The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-13
THE DAILY ARGUS.
GLEAEIEGS.

| whale ship arrived recently at Shet-
| land from North Greenland with zoe
bottled-nosed whales and 500 seals on
| board.
A Boston paper has discovered that
Oscar Wilde can eat peaches out of q
| paper bag, on the street, more graceful
| ly than any other man in America.
| Young men bicvclers around Boston
| 60 armed with torpedoes charged with
cayenne pepper for protection against
barking dogs.
The drum, which was abolished in the
| French army by General Fare, has
been restored by General Billot, the new
| Minister of War.
| Governor Bloxham.5 of Florida, re-
! ports that one of the most marked in
| dustrial features of that State is the ten
| dency toward small farms.
There are in Ohio 1924 more bows.
| than girls within the ages prescribed for
attendance in the public schools, the to-
tai number of boys being 362, 1885.
At the seashore. as usual, one wave
from woman's handkerchief viii con-
tinue to attract more attention than hun
dreds of waves from the ocean.
1t is said the sunrise and sunset guns
fired periodically at the United States
military posts costs the government
$18, $50 year.
There is an apricot tree in Fresno
| county, Cal, that measures sixty inches
around the trunk three feet from the
ground. 1t is estimated that there is
not less than ton of fruit on the tree.
why in such hurry?'' said man
to an acquaintance. Sir" said the
man, 4 have bought a new bonnet for
my wife, and l fear the fashion may
change before l get it home"
The sardine disappeared from the
coasts of France fully three years ago
and has Aot been seen there since. Yet
sardines are just as plenty in the mar
ket as ever, which leads one to believe
that we do not have sardines at all.
An interesting phase of society life is
seen when young man goes 10 call on
a young lady and his setter dog follows
him and waits outside, each passer-by
stopping TO read the name on the collar.
This happened in Lowell.
The arm of Bertholde's statue to lib
erty," which has held its fi;sneless torch
in Madison Square, New York, since
1876, is being removed for shipment to
Paris, where it will be put upon the
statue, which is nearly completed.
Farm laborers are said to be so scarce
in Montana that $40 and $50 month
is in vain offered for them. Farmers
are forced to let their COWS browse about
on the meadows with full udders, be-
cause they cannot get help enough to
milk them.
The common affiiction experienced in
the birth of the two-headed girl has
been counter-balanced by the birth at
Brownsville. Neb., of a one-headed girl
with four perfect legs and four perfect
arms. Thus does the whirlioig of time
make all things even.
A Laramie man who was divorced
from his wife explained the circum-
stances in these words: Il allus liked
Sal purity well, but she he'd a habit of
jabbin' her feet under me nights, an it
was just like sleepin' on a corn husk
bed''
One of the younger Coquelin's stories
relates that during a visit to Brighton
Sarah Bernhardt lay down on the beach,
dressed in white. She was brusquely
awakened from her reveries by a wash
er-woman, who picked her up, having
mistaken her for bath-towel laid out
to dry.
At Oxford porter encountering on
his rounds two undergraduates who
were without their gowns. or out of
bounds, or out of hours, challenged one:
Your name and coIlege?' They were
given. Turning to the other: "And
pray, sir. what might your name be?n
Julius Caesar" was the reply. What,
sir. do you mean to say your name is
Julius C@sar?" ''Sir, you did not ask
me what it was, but what it might be.''
Near Kingston. N. c., negro boy,
years old, shot his sister, aged years.
in house, dragged the body into q
field, and hid it in the rows of cotton.
He said the child began to cry, and to
hush it he snapped a gun at her, as he
had been in the habit of doing. The
gun went off, and the charge nearly
blew off the child's head.
A curiosity in the fruit line is on ex-
hibition at Tampa, Fla. 1t consists of
five distinct, fully matured pineapples
on one stem, touching each other at the
sides, and spread out in the shape of
fan. and around the top of the fan, like
a handsome fringe, are nineteen crown
lets, which viii each make a distinct
plant
Portions of the old elm which stood
on Boston Common have been placed
as relics in Independence Hall, Philadel-
phia. They were presented by the
Board of Alderman of Boston, and con-
sist of large section of the tree and a
polished veneer of the wood, upon
which is photographed picture Of the
tree as it stood before its fall