The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-17

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA, 1874
was just going to repeat the old song
''No news, when ] remembered that
could not quite truthfully do so; TOR hav
we not had sensation, in shape OF an at
tempt at COW hiding, at the treasury de
partment, only few days ago? Yes; tina
one particular corridor will soon becom
famous, fear; and between the shooting
and fogging it will, get itself such repu
tation that relic hunters will carry it Of
piece meal, and leave Mullet to weep owe
its departed proportions.
As usual a woman was the cause. TIL,
rampant female who attacked one of tn,
secret service clerks, was the wife of
lieutenant of police, and claimed that saiC
clerk was the cause of her daughters ruin
He, the clerk, denied the charge, and cap
tured the COW hide; and now the girl il
question is out in card, in which she de
MES her supposed fall, and gives the younl
man first-class certificate of good be
havior So you see that ripple of ex
citement, although of a most questionable
nature. has at last stirred our social calm
and by the time congress cOnyenes, things
will be lively as usual, no doubt.
Moreover, it's enough to make the hearts
of hucksters and boarding house keeper.
sing for Joy to see the piles upon piles o
luggage coming from the depots after thu
arrival Of each train. The common herd
have pretty nearly all returned, and ever
celebrities are beginning to make their APP.
pearance on the avenue, sure sign OF IN
creasng business and less stringency in the
money market
One of said celebrities. writer OF note
made her first call, since her return from
the springs, to-day, and condoled with me-
lin truly sympathetic style that SHOULD
have missed all the pleasures she had en-
! loved, Well | did feel little sore that
should be tied down by duty in so uncom
promising a manner; but regret vanished
when | looked my condoler over. True
she had gained flesh and Drowned com
, plexion: but then as a set-oH to these ad
, yantages, she had taken to parting her hal
at the side, and to having little curlicue
q la Conkliug hanging down the middle
of her forehead, proceeding which, whel
q taken in connection with her forty or NOR
5 wears, Heavens wouldn't catch it fine
: ". were she to see this p gave her tn
queerest appearance imaginable, and mad
me fear that the atmosphere at Saratog
cannot be very conducive to keeping one
G brains well balanced.
1t seems strange anyhow that s
many of the pen fraternity should affect a
sorts of oddities. There is Mrs. Alphabe
Southworth, for instance, who looks NOR
like first class lunatic than anything els
d in the world and no wonder, for it one {
her novels is almost sufficient to drive
| person of average intellect wild, what muS
be the effect if taken q, nadSSei
- The public mind of our city seems to b
: no little agitated, just now, on the sublet
of schools and for the last two weeks tn
+ papers have been teeming with the mos
sentimental twaddle, from mothers, c
:. parents" in support of the theory thu
4. children should not be required to stud
out of schoolhours Now, | do not b.
leve myself that excessive study is GOO
g for children, or even desirable in regard
mental development merely but belle'
u that the old saying: There is no roy
y road to learning" holds good now as eve
: and that the teacher has never yet bet
l. born who could transmit knowledge wit
;, out having the cooperation OF his pupils
-" aid him or her in the effort.
IN Besides. if one will only take the trout
k, to keep eyes and ears open while gol
* through our streets, all fear that the
youngsters might fall victims to over stu
will soon vanish. Especially if one Sc
them engaged in one of their almost dal
battles, in which stones and curses of t
IN hardest kind are exchanged with gre
V. spirit and surprising liberality, One ate
al noon | saw myself how a half brick, Sc
by one of these future ruler" on an c
i! rand of argument, scraped acquaintan
Of with colored woman, as she turned
c, corner, in such touching manner that 81
IS grew ash-grey in the face, and turned
:, me with "Fo' de Lawd Miss, desc boys
!" de debbil' own. Where Civil Rights no
| woudah ?"
Well, that style of scholars are, if |
a not mistaken, hardly liable to die of ovt
ed study. Green apples would be more lik
ly to cut them down in their bloom, accor
~ ing to my way Of thinking, and, NOR
m over it is generally the parents of chill
cs rem in the formation of whose heads Il
ID irOat consists of basement only, VIII
the back sports three stories and Fren
j. lroOf, who have the greatest fear OF the I
~ feet of mental eXertion upon their dt
" lings.
IS But space is up aud | must say goo
ls bye, lie NARD.
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