The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-05
VARIETY.

from her own head during ten years.
. "A brand-new baby in North Carolina
rejoices In the devoted supervision of
27three greatogr athers and two great
grandmothers. & h84sz - sd ssasHsa
j The number of horses, cattle, mules,
\, sheep. and hogs ina0 Chic by tho returns
of 1851 is as folloWs;i Horses. 707, 025;
{ cattle /, 533, 462; mules, 23.678; sheep,
4, 92S, la, and hogs L795, ITO laa -
An ant town4ia the Allegheny moalal-
tains consists of ], 500 or 1,7a0 nests.
WHICH, rise in cones to height of from
two to five feet. The ground is riddled
in every direction with subterranean
passages zf.s,s =, .sss.s., 5t..ksf q Is r,
A New Hampshire soldier, who made
application for a pension eighteen years
: ago, has just received from the depart
= naent the customary circular specifying
!, the evidence 4 zee required to establish his
claim 80 -. se.s.>I 7,.,.s tg. -
Walter Bray. for thirty years . popu-
lar negro minstrel, is hopeless luna
tic in a Massachusetts asylum. His
right name is Baker. and he is a son
of the Gen. Baker who was killed at
the battle of Balls Bluff.
~ A sheep dairy for the Manufacture of
cheese has been started near .Chatta-
nooga. Sheep cheese is q popular ar
tic1e of food in Austria, and this enter
prise, beginning with one thousand
sheep, is under the management Of an
Austriar.~I4.4.I ]-sssszes4 $50 ,,zas-4iffsi s.
For number of years the lighthouse
keepers on the Long Island coast have
taken summer boardess at the stations.
Orders have been issued by the light
8 house board that any keeper of lights
who keeps boarders shall .be dismissed.
Sixteen years ago Loren Bartlett, of
Grandy, Mass, cut the figures 1875 on
the back of turtle found in his
meadow, and every year since. with
one exception, the animal has been seen
in the same field. Not to be behind the
times, he wants his date changed. :,
A resident of San Jose, Cal, sent to
i New York for three pairs of blankets,
the finest to be had for money, and now
California newspapers are jubilant over
the fact that, when. they arrived, one
pair was found to bear the brand of a
San Jose WOODEN mill fs6sesi3a s. b9alss
-. Alexander Outlaw, residing in Dale
county, Alab ama, and now over eighty
years of age, is developing new strength
and preparing to enter upon a new life.
He lost all of his teeth years ago, and
now, out of the order of nature, he is
being favored with another supply.
Two new jaw teeth have appeared each
week during the past four weeks: %-
Norway exported IN 1880 an aggre-
gate quantity of S94. SIG register tons
of lumber. England took 81 % cent.
of it, and France II p cent. BY COM
pairing the foregoing figures with those
of the current export lists in previous
years, we observe that Norway has only
in the favorable years, 1871 up to 1877 6,
excepting 1875, exported larger quanti-
ties than in 1880. <fIs2V = s2f'
A large soda ash manufactory is to
be located in Geddes, n. Y. 1t will be
the only one of the kind in the United
States, and when completed viii con-
sumo 400 tons of coal daily. A build
ing will be erected this fall. 800 feet in
length, which will furnish employment
to about 800 men. When all the build
ings proposed are erected, 1000 men
will be employed. 3et-. ? ''5f''f'-ti'..
In the foreign settlement east of the
Cape of Good Hope there lived, not
public called ssthe self-made man"
They almost insisted that he put him.
self together in the morning--inserted
his glass eye and his false teeth (some
J said added an artificial nose), adjusted
+ his wig, strapped on his wooden leg
and sailed forth. 1t happened that
trouble broke out between the country
to which he belonged and the one in
which he was living, and it was then
and there reported that he had gone to
the United States consul and claimed
protection. On being asked on what
ground he founded his claim, he was
said to have promptly replied that ''his
leg was made of Oregon pine and an
American dentist made his teeth. - -.
With the expressed purpose of keep
ing dogs outeof TIE Stockton house, at
Cape May, during the present season,
the directors issued an announcement
that they would be charged for board
at the rate of 80 a week a piece. That
thisScheme for carrying Out praise
worthy purpose is an utter failure is
proved by the fact that six dogs are
now registered at the Stockton house,
that is to say, three Sky terriers. two
1ap-dogs and one pug. a s..s.- -ss
Mrs. Walter Bell, of Granite Basin,
Butte county, California, ordered her
Chinese cook to prepare supper for
fourteen men,. He flew into q rage,
and the wife summoned her husband.
When the latter appeared the China
man made for him with a big butcher
knife. Mr.. Bell retreated to another
room, got a shotgun, returned and or
dered the Chinaman to leave the house.
The response was another assault with
the knife, when Mr.. Bell fired at him,
killing him almost instantly. A jury
acquitted Mr.. Bel. - aaaR SO y3a
"A. few days after the battle Of Bull
Run. Hooker called at the white house
to bid the president goodbye. Taking
him by the hand with that friendly de-
tanning grasp SO habitual with him, the
president said: @sWell, Col. Hooker,
what do you think of the battle of Bull
RunP'' ssMr. Lincoln. / was on the field
that day, and am q much better general
than any you had there, - was the re-
ply. The self assertion and earnest
ness of Hooker's speech aud manner
struck Mr.. Lincoln favorably. sDon't
60 home, yet, Colonel, we shall want
you.' Soon after. President Lincoln
made him general
The past decade has only added some
ICE, 600 inhabitants to Australasia, rep
resenting an annual growth of 3.S7 per
cent. and much of this has been paid
heavily for my assisted emigration. !"
Victoria may be said to be declining, as
it has only Increased 103, 600, against
ZIG, 900 In the previous ten years. The
( whole population of New Zealand is
below that of several British provincial
towns, and that of Tasmania little
larger than one or two London parish
es. These figures are as striking