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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
LOCAL COLUMN.
IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS.

TO TRAVELLERS.
When you visit or leave the City Of NEW YORK,
save annoyance and expense Of carriage hire and
GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT. 1t has over $50 elegantly
furnished rooms and is htted up at an expense Of
over $500 900. Elevator, steam and oil modern Inn
provements. European Plan. The RESTAUR-
ANTS, Lunch Counter and Wine Rooms are sup
piled with the best the market can furnish. The
cuisine is unsurpassed. Rooms for single person,
so and 81 Ler day rich suites for families pro-
portionatey low, SO that visitors to the city and
travellers can live more luxuriousy for less money,
at the GkAND UNION, than at any other first
class Hote. n the city. Stages and Cars pass the
Hotel every minute for all parts of the City.
g. & W. d. GARRISON, Managers
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
HAIR DYE.

BATCHEL OR'S CELEBRATED HAIR DYE,
best in the world. The inven or has used this
splended Hair Dive for 81 years with benefit to the
hair and no injury to his health; proof hat it Is
the only true and perfect Dye, Harmless, reliable
instantaneous. No disappointment; no ridiculous
tnts: remedies the ill effects of bad dyes; leaves
the hair soft and beautiful Black ur Brown Sold
and properly applied aC BACHELORS Wig Fac
tory, No. i6 Bond street, N, Y. Sold by all drug
gists.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
ACME, WIS.

I BB s; = Il :; s;
AYu IS; !: !; ::
ingty taking inducements, re
nNnTHTMuef quirlng only intelligence and
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HEtNE iii HIN or old, of either sex, to make
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ness for themselves. We have the most agents and
do the largest business in our line. We have right
to exclusive territory furnish the best tools work
with, give the largest cash pay. Book AGENTS and
all experienced agents find the business we furnish,
decidedly The most profitable. Everybody can
make money. Send yous name and address at once
for circulars terms, etc. AGENTS matter what
you doing, send to us for particulars. Address
WATERS d TINKER. Publishers. Chicago, Ill.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03

Strong and Pure Rich Blood-Increase of Flesh
and Weight-Clear Skin and Beautiful
Complexion secured to all,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
Dissolution Notice.

NOTICE Is hereby given :hat the firm of Gait
~ olaisdeli & Smith is this day dissolved by mu
tual consent.
The business will hereafter be conducted in the
name of Calf & Blaisdell, by whom all liabilities
will be settled and to whom all debts owing tn,
old firm must be paid
1dst GAIT, BLAISDELL & SMITH.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
The Neat Housekeepers'

cTOVE DRESSING. NO DUST! NO SMELL,
= ALWAYS soft and ready for use without dish
1t will do more work with less labor and expenso
and give more elegant and lasting lustre. than any
STOVE POLISH ever produced. A stove can be dress
ed on delicate carpet without soiling 1t. Mann
factured only by 8. F. BROWN & CO., Boston
Mass
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
Kidney & Bladder Complaints

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, stopnage OF water incontinence OF urine,
Brghts disease, albuminuria, and In all cases
where there are brickdust deposits the water l.
thick cloudy, mixed with substances like the white
of an egg, threads like white silk, or there ts
morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white bone
duet deposits and when there is prickiug, burn
ing sensation when passing water, and pain in the
small OF the back ana along the loins.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
DIR. RADwAY'S y
Sarsaparillian ResOlvent

Has, made the most Astonishing Cures =.
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Weight
Is Seen and Felt.
The Great Blood Purifier.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
Tumor of Twelve Years Growth Cured
by Railways Resolvent.

BEVERLY, Mass, July rs, 1860.
DIR. RADwAY:-I have had ovarian tumor in the
was no help for it." 1 tried everything that wac
recommended. but nothing helped me. i saw your
Resolvent, aud thought wonld try 10; but had nc
faith in it. because uad suffered for twelve ye
took six bottles OF the Rcsolvent and one box oi
Railways Pills, and two bottles Of your Ready Re
lief and there Is not sign OF tumor to be seen o
felt and feel better, smarter and happier than
have for twelve years The worst tumOr was in The
left side Of the bowels, over the groin write thin
10 you for the benefit Of Others. You can publish
Il n you choose.
HANNAH p. KNAPP.
PRICE 81 PER BOTTLE.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-03
FEVER ANE AGUE.

