The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-25
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The National Baptist says the average
salary of Baptist ministers in this country
| is about $500 per annum.
A certain drawing room on Fifth ave
nue., New York, has ceiling of cathedral
glass, said to have cost $4,000. 1t is one
of the oldest ideas of very odd year.
An English diamond merchant recently
offered f4OO, 900 for the Regent diamond.
now the property of the French govern
ment It was bought 100 years''ago from
an Englishmaa for G125,000.
The Washington City postmaster has
inaugurated system of collectin g letters
from the city boxes by special carriers,
who are furnished with tricycles. The
smooth concrete pavements of Washing
ton are well adapted for the work.
The cadets at West Point, among other
things, ssare taught to respect authority
and speaking the truth Teaching them
to speak the truth units themfo congress,
of course, but we think the scheme is a
good one, nevertheless.-lh Judge.
Scientific men can tell us within few
million years the age of the earth;
astronomers have weighed the sun; but the
man isn't born yet who can tell why
tailor will charge as much for suit for
little man as for big one.-P Pittsburgh
Telegraph.
A Chicago woman says she has walked
the streets of that city time and again at 2
o'clock in the morning without being ad-
dressed. Does she think that a man feels
obliged to remain up that late simply to
address lone woman?-Boston Tran
script.
The wampum belt which William Penn
gave the Indians in part payment for the
territory now known as Pennsylvania,
afterward reclaimed and held as an heir
loom in the Penn family in England until
1856, is in the museum of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania.
A New Y ork artist is now in Orange, O.,
making sketches of Garfield's birthplace.
The old log hut in which the late President
was born with the old well and its long
sweep beside it, still standsA The artist
has also made pretty picture of the ma
tural bridge which spans the creek near
the house.
Lewis Wayers, of Clifford, Susquehanns
county. Pa. deserves a page in history.
This is not because he was a brave soldier
and suffered wounds, but because, being
able to support himself and family. he
doubts that he has right to the pension
granted him. He has, therefore, had his
name stricken from the pension rolls.
Professor David Swing told his Chicago
congregation last Sunday that the most
thrilling quality of life lies in the fact that
it must soon end" 1t is, indeed, often a
thrilling and beautiful thing to think of
certain people that they were born TO die,
and sometimes it is the pleasantest thing
one knows about them.-Neso York
sGrdphSc.
An egg polka has been composed in
Berlin, the music Of which justlasts long
enough to boil an egg properly. We may
nowsexpcct TO hear of a veal outlet waltz
and a porter-house steak laneers; but to
cook the average boarding house spring
chicken we fear that nothing less than
performance of sParsifal" viii indicate the
necessary time to prepare it sufficiently
Puck.
A chicken at Alliance, Ohio, went to
roost upon thesaxle of freight car. Dur
ing the night the car was attached to a |
train. and when the feathcred biped del
seended from his unsteady perch, hesI
failed to recognize the scenes of his child j
hood. Hewas in Lima, Ind, and the man
in whose garden the fowl went to scratch |
got into fight with the whole neighbor-
hood by accusing everybody of owning the
bird.-Boston Journal.
Remedy for Corms.-M. Gezou, an apo
thecary of Russia, recommends the follow-j
ing. in the Pharmaceutical Zejtusg as q /
sure remedy for corns, stating that it |
proves effective within a short time, and |
without causing any pain: Salicylic acid. |
50 parts; extract of cannabis indica, IS /
party; eolledion, $40 parts Toibe applied |
by means of camel-hair pencil --Aedsca I
and Surgical Reporter.
An Engiish writer In the Cog7alssEs Mag |
asssae asserts that the Americans do not /
swear as do the English. bad language |
is hardly ever heard, even in the North
west" Neither are the poorer classes
sloyenly the spirit of eif-respect leading
to IAN attention TO personal tidiness much.
greater than among the same class with
u.s. Even the exclusive, absorbing and
almost excessive worship of money does
not indicate avarice or cupidity." but is
partly due ts-the moral grande ur of the
people"
Why does the Man Smile9 Because He
Went into Closet this Morning and
Found a last Years Hat, which He Put on
in front of q Looking glass. He didn't
Know himself hardly, and Wondered how
He Hsd Been Fool enough to wear such
Hat Thus You see q Man is Fool every
Year, but He does not find itout until the
Year after = ByookIyA UssSos.