The Rock Island Argus., 1878-07-27
notes HERE AND THERE,

united with the Presbyterian Mission at y
Pekin.
Lawrence, Mass, has Siberian blood ,
hound which goes about and eats up all
the cats. Il
-Howe's circus. the largest, finest ;
equipped and best now travelling appears Il
here Tuesday, August l3.
-Philadelphia bellies at Cape May say:
Bring me me hat; I'll walk for couple of
squares on the beach with me mother"
The ice-dealers are realizing fortunes
all over the country, while the butchers are
getting ready to 20 into bankruptcy.
The single State Of Ohio has 1896
0OO, 00invested in railroads, which includes
rolling stock Of $4,000 cars and 1880
engines. Il
Several huge snakes, which are sup 4
posed to have escaped from travelling
show several years ago. are creating sen
sation at Richmond, Vt.
: The Mennonites, whose religious faith
!, prohibits their participation in war, are
now free from military duty in Russia, but
will no longer be exempt after 1880. Hence
: their numerous migration to America
i The testimony taken by the Potter
subcommittee at New Orleans last week
+ Tuesday, shows that the af6davits onwhich
= the vote of parishes were thrown out in
d order to give the state to Hayes, were for
geries.
g. The democracy are thoroughly IN
earnest this time aud propose to elect the
10 entire ticket 1t can be done by hard
be work, and none know it better than the
OF remnants of what was once called the re
he publican party.
nd "A little boy in Baltimore was literally
be piuched to death by the mother of one o
bis playmates with whom he had quarrel
ed, She pinched his arm SO terribly tha
ed the swellings reached the shoulder. an
is eventually caused the lads death,
Oss "A rich Peruvian threw upon the stag
W. W. of the Folies pramatiques in Paris 9 rim
ms worth more than thousand francs, whiC
' he presented to the actor who had please
him most of all. The actor offered to r
of Of turn it to him, but be would not accept
to One of the delights of the Atlant
Va CITY small boy is to attach string to
~ IL handkerchief rqu it through knothole
E q the board walk, and hide beneath to WI
fifty for bite from an excursionist. VIII
lists they stoop to pick it up he jerks the stri
and the kerchief disappears.
SO disgusted was farmer who b
- taken a two horse load Of corn to Dali
-. Tex. on learning that the buyer wo'
80 pay no more than IS cents, that he paid
cents to drive his wagon TO middle OF
the toll.bridge, and there solemnly en-
tied the grain into the river,
city The Paris Figaro announced Ii
to while ago, with a flourish of trumpets.t
ptI tSo il was to come out as an eight-paged pal
It has since discovered that to do
would be to make reading it throug
nt' burden to its subscribers, so it adds
lines to each column aud prints sup
uture ment on Wednesdays.
iu- A recent visitor to Westminster
bey noted two bouquets of handsome
'e zeFc e. ers upon Dickens grave, and beside
a more affecting tribute to the dead M
ist-a little bunch Of daisies and wild
olIegea, acinths, slightly faded, as if it had
church - a:o.o.. oo,,trv lona
hot ungloved hand.
s, and The locomotive sent from Phil
! days, NH. to the Paris Exposition is an old
0NS' ioned affair, and will not create much
tbusiasm among the jurors. who judg
hova what they see and not by what they
, bring told, American engines are much
: Cam than the French, and the smoke STAG
cab had to be removed from this lot
to the tive to permit its passage through
&c doc tunnels between Harve and Paris.
,stic-Ks -Johnanna Maria Farina was the
warm of the lady who first MANUFACTURED
& in ;..od,ooa ,o tho ro,;oo of the worl
ever be A. c.locno S.e made CoIop,
nous, and cologne seems determin
Don,na. make her name famous for all I'll
some of come. All the manufacturers of co
their Sc o
m candi- and it seems to be the main product
iof HI" CITY. proclaim to the world that tht
:h, and the legitimate successors OF the Il
society Maria, who was gathered to her fat
soFt'- half century ago,
The smokers of Italy have
and no H. ,,,.rs f,r
nan Wv by the government (which, as in /
'Gr n, 'no ~ has tobacco. monopoly, and will OIL
pipes until reform has been et
All through Venetia the cry is,
pai'5 with the cigars!" In Padua there ar
~ 'o'' cards upon the walls. "SEoke Gig
day and you'll be thrashed at
0ef'ain At Rovigo posters implore good Cit
we siKnS initiate the Mianese and smoke nc
'h9 0"'' after the ! st of July. and circulars
. US ,n0 similar prayer have been clrcul
''Se" ~ Mira and other points.
ior u" Mr.. Schulz, Of Little Falls,
. VI 'ne estimates that the land IN pastura
To- hay requisite for the support of a
hall sell three acres; and this is the estimi
Parasols, moderately good dairy farms in Z
xty days In Belgium ten acres of land supp
nsa,,s COWS, one heifer, and one yearling
but when the calves are sold off
and cows in full milk are only ke
Medicine proportion is two COWS to seven q
Vail is half acres. Colmau estimates thr