The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-02
NOTES HERE avn THERE.

deal OF coupling, but they only couple the
tender.
One of the experiences which reconcile
US to death is the existence of book agents.
1T is strange to see how crowded two
young men can make parlor feel on a
Sunday evening.
Dante used to wear long robe that
trailed on the ground, but he never kicked
backwards at it, grabbed at it, or held it up.
The ministers of the gospel ask our
prominent citizens to hold public meeting
to devise some means of employment to
idle men.
While old time is walking into Janu-
airy, 1878, the steamboat Mcdonald is
walking the Mississippi like thing of life,
and not vestige of ice in the river yet.
The st. LOUIS Republican tells of car
niyerous plant in Missouri, which catches
insects and deYours them. What a DO :
nanza that plant would be for grasshopper
regions.
The passenger and express daily line
of boats between this city and st. Louis
next summer will be composed of the War
Eagle, Golden Eagle and the remodeled
Phil. Sheridan.
Swinging Indian clubs is becoming a
popular mode of exercise among young
ladies who are understood to be fashiona-
bic. The damage to furniture in rooms
where the exercises take place is very
great,
City Marshal Halves went up to Moline
this afternoon after pillow filter 10 Deere
u Cos. shop, TOR whom young woman in
particular circumstances is waiting. In all
probability there will be wedding at JUS
tice Hayden's Office this evening.
"A polite man," said the Due de Nor
ney, sis one who listens with interest to
things he knows all about when they are
told by a person who knows nothing about
them" By this rule you can tell whether
or not you have any claim to the title.
Some people think 1t wonderful how
the street commissioner could locate the
uptown sewer so Is to hit the only ledge of
rock in that part of the city and thus make
the tewer cost the city FIVE times as much
as it would In different location.-Learn-
ing, gentlemen, learning, much learning.
During the year 1877, even if times
have been hard there was the usual amount
of trouble incurred. The number OF
couples married were for each month as
follows: January 35, February 80, March
81, April 81, May 30, June II, July 20
August "a, September 35, October SO
November SO, December 46.
AS society is now constituted there il
little use of trying classical education OIL
the average American girl. The younl
man who holds her hand on Sunday night
after the old folks are gone to bed, will sool
make her Latin AID Greek look very sick
and discount any attempt at Roman o
| Trojan architecture.
There is an effort being made to hav
q sidewalk extended from the city out t
iChipiannock cemetery. Some or the resi-
dents at the foot of Madison street hav
been trying all summer to have wal
built up that street. but have learned t
their sorrow that none of the city counci
or their relatives are interested in propert
in thatEvicinity.
The chaplain Of the Portland prison
England, has encountered a prisoner VIII
listens respectfully to exhortations ant
says that he cannot afford to lose tn
benefits of fifteen years apprenticeship
to his trade of thieving. Imprisonment
this philosopher regards as "a period o
depression.
Thomas Nickerson, president of tn
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
has issued a circular order placing the roa
under the management of W. E. Strong
the vice president and general manager 0
the company, and formerly superintendent
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quinc
road.
An English lady informs the Chicag
Inter ocean that Brigham Young's mothe
was the wife of horse sheer in the Eul
lish army cher name was Isabella" bu
it was not said that she had a green cotto
umbrella and that the apostle was Dor
at Newcastle-on-Tyne. This must be sti
another mother, for one of them die
some time ago and an enterprising Indian
reporter found another, old blind and
= poverty, few weeks ago.
A printer on the Pittsburg DiSpatcl
James 7. McGuigan; has had an unpleas
ant experience of Illinois, The sheriff {
Hamilton county, whose eternal vigilenc
was the price of Mr.. McGuigan's liberty
arrested him on the charge of beiD
Rande, the st. Elmo murderer, and afte
being kept in jail several days, borDe hanC
cuffed in cars all over the country, an
threatened with lynching several times
r the unfortunate printer was turned loose
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