The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-05
The @9ailg Argus,
NOTES EEsE AND THERE


Hint to young bachelors: Pay your
bills before you pay your addresses.
There was once a woman perfectly
satisfied with the house she lived in, but
she's dead.
What's that on your back?' once
asked a London cockney Of hump backed
Yankee sailor on a ship IN the London
docks. Bunker Hill. d-n vel" was the
brief reply.
1t is said that The bite of young lady
will produce hydrophobia, but the fellow
Dangling over gates o'night are as reck-
less as ever.
The Detroit baby who swallowed his
sisters string of one hundred and fifty
buttons is supposed to have nearly as
much horn in his system as Texas steer.
Deaf and dumb girls in Missouri have
as many rights as any other girl, and they
insist on being spanked Sunday nights.
It's dumb quiet spark for the fellow.
"A Pious minister in South Carolina
but great believer in certain weather
signs, was asked to petition the throne of
grace tor refreshing showers. He replied;
My friends, will do so, but it is not going
to rain till the moon changes.
Little four-year- old Carrie went with
her aunt to church. The preacher was
very earnest in his delivery, and she was
much interested. Il have heard such
smart minister. He stampt and pounded,
and made such noise; and then he got so
mad he shook his fist at the folks, land there
wasn't anybody dared get up and fight
him"
No,, ,,bo,, 4bo ,oFe CuoJor G. o,~oo..,
come, adolescent couples wander to some
shady nook, and seated on grassy knoll,
gaze with speeches. rapture upon the
greenness in each others eyes, and Sit and
gaze, and sigh, until the evening shadows
fall, when slowly home returning, she tells
her parents, with voice subdued and rever-
ent bearing, that she has been out to the
quiet abode of the dead, reading the inscrip-
tons on the tombstones.
Mr.. Blaine is said to be more AMI
more of the mind that next year won't be
good time to run for president, and that
the senate, in Morrill's place after 1877,
will be as pleasant tarrying spot as any
to be had. Which is rather sensible in
Mr.. Blaine, and we cannot doubt that the
Republicans in Main will be both able and
willing to do their part in the premises.
Yet it is pity that it could not be
Hamlin's seat instead. -SprinQfeld. Mass.
Republican,
Let me here place on record the belief
that under some form or other, through
the agency of independent voters, such
Democrats as Tilden represents in his best
efforts, and such Republicans as Bristow
represents in his war upon corruption, will
have to work together in the next election
For the Republican corruptionists have
already begun to leave that party, as rats
leave sinking ship One year from thi:
day, they will be helping to shape Dem
ocratic nomination William III. Gros
UeTOr.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue at Washington decides that citrate O
magnesia, although compounded by drug
gists, lis put up in a style or manner sim
liar to that of patent or proprietary medi
cines in general, having directions for it
use printed on its label, and without tn
formula by which it is made being eithe
printed or referred to on the label, an,
consequently, in the opinion of this Office,
liable to stamp tax