The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-06

GLEANINaS.

c. d. Neff. of Greeley, raised 1000
bushels of potatoes from thirteen acres,
and without irrigation.
Canon City papers are indignant be-
cause mountain sheep in that vicinity
are being mercilessly slaughtered.
An Italian organ-grinder, enraged by
bad business, smashed his organ with
an AK at Springfield, Ohio, and made a
bonfire of the pieces.
Ex-Commissioner lie Due thinks the
great desire in Europe to emigrate to
America will ultimately cause trouble
on both continents.
The Macon Telegraph is protesting
against the modern practice of some
Georgia papers Of talking about ''corn-
huskingS." Ii saws that the north's vic
tory did not impose that word upon
them. and that nothing but .'corn-shuck-
IN" is ever done in Georgia.
A Boston tramp informed the police
magistrate that his occupation was ''vot-
ing and trying to get Office, whooping
il up for purity and reform, and point
ing with pride to the abundant har-
vests.n The Court '.whooped'' him up
for a good long term in the House of
Industry.
Near Winchester, Mass, is a tomb
from which the door has rotted away.
The small boys of the neighborhood
make the deserted place their play
ground. They pile the bones of the four
persons buried there in fantastic shape
and knock them down with the grinning
skulls.
A small space of ground near the
main entrance of Castle Garden settled
few DAYS ago and disclosed the mouth
of a tunnel or sewer-like passage lead
ing toward the old fort. 1t was con-
structed and used in the war of 1912 and
had long ago been forgotten.
Reuben Simms, an old colored man
who died recently Mt Roanoke, claimed
to have made the first plug of tobacco
ever made in Virginia. In order to
form compact mass he twisted.up the
leaves and with a mallet forced them
into an auger hole bored in block of
wood.
The cornerstone of the old National
theater at Boston, which was recen -ly
uncovered by the widening of Portland
street, was found to contain, among nu-
merous other interesting relics, a grape
shot from the field of Cerro Gordo, and
bill from the ancient Federal street
theater, dated Oct. %, 1870.
Milliners select the best feathers of
eight birds to make single turban.-
Blue jays, black birds, magpies, crows,
cartridges, hawks, wild ducks, pigeons,
swallows. and many other Familiarity
known birds, are stripped of their feath-
ers to minister to the new craze.
An enthusiastic prophet predicts that
by the beginning of another year there
will be over $50, 900, 900 invested in cot
ton factories in the Southern States,
and that there will be 800, 100000 in
vested in cotton manufacturing in the
South within the next dozen years.
There are fashions in coffee as in
other articles, and as the late arrivals in
Java have been pale, which is under
stood to be undesirable, the old brown
coffees are in demand at full prices,
while the new is being pressed for sale
at lower figures.
Five-cent and one-cent pieces are
rapidly growing in popularity on the
Pacific coast, but treasury regulations
forbid that the sub-treasurer shall keep
more of those coins on hand than are
required for Immediate use. The sup
ply must therefore be met by banks and
mercantile concerns.
1t IS the ''gOOd old custom OF the
Piutes, who believe in the survival of
the fittest only, to kill off all children
that are deformed or idiotic. Near Day
ton, New, lives squaw who has de-
formed and idiotic boy. The other day
delegation of braves went to her hut
to kill the boy, but the mother fought
so valiantly with tongue, teeth, and
nails that she held the executioner and
his assistants at bay until some of her
white neighbors, aroused by Der out
cries, went to her rescue and drove oft
the attacking force.
a Kentucky Mastodon.
A number of negroes, at work on the
extension of the Kentucky Central,
about two miles from Paris, KY, the
other day, came upon the skeleton of
some immense animal about ten feet
under ground, in soil of a steatitic ma
ture. The ankle was first discovered,
which measured seven inches in diam
eter. The knee through the socket was
twelve inches in diameter. From the
ankle to the top of the shoulder-blade-
it being three feet two inches wide
was fourteen feet seven inches. The
head was of large proportions, measur-
ing five feet in length. The jaw was
twelve inches thick, and the teeth are
preserved in good condition. The back
bone was then followed up, and forty
feet from the head were the bones of the
tail. The headquarters were exceeding
Iv lorup measuring in heiOht twenty