The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-05
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Sign of indigestien--"Gone to dinner;
be back in five minutes. L
What is life without a lover? An
swer by young lady-'Nix, squeeze me
When is wife like a great-coat ?-lt
When her husband is wrapped up in her.
How Patrick proposes to get over his
single blessedness-by proposing to Bridge
it. Il
The big store, formerly occupied by
Nusbaum, has been rented to Chicago
clothing house
The city council adjourned to Wednes-
day evening of next week, to consider the
propositions for building bridge.
IT'S naught when woman humbugs man,
For that's the good old style;
But. oh mans confidence in man,
Makes countless thousands smile.
Among the attorneys attending court
here are Hon. Charles Durham and Hon. |
Geo. E. Wait, Of Geneseo. who are at the !
Harper House.
| A teetotaler asked Pat if he ever saw
Ia teetotaler drunk. Och u was the re-
ply, I've seen many man drunk, but L
couldn't tell whether he was a teetotaler
or not,
! The board of trustees Of the Broad
way Presbyterian chuch organized by elect
ing ID. I. Robinson as chairman, S. j.
Keator secretary, and VIM. II. Truesdale
treasurer.
4 The city council of Efingham, Ill. has
passed an ordinance prohibiting boys and
young men of less than q years from run
ming at large in the streets after 8 o'clock
in the evening.
-Teamsters should be careful and not
run wheels Of heavily loaded carts, wagons
or drays into recently filed trenches-the
ground is soft and they may get stalled or
injure their wheels.
The Omaha train was six hours late,
again, this morning, having waited for the
Z. 2. A train was made up here for Chi
cage, on time Passengers from the west
can go on tonight.
We are requested to state that the
number of young boys who were enrolled a
week ago in st. Marguerite's Temperance
society, was siIty in place of Sirteen as
first reported.-Dau. Dem.
j. Trainor King, formerly publisher of
Democratic paper at Muscatine and at
LeClaire, Ia son-in-law of Capt. James
, May is now publishing paper at Harris
burg, Pa, called Days Da,O,s. ,Ea1
-"An advertisement for dry-goods
clerk reads Wanted young man to
be partly outdoor and partly behind the
s counter" 1t doesn't specify what part
r OF the young man is to be outdoor,
Mr.. Schenck is our authority for stat
e ing that man may drink and yet not be a
gambler. That is to say, he may imbibe
until his face is red, and still rest under
no imputation of having filled to a
flush"
"A commencement of the case of Sophia
!. G. Vanlandschoot VS. The City Of Rock ISL
! and, for injuries alleged to have been re-
= ceived by falling from wagon, was COM
= menced to-day. The Brown and Weir
cases were before the grand jury.
d "A man out west who married wild
Is ow has invented device to cure her of
8 externally" praising her former husband.
h Whenever she begins to descant on his
}, noble qualities, this ingenious No, 2 mere
,e ly says: Poor dear mani How | wish
is he had not died p
If the spelling mania isn't cured soon,
our whole social fabric will tumble, He's
a nice sort of boy" said a young lady
\ yesterday. as she rolled up his photograph
and engagement ring for returning them,
but no we'll brought up girl can be ex,
pected to cling to man who spells con-
tectionery with an a.
AT the city council meeting Monday
evening Aid. Wolenhaupt asked CHIEF
Kennedy what amount ought be appropri
ated for expenses and refreshments at fire
review. Mr.. Kennedy said $3.50. Aid
Butler moved to appropriate $3.50. Aid
s. Mosenfelder moved to amend, making il
r. 5000, which last amount was appropriated
= p "A fine new school house has beer
9 erected in the rear of St. Mary's church
- Rock River and Dock streets) and tn,
ladies and gentleman of that parish are 90
ing to hold fair and festival in Dart.
It Hall on the evening of Saturday, May II
for the benefit of the new school connected
with the church. Their former festival
have been very successful and we hop
DO this one will eclipse their former efforts.
X Pray, madam, what do you charg
h tor recovering an umbrella?" said Mich
" ael O'Flaherty, from Tipperary, the othe
- day walking into an umbrella shop. lie
H. me see it, was the reply, 'Ah, faith
y, and that s just what want to do; for w
e. lost one, and | see you offer to re-cove
De them at very small charge, so wa
s. just thinking would get you to re-cove
OF mine.
u, AT the council meeting on Monda,
y" evening an ordinance was offered authoriz
ing the Peoria R. r. Co. 70 put down
temporary sidetrack to the site of the oil
" distillery, Nearly the entire distance il
OF over ground belonging to Mayor Daven
port, and he remarked that he would Civ
permission to run over his land 1t would
probably induce the building of distilery
saw mills and other industrial institution
I'd if freight could be taken or delivered a
their doors.
=. An old fashioned couple who wer
''' waiting at the Central depot recently t.
. continues their journey westward, wer
stroling up Third street and gazing
or around, when the woman espied one of tn
street cars of the city railway line. whicl
200 happened to be empty at the moment
1877 That's boss car. replied her husban,
81 to her query. so that's boss car, eh ?
ng She unused, mounting the step and looking
in. We'll, now, who'd ever think tina
,aa they'd go and fix up cars as nice as this t
s. ride bosses in ?--Free Press.
q Enamelled pipe is superior to lead pip,
2i for water-tanks.
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