The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-21
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what said,n replied Fogg.
Nearly all the ice imported intoGreai
Britain comes from Norway. When
the business began it was ia Wenhan
Lake ice, sent from Boston.
Extract from Nine. de P's album
(Madame is thirty-five-or Whereabouts.
..Women are like roses; they are mos
beautiful just before they begin te
fade"
Thirteen female physicians are prae-
ticing in Clayton, Iowa. and at re.
cent fire there were not well men
enough in the town to run the engine
out.
A merchant died suddenly just aftel
finishing letter. The clerk added, in
postscript: 'sSince writing the above
have died. Tuesday evening, the 18th
inst"
Dialogue at the Newport Casino.
Swell American, just returned from
England: 81 say. doctor, is there
much asth-mia herep' Doctor: Every
little; more jack-ass- mia
The wages of laborer in Russia is
cents for days work of fifteen hours,
and he "6nds'' himself. 1t is not stated
where he finds himself at the end OF the
month, though.
Irate sportsman ssConfound it!
you've shot the dog! I thought you
told me you could hold gun" Pat:
''Shure. and so can. your honor. It's
the shot, sor, I couldn't houldr'
what an observing man that Brown
is," remarked Jones, who had been
reading some of Browns latest writ
ings; ''what eyes that man hasr' eyes, p"
said Fogg, 'splagiarize."
The manner in which Connecticut
courts and juries are run has provoked
critism from every state in the Union.
A man who commits murder in that
state has got to own it and prove it be-
fore jury will believe it.
Year by year the British army, once
the most beautifully clad and brilliantly
equipped in the world, loses something
in picturesqueness. Feathers and epau-
lettes are gone, and, except with the
hussars, lace of gold or silver has all
but disappeared.
The case of the state against Hall for
wife murder, in Cherokee county, Ala
bama. has been pending for fifteen
years, and is q romance in itself, the
testimony of which would fill large
volume.
Mason WINS, who was 8 few years
ago regarded as a young man of rare
promise, is now roaming the woods in
Monroe county, Tennessee. and is
called ''the wild man." His head was
turned few years ago. when he fell in
love with girl that didn't reciprocate.
The small amount of transatlantic
travel from Boston is accounted for by
the fact that there isn't a first-class pas
senger steamer plying between Boston
and Liverpool. Boston steamers are
half the power, half the tonnage, and
twice as old as those falling from New
York. s.
A sleepy passenger, who allowed his
hat to fall from the window of the
smol1ing-car while western express
train was going at the rate of forty
miles an hour, near Hancock, Md,
pulled the bell-cord and stopped the
train. He wanted the conductor to go
back after his hat, and was indignant
when he met with a refusal.
There are $50 educated female ply
sicians in active practice in twenty-six
States of our Union-the majority in
Massachusetts,, New York, and Penn
sylvania. The figures above given
show q marvellous growth. Persons
not very far advanced in years can re-
member WHEN bHcEe were no WOn6u
claiming 10 practice medicine who were
worthy of public condolences: The
change that has already taken place is
probably only the beginning of a new
era. In few years the number of
women who are creditable doctors will
be so great that their sex will cease to
be matter of comment.
All, Bill. good day. Been awayp
Yes; but didn't stay. Some future day,
when get more pay, then | may stay.
Day-day.
A letter preserved in the New York
Historical Society has the following
sentence in It: "My sons wife is late
" dead, and is very much lamented by
all who knew her; / could have wished,
had it pleased God. that his mother-in-
law, who is ripper for the other world,
had gone before her."
Andrew Plagnor, of Louisville, was
81. His practice for many years was to
read his Bible two hours every Sunday
and hard all the rest of the
day making wooden spoons, which he
peddled during the week. He lately
became convinced that he was Sab
bath-breaker. His offense seemed TO
him enormous, and he drowned him.
self.
Rather q novel decision was given in
Branford. Conn, by justice before
whom a boy charged with stealing haz-
elnuts was recently brought. After
hearing the case patiently, the Justice
said to the culprit IF it was not SO
hot. and / was not so utterly exhaust
ed, would give you sound thrash
ing"
A valuable property in tobacco is the
resinous gum which the leaf freely ex-
udes during the process of ripening.
and which, being soluble in water, may
be washed off by heavy rainfall. For
this reason tobacco should not be cut
after rain. If the work
is postponed for few days after n rain
fall, the leaf has time to again secrete
the necessary supply of gum. Neither
should tobacco be cut when wet, for if
laid upon the ground in this condition
dirt will adhere to the leaves, causing
damage to the crop.
The receipts at the fairs are the prin-
cipal, and often the only, source of
revenue to American Agricultural So
cieties. In Great Britain the member
ship fees of the breeders agricultural
societies are high, and tho list of men,
bers long. In the case of the ROYAL
society of England, which
has 5000 or 10000 members, the an
nual subscription is FL. OF the forty
two annual shows or fairs held by this
society, only ten have been source OF
profit. The net losses up to the present
year are given as f46. Sol; the Kilburn
Or London show, in 1879. alone caused
D loss of f14.056.
There is a constant tendency OF ami
mails to revert to the characteristic points
of their even distant progenitors. Such