The Rock Island Argus., 1881-08-08
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A beautiful French girl at fancy
bazar in Paris demanded fifteen louis
for kiss. Fifteen wealthy gentlemen
would not accept the offer, even
by chipping in and drawing lots for the
honor. Finally the Countess Pourteles
paid the money and took the kiss.
A machine has been brought to the
attention of the French Academy OF
Sciences which is capable of raising
water to a height previously unattain-
able by a rotary machine. 1t is the in
yention of NJ. dc Romi1ly, and labor
atory mode, worked by hand projected
water to a height of five hundred feet.
Miss Proudfeet is belle of southern
Kansas, and her beauty is such that she
had crowds of admirers. Latterly the
beaux have Stunned her company,
from the fact that three of her suitors
have received gun-shot wounds while
paying her attentions. tits not known
who the assassin is, but he is supposed
to be somebody who, being unable to
secure the prize himself, is determined
that nobody else should do SO.
The anti-French agitation in Italy
has aroused the somewhat astonished
attention of Frenchmen to the great
number of Italians inhabiting France.
The floating population of Italians in
Paris amounts to the large total OF
fifty thousand. The other cities in
which they swarm are Lyons, Marseil-
les, Toulon, Mines, and Besancon. One
sees little of them in other places; but
where Italians assemble they cluster
thick and live together.
Mr.. Cover, a London milliner, was
lately fined $94 so for employing work
people after 4 on Saturday, which is
against the law there. Three of the
workers pleaded that they were on
piecework, and thought they were en-
titled to go on. The justice said mo"
The act was passed to obviate "Work,
work, work, from weary chime; work,
work, work, as prisoners work for
crime," etc.
1t is fashionable fancy in Paris to
have dessert wines slipped into satin
cache-bouteilles, the corks of which are
heads, with the hair dressed in the
fashion of the country whence the wine
is produced. Alicante is in pink
satin bottle, aud the cork or stopper is
n Spanish girl with high comb. Port
| wine is in garnet or ruby satin, with
an Oporto beauty for its stopper, and
she holds a fan in her hand. PaJarete
wine is in a sulphur-colored bottle of
satin, with bull-fghter cork, etc.
Modern materialism will make a
striking conquest if the plan to build a
railroad from Choggia across the la
| coon to Venice is successful. 1t will
| involve the filling up of number Of
canals along the route. the tearing down
| of some famous buildings, and radical
change in the traditional character of
| the place. 1t may be, however, that
! Ruskin viii be allowed to depart with
out seeing this evil, as just at present
the municipality is too poor to under
| take such a work.
| The project of police has issued a
series of instructions TO the managers
| of theatres in Paris, prescribing the
| precautions which they must adopt
| against fire. In the first place, they are
| TO have oil lamps in the theatre itself
| and in all the passages. so that ii the
| gas happens to go out, the audience
| may not be left in darkness. The stage
! scenery is to be made of non-inf1am-
I mable materials, and the apertures OF
| the heating apparatus are to be five
| inches above the level of the floor and
to be covered with perforated zinc caps.
| In the third place, all the side-stalls are
to be removed. SO as to leave clear
| space of over three feet on each side OF
| the theatre. This clause is likely to
| excite much discomfort among the man.
| ayers, for it is estimated that it viii en-
tail loss of fS per night when the
| house is full. Their contention is that
| If this clause is insisted on they are en-
titled to some compensation, as in tax
| ing lease of their different theatres
they calculated upon being able to seal
SO many people. The fourth clause is
that all doors are to be kept ready fol
| opening, with aplacard on each stating
| whether it opens inward or outward.