The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-11
GlRANTEGs.

r0adtraInS while in motion.
Australia imported English sparrows
to kill worms, but it is found that the
birds are the worst pests of the two, and
bounties are offered for their destruction.
A farmer in blowing recently over the
site OF q granary burned by Indians IN
1906. in Douglass county, Oregon, found
q quantity of wheat in good state of
preservation
Miss Florence E. Cory, of the new
Woman's Institute of Technical Design
of New York. has q salary of 8, 600 a
year for making designs for carpet fac
tory.
Miss Davis the daughter of the Presi-
dent of the late Confederacy, is tall
young woman, with dark hair and eyes,
an extremely pale face and an express
sion of intense reserve.
According to some experiments which
were mentioned at a late meeting OF the
French Academy Of Sciences, one can
cause an unusual number of tadpoles to
turn into male frogs by supplying them
with a special diet.
A portrait of Luther, until now I'M
known, has been discovered in an old
Leipsic church. 1t is stamped upon gilt
leather, and bears an inscription which
identifies it. 1t is well preserved and Is
good likeness and fine work of art.
A parcel of San Francisco girls who
We're photographed in carnival cos
TUNES are troubled because IN enter
prising theatrical agent bought lot OF
the pictures and is exhibiting them as
veritable representations of his variety
company.
Edward Payson Weston, the great pc
destrianic failure, is lecturing in Eng
land on Temperance. He says he has
walked $1,000 miles during the lastfour-
teen years and that the training he has
undergon. has improved his constltu-
ton.
The Shah of Persia, when Teheran
was recently lighted with gas for the
first time, had platform erected for
himself IN the public square, that he
might witness the operation. Cannons
were fired and the national hymn was
played.
A Boston man at theater asked a
Gaineshorough hat with girl in it
whether she would not allow him to
have a momentary view of the stage =
The girl replied that it was. the only hat
she had. He CALAMITY offered to con-
tribute half-doliar toward a new one.
Col John s. Mosby is said to have
written home to q friend in Alexandria,
Va, that a good dentist could make a
fortune N Hong Kong, China, in less
than ten years, as good dentists are hard
to find there, and the charges for any
kind Of dental work are enormous.
Devastating has lately become very
common uptown, Among the latest
victims is Mr. Louis l.. LoriIlard, of
East Fifty-fifth street, whose valuable
French poodle Flora has been stolen.
With view to Furnishing the criminal,
Mr.. Lorillard has offered a reward of
$500 for his arrest and conviction, with
out reference to the recovery of the
dog.-AeaO York Eyeniaag Post.
Letters received in Hartford from the
Chinese students recently ordered home
say that on arriving in Shanghai they
We're sent to confinement in a remote
part of the town, the Government in
tention apparently being to examine
them rs 10 their belief or disbelief OF
Christianity before they had chance to
scatter through the country. None Oh
them had been much inclined to the
Christian religion.
Cardinal Newman does not approve
OF the current fashion for writing the
lives of men while they are living-at
any rate, so far as his own life is con-
cerned When it was recently anncunc-
ed that an English firm had arranged
for a biography of him, he promptly
caused it to be made known, over lis
own name, that the work was not ap-
proved by him, in fact, he had declined
to read the proof-sheets when asked tc
do so. saving 1.-The time for a biography
CT him had not Gomez
Complaint IS made in England that
the enormous amount of money left by
the late Mr. Peabody to be spent in pro-
vidinr decent and cheap dwellings fol-
the extreme DOor has been misappHed,
and that the houses that have been built
have been rented to superior artisans
and clerks instead of the class for which
! they were intended.
just listen to the two innOcentS. The
| Boston 20 = finding il stated that whis
/ kv and giVcerine viii cure q cold, says
| it's q strange medicine, and wants te
| know what glycerine is like. In re-
| Spouse to which the Detroit Post d2at
I7j5une says: ''Glvcerine is like glu
| cose; and IN return for our kindness II
/ this explanation, viii the Post please
/ tell Us what whisky is?"
John A. Kickbam, one of the mel
wounded by powder explosion IN the
| Great Sierra hosting works, in Mono
stretcher by five men a distance of elev
| en- miles, to Iunda, where a competen
! physician resided. The journey LASTED
| from daylight until dark, and involves
an ascent and descent over mountain
ranges of fully 1900 feet.
George c. Bancroft continues to Gle
vote several hours day to his Histor.
of the United States. His health despit
his advanced age, is excellent, and
takes his regular exercise every mornlni
unattended. In his literary work h
employs two amanuenses and secre
tarv who has been for several years i
his service.
The weekly story papers are dyin
out of the land. Ten to fifteen year
AGO they had ciroulations of 100000, an
~ TO 300. 900 for the most popular. a
present they have not half, and som
not = quarter of the distribution. Th
cause of their decay began with the Il
sue of novels complete in pamphlet torn
sold at ), 10, and 20 cents.
| Three new war ships which Englan
is about to add to her fleet will max
heavy demands on her treasury, e
the steel-faced armor of the CollInG
wood, nearly $4,000 will be required
and the revised estimates provide Il
the hulls of the Colossus and the Mage;
tic the total sum of 81, 500,0 600. ).
1t is said that Mr. Leopold de Roth
child and other English owners OF ra'
horses purpose purchasing American ca
bred yearlings to race in England. III
London Rocing Calendar, of Saturda,
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