The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-17

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;ng; ws value nothing for waica We have
uat paid dearly.
| Licences for liquor selling are refused
in oearly two thirds of the cities and towns
of Massachusetts.
4 New York ice company has cut 800.
| 600 Of ice Oh the Hudsou-the biggest
cold feat on record,
Sacisty never fnds out that d woman ia
lovely aEd accom- plished until her bus
band becoaes great.
An early dish of spring weather has it's
disadvantages. 1t makes the ladies sick
of their winter bsnnets,
"Johu." said Mrs Saob, send plumb.
er up to the house to day, I'll les folks
know I'm able to afford luxuries. Dos.
ton Post
josh Billings says that "a good doctor
is gentleman to whom we may pay So a
visit for advising US TO eat less and exer-
else more"
Cassius NJ, Clay in a recent letter saiG:
II am in my list year. and enjoy health
aud taks interest in political aft airs and in
agriculture.
Ia the good time coming we shall all
have free telephone. And then many
man will wish there was not one in exist
euoe. -Elmire Advertiser.
Innocent at Home"-No, newspaper
file is not used to scrape the rust from old
jokes. You've struck the wrong tool
chest this time. IN. Y. Graphic.
We congratulate the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. She is one of the few happy
brides who can, without blpshing, hear
people talking about cradles. chronicle
Herald.
1t would bs auite easy to pay the
national debt by imposing tax on beauty
There isn't woman living in the country
Who vogld rot demand to be assessed
Somerville journal.
The Boston Transcript predicts there
will be fewer cold days in February than
there were in January; and then goes
further aud says that there will be fewer
days of any kind
Secretary Schurz will be So years old
next month, He has for fourteen years
been widower Two lovely daughters
and two promising boys compose his
family. and they are all musical.
Yes" said the young lady who was
going sleigh riding, to her maid. Il will |
put on legeings and my thick overshoes. |
[ don't care about my cardinal hose. Mr.. |
Goff is careful driver he never upsets"
Boston Post.
4 man who had just learned poker, but |
had not sufficiently mastered the intrics
cies of the game. bet wildy,upon showing
his hand, was told that the spirit was
willing. but the flush was weak.
Miss Frances E. Willard. as the
result of Investigation, reports that
frozen punch il not served 3to guests at
the White House and stamps the story
that President Hayes sips champagne
when away from homa as SANDER.
It is said French ladies are adopting
The fashion of wearing diamonds on all
occasions. and the wives OF American
editors can now sport their diamond
necklaces and soltares at Saratoga hotel
breakfast tables next season without
remark The editors club will
be reserved for poets, as usual
The Elmira Advertiser thinks it should
30 understood that Mary Anderson's
mother receives all the sweet notes that !
lddle headed men send her. and uses
hem for curl papers or for gas lighters.
Phis does not apply to resotistle or legal
endeF notes.
4 Washington correspondent says it is
he prevailing fashion in that city for la
lies TO buy their .comp iexious. To this
fe' II BIO told that is the fashion for them
0 purchase their smies-the same as the
entlemen. The world is full of deception
nd busybodies -Norristowu Herald.
Professor Richard A. Proctor, the great
English astronomer. says he believes that
nth a good telescope any may see a mil
on suns, each the centre of universe.
~ the way. Professor Poctor who is COW
, San Francisco. says he proposes to
axe this country his homo in the future,
fe is delighted with our country aud It's
-eo institutions.
Bret Hsrte" "a recent visitor In Eng
md tells the New York correspondent off
lie Philadelphia Press is DOW the most
cockney in the whole of Eug- 9
nd. don't believe that he remembers =,
lat there is any such place as San Il
rancisco at all. Why he actually told me, %
ith an immense amount of patronage 81 81
bout it. too. that be dined on an average W
Z times a week with the nobility. And e.
; further declared that '6fty thousand N
H., as he called it, had been subscribed %
start 10 agazine for him over there. b p.
is consulate Is sinecure, understand. Of
ID he scarcely ever leaves London. en-
though his post of duty is ct Glasgow" di