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

| motives fires. but they need only occa-
| sional feeding on the road.
We can well understand why Chi
cago girl prefers to be her own chiropo-
| dist, but that she has to use an axe is too
preposterous for belief.
Buffalo Courier: One of the railroad
| magnates of the country. said TO be
worth S20,o00,0o0, has a patch three
inches long on one of his boots.
There are one thousand artesian wells
in California, three hundred of which
are in the Santa Clara valley. They
average from $50 to $50 feet deep.
DR.. Glenn, the great farmer of Cali
fornia, has ordered 100, 900 fine grape
cuttings, and has laid out four hundred
acres of his famous ranch as vine
yard.
One of the leading features in Sara
toga Springs for the next few years will
be the construction of large number
of elegant private dwellings.
According to the records of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, at least thirteen centen-
arians died in that city during the last
year. The oldest person was lis.
Mrs. Garfield is living very quietly and
comfortably in Cleveland. When her
| sons leave college she will choose be-
tween Cleveland and Washington for a
permanent home.
|, : Ex-Gov. r.. c.. Mccormick has pur-
chased 10000 acres of land in the state
of Colima, on the Pacific coast of Mexi-
co, and is going into the business of cot
fee culture on large scale. .
A daughter of ex-Secretary Evarts
made herself a favorite in Washington
society, not alone by her snowy COM
plexion, gray-blue eyes and golden hair,
but as well by her cups of chocolate.
A little heat that can't be beat, the
window open wide a little breeze, a
little sneeze, and you're the doctors
pride. Seventeen dollars and twenty
five cents for ten visits.
1t is related of Benjamin Philibert. of
st. Louis, who died the other day, that
he never rode in 4 railroad car or q
steamboat, and had not been out of the
city for sixty-three years. BY such econ
omy he had accumulated 100000.
New York State is tired of paying
money on account of Immigrants, and
| thinks that the expenses of the emigra-
| ton bureau should be national instead
| of local, because that State does not
benefit from the arrivals, who mostly go
West
The young fellow who comes all the
way from England to instruct us Amer
lean barbarians as to what beauty is
| we mean Oscar Wilde, the so-called
''esthete''-is % years of age and over
six feet tall. He, is very nice and a
very silly young chap.
Miss West. the daughter of the British
Minister of Washington, is pretty and
graceful young girl-a brunette with a
piquant face and expressive eyes. She
is picturesque little figure as she goes
ll-ir1or in hny. I1Y.nrxr1 draSc xxrith
quaint poke bonnet tied under her chin.
Hon. S. S. Cox relates that when
travelling on the Nile his Mussulman
fellow passengers were sometimes puz-
zled as to the points of the compass.
They wanted to pray with their faces
toward Mecca. He put them right
with his pocket-compass, and was al
ways thanked for it.
According to the editor of the London
Truth, the Queen is not as rich as she is
reported to be. She does not put by as
much as E2O,000 per annum, on an
average of years. She has always given
100000 to each of her daughters who
has married, and this, Mr.. Labouchere,
says. has drained her savings.
Henry A. Bowen, of Brooklyn,
son of the former publisher and propri-
etor of the New York Independent, is
under arrest in Buffalo for having dead
heated the hotels of that city. He is 40
years of age, calls himself a broker, and
is pronounced zone of the biggest frauds
that ever attempted to steal q dishonest
living in Buffalo,"
The Russian branch of the interna-
tional polar expedition is to establish it
self in an exceptionally cold region at
the mouths of the river Lena, close to
the place where the lowest temperature
in the world has been noted. In JAN
uary the average temperature is 40 de-
grees below zero, the point at which
mercury freezes.
All newspaper men are fond of being
asked to drink This is the surest way
into their good graces. A critic who
would not give you good notice in re-
turn for a glass of whisky should be
Stunned like a leper. There are such
people in the world, however, and if
they ever fail to appreciate your gifts,
tell everybody you know that the reason
lies in the fact of your having once re-
fused to invite them to n social glass.
& In one of his recent New York letters
Gath - says: Jay Gould has plain,
sensible family, to which he gives all
his attention compatible with his vast
schemes and speculations. He seemed
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his children up simply and naturally, in
stead of Haunting their names in the
newspapers as bridesmaids, best men,
party queens, etc. From what l hear,
his son George Gould, is a good deal of
a gentleman" ~er-
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, has set
in England one excellent fashion. She
has made SO public display of her at
tachment to her young sons aud daugh-
tiers that it has become the mode for the
fashionable British matron similarly to
express her affections. Small girls and
boys have, it is stated. completely
eclipsed toy-terTiers and pugs as the pets
paraded by ladies in Victories and on
foot in HYDE Park at theheightof season.
It is well known that the language of
Wales is practically the only one of the
Celtic languages that is not either dying
or already dead Perhaps the man who
has done most in recent years for its
preservation is the Rev. j. Jones Cor
Idrisyn), the vicar of a parish in Cardi
ganshire, who, in addition to numerous
sermons, pamphlets and other contribu-
tions in his native tongue, has published
a popular five-volume commentary on
the Bible, and translated into Welsh
Queen Victoria's journal of her life in
the Highlands. Over 10000 copies of
his commentary have been sold The
Queen, out of recognition of his services
to Welsh literature, has just conferred
upon him pension of $3.50 year. 1t
is taken from the civil list fund.
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