The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-18
GLEANINGS.

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for stealing sheep.
Twenty little Indians. sittingin row,
have been sent By the Usage tribe to the
school at Carlisle. Pa.
Tennessee has 10, 600. 900 acres unim-
proved land. most of which is covered
with fine timber.
Henry j. Bigelow. Professor of Sur
gerry at Harvard has resigned the chair
he has held with distinction thirty-thfee
years.
Texas is to hold eleven normal insti-
tutes in August. The cause of educa-
tien Is attracting much attention in that
state.
Some of the Eastern railways have
put small libraries for the use of passen-
gers on their ears, and the notion takes
we'll
1t is respectfully Suggested that some
American newspaper reporter who can
get away for~three or four weeks run
over TO Dublin and capture the assas-
sins and turn 'em over To the police.
Otherwise there is no show of their be-
ing captured.
The pillars in front of Mr.. j. Gordon
Benefits Newport residence have beer
III Ilufl3GntCti Will DIOIlEc ON Is. HtN
are really gas lamps. the light stream
ing from their eyes having a weird eff
feet. There are six of them. two being
placed at each of the three entrances.
Beecher says: Early marriages are
the salvation of young men, and if a
young woman don't love you enough to
go down and live humbly with YOU and
help you to work Your way up she
a low, no 20,
somebody elser' Cruel Beecher
Many persons who envy their neigh
bors because they are making more
money than themselves, forget that GEN
orally those who get the largest salaries
have their expenses increased in proper
ton, and therefore often cannot save as
much as when they were living on
smaller salary.
An actor. just in. was descanting up
on tile hardsfips of the combination sys-
tenn, particularly TO married people.
Said he: Il have seen my wife just once
this season. and then at a railroad june
ton. She was leaning on the arm of
her manager. and was carrying the
traps of our sOubrette."
Reliable statistics prove that only one
of every fifteen American girls who 90
abroad to become great singers are ever
heard of aftcrward. The fourteen 9TH
ers marry Italian counts and are kept
too busy mending tambourines and tend
ing the monkeys to keep up their home
relations.
Some German newspapers are veneer
able with age. The Frankfort journal
is POI years old, the Magdeburg Zeitaaq
is 253 years old, and ninety-eight Others
are over 100 years DID, and most of these
papers are no more like real live
American sheet than they were 100 years
ago.
One hundred years ago smallpox was
spreading its terrors through Europe,
and Madame Elizabeth, sister of Louis
XVI, offered her fair arm for inocula-
ton. to convince the people of its vir-
tue. The people manifested their graft
tude few years later by chopping off
her head.
The census of agriculture will show
that there are 539, 900, 900 acres in farms
and PSI, 100000 acres of improved land.
The value of the farms amounts to $780,
1877, 16l, 900, or five times the national
debt: value of farm animals, 81 $780,
300. 600. There are 19, 357, 900 houses
in the country, or one to every five hui
man beings.
Professor Gussenbauer, of Prague,
over year ago removed the larynx and |
apiglottis of a patient suffering from |
larynx, and supplied an arti- |
fetal larynX and vocal cords. The pa |
tent is a riding teacher, the best in |
Prague, and is busy continually. He |
suffers neither inconvenience nor pain. |
His speech is perfectly intelligible, and |
le eats and drinks with facility. This |
S the best living example of what the /
irt of the surgeon and mechanician can |
10 for such terrible disease as cancer |
IF the larynx.
Professor Huxley will contribute to
Nature notice of his deceased friend |
Darwin. whom he compares to Socrates,
saving there was in him 1.-The same de- |
sire to find some wiser than him.
self, the same belief in the sovereignty |
OF reason, the same ready humor, the |
same sympathetic interest in all the |
ways and works of men,"
There were $50 stones i'm Disraeli's |
Star of the Garter, and his executors
have had them removed from their set
ing, remounted in rings, with an Earl'S |
coronet and the word ''Beaconsfield'' |
engraved on the inside of each ring. and |
have offered them for sale to those adj
mirers of the Premier who are willing
% pay something handsome for memen-
,oes.
The Bishop of Limerick being in fail
ng health, his physician recently told
him it would be necessary for him to
seek rest and change of air at Nice The |
Bishop positively declined to do so.
Then said the doctor, plainly: s.My