The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-03
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The Senatorial delegation from Mis-
issippi is not Alcorn now, but partly t
,ease.
Senator Ingalls, prejudice against the
loble red man is attributed to the fact that
le is only slightly bald-headed.
Thirteen broken arms and legs in
Portland attest the fact that it has been
good winter for sliding down hill.
John Dog petitioned the Massachu--
sets Legislature to change his name, and
they made it John Kerr, and he was hap
Ply.
"A prominent railroad man in this city |
is charged with stealing horse and bug
gy in Moline. Was it the result of too
much Moline whisky?
"A Connecticut hen was buried in a
hay NOW seven weeks. She is quite nat
urally inclined to brag about it, now that
she is so as to be around.
The petitions in hands of people in
this city, for the Rock Island Canal, ST ould
now be returned to u. H. More, OF the
Canal Committee, Tiskilwa, ILL.,
The chinch bugs in Edwards county
make the surface of the ground rails OF
will show themselves when warm weather
comes.
Farmers in the American bottom live
in dread lest their crops be destroyed by
grasshoppers next summer. lnvestlga-
lions prove that they Turk in millions IN
many fields of wheat.
The women's temperance crusade is ac-
counted for by the Nation in the tact that
the men have made such mess OF their
| temperance reforms. Flanagan OF Texas
says it was liquor divided the Union.
The dodge of the saloon keepers to
advertise their places free OF cost, by IN,
forming the newspapers that notices had
been sent to them by ladies engaged IL
the cause Of temperance is about played
out.
Green county seems to be the home
of large number of wild animals. A vol
was killed few days ago near Whitehall
several others have been seen and two
foxes and catamount were killed by the
Evans boys, near Carrollton, recently.
One might write a column obituary
notice on an office holder and then no
equal the brief announcement in an Iowa
paper: Harvey Jackson, county treas
urer, is dead He was lenient with tn.
widowed, and his books always balanced.
/ The fire alarm at about 10 o clock las
, night was caused by the burning OF,
smoke house in the rear OF meat marke
near the catholic church. 1t contained ;
good deal of meat, which was more or les
: Injured by the fire. The hose carts wer
: promptly on hand and soon eXtingulshe'
r the flames.
In Medic Tutissimus. "-Countr
practitioner (about to go up to London O.
business y Il shan't be more than ten day
at the furthest, Mr.. Fawceps. You'll visi
the patients regularly, and take care tina
none of EN- slip through your fingers
or get well-during my absence -fWnct
: "A youth, passing down Illinois stree
: saw a handsomely embellished specime
/, truss hanging in drug shop window, an
: suspended from it tag with this legend
l Patent Rupture Truss-none like it.
well, " said Rusticus, cycling it with SUI
D picious looks and edging away, apprehel
. sively, Il shouldn think they would liz
y it.
!, The New York San beautifully o
i serves The court journals at the capt.
: announce the presence there Of the expellt
I president of San Domingo, and the ia
It that he was entertained by Gen. K.
y Babcock confidential secretary Of Il
/ president, also officer in charge of the pll
/, lie buildings and grounds, and certiier
Boss Shepherd measurements"
e 1t was at party that some young
e dies were discussing the relative benef
e of the sparrows and the worms, when o
"a of the fair ones appealed to young Flzz
IL top, who had just joined them, and b
not caught the drift of the cOnversatiC
- (which do you think the worse, worms
- sparrows?' What did the stupid bru
II ! do but innocently answer, L don't kno'
~ never had sparrows.
n Here is the most beautifully bad
he nundrum which we have ever met vii
VI and we have rarely met with good or
no What is the difference between gar
dress and drawn tooth Answer b
A. really, we hope it will be well understC
,s- that we didn't guess it. and still bet
90 understood that the conundrum is none
IS ours. Answer Because one is tooth
ID and the other is tooth out. Poh
ro- MIR. Logan, in a recent debate in
nd Senate, criticised Mr. Schurz s langu;
nd as gentle and moderate and nice a
lite splendid" Which provokes us to N;
WI public the eulogy pronounced by an
lie. woman at Carbonate on Mr.. Logan's {
So tory when during the war he was fly
one of his most able bodied eagles bel
,he an admiring crowd. My 7 said she, e.
yer ping her hands in eggstacy, that's got
err that better fried eggs"
Moses Isaacs, from New York, wal
rue into Chicago police-station with one
rye polished to a brilliant degree and the OF
nn7 covered with mud He called the at
VIII ton of the officer in charge to the uni
yell ness of his boots, and said Il have I'll
low come up here for infermations. | Il
the wants to know if as it is the customs
'pl- Chicago to fling gentlemans out by
ken collar when he goes into a hotel thus
nal blache his boots?" He had called b
GU black into the Pacific Hotel, where he
en- not patron, and the job had been
'oS- half finished when the clerk, seeing
r., profit in it, had told porter to put
Itth out
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