The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-27
GLEANINGs.

"OudiHS
The New York Observer is inclined
TO think that the church-bell nuisance
should be prohibited by law.
| A West Hoboken man has fallen rnon
the most effective way of reducing a re-
fraetory wife to submission. He burns
her face with red hot poker.
Piano keys, door-knobs and varie-
ty OF knick-knacks are made in Ger
many oil sawdust and glue pressed into
shape.
Bricks from the late residence of
! Wendell Phillips. in Essex street, Bos-
ton, are in great demand among relic
hunters of that city.
A robin has built her nest close by a
circular saw in mill in Fitchburp.
Mass, and has laid four eggs undis-
mayed by the buzzing of the saw and
the whir of the machinery.
Nine. Materna is said to be liberal
giver, and is immensely popular with
the chambermaids wherever she stops.
Not so with Gerster, whom they consid-
er perfectly despisable."
Humboldt told Sir ohm Bowring that
all the dahlias in Europe were the de-
sccndants of few seeds he had gath
cred in Mexico and sent in Il letter to
Lady Holland.
A Dubuque man who found wallet
containing $500 in cash, refused to give
his wife So to buy IA hat, and she peach
ed on him and made him restore the
whole sum to the loser.
new kind of English glass is made
by taking. it before it IS fairly melted
and while it is full of bubbles, and shap-
ing it while it is half liquid, half solid.
/ 1t is not peculiarly fragile, and appears
Venetian.
Detroit is all ''torn up over the dis
covery that the collections of drop let
tiers in the boxes around the High School
Block indicate that the young lady pn-
pills are engaged in desperate clandestine
correspondence.
Mr. III. nj. Stanley, the discoverer of
Livingstone, is now in command of the
Belgian West African expedition. He
has again surmounted the Congo Falls
and reached Stanley Pool, where he is
building Belgian station.
The Amalgated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers shows that this body
has $4,000 members in the United States,
and that its actions ''govern the affairs
of over 100000 people engaged in the
various iron industries.
Strikes are not, as rule, successful
The statistics reported by the Bureau of
Labor of Massachusetts show that, out
of 159 strikes, only Is were entirely sue
cessful; 100 were unsuccessful; 6 were
compromised, and 6 were declared to be
partly successful.
Jane Swisshelm, having mauled Abra-
ham to her yindictive hearts content, is
now engaged in pulling down the Pres
byterian Church. There will not be
much left of this universe when Jane
concludes to take a C0ug9eT-.Ioatr-
nal.
In reply to a question from Postmas
ter Hunt, of Rochester, Treasurer Gill
fillan has written that United States
coins, affected by natural abrasion only
and not multilated in any way, must be
received by the Government officers at
their face value.
A new departure has been made in
the attire of ballroom walters in Lon
don. An association has been started,
all the members of which adopt neat
livery of black with gilt buttons. and
knee breeches with silk stockings. Dress
ed thus the walters will not be mistaken
for honored guests.
Guntersville, Ala, is the most fortu-
nate town in America. 1t is absolutely
without any local government. 1t had
been managed by Mayor, Aldermen and
Marshal, but there was so little to steas
that they LOST interest. in the city affair:
and finally ceased paying any attention
to city matters altogether. Oh happy |
Guntersvillc, how art thou blessed.
A cool Philadelphia bigamist got his
wife to dress him to go and marry an |
other woman.
"A use has at last been found for the |
Canada thistle. A shepherd in South |
Australia declares that they furnish |
more and better food for sheep during |
protracted drouth than any plant that |
grows. The flower buds are eaten by |
lambs in preference to any kind of |
grass.
During her recent visit to Barcelona, |
Sara Bernhardt submitted her head to |
the examination of local phrenolngist |
of repute Tie man OF science, after |
long and careful scrutiny, declared that |
the conformation of the great actress |
head was rather that of n mans than OF |
a woman's.
The home for working girls in Lon
don, called Garfield House, ut the form
II opening Oh WHICH IhltiStcT 1Ib"6ii pre-
sided. contains thirty bedrooms, a
lining-room, a sitting-room and a IL
hrary, and each occupant viii pay for /
her accommodation from s. cents to 81
. week.
A house painter of Morgan City, La,
ell from a elrllFclfsteeple Sid down the
roof. bounced off the caves, crashed
through scaffoId, and fell kcr-thump
,n the ground Despite eisloeated
shoulder, two broken ribs and !; score of
safs and bruises, he rose to his feet,
yazed heavenward and exclaimed. well,
I'll be id
A shrewd lawyer of Baltimore en-
Dloys lovely girl To do his jury pack
nr Her bewitching chances, smiles,
md, finally. her fascinating company,
luite caught Il young juryman, and he
swung the jury To her side in a contest
I'll will case Now the other side are
rowling for a new trial for the reasons
given.
Blood has often been seen on the face
If the moon, but it remained for John
r. Jackson, an astronomer of forty
ears standing, in Hockessin, Del. to
discover cloud 100 miles long and for
Y miles broad just over the westerly
.dge of the marc cusigtDl He advises
TO examine the same spot
bout two days after the next new
noon.
The four paintings recently stolen
rom the palace of the King of the Bel
rams at brussels. were cut out of the