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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-12
PERSEVERANCE WILL TELL.

stoughion. Mass, March lsth, ISL
II. J. kEsDTfL & Co..-f'.nis-Ih justice 60 you
ani myself think ought 10 let you tno- that
have removed tive bone .psvins with kESDsLL'-
SPAIN CuEE. very large one. Don't know
how long the spavins had b.-n their. have
owned ihe horse eight months II took me four
months I" take the large OF anil tao for tho
small one. have used ten bottles. The horse is
entiSojy we'll, no; At all stiff and bunch to 10
fell, This Is wonIerfal medicine. u !.
a thing hare. but II IL does 81 III what u has
done for me- it, sale will 10 very great
Respectfully your.
CIiAs L PARKER.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
A Doc.,s Gensa Of Smell.

Have YOU ever observed how really
wonderful is the dogs sense of smell?
Anacbarsi5 {says his happy owner)
knows me, when l am dressed in clothes
he never saw before, by his nose alone.
Les me get myself up in theatrical
costume and cover my face with mask,
vet he will recognize me by some Ito s)
undiscoverable perfume. Moreover, he
will recognize the same odor as cllnglng
to my clothes after they have been taken
off. If I shy pebble on the beach. he
can pick out that identical pebble by
scent among a thousand others. Even
the very ground on which have trod-
den retains for him some faint memento
of NV presence for hours afterward.
The bloodhound can track q human
scent week old-Which argues q deli
cacv of nose almost incredible to human
nostrils. Similarly, too, if you watch
Anacharsis st this moment, you Will see
that he runs up and down the path,
shifting away at every stick, stone ana
plant. as though he got separate and
distinguishable scent out OF every one
of them. And so he must, no doubt; tor
if even the earth keeps a perfume OF the
person who has walked over it hours be-
fore, surely every object about us must
have some faint smell or other, either
OF itself or of objects which have touch
ed it. Therefore the smells which make
up half dogs picture OF life must be
successive and continuous.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
Victoria at Windsor.

With regard to the s'relic-rooms," to
which allusion was made in Truth last
week, L understand that not only at Bal
moral, but also at Osborne and at Wind
sor castle, the suits which were occupied
by the prince consort have never been
altered in any way since his death.
Everything remains as he left it. The
rooms are kept locked up during the abb
sence of the court, but, as the queen
comes to each palace, they are opened,
and lighted up every evening during her
stay. At Windsor her majesty usually
passes a part of each evening in the
prince consort's sitting room, his suit
adjoining her own, which open from the
grand corridor. Frogmore has been
practically rendered unavailable as a
residence, in consequence OF the queen
having closed up the rooms which We're
used habitually by the duchess of Kent.
This house was always an inconvenient-
~ small one, and the shutting up of the
best. rooms makes it impossible to accom-
modate family and establishment
there, which, however, is not regretted
by the royal family, as it is very dus
place and exceedingly damp. The queen
passes every morning at Frogmore while
residing at Windsor. In summer her
majesty has tents put up on the lawn,
breakfasts in one and writes her letters
and transacts business in the other,
driving back to the castle to lunch Two
grooms are constantly kept employed
conveying the boxes of papers from Sir
Henry Fonsonby at the castle to the
queen in her tent.-LoHdo1s Truth.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
NATURE,s TRIUMPH,
Frazier,s Root ,B,tters.

If you are weak, or languid, use
Frazer's Bitters.
If your flesh is fabby and your COM
plexion salloW, use Frazer's Bitters.
If you live III q malarial district, use
Frazer's Bitter's
If worn down with the care of chill
dren, use Frazer's Bitters.
IF you hare got the blues, use Fraz
er's Bitters.
Ifyou kept late hours and lived con-
trary to the laws of health, use FraZ
er's Root Bitters.
If you need toning up. take Frazer's
Root Bitters.
Ifyou have abused instead of used
natures gifts, use Frazer's Bitters
IF you feel old before your time, use
Frazer's Bitters.
IF life has become burden and you
have gloomy forbodings, use Frazer's
Bitters.
If your hands tremble aud 20 eyes
have grown dim, FraZer's Root Bit
tiers will make you feel young again.
Sold by al druggists everywhere at
the low price S1.00 per bottle. F. S.
Henry Co., Sole Proprietos, Cleveland
Ohio.
For sale by Mccabe & Wheaton. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
Curious Facts.


