The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-01
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Where is the ceramic rage?


NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Where is the ceramic rage?
General Joe Hooker is at Saratoga.
-Kearney is the Sitting Bull of Socia-
ism.
Paris ladies sneeze into 1920 hand
kerchiefs.
Gladstone has locked horns with Dis
raeli.
-Kearney left California for his own
and the States good.
--Carrier-pigeons are not as reliable as
the fast mail trains.
John Ruskin, the English critic, is
well again and hard at work.
The jaundiced face of Yellow Jack is
seen in the seaport cities.
Both Milwaukee and st. Paul gave
Beecher only half houses.
Whoa, Emma" could be more politely
rendered, Pause, Emily"
-Floridans spend their time racing in
the swamp with alligators.
old Probabilities is following up the
eclipse with hotter weather.
Naked bathers are chased through the
streets Of New York by the police.
What shall be done about these con-
tinued datalcations in the ministry
"A coanty in Dakota Territory has been
named after the great reVivalist Moody.
-=Secreatry Schurz sticks to business
and declines all invitations to speak in
public.
San Francisco people make stage
coach trips into the mountains for their
Summer recreation.
The New York Tribune says that the
man who looked through glass darkly
saw an thie) eclipse.
General Sheridan has decided to es-
tablish military post at Camp Sturges,
near Bear Butte, D. T.
Everybody in Canada is satisfied with
tie prospects Of having the Marquis Of
l4orne as Governor General.
The decline of the personal advertise.
ment business 10 INSCRIPTIONS daily sheets
is healthy social sign
A dispatch from Rome says Carolina
Franchi is seriously III. If he should die
he would be dis Franchized.
The sun is $4,000 times as large al
this earth, This is like lighting up a
mustard seed with railroad reflector.
Clara Morris is reading and consider
ing manuscript play sent her by the En-
glish novelist, Charles Reade.
The way to get rich in city is to use
homemade gas, and escape paying the
bills presented by the gas monopolists.
"A brother of Lord Beaconsfeld re
oeives salary of $4,000 a year as Clerl
Assistant of Parliament-a permanent
Office.
i The Louisville Courier journal call
Kearney, the California sgitator, tn,
"bawling Bashi- Bazouk of the slope"
The man who gets up labor riots is
nine times out Of ten, saloon loafer Will
dirt on his hands. but no sign of blisters
Fashion freaks: Large sleeves-old
fashioned shirred trimmings on dresses
deep collars made of lace and loops Of rib
boo,
In Winter the idea of cremation rath
er gains ground. but in Summer the chan
ces for its general adoption perceptibl
} thin out.
Mr., 4, A. Sothern, the actor. is bac
; in New York from his European trip II
: will again visit London after few appear
\ ances this side.
-Menier, the chocolate king of Paris
lately gave reception to the American e.
, hibitors, iurymen and examiners at tb
French Exhibition,
, -"Old Abe the Wisconsin war eagle
is in great demand all over the North a
+ an attraction for soldiers reunion an
1 other entertainments suggestive of wa
l. times
: General Phil Sheridan has starte
home FROM the Black Hills region by wa
of Duluth and Mackinaw, his family to a,
T company him from the latter place to Oh
}. cago by lake steamer,
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore cleared SIS
It 900 last winter telling how women Al
j. abused and kept down 10 this country. 81
J, is now travelling in Europe, with her hu
: band along to look after the baggage.
| Within two weeks fhe Damocrots
: Indiana will have D. w. voorhees,, M.
r Manson, Jos. Il. Mcdonald, J. q. Shanl
y liu, Thomas r. Cobb, d. s. Gooding, Mi
ton Bell, and twenty-five other speakers c
the stump.
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