The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-14
GLEANINGs.

been opened at Louisville.
Ex-Marshal Bazaine is writing book
on the Siege and Capitulation OF
i Metz
The Ohio legislature has appropri-
ated $4,000 for marble or bronze
statue Of Garfield, to be placed in the
capitol at Washington.
Confidence men are so numerous and
hold about the public places of Kansas
City that special efforts are being made
by the authorities to drive them out
Sixty cents worth of whisky cost Fan
MIA County, Texas, the loss of two men
killed and over $4,000 in money spent
In prosecuting the murderers.
| Mile De Rosa, the principal dancer
/ of the Kiralfy troupe, says the American
people talk most about modesty and
have less of it than any people on earth.
/ It is stated that there are now over
100000 telephones in use in this coun-
| try. At the beginning of 1879 there
were only 1900; q year later $4,000.
The Delaware Beet Factory has sus-
/ pended the manufacture of sugar from
beets, claiming that the quality Of beets
required cannot be grown in that State.
| A London journal reports that Don
/ Philippe de Bourbon, a descendant OF
King Louis Philippe, is about to marry
| Miss Mackey, daughter of one of our
California bonanza millionaires.
An Ohio journalist fred twenty-six
bullets at stuffed alligator lying on a
sandbank. and then paid boy two shill-
| ings to tell him whether he was cross
eyed or. only stone-blind.
| Parents at Fail River, Mass, have
been detected in issuing forged school
cards misrepresenting the ages of their
young children, so as to keep the little
ones at work full time in the mills.
The Memphis Avalanche claims that
the present system of improving the
| Mississippi and preventing overfiows
was discarded 1000 years ago by Chi
nese civil engineer as worthless.
A man in Phoebe, New, gave a poor
family an order on q grocer for goods to
| the amount of $3.50 to be charged to
him. The bill rendered read $1,000 in
cash and $15.o0for wine and chocolate.
4 DIR. Ewing says that "a novel is the
worlds truth with a beautiful woman
| walking through it, and the Christian
| Uasios remarks: Generally, we may
add, with man after her."
The Canadian banks were for hidden in
July to issue any more 81 bills, but by
\ SOlAc queer 4TCdh Luc puDnC uCu1dAuS
| them, and the dominion government
will hereafter issue bills of that denomi-
nation.
A clay pigeon has been invented for
| the benefit of sportsmen-and their VIC
TINS. Capt. Bogardus has declared in
favor of the invention. and thinks that
in time sportsmen will prefer the inven-
ton to live birds.
| .Dx.n 60 Oh
| over 400, 600, 900 years old. No wonder
so many of its mountains are bald, and
not single one of them is able to lift
its foot. But all of them are still spry
enough to slope.
Capt. Joseph H. Pratt, who was once
New York policeman, went to Guate-
mala some time ago to organize police
force there. This he accomplished SO
successfully that the government has en-
gagged him to take charge of the police
department for the next five years.
johnnie, here you are at the break
fast table and your face is unwashed,"
said his mother, with sharp look. Il
know it, ma. saw the animalcules in
pas microscope last night, and ain t
going to have those things crawling all
over my face with their funny little
legs
| Certain writer's, artists and lecturers
of Boston are agitating the project of a
college of art for that city, which shall
have some likeness to the Paris conserv-
atory. That is to say, there will be
classes in music, dramatic art, engrav-
ing, painting, and sculpture, all to be
taught by first-rate instructors
A story is told of an old gentleman
who ALWAYS took notes of his minister's
/ ax1a them
to the minister himself. stop, stopP'
said he, at the occurrence Of certain
lsentence.s 81 didn't say that. 81
know you didn't was the reply, 81 put
that in myself to make sense
Earl of Redesdale's bill, introduced
into the House of Lords, making it in
cunbent upon all members of Parlia-
ment to s.profess belief in Almighty
God,' is meeting with ridicule. Sir
Wilfrid Lawson declared that If the bill
is sent to the Commons he viii move as
an addition that belief in a personal
devil shall also be included.
+ A thoughtless person was discussing
with his pastor some of the wonders of
modern science. Said the pastor: Look
at astronomy now. Men have learned
the distance to the stars, and with the
| spectroscope they have even found out
the substance Cncy are 1DduG OF. i oS,
said the thoughtless man; but strangest
of all to me is how they found out all
their names. -
| In Manchester, England, the gas
works belong to the city. The price of
gas is II cents per 1000 feet for gas
with an illuminating power of twenty
two candles. At the rate charged the
citizens. lighting the streets and public
buildings costs $120, 900, and yet the gas
commissioners turned over 1870, 900
toward the payment of the city expen-
SEES, besides paying all rates. rents and
taxes, amounting to $4,000.
| A singular piece of rascality has been
| developed in connection with the Kan
sas City stock yards. An owner sells a
number of hogs by weight, and in the
absence of the purchaser he removes
several of the largest and substitutes
smaller ones from another pen, thus
despoiling the buyer of several hundred
pounds of hogs which he has paid for.
Several dealers are in collision, and the
frauds have been quite extensive.
! During the past ten years nearly AL
the German States have made consid-
cradle increase in their population, with
the exception of Mecklenburg -Strelitz,
which has added only 646 persons in thir-
ty years. Its population is now 100, 265,
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