The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-09
ALL SORTS.

stealing dime novel.
!, 1t is estimated that there are 68. 525
men and boys employed in and about
the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields.
= Johnnie Miller, 10-months' old boy
OF Everett. Blair county, Pa, swallowed
a pin. A few days ago it worked itself
out of his neck. just year after it was
swallowed.
A new submarine cable, the most
northerly in Europe, is to be laid be-
tween 9Thurso. in Caithness. and lee
land, passing by the Farce islands. The
chief Office In Iceland will be at Reiki-
avik- la 3x H
Austin, Tex, has q female Deputy
Sheriff, and when she tells man she
has an attachment for him he don't
know whether to blush and try to look
sweet or to light out for tho woods.
MIR. LIE Dues tea farm turns out to be
even q greater failure than was at first
supposed. For the $4,000 put in to
the venture the Government has an iron
safe which cost $500 and some no-ac-
count tea plants.
The will of an. eccentric gentleman
recently recorded in the Surregate's
Office of Canandaigua, N. Y, provides
for having his portrait cut on his tomb
stone, giving explicit directions for the
same.
The punched half dollar is worth
about 40 cents, and the punched quar-
ter dollar about 10 or 20 cents. The
proper thing to do is TO keep these
punched coins in the hands of the pet
ty thieves who punch tiiein..-
''Bill Nye" has been writing about
the hump-backed patriarchs of tho Nor
mon Church, and he says that there
isn't gravel train on the Union Pacific
Railroad that does not contain great
err amount of intellect than the church
at Salt Lake City.
The settlers upon the upper Column
bia river, both in Oregon and in Wash
ington territory, are constantly agitat-
ing the matter of completing the locks
around the Cascades, in order that
they may have an open highway to the
ocean.
The pope is said to have authorized
the members of the dispersed religious
orders of France to assume the dress of
secular priests, or even of laymen, and
has empowered the French bishop to
give them appointments as parish
priests.
Anent the increasing price OF provis-
ions, Georgia farmer sent an order
to his grocer for so cents worth of
bacon. The merchant just creased the
order all over and sent it back with a
bill charging up the farmers account
with so cents.
In Idaho, according to n correspon-
dent of the San Francisco Bulletin,
John Chinaman is ''allce samee as Mel
lean man, muchee on the make.n In
Galena City the almond-eyed laundry
man, charges So a dozen for plain
washing of small pieces, and So for
shirts; about what most of them can be
bought outright for.
The practice of cremation is gaining
popular and official support in Hunga-
ry. The Municipal Council of Buda-
Pesth has recently discussed the ques-
ton and decided in favor of cremation.
Following this example, several other
Hungarian towns have decreed that it
may be adopted by all those who de-
sire it.
Commissioner Raum has thus replied
to an internal revenue officer in Mary
land, who said that dfu ggist residing
in his district was putting up bottles of
whisky and water, and adding to each
pint bottle. with other ingredients, 8
grain of strychnine, and labelling it
''tonic bitters." such compound is
regarded by Il most competent druggist
10 be dangerous to life, anolif dispensed
by a regular druggist, should be labeled
p poison so as to protect unwary per-
sons against its too free use Under
these circumstances it would. in my
opinion, be improper TO give the sane
ton of this Office to the sale OF this
compound of medicine
club has been est b she IL s.
Petersburg. the members of wi'.cA blai
themselves, under penalty OF inaHy
fines, ta wear Only cl.3thcS inadr Of Rus
sian cloth. to employ only Russian
workmen. 10 dine 1T Russian restau-
rants, and to abstain fro II everything
coming from foreign sources.
A Tonawanda On. " merchant sent
a notice to the Nc.cs of that villa re
saying that he would give IA special
premium to the lady exhibiting ut the
fair the baby most resembling her. lie
couldn't understand why all OF his lady
friends cut him until he saw the Netcs
and found that the notice real ''most
resembling him.
The first official Sunday CEN
sus in the United States is being taken
by tho Government. Circulars contain
ing questions are sent to every Super
intendent. These cover the number OF
teachers and children, the ages of
scholars, the number, value and char
acter of books in libraries, the property
owned, the money collected, and the in
crease in attendance since 1870.
The yield of hops throughout the
country was fully 25 per cent below
the average. The quality of the hops
raised iii New York was good, and they
are quite free from vermin. The yitld
in Wisconsin was fair, but considerable
injury was produced by wet welther
during harvest time. There is It large
decrease in the yield in California, but
considerable increase in Oregon and
Washington.
reporter of the Las Vegas New
Mexico) Optic has had an interview
with q retired member of the Jamos
brothers gang Of robbers, who solemn
ly asserts that Jesse james and n
Younger brother are engaged in stock
raising not one hundred miles from Las
Vegas "They are prosperous and hon
est,'' said the reformed cut-throat, land
their greatest desire is to live SO that
their offenses may be forgotten here
and forgiven in heaven
Attention has been drawn to the
morning prayers ut Harvard BY the I'M
successful movement of majority OF
The students to escape compulsory at
tendance upon them, and the willing
ness of the faculty to abolish the rule.
The governing power, however, has de-
cided to adhere to the custom OF near
ly two centuries and half, and the
ctudanfr Y,auct therefore. OO to the