The Rock Island Argus., 1881-10-31
WAITS.

Ofd San Bernard1no, Cal.
| Judge Asa Packers millions will MOI
| be distributed before spring. The firm
| of Noble, Hammett & Co. .,haye claim
of $3, $50, 900 against the estate.
w. Millican, of Eugene, Oregon, de-
fendant in the $50, 600 breach Of prom
Use suit, has married the plaintiff, Miss
Bradley, and SO stopped the proceedings.
"A wateT-snake was discovered re-
ten feet long. Its body was six inches
The army retired, list is limited to 400.
There are at present only seven vacan.
cies, while fifty officers are eligible to
retirement. 10 }#t.l1' '5s
An old adage says that courtesy
opens many doors. -. True. and it s in
fernal diseourtesy, that doesn't shut
them mtagain.-BoSton Post.
There are 13,000 600 cows in the
United States. This is more than are
kept by any nation in Europe. Germany
having the nearest, 5000, POI.
Within the last fifty years there have
been more churches built and restored
in England than during the whole time
previously since the Anglican Reforms
ton.
There are 40, 900 breweries in Europe,
and of all the houses in England and
Wales the formidable number of 49,
900, or one in every forty, are devoted
to the sale Of liquor in some form or
another.
Grace Darling's monument in Ban-
borough churchyard, England. is rap
idly decaying and will soon be utterly
destroyed unless some method of pres
ervation is adopted.
-. - Y~s
versity, has made the most nearly COM
plete collection of the works of Petrarch
and works relating to him. in exist
ence.
Gen. Grants favorite grandchild is
reported to be little Julia Dent Grant,
the eldest child of Col. Frederick Grant.
The General is enthusiastic in her
praise, describing her as the most fas-
cinating child he has ever seen. $3.50
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford road is putting up near every
! bridge a warning signal, consisting of
small ropes hanging from an arm above
the track. The ropes strike the brake
: men and warn them to duck.aJ -ao1t 2
Paris has more poor people than any
city in the world. The number of reg
istered poor who have received relief
during the present year reaches the
number of 354, ,812, of whom 200. 900 re-
ceived outdoor relief.
The last extravaganza in,French hose
is a new stocking of cream white lace
in open work designs to be worn over
another one of spun silk tinted a flesh
color. The lace stockings cost $25
pair. a2EC9.E 1zTs.+4 a. z-1W --1
OF course it was an Irishman, but he
seemed to have fair idea of the situa-
ton. He was describing the different
mottoes displayed during the obsequies
of the late President, and said that one
read: '.God reigns. and the officials at
Washington still hold out"
A correspondent estimates that more
strangers visited the little Swiss village
of Elm, Sunday. Sept. 18, to gaze upon
the ruin which the falling mountain
had wrought, than had been within its
borders during the last 100 years of its
peaceful existence.
1t has been decided that the monU-
ment to Gen. burnside shall be an
equestrian statue. and that it shall be
set up in Providence. Citizens of Bris-
tol, r. l., offered to contribute 1000
to $4,000 providing the same was
Mrs. Thackera, Ganeral Sherman's
daughter, is to- live in Philadelphia
hereafter, as her husband las accepted
a share in his fathers business and will
resign his post in the navy. General
Sherm an has now sixth grandchild-
the fifth CHILD of his daughter, Mrs.
Fitch. ..-. So E-o
Harry Garfield. tho late Presidents
oldest son. viii. after graduating at
Williams, go to Cleveland and practice
law. Harry and his brother James are
devoted to their feeble old grandmoth-
er; James especially watches over her
closely and his mother says this has al
ways been his way. '-'s
The soldiers engaged in the building
of the new telegraph line from Fort
klamath undertook to raft a lot of tam
arack poles down Wood river to the
lake, and, to their surprise. the poles
sank. At last accounts the officers were
talking of buoying them up with pum-
ice rock:
The family of Samuel Hamlin, of
Yuba City. Cal, partook rather freely
of new almonds the other day, and all
the family except the father were taken
violently i'll, and were only relieved by
vomiting and purging. Their experi-
ence may be warning to others with
reference to eating undried almonds.
The Duchess Eugenia Litta has sold
her palace for the curious reason that
it is too vast SO be manageable. Baron
Rothschild has bought it and will trans
form it into the head office of the Upper
Italian Railway. The interior deeora-t
ton is magnificent; the famous LUNA
cartoons were bought for this palace at
cost of $4,000. s
Fanny Glow found the ordinary dl-
versions unsatisfactory at Little Falls.
N. Y, and so she amused herself and
grieved her friends by lying four days
in a pretended trance.A watch was
set and she was caught eating on the
slv. Her next fun was obtained by
hiding and letting it be supposed she
had drowned herself. This time she
was detected in sending her own death
notice to q newspaper.
A cake eaten in peace is worth two
in trouble,-A candle lights others ana
consumes itself "A careless watch in
vites the thief.--A charitable man is the
truo lover OF CODA colt you may
break, but an old horse you never can
"A constant guest is never welcome;
"A contented mind is continual
feast.--A courageous foe is better than
q cowardly friend.--A eovetous man
does nothing that he should till he dies.
"A cracked bell can mover sound Wen.
"A crooked stick will throw crooked
shadow.--A cunning knave needs no
broker H Hs s4 ~
81 The papers have it that Ralph Waldo
Enlerson's father was buried at center
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