The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-10
MOTIFS HERE AND THERE.

See article IN relation to Illinois
Soldiers Orphans Home, on third page of
this paper.
The Center boys of Rock Island
played matched game of ball with a
Davenport nine, which the Center boys
gained, by score of 10 to 2.
"A Connecticut preacher says that a
good congregation will praise the music, the
choir, the ventilation. and the civilities OF
the usher, but the sermon, We'll, l
dunno"
The Philadelphia Despatch thus ad
vises: Dime, Grant, dine; but dine with
care Of strong punch pray beware!
Guard against too much British bitter
beeaire! And have nothing to do with the
newspapaire interviewair.
An innocent Moline girl at Vassar
College writes to her parents: This is
the most stylish hair-pin of a boarding
school I eyer tumbled to. | can eat four
times day if want, and get fair
whack at the hash every time"
On Sunday, at baptism in Baptist
church not far from Boston, when some
what agitated candidate was struggling in
the tank, small boy in the gallery began
humming Pull for the shore" loud
enough to be heard by all present.
My son." said a mother to a little
boy four years old, whom above all 9TH
ers will you wish to see when you pass in
to the spirit world'' "Goliah" shouted
the child, with a joyous anticipation;
unless" he quickly added, there's a
bigger Teller there"
The fact that the churches of this
country are mortgaged for nearly three
million dollars inspires the Chicago
Times to say: MY house is a house o.
PRAYER. but we have made it subject tc
trust and deed payable in ten years, with
interest at ten per cent, payable semi
annually"
Ministers should remember that thu
weather is growing very. warm, and tht
same congregation which sits delighted
Through two and one half hours of FIVE
act comedy can't possibly endure more
than twenty. five minutes of sermon anC
a three-minute prayer There is q hni
even to human endurance.
| "A country debating club is on the eve
ofsbaDkruptcy, and the only cause given i
that the members couldnt decide the mo
mentous question: "Will, or will not,
common sinner who literally patronize
strawberry and iee-cream festivals, for tn
benefit of the church, be thrown out b,
the Returning Board above, or will he b
coRRted imp
The only equivalent 10 the japanese
language for the English word baptism O
immersion is soaking. A ludicrous illus
tration of its application is the followin
from the Baptist translation of the Bib
into the Japanese, which that good orthc
dox, the Alliance, says greatly astoniEhe
the JapS; In those days came John, tn
} soaker, preaching the soaking of repen
lance. Repent aud be soaked every on
of you"
1t is said that a young Molineit
picked up eighteen eggs, by holding Their
like an eye glass between his cheeks an
his nose, and deposited them in his ca
without using his hands; then broke th
, eggs between his knees and beat them int
foam with fork held between his toes
7 then peeled ten lemons with his teeth Will
standing on his head, and ran quarter {
mile on his hands, while he mixed tn
i eggs and lemons in large punch bowl
then, without taking of his coat, he caugf
}, up with the western bound fast train. ra
with it two miles. during which he VI
=. corked bottle of whisky. mixed it wit
: the other ingredients, and gave several
e the passengers drink through the windo
and then hoped back to the starting poiu
holding the empty punch bowl extende
!. on the other leg, accomplishing the eptil
t series OF teats IN ten minutes and half.