The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-06
GLEANINGs.

The Philadelphians have become used
to the colored policemen, who now at
tract no particular attention.
Some Americans from Pittsburgh,
Pa, have established q small glass fac
tory in Apam, State of Fidalgo,
Mexico. Is
Farmers of southern Oregon went
largely into the business of raising sor-
ghum last season, and the results are
represented to be very satisfactory.
Pennsylvania locomotive works are
doing such an immense business that
they will not accept orders for engines
to be delivered before January 1, 1888.
A tough tale is told about a Russell
vile (Ky.) dog. who, when he forgets
his night key rings the door-bell for adj
mittance.
A force of sixteen to eighteen hun
dred men are at work on the Salt Lake
end of the Denver and Salt Lake rail-
road.
There was young Indian Sioux
Who said to his comrades: "Oh, phioux
Are thy numbers, o braves,
But we still can I'LL graves
The four principal druggists of Os-
wego, n. Y, are said to have 345 regu-
lar morphine customers. Many OF
them are from the country round about
the village. ssiT
A clerk in q large down town hard
ware store. says the Boston Journal
has been unfortunate enough within two
years to sell pistols to six persons who
have bought them, as it afterward
+ proved, for self destruction.
A lady in Kinds county, Mississippi,
has been managing her husbands farm
during his absence for the past year.
She has paid all her supply bills and
also lifted heavy mortgage off the
land with the proceeds of her crops.
A cry from the heart-Little Ounce
Cooking up suddenly from her history
book: "Oh, mummy, darling, [ do
wish I had lived under James III"
sWhyP" Little Ounce: Because. I
see here that education was very much
neglected in his reignr'
Is your wife democrat or republic
camp asked one Rockland citizen of
another in a store this morning. s'She's
neither" was the prompt response; and
then glancing cautiously around and
sinking his voice to hoarse whisper,
he explained, t.she's home ruler"
A very absent-minded man, who Of
ten asked a friend to dine with him,
but almost always forgot to be himself
at home on the day named. meeting
his friend in the street, said: "Come
and dine with me. on Thursday" and
added. graciously: II will be there
a gentleman in conversation with q
lady, Wanted the grace and wit of a
new acquaintance whom he had met at
a watering place. is she pretty?"
asked the lady. ..Not so bad" he an
swered.. s'indeed she resembles you
somewhat-in look" 4'H
A late French caprice is to wear ear
rings made of real Brazilian beetles.
Another style is that of a tiny bird
about an inch long made of fine, beau
tiful dyed crimson and green. The
eyes of the bird are formed of dia-
monds. Fashion Exchange. We have
ordered q case of each.-NeaO 1oah
lStda.
A party of men at Milton, Oregon,
the other night. took, DR.. Rinearson
out, stripped him, gave him coat OF
tar and feathers, and ordered him to
leave. The cause was that he Dragged
about seducing a mans wife. The doc
tor failed to leave town, and has been
locked up.
A survey shows that the first abut-
mept of the railroad bridge at Albany,
n. Y, is ten inches out of plumb. All
freight trains have been forbidden to go
over the bridge. and fifty men have
been put to work upon it. The cause
of the settling of the abutment is
matter of conjecture, but it is thought
that the piles upon which the masonry
was placed when the bridge was built
in 1865 have settled somewhat, allowing
the current of the river to wash out the
cement. %
Isaac M. Phybe, m old resident oi
New York, died III Bruoklyn re, emily.
He remembered going hunting in the
woods near Canal street, and seeing o
whipping post in City hall park. He
enjoyed the honor of seeing every pres
ident from Washington to Grant, and
he was also one of tho pall-bearers al
the funeral of Henry Clay. He was a
captain in the war of 1912.
The San Antonio Times publishes an
account of the deliberate suicide of a
horse as follows: The horse was in a
lot next to the river, and went into the
water apparently to drink. Its head
was refined up with check rein, and
the animal could not get his head down
to the water. 1t made several inefect-
ual attempts to drink. and. failing, de-
.liberately laid down in the water and
was drowned. 4aE
Adam BOYLE, of Battleford, Canada,
has hit on new way of raising pota-
toes. Being pressed for time in the
spring. he dug holes in the sod aud
dropped in the cuttings, covering them
lightly with earth. This was all the at
teation they received, and he realized
a heavy crop of large and fine looking
potatoes. e 6 5
Few people, says awriter, realize
what wonderfully delicate structure
the human ear is 1t is remarkable
organ, that's O fact. Ask u man for the
loan of SO. and the chances arc that
his ear won't hear you. Softly whisper
s'come up and take something and
the ear manifests an acuteness that is
! really marvellous. Noa7'isto,cR Her
aid. ~ s
A letter from Niagara Falls says:
stThe Oneida Community are moving
their works here from Wallingford,
Conn, the water power there not being
sufficient They are going to manufac-
ture spoons of all kinds, and every kind
of chain, from the finest gold watch
chain to the heaviest OK chain. They
will employ about two hundred men.
They have already received $50, QUO
worth of orders"
The organization known as tsthe Har-
monists." founded by Father Rapp at
Economy, Pa, many years ago, has ac-
cumulated property to the value of TO-
100000. There are about one hundred
old men and women belonging to the
organization, and in few years at
most they will pass away. As there