twenty cents
more, making fifty cents in all.
They have peculiar way Of discharging
printers in the Dayton offices. Each com
positor has nail to hang his coat on, and
when the foreman concludes to dispense
with the service Of one Of the hands he
lakes hammer and drives the nail in to
the head.
OF the few Senator'S and Representatives
who have not drawn their back pay, all of
them, with one single exception, land that
isn't John B. Hawleyl have taken the in
creased compensation from the 4th of
March last. Mr. Hawley draws his front
pay with the steal added.
When the fellow stays too late, in Moline,
the girl counsels with her mother, and the
mother informs him that as--has
done a hard days work che day before,
and has another one to do the next day.
his presence can be dispensed with.
That's what ais one of the 'fellers in Mo
line.
\ Boston merchant relates the following
conversation between two bell-boys at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York Pat, says
Mike, What's this suspension of the
banks ?" Mike replies I'm tell ye
Suppose We have five cints ''Yis. -
Leave it wild me ''Yis" Next day
We want it, and ys AK me for it. "Yis -
Il tell We No, sir, I've used it meself.
Merchants in Rock Island who don 1t
avail themselves of the advertising col
umns of THE ARGUS make a great mis-
take-they lose money by it, or, rather.
+ they fail 10 make what they might make
( by iudiciaus system Of advertising Any
body with half al eye can see that those
who do advertise are doing much the best
business.
J The light-mindel wretches who are wont
to divert their conversation by unpleasant
references to the personal peculiarities OF
others, have received a deserved rebuke
and warning in Baltimore. To wear the
excrescence known as a wart on the ex
treme tip Of ones nose would seem to be
/ too serious a misfortune to evoke the ridi-
cule Of happier beings But life and thing,
generally are uncertain. A gentleman
suffering under this uniovely attachment
was disrespectfully addressed IN the sale
city by the picturesque but not musica
name of Wary The abandoned
stranger guilty of this heartless proceeding
received the gentle circumstances of th'
afflicted with diaboical playfulness, anC
made things worse byimmediately ejacula
ting, Hello, Old Warty,' and following
that up by loudly exclaiming, 'Warty
Esquire Reused TO a Just and generou:
Indignation the saddened object of hi
mirth went into court with a complain
against the wretch, and was instantly ad
judged damages to the amount of $500
We mention this case as d dreadful warn
, ing to funny people, and comfort to othe
unfortunate persons who may take it as
precedent.
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