The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-06
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ida Lewis has saved two members OF
a brass band from drowning. Ida's
popularity is rapidly decreasing since
this rash act.
Shoes and stockings no longer merely
clothe the feet. but in this era indicate,
as clearly as y guide book, the quality
of tho wearer's taste.
President Arthur sWears with great
vigor occasionally. A soft answer
turneth away wrath, but it turneth not
away the government office-seeker.
It has been discovered that Boston
editors have large mouths. Their an
cestors probably cut their brown bread
into too large slices
Seret. Mason was insane. II he had
been he would undoubtedly have shot
better. The ssinsanen murderer never
misses his mark.
It is said that q piper plays under
Queen Victoria's window every morn
inc. Here's a valuable hint to the
Italian organ-grinder.
An adventurous party of scientific
folks has lately ilsoisted the stars and
stripes at the very summit OF Mount
Whitney, the highest point of land In
the United States outside of Alaska.
The entire Bible has been translated
into the language of the New Hebrides
group of islands in the Pacif1c ocean,
and the natives have paid the whole
expense of printing it.
The cheapest riding in the world Is
on the underground railroads of Lon
don. Some of them carry workmen
twelve miles for penny-two cents;
The passengers last year numbered
10000, 900.
Gen. Brady appeared in court IN
seresucker suit, we are informed. The
country would like to see this old sere
sucker of the treasury in striped SUIT
in which the ''stwipes go wound ana
wound"
"A London paper says, as to the term
cornering: I'VE are greatly indebted
to our American cousins fer supplying
us with terms which express III one
word the meaning of half dozen SEN
fences"
A vessel named Abraham Lincoln
was lying at the wharf at Roekport,
Me-, recently, when another vessel
named James A. Garfield, driven In by
stress of weather, came alongside and
was attached to her.
For aristoeratic households. dogs are
now provided cushions of plush. consist
ing of center mat with q raised border.
which is stuffed with wool and has an
outside covering of velvet or plush, on
which design in crewl work is seen.
Deaf-mute church festivals have been
held annually 1T Berlin for fifteen
wears. The progress made during this
period in establishing n language OF
signs, as, well as in teaching the dumb
to speak, is one of the most wonderful
evidences of the advance of science.
The New Orleans Democrat notes
the presence in that city of number OF
persons from other cities, particularly
the north. seeking employment as
clerks, bool1keeperS, etc., and 1t says
that many others, failing OF success
there, have gone to Texas.
Germany has the most accommodate
inc of postoffices. 1t daily transmits
birds, beasts, and fishes. if OF harm
less sort. A goose unintelligibly direct
ed, was lately put up for auction sale,
when 1875 was found under its left
pinion. The sender has not been dis
covered.
There is a society in Europe known
as the Rhenish Cigar Tip Collecting
association, numbering 1882 members,
and the report is made that they have
gathered 4.569 pounds of cigar tips
Ibutts?) which have sold for 1000
marks, an of which has been spent for
useful gifts to 1.726 children.
The power Of becoming invisible has
often been displayed by the heroes oil
fairy tales, AMI it was formerly believed
to be procurable by means OF fern seed;
but no peculiar power of rendering
people invisible resides especially in the
seed of tie fern. Put on any very
seedy suit of clothes, and walk about
fIad 4 n If
your acquaintance will pass you without
seeing you.
She knew him: DO you reside il
this oity?'' asked masked man OF
masked lady at masked party th
other evening. He felt sick when sh
said to him, in low voice: '.Don't b
a fool, John; knew you by the war
on your thumb" 1t was his wife.
There was perhaps never more ex
traordinary suicide than that of a polio
employee in the Prussian village of Ho
| hemolsen, who drove three-inch mai
into his forehead with n curtain rod
The surgeons had difficulty, with thei
| whole strength, in getting the nail out
ssIntcger Tlta,n the Horatian cd
sung at the Presidents funeral. is re
! oarded with great favor among coileg
mon, the first two stanZas having bee
for many years utilized on funera
occasions where the deceased had reall,
lived an upright life.
An ancient and remarkable clock ha
/ been recently set up in the reading
room of the municipal library at Rouen
A single winding keeps it running TO
| fourteen months and some odd days
Il was constructed in 1882, underwear
alterations in 1916, was bought b
Rouen for 1000 france in 1883. has re
Gently been repaired and just set going
Tina latest freak of French fashion
the paralune, to guard the compiexlo
of the ladies from the rays of the moon
which are said to be deieterious. III
| new article resembles the parasol, onl
| that it is covered with u thin transpal
ent silk cause, generally pink, whic
/ lends soft tint to the natural color {
the face.
Old ST. Johns church, at Hampton
is said to be the oldest in Virginia. Th
present ediice was. in 1868, rebui
from tie ruins and remains of Il formo
one. During the war its interior wa
burned out. but the walls We're let
standing. Since that time it has bee
| reft! ed The walls, which are yer
thick. are built of bricks which wer
i brought from England, and the morta
| was of such superior quality that it
still as good as new and quite as har
as the bricks.
A speaker at an American ''conve1
tion," being addressed as Colonel,
| declared he was not even Captain
"Don't you live in MissouriPa he wa
| asked He owned that he did, and in