The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-16
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Cloudy and chilly.

"A strange dog, supposed to be mad, |
was shot by ID. ii. Fish, bridge guard, yes
terday.
Quincy having fizzled, the Iowa Capt.
toll Commissioners are again advertising for
225,O00 cubic feet of stone.
We regret to learn that Mr.. J. III.
Langley is again confined to his bed with
a relapse of his spinal disease.
The Mozart Watch Co. has compro-
missed its law suits and probably will now
either sell or rent its building.
-Keokuk has female barber, young
and fascinating, and half the young fellows
have been brushed bald headed.
-Caressing the fiange of a young mans
ear with croquet mallet is young lady's
amusement at Montezuma, Iowa.
"A junior asked young lady the fol-
lowing conundrum: IF small girls are
waits are large ones walters p Certainly
she replied. AT any rate, the boys are in
the habit Of applying them to their lips in
sealing their VOWS.
"A Jersey wine merchant has sued a
newspaper publisher for $4,000 damages
for having reduced his sales from $4,000
to $4,000 through the influence of tenn
perance paragraphs in the newspaper.
Trask should beware and haul in his
tracts" now.
| "A Milwaukee man has applied for a
patent on fountain pen, which, by the
pressure of the thumb on a small rubber
ball projects stream of ink through the
holder and into the face of the fellow who
is looking over your shoulder while you
are writing
Confirmed old topper sohloquizes
They say whisky is curse. And they
say brandy is curse And they say tobacco
is another curse Well, | wish all those
curses would come home to roost, and
roost low at that, so as / could pull 'em
down whenever wanted EN-"
"A young lady correspondent inquiries
if the young men of Savannah read the
newspapers. She received invitations
from four to attend church, and while she
was pleased to accept the first she would
have been glad if the other three had
known something about the Catholic fair.
"A literal minded youngster was picked
up by visitor of the family, who, handling
him on his knee, said Il wish had that
little boy; l think there's money in him. y
To which promptly responded the child :
Il know there is tor | swallowed a cent
when | was at grandma's the other day,
Wooden cornices on high brick build
ings are dangerous and ought not to be
permitted. The unsightly lot of lumber
called a cornice, on part of the Buford
block, took fire last evening from spark
from chimney. but fortunately was dis
covered and extinguished before any dam
age was done.
Ticket, sirW said conductor at rail
way terminus in the city to gentleman,
who having been a season ticket holder foI
some time believed his face was so well
known that there was no need for him tc
show his ticket ''My face is my ticket "
replied, the gentleman, a little annoyed
Indeed !" said the conductor, rolling back
} his wristband and displaying a most pow
erful fist, well my orders are to punch al
tickets that pass this platform T.
There seems to be doubt with some
as to the pronunciation Of the name OF
the distinguished Missouri senator. 1t /:
rather difficult to indicate with the sounds
that attach to the English letters. Per
haps the following spelling will give it a:
nearly as possible: Sharfs, giving the the
sound as in pull-or the long double a:
Shocrts The name is pronounced yer,
nearly like the English word shirts,
substituting the II sound as above,
The experiment of cultivating coffee
from the native plant, so abundant in thu
foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, is already
bugun in earnest. A gentleman who i
, already familiar with the coffee plant, ant
with its cultivation in Costa Rica, as an,
of our borticulturists are with the appl,
tree and the cultivation of the apple, ha
purchased place containing a large mum
Der of the coffee shrub, and has common
ped the work of pruning and cultivation
and expects to gather his first crop of cot
fee next fall.