The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-12
ALL SORTS.
In what style does a lawyer talka In
money syIlables.

dES64y 6dbEH with vinegar VIII re-
move the unpleasant effects of eating
onions. So will pinch of green tea.
A Norwich, Conn, man, who was In
Paris recently found no trouble in pay
ing his hotel bill with United States ma
tional bank notes.
Dan Simpson, drummer of the An
cient artillery of Boston, is so years
old. and has played at sixty annual
parRdes-
A southern editor discovers that the
town which has the greatest number OF
cheap, modest. available cottages has
the greatest number of marriages.
APottsville barkeeper claims to have
seen mouse killed by the opening of
a champagne bottle. The mouse
gnawed the string off, and the explod-
ing cork killed him.
The Maine Beet Sugar company had
to make 1921 separate contracts in
four different states to get 1000 tons of
beets last year. Some of the roots came
from the Mohawk county.
The ice factories at Houston. Tex,
have allowed a Quantity of ammonia,
used in the manufacture of ice, to es-
cape into Buffalo bayou, and millions
of fish have been killed. The surface
is covered with dead fish.
A negro girl. aged IA years, residing
on a plantation about twelve miles
from Lake Providence, La, gave birth
to three children, all boys. One was
black. the other white, and the other
mulatto.
1t is probable that the southern part
of the territory of Utah will supply
enough anthony for this country. The
ore mined about 14o miles from Salt
City yields from 60 to 65 per cent. of
antimony.
Last season the San Gabriel valley,
California, produced $4,000 boxes of
oranges, but this year the crop win not
exceed $4,000 boxes, so says good au-
thority. Last year the Riverside orange
crop amounted to 5000 boxes, and will
this year be three times as large.
The Berlin papers report that recent
ly at the village of Ahrensdorf, not far
from the city, seven children returning
home from the fields took shelter from
a thunderstorm under q tree. The
tree was struck by lightning. and all
the children were killed on the spot.
The Hotel Mail reports an interview
with an old waiter, in which he makes
the statement that ''waiters seldom
grow old. As rule, they're sassy I'M
til they're %. They begin to be weak
when they touch 80, and at 40 they are
but little good, as indigestion kills
them"
Major Benyurd, of the United States
engineers, says: ssThat while at the
mouth of Red river. the other day, he
had made observations which satisfied
him that the Mississippi was cutting for
itself channel through the Atchafal-
ava river, which would in no great
finaa re- outlat and Noxv Dr.
leans would be left in shallow
stream"
A gentleman having stated that
French chemist can take sugar, flour,
and other substances and make a nicer
egg than any hen ever left in a nest,
a lady wanted to know what excuse
there was for anyone's keeping fowls if
that were so; boy in the room
promptly answered.: 'sFhat they may
annoy the people next door,
The city of Marseilles is bringing suit
against the ex-Empress Eugene to
show cause why she should not deliver
mp to the municipality the Imperial
Palace, built for the late emperor on
the site of the old Lazaret, beyond the
Fort st. Jean. and opposite to the Fort
st. Nicholas. at the entrance to the Old
Harbor. The building is splendid
one, and stands in spacious grounds on
one of the finest sites in the locality
The Imperial family never occupied it;
in fact, it was never completely finished
There is no library, although the poet
Barthelemy held the post of librarian
at an annual salary of 5000 francs for
several years. The palace is now in
charge of an old Bonapartist veteran.
A rich find of silver about ten miles
from Deadwood was followed in forty
eight hours by the creation of West
Virginia City. the election of q record
Ell, the settlement of 1000 persons, and
the opening of nine saloons and two
faro banks. On the fourth day daily
newspaper appeared.
An ingenious system to insure people
who may lose their keys against the
fraudulent use of their KEYS, in case
their ownership is indicated on label,
has been adopted by a London lock-
making firm. Attached to the key-ring
or chain is label, which bears on one
side the address of this firm, and on the
reverse, ''5s Reward. No. =" A
register is kept by the firm. on which is
inscribed the number, name, and adj
dress of each purchaser.
1t is dangerous thing to tamper
with Scotch institutions. Only week
OF Two ago the DunOOn GaSlIe steamer
carried a deck-load of excursionists
down the CLYDE on the sabbath. D."
That very night she stuck on sand
bank, and no one got home; next day
her captain, in q fit, fell overheard, and
was drowned; the third day the pro-
I fame vessel was in flames; and few peo-
pie in Scotland have much doubt as to
what all that means.
From Central Asia the British for
eign Office has learned of the release,
from his long captivity. of the intrepid
correspondent of the Daily -Ne1s. OF
London, whose letter from Merv, re-
Gently published, gave SO striking q
picture Of hardship and of Turkoman
life and manners. He was escorted
from Merry to Meshed by a guard of
thirty Turcoman horsemen. his release
having been effected chiefly through the
British minister at Teheran.
The importation of tropical fruit at
New Orleans for northern and interior
markets has assumed magnitude of
which few people are aware. There
are nowftwo steamships and fifteen or
twenty schoeners plying between the
bay islands and New Orleans, making
regular trips and bringing full cargoes-
Another steamer is soon to be added to
the fleet. The principal fruits are
cocoa-nuts, bananas. pineappies, lines,
and lemons. and they go to Chicago.
st. Louis, Memphis. Nashville, Louis
vile and Cincinnati. A short time ago
carload of assorted fruits was ship