The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-29
NEWS NOTES.

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! single year more than 93, 500, 900 worth OF
diamonds have passed through the Cape
! Town post office.
! About year ago young wife procured
a divorce at New Philadelphia, Ohio Now
she sues her former husband for breach OF
| promise of remarriage.
| An air-pressure engine has been found to
answer in the underground railroad in Lon
don, and before long this method of pro-
pulsion viii probably be adopted, and
steam and smoke got rid of.
The marriage of the Crown Prince of
Austria in Vienna next month is to be sig
naliZed, among other things, by contest
in milstary music, in which all the military
bands of the world are cordially invited to
participate. But they must pay their own
expenses.
A skeptical Frenchman writes to the
Prefect of Police at Paris that all the as
serted discoveries in regard to trichin9 are
mere inventions of vegetarians, and he of
fers to prove it by living for three days off
nothing but pork that is alleged to be dis
eased, if the Prefect will supply the meat.
The suit to determine the ownership of
the signboard painted by David Cox has
brought to light the fact that the signboard
on the George and Dragon Inn at Hargrave, a
charming spot on the thames. was painted
by Charles R. Leaslie, the American Royal
Academician, on one side, and by Hodgson
his friend, on the other.
Eighteen notices to depart from German
soil have been served in Berlin within the
past month under authority of the Socialist
law. Among the number are six who
were arrested some time ago on charges of
treason: and, after four months of incar-
].
prosecution or trial, by order of the
Supreme Imperial Court.
The bomb that killed that Gar possess
ed 120 times the explosive force of gun
powder, a fact ascertained from Kibalt-
schitch, one of the executed Nihilists. 1t
contained dynamite nitro -glycerine car
bon, concentrated sulphuric acid, fulmi
nate Of mercury, which were separated by
glass tubes and other contrivances so ar
ranged as inevitably to break when the
bomb fell.
DR. Kidd, who was Lord Beaconsfieid's
regular physician. has the largest regular
practice in London and is an eclectic.
With the exception of this gentleman, it is
a curious circumstance that all around the
bedside of the dying exPremier-Dr.
Quain, Lord burlington, Lord ROwtOn,
James McC1ennan, his servant, and two
nurses-were Irish, "the sentimental and
sacrificing race, as he has styled them.
The detective camera is a new photo
graphic feat. 1t enables photographs to be
taken in the street. or anywhere else, with
out the person or persons photographed
being aware of the fact, and is calculated
to inspire lively terror among that class
of celebrities who object to having their
portraits taken. Externally it is made to
look like book or small box. Several eX-
cellent street scenes have been secured by
this device.
A singular judgment has just been pro
nounced by the German High Court of
Justice. Prince Ludwig Zu Sayn-Wittgen-
stein -Sayn married, in 1867, Fraulein Ii
lienthal, the daughter of a Berlin banker.
Prince Ludwig died in 1875, and his widow
inherited little from him except his title
and his armorial bearings which she con-
tinued to assume. However, of even these
one of her late husbands relations has sue
ceeded in depriving her. Prince Friedrich
Zu Sayn- -Wittgenstein-Sayn brought an ac-
ton against Prince Ludwigs widow to re-
strain her from calling herself Princess,
and from bearing the coat-of-arms of the
Sayn- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES After passing
with various results through the lower
courts, the suit came the other day before
the High Court at Leipzig, and in finding
for the plaintiff, that tribunal grounded
their decision on the principle that the
marriage of q man of exalted rank with a
woman from an inferior class of society
must always be looked upon as mesdttt
0fsce; and although the union be perfectly
legal vet the wife in such a case does not
ascend to her husbands dignity, but re-
mains in the social position which she orig
inally occupied.