The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-23
GLEANINGs.

scarcest of all American coins.
OF the seventy-six United States sem
ators five are of foreign birth.
The average expense of one session OF
congress exceeds $3, 100000.
1t is not calling your neighbor names
that settles a question.
a Cincinnati factory molds eleven
miles of candles day.
Canadians continue to obtain compar-
| atively large numbers of polled Aber-
deem cattle from Scotland.
| The American magazines republished
| in London are very popular among Eng
lishmen.
| A colored tailor from North Carolina
| is said to have made $4,000 in Boston
since the war. He gives employment
to over 100 persons.
A lady rarely ventures into the streets
of Paris unattended; but, as an eques-
trienne, she may trot through the streets
of the city, and through the bridle-paths
of the parks, unaccompanied by even
groom.
The mountain of the Lord is a solid
rock, 100 feet in height, rising above
| the street level at Manti, Utah. The
Mormons are building on this eminence
4 temple of fine marble, 95x170 feet IN
Alabama is sharing in the general
southern prosperity. The northern and
| middle portions of the state are beeon1-
| ing dotted all over with cotton factories,
| iron furnaces, and coal mines, and
| great fortunes are already being built
up in these factories.
| The census shows that the State OF
| Connecticut has over 1000 more fe-
males than males, and it is noted as
curious fact that in the smallest towns
in the State the rule generally IS that
| the men exceed the women in numbers.
The cities show the surplus of women.
A house built by Daniel Symmes,
brother of John Cleve Symmes, the
founder of Cincinnati, has just been de-
molished It was the oldest landmark
in the city proper. John Howard Payne
the author of Home, Sweet Home"
was frequent guest within its walls.
Ex-senator Thurman was looking at
his boxes in which his private books and
papers had been packed in his old con1-
on tie rpS samgs He say ay that the
Keep Dry.'' Turning to a friend, he
said: ssWho the deuce would ever
think of giving me such advice as that'"
| Silk stands fourth in the list of duty
paving imports, ranking after sugar
| wool and iron. = But American lngenu-
ty and resource will diminish the I'M
ports of this article by supplying home
markets with silks of American manu-
feature At present rather more than q
third of the silk goods used in the united
States are from our own looms.
In the last two or three examinations
for the British army the lists OF success
fuI candidates show an almost total ab-
sence of Young men of rank. In GER
tain circles it is thought that the army
will in future lose caste because OF the
absence of a strong aristocratc eie-
ment.
General Albert Pike-who is, by the
wav. the highest ranking free mason IN
the United States-is now " years old.
He is still so vigorous that he enjoys
field sports with as keen pleasure as
when. fifty years ago, he hunted IN New
Mexico, Texas and Arkansas. he Is
more than six feet tall, and is bent bn'
little.
Mr.. Paul Bert, who not long ago re-
oeived q present of some crocodiles from
Fuvpt. has publicly dissected five in the
tbeafre of the Sorbonne, Paris. Among
the facts noted was the almost entire
absence of brain matter, and it was con
cluded that these reptiles are devoid O
reason, and animated by destructive
instinct.
"Some little time ago." writes Mon
cure d. Conway, in letter to the CIn
cinnati Commercial when an art eXh1
bition was to be opened in Glasgow, MIR
Ruslzin was applied to for some of hi
oict1,res. He replied that he would on
~ be willing to lend his pictures whel
GLASGOW was in tit condition to enJo
them. and that would not be until 1t ha'
pulled down every one of its hldeou
houses l quote from the information
a. ,s.z who saw the silly letter"
The OoIored Social Sensation of Galveston
Jim Websters friends were joking
him Yesterday because he had not neel
down to the lodge for whole week +,
Old Uncle Nose said, 81 Ii bet d
0 reason you don't come down no noa
to see US boys am because yer whe won
B let yer come"
'iTain't dar ar. She invites me 10 &
q out cherry evenin'.
Q s4But She don't glib yer any money te
}, speud. She Jess hides yer portmonle.
', said Gabe Snodgrass, tauntingly.
:, e.Gemmens, said Jim Webster, SO
!, hull pack of yer am barkin' up de wron
J. tree. NY wife am jess too willing IL
! me to quit de house after dark.
. ssWaffar does she want yer to 6
outen de house P''
}. s.You see, Parson Whangdood
= Beecher's wife am absent from de eli
q Jess now"
s. 'sWell, what oh it.
a "Nufin. 'cept when Parson Whan'
- doodle Beecher kin prowl around AIT
. dark, stays at home. OATS all DO
IL yer ketch on p said Jim Webster.
y Mrs. Jim Webster has heretofore b
longed to the creme de Ia creme
Austin colored society, and no brea
of suspicion has ever been raised as
her reputation. What makes this soci
scandal all the more to be deplored,
the fact that she is the motheraof MI
children at least Galveston (Texas