The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-28
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began his career as o teacher in public
school. 81
Some of the Egyptian naummies are
encased in bandages more than 1000
yards long.
A machine has been invented in New
York which sweeps the dust from pave
ments and collects it in carts. ~
Judge Hilton's Woodlawn Park, at
Saratoga, contains $50 acres, and has
twelve miles of highly finished roads
and drives.
Townships are laid out in Manitoba
the same way they are in this country,
and contain the same number of sec
lions. In numbering the sections.
however, they commence with the ono
in the northeast.
President Garfeld's children are five
in number. Henry A. and James, the
eldest two, are well along in their
''teens;" Mollie, who is next. is about
IA, aud after her comes Irwin Mcdowell,
with Abram following, the youngest of
the five. Two other children have been
born to him, but both are dead.
General Gordon, of Georgia, is said
to have acquired a more than comfort
able fortune since he left the Senate 1t
came through the sale of coal lands in
Alabama, for which he and his two
brothers and GoyernorCo lquitt received
100000, together with $1,000. 900 in
stock of the Richmond and Danville
Extension Company.
= TheBritish government has concluded
to set up CeteWayo, the dethroned king
of the Zulus, in the business of farming.
An estate has been purchased for him
near Cape Town, and considerable live
stock purchased.
The railroads inColorado run poultry
trains composed of open cars, SO con-
structed that large number of coops
may be placed on each. The fowls are
. chiefly marketed at Denver. TheCharg-
es for carrying poultry OH these cars
are light.
An old gardener states that if the GU
cumber which grows nearest the root
be saved for seed for number of years,
the result will be q smaller and earlier
variety If the fruit on the extremity
be saved it will make larger and later
variety.
Reform sure to come: ''My DEAR"
said fond New Haven mother to her
little Jones boyP'' "Oh, he's horrid.
He says bad, naughty words, just like
papa does.'' Reform will begin at
home in that family.
Favorite quotation for the Fair
Trade league:'' He that is taxed, not
seeing how you tax him, let him not
know it, and he's not taxed at all. ;"
Another for their opponents: Customs
more honored in the breach than the
observance.
Said the night Waterman, when,
about dusk, he was invited to drink a
cup of coffee: mo, thank you. Coffee
keeps me awake all night" And then
he saw his b1under, and looked very
embarrassed and tried to explain it.
But it was no use.
Law professor: sWhat constitutes
burglaryp" Student: There must be
breaking Professor: Then if 4 man
enters your house and takes SIS out from
your vest pocket in the hall, would that
be burglaryP'' Student: Eyes, sir, be-
cause that would break me-"
Sweet simplicity: We hail Il passing
milk wagon and ask the ''boy'' if he
has quart of milk to spare. We get
the milk and ask faeetiously if it is
COWS milk. ''Oh, yes, sir And then
with sweet simplicity, 1--WE keep the
cows milk separate from the other
Recently Leavenworth woman
gave q man an old, battered nickel
The man says the next time she falls
into the water tho old nickel get her be-
fore he moistens his clothes in another
attempt to snatch her right from the
brink of the subsequently,.
In the upper part of Sonoma county,
Cal, a railroad track crosses a deep
ravine upon the upright trunks of tail
trees, which have been sawed Oft upon
n horizontal line. In the centre of the
ravino a firm support is furnished by
two huge redwood tress which have
been Topped off segenty-fiVe feet above
she ground. --FEs
Ira ID. Sankey has started for Europe,
where he will soon be Joined by d. L.
Moody, TO inaugurate an extented re-
vival in Great Britain.
Mr.. w. N. Mills, of Woodstock Nc
Henry county, Illinois, has constructed
d silo having a capacity of $50 tons.
Quite a number of silos have been con-
structed in Wisconsin during the past
summer, those OF Capt Parker of Oco-
nomowoc and the Agricultural college
of Madison being of large size.
United States Senator John s. Will
liarns sold his crop of tobacco, raised
on seventy-five acres in the ''blue grass"
section of Kentucky: for S21. 419. 96.
There were ninety-fve hogsheads, and
the yield from each acre was nearly
$500. He was assisted by a flock of
700 turkeys, who kept the plants clear
Of worms.
An American traveller in Europe
speaks of the fine appearance of the
many soldiers. He finds the French
soldier to be short in statue. nervous
in action quick in movement sand less
careful in dress than the Germans and
Italians. The German soldiers are
large and intelligent and take pride in
their dress and bearing. The italian
soldiers are young and fresh looking
There are more than 100 lawyers in
the new French Chamber, without
counting notarys and solicitors; 80
doctors all of them but Republicans,
and druggists; p journalists 10
of whom sit for Paris; 8 Professors. IA
manufacturers and ship-owners.
There are but priests and l Catholic
Law preacher, Protestant ex-minister
and Jews
In note to the Vienna Academy of
Sciences DR.. Margules calls attention
to the beautiful figures that are pro-
.dnced in glycerine when the liquid is
moved in regular way by the citation
of disk in contact with it. The fig
cures are due to the water IN the glyce-
rine.
1t is told of French official that, de-
string to escape the bother of the con-
gratulatory letters which overwhelmed
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