The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-27
MOTIFS HERE AND THERR.
Very warm after the rain.

Never despair in adversely. Work
and persevere. When a wheel is going Il
round, the bottom must turn upward
sometime.
"A Lee county postmaster declined to
purchase portrait of Hayes because the
recent order of the President doesn't permit
him to NEEDLE with politics.
The man who FIRST introduced a fan
ming mill into Scotland was denounced as
an atheist for getting up gales ofwind when
Providence intended calm.
An old Paris paper has the following
singular remark: THE Americans and |
English educate their children in the fear |
of God and the love of mother"
"A Nebraska farmer bitches a pair of |
COWS to wagon when he journeys, and
milks them whenever he comes to a toll |
gate, paying his toll with the milk.
"A friend of ours was congratulating |
himself upon having recently taken very |
pleasant trip. Upon inquiry, we found he
| tripped and fell into young lady's lap.
"A man in Cincinnati. the father of ten
children, thinks he sustains great loss by
not having any more. as there is no one
to take the clothes that the youngest has
outgrown.
"A son of Erin once gave the following
toast: Here's wishing you may never
die, nor nobody kill you, until ye knock
your brains out against the silver knocker
of your own door.
General Grant made brief but beau
tiful speech when he arrived at Ostend.
He answered the compliments of the bnr-
gomaster with these words: Il am much
obliged for your sentiments"
DIR. Mary Walker swears by yonder
pale moon that she will never marry and
risk the humiliation of having husband
come in and request the loan of her black
pants, so he might join in tiremen's par
ade.
The first Lord Littleton was very alb
sent in company. and when he fell into
river, by the upsetting of boat, at Hage-
ly, it was said of him that he had sunk
twice before lie recOlIeeted that he could
swim"
Now is the time, while flies are thick,
that the man at the boarding house strives
hard to make himself believe that the -.
on the plecru are nothing but spice after
all, and with martyr-like stoicism swallows
them.
Ohio editors who two months ago
vehemently declared they could not and
would not live without the silver dollar, are
getting home from Put,inBay and asking
} their friends for a temporary loan of 25
cent piece of script.
The moulders and backsmiths played
a game of base bail yesterday afternoon.
At the end of the second inning the rain
: stopped the game. The score stood to
: in favor of the blacksmiths. Frank
Mucker was empire.
, -Truesdale B. one of the infant twin
sons of Robert Solomon, died in this city
this morning, and will be taken to Morris
town, Henry county, tomorrow, and
buried by the side of its mother, who died
: couple of weeks ago.
D The young folks must be on a strike,
! as but three marriage licenses were issued
the week ending the Goth, viz: William
Killing, to Mrs. Jane A. Davis: James
Kinney to Sarah Hanigan, and Olof Peter
, son to Charlotte Swanson.
s MANY young lady who objects to be
E ing kissed under the mistletoe, has no OBJ
lection to be kissed under the rose" The
!, intelligent com ositor made and error in the
Il above, rendering it so as to say she 'hai
# nose.
f Jessie, what was Joes arm doinl
round your waist when you were at tn,
front gate last night?' asked a precious
boy of his sister. His arm wasn't round
q my waist; won a belt from him, and b,
y was taking my measure" replied tn,
- indig nant young lady.
1t is the intention Of many Of the Si
Knights of the Dixon Commandery to at
G tend the annual Grand Encampment, which
s, will he held at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 28tl
,e of August next, but no official action ha
- yet been taken. They might come dow
~ and accompany our Sir Rights on thei
IL special train.
! John D. Jones, who lives II mile
d, north Of Princeton, met with serious &C
TO cldent on Thursday last. In starting
Z, moving machine, for some cause hard t
explain, he got ID front Of the sickle which
le coming 10 contract with his ankle infcte
= serious wound.
ar Two thirds of the voters of Stcrlin
ID petitioned the city council for a new and
E. free bridge across Rock River at tina
point. The council has called an electio
j, on the 18th of August to vote on tn
OF proposition of the city borrowing $4,000
ID for that purpose; the bridge to be at th
NJ foot of Mulbury street.
q "A few days ago Robert See, son c
- Frank See, boy of some ten or eleve
&c years, while playing at the brewery. q
sc Princeton, fell through the hatchway
III going down the distance of two stories, an
P striking upon brick pavement with
o. thin covering of sawdust. He was badl
~ bruised on the side of his head, and hi
10 arm fearfully shattered, being broke
en- above and below the elbow, and the bone
at forced through the flesh two or tire
no inches.
b Hardy Heater, the young man VIII
" was so badly burned by the premature di:
aG charge of cannon at the sham" hattl
Op in Moline on the Fourth, has so far RI
40 covered, under the excellent treatment {
.w DR.. Calf, and the tender nursing of hi
~ mother and sister, Rose, that he is able t
~ be on the streets again. His oversight
st perfectly good, and his face is not scare
in the least. His right arm which wa
IF shattered, he still has in splints and
y sling. He escapes with the loss of bu
- one finger, which was so badly burned tina
ne amputation was necessary-and he ma
~ consider himself fortunate, indeed.
ed The Springfield State Journal call
bo the Railroad strikers "servile war" Ha
it indeed come to this that American fres
nc men, voters, electors. citizens have sudden
Ia ly become SLdVeS? A man cannot be
ed citizen and a SLGUe at the same time
a These strikers have all along been suppose
to be American citizens the q10ISficC