The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-26
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ALL SORTS.

oAOB I'LL fGCTGttSG Oh 1OZ p cEHG, anu
amounted to nearly 81, 600. 900.
A. Boone county boy hanged himself
to tree because of the sheriff serving
papers on him to appear in q partition
suit. he being one of the heirs to the
property.
An effort is being made to have the
Singer Manufacturing company locate
in Oswego. It is said that the company
desires to move somewhere from Eliza
beth, N. J
Ebenezer Burt, well known as the
owner OF Burt farm, on which the first
oil we'll was sunk in western New York
In 1868, and one of the pioneers of Per-
ny, is dead.
Secretary Blaine's face is unchanged
in its expression of force and acute
ness, but his hair and whiskers have
whitened SO rapidly during the past
summer that he looks much older.
In Yosemite valley. lately, steel
trap was set. and caught bear. The
animal gnawed off it's leg and escaped,
but was tracked and shot.
A well at Benicia. Cal, bored for ar
tesian water, has struck carboniferous
gas, and it is proposed to light the ar
government $51, ZOO.
pardoned sixteen youths from the PEN
itentiary on account of their age. He
thinks it is better for them to be out of
place where they are SO likely to be-
come hardened with sin.
1t has been discovered that boy of
16, in Watertown, N. Y, married a girl
of Is last June, and that they have
hidden the fact since. Their parents
will prevent their living together until
they reach suitable age.
Promiscuous rag-pickings are never
used in Bank of England notes-only
white linen cuttings that have not been
used. No two genuine notes are ever
made alike. The stock of paid notes
for seven years amounts to 1874, 900, 900.
while ago Arthur, son of Samuel
Cheney, of Middletown. Conn, found
three snakes eggs, which he laid away
in box, and last week the boys moth
er wanting the box for some purpose,
opened it and was confronted with
three lively young black snakes.
A new insect pest has been discov-
cred by the farmers about Goleta, Cal.
1t has also been observed on the Dos
Pueblos. Some call it the s'hax wee
vii" 1t swarms on corn and fax and
beans in perfect myriads, and the
farmers are quite at loss how to deal
with it.
Varzin, of which so frequent mem
ton is made in dispatches relating to
Bismark's negotiations with the pope,
is the family seat of the chancellor. 1t
is a favorite haunt of the herons, who
are carefully guarded, an old supersG-
ton saying that when the herons leave
Varzin the fortunes OF the Bismarks
will fall.
Tn DIFF yxyl,o
not learned accosted two little girls on
a canal bridge and asked them if they
had ever seen man commit suicide.
He then leaped into the water, but evil
IDENTITY changed his mind, for he called
Justify for help. None came, how
ever, and he sunk. His body could not
be found. .s...
A young man turned up at police
station in New York, recently, request
ing that he be locked up, as he had
stolen money from his employer in Chi
cago, and his conscience was pricking
him sharply. 1t came out, on examin-
alton, that he had no money, and he
was committed to await an investiga-
ton into the truth of his story, it being
believed that his purpose was to secure
board and lodging at the states ex-
pense. ~
On the Sharon farm. near ST. Mich
aers, NIL, there are numbc of peach
trees. about thirty years old. whic b
produced three crops. After the first
crop the trees did not blossom, but the
second and third crops grew directly
from the wood like figs. and in clusters
resembling cherries The trees have
| produced IA second crop for several
| wears, but the third crop is novelty.
| The peaches were diminutive in size,
but were highly priced as a curiosity.
It is proposed by Mr.. Benner to print
aniline black along with dyed alizarin
| violets. He prevents the colors from
spreading or running by adding acetate
of lime in large excess to the violet
mordant.
The Central Society of Chemical and
Commercial Industries, France, has
nominated commission for the revi-
sion of the analytical processes used in
determining the value or the purity of
commercial products.
The Emperor William takes pattern
al interest in the smallest trifles con-
nected with the business and amuse-
ments of the capital. Owing 10 an al
legged slight, caused by the part of Di
norah having been bestowed upon 8
rival singer. Mile. Schumann, one Of
the prime dome of the Royal opera
| has lately chosen to submit her resig
| nation direct to the emperor. Tx
aged monarch had great difficulty il
| persuading the injured lady to with
draw her threat and continue to grace
| the boards of the Royal opera.
The Nature reports that q telegraph
ic experiment of a singular description
was tried about the middle of Augus
at the Trocadero. 1T consists merely
in the reading of large silvered zinl
letters, a square metre in size, fixed OF
blackened board, by refracting tple
scopes. This method has succeeded
very well from the Trocadero to Thu
Pantheon--a distance of three miles
The inventor, an officer in the French
service, thinks ne will succeed in read
ing messages at u distance of sixty
miles under favorable circumstances.
Viscose, the gummy substance o
viscous fermentation. is thus described
NJ. A. Bechamp: 1t is white, easil,
powdered, aud not at all like gum, bu
when it is dissolved in cold water it APP
pears glutinous. 1t does not reduc'
the lcupro- potassie reagant. Aicoho
precipitates it entirely from its solution
IN q mass which can be drawn int
threads. Solutions of viscose are no
colored blue or violet by iodine. Sui
/ phurie acid acts on viscoSe as starch
forming dextrine and o glucose. am
the doctrines do not ferment whel