The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-18
ALL SORTS.


This freak country.
Five carloads of dromedaries were
recently shipped from Texas to Arizo-
ma. to be used in transporting United
States mails.
The total expenditures for the st.
Louis schools for the last year were
Ss39, 900, or about $3.50, 600 more than
in Cincinnati. - o.
Thirty-eight recent casee of typhoid
fever at the Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum In New York have been attrib-
uted to impure milk.
Mr.. Evarts thinks that the deliber-
atoms of the late monetary conference
have advanced the prospects of bime-
tallic international arrangements con-
siderably.
An Albany jeweler has on exhibition
large clock of ancient design, which
stands about six feet high, and is said
to have been made in Rotterdam 2la
years ago
Newport, KY. is briefly described as
q town of $4,000 inhabitants, without
a single bookstore, where boys of or
6 years puff cigars with an experienced
air on every corner.
Americans visiting England viii be
glad to know that large hotel, to be
conducted on the American plan, is
about to be erected on the site of the
late Dukes Theater, in Holborn. Lon
don.
At recent wedding in Ottawa, Can
ada, both bridegroom and bride re-
ceived checks for $4,000 from their
respective fathers, and the fathers uni
ted in purchasing and furnishing q
house for the young couple.
A piece of rock, weighing four hum
bred pounds, was thrown by blast
of the Rev. DR.. Hough, at Stanton,
landing in the centre of the room,
broke through the floor. Mrs. Hough
was lying on sofa in the room, and
was struck by several fragments of the,
door. She escaped serious injury.
Galveston NeeUS:r Southern women
are working personally to improve the
condition of colored females by in
structing, advising, and encouraging
them, and in circulating reading mat
ter among them. While outsiders are
discussing the Incidence of southern
women, they are moving on in the
even tenor of their way, quietly doing
the duty nearest them and preserving
the most admirable characteristics of
the race.
Bert Harris camped out in Logan
canyon, u. T., recently. About II
o'clock he awoke and discovered that
he and his bedding were being dragged
down the mountain-side by a huge
grizzly bear. Harris was almost para
Gzed by fear, but managed iually to
wiggle out of the quilts, drop to the
ground, and crawl away among the
rocks. The grizzly went some distance
with the bedding, but finding that his
expected prey had escaped, he set up
a dismal howl. Harris stayed SILVER
ing in the CANYON for the remainder of
the night.
Prof Beal, at the Michigan Agricgl-
tural college, has ten hundred different
grasses and clovers growing, each in
a separate bed, in the garden. attached
to the Michigan Agricultural college
It has taken several years to make the
collection, which is being added to
yearly. Each species is labeled with
both the common and scientific names,
enabling those who visit the college to
make their examination both useful
and entertaining. Six sets OF seeds
from the plats have been sent to as
many different colleges.
mSstay, tells how to reduce bones with
ashes for fertilizing purposes. He says:
Break 100 pounds of bones into small
fragments and pack into tight cask
or box with 100 pounds of good wood
ashes, which has been previously mixed
with 25 pounds of dry water-slacked
lime and II pounds of powdered sal
soda Twenty gallons of water will
saturate the mass. and more may be
added as required. In two Or three
weeks the bones will be soft enough to
turn out on the barn floor and mixed
with two bushels of good soil.
81 assure you gentlemen said =
convict upon entering the prison. ''that
the place has sought me, and not | the
place My own affairs really demand
all my time and attention, and / mlS'
truly say that my selection to fill thi,
position was an entire surprise. Had
[ consulted my own interest, l shoulc
have peremptorily declined to serve.
but as / am in the hands of my friends,
I see no other course but to submit. J"
And he submitted.
A great Protestant awakening is re-
ported in several Spanish villages near
Villafranca. In one place the entire
community, numbering about one hum
UIpU Is l. EOLGStstnl, uho
other the Romish church has specially
painted and decorated to attract the
people, but the only attendants arc one
old man, two old women, and five boys.
The government schools was closed for
lack of pupils, while the one under the
auspices of the Free church of Scotland
had sixty-five pupils. Over thirty men
attend the night school, and some
children travel u league daily in order
to be present.
Few people know that in bad season
honey is apt to be poisonous. This
arises from the fact that in such sea-
sons the bees are often obliged to
gather it from poisonous flowers. Great
care should be taken to remove all poi
sonous plants from the neighborhood
of hives. A specimen of honey from
Trebizond, gathered from the zhobo-
deudron ponticum. which is common
in that neighborhood, was sent in 1884,
by Mr.. Keith Z. Abbott, to the Zooiog-
ical society of London. and in 1859 it
still retained its poisonous qualities.
LII 1890 great many people III Phiia-
delphia died from eat ing honey gather
ell from the flowers of the halmia lati-
fotia. In good seasons the bees avoid
poisonous plants.
Reports of trouble in the armies OF
Germany and Austria, caused by the
cruelty of the subordinate officers to-
ward the private soldiers, continue to
be heard. notwithstanding the efforts