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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-14
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-14

ROCKFORD. ROCK ISLAND q ST. LOUIS E. 3.
GOING SOUTH TRAINS LEAVE
AtS'2e & q and $3.50 p. m.
ARRIVE FROM ST. LOUIS
At sc 6, n. and 900 p. IN.
STERLING TRAINS LEAVE
At 200 a. m. and 500 P. IN
ARRIVE From STERLING
At 7:35 q. ~ and 40 p. IN.
COAL VALLEY KIE,...s;;3 co.'s TRAINS.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
100 A. NJ. lO:oO A.
l2;OOM 1880 P. ID.
WESTERN UNION RAILROAD.
LEAVE ARRIVE
Day Express and Mail. .....S:45 AN 500 Pm
Night Express. ..1O;OU $50
BURLINGTON, CEDAR RAPIDS 4 MIN.
To BuRLINsToN-Le. West Liberty. Ar. W Liberty.
Accommodation 1:UO A NJ II :3S A "
To CEDAR RAPIDS
Accommodation 7:55 Pm 5:35 NJ
INDIANAPOLIS. BLOOMINGTON & WESTERN
Lv. Indianapolis. Ar Peoria.
&C. Mail s. Ex.. 400 :55 M
Peoria. Indianapolis
&C. Mail & Ex.. 7:45 Pm GAO NJ
Cars run through from Peoria to Cincinnati with
out change. Connections made at Indianapolis fol
all points East and South.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-14
Railroad Time Table.
PEORIA b Ro:K ISLAND RAILWAY.

SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE EAST AND SOUTH.
LEAVE, ARRIVE.
Eastern kx. 500 a. m. Mail & Ex 1910 p, m.
Mail Ex. 1'30 p IN. Western Ex 600 p. III.
Way Freight Z rs a. IN. Way Freight 3:25 p. m
Through Fl. $3.50 p m. Through TT. S:15 p. M.
The 500 a. m, train makes close connection at
Peoria with r. p, & w. and T. w & w, for Cincin-
uati, Louisville and all points tast.
The 80 train makes close connection at Galva
with c. B. & q. X. H. for Galesburg and Burlng-
ton, also at Peoria with T. W. & W., T. p, & W. l.
B. & W, and Illinois Midland for points Eaet and
Southeast. Sleeping Coaches on all night trains.
j. X. billiard, Receiver.
JAS. V. MAHoNEY, Gen1. Tk't. Agt
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-14
DIR. RAILWAYS
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
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-14
Kidney & Bladder Complaints

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, stopragc OF water, iucontinence of urine,
Srights disease, albuminuria, and in all cases
Shere there are brck-dust deposits, or the water Is
ahiek cloudy mixed with substances like the white
OF an egg, threads like white silk, or there Is
morbid. dark, bilious appearance and white bone
duet deposits and when there is pricking, burn
ing sensation when passing water, and pain i'll the
small OF the back and along the loins.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
"TlCKETS, SIR !"

This was the way it happened. One Of
the regular attendants at Central Church,
is a railroad conductor. He is regular, not
SO much from any personal inclination for
Calvinism, as from the fact that he has a
first-rate Presbyterian wife who keeps him
in the way he should go. few Sundays
since one of the deacons was absent, and our
conductor was requested to pass the plate.
OF course he consented. For the first dozen
pews everything passed off well. There
was a regular financial shower of nickles
and dimes, and the railroad man watched
sharp, but couldn't see that anybody "got
away without responding. Finally he
came to seat where the occupant was Ell
ther busted or dsinclined, for he shook his
head, but made no attempt on his pocket
The conductor looked at him sharply, but
no cash appeared. Then he nudged his
shoulder, and softly called: "Eicket, sir =
Again the mans head wagged horizontally,
but the stamps didn't come. pass, then y
whispered the conductor. Still no response.
Just as the railroad chap was about to call
up the fireman and brakeman to help pitch
the i,npecunious worshiper out Of doors, the
regular deacon came in, and relieved his
proxy. The conductor says he believes IN
running a church the same way Yen would
a railroad-train. If man won't pay, OF
hasn't pass. let him git.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
EARLY PRINTING IN AMERICA.