Fever aud Ague cured for fifty cents. There Is
not remedial agent in the world that will cure
lever and ague, and all other malarious, bilious,
scarlet typhoid. yellow and other fevers (aided by
Railways Pills. so quick as Railways Ready Relief
Fifty cents per Bottle.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
A Crazy Horse Breeder.

There resides in the town Of Kinder
hook, n. Y, an old man aged eighty
years, who owned a few years ago large
farm land we believe two),' and was con-
sidered wealthy and prosperous farmer.
About twenty Years ago he had one colt,
for which he expected to receive a large
sum, but the price not being forthcoming
the stallion was placed in the stable where
he still remains, being now tw, nty-four
years old, with two other stations, one
aged sixteen years and the other eleven
Years.
These animals during their lifetimeha
been out of the stables but few times,
and during the past five years have not
seen open daylight. During all seasons
of the year, hot or cold, these animals
have stood at the racks eating nothing but
hay or straw, and drinking water OCCASION
ally. They have not been permitted to
breathe fresh air or straighten out their
limbs over the ground or the fields during
that time. Never being groomed their
hair became long, and their skins filled
with hayseed which fell from the hay
NOW and with dust.
No doubt the horses would have re-
manned there until relieved by death had
not gentleman named Gray from Ohio
induced the old man to let one Of them
" go west" This, horse, when taken from
the stable, was greatly deformed aboHt
his feet. His hoofs, which had never been
handled by blacksmith, had grown to
to the extraordinary length OF ten inches,
and, In fact, curled over SO that the horse
walked on the heels of his forward feet
and above the hoof. This horse was led
to the blacksmith shop last week. where
his feet were pared down and shod. The
excitement occasioned at the shop where
he was shod drew together a crowd OF
about 400 persons.-Hxdso1 Register.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
ConsanguineOus Marriages.

The work of Ribot on " Heredity'' has
been translated from the French and pub
lished in London. This author takes the
view in regard to consanguineOus mar
risges, that as the tendency of hereditary is
to reproduce the whole being of the parent
such marriages will not be harmful if the
parents enjoy perfect health. But if the
parents have morbid predispOsitio. as OF a
similar kind, and such predispOsitions II
present would be likely to be similar in
persons nearly related by blood, the re-
suit upon the offspring will be the pro-
duciiOn of an intensified disposition OF
this sort. He therefore agrees with Qua
rcfages in thinking that the union Of
blood relations is not necessarily hurtful,
butt often becomes so, and should on
that account be avoided. Like all writers
on the subject he perceives the possibility
of improving the human race by proper
selection Of parents; but like all others
too, he cannot imagine a way to bring 1t
about. AS one proof of actual develop
ment he quotes the comparison OF French
skulls, ancient and modern, given by Bro
car, Those of the twelfth century, taken
from the old crypt of Saint Barthelemi in
Paris, had a mean capacity OF S4,1H cubic
inches Those from the Cimetiere des
Innocents, dating from the thirteenth to
the eighteenth centuries, had mean ca
pacity of 1888 cubic inches. Finally
those of the nineteeth century have a
mean capacity of Sc 901 cubic inches,
showing an increase.-JtHe GALAXY.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
At the Opera in Berlin.

