The Rock Island Argus., 1881-11-30
GLEAEINGS.

| B vignette of President Garfield Will
| appear on the checks for the per cent
bonds continued at 81 per cent
| There were present at the Yorktown
centennial generals and colone1s
enough to command an army of 1000
| 900.
There have been set up in the Grand
Opera House at Paris a number OF
mirrors, measuring 45x52 feet, and
weighing from l 200 to 1000 pounds.
OF the 1,317 male teachers in the
public schools of Maryland. 232 are
colored men. and of the 1.775 female
teachers, 157 are colored women.
'That prisoner has very smooth
countenance." said the Judge to the
sheriff. '..Yes.'' said the sheriff, she
was ironed just before he was brought
in."
Alady called at drug store where
they also kept books, and inquired of
one of the firm: ssHave you 'Grote' 8
Greece?' mo, mum; but we've got
some excellent bears OIL
"How is your husband this afternoon
Mrs. Quiggs?" ''Why, the doctor says
as how if he lives till mornin', he shall
have some hopes for him; but if he
don't, he must give him up
The building boom has struck WASH
ington. More than 450 new buildings
are in process of erection. Forty-one
of them represents and aggregate cost
of 1862, 600. Secretary Blaine house,
which will cost $48, 900, is the most ex-
pensive.
At Adrian, Mich, cake baked
twenty years ago at the birth of G. G.
Hulett and Theoretically sealed in q tin
can was opened and eaten, it being Mr..
Hulett's twenty-first birthday. The
cake was found sound and sweet, though
it had an old taste.
Solvent Iowa farmers are taking
loads of spring-beds from glib agents,
merely for storage. Of course they
gave receipts for the property, and, of
course, the receipts turn up in the hands
of third persons as regular promissory
notes.
Secretary Blaine now has in good
position on the wall of one of his par
lors fine engraving of Gladstone, sent
him by Mr.. Gladstone himself, with an
autograph The large photograph of
General Garfield, which was displayed
on the catafalque in Cleveland, now
hangs in Secretary Blaine's parlors.
A recent traveller in Germany and
Switzerland says that thousands of girls
in those countries cultivate their hair as
carefully as a farmer does his crops,
and once q year it is cut off and sold to
the hair merchants. Swiss girls have
the finest hair, and the prices vary
from 25 cents to S35 an ounce.
A company of Davenport, Iowa, sent
an agent to invest its $50, 900 capital in
Leadville mines. He put all the money
into seven ventures that Welded moth
ing. while three others that turned out
well proved TO have been made on his
own private account. The company
has voted lack of confidence in him.
Christmas cards grow larger, more
artistic, and more expensive. In few
years a young man that has only q
couple of hundred dollars to spend
during the holidays will be undecided
whether to buy his girl a Christmas
card or gold watch and chain.-N0T-
71St0U7s Herald.
There is a dentist uptown who ad-
vertises that he can make a set of teeth
for a person in ten minutes. Double
sets are set on hinges. and if they do
not happen to fit the owner, all he has
to do is to grab them and chew his
hands, which is not only a novel inven-
ton, but one that is very saving on the
jaw.-P6sch.
George Bancroft, the historian, is at
home at w ashington. He breakfasts
at o. clock. dictates history 10 his pri-
vate secretary until 2. then lunches,
and rides horseback. rain or shine, un-
til 5 o'clock. He then comes home,
takes nap until dinner, and during
the evening entertains his friends. lie
is 79 years old.
4 Boston firm proposes to receive Il
limited number OF girls from the pub
lie schools who may desire to become
salesWomen. and educate them as boys
are educated for business, giving them
800 the first year and increasing their
pay according to their proficiency.
They are to be allowed vacation of
two weeks out of the fine, and every
means will be afforded Tor their adj
Vancement.
Everybody in the Allegany IN. "
oil field is busy and full of life and &C.
tivity. Those who have drilling terri
tory are scrambling for rig timber and
lum mber-a scarce commodity bv the
way-by which to develop their new
acquisitions, and those who have none
are rushing around hunting territory to
drill. The business in real estate is
very active, important sales being re-
ported every day.
Among the mummies recently dis
covered at Thebes, it is asserted, with
all the earnestness of truth. is that of
'tPharaoh's daughter," the identical
maiden who rescued the infant Moses
from the cradle among the bulrushes.
1t is said the body is that of lady OF
rare beauty and exquisite form, and so
perfectly preserved that it appears as if
only recently embamed.
An enterprising firm of piano-makers
in New York has stationed a mum at
the entrance to the opera to give away
librettos to all that come. As this is IN
interference with the business of some
one who has paid for the privilege of
selling s'booksthopera Englishandeye-
Italian wordzsumusic," an effort has
been made to stop the gratuitous cir
culation of librettos by arresting he
colporteur for obstructing the sidewalii.
Ell Paso Herald An Indian mound
on the Texas Pacific railroad was exca-
vated few weeks ago, and was found
to contain great mary rocks and the
remains of human being about four
feet high. The forehead was not an
inch high, but was very broad. and lay
between fiat rocks covered with char
coal. In the grave was also spear OF
red flint several inches long and sever
al speckle ones with fine edges.
This is from the Raa'ak -Neec Yorker.
What does it mean? What a grand
system of parks the Chicago folks can
boast of. and what belts of glowing col
ored plants may be seen there; such
Drofusion and such yarietyi Still if