The Turitans evidently believed that
free press was necessary to the existence OF
free people Eighteen years after the
landing on the bleak coasts Of New Eng
land the Pilgrim F.thers established the
FIRST printing press on this side of the At
lantic in 1888, and at Cambridge in 1889
the first publication was made by Daye,
and was entitled "9rhe Freeman's Oath"
Daye had been brought over by Joseph
Glover, rich nonconformist preacher, who
also brought with him stock Of printing
material. An old sea captain. one William
Pierce, edited an alGsnac in the same year,
and III the following the Revs. Weld and
Eliot produced "The Psslms Newly Tuned
Into Meter which passed through seven
ty editions in one hundred and fourteen
years, and was also reprinted in England
and Scotland. Some other books of re-
ligious nature were issued, and in 1641 q
book called The Body of Liberty, contain
ing one hundred colonial laws, appeared.
Daye's work was full of typographical er-
rors, but he was superseded by Samuel
Green, mistakenly called the first printer
in America, for we find that Daye obtained
grant for three hundred acres of land in
Massachusetts for "bcing the first who set
up printing
Then comes the poems of Ann Bradstreet,
wife of the Governor, and several other
smaller pious works.
In 1868 Eliot printed the catechism in
the Indian language, and in 1854 the print
ing Of all the laws of the court begun. The
first American edition of the Bible was is
sued in 1861 and 1868.
The first copyright was passed in 1872,
STIMULATING that no printer should print OF
sell any more copies than were agreed up
on, and paid for by the owner, and the next
enactment secured the copyright for seven
years.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
a MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION.

A writer to the London Times writing
from Copenhagen, says:
"a Norwe5 5ian paper is relsting a tale OF
an almost miraculous preservation. The
captain of the schooner Amazon, of Stavan-
Ger, recently arrived at Borgen with a car
60 of salt, reports that in passing the Brit
ish Channel he had the opportunity Of saw
inc a British lad of fifteen under very pecu-
twelve geographical miles from the British
shore when the captain thought he observed
through his telescope something floating on
the water. He altered his course so as II
get nearer, and soon discovered that it was
a small boat, in which a lad was lying fast
asleep.
"The shouting from the schooner did not
awaken him, w when a log was thrown
over into the boat he awoke with a sudden
start; an end of Il line was thrown to HIM,
and he was Just able to fasten it when he
swooned and had to be carried on board the
vessel. In the boat nothing was found but
a pair of oars and Bible. The lad, when
brought back to life and strength by the
tender care shown to him, gave the follow
inc account of his fate: He was sitting on
the shore, reading his Bible, when some Of
his companions CAME down to him and teas
ed him with the manner in which he spent
his leisure time. To escape from their BAN
ter he got into boat and kept on reading,
when suddenly he discovered, to his great
dismay, that his prosecutors had cut the
line and left his frlil boat to the power of
the quick running ebb.
"He tried to use the oars, but struggled
in vain against wind and water, and, rs a
dense fog set in, he soon lost sight of land.
After several hours of alternate struggle
and powerless despair he fell asleep, and
sleep remained in fact his only comfort
against hunger, cold, and the deep pangs of
his isolation during the three days and two
nights which he had spent in his frail boat
when he was at last seen and saved I'm
happily, neither the name of the lad nor of
the place where his parents live is given,
but that will, suppose, not be difficult to
get at when the fact obtains your wide pub
licity. The name of the captain Of the Am
azon is Thompson"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
sAGACfTY OF TIE PARTRIDGE.