In the private royal box the kindly face
of the emperor can be seen behind the
half drawn screen. The empress sits OPP
posite to him in a rich black silk, corded
and faced with white. Princess Karl is in
her usual seat, wearing heavy white silk,
decOllete and short sleeves, a thick wreath
OF green leaves encircling her gray hair
rather trying costume for a person OF
sixty-six years-but her pleasant mother
ly face makes ore forget all the incongrul-
ties of her toilet. She is accompanied by
Prince Herman, from SAKE Weimar, and
his son, a young sprig of royalty in blue
hussar uniform, strapped with white,
whose fiaxen hair, beardless chin and Os-
tentatious manner, pronounced him at
once a petted member of rural court.
The central royal box is full of court La
dies. Scattered among the audience are to
be seen here and there those who create
and destroy an Immense amount OF fame.
De Engel, the great singing teacher for
merly of the Kullok conservatory, now of
the Z" "Kechshule," will give Us candid
Judgment in the Vassischtr Zeltung.
Richard Wuerst will be a trifie more crit-
cal in the Tsemden BLatt. Others, whose
Judgment is not so reliable, are ready to
praise and criticise indiscrimiDately. Near
me sits Stockhausen, the famous barytone,
with his wife and favorite scholar, who
probably at some future day will enchant
the Americans with his grand bass voice,
and astonish them with his magnificent
physique. Herr Ellenblatt is a Swede,
and Splendid specimen of manly power.
His great head Of curling, flaxen locks re-
minds one of representations of the Olym-
plan Jove, and his broad chest gives full
evidence of a perfect register of musical
notes -CincinratI GdSeftS
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
James Lick Sued for $4,000 for Med.
zeal Services.

4. L. Stewart, John Jacob Astor, or
some other magnified trade dollar, Is cred
tied with saying that Notwithstanding the
possession of unrecksned millions, all he
got from his wealth was board and lOdg-
ing. California's greatest philanthropist,
James Lick, goes the maker of this extra
ordinary confession one better. Although
Mr. Lick has the millions, he has gone
tick for his board and lodging. and relieved
his wealth of the drain. This, at least, is
the statement of DR.. Frederic Zeile, who,
on Tuesday. commenced suit In Judge
Wheeler's court to recover sos 600. DR..
Zeile sets forth that for the past twenty
two years he has been Mr.. Lick's medical
man, and during that time he has attended
the philanthropist in his numerous ILL.,
nesses, prescribing for him and furnishing
nurses. During these twenty-five years
DR.. Zeile has kept on Pacific Street hos
pital, where Mr.. Lick has remained for
various periods, making in the aggregate
about twelve months, and always at the
doctors expense. The complaining ply
sician has also on sundTy occasions taken
journeys to Santa Clara TO patch up the
body of his millionaire patient, but most
of his services have been performed during
the past two years. DIR. Zeile considers
that his professional services during the
last named period were reasonably worth
$4,000, and that his previous services can
not be estimated at any figure lower than
that. The bill for board and lodging DIR.
Zeile places at So, 600, making the amount
due him amount to S55,0 ,0O0. The plaintiff
further states that he has never received
any compensation from Mr.. Lick, who,
although frequently and repeatedly re-
quested to fork over, has contumaciously
and illegally refused to pay the bill or any
part thereof, to the great grief and injury
of the plaintiff. Mr.. Lick claims. as par
tial set off against this indebtedness, that
the Doctor is indebted to him for the use
and occupation of small slip of ground
about twenty-five feet wide by 100 feet
long, situated on the block bounded by
Pacific jackson and Montgomery Streets
and Montgomery Avenue. The Doctor
AYERS that the value of such occupation,
for the whole period of twenty-five years,
is not more than $1,000, wherefore he
prays the honorable court TO apply the
legal forceps to the golden jaw of Mr..
Lick, and extract therefrom a $4,000
tooth for his, the plaintiffs solace and
| aomfort -0o,, E,,0nniec,, (hrOuicLe
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
A BOaster Yanquished.

