The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04
ALL SORTS

Imagine Anna Dickinson in wig and
whiskers strutting about the stage in
pantaloons!
The pearl excitement has died out at
| Murfreesboro, Tenn, :. but dealers are
buying all that are being offered.
The total expenditure upon industrial
schools in England amounts to $780,
600. There are now about Is, 900 OF
these schools. Il - = - HI
lions Cooperative Mercantile Insti-
tuition, of Salt Lake. reports its BUSH
ness in the last six months to have been
+ 81, eS4, 925. d sa
+ The pompino, which is considered by
epieures as the most delicate fish that
swims, is sold in Pensacola at % cents
per dozen. ta - ssd r3ss,
They asked him If he was the best
man at the wedding. stNe,' he said;
81 don't know as I was the BEST but
bejabers was as good as any of EN-
Philosopher Sheilman remarks that
SEA good many people who are always
ready to ''amen during service in church
are not quite SO ready to amend after
it, ~ Esf aeI 81
i The dispatches say that the Lieuten-
anbGovernor of Cuba, while riding out.
was fired at and missed. u He may have
been fired ut. but nobody ever misses a
| Lieutenant Governor ss stii !
Oliver Brothers, of Pittsburg, Pa,
have had SO niue h trouble wftiiithe boys
employed in the packing department of
their bolt works that they have decided
to employ girls only to do the work in
future. 31s .1ce4t as=
The most thoughtful man has been
discovered in New Jersey. just before
he died he said to the undertaken:
when you put me ON ice do not waste
any on my feet; they have already been
frozen.o as fr
Spoony dry-goods clerk to smart miss
trying on hat before a glass-':Don't
I wish was q looking-glassn' Smart
miss-'Yes, perhaps you'd get more
girls to look at you them Clerk col
Iapses and is carried out. -.,
. Teacher--'.Feminine of friarpo First
bright boy-"Hasn't any, Teacher
'.Nextp" Second bright boy-'.Nun."
Teacher hat's right" First bright
boy Indignantly CALCULATES: ''That's
just what said" 5-4
The Dominion Government has die
rected the engineer in charge of the
government reserve at Prince Arthur's
Landing to hand over the property TO
the Canada Pacific Railway on the 1st
of May next
Meyers has q bad voice, but it is all
the time humning a snatch of some
song, The other day he was talking to
Gilkerson about himself, saying that he
would cultivate his voice " That's
right" said Gilkerson, 'plant it deep.n
Records show that the longest drouth
which this country has ever struggled
through was in the year 1862, when for
1913 days in succession, ending Sept. /,
no rain fell over considerable part of
what was at that time settled territory.
Hawkins county, Tenn, now has sue
cessfully worked six OF the finest quar-
ries in the South. These quarries fur
nish employment for large number of
hands. The marble is shipped in blocks
to the Eastern cities, and sold at very
remuneratiye prices. #sa.-a
Somebody slung a lot of cucumbers
into Vermont mans cider mill when
he wasn't looking. and the wild look in
that mans eye, as he lay tangled up on
the floor after drinking the Cider, will
3 haunt the perpetrator of the deed to the
grave.
Out of 1000 women married in Ger
many last year, 1913 were 26 years, lob
were 81, and 102 were %. These were
the most favored matrimonial ages, and
there were more women married at IS
than ut 10. In this country women of
such ages are cruelty considered 'sold
maids" Let such ones. take courage,
for they need bat to remember that if
they '.get left on this side of the water
there is still hopa for them in Fader-
land. 2'.1
President White, of Cornell Universe
", says that institution was never be-
fore on SO solid a foundation as at the
present time. 1t has an endowment of
81. zoo, 600. and in two or three years it
will have from 1900, 900 to $4,000, 900
additional, and then be the richest collie
giate institution in the country. 3
Seventy-fve thousand acres OF land
3 in Aroostook county Me-, whose State
valuation has been 83 $40 cents, sold
ut auction in Bangorsa few days ago at
an average price of 70 4-l0 cents per
acre a lot of 5000 acres in Somsrset
county sold ut 81 cents per acre. the
State valuation being SO cents per aero.
Little Belgium has more of an army
than is generally supposed, or than is
is probably good for it. In time of
peace it counts 46, 277 men and officers,
with 1904 horses and 204 field and
siege guns; and on war footing 103,-
683 men, Is, 800 horses and 240 guns.
The militia reserve comprises 120, 900
men.
The great Newgate prison OF London
:. is to be demolished to make room for
improvements. Before it had been fin
ished, in 1880, it was attacked by the
Lord George Gordon rioters, who lber-
ated 800 prisoners and set fire to the
buiIding-an event lastingly familiar to
every reader of Dickens ''Barnaby
Rudge."'e
In order to have perfectly clear IT,
tIe recorded for the West Shore road to
piece of land in New Windsor, on tho
Hudson, it was necessary that Robert
Ellison should produce the letters pat
emit in which George III. of England
granted the land to his grandfather,
Robert Ellison, Dec. 1, 1853.
the New York Fire Department has
discovered that more alarms occur on
Thursday than any other day OF the
week; that July is the unluckiest month,
and the fourth days of the months are
the hottest for underwriters. These
phenomena are based on the record OF
sixteen years. experience.
A delicate and delicious dessert Is
this: Bake q sponge cake in shallow
baking tin, so that the cake will be
about two inches thick when it is done.
Over this pour some boiled cpstard.
just before serving slice some peaches,
and put layer of them over the cake.
Then beat the whites of eggs to froth
and put over the top. When you make
the custard use the yolks only. pre-