The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-15

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Deou out OF luck THIS season, not %
whale having been seen in the bay.
Johns Hopkins University at Balti-
mon has now about $50 students, fifty
or more having just entered.
A Canadian has picked up 185 small
diamonds from the banks of the Cat
ineau and taken them to Montreal to
be tested.
A Butte county, Cal, rancher named
Raglan, living on Berry creek, has
trapped twelve bears and shot two 9TH
ers. Eight were of the black species,
and the others were cinnamon.
Leonard Hook was taken to the aims
house in Cambria county, Pa, a short
time ago as a pauper. On examination,
a bank certificate of deposit for $40 and
S21 in cash was found in his clothing.
A piece of slate rock engraved with
unknown characters has been found in
Arizona. It was dug out at some old
mines in the Maricopa villages, six
miles below Phenix, on Salt River.
The first quartz mill that will be put
in operation in Alaska on the lately
discovered rich mines there will be a
rocking-miil of four stamps, and du-
plex-moyement rock-breaker.
According to Georgia paper. the
physician attending'a lady in Macon,
that State, reports that she has been
paralyzed and is losing the power of
speech from the free use of canned
fruits and vegetables,
At Liege, in Belgium, one may ar
arrange with the telephone company to
be reused at any particular hour of the
night or morning; when the hour ar
rives the bell begins to ring. and it con-
tinues ringing till the person is an
swered by telephone.
At Stockton, CAL, after the close OF
the regular races, a scrub race was
organized. The driver of the losing
horse was accused of ''chucking" the
race, and was pulled from his horse
and fogged by the indignant crowd.
In the row his morse kicked him in the
abdomen.
Hazng at Smith College, the Massa-
chusetts institute for girls, is quite
sweet and gentle. The newcomers are
seized, led into thessmain hall, present.
ed with bouquets, kissed affectionately
and then shown the pictures and statu-
airy in the art gallery. We should like
to be hazed.
The gas fixtures that have been made
in Meriden, Conn. for ex-Presdent
Hayes consist of two six-1ight chande-
iers, three fve-Hghts, one four-lights,
and twenty-five or thirty brackets. and
all made of brass, and intended for the
ex-President's private residence. The
total cost viii be about $500.
The disbursements by the Texas State
Treasurer for the fiscal year which eX-
pired Aug. 81 amounted to S3, 044, 613.
The annual expenses were 81, 415, 991,
and the balance consisted in expendi-
lures for the permanent school, univer-
sity and asylum funds, the support of
one school and the purchase of $780,
600 in bonds for the retirement OF the
State debt.
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, L. L,
is 500 acres in extent, and there has
been hunter Kept in constant employ
ment there since 1876. It is his busi-
ness to trap all kinds of animals that
infest the place, dogs, cats, foxes. chip
hunks and moles. Sometimes the trap
per captured as many as fifty dogs in
one night; and altogether he has taken
%. 600 animals, little and big, in the
course of five years.
The question of the future petroleum
supply is growing more AMI more in
teresting to Pennsylvania. Regions
once spoutino out abundantly are now
strewn with ruined derricks over wells
pumped dry. New sources of supply
have hitherto been readily found in
place of the drained reservoirs, but now
the great Pennsylvania oil sponge ap-
pears to be nearly squeezed The
Bradford region in Mexican county, for
instance, Which pumps $4,000 barrels
daily. and is the petroleum centre of
the State, steadily failed during the
morx$ of August at the average rate OF
1900 barrels daily.
A grocer's assistant named Spencer,
who is captain in the salvation az
my, has just come to grief in London
for Cmbezziing money and leading a
tender lamb of the fold very far astray.
The magistrate WHO committed him for
trial kindly remarked that he was ga
absolute, impious. hypocritical, scoun-
drelT
Further excavations near the Panthe-
on, in Rome, for the purpose of isolat-
ing the structure from the buildings
which surround it. have brought 10
light the baths of Agrippa. The floor
of the baths is some six metres below
the street level, and is strewn with frag-
ments of Cippolfuo marble. An i'm
mense fragmentof eornice and the base
of a column, nuted on one side and
fully one meter in diameter are also
visible.
The report of the newlv-established
analytical laboratory in Paris shows
that out of 400 samples of wine pur-
chased by the inspectors in the month
of June, 318 were adulterated; out OF
% of cider, Is; out of $50 of milk and
cream, 120; out of 19 of butter. 10. No
fewer than As of the 81 samples OF
spices analysed were condemned in like
manner. The report on chocolate and
sweetmeats is scarcely more favorable.
A party of boys recently found, witie
piaYi q near the town hall in East Ma
chias, an Indian burial place, which
proved TO be the most interesting dis
covery of the kind ever made in Maine.
The Indian who lay buried there was
evidently n chief. A copper band en-
circIed his skull, copper ornaments
hung to his right car, which was dried
and still well preserved, and on part OF
lis scalp grew long black hair. An
iron knife lay on his breast, his face
was covered with a mat made from tie
eat-tail rush, and his body was wrapped
in decayed moose-skin, on which
rested copper breast plate seventeen
inches long There was also TRAN
GUAR ak, like those used by the early
French settlers.
A gentleman recently from Eagle
Pass says that James w. Riddle, the
merchant prince of the border. has had
the extra ordinary concession extended
him by the Mexican Government of a
right to purchase all the land he wants
in chihuahua and Cohuila, Mexico.
Heretofore it has not been the privilege