The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-17
GLEAErNGS.

Is himself slave to temper.
A cooking school is agood institution,
but an eating school would be more pop
ular
The weight of the Egyptian obeIisk in
Central Park, New York city, is 2l9l
tons.
A two-year-old tootsy-pootsy told her
aunt it was ''yaining,' because she
heard its fPetSteps ON the gallery"
Tommy asked his mother the school
teachers ferule was piece of the board
of education.
In the State of California there are
not less than forty million acres of land
lying idle.
Smiles is the Ion rest word in the Ian
guage. Between the beginning and the
end of it there is just mile.
Sir Walter Raleigh made his way to
fortune and fame by politeness. He was
not one of the Elizabethan ruffs.
Of all the criminals and paupers that
were sent to our shores by the Govern
ments of Europe last wear, only forty
five were returned to their native land.
Translated from the Omnibus: Lady
1t is just awful-two wash-basins
and neither is clean!' Cookess-''O
my lady, that is the housemaid; wash
myself the whole day notr'
Out West, whenever an impulsive
vigilance committee hangs the wrong
man, they atone for the little mistake by
buying the widow a handsome suit of
mourning.
In Germany pecuniary damages can
not be awarded by the courts in case
of breach of promise to marry, but the
defendant who is found guilty must
marry the plaintiff or else remain I'M
married.
Luminous. swell: Il never did
like 'May-not nearly so pretty as
Mary wonder they don't change the
name of the month TO Mary" Second
swell: ''Clevaw ideaw, by Jovei make
awystaws good to June, you known
Bulwer. Dickens. Thackerav, as well
as Byron. were alike unhappy in their
marriages. Thackeray's wife was in
sane nearly all her married life. And
yet in all cases the wives survived the
husbands.
Post Dispatch: Gentleman. by request
of lady-''COnductor, put this lady off
at the next corner" Polite new con-
ductor-"Excuse me, sir; seems as how
she's behaving of herself; don't seem
no occasion forproceedin' to extremes"
Since Parisians learned the merits of
horsefiesh as an article of food during
the siege, hippophagy has made steady
progress in the French capital. In 1875
the butchers disposed of 1000 horses, in
1880 of 5000 and in 1881 of $500. Last
year the supply of meat was further in
by the carcasses of 400 asses
and mules.
Nine massive Norman collins have
been discovered under the floor of the |
of Bristol Cathedral. The |
sculpture upon the covers of some of |
hem, although very old and somewhat |
.ude, is exceedingly interesting. One |
If these covers, which is said to be at /
east 700 years old, has been carefully |
preserved and now stands in the YES
ry.
Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns:-s'That
ady was evidently intended by nature
or Chinese, Sir Charles! wonder
Who she can be?'' Sir Charles:-'.She
happens to be my sister. May / ask
on way you think nature intended her
or a Chinese?' Mrs. de Tomkyns
equal to the emergency)-''She struck
ne as having such exquisitely small
One of the Zuni Indian Chiefs from
Jew Mexico. in an address in Boston,
bowed an amazing appreciation of the
lerits of his hosts. Il am happy to
)ok upon the American people," he
aid, ''for they smile on me, which shows
ne goodness of their hearts. We re-
ard the Americans as great gods-as
'e do the sun. They are like our ami
lal gods, However wonderful and
recious they are, they show by their
ind looks that they have room for US
their hearts"
1t is said that Henry NJ. Stanley, the
frican explorer, when on the staff of
he Omaha Herald, dozen years ago,
as rejected by bewitching little act
,ss then known as Annie Ward. She
Iarried an actor named Baker, and four
ears afterward committed suicide at
t. Louis, driven to desperation by the
eglect and desertion of the man she
adj chosen in preference to the ex-
Iorer.
Munich painter, who was formerly
blacksmith. has recently produced a
cture which has stirred the whole
'wn. He exhibited it in a miserable
tile back room of a place, but it has
cen visited by throngs of people, many
them distinguished. Hehas fixed his
rice for the work at 100000 marks. and
! Paris dealer has been already offer
$4,000 marks. The artists name is
eibl: His picture represents the inter-
r of village church.
Cazenova will send humorous little
eture to the Paris Salon this season,
presenting the interior of BARRIERS
op in Spain. The barber has just
[ harad tho faoa of a oncfnr,,or ,r,I,n hoe |