The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-09
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Ihe number of national banks is 2, 163.
Florida now has thirty -eight newspa-
A congregation is often sold by the
| choir.
Not one in one hundred of the pion-
GERS OF Nevada, says The Carson appeal,
has $500 to call his own.
A Memphis lady vaccinated herself a
la Emma Abbott, and was laid up four
| days.
A Massachusetts man has put spit
toon on casters, and is asking patent
for it.
Michigan produces more salt than any
other State, but tits the forest fires, and
not salt, that puts the inhabitants in the
greatest pickle.
Avoid that which you blame others for
dong, says one of our wise men. Well,
things have come to pretty pass IL q
man can't kiss his own wife.
A bridge now nearly completed at
Acton, Pa, 3o1 feet from the bottom of
the ravine it crosses, is the highest in
the world. 1t is 2,o51 feet long.
John A: King, once prominent law
yer OF Henry county, Ohio, has been
dlsbarred for living with common
prostitute.
Atlanta, Ca, boasts of a Young, at
tractive and Industrious cobbler of the
female sex, who both mends and con-
structs all kinds of shoes to the satisfac-
ton of numerous customers.
s'Will you tell me,'' asked an old gen.
tleman of lady, s'what Mrs. IS
maiden name wasp WHY, her maiden
aim was to get married, of course ex-
claimed the lady.
Oil City Derrick. ssOf the thirty inebri-
ate asylums established in this country
during the past twenty-five years, but
four have gone out of existence. This
would seem to prove something, but for
the life OF us we don't know what"
Philadelphia Neaos: ''Jenner long ago
discovered that persons who milk cows
never have the smallpox, but only
mild form of disease called cow-pox.
Dairymen should remember this, and
double their number of COWS, for there
Is no safety whatever in apump handle.n
Philadelphia Bulletin: '.The Press of
this morning contains an account of
how 8 man lost gold watch on Mar
ket street car, and states that the case
is in the hands of detective. IF the
NSsoC 40 III OilC VI u OclGCJ1N6, We
venture to inquire what has become of
the works.
A famous Canadian poet has sent
forth to the world new inspiration en-
titled LET me die by the azure sea-
We have always been under the impress
sion that the laws of Canada were toler-
ably fairly administered. If this man
really wants to die by the azure sea,
why don't they let him die?
A reader of a scientific journal asks:
s.How to clean our boilers" 1t is the
easiest thing in the world. Simply let
the water get too low, and the steam too
high, and the boiler will not only be
cleaned OUT with remarkable i'm
petuosity, but pretty much everything
else in its Immediate vicinity win be
cleaned out with it. 1t never fails.
New Haven Register: I'm wooden
goods nothing new has appeared, says a
fashion note. This shows just how much
dependence can be placed on fashion
peared on Jimmy Tuffboy's blue trous-
upsetting the gravity of a whole Sunday
sehool."
A ball was given recently in the Man.
chester )Eng.) Town Hall for the pur-
pose of promoting the calico printing
trade by showing what beautiful designs
and colors modern skill in that industry
can produce. No lady was admitted to-
the ball whose dress was not exclusively
of English calico, printed either in Man
chester or Glasgow. About 1900 per-
sons were present, and everyone was
amazed at the beauty and variety of the
costumes. Calico balls have frequently
been given in the name of charity, but
perhaps never before in the avowed in
terest of trade.