The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-11
Ar SORTS.

A scandal-monger is a person to add
-PhildolelphiG Bulletin.
Tt will soon be time to take out ovcrcoats
and swear at the work moths have done.
The strength of an elephant is calcula-
ted to be equal TO that of hundred and
fifty men.
An Ithaca On. Y J little girl, attempting
to describe an elephant, spoke OF IL as
s.that thing what kicks up with its nose.
If man is to be considered as absent
when his senses leave, there are many men
who could hardly ever be found at home.
REPRESENTATION is tine thief of good
time" was the lament OF the small boy
who got up too late to take the excursion
train.
The weakest living creature, by concen-
tratipg his powers upon single object,
can accomplish something; the strongest.
| by dispensing his over many, may fail to
accomplish anything.
I'm going on journey. pa" the prin-
ter's daughter said; aud, as he thought OF
losing her, tears sad and salt he
| shed; but when he soon discovered her
upon his workman's lap. this is the jour
knee that / meant, she said unto her pap
american Punch.
More than once has it CHANGED that into a
tumuItuous and quarrelsome household
| little child has brought peace and harmony
and love, too, not only for itself, but for
all around it, till it has made lives dear
and desirable that before it came seemed
| almost impossible to live.
| A man on Arbor Hill aimed gun at
his little son Ia beautiful creature with gol-
den hair to his waistl, and playfuly
threatened to shoot him. The gun turned
out to be unloaded. 1t viii be placed 10
the State Library. as the only weapon of
the kind known to American gupnery.-
Albany ~. - Journal.
| At a trial of criminal case the prisoner
entered plea of mot guilty when one
of the jurymen put on his hat and started
for the door. The Judge called him back
| and informed him that he could not leave
until the case was tried. "Tried2" quer-
led the juror: why he Acknowledges that
he is not guilty!
Do not be troubled or dispirited because
you have not great virtues. God made a
million blades of grass when he made one
tree. The earth is friDged and carpeted
not with forests, but with grasses. Only
see that you have enough of little virtues
and common fdelities, and you need not
mourn because you are neither hero nor
a saint.
| When two couples of young people start
out riding IN a twoseated carriage, they
are as happy as four loving clans until the
shades of evening approach, aud the couple
in the front seat begin to realize that the
Icrying need Of this great, free and najes-
tic country of ours is-a two-seat carriage
with the front seat behind --Neto Hd0en
Register.
There was a great excitement in front of
fruit commission house on South Water
street little after one o'clock yesterday
afternoon. A party of dealers, overhaul
ing and investigating large lot of peaches
which had just arrived in the market. dis
covered one basket with the fruit Just as
good at the bottom as at the top. The
error was soon rectifed and quiet restored.
i Chicago Journal.
Executive talent is not always a gift
In nearly every man there is germ
which, with proper cultivation, will devel-
OBJ this trait to certain degree. Young
men learning business should study it in
all its bearings, and afford it every oppor-
tunlty for growth. With it success is pos
sible, even if mechanical genius and prac-
teal apprenticeship are wanting, but with
out it, the best workman is untitled for in
dependent business operations.
A minister in the North of Scotland was
taking to task one of his hearers who was
a frequent absentee, and the accused de-
Tended himself on the plea of dislike to
long sermons Deed, mon." said his re-
verend monitor. little nettled at the in
situation, if ye dinna mend, ye may land
yerself where yell ma be troubled wi many
sermons. either long or Short" ''Weel,
aibhns (perhaps) sac, retorted John, but
lit may be nae for want o ministers"
There are many pecuIiarities about the
French marriage law, and there is one
that affects particularly all thase who in
the United States marry citizens of France
The marriage is not legal unless perform
ed by the French Consul, no matter if the
Cardinal himself oficiated; and many a
poor woman has been left desolate with
her children in France because her So
called husband took advantage of the law
which declares that marriage must be eel.
ebrated before some representative of the
French civil power in foreign countries
If not so, the sanctity of the church cere-
mony goes for naueht, and the poor duped
woman can do nothing. Such cases have
occurred by scores, and will again, sunless
due care beby taken have the ceremony
performed by the Consul.-N y. Witness.