The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-07
Ghe 9aiIg Arsus.
ROCK ISLAND.
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We hasten to re mark that it was by rea
son of SO much interesting talk on dry
subjsct.-New Haven Register.
1t is thought that the alternate fat aud
lean streaks in Ohio's rational bird first
suggested the red and white stripes in our
proud ensign. Boston Transcript.
Beautiful and truthful motto by the most
candid of philosophers: Il wish l had
$4,000 francs year." DO your What
would you DO then2" Nothing"
Ohio men never com nit suicide-Boston
Post Hardly ever. you mean, MIR.
Hayes expects to make way With himself
next March. Philadelphia Bulletin.
We are sorry, bat we are Obliged to
classify painting pretty girls cheeks 40
fraudulent coloring of sugar" and call
for poiariscope test.-Nsw Haven Regis
ter,
News comes from Europe to the
Courier des Etats Unis that the late
rains have seriouly affected the macaroni
crop this year, SO that it will be i'm possible
to NOW it before April.
When Phaeton tried to guide the
chariot Of the sun he scorehed the earth
by his wild driving. Our new weather
man in Washington seems to have gone to
the other extreme.
Wisconsin wolves have become Sc hard
up for proveuder that they chase young
men who part their haii in the centre.-
Detroit Free Press, The dear pet lambs
New Haven Register.
A scientifically disposed cotem porary
hes discovered that boring the bunghole
of kerosene barrel with az red-hot poker
will cause the barrel sto disappear.-
Syracuse Standard.
The Newark Sunday Call says that one
Of the most exasDeratingiy humiliatine
moments in q mans life comes at about 2
a. m, when he gets on his front s;oop and
finds that his night key is. 10 his other
vest.
1t isn't always best TO mistake a great
deal of hustle for business activity. Some
men thrash about 10 half bushel meas
ure. accomplish nothing but an unseemly
whseking of its sidss.-New Haven
Register.
4 few days ago a letter was mailed in
New Orleans, addressed as follows:
Swift as the train pursue your way,
stop not for flag or banner,
Until you reach Miss SOPHIE May,
In Clinton, Louisiana
hnOCe~ 1SiaDueTS eODsiGST Gam savage
beasts. Boston Post. Wait till a clam
gets grip on your vitals. and you'll agree
that it's the widest and most untamsd
brute that walks the sands of the sea
shore. New Haven Register.
Some one asserts that the nightingale 10
the most human bird in existence. He
leaves off singing and goes to croaking az
soon as he has family, but if he loses his
mate he will go to singing cheerfully till he
finds another mate.-Boston Globe
Professor Amos new book on Rem
edies for Warfare" is dedicated to his
wife, We asked high and presumably
grave Judge of this State if be thought
there was a covert satire 10 this dedica-
ton. Yes" he replied, fenae covert >"
Law Journal
The editor of comic paper in Japan
has been sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment and fine Of 500 ven for pub
fishing a certain article. 1t it was one Of
those depressing mule or goat jokes he
should have got ten years and fns OF
10000 yeu.-Norristow Herald o
Bret Harte's first poetic fragment"
com menceG in these words:
Il slipped the nectar OF her lips:
slpped and lowered DER her.
And the last Two lines We're - follows:
Her fathers hoof flashed on the scene.
/ N wiser now, and sorer."