The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-15

4 thsAt the towns and cities OF that section
are oveTTsn by tramps-s
The sheriff of Rhea county, Tennessee,
pays $40 for information against people
who fire pistols in that county.
Old clocks OF the forefathers' DAYS,
cleaned and repaired. are sometimes
heard from IN Boston as selling for S75.
Sixteen thousand acres of white pine
timber land was recently sold in Clinton
county, Pa, for $4,000.
a Binghamton IN. I. } card fiend has
collected seven thousand business cards,
and desires to know who can go one
better.
There are more than six hundred pu-
pills in the evening high school at Bos-
ton. Sixty-four industries are represent
| ed
A large chestnut tree was recently cut
down near Conneautville. Pa, and four
raccoons were captured, the largest
| weighing twenty pounds.
There are now $50 prisoners in Kill
mainham and ether Irish jails, for acts
or utterances deemed reasonable by the
English authorities.
/ 1t is gravely asserted that no man
wearing high silk hat is permitted TO
approach the Emperor of Russia, since
bombs may be concealed within it.
One-third of France is owned in large
estates, one-third in estates of mod
crate size, and only one-third by the
! peasants.
A paper out in Leadville, Col, declares
that sealskin saeque, snugly fitting a
| graceful female form, seems like the very
| down of an angel.
Grindstones sometimes explode, and
| we saw caution in store window, the
| other day, as to like danger from stat
uary. It read as follows: s'Parian Mar
| BILE Busts.''
| 1t is stated that the Canadian au-
thorities viii soon permit the importa-
| ton of cattle for breeding purposes
from the United States, upon the same
terms as to quarantine as cattle from
England.
According to Washington etiquette,
| when the President is dinner guest, he
sits at the right of the host, no matter in
whose honor the dinner is given; and
the latter sits at the Presidents right,
not at the hosts left.
The Philadelphia Chronicle, which is
nothing if not a philanthropist, proposes
rubber cushion to be worn by skaters
at the back of the head. Then when
two lovely beings in the hues of youth
fall together upon the back of their little
brain cases, they will execute pad de
deux mace pa.
now, it's O'clock .sOh, papa, dear,
am engaged for the Sext two dancesr'
s'The Browns went away two hours ago,
and Fanny Brown didn't complain
s.But they are in haf-mourning, you
know, papa, dear!''. Papa is not con-
vinced, but Polly gains her point
Punch.
On the body Of man who lately COM
mitted suicide in Chicago there was
found diary, in which he said that he
had several times attempted to kill him.
self, but had always been prevented in
one way or another. Once he had gone
into a patch of woods and made ready
to hang himself, but, the diary continues,
1.-The mosquitoes were SO darned thick.
that / forgot what came for, and went
away"
Why can't people say mother and
father in a better way than they do?
Words, cadence, infection and every
thing else has got twisted and wriggled
out Of shape. The New York girl says
'tMa-rr' with jerk on the 81" The
Philadelphia girl says Magyar through
mar; the Boston girl says Mur-murs the
Baltimore beauty Mur-mur and Pur- pur.
The little Canadian says Pa-ah and
Ma-ah. The Alabama girl says ''Porr
and Morr," the Brooklyn says Par-pah
and Mah-ah. The little London girls
say, ..Now Pc pow-ah you make me-
lowofr '-Quis.
Another great consolidation of iron
interests is nearly affected at Birming-
ham, Ala, which viii unite the Alice
and Eureka furnaces now in operation,
the great Sloss furnace now building,
and two more yet to be constructed.
This will practically consolidate all the
n-producing interests of central Ala
bama, except the charcoal furnaces. The
six furnaces will have a capacity of $780,
600 tons annually. The capital of the
company viii be SO, 900, 600.
A Black river train, after passing
Glendale, Lewis county, N. Y, ran into
a horse. The horse was carried some
distance and dropped into sluice, and
the train stopped. On examination
pair of thills was found attached to the
horse. The train was backed to the
crossing, and a cutter was discovered
standing beside the track and man sit
ting in it--drunk.
There is an old man in West Cheshire.
Conn, who, when he married his second
wife made over to her all his property,
only stipulating that he should receive
from her every day enough money to
purchase half pint of rum. He has
drawn and invested his stipend ever
since with perfect regularity, occasion
ally, however, allowing his pay to ac-
cumulate for several days previous to a
holiday. He does this, he says, '.for
obvious reasons
Two females of a travelling show COM
pany came to Middleton, o., purchased
cowhides, proceeded TO the office of
The Signal and inquired for the edit
or, and upon his appearance they told
hin they had come to cowhide MIN for
the lies he had published about their
rompany. But he, grabbing piece OF
iron, routed them from the Office to the
street following them and abusing them
to his hearts content
The total debt of Baltimore is $780,
381, 351.73. but against this the city holds
securities which pay their own interest.
and provide sinking funds for paying
their principal at maturity to the amount
of SD, 872, 566.2 of productive invest
ments.n more or less paying the interest
on their cost, $15, 304, 1865; leaving
Sc, 204, 1898, against which there are
all sorts of securities, irregularly val
ued at about s15, 600. 900.
Three Chicago boys, ranging between
the ages of and IA years, recently ar
rived in Los Angeles, Cal. They told
reporter that they had expected to find
q golden country; but after they had