The natives Of India say that the baya
bird lights up her nest with fireflies.
The tomato plant is avoided by ear
wigs, caterpillars, aphides, slugs and
snaiiS.
The part of the human body which
shows the greatest variety OF color is the
iris of the eye.
A wire 400 feet long can be made
from one grain of silver Such a wire
is finer than human hair.
King Alfred used to measure time by
a device of twelve candles, graduated so
as to burn two hours each
A large boa in the geological gardens
in London swallowed q blanket, and
disgorged it in thirty-three days.
From animal remains it is concluded
that Great Britain was at one time con-
nected with the mainland, and the Eng
lish channel was dry.
Resonance in public halls can be mod
fled or prevented by stretching wires
across the ceiling, so that the vibrations
are absorbed, conveyed from one wire
to another, and spread over the build
ing.
The largest room in the world under
one roof and unbroken by pillars, is at
ST. Petersburg. BY day it is used for
MILITARY oiSI1Ia9Sf ny hlSh' Io1 !" vas"
ballroom. Twenty thousand wax tap
ers are required to light it.
There is tract of country in Califor-
MIA, about fifteen miles long by half a
mile in width, where lightning strikes
trees nearly every time storm passes
over. Outside of this strip there is no
such damage. The line can be plainly
| traced by dead timber. As many as
! three fires have been caused by light
ming in this tract in one single storm.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
Josh BILLINGS.


The famed writer of the Yankee
proverbs is now about 60 in years, and
shows it. His hair, which is as long
and unkempt as ever, is iron gray, and
his stiff, dropping mustache is fast
changing to the color of old age. As he
grows older, he seems to become more
and more supremacy regardless of per-
sons, surroundings or opinions. As he
greets one with machine-like ''How do
We do" or an inanimate .sGood day."
the impression is conveyed that he has
arrived at that state of life and prosper
ity where he deems fate powerless to
work any alteration for worse. Billings
is essentially man to himself, taciturn
and unobtrusive everywhere. He is
not so popular as formerly, his only
work now being that which appears in
the New York Keekiy. For this service
he receives, perhaps, $4,000 year.
His royalty from the circulation of
'.Proverbs,'' his almanacs and other
works swell his yearly income to about
5000. He is now willing, but not an
attractive lecturer; his services in this
field are in small and waning demand.
From the proceeds of his labor he has
amassed fortune of over 500, 600. All
this money apparently affords himself
and wife but meager and inelegant COM
fort They pass a quiet, relegated, but
doubtless contented life, IN an UMPIRE
tentious Sixty-third street dwelling
house, the garnet of which is made to
answer the combined purposes OF liter
AIRY sanctum and stOre-houSe.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
~
Timber.


Some European countries are almost
as bad off, as far as a supply of timber
is concerned, as is the United States.
According to French agricultural
journal, the oak of Sweden and Norway
is about exhausted, and they are com.
peeled to buy their wood in Poland, and
the pine is being rapidly removed. The
forests of Russia, along the shores OF
the Baltic, in Finland and in the south
ern provinces, have been so rapidly
thinned that the forest area of the en-
pire is now only one-tenth. The for
ests of Germany are well cared for, and
there are now in that empire about
$4,000 600 acres of forest (over half of
which are in Prussia), valued at about
$500, COO, 900, and producing an income
annually of nearly S50,000,00O. The
greatest effort is made to preserve the
forests of Germany, and to.increase the
forest acreage (about 100000 being
annually expended in replanting by the
statel, and the imports exceed the eX-
ports by over 2,000,00 tons. There are
about $4,000, 900 acres of forestzif1 Aus
tria and Hungary. austria, however,
has so reckleSsly cut her forests that she
is noW-0oliged tobuy most of her timber
in Bosnia and Montenegro. Servia,
Roumania, and Portugal have good for
ests, but the fine forests of Italy and
Spain are so situated that they cannot
reach market when cut. 1t would
seem that the United States might prof
itably follow the example of Germany
and save her forests South Australia
is at present engaged in this work and
planting trees on an extensive scale
Boston Globe.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
Irish Bogs ReolaimabIe.

