The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-15
NOTES HrRE And rHERE.

Strawberries at the 1st NJ. E. church
this evening.
Mr.. Ross has visited over 600 lost
children, all Of whom were believed to be
Charley.
The N. Y. Express says The hand
may be Hayes's, but the back bone is Zach
Chandler's.
The residence of Martin, the Milan
grocer, was robbed on Tuesday night of a
new suit of clothes.
BY the way, what has become of the
corner apostle2 Have the Unions Detroit
exchanges stopped2
"A flexible stone, which looks like mar
bic, is found in North Carolina, 1t can
be bent or stretched.
The Literary Union will meet at the
Central Presbyterian church tomorrow
evening at 1880 o'clock.
Fred Shellman's house at Milan was
struck by lightning on Tuesday. Very
little damage was done.
An establishment for the manutac-
ture of grape sugar, is to be erected at
Peoria. 1t will employ from 800 to SOC
men.
Rev. r. G. Willard, of Colchester,
Conn.,, has voluntarily reduced his salary
$500. He is regarded as living" curl.
osity.
The Rock Island House is full of guests;
and doing the biggest business done since
the new house was built. The day clerk
wears diamond pin.
Hotel proprietors say the board o!
supervisors are remarkably healthy lot
of men-they attend strictly to business
and make no false motions.
The city government of Manchester
IN. H.. voted to exempt from taxation fol-
ten years all manufacturing enterprises
where lot less than $50, 900 is invested.
| -Four-fifths of the gloves made in thu
United States are manufactured atGlovers
vile, Fulton county, N. Y, where a pop
ulation OF $4,000 find profitable employ
ment in the industry.
Supervisor Kramer says he has no
borrowed Sam Porter's shot gun, but b
carries cannon balls around 10 his pocket
for Supervisor Ballard Those odder fel
lows vas not of much account.
| A righteous order has been issued Oh
the Central Hudson R.R trains prohibiting
agents from placing books or papers on tn
laps of passengers and from selling all ar
ticles except books and papers.
| "A rich genius who lives at Weslfeld
Mass, is preparing to have the Iarges
funeral ever held in that town. He ha
made a will 10 which he bequeaths 81 t
each man, woman or child who attend
his obsequies,
! A couple at Bucksport, Me-, were
married by Justice. He afterwards dis
covered that Aio term had expired at tn
time of the ceremony, and that it va
illegal. The husband" proposed sec
ond marriage. but the woman said sh
believed she did BOT care to. that she ha
had enough of married life for the preser
, and she left town for Boston.
"A German inventor proposes to max
boots that will never wear out. He mike
with waterproof glue suitable quantit
of clean quartz sand which is spread G
D the thin leather sole employed S. foul
datiop. These quartz soics are said to |
; flexible and .almost understandable, viii
= they enable the wearer to walk safely ovt
slippery roads.
The oldest man in the world lives
Columbia. His name is DR.. fernando
and he says his age is 100 1t seems /
has never taken but one square meal 0 da
and the 18th of every month lived c
c water, eating nothing. This item is f
boarding, house keepers, who we hope wi
read it to their boarders, and show the
: the way to green old age.