Instances of the aglcity Of the partridge.
woodcock, and other birds have often been
related. But themost SIN sulir illustration
of the deception practiced by the first OF
these willy species to protect their young Is
given by Mr.. Henshaw, of the Government
Survey west of the one hundredth meridian.
While riding through pine woods, a brood
of partridges, continuing the mother and
eight or ten of about week old, was come
upon so suddenly that the feet of the fore
most mule almost trod on them. The young
rose, flew few yards, and, dropping down,
were in an instant hid in the und.rbrush.
The mother meanwhile began some very
peculiar tactics. Rising up, she fell back
again to the ground as if perfectly helpless,
and initiated the actions of wounded bird
30 successfully that for q moment it was
thought she had really been trodden upon.
Several of the men, completely deceived,
attempted to catch her, but she huttered
away, keeping just out of reach of their
hands until they had been enticed ten OF
twelve yards off, when she rose and was off
like a bullet Her tactics had successfully
covered the retire vt OF her young.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
ELEPHANT LABOREItS.

1t would be too long to relate all the uses
to which elephants are applied in Burmah.
Let us watch them at work among the
woodyards where the trunks of lockwood
tree, which come floating down the river, are
piled. Every working elephant is mounted
by q driver called "cornac,' whose prin-
cipal business is rather to excite the ami
NAL than to direct it. -f
In the season when the roads are cut, the
trunks come down the bar much faster
than they can be disposed of in the saw
mills, and they accumulate in vast qnanti-
ties all along the banks. 1t is necessary,
therefore, to drag the trees out of the wa
ter and arrange them in piles until such
time as they can be cut up. There are on
ly three ssrts of piles, varying with the
size Of the trees. First an elephant in the
water clears the logs from the mass and
rs,nges them one by one upon the river
bank He carefully examines the chaos of
logs and proceeds with tusks and trunk to-
thsengage the tree he has selected and
which he intends to carry to land. As
soon as the tree is placed on the bank
another elephant is harnessed to it and
drags it to the woodward, where he leaves
it. Two other elephants now come up, and
one of them takes one end Of the log upon
his trunk and drags it to the pile upon
which, in view of its size, it ought to be
placed, while his companion assists him by
pushing the log with all his might. As
soon as they reach the proper pile the first
elephant lifts the top of the log upon the
rile then he forms a kind Of ring around
the log with his trunk, while the other with
vigorous blow of his head shoots the log
INTO it's place. The intelligence displayed
by these animals is almost incredible, and
we should scarcely have believed it if we
had not seen their movements as described
above.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
REMARKABLY ARTESIAN WELLN

One Of the most remarkable arteslan
wells of our own time (slys the Gdrden) IS
that of Gronelle, in the Paris basin. 1t
was undertaken in 1884, up to which time
no successful artesian sinking had reached
q greater depth than about 1000 feet, 1t
was calculated that the water-bearins stra-
tum sought would be reached at depth Of
I.5OO feet; but that was not deep enough.
The boring continued, with intervals, until
lS4l. when on the 26th of February. the
boring-rod was observed to descend sudden
IL several yards. In a few hours the water
reached the surface, eventually rushing up
with immense violence, mixed with sand
and mud But the sand and mud soon
ceased, leaving magnificent flow of pure
water. which has continued over since. A
high tower is erected, and the water rises
through pipes with sustained force and vol
ume. to the reservoir ut the top, at the rate
Of fully half a million gallons per day
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
THE COMING AGE.

A well know speaker said in recent
speech that the time was coming when we
might communicate instantly with San
Francisco without wire or operator The
audience laughed at him. Perhaps his
statement is not so extravagant as 1t SEEM
ed. Had the ordinary work now done by
the magnetic telegraph been predicted forty
years ago, it would have been received with
the same incredulity. The truth is that
science, like politics and love, always devel-
ops in unexpected directions. Modern SCI
ence is paradox. Water, which was al
ways considered the most incombustIble
matter in nature, produces the greatest
heat known. Watch springs burn like
pitch. The chemist prepares delicate mus
lin SO that it can be cleansed by fire. Ar
senic is prescribed for dangerous diseases,
Frozen feet are saved by plunging them in
to snow. Children are told to keep away
from iron during thunderstorm, yet
hardware stores are never struck by hight
ming. Persons suffering from hydrophobia
90 into commissions at the sight Of water.
A French physician, however, has cured tif-
ty cases of this malady with hot baths. An
editor of New York newspaper lost his
sight until surgeon put knife into his
eyeballs, whereupon the man recovered and
went about his work. The widest imagin-
alton is unable to predict the discoveries OF
7 the future. Fer all we know, families in
the next century may pump fuel from the
river, and illuminate their houses with ice
and electricity. Iron vessels, properly
magnetized, may sail through the mir like
balloons. An intelligent farmer may turn
the soil of a thousand acres in day.
American grain may be shot into Liverpool
and Calcutta through iron pipes laid under
the sea. By means Of CONDENSED air and
cold vapor engines, excursion parties may
travel along the floor of the ocean, sailing
past ancient wrecks and mountains of coral.
In those coming days our present mode o.
telegraphy will be cllssel with the wooden
ploughs of Egypt, and the people will look
back to steamships end locomotives, as we
do now look buck to sail-boats and stage
coaches.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
ORIGIN OF THE GOD HYMEH.

