The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-07
VARIETY.

When a real shrewd Virginia farmer
wants big tree cut down and chopped up,
he tells the neigbors that there's a coon in
it and they'll have it down in ten minutes.
Boston Post.
Mrs. BranfSs, an Indiana woman, bought
some poison for rats, wrote the word poi
son" on it four times, hid it on the top
shelf in the pantry, and yet the hired girl
used it for baking powder within a week.
Detroit Free Press.
Browner Brothers, clothiers in Buffalo.
N York, have sued the Courier Company,
of that city, for $50, 90 damages for refus-
ing to continue their advertisement on the
page containing the telegraph news. The
difficulty grew out eff the COa4Ser's recent
makeup.
1t is proposed to perform an operation
ON the eyes of Thurlow Weed, who has
been blind for five years, with the hope of
restoring his sight. 1t is intended to cut
away the double cataract over his eyes and
fit double convex lens of glass accurately
in front of the eye, so focused as to pro-
perry cast an image upon the retina.~ If
the retina has not lost its constituencies it is
thought that he will be able to see.
Thus far there has been no reaction, or
sign of one, in the rent charges that have
recently farm in Forfarshire that was let
in 1860 for SO. $50 year, was relet on a
nineteen years release for $2,S75. Some
time after 1860 the rent of this farm was
reduced to $2,25O A piece of property
near this one, which ten years ago was
rented for So, 100, has been let again for
81 1876, having been of late rented f or
81, 375. Another Scotch landowner, but
one who was unwilling to reduce his rent,
has been obliged to take the property into
his own hands.
The Copts of Egypt are Christians, and
are supposed to be the DIES cendants of the
ancient inhabitants of the country. They
are quiet people, and not at all disposed
to quarrel with the Mosems The latter,
whose fanaticism has been aroused by
Arab Bey's movement and by its defeat
through the Christian English, rose at
Assyoot and threatened to xiii all the
Christians in the town. The movement
seems to have been partially suppressed.
but the mob has destroyed the houses of
the Copts and committed other outrages.
a lazy British clergyman can now buy
sermons, which are Autographed so as to
make his congregation believe they are
written by himself, for about a sixpence
per week He receives them on Friday,
giving him time to become acquainted with
them by Sunday. They are said to have
become hardened to this sort of dessert,
and deliver the phrases set down for them
as naturally as if they were the production
of their own brains. They are generally
written by curates receiving small salaries
to exc out the means of supporting large
families.
William Enston, native of Cambridge,
England, after having amassed large for
tune in Charleston, 8. c., died recently,
leaving $500, 900 to be applied to the build
ing of hospital in Charleston for old and
infirm persons. Before his death he had
frequently referred to similar institution
in his native city, and had expressed
wish that the Charleston hospital should
be patterned afterit. In order to carry
out this wish, the mayor of Charleston de-
puted a committee of gentlemen to visit
Cambridge and inspect the hospital; and
the English papers speak of their visit to
Cambridge recently, and their tour of in
spection.