Yesterday a small weazen-faced man
attracted large crowd of idlers by walk
ing to and fro along Taylo Street, with a
piece of pasteboard suspended from his
neck. On the pastebOard these words
were badly inscribed: 9 kin whip any
man me size, barrin Bill Higgins. -" The
reason of this hostile announcement was
not vouched; there was no disposition on
the part of the crowd to test the force OF
the challenge, and the wearer of the plac-
ard preserved a rigid silence. But at last,
Barry Monaghan appeared. He was go
ing home from work. with stick OF pine
wood over his shoulder, when his eye
caught a glimpse of the warlike sign.
He slowly spelled each word, and ponder
ed deeply upon the rudely-inscribed syl-
tables. Then he laid down his pine-wOOd
stick. and, advancing within arms length
of the weaZen- faced man. said, . I on kin
whip any man?'' % 1 KIM" was the answer
"Barrin' Bill Higgins; he's me BROTH
er-in-law, and | caX't whip him. 4" Kin
YOU whip me?" Il kim" Both
men spat upon their hands. The
crowd drew back, apparently thrilled with
excitement at the prospect of a conflict be-
tween two such heroes. Barry first came
to the scratch. He doubled up his fist,
and shouting, "LoOk out, now, or I'll
black your eyel" let out in vigorous style.
His threat was fulfilled. With sounding
thud his brawny fist landed upon the
weazen-faced mans right optic and sent
him to the ground. Barry was about to
repeat the operation, when the crowd in
terposed. The weazen-iaced man, too,
acknowledging that he was beaten, calmed
his anger, and Barry, shouldering his
pine stick, trudged homeward. The man
with the banner also walked off. He is
said to be slightly troubled in the head y
and when under the influence of liquor
inclined to boast Of his cOurage.-San
Francisco Bulletin.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
Story Of the Big Squash.


The big squash of Amherst Agricl ltural
College Farm. which grew so stoutly that
it burst several iron cages, and finally
lifted 4, ,120 pounds (and of which plaster
cast is preserved). had enough roots un-
derground to feed it for its herculean
work. The squash vine was washed out
with its roots by the continued use of a
garden hose for twenty-four hours, and
the whole root system was spread out On
a floor and carefully measured. The
main branch was twelve or fifteen feet
long, and aggregated some 1000. One OF
the seventy modal roots, four feet long,
had 4S0 branches, and a most careful esti-
mate of the ramifications of the rootlet
ba- ed upon the actual measurement OF the
division, showed that the squash vine had
between fifteen and nineteen miles OF
roots. Reckoning the number of days 1t
had been growing (tifty-two), was found
that il must have been on an average oil
one thousand feet per day, and on favora-
BILE DAYS about two thousand feet. Col.
Clark, the President of the Agricultural
College, SAYS that while this growth was
going on, and the big squash was expand
ing and liftingits enormous burden, great
drops of sweat stood all over its rough
rid, proving that it telt the great task
imuosed mon it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
Leatherette.

Many attempts have been made to sup
ply material 10 take the place OF leather
on cheap books, but hitherto nothing has
been quite successful. Cloth held out
many advantages, aud, until something
could be produced so cheap as that, but
with softer and more leathery surface,
there would be no advantage in making
change. Such material has apparently
appeared in the form of 6 Leatherette, =
which is kind of felted paper, very
tough, the same color throughout, and
which may be grained TO initiate leather
indeed, the imitation is so close. both IN
appearance and in feel, that only prac-
ticedeye can perceive that il is not leather.
The cost is said 10 be one-eigHth OF tnal
of leather, 1t is supplied in sheets, thirty
inches by twenty inches, and there Is no
waste, and it can be cut in the guillotine
machine. Another advantage is, IL Is
waterproof.-LordoH BookssLteT.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
About the Hair.


