The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-13
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IIaS5e ds Inc right OF females to cOerce
males by lawmaking.
Liberia has population of about
twenty thousand American-born negroes,
VINO exercise control over q million ma
tive blacks.
Swedish matches have attained great
popularity all over the world. In the
year 1880 about nineteen million pounds
We're exported.
crude petroleum to supply the world
one year. About thirty million barrels
are now stored in Pennsylvania.
/ The. tall son of President Arthur, is
said to be as fond of, dancing as was
Nellie Grant when she was belle of the
/ white house.
And now they say the Chinese are re-
sponsible for the smallpox. IF people
could be made TO believe this, it would.
SO to speak, knock Johns laundry bus
/ mess.
New Workers feel rather ashamed to
talk about polygamy In Utah when they
recollect that the Oneida community
does not reflect much credit upon their
state.
| Il love diamonds says Alphonso
Karr, s'but have u horror of those
which show me a woman carrying in one
ear the bread of her children and in
the other the honor of her husband
The managers of the Garfield monu-
ment fund for the Pacific coast have in
| vlted designs, accompanied by plans,
| specifications, and an estimate of cost,
not to exceed $40, 000
| Miss Blanche Roosevelt tells a New
Orleans reporter that she has life of
Longfellow nearly ready for the press,
and that the poet has promised to revise
the proofs She used to be newspaper
correspondent.
Mr.. Francis Wise, a distiller, and the
richest man in Ireland, has just died.
He left no viii to dispose of his wealth,
| which amounts to $15,o00,00o. A rea-
sonable share of this is in American
securities.
Within the presbyterian synod of
Kansas the Gospel, or something else, is
preached in eight different languages
English, German, Bohemian, French,
Welsh, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Nez
Perces.
In the Bay State mine, Newark dis
trict, Nevada, at depth of 204 feet be-
low the surface some bones were recent
ly discovered that SO far no one has
there is puzzle.
A young man, recently from Manito-
ba, is commissioned by number of
bachelors to offer such inducements to
like number of manageable young Ia
dies as may induce them to leave On
tarlo and accept a home and a good huS-
band in the great northwest.
There is ayoung man travelling around
in eastern Texas vaccinating the negroes
with bees-wax. He charges dollar
vac, and represents himself as being
appointed by the United States govern
ment, and threatens that dire penalties
await those who refuse to be operated on.
A Boston florist says that for q year
past the ladies of the best society ofthat
city have affected aesthetic flowers, pre-
ferring anything of a yellow tint. At
this season the lighthouses are taxed to
their utmost to supply lilies and French
marguerites, which latter are sold as
daisies
At Palouse Ferry, Washington terri
tory, an old Indian died. recently, who,
according to all accounts, was Ito years
old. In the memory of the oldest set
tiers this old man has not been able to
walk. He was blind and almost deaf,
and remembered Lewis and Clark on
| their remarkable tour through the eoun-
try.
/ A correspondent of the Boston jour
nal says "a young lady in Paris was
recently fined SO francs and sentenced
| to pay 90 francs damages for rushing at
another young lady who was walking up
to the altar of church on her BRIDE
groom's arm and tearing the crown of
orange blossoms from the brides head.
You don't deserve to wear it; you have
done me too much harmn shrieked the
girl, after which she tainted away, but
I'D l.xrx1, hes f1a r,A
over to the police. -
A Pennsylvania firm is manufacture
ing paper at Savannah from what is
called 1.-THE saw palmetto material
heretofore regarded as nearly useless.
ity, and especially useful as transfer pa
per, which has heretofore been import
ed.
Paul Boyton, in his rubbers, floating
down the Arkansas, stopped at Ozarkin
passing to light his pipe. A little lower
down he came silently up to a skiff con-
tanning three negroes. They set up a
yell when they saw the paraphernalia,
padded rapidly to shore, and then made
hurriedly into the woods.
An out-of-town druggist entered
Boston apothecary shop and had a SIM
pie prescription put up. The charge
was S1.5O. He remarked that 1t was
rather dear, because, as he was. a drug
gist himself, he knew the price of the
ingredients. THAT alters the case,
was the responses; seventeen cents,
please
A Troy mathematician has figured
out the amount of gold and silver found
in the sub-treasury at New York~by As
sistant Treasurer Acton on assuming his
Office If train of wagons were loaded
with ton in each, the horse touching
the tailboard of the preceding wagon,
the precious caravan would extend from
Troy to Albany.
James Dunlap worked for farmer Ed
ridge, in Lansdale, Pa, and wanted to
marry the farmers pretty daughter; but
the farmer, with mereenary preference
for rich son-in-law, said nay. Then
James went into the far west and sought
fortune Thy farmers daughter re-
manned constant through ten years, and
last week the long waiting ended in
wedding.
One mile below Downieville, Cal, on
the Yuba river, is apparently a thrifty
pine tree about three feet in height,
growing out of solid rock. What is
curious about it is the fact of its making
no perceptible change in size since it
was first noticed twenty years ago.
A peculiar disease has broken out
among houses IN Wasco county, Oregon.
The first symptom is the swelling of the
1nos their. Iafeayiucr and running some