The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-10
GLEANINGS.

John Gottlieb, an Erie railway brake
| man, has obtained verdict of 5000
damages against the company for in-
juries in Stacking cars.
Three years ago needle entered the
foot of a young woman in Schenectady,
and it was recently removed from her
forearm.
The Natchez Democrat says many peo-
pie believe the odor from the blossoms
of china trees produces bad colds inpeo-
pie.
The wife of Senator Malone is said to
wear handsomer jewels than any other
lady in the official society of Washing
ton.
A young man in Keokuk, Iowa, who
recently applied for a marriage license,
forgot the girls name and was unable
to procure it. 1t is better to be born
lucky than rich.
Of the 3,745, $50 inhabitants OF Scot
land, those who speak Gaelic number
only 231, SOP, the remainder speaking
English. The quality of their English 10
not given.
A bill is before the New York legisla-
ture providing that all passenger eleva-
tors shall be made of iron, and that the
Enclosures for them shall be of fire-proof
material.
respectable farmer of Augusta coun-
ty, Virginia, has been committed to thu
lunatic asylum at Staunton. having be-
come entirely crazed over the develop
ing mineral resources of the state.
If there be Wyse man or woman
from Ireland, he or she will, perhaps, be
interested in the following: "A man
named Wyse recently died interstate in
Dublin, leaving real estate valued at
$40, 900 and personal property to the
same amount
A teacher can hardly show worse stu
pidity than in imposing upon naughty
pupil an extra lesson as punishment.
The learning of lesson ought properly
to be full of interest and enjoyment, and
anything tending to make it q WEAKNESS
is mistake.
The marquis of Lorne's latest '.pomen
describes Canada as the Eft home for.
many hardy race. where liberty has
broadcast base.'' The husband of the
Princess Louise will henceforth take a
position among American poets with the
sweet singer of Michigan.
Hiram A. Deming, the Oldest male
resident in Syracuse, N. T., died recent
", at the age of 80. In 1928 he held the
lucky number in a lottery, which gave
him an ample fortune in those days
$4,000. He was known for years af-
terward as the richest man in his neigh
borhood.
A New York letter tells of swell
young English singer named Braham,
who came over for q professional tour,
but took dislike to the country before
he had been in it five minutes, and or
dered the hackman to drive him back to
a departing steamer. Keep . lookout
now for Braham's book on America.
A sealing steamer has arrived at New
foundland with "a, 900 seals, and the
catch of the whole fleet off Labrador is
reported to be as great as 1876, 900. These
however, are not the genuine fur seal,
which, although once found over large
region, are now almost wholly restricted
to few islands in the Behring sea.
There exists in Philadelphia an asso-
citation called the Last Mans Club. The
club was founded on easter Monday,
1881, when seventeen members were en-
rolled, and is intended TO last until six
teen of them are dead. Dinners are TO
be given each year, with covers laid for
seventeen, whether that number is pres
ent or not. The seventeenth man, that
is the last man living, viii give a final
dinner, and silently toast esch individ-
nal memory.
a gentleman whose judgment in the
matter is undeniably good, says the
number of sheep in Montana at present
writing will be nearly doubled by Octo-
Der next. He further AYERS that they
are the best.
According to its annual report to the
stockholders the net profits of the Paris
Figaro for the year 1881 were $3.50, 900.
The catalogue of expenditures contains
the following items: Type, $50, 900; pa-
per. printing, stamps, etc, 1927, 900;
editorship, $117 900; carriage, $1,000;
administration, 1852, 900.
There are many expensive bridges
and trestles between Binghamton and
Elmira on the Lackawanna road. Near
Waverly there is bridge 900 feet long,
approached with 1000 feet of trestle,
which cost $50, 900. About six miles
west of that place is bridge 600 feet
long with ], $3.50 feet of trestle. There
are two or three others about the same
length within short distance of each
other. 81
A characteristics Kansas item in the
Leavenworth Times reads: 1.-THE local
editor of the Parsons San was cowhided
seventeen times IN one uay, recently
besides the little incidentals thrown in,
in the way of exercise upon his anatomy
with boot-toes, all because he printed a
complete list of all the young and old
men who attended the Rentz female
minstrel show, with sundry comments
on their actions
The damaging facts that COWS habit
ually browse along the streets OF ST. Paul
would probably never have become
known to the world but for the indiscre-
ton of the Pioneer Press, which chroni-
cles the organization of local secret
society known as the G. X. The initials
stand for Sow Killers" and the socie-
ty will pay $50 for every cow, dead or
alive, that has infringed the city ordi-
nance by running at large on the public
thorouehfarcs For thirty years the
citizens have borne the nuisance, vainly
looking to the municipal authorities for
a remedy, and now they are taking the
law into their own hands.
Horse-thieves will do well to keep
away from Missouri, as the governor of
that state is reported, in a recent letter
to a high state official, to have said: Il
viii not pardon a horse-thief; care not
how many petitions request it. The
sooner this is understood the better it
will be for those engaged in such appli-
cations. 1t viii be time and labor lost.
All other criminals can entertain hope
of relief, but OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the /.