Men become baldi Why? Because they
wear close hats and caps. Women are
never bald. Sometimes, from iong-c9n-
tinued headache, heat in the scalp. bad
hair-dressing and some other causes. wo-
men may have bare spots here and there /;
but with all these combined, you never
see woman with bare, shiny, bald
head And you never see a man lose a
hair below where the hat touches the
skull, 1t will take it off as clean as you
can shave it down to exactly that hne, but
never hair below, not If he IA been bald
fifty years. The common black stiff hat,
As impervious as sheet iron, retains the
heat and perspirasiOn. The little hair
glands, which bear the same relation to
the hair that the seed wheat does to the
plant above ground, bt come weak from
the presence of the moisture and heat, and
finally become too weak TO sustain the
hair. 1t falls out, and badness exists. A
fur cap we have known to produce COM
plete badness in single winter. A man
with good head of hair needs very little
protection where the hair grows. Women
who live much within doors, and who are,
therefore, susceptible to the cold, oil their
hair and plaster it down bard and fat
upon their skulls, so as to destroy nine
tenths of It's power as a snon-conductor,
have worn for years postage stamps of
bonnets stuck on the back OF their skulls,
and then, going out of furnace heated par
lars, have ridden for hours in a very cold
temperature without taking cold and with
out complaint.
Man, with his greater vigor and habits
of outdoor life, and with his hair net
plastered down, but thrown UP loose and
light, could no doubt go to the north pole,
So far as that part OF his person is con-
cerned, without any artificial covering.
And yet we men wear immensely thick
fur caps, and do not dare to step out into
a chilly atmosphere moment lest we
take cold. 1t is SILLY, weak and really
serious error. The Creator knew what he
was about when he covered mans skull
with hair. 1t has a very important func-
ton in protecting the brain. Badness is
a serious misfortune. 1t will never occur
in any man who will wear q common
black high silk hat with five hundred holes
through the top, so that there shall be
more hole than hat. This costs nothing !;
the halter will do this for you when you
purchase your hat. If the nap be eombed
back the wrong way, and after the holes
are made it be cembed the right way, no
one will observe the PECULIARLY. The hat
will wear quite as long the hatters say
considerable lOnger-because it is dry in
stead of moist; in brief. there is not a
single objection to it, while it will GER
tainly prevent badness and keep the top
of the head cool and prevent much head
aoha
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
WATCHING AND WAITING.

FROM my upper window, at the close Of day,
Sadly watching passers on their homeward way,
Sadly, sweetly thinking OF the Joy and glee
When one cane, my babies, home 70 you aud
mel t.
In the dusk, with faces close against the pane,
Peered we through the starlight, snow, or sum-
mer rain,
Happy hearts and faces watching through the
gloom
For the blessed footstep that was sure to come.
Harki hear its echo, babies mine, once morei
Hear the latch key turning in the opening door!
Prom my knee you're springing fearless in the
gloom,
While flood with radiance all the darken'd ROOM
swift you iy TO meet him, open wide the door,
Closely are we gathered to his heart once more.
Tender kiss and blessing greet your childish glee,
But the warmest, babies, always was for mel
Fast my tears are falling DER the memory sweet,
While catch the ecaO still Of passing feet;
But through summer starlight or through wintry
rain
Never, o my babies, viii he GENE again!
We are now the wanderers in the dusk and gloom
lie the one that's waiting in the happy home.
From his upper window, though we may n OF see,
He's watching. o my babies, TO welcome you and
me.
-HGrper's for June.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
a e'.4S MILAN, GIBSON COUNTY,

doors all winter. II makes ones head
dizzy to see how they do things in Ca.ifor-
mia in harvest.
The more careful farmer harvests his
grain with a reaper. and binds it into
sheaves. In the hot aud dry interior the
straw is too brittle to be bound BY day. so
you shall sometimes see John Clinanian
binding wheat al night long by the light
of the moon and the stars, and sleeping
by day in a dirty tent or underneath a
spreading oak, perfectly secure from rain.
The ranehman's house is generally too
smsll for this sudden host of laborers,
quite small enough for himself and his
family, and the wOrkmen sleep outdoors,
like BOaz, at the end of the heap of corn,
wrapped in their gray California blankets.
] Usually the grain is sacked and lett in
the open field fer months together, with
out fear of rain or thieves. BY and by it
accumu'a ates around the little country de-
pois. corded up in quarter-acres and half
acres. For month after month immense
trains of platform are rolling down
to the bay with this gorge and plethora OF
wheat, and frequently the rainy season
begins befo, e it is all reinoved.-Stephen
Po1ueTs in June Atlantic