The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31


state OF New York anu the railroads it
would be necessary to take in going
from one point TO another.
An old Connecticut copper coin made
in 1888 has been found in oyerhauling
an ancient house at Middle Haddam.F
1t was in q rat s nest between the walls,
and had evidently slippedroff the old
mantlepiece and fallen inside the cas-
ing The old house was once tavern
in which Gen. Lafayette stayed over
night on his way to New London from
Hartford. @r4fff &c N
There seems but little chance of the
aesthetic mania which now abstracts
England ever taking much effect in San
Francisco-that is to say. if we may
Judge from the following conversation.
One of our society bellies has just re-
turned from Europe, and though not
quite ss@sthetized.n yet she still has
that sort of regard for it which people
who praise Tennyson, but cannot under
stand him, have for the Incompetent
sible. Young lady from Europe--t'You
NAV laugh dear, as much as you like at
the aesthetic school, but after all there
is something spirituelle in sitting up all
night with q lily" San Francisco girl,
who has not made the. EUROPEAN tour
tit may be very fine and what-do-
you-call-it, but I'd considerably sooner
sit up with a too awfufly utter nice
Young man. The travelled one left
the room in silence. and pity for the
unsophisticated one sank deeply into
her heart
Professor Harris, Boston scientific
sharp, says: t'There is a coming OF the
macrocosm into the microcosm. Wen,
what of it? If the microcosm is larger
than the macrocosm, and the macro-
cosm wants to go in, and has got q
ticket, we don't see what is to prevent
it. Give us something new.
At Newport dance, the other night,
he was introduced to very modest
and bewitching girl, and so, of course,
was doing his very best to merit his
good luck. Feeling a sudden indis-
position, he excused himself for
minute, and on returning was in the
| act of removing a few kernels of coffee
| from his vest pocket, when the damsei
astonished him by saying: ttDon't chew
that; I'd rather smell the new rum.
Sarah p, Thorp Springs: Where
| should I wear an engagement ring?"
Wear it on the second finger of the left
| hand, if everything is open aboveboard;
but if you do not want the old people
to know of the engagement we would
advise you to wear it in the right-hand
corner of an old striped stocking at the
| bottom of the bureau drawer.
Experiments by German scientists in
ascertaining the pecuiiarities OF the
electric light, established the fact that
it is not only healthier than any other
| method of illumination in leaving the
air purer, but that il increases tho
| - vision IN rnSnnntS
especially in Distinguishing colors.
Red, green, blue, and yellow are made
much more distinct and marked under
this light than by daylight.
Wine-growing is being successfully
| pursued in Virginia, and is rapidly as
| Stunning larger dimensions. twas first
introduced by Germans, but Others are
now taking hand in it. One firm,
with thirty-seven acres of land, has
produced $500 gallons of wine in a
season. It is reported that the yield OF
two counties this year will be so, 600 to
10000 gallons. There is a ready mar
ket for all that can be produced.
A Louisville lady is anxious to learn
ssNh by it is that a man entering, alone,
church of empty pews, and seating
himself, always put his hat in the pew
in front of him instead of leaving it al
his side, the front pew being as Liable
to be filed as any other?" She thinks
it may be for the same reason that, as
has ALWAYS been noticed, when this
animal comes out of saloon wipins
his mouth he goes one way and looks
another.
A lady recently went bathing in Sal
Lake, having previously put on pail
of cork-soled sandals to protect her fee
from the pebbles. In accordance witt
natural laws, the cork soles Went up
carving the feet with them, and excep
for. the efforts of a fellow-bather The
lady would have been drowned in
most iononlinious position. 1t Is alto
getber probable that, with the swee
1erversity of her sex, she expended tn
first breath she caught in scolding he
rescuer for interfering.
The hatred entertained by the Bone
mians for the Germans is shown strlk
, ingly by the recent experience OF
| Viennese merchant who was travelIn:
! through part of the Bohemian terri
tory and put up with some friends at
tavern kept by village official. Upol
their asking in German for dinner th
innkeeper's wife replied: ''In this in
no German is served with food. Nc
even a drink of water would be granite
5 to one of that nation" And the hungr
5 travellers were compelled to seek enter
: tainment elsewhere.
The Methodist Christian ocdt
contains the following: "a story
told in Michigan about one of tn
members of the Detroit Conferenc
q which is too good to keep. He wa
o spending day in the country, and wa
}; invited to dine. They had chicken &c
dinner. of course, much to the grief
9 little boy in the household, who ha
N lost his faForite hen to provide th
feast. After dinner prayers was pro
q posed, and while the preacher wa
q praying a poor little lonesome chicke
a came running under the house. cryin
+ for its absent mother. The little be
could restrain himself no longer. u
IL put his mouth down to hole in tt
9 floor and shouted: 'Peepy, Peepy,
8 didn't kill your mother. They kilie
IS her for that big preachers dinner
- The amen was said very suddenly.
Old Sis Umbrella.
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