Danchet, the French poet, tells lis, re-
gpectinn the deifcation of Hymen, that he
was a young man Of Athens, obscureiy born,
but extremely handsome. Falling IN love
with a young lady of distinction, he disguis-
ed himself in a female habit, in order to
Get access to her and enjoy the pleasure of
her company. As he happened to be one
day in this disguise with his mistress and
her female companions, celebrating on the
seashore the rites of Ceres Eleusina, Il gang
of pirates came upon them by surprise and
carried them all off. The pirates, having
convened them to a distlnt island, got
drunk for JOY, and fell asleep. Hymen
seized his opportunity, armed the virgins,
and dispatched the pirats s; after which,
leaving the ladies on the island, he went
in haste to Athens, where he told his ad-
venture to all the so ents, and demanded
her he loved in mais fye as her ransom.
His request was grfls y and so fortunate
was the marriage, thss essntmc OF Hymen
was ever afterward invoked in all future
nuptials, and in progress of time the%ireeks
enrolled him among their gods.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
THE SLANG THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

Gamblers of every grade, says a con-
temporary, have their slang terms to con-
vey to the initiated just what they mean
and however blind it may be to the unini-
tiated, it is perfectly ineligible to those
possessed of the high civilization () ne
ccssary to "manipulate stocks.' -Four dif-
ferent forms of contracts are known under
the general term of stock privileges The
"put'' and cali are single privileges.
"straddle" and spread are double prvi-
leges put" is a contract giving the
holder the right of delivering certain
amount of stock within definite time at q
stipulated price. A ''call" is exactly the
reverse of "put," being a contract giving
the holder the right of calling for the stock
instead Of delivering it, double privi-
lege is put and cali on the same
stock in one contract. When a double
privilege is drawn at the market price of
the stock, it is called ''straddle," and
costs from two and half to five per cent.
premium. But when drawn at distance
of from one or two and Il half per cent.
above and below the market price, it is
called a spread for which a fixed prem
ium of two per cent. is paid. The distance
rom the market at which a spread is
drawn depends on the class OF stock and
the activity of the mlrket.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
A NEW FUEL.

The proposition to superseae coal by the
use of carbonic gas extracted from chalk
has been subjected to Il practical test by its
inventor, and with very satisfactory results.
Extracted and applied to anthracite, it pro
duces strong fame and heat. and at 80
slow rate of combustion that a good fire
was maintained for twenty-nine hours IN a
furnace which heats a church with only tif-
ty-six pounds of anthracite and an equal
nuantity of chalk mixed with it during that
tine During the last twenty-four hours,
moreover, the fire was untouched. Through
the aid of this remarkable property Of chalk
the Ignite known as shale may be used for
the production of an illuminating gas to an
extent which will appear incredible. Even
the coarsest clay Of this singular formation
is full of gas, and the experiments made IN
England, though imperfect, show that one
toa of this substance, together with due
proportion of chalk, will yield us large an
amount of gas as eight tons OF ordinary
coal From these tests the inventor argues
that London will be warm "a aud lighted at
fifty per cent. cheaper rate; that 'le
smoke, dust and other nuisance might be
abolished; that every good-sized country
house and every village might be lighted
with gas; and the kitchen fire, with some
slight alteration in the CRATE, might supply
the house with light, Finally, Ignite and
anthracite Lo.s would Become valuable
property, and ch.lk would be exported as
coal Is now The English papers say
that the prospect seems almost too good to
be true
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11

