The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-27
GLEANINGS.

Did it ever occur TO you that swans
upper side is never downp
The difference between a hungry man
and glutton is: zone longs to eat and
the other eats too long,
While stingy husbands are not popu-
lar, every maiden likes to have her beau
very close.
The cigarette-consuming young man
is bore, and the world is tired of see
ing him around. - Philadelphia Times.
Seven doctors charged Colonel Belts,
of Washington, $50 each to tell him he
couldn't live week. In four weeks he
was able to go back to business.
A man in Lincoln county, KY, has
just been fined S46 for beating his wife,
and cent for driving his mother-in-law
out of his house ''by force of guns
A venetian gondolier makes on an
average 4 francs (about so cents) a day
the year round. On this he will marry,
rear family. and put some money by.
At the annual meeting of Mr.. Spur
geon's church it was reported that 20
members died during the year and 81
were received. The whole number is
now $50.
A colored boy of Tallahassee cut off
the fingers of a playfellow. When he
was asked about it, he said he could not
tell a lie, and that he did it with his lit
tie Ratchet.
The Congregationalists have in Iowa
238 churches and 40 ministers The
largest church is at Grinnell, with $50
members, and the next at Des Moines,
with 318.
The Young Mems Lyceum of Daniels
vile, Windham County, Conn, has de-
cided. after thorough discussion. that
men are not stronger, mentally, than
women.
Charles A. Reed, of Newton, Mass,
devised $4,000 each to his own town
and Salem, to be used in picnics to chill
dren, scientific lectures and relief to
poor widows.
While the entire rental of the CITY of
Philadelphia last year amounted to $685.
600, 900 it was surpassed by the eXpend-
itures for drink more than 81 900, 600.
The statement seems almost incredible.
In the last twenty years, twenty-nine
murderers sent to the Connecticut
States Prison for life have been pardon
ed out after an average confinement of
eight and half years.
A Californian gave poor family $500
worth of provisions and fuel and then,
dressing up as a beggar, he went around
to the house and asked for q bite to eat.
He was promptly kicked off the steps.
ssWere you hurt near any one of the
vertebrep asked lawyer of a witness
who wanted damages. NO" was the
answer: II was hurt right on the race
course, close to the judges stand"
A Chinaman would rather fly kite
than go on a drunk, tear dcvn doors,
and thump bartender. And yet some
people regard the Chinese as the intel
1ectual equal of the white man.
A young man had no more than slip
ped an engagement ring on milwaukee
girls finger when it was missing. Her
brother had adroitly removed it, and the
next day it was recovered in pawn
shop.
On the house No. Craven street,
Strand, London, a circular tablet has
been fixed, with these words: 'Iiyed
here, Benjamin Franklin, Printer, Phi
losopher and Statesman. Born 1706.
Died $780,"
..There is something about Pingrey
that l ADMIRE said Brown. Yes"
said Fogg: ''there is something about
him that / admire, something in
| the morning paper, which says that he
| has gone to Europe for couple of
| years.
| An exciting bit of sport in shooting at
| a stray sea lion was had at Napa, Cal,
| some DAYS since. The monster was mis-
| taken for a mule swimming down the
! stream, but when the true character of
! the animal was discovered many insf-
fectual shots were fred. However,, he
| seemed to be 8 lion that only cannon
| ball could injnrc. and SWAN aWay TO
other waters WHERE plenty Vi fish
| abound.
A New Invention.
The Parisians have found out new
| invention for increasing the feminine
| power of fascination. Long eyelashes
have always been much admired. but,
unfortunately, there are a great many
| charming women to whom nature has
| denied this enviable veil for beautiful
| eyes, Those who would possess this
winning grace need despair no longer,
for long eyelashes are at anyone's COM
mand who is disposed to take little
| trouble. This the simple way in which
| the desired end may be attained: A fine
| needle threaded with dark hair must be
drawn through the skin of the eyelid,
/ forming long loops. When the process
| is completed, if the work be deity done,
| the result is wonderful The eve is CO.
quettishly yelled by a beautiful dark
| fringe, so like the handiwork of nature
that the deception can scarcely be de-
tected. The process is said to be as
/ painless as it is simple. Providence
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