The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-04
GLEAHTNGS.

sal. .i lsa~yeT. lt Is synonymous with
ssshenanigan. =
The people of Prince Arthur's Land
ing, canada, wish to drop that name and
calf the place Shuniah, an Indian word
for silver
While blowing at Wartsboro, near
Middleton. N. Y, last week, Chester
stanton turned up gold ring belong
| ing to his aunt. lost thirty-five years
ago.
Emerson's memory had failed a good
while before his death. After Longfel-
lows funeral he said to a lifelong friend:
That gentleman whose funeral we have
been attending was sweet and beauti-
ful soul, but forget his name.''
Piute John, of Empire, New, was re-
Gently bereayed by the loss of his wife.
He swung her body over his shoulder
and went to the foothills, where he bur-
led the remains in hole about two feet
deep, covering the grave with a pile of
boulders. He returned. to the lodge and
jcyously selected shapely squaw, to
whom he was Immediately married.
Tennyson is fond of the seashore; but
not much so. The lights are too bright
and the mood is too even He likes
drowsy, brown Autumn hillsides, SOM
nolent sheep. and deep, dark inland
lakes. not easily accessibss or too near.
Sheep are his especial pets. and he likes
to lie in high-backed chair smoking a
pipe while he looks at them.
4 sad story of desolation comes from
the west side-of the San Joaquin river,
California. There the crops have failed
entirely, and there has been an unheard
of extent of sickness among the people,
measles and pneumonia being the prin-
cipal ailments, Scarcely family. it is
said, has escaped, and everybody is de-
pressed and discouraged.
The whipping post was established the
other day at Lexington, KY. by consent
of eolored man named Eph Woods,
who stole goods from b. +. Dawson
Go to jail or take a cowhiding was the
slate fixed up for the negro, and he
chose the latter. He unshirted himself
and took forty lashes on the back, draw
ing the blood freely.
Miss Ella Crane, of Manahawkin, N.
j., has curiosity in cat, which has
adopted two young chickens, which fol-
low her about through the day and at
night sleep with her in box. The cat
has several times taken the chickens
carefully in her mouth and deposited
them on a Ded IN the house
A little romance in real life occurred
in Tacoma, Washington territory, a few
days since in the marriage of a couple
who had been divorced from each other
year or more ago in California. The
reconciliation was consummated at the
death-bed of an only child, beautiful
boy, the father going from Portland at
the summons of the mother TO assist in
nursing him.
Two ash knots, weighing 1850 and
/ 400 pounds, were recently shipped to
New York. They are steamed, which
softens them and develops their color,
and then used in exceptionally fine We
neering. Persons who are experts in
Judging what knots are of value, make
considerable by going about looking for
them. These two were from Caledonia.
N. 7.
The Worcester Spy says that from
Oxford, Mass, comes the story that a
short time since dog caught a wood
chuck, but owing to poor teeth, could
not bite him sufficiently hard to cause
death, whereupon the dog took the
wookchuck to a pool of water short
distance away, and with teeth and paws,
held him under water until drowned.
"a newspaper correspondent who sat
by Lieutenant De Longs side at the
hotel table during the last few weeks of
preparation for the Jeanette expedition,
said one day to that ill-fated officer that
the little family he was about to leave
was worth more to his life than all the
glory he could hope to gain. ''Would
YOU then let the bachelors have all the
glory?'' asked De Long. pleasantly: and
his wife, who. with her liii}e daurater
satby his side, added: Il wait il.ln To co.
/ am as enthusiastic for him rs he is"
Quite an unusual occurrence took
place near Belleville, Ga, one day re-
Gently. A mare with her colt by some
means gained admittance to lot in
Which were several gums of working
bees The motherly animal, in her in
vestigations of the surroundings, unfor-
tunate1y upset n bee gum, when the lit
tie busy stingers fastened punctuation
points on the young colt, j little time
infiicting Injuries from which the animal
died.
Oscar Wilde should lay to his heart
Emerson's dictum on the arts. lie said:
1T never was in the power of any man
or any community 10 call the arts into
being. They come to serve his actual
wants, never to please his fancy. The
arts have their origin always in some
enthusiasm-as love, patriotism or re-
lieion' This is true. Yet this beardless
STRIPPING talks about creating art.
The suspicious Quakers at Jordal.s
meeting house over in England have
been keeping guard over the bones Of
William Penn, least adventurous Ameri-
cans might steal the same, but that has
been given up ut last, and now the good
old woman who has charge of the bury
ing ground only keeps al eye outfor the
grave, ready to call in the constabuiary
if any suspicious persons appear with
spades.
Daniel Killeen, a lad of Is, came to an
extremely painful death in the IRON
works at Albany, N. T., few days
since. He was snatehing a few minutes
of much-needed sleep upon aplank near
the train rollers,n from which was Is
suing an iron rod heated to white heat
and forty or fifty feet in length These
rods move ut the speed of fifteen feet .
second, and their direction it is impossi-
bic to control or determine. This one,
after twisting about for an instant, shot
toward the sleeping boy and burned its
way into his body The next moment |
II withdrew itself. With cry of agony
the boy jumped up. and in fifteen min
utes was dead.
Edward Ankeny, who lives In Beaver
creek township, near xenia. o., met |
with a singular and painful accident re- |
Gently. He was out near his house shoot |