The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-11
NOTES HERE AND THERE
For Moline column see first page.

-EOI nAOHuS COiuuu Sco uAot p06O.
The young folks of Rock Island, Mo.
line. and Davenport are to have nobby
ball at the Harper House this evening.
Don't let's have any words about it, "
as the man said when he lodged the die
tionary his wife threw at him.-Ddn6u'y
Ne,os.
Thanks to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Colts
man for bottle of choice wine and iln
eral sample of their wedding cake. May
they live long and prosper.
60 to Texas, young man, says Ken
lucky paper. The sooner you go the
sooner you'll get back and settle down con-
tented 10 your good old native state.
NO picture ought to be hung higher
than the height of the average human eye,
when the owner of the eye is standing.
This is a sensible rule that is violated by
half the house keepers.
"A youngster, aged six, went to q
neighbours house and remarked: Ill
you please let me see your parlor carpet Z
for auntie says it makes her most sick
every time she comes here.
What do you mean, you little ras-
calf" exclaimed an individual to an i'm
pudent youth who had seized him by the
| nose on the street. "Oh. nothing only
| am going out to seek my fortune. and my
father told me to seize hold of the first
thing that turned up.
The World almanac says: THE year
1876 is the latter part of the 5636th, and
| the beginning of the 5637th since the
creation of the world, according to the
Jews. It answers to the 6589th of the
Julian Period. the 2629th from the founda
ton of Rome, the 2652d year of the
Olympiads, and the year 73S4-S5 of the
| Byzantine era"
| In Louisville they have three new So
cieties, viz The Anti lift-your hat-to-a
Woman Society,"" 1.-THE Never take-a
bath-Society:" and The Anti-Eat with-a
Fork Society, the object being to i'm
prove manners and morals Several pres
idential candidates have already asked
admission.
Col. Fitzhugh, the present door keeper
of congress, has appointed ten ex-confeder
ates to positions under him. The RECORD
also shows that his truly loyal predecesso
appointed fifteen ex- confederates. 1t als'
appears that the present doorkeeper ha
1
Union soldiers as the loyal gentleman VIII
stepped down and out.
Our Illinois Fort has been beard agai,
in the house of representatives, in smoth
cred sort of way, suggesting that tn
birthday of the late lamented Lincoln b
made a permanent national holiday. 81
also asked that the national flag should b
Statutory required to float at hall
mast on the l4th Of April for
ever. And then the Yentilators wer
opened, and some fresh air let int, tn
hall, and Fort remained in state of sup
pressisn for while. Chicago Times.
The notorious pickpocket and thiel
Ben Stemple, is free man again. w
say again, tor it was only few month
since he was released from Jail for releiy
ing a mans pocket of his Wallet. and yes
,erday he was freed from all care of hi
wife Minnie and his children, for the coul
has granted her divorce ind the custody c
, the little ones Ben used to pound her fo
exercise, and when he would get into ba
scrape he would seize her by the hail
draw razor, and threaten to cut he
throat unless she would vow to swear i
court that he was somewhere else whe
, the crime for which he was arrested Wa
{ committed. L. aUenp0rt Gazette llh.