The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-14
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ROCK rsLAnD, 1IL1noIs
NOTES HERE ann THERE,

-Galesburg has 9 saloons. Rock Island
has Is. s
-"Decollette, if we may believe the
Buffalo Express, means neck to moth
ing"
There are now about 200 children in
the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home in
Davenport. y
Hair cut short and banged over the
eyes, liked mashed soda. cracker,isn' t the
style any more.
The true inwardness of the little inno-
cent tack is only developed when man
accidentally sits down on one.
The Queen Of May now las her throat
done up in red flannel and wears mustard
plaster where it will do the most good.
The ARGUS JOB Rooms are still
turning out tirst-class work in the line of
envelopes, Litter heads, statements, bill.
heads, etc, Call and see samples.
Mary Clemmer writes that every
congressman who leayes his wife at home
is twice as reckless as the widowers and
bachelors, aud nearly all of them claim to
be single men.
The New Orleans Democrat, men
tloning the fact that the military post at
Raleigh, n. O., has been abolished, says
that 1T was worth 100000 a year to the
city. But the troops are withdrawn.
"A Jewish journal learns that after
FIVE years labor and the expenditure of
$45 ZOO, the American missionaries In the
wealthy city of Wuchu, China, have
converted three persons from Buddhism.
jean Paul said Rachel was the only
woman he ever met VITO had any Eumor,
He would never have said it Il he could
have seen Moline woman put a scuttle
full of coal on the middle stair and sit up
till her husband came home from the lodge.
They have kissing fairs out west
forty cents kiss ''-Erchange. We knew
there was something we were suffering for,
BRING US along couple of iairs-the fairer
the better-and well invest, if we have to
do without straw hat all SUMNER
EdSton Free Press.
The South Bend Register. Colfax's
old paper, says there's just about as
much brother n-law in the civil service
reform of Hayes's administration, as
under Grants
-Lamon says that Ben Wade is TOO
old to strike and too mean to die"-so he
will let him alone. Still, after being called
an 'impudent liar Lamon ought to pro-
duce the documents-if he has got them.
Emma Abbott, assisted by Brignoli, Fer
ranti aud others, closed her concert season at
Boston with matinee at Music Hall yes
terday afternoon The audience was very
large and unusually enthusiastic,- Y.
World, 9th.
Mrs. A. Kimberly, the cattle queen of
West Liberty, obtained divorce from her
husband aud $4,000 alimony, in the
circuit court of Cedar county. Iowa, on
Wednesday, tie 9th. IH-treatment was
alleged as the ground of the petition.
The fsh-hatching establishment Of
n. X. Fairbank. at Geneva Lake, has
produced 100000 California salmon. $780,
10000 speckled trout, and about AGO.
600 wall-eyed pike, the present season,
which are 20 stock that beautiful lake
Chicago Journal
A speaker in the Illinois house.
making an appeal the other day in behalf
| of the Douglas monument, said that the
Little Giant had never addressed but two
words to him, These characteristic words
were Get rightH'--E:rchange He
probably left in such hurry as to
lose the concluding word. ''out. Toledo
Blade
When Parson Browlow was neal
death in 1850 friend asked him what be
thought of his prospects liz the other
world. ~ ell, he said, IF | had my
life to live over again | could improve it il
many respects, and would do so. How
ever, if the books have been properly
kept in the other world and of this have
no doubt-there is small balance in my
| favor"
All people are warned against loading
down the postofhce with waste paper, witt
one cent stamps attached. It is an uuDec
essary kindness. Uncle Samuel make;
the one cent and the paper free, but
neither the persons addressed nor the
addresse ever know the fact, so cam
accompany the little gift with their com
pliments Hence, it is better to PLACE two
cents, 10 stamps, on all papers weighing
two ounces as most large papers do.
"A new departure has been inaugu
rated in the opening of school at Marshall
town, Iowa, which gives better satisfaction
than the usual bible reading, for it il
something that all the pupils of whatever
religious belief can take part 10, without
prejudice The first ten minutes are devo
ted to News Budget" which is gathered
by the different scholars The genera
news of the world is given, and since the
beginning of the European war it is sale
to have become exceedingly interesting
| This system was inaugurated by one Of The
lady teachers of Philadelphia. and i,
spreading rapidly. 1t is a departure
worthy of practice in all schools