The total area of bog in Ireland is es-
timated at $780, 900 acres, nearly one
seventh of the entire surface of the Is
land. OF these bogs there are 1,576, 600
acres of fat bog, the remaining ,254, 0oo
acres are mountain bog. Without en-
terino into chemical details, which, how
ever we are fully prepared to do, we
NAV state as an uncontradicted fact that
nothing but wcll-digected labor is requir-
ed to convert the greater portion, If not
all. of that land, now waste into the
richest pasture or corn land. Drainage
is the first, and in many cases the only,
reuuisiteto effect this change. Burning
the surface Of the bog after draining has
in some places had an admirable result.
Claying the bog by extracting the clay
which lies below and forms an mpervl-
Gus bed. and placing it as atop-dresslng
is the method which has been followed
in other cases, as in our own Bridge
water levels, with the result of turning
waste swamps into the richest pasture OF
hay-crowing lands in the kingdom.
whichever of these methods be adopted,
there is the remarkable characteristic
that only labor is required. No more
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09

Here is a boys composition on Fall:
This is Fall, because it falls on this sea-
son of the year. Leaves fall, too, as
well as thermometers and the price of
straw hats. Old topers, who sign the
pledge in Summer, are liable to fall
when Fall cider-making opens, for
straws show which way the cider goes.
Huslzing corn is one of the pleasures OF
Fall, but pleasure isn't good for boys, L
don't think Old men want a little fun;
let them husk a husky old man can
90 through good deal of corn, some
times. Digging taters is another OF our
Fall amusements. The way I like to
DIG taters is to wait until they are baked
nicely, and then dig them out of their
skins. Most Winter schools open in the
Fall. The best Winter school L ever
went to, didn't open until Spring, and
the first day it opened the teacher took
sick, and the school house was locked up
for the season. Once in awhile we have
very severe fall, but nothing like the
fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden OF
Eden. Summer is misnamed. 1t should
be called pride, for doesn't pride go be-
fore 8 fall2
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09

capital Is required than will suffice to
feed the work people. There is "a great
work to be done-a work so large that
it is beyond the reach Of any private
enterprise; ii is work involving i'm
n1euse national benefit. All neighbor-
ing landowners would be enriched by
the reclamation Of this enormous bog.
The island would have almost a new
county added to its productive area. No
money need be sunk in bog. 1t is only
requisite to apply to it that muscular
force which is fretting itself into deeper
poverty and misery by enforced idleness.
That the proper mode for attacking the
bog is a matter for ready scientific de-
termination, every Woolwich cadet is
aware. What is required is simply
enough labor under scientific direction;
and when we reflect that we want the
work TO be done, as well as the men to
be employed, we think no unnecessary
strain would be put on convict labor as
solution TO the problem. London Bsildsa'.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
George Laws Beginning.

George Law, who died millionaire,
began life in Troy, N. Y, without a
friend in the world One day, while
passing along River street, a hod-earrier
who was carrying bricks for the masons
on an unfinished building fell from the
ladder and broke his leg Young Law
stepped up to the foreman and said:
Scan l have that mans placer" ''Did
you ever carry a hod?7 asked the fore
man. NO" s'You will break your
leg, and perhaps your neck" Il will
run the risk said George Law, and
from this beginning he became one of
the wealtf1iest builders in the United
States, always running risks" but for
manyyears everything he touched turned
into gold.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
Reserve Power.
Chemistry is'the science Of the world