Thcr, a.. Did reessre
A sea-view from IN. ~ .as',s,
Which ever to me doth recall
Sweet memories OF a tar-of land.
brought II with me DER the sea
Many, aye many year ago,
When sought the land where liberty
Made cen the poor mans heart aglow.
With fortunes smiles l have been blest,
own my houses and my lands,
know that the wealth which is the best
Is earned by labor's willing hands.
But among the dearest things prize
Is this old picture on the wall;
1t looks at me with loving eyes
And tender grace oerspreads it all.
1t minds me OF a time when we
One summer evening rambled, where
We saw the moonbeams kiss the sea,
While the breath of clover filed the air.
Toward the land OF the lofty pine
We saw the great ships saiiing away,
And hope grew in her breast and mine,
A hope to reach that land some day.
Fullilment Crowned our hope, ana we
Have in that land lived many year,
Our lives have passed most happily.
Our ewes have seldom felt a tear.
And now when we review the past
And ,nany memories recall,
The sweetest memory round us cast
Comes through that picture on the wall.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
A SUICIDAL SCORPION.

The statement that scorpion, when
lriven to bay by its enemies and unable to
escape, will kill itself by blow from its
genomous sting has usually been regarded
IS rather mythical. A well attes.ed in
stance, however, of the suicide of the in
insect has lately been published by DIR. de
Bellesme. The writer states that, having
zlptured scorpion, he converged the rays
Of the sun on its back by means of q burn
ing glass. The insect became furiously en-
ragged, and finally raised its sting and
struck itself, dying within half a minute
.fterward.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
SINGULAR MArHEMATICAL FACT.

Any number Of figures you may wish 70 %
multiply by will give the same result II
divided by "a much quicker operation ;
b.t YOU must remember to annex a cipher
to the answer, whenever there is no remain
der, and when there is remainder what
ever it may be. annex a five to the answer
Multiply 464 by five and the answer VIII De
1920; dividing the same number by and
you have 2s2, and, as there is no remain,
der, you add cipher. Now take S57' and
multiply by S; there is l,7So. Divide the
same number by 2, and you have l7S and
remainder, you therefcro place 5 at tns
end Of the line, and the result IS aga'r
l,785.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11

An Akron physician tells us OF little
Akron boy who comersto him and said !:
doctor, want some ipecac." What do
YOU want it for?" Never mind, just give
it to me-" 'sWho sent you here?" "Nc-
body sent me- come myself 81 can't let
YOU have it unless you tell me what you
are going to do with it.'' ."Well, Doctor,
our hired girl has swallowed a silver quar-
ter, and she said that if would give her
something that would bring it up l might
bava II "
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
THE TELESCOPE.

The principles of the telescope were DIS
covered Ly children while playing with
spectacles. The theory was Afterwards de-
monstrated by Galileo, who .construc1eo d
telescope magn;fying thirty-three times
and with which he made the Astronomical
discoveries whicl, immortalized his name.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11

In the San Francisco Jail is girl only
sixteen wears old. She is excessively shy
and demure, bushes wlseH looked at by
visitors, and faints wiaea dfunkards are
brought bleeding and yelling into the
nr;son Her face is delicaIshnd express
siye Of retiring modesfy and gentleness.
Her Her name is Annette Giliiard, and she is
awaiting trial for stabbing man four times
with q BIG butcher knife, and then smash
ing his skull with q brick.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
The 8rookharen ged9er.
Advertising Rates.

One square, first insertion. 81 80, each
subsequent insertion 70 cents.
One square one year, Slo; two squares
one year. So.
One-fourth column one year $50; one =
half column one year SlD.
One column one year $lSe.
Local Notices twenty cents line.
the space occupied by square is oDs
inch.
Marriage notices and deaths, not ex-
ceeding six lines, published free. All
over six lines charged FOR at regular ad-
veriiSiDg rates.