The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-12
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! Colorado. Who can beat this? &
What's going and what's past hell
should DO past grief
A night gown is nothing but nap
/ sack.
Some of the Egyptian munmies arr
encased in bandages more than one
thousand yards long.
The government of Vera Cruz is be.
sieged by persons claiming the 800, COX
reward for . cure of yellow fever.
A quarry of rariegated marble equa
to any in Italy was recently discovered
in Fluvana county, Virginia.
The product of the gold. silver, and
copper mines of the southern states fol-
this year promises to be above the
startling figures of $40, 600, 900.
There is great excitement in the 10.
cality of the zinc mines. in Tazewel
county, Tennessee, over ''finds,n sup
posed to be silver.
In Marion county, Florida, orange
groves near lines of transportation are
valued for taxation purposes st $500 an
acre.
Tenders wife's uncle on her mother
side IS so scrupulously temperate that
he won't eat cider apples nor patronize
o mosquito bar
A thief in Rochester robbed seven
contribution boxes, and got twenty
cents. And he thought that for con-
tribution boxes they panned out well.
ut is fine morning." as the judge
remarked when he mulcted the prisoner
at the bar to the tune of twenty dollars
and costs.
sis your. daughter at home, Mr..
BruskP" stYes, sir; and so is her mo-
Their" Callow said he'd "caIl some
other day." but he never did.
Blessings brighten as they take
their Highland so do summer visi-
tors,n remarked farmer Jones, as he
saw the last of his city relations skip
for home.
Philosopher Sheuman remarks that
''a good many people who are always
ready to amen during service in
church, are not quite so ready to amend
after it.
The most horrible case of insanity in
the Massachusetts, Asylum is that of q
man who imagines he is a Chicagoan.
He gets up in the middle of tho night
to brag.-Bostoa Post
The canal around the Muscle shoals,
Tennessee, will be completed within
two years, when the Tennessee will be
nayigable from Paducah to Knoxville,
some $50 miles.
The Methodist Episcopal church will
establish a magnificent university in
Chattanooga, provided that city will
give the ground for the structure that is
to be built.
If man declares himself to be so
thoroughly religious that he has not
committed sin for twenty years, you
are safe in concluding that he does not
regard lying as sinful.
A firm at Augusta. Ca, received
cablegram from London for bottle of
medicine. The message cost 81. so, the
medicine 50, and the express charge to
London is 81 so.
During the White Pine excitement of
1868 Hamilton. New, had population
of thousands, two large daily news
papers, and all evidences of prosperity.
To-day it does not contain sixty souls.
The gunpowder plot at GAINESVILLE,
o., wasn't II plot at all. The roll of
dynamite found on the railroad track
proved to have fallen out of a poorly
nailed box containing the blasting ma
terial
It is reported that prominent east
ern firm of silk manufacturers are
negotiating for valuable property in
San Bernardino county. California,
with view of starting Il colony of silk
raisers.
The governor of Texas has called the
regents of the state university to meet
at Austin for permanent organization
and TO take the necessary steps to erect
the buildings. They are supplied with
$50, 900 for that purpose, and $40, 900
with which to purchase furniture,
library, apparatus, museum. and other
appliances.
There were chips and WRITINGS
enough left on the door-steps and yard
of the courthouse at Pikeville, Tenn.
after the adjournment of the circuit
court, says the local paper. to supply
kindling-wood for an ordinary family
the whole winter.
The old Middle Dutch church prop
erty, in Albany, n. Y, has been sold
for $50, 600. and a large and commodi-
Gus market will be erected. The old
church in North Pearl street. Albany.
is to be transformed into roller skat-
ing-rink.
A new telegraph wire has been put
up from New York to Buffalo, and will
be used for railroad business exclusive
ly. There viii be only five offices on
the wire-Grand Central depot. New
York; Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and
Buffalo.
In the German town OF HeiXnlem
there were such hords of mice that
reward of fourth of cent for every
one killed was offered by the municipal
authorities. Under this stimulus proof
has been furnished within short time
of the death of over $40, 900.
A tailor in New Jersey who had
case in court lately undertook to bride
the Judge by pretending to him that
there was wager regarding his size,
and, after measuring him, leaving at
his house a vest which was an exact fit
But it didn't work. and the ingenious
tailor was openly, reprimanded in cours.
Near Griffith, Ga. q rattlesnake eight
feet long, as large as the calf of mans
leg, with fifteen rattles. chased horse
a quarter of mile, striking at him all
the time The horse ran ut the top of
his speed, dragging a wagon with a
little boy in it. The snake finally gave
mp the chase, and was shot.
A factory at Camden, Oneida county. |
N. Y. has two sets of hands for night |
and day work One of the managers |
was awakened the other night by the |
stopping of the noise made by the ma |
chinery. He dressed and went over, |
and found that the boss and all hands |
had stopped work and gone to sleep.
The Mount Sterling, KY, Democrat |
tells of convict working on the Means |
tunnel who is six feet four inches high |
and large in proportions; wears q shoe |
which is fifteen inches in length. four
teen inches around the instep. and i've /