The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-10

GLEANINGS.

of the farms are incumbered with mort
cages.
A big cast-iron dog in Sacramento
store frightened away three armed burg
lars.
A member of the Chinese legation at
| Washingtonis 20 yearso age, and boasts
that he is q grandfather.
Esthetic swells in New York and Bos-
ton have adopted the single eyeglass,
after the fashion of London snobs.
| Ex-Congressman John L. Wilson has
presented Adams county, O.. with $780,
600 for the foundation of Children's
| Home.
Judge James r. Brown, of the Blue
| Ridge circuit, Georgia, recently SEN
| fenced negro to the penitentiary for
natural life and thirty months over.
i An Indian chief in Washington went
to see the Ideal Opera Company. When
M. W. Whitney gave particularly low
note the chief said: ''Uh; him heap dug
OUT
A man who left Syracuse thirtv-one
| years ago without word to anybody
returned last month and tried to make
folks think he'd only been fishing and was
/ determined to stay until he got a bite.
/ Cooperative stores are 8 success in
| Philadelphia. The stockholders eat up
the goods, the president runs away with
| the loose change, and the landlord loses
the rent for six months.
The latest style of Paris suicide is
shooting yourself while ridingin hack.
1t is n good idea. You get a ride for
| nothing. Not even a hackman would
have check enough to dun corpse.
New York streets have 1881 public
lights of an evening, 55 of which are
| electric. The consumption of gas by
the street lights last year was IL, log, 600
| cubic feet.
A young couple were baptized togeth-
er at Trousdale, Tenn, and Immediate
/ ly afterward were married, in their
dripping garments, by the same clergy
| man.
M. -Uguyenen-Hauh is Chinese
lawyer now practicing in Paris. He.is
intelligent and speaks French accurate
ly. He wears his cue rolled on the top
of his head.
General Skobeleff, the Russian war
rior, has received forty-three challenges
from Germany to fight duels in conse-
| quence of anti-German remarks in his
| speeches
Two American ladies, now at the
| court of Queen Margherita, of Italy, are
spoken of as possessing jewels eclipsing
in brilliancy the famous diamonds of
the Roman Processes
/ There is a bachelor in Ipswich, Mass,
| eighty-five years of age, who has worn
the same hat for over sixty years. He
| has never used anything but peat for
fires and he burns tallow dips for light.
Gen. Sheridan has fought sixty-four
Il
I was until he stood on his front door
steps, and heard the bells strike two, and
realized that he had forgotten his excuse.
A young man writes to the Akron
(Ohio) NeacS to know how he can live
on So 90 per week, and is seriously adj
vised by the editor of that paper to get
married and board with his father-in-
law.
The New York Hotel A[d1t finds fault
with the lady at a hotel table who, at
the eleventh hour of decision, fringes
| her plate with various kinds of food.
and, when she has poured gravy over
| everything, gets her chin on a level with
it and shoyels it in.
l. A Montreal tobacconist put some ci-
gars on the market that he had given
| the name of 81 like A neighbor fol-
| lowed with the s.You ike brand. and
|
like rival for infringement of his trade
| mark.
The novel spectacle of a colored Jury
was presented at the recent term of
court in Clarke county, Virginia, in the
| trial of colored man named Morris for
stealing horse. The jury brought in
verdict Of guilty. and fixed his term of
| imprisonment in the penitentiary asfour
years.
Sam Brunell. of Missoula, Montana,
was arrested recently for selling liquor
| to squaw His counsel defended him
| upon the ground that he was insane, and
| the jury acquitted him. He was imme-
| diately rearrested on charge of insani-
| ty and convicted and sent to the asy-
| lum. He remarked that he would Just
rs soon go to the penitentiary as the in
sane asylum.
A license is required for marriage in
| Illinois. A young mans wedding-day
drew near, and the road to Galena, the
nearest licensing place, was in such a
| condition that a horse could not be used
on it. The distance was seventeen miles.
| He started for the license on the morn
ing of the appointed day. Itw a hard
| job, and he returned covered with mud,
| almost exhausted, and. barefoot, his
boots having been mired and abandoned,
| but he brought the license, and the cere-
mony was performed in the evening.
Land at Winnipeg, the capital city of
Manitoba, has bounded in price from
| $50 per acre, last fall, to 81 900 per acre
| now. The town is full of people. The
| hotels are SO crowded that guests are
/ glad to get chance to sleep on the hall
| floor. Meals are served from daylight
| till late at night. 1t often happens that
weak men are injured by the jam in try
| ing to obtain place at the tables.
/ There is an active demand for all kinds
of labor, provisions and building mate
| rails.
! A New York beggar is said to earn
from $500 to $1,000 day by trick
which seldom fails TO excite the sympa-
thy of Broadway pedestrians. His way
| of attracting attention is to dart at
| dirty piece of food lying on the side
| walk, thrust the morseI into his mouth,
and crunch it between his teeth like
| hungry hound. But the effect of the
performance is somewhat lessened on
the minds of those who know that he
| carries crusts of bread and apple cores
in his pockets, ready to drop and masti-
cate at the first favorable opportunity.
The New York Herald describes Dion
| Boucicaalt as q short, stout man, beard
less save for minute mustache. His
/ balr ha1I Is hal and