The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-17
GLEANINGs.

$3.50, 600 in timber.
The first mandatory of translucent
porcelain in the United States was
established in New Orleans last spring.
1t is estimated that about three mil
lion bushels of oysters will be take from
the Virginia waters this year.
A butcher in Somerset county, PENN,
has not tasted meat of any kind in fifty
years.
More ducks are seen on the grounds
aboat Oswego lake this fall than in
many previous seasons.
Atty. Gen. McLeary, of Texas. a few
days ago decided that it is unlawful for
boys to be employed about saloons.
There is one good thing about boy
when circus is in town: You know
where to look for him.
American horses will never make as
much money abroad as American dom
keys have spent there.
- Some people talk about the window of
the soul, but it amt half as real as
pane in the stomach.
The Boston Globe has discovered
that Cleopatra was q Nileist. 1t was
always supposed she was Czazt witch.
A gushing critic describes young
actress as haying" face painter might
dwell upon.' Probably because she
looked like s.f1at."
''Gesticulation," says an eminent ac-
tor, sis fast becoming lost art" He
probably never saw Talmage fencing
with an imaginary lobster.
A radish five feet four inches in
length and eighteen inches in crcum-
ference is one of the products of Yaki-
ma county, Washington territory.
Washington, according to one of the
local papers, is to have an Army and
Navy club, with Gen. Sherman as pres
idenf, if he can be induced to accept
the position.
A chap in Oregon married four wives
within ten miles of each other and
wasn't found out until the four hap
pencd to meet at q picnic and showed
the same kind of dollar-store earrings.
DE memory OBJ trouble" says col
ored philosopher, 'tstays wild man
longer dan de recollection OBJ pleasure.
fur man can moan longer dan he can
smile"
The aesthetic craze has struck Lead
vile. A prominent clergyman OF that
CITY has written to Boston to inquire
which is the most correct taste for
horse thief being lynched-to carry a
lily or sunfower?
A Walton county (Georgia) farmer
cut off his old watermelon vines about
six inches from the roots, plowed and
hoed the old stubs, and obtained finer
lot of melons than were produced in
the first crop.
Nothing that the doctors had to offer
about the presidents case was half so
appalling as The London LGncefs state
ment that the assesses in the kidneys
commence in masses OF microccoci
plugging the glomeruli. !"
Some very good salt wells have been
opened in Sumner county, Tennessee.
A bushel of salt from one hundred gal
Ions of water was the average, till the
wells had to be temporarily abandoned
for the want of capital.
A horse which Dean Boomer, of Lon
don, Ont, had in his possession for for
ty-six years, and was really two years
older than that, was shot to save it
from starvation. 1t had become too
weak to eat
Down town. in New York has ex-
tended it's line as far north as Twenty
third street, where stands the Calvary
Baptist church, tho congregation of
which has decided to sell the building,
and build another away up on Fifty
seventh street.
Last spring a boarder in house in
South Acton, Mass, missed $500. A
good old lady was suspected, but there
was nothing proven and she indignant
1y left for other quaSers. Last week
she was seen to enter an clubhouse OF
her former home and search for some
thing When she left a piece OF S1O0
bin was picked up and finally $500,
somewhat mouse-eaten, was found un-
der the caves.
Gen. Stoneman's one hundred acres
of vineyard at Los Angeles, CAL, yield
ed an average of eight tons of grapes
to the acre, in some places reaching as
high rs fifteen tons. This gave return
of $3.50 per acre.
A Rhode Island man called n neigh
Dor as'lantern-iawed cockroach." A suit
for SANDER resulted. and the jury re-
turned as follows: s.Not guilty on Ian
tern-jawed, but way off on cockroach,
and we find damages in the sum of ten
cents"
AS the flock sleep while the clergy
man is preparing his sermon. they think
F.. it no more than fair that they should
sleep while he is reading it. 1t must
be said, however, to tho credit of the
ladies, that they seldom go to sleep in
church. They generally keep their
eyes open during the service. New
| bonnets are worn to church.
There is one point on the West Shore
| (Hudson river) railroad. nearly oppo-
site New Hamburger, where it is almost
| impossible to find men to work, nearly
1000 men having tried the job and Civ,
en- it up. The place is a very higl
| bluff, with hardly spot for foothold
| Rev. John A. Lansing. a Methodist
eXhorter, is now in prison at Boston
| charged with swindling his dupes ou
| of about $1,000 He used the money
| in promoting the jacques Cologne com
pany, which finally wound up in bank
! ruptcy. Among his dupes were foul
| Boston widows.
| A resident of Fair Haven, VT, fol
quito n while missed wood from hi:
| shed. and finally, to find out what be.
came of it. loaded several sticks witt
| powder. The next morning, hearing
an explosion at the house of a neigh
| Dor, he ran in and found the fire blowr
out of the stove and the griddle-cakes
| which the woman was cooking, plas
tered on the ceiling,
A boy named Nichols, of Ossian, Liv
ingston county, N Y. killed snake
while out hunting, and forced the reptile
into the barrel of his gun. intending tt
fire at mark with it. When the CUR
was discharged it burst and few from
| his hand, and was found on the ground
some distance behind him. The be,
was not injured, but he is prejudicee
against snakes for gunwadding.
/ Some time ago valuable dog disap
peared from Lower Hill. Placer county
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