The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-19
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but foot pads have been known for
many years eHH # IS
Senator Ingalls, now handles his
tenth baby. and the Kansas City Times
thinks that, although not much of q
senator, as colonizer he is a glowing
success. isis
tits now said that early rising is the
cause of many nervous diseases. This
will be boon to Sarah's young man
when he wishes to stay late and rise
later. r
Connecticut people are complaining
of the uncleanliness of the willow tree.
They look upon the weeping willow as
a crying evil.
Bnrdette thinks that as New York
harbor is reported full of sharks, 1t is
a great pity some of them couldn't get
ashore, and prewl around the streets
for half a day. sea0a
Black birch is said to be coming rap
idly into favor It was never out of
favor with the country schoolmaster,
although the small boy is not yet recon-
ciled to it. afsh
In some states the evidence of man
who habitually goes fishing twice a
year will not be received in the courts.
The reason for this bit of judicial wis.,
dom is obvious.
If Oscar Wilde had told of the bar
rem memory of ssuncussed cusses" he
would have appealed strongly to the
sympathy of the man who has felt a
flea on his back in church.
That was funny mistake of the man
who took up testament, and glancing
at the running title, IS. Matthew"
said that he always knew Stanley was
smart, but didn't know he ever wrote
on religious subjects.
Arizona ministers prudently leave
their reyo1vers on the bank when going
into the water to baptiZe converts, but
never go in SO far but what they can
reach the weapon in two jumps, if nee
essary.
Analogy: Fogg thinks that Miss Prim
must be hard on to 40. He judges by
analogy, you know. He says that a
tree adds a ring to its growth every
year, and he has counted nearly forty
rings on her taper fingers.
Grand Rapids policemen wear white
gloves on Sundays, and why shouldn't
theyP -.....-
Since 1865, 5000 divorces have been
granted in Italy, Milan being set down
for no less than 1000.
The interior of DIR. Johnson's house
in Cough Square, Fleet street, London,
has been opened to the public. It was
in this house that he lived from 174S
to 1853. He wrote there his Diction-
airy, s|Vanity of Human Wishes" and
portions of THE Rambler and s'The
Idler"
A Jury in Berne, Switzerland, ex-
pressed regret that the court was IN
able to give man and woman named
Zysset death sentence capital punish
ment having been abolished in that
country. The Zyssets admitted having
murdered five of their children. They
killed them to escape the cost of keep
ing them.
Among the mountains within three
hours distance of Goletta are quartered
some 10000 Arabs, who came chiefly
from Sfax and whose numbers are fast
increasing. 1t was they who captured,
some weeks ago, a group of 200 camels
belonging to the Boy, and they are re-
ported to have taken a solemn oath to
| proceed to Goletta, kill the French res
idents, and put the Bey to death.
A letter from Italy says the young
girls there of comparatively weli-to-dc
parents make every article of theil
wedding outfit themselves, and the lin
en- itself is homemade, spun from the
fax that has grown on the family IS
microscopic fields. From childhood
the girls are taught TO sew and EN-.
broider on linen or cotton intended fol
their own marriage.
Herr Herbst, prominent Austrian
Liberal, told his Neutrality-suspicious. II
! the Reiehsrath that militarism was ruin.
ING, financially, European countries,
and that Americas prosperity was due
to the absence thereof He said tha
America would soon become the cred
itor of Europe.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, in tht
Christian Union, advocates that the
| State of New York purchase q tract il
| the wilderness lying Immediately wes
| of the Hudson river, and extending
| from perhaps FIVE miles above Yves
Point, aud give it, untouched By land
scape gardening, to the people for
park. The tract designated is part o
the Hudson highlands.
There is parish in London which
consists for the greater part of thirtee1
houses on each side of Bishopgatt
street. The income is nearly So, 500 ;
wear. The rector has never done dut,
for the last three or four years, living
peacefully at st. Leonard 8. But h'
pays curate $500 a year, out of which
/ that gentleman has to pay for gas, TO
the organist, and other expenses O
conducting divine service.
An invention for easing the strain OIL
horses in starting horse-cars has beer
in six months successful service il
Boston. 4 little pedal touched by thu
drivers foot puts the device into opera
ton. 1t connects the tongue of the
car with q lever. which operates ,
latchet. taking hold of a cogwheel Oh
the axle, thus easing the dead pull
nearly one-half.
Careful observations have shown thu
following to be about the averag
growth in twelve years of several vari
cites of hardwood when planted il
groves and cultivated: White maple be
comes one foot in diameter and 80 fee
high; ash, leaf maple or box elder
one foot in diameter and 20 feet high
white willow, IL inches in diameter an
40 feet high; yellow willow, Is inche
in diameter and 35 feet high; Lombar
DIV poplar, 10 inches in diameter an
40 feet high; blue and white ash, 1
inch. Ia diameter and 20 feet high; blac
walnut and butternut, 10 inches in dl
ameter and 90 feet high.
The performances of Fritz kaper
nick, the Berlin pedestrian. are attract
ing considerable attention in scientiti
circles. Professor Kirchoff, of Halle
compares them with the feats of til
historical pedestrians of the ancien
Mexican postal service, known as tn
Tschaskis. It is recorded, he says, tha
the foot messenger constituting th
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