The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-23

SATURDAY was the shortest uay Vi inc
ear.
One man crossed the river here on the
ce yesterday,
Santa Claus is working his men on
ull time at Epsteins.
The new Eighteenth street viaduct
chicago, cost $4,000.
The frost is destroying the wooden
pavements in Chicago.
The republican papers call it Blaine's
little gun. But it kicked.
The Milwaukee board of trade hes ad-
journed for the holiday vacation one month.
The Boston Post says getting drunk
is one of the greatest hindrances to tenn
perance in this country.
The capacity of the grain feet winter
ing at Milwaukee is 939,500 bushels,
against 1868, 900 last winter.
The man who mailed lie to the
counter" has been measuring thirty-four
inches for yard by it ever since.
The Glucose factory of Davenport uses
800 bushels of corn daily, Isn't this the
product that adulterates our fine sugar?
The G., B. & q. r. R. has not had
train into Chicago for as hours, on account
of the track being blockaded with snow.
The c., R. |. & P. train from Chicago,
due at Rock Island at o'clock, did not
reach here until 10 o'clock, four hours late.
The good deacon who loses fifty dol
lars by draw poker feels keener twinges
OF conscience than the good deacon who
won that amount.
"A Western journal says the editor
OF contemporary is too stingy to wear
socks" This is what we call terrible sock
asm.- Whitehall Times.
1t is great shock to a mans nervous
system to have suspender button fly of
just while he is making a.profound bow to
lady on the street.
The NV. Travelling Mems associa-
ton. numbering 1870 commercial travel
ers, meet at the Sherman house Chicago
Thursday Dec. Goth.
Paper kerosene cans are the latest
By using them, servant girls and kitchens
can be blown up much cheaper than they
can be with the tin article.
B. G. Couch, Justice of the peace o
Bureau county was before Commissions
Hoyne, Chicago. Friday, charged with ex
torting pension money from widows
The Organ of last week gives evi
dence that the ancient mariner sex-purser
is really mad, because the board OF super
visors will not allow him to get his finger
into the county treasury. The trouble is
they know him too we'll.
The lad who accidently sat down on
red hot stove ,pensively remarked, that b
was reminded Of the retreating genera
who burned his bridges behind him.
The meter gave out in the singing Q
a hymn in one of the bipghamton, N. Y.
churches on Sunday week. 1t was shor
meter. of course, or it would not hav
given out
The supreme court of Iowa has dt
cided that the board of supervisors mu'
pay bills contracted by the coroner IN th
} discharge of his duties the same as 1t pay
| those of the county jud ge.
Don't buy single ice creeper tn
r winter Our Wheeling inventor Is gettir
up an india rubber wen that will fit on
q the back of a persons head and hal
q pavements as soft as downy pillows are
The photographers are merry makiE
over the solitary oyster in the church oy
I ter stew. But We assure them. from al
ual test, TINT the oyster dosen't injure Il
:. stew in the least 1t would never be nj
iced.
y Young man, the great problem to
decided in the next Sweek is how you Ct
/, give your girl Christmas present, ii
iyour board, and then have money enouI
to buy white necktie for New Years Day
Mrs. jerks says it is folly to charl
the smallness of the republican vote
Louisiana to democratic bulldozing. T.
Republicans voted with the nationals, al
for such raseals as j. Madison Wei
s. That explains It'll
What with the electric light. the .
l. nograph and the Suns Miss Fanch'
10 who dispenses with victuals and drink, a
has achieved the long sort-for immortal
E. isn't it..about time humanity shut up SD
i'd and put the world in the hands of rec
yer ?-Puck.
in -Lucius Octavius Woods, who was {
Tended by the great Henry Clay in a MI
der trial, in Kentucky, in l843, is now e
= ploy ed as cook in restaurant on s. Ola
street near Monroe street. Chicago. Woe
was very peaceable man, and did t
killing in self-defence. He was acquittt
Curtis Il Peasants, the legal fl
y who have been occupying apartments
~ the Court House building, will to morr
Y, remove to Robinson's building, occupyi
q. one of the rooms formerly rented by {
a. Black Hawk Club. This firm is compos
of young, enterprising attorneys. who 6
L. rapidly attaining position 10 the front "a
IS of the legal profession.
1t is the fashion for many people to NJ
loot nc loxro and blo1,o