The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-31

Republican

ALL SORTS.
Mark Twain is making Republican
speeches in New York state.
Partisan schoolboys are not remarkable
for intellectual development.
The bounty on stage robbers scaips IN
Arizona has been raised to 5000 apiece.
The bane of agricultural pursuits in
Africa is the million varieties OF insects.
The unhappiest man among all the IN
happy men in politics is the constant can
didate.
Mrs. Charlotte Letcher. wife of ex Gov
ernor Letcher, died at Frankfort, hy,,
last night.
It is thought that General John 3. Mill
Ter may succeed Senator Newton Booth.of
California,
Robert Ingersoll charges Joseph Cook
with mixing German sauer kraut with
Boston baked beans.
Rev. Robert Cellyer continues to give
his New York congregation valuable hints
on church etiquette.
During the Autumn season opera 10
Condor the usual regulations as to evening
dress arc not enforced.
The best poker player in Eureka. Col,
belongs TO church Perhaps it should be
added that he has stopped playing.
Secretary John Sherman wears kind
OF saap-you. and catch-you quick
curve on the right hand side of his upper
lip.
Professor Burnham has decided that
the Lick Observatory shall be built upon
Mount Hamilton, in Santa Clara county,
Cal.
Secretary Sherman is quoted as saying
that Mr.. W. Fl. Vanderbilt and Mr.. j. w.
Mackey are the richest men 10 this count
ry.
| Mrs. d. Z Smith, of Ligonier, Va.
known as the largest woman in the South,
died yesterday. Her weight was Clio
pounds.
The creditors of Egypt cannot be such
sensitive men, after all-they have calmly
seated themselves on a needle-C leopa-
tra's.
/ Admiral John "A bernethy died in New
York, yesterday. aged rs. He wes for many
years a Medical Director in the United
States navy.
Emily Rigl aud Maud Granger have
joined the same theatrical troupe. and will
carry sunshine into every Northern city
this winter.
The winter garden which the King OF the
Beleians has had constructed in the park
of Laeken is the largest structure of the
kind in Europe.
| The lakes have commenced their annual
| just before winter sport OF Tipping up
| schooners to see how they will come down
hull or rigging.
| Fiower-farming is about to be introduced
| 10 Santa Barbara, and also iu Alvat ado
| county, Cal, for the extraction of scents
and cents
| Mr.. Rosenberg. the London journalist,
expressed great glee when be was inform
ed that a suit for libel would be brought
against him. His mood has since changed
Mrs. George Francis Train was found
dead 10 her bed at her mothers house in
New Y ork, yesterday morning. the cause
belug paralysis of the heart. She leaves
a daughter
There is said to be very little sickness
in Dakota Territory This is probably
because there are not enough fences ito
| advertise patent medicines Cd, says the
New York Herald.
Redpath is no longer the "mysteriously
missing" He has printed letter in the
San Francisco papers. He excuses his
affections which were like unto those of
Job.
Pickpockets frequent all great funerals
in New York, and are only captured by
detectives shrewd enough to keep their
eyes on the members of the cortege who
seem to be the most deeply and soiemnly
affected.
The high-sounding first name OF Rosen
berg, the London editor who has gone to
prison for slandering Mrs Langtry, is-can
we, shall we pronounce it's, is Adolf
phusl Alasl that il should grace a regis
l'ter of convicts, when nature intended it. as
the property Of novelists. romaucists and
/ dramatists.
i The Grown Princess of Denmark was
]. robbed during her recent journey of orna-
4 ments worth CO. 900 or 10000 crowos. A
sailor named Weiss, on board the SKIOLD
mon, has been detected as the culprit
He stole the articles from the saloon Ia
which the Princess, like the other passen.
gers, had left her property,
The Methodist Bishop Peck weighs over
$50 pounds, and while sleeping at friends
house in Syracuse, N, Y, recently, the
bed on which he reposed suddenly gave
; way In the middle OF the night, and came
down with tremendous crash. WI
what's the matter, Bishop?" cried the
host, rushing upstairs 10 his night-gown.
"Ah, nothing particular, brother" mum
bled the dignitary from beneath chaos
OF quilts, mattresses and bed-posts, ''only
tell your wife if I'm not here in the morn
ing to look for me in the cellar"
Sly Doctors.