Chemistry the science OF the world
and of the future. 1t has put IN our
hands glin-powder, nitro-glycerine, dy-
Mantle, and, above all, illuminate of
gold-an explosive so terrible that if an
ounce of it be left in a stoppered bottle,
its grains falling among themselves by
their own weight will create a convul-
sion sufficient to lay all London in ruins.
1t has given us polsonS so subtle that,
were we to employ such means OF war
fare, we could sail in a balloon over the
camp of the enemy and drop upon it.
shell, the bursting of which would XIII
every human being within a mile OF its
range.
The possibilities of chemistry are al
most too terrible to be contemplated.
AS the science at present stands any
student can, if he have access to & we'll
stored laboratory, carry away in pill box
matter sufficient to lay London in ruins,
or TO poison the whole community of its
Inhabitants The chemist can, as every
school boy knows, convert water into
ice in the center of red-hot crucible.
He can construct a she'll the size of q
cricket ball. which will explode the mo-
men5 it touches the water and over
whe,m in flames a hostile fleet In
deed The chemist reduces the world to
its original and primal element. For
him even more chan for the engineer,
nothing is impossible. And yet his
power, vast rs it is, is limited. He can
more easily destroy than construct. He
can take life. but he cannot give it. lie
can level the city with the plain, but he
cannot build it again. He can create
lyr,;s>ie acid, but lie is ignorant of its
antidote. lie is like the fisherman who
rashly opened the vessel scaled with the
ring of SHERMAN Ben Daoud. The
forces at his control are beyond his com
mand; the powers he can evoke he cam
not Law It is the old story of Cornelius
Aerippa who trite with nature S
| secrets do so at their peril. OBJ
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
TRUTH ATTESTED.
Some Important Statements of Wel1-Known
People Wholly Verified.

In order that the public may fully realize the gen
uineness of the statements, well the power
and value OF the article of which they speak. we
publish herewith the fac-simile signatures of parties
whose sincerity is beyond question. The truth of
these testimonials is absolute the facts they
announce he ignored.
MOLINE, Ill, July IA, 1881.
II. II. Warmer d Co., Rochester. ". Y.
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Liver Cure, has been used by both my wife and my
self She used it ION general principles, sys-
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long-standing kidney trouble, which has been the
source of much inconvenience, and which failed to
yield to the doctors remedies any others, until
used your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. We both
unite in pronouncing it to be the best medicine we
ever used, and in recommending it 10 others as a
safe remedy.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
An Elmira clergvnan reports that the

An E1mira clergyman reports that the
war on mutilated coins has been good
thing for the contribution-box. A man
who has tried in vain to pass half-dol-
lar with hole in it finally gives up in
DESPAIR and drops it into the Sunday
collection, to which he was formerly in
the habit of contributing nothing, or at
most dime. Such coins the churches
sell as bullion, at an average reduction
of 5. por- cent, of their face value, much
to the advantage of foreign missionaries
and poor people at home.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09

An extraordinary amount of capital is
being invested in sheep and cattle rails
ing in Cuba. Including the horses and
mules owned by the planters, it is cal
culated that the value of the cattle OF all
sorts in Trinidad valley amounts to 81
900, goo. Great care is being bestowed
upon the breeding, and the importation
of sheep, cows, and bulls is increasing
largely, no less than thousand head
having been delivered from England and
the United States at Clenfuegos alone
in a single week.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
The Positive Cure
Fer all Female Complaints.

