The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-30
LOOD SUFFERERS
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
Dick TOrke was made crazy by the honor
of being elected Grand Master of Odd Eel
lows, at Navasota, Texas and had to be
| sent to an asylum.
| Two crows have built nest in one of
| the two fine plane trees in the centre of the
| city of London, inside the archway in St.
Paul's churehward. The plane trees in
question are remarkable as the home each
| night of from 5000 to 5000 of the London
sparrows.
| The theory that submerged body can
| be raised by firing a cannon over it was re-
Gently proved in Chicago. A plumber
named Leonard had jumped off the wharf
and drowned himself and his friends got
out the artillery and raised him by firing
over the spot where he had gone down.
A fresh exposure of the Chicago court
house ring, formed in 1872, whose stealings
are believed to have been $500000, is being
made by the Chicago Times A written
| contract has been found calling for an
/ equal division of the spoils between the
chief plunderers.
| The pictures of this seasons circus ad-
vertisements are more reckless than ever
before. The country newspapers are alive
with elephants which judging them by the
men alongside, are not less than thirty feet
in height, while COW and horses are shown
at twelve feet, and eightfeet giants become
| fifteen.
| William L. Black, on dying at Halifax, a
year ego left his entire estate, worth half
million, to his widow, though it was
known at one time intended to put her off
with as little as possible. F. II, Baker
claims to have effected the change of mind
and he now sues her for 800, 600, the sum
which he says she agreed to give him for
his services if successful.
Scene at Continental kursaal: English
party at card table 'Hellow, we are two
to two" English party at opposite table
We are two to two, too" German
| spectotor, who ''speaks English" to com
panion who is acquiring the language
/ We'll, now you see how dis is. Off you
want to gife expression to yourself in Eng
lish all you have to do is to blay NIT der
French hornm
4 yoluminous report has just been dis
| tributed in Paris, emanating from the COM
mittee for examining law for suppressing
the ancient institution of the Louveterie, or
| professional body of wolf destroyers, dat
ing back to the Merovingian dynasty The
committee, in place of the time e-honored
| system, suggests a code Of rules for the eff
fectivc destruction Of obnoxious animals in
general.
A few miles inland. in a deep gorge on
the island Of Scio, amid grand scenery, un-
til the recent earthquake, stood the wealthy
Monastry Of Neamoning founded, accord
ing to tradition, by Constantine the Great.
| It's stones now lie scattered below the cliff.
/ Only six monks were inside at the time of
the catastrophe, and were killed; the 9TH
er seventy-four, who We're in the fields,
saw their homes shattered before their
eyes,
! Vermont is the only State that has not a
single chinaman, North Carolina and Della
ware have each one, and Alabama has
four. The largest number in any South
ern State is 483 and Louisiana is the State
! Sugar growing has brought them there.
The other States and Territories in which
| they are most numerous are Pennsylvania,
| TO; Illinois, 214; Utah, SIS; Arizona, 632;
New York, 942; Montana, 1,764; Idaho,
1878; Nevada, 5, 423; Oregon, 9,515; and
California, rs, 122.
| A number of Liverpool opticians, cordial
admirers of Mr.. Gladstone, have manufac-
| tured, for his especial use, masterpiece of
| their handcraft in the shape of a pair of
| spectacles. The difficulty of obtaining the
| Premiers true sight was overcome by OBJ
strength of the glasses which Mr.. Glad
stone has in ordinary use. 1t may be in
teresting to know that his sight is classed
| by these skilled opticians as remarkably
| young for his time of life,
| Hindman Barney, who has become a
| Baptist exhOrter, says that he was an actor
until he lost an arm, and then he reformed.
| A one armed actor could not be of use on
the stage. 1t is fact, by the way, that
few actors are convinced of the wickedness
of their profession until they fail in it.
Drunkenness is usually what causes the
manager to freely consent to the retire
ment of the conscious-stricken performer;
but sometimes ability to act makes the
pulpit's gain no appreciate loss to the
stage.
The Swiss are not q little exercised by
the proportions which emigration from
their country is rapidly assuming. The
gathering of / 200 emigrants in Basle, the
other day, has excited comment, and we are
told that almost daily bands of emigrants
are passing westward from the Fatherland." "
One writer says that when an emigrant was
asked. care you, too, leaving u.s." the ans
wer was, Yes; there is nothing for me to
do at home" This answer has been made
the text for leading articles, in which the
Federal Council is called upon either to
take measures to remove, if possible, the
causes of the emigration, Or at all events
to guide it in such a way that the einigrants
NAV not be entirely lost to Switzerland.