The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-07
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when free from silver, is not affected
by light.
A minister had preached an hour;
then he remarked: another wide
field opens from the subject in another
direction" just then an old colored
saint ejaculated: please, Lord, shut
up de bars
Coal oil has been discovered near
Mayhower, Ark, and two local COM
panies have been formed who are leas-
ing all the land in the neighborhood.
Prospectors and Spectators are flock
ing in in great numbers.
A Denver paper says that enough al
faifa has been sold in that state this
year to seed ten thousand acres, which
next year will give an increase of sixty
thousand tons of hay, worth 81, 250, 900,
estimating the yield at six tons an acre.
Only one tree has been grown from
the acorns of the Charter oak. though
many attempts have been made. 1t
stands on Ann street at Hartford, and
Is said TO have the peculiar leaf of its
parent oak, and very much the same
shape.
A Plante secondary battery and a
special lamp, the whole weighing only
one kilogramme, were used 70 read the
scales of instruments during balloon
ascent made after midnight July 2 at
Paris by nj. de Fonvielle and NJ Lipp-
mann.
Luke Reynolds, of Louisville. KY,
married his wife Elizabeth in March,
1881, and now, after over fifty years or
more of welded bliss, Elizabeth is SUI
ing him for q limited divorce, alleging
harsh treatment and failure of ade-
quate support. he being wealthy man,
as men 60 in Louisville, Ky.
George Dessarean. an idiot from
Meriden, Conn, went to Boston the
other day with a man named Flynn,
and as good joke on Flynn's family,
is said to have telegraphed them he had
been killed by the cars. The family
were made nearly frantic, and Flynn's
aged mother will probably die from the
shock.
Rear Admiral Donald McNair Fair
fax. in command of the naval asylum
in Philadelphia, is to go upon the re-
tired list of the army in October. He
was recently appointed to command
the European feet, but soon after asked
for retirement, having served forty
consecutive years. He entered the
service August, 1887, at the age of IA.
An exhibition of mugs, jugs, and
Olu6T NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Is HOW DSlHg
held in Vienna The objects exhibited
are all of German manufacture, both
old and new. A German journal grows
sentimental over the meaning of the
old German Jug, and remarks that ''no
nation has such a true perception of the
poetry of drink as the German, which
finds in mighty draught the best pro-
lection against the discomforts of life"
The Rome Aurora, which was start
ed as the official organ of the late Pope
Plus TX, and which now holds the
same relation to the present Pope Leo
Kill, contained in its issue of July
nearly two columns Of matter devoted
to the assassination of President Gar
field, and expressing adherence at the
terrible crime and sympathy for the
American people.
Mormonism has been making rapid
progress in Georgia of late. Two Nor
mon missionaries have been working
industriously in White county for
twelve months. The community is iso-
lated and inhabited by densely igno-
rant people. If the law does not inter-
fere the people of the northern part of
the state threaten to forcibly drive out
the apostles OF lust.
The correctional tribunal of Rome
have passed sentence upon the persons
arrested for participation in the dis
turbances during the removal OF the re-
mains of Pope Plus TX. Four of the
prisoners were sentenced to one month 8
Imprisonment and q fine of 100 lire,
and two others to three months and a
fine of $50 lire. One of the first batch
received an additional two months i'm
prisonment for striking the policeman
who arrested him.
Mrs. Kane, widow of DR.. Kane, the
Arctic explorer and one of the Fox
sisters, noted for their Rochester
knockings'' of twenty-five years ago.
is among the mediums at the Lake
Pleasant spiritualist camp-meeting.
She produces the raps quite as mysteri-
ously as ever, and declares that they
have followed her constantly since
childhood. She does spiritual writ
ing" too, rapidly filing states with
messages in which the letters are all
upside down.
A. series of articles was published IN
the New York Star, q few weeks ago,
which pretended to give the true rea-
sons why the body of A. L. Stewart,
which was stolen from the family vault
| in ST. Marks burying-ground, has not
been restored. References derogatory
| to the reputation of John Barrett
| were made, and for that reason he has
sought the Indictment of the publisher
of the paper, as well as private de-
tective named Luke, from whom 1t Is
| alleged, the statements published were
/ obtained.
A distinguished Austrian physician
has recently published book in which
| he attempts to prove that habitual
criminals are such because they cannon
/ help it. He has examined the brains
! of q number of persistent scoundfeis
! and has invariably found that the SD
perior frontal convolution is not con
/ tiguous, but is divided into four SUBJ
convolutions analogous to the parts
found in predatory carnivorous ami.
! mails, and he thinks that the menta
characteristics of criminals are due tt
/ this peculiar formation of the brain
/ Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, says
''Since that $50, 200 reward was offered
/ have never known such an 1nteres
taken in criminals. Every sheriH II
that section of the state. every deputy
sheriff, or imaginary detective, is 81
certain that he knows exactly where te
go that there is little question ina
there viii be united effort to eaten lns
outlaws" The governor said ne wa
never better satisfied than with Tn
present status affairs have taken. IL
does not doubt that the guilty parties
will be brought to justice at an early
date.