This preparation as its name signifies consists OF
Vegetable Properties that harmless to the del
cate invalid. Upon trial the merits of this Com
pound VIII he raeagnized as relief e immediate; and
when it's use is continued, in casesfn hun
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tify On recount of proven MERITS it is to-.ayre
commended and prescribed by the best physicians In
the country.
It viii cure entirelv the worst foam OF falling
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Menstruatiou all Ovarian Troubles Inflammation ard
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the CIaea Of 1ife 1t WI dissolve and expel tumors
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In fact It has proved to be the great
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It pereaes ovory portion the system, and gives
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It cures Floating, Headaches Nervous Prostretic',.
General Debility sIceT,essness, Depression and I,.i
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weight and always permanently cured iy
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For kidney Complaints of either Sc. this compound
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09
Two little girls. 10 and II years old,

Two little girls. 10 and II years old,
left their homes in Atlanta, Ga, recent
", taking dolls and other little play
things with them, and started off on a
gypsy iaunt. They stayed from home
AL one night. but We're carried back the
next day, TO the great relief of their
parents. YelloW-back literature is
thought to have put the folly into their
heads.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09

Rock Island & Peoria
RAIIW a. K.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE
E ST AND sou E Z.

Trains leave Rock Island.
$3.50 q m Way Freight
$3.50 g Fast Express.
1880 D m Mail and Express.
$50 f" Through Freight and Accommodation
Trains arrive at Rock Island.
2:30 a m Through Freight and Accommodation:
12:45 N Mail and Express
$40 Is Fast Express
4:30 Sc Way Freight.
The FAST EXPRESS leaving Rock Island at . ~
m arrives at Peoria u 20 D M at Springfield 4:25
m, at Decatur 4:00 m, Jacksonville ..o2 2 m,
Alton 30 m, st Louis S:15 m, ana ief.e NJ
IL :55 D m The SAME DAY. Making thls the besL
and QUICKEST route 20 all points soathesst:, -
The go d. N. train makes close connection -
Galvs with 6 @ for points west :a arr o. q
galesburg at 4:25 m at Burlington 40 p IA; al
Keoknk 1):2b nm: and at Quincy 10: 05 p m.
Arriving at Peoria at go ? m making close con-
nections with b & W and I 2 & Wfor Indlsnap-
oils connecting there with all fast trains Tor east
"'I Szs-FAST TIME. SURE CONNECTIONS, and
rates as low as by any other route.
r R. CABLE, Gen'l Supt,
~ J. V. MAHONEY,
Gen'l Ticket Ag't.
sThe $50 m Accommodation leaves every day
except Sunday.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-09

The natives Of India say that the baya
bird lights up her nest with tireliies.
The tomato plant is avoided by ear
wigs, caterpillars, aphides, slugs and
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22

As Calamity Jane has crossed the con-
fines of Montana and is liable to make a
tour" Of the Territory the following brief
biography. taken from an exchange, will be
of interest to our readers
Calamity Jane, OF Black Hills noteriety,
arrived in Bismarck last evening and took in
the performance al The opera house. Calam
ity is a girl OF q more varied frontier expert
ence than any other imam in the world. She
has act d in the capacity OF cowboy, bull
whacker, Indian fighter and huntress. She
has led the toughest life imaginable, yet she
has retained all of those tender. womanly al
tributes, and never did Il cruel act. Many a
frontier mar owes his life to the tender nurs-
ing OF this wild and reckless girl Of the
border.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22

Mr.. A. w. Kingsbury, Of Choteau County,
but who has been visiting in America the
past winter, has engaged in q stock enter
prise in Texas Of rather mammoth proper
lions. MIR. K, his brother, and other CAPT
talists have invested 5000, 900 in a ranch and
stock in the Lone Ssar State. The purchase
includes not only the ranch, but the entire
range for the stock, which is controlled en-
tirely by the company. For a starter they
have purchased $50 head of stock horses !;
200 head of saddle horses; and l6. 600 head
of cattle. Mr.. Kingsbury visited Texas dur
ing the winter and it was upon his judgment
mainly that the purchase was made. He
writes that he is very much pleased with
Texas Is a stock country, and the only thing
we fear is that be may be induced to desert
Northern Montana and cast his lines in the
banana belt. His stock interests at this
point, however, remain lhe same, and it may
be that Montana will continue to be his .abid-
ing place. We understand that Mr.. Kings
bury is now en- route to Benton and may be
expected IN a few days.