The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-13
GLEANINGS.


Gen. Rial Niles, who fought gallant,
" at Laurel Hill, Winchester, Pittsbure
Landing and Chickamauga, was found
recently in wretched room in Philadel.
phia dying of starvation.
The average life of an English gold
sovereign is about eighteen years-that
IS, the coin loses about three-fourths q
q grain in weight in that time 1t then
ceases to be a legal tender.
The fastest passage ever made under
sail from Hong Kong to San Francisco
has been accomplished by the Wander
ing jew, Maine-built vessel, which
covered the distance in thirty-four days.
The largest orange grove in Florida is
that of Maj. III. Norris, who went from
Chicago to Spring Garden, Fla, in 1872.
he now has grove of Ii, 900 thrifty
orange trees which bear about 500, 600
oranges in year.
A New York dancing master saws that
! IN dancing there should be no more con-
tact of persons than there is in walking.
Oh, pshawi dancing in that manner
would be like getting drunk on cold
water.
The number of postcards dispatched
In Germany during the year 1880 was
123, 900, 900. In the postoffice museum,
at Berlin, there are exhibited AS differ
ent kinds of postcards.
During the last four years Oregon has
exported to the eastern states not less
than 400, 900 head of beef cattle. Most
of these cattle were produced in the
counties east of the cascades.
The daily price paid for intoxicating
drinks In New York is estimated at
There is said to be an alarming increase
OF drunkenness among the women.
1t is reported in Japan that the gov
eminent is about to establish Shintoism
as the religion of the state, and to COM
bat, by all possible means, Buddhism
and the progress made by Christianity.
Eating sausages imported from France
has been the cause of the death of a
popular physician at San Antonio, Tex.
The sausages contained some irritant
poison that produced fatal peritonitis.
There was found in the stomach of
beef, recently slaughtered at Hillsborn,
Ore, piece of copper wire that had
cut its way through the wall of the Or
gan, making large sore. Further in
webbed and pierced with wire that had
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Two factory girls had been sentenced
to four months for drunk
enness in Lowell, Mass They were
young, and their case excited sympathy
in court. As they were being taken out
the officers saw their mother slip a bot
tie of whisky into tho pocket of each.
There was no longer any establishment
that they had become drunkards so
young.
A patent medicine firm notified Sir
John Macdonald of their willingness to
illuminate Parliament square, Ottawa,
by the electric light free of cost during
the session of the Canadian parliament,
provided they were permitted to place
above the light large placard bearing
the name of their medicine. Sir John
politely declined to allow the square to
be used for advertising purposes.
The English fiockmaster has settled
two points in British experience; first,
that mutton is more profitable than
wool, and, second, that among English
mutton-consumers there is decided
preference for down or blackfaced NUT
ton. Tender, juicy flesh, with a fine
grain and a rich flavor, ripe, and yet
carrying plenty of lean meat, is that
which suits the English market. A COM
bination of these qualities is found to
most perfection in some of the black or
breeds or their crosses. This
preference on the part of buyers, is SO
marked that the butcher is enabled to
give at least cents per pound more for
dark-faced mutton than for any of the
white-faced and long-weoled sheep.
Peter Yanwinkle, one of the most
prominent and wealthy citizens of Ar
kansas, has just died. He was of Ger
man descent, enigrated to Arkansas in
1882, with no capital but industry and
invested his savings in wild lands,
and converting the timber into lumber
made large profits, leaving an estate
worth half q million.
A justice of the peace in Truckee,
New, sentenced DR.. r. Goss to pay
fine of SO and to Imprisonment for one
day in the county jail for contempt of
court. The doctor was taken to the jail
IN Nevada City at a cost of $40. But,
owing to a delay of the train in which
be was taken, he did not arrive at the
jail till within thirty minutes of the ex-
piration of his time of imprisonment.
Nevada has about a million acres of
salt land and could supply the whole
earth if necessary. The Great basin has
salt in dozen places. Near Silver peak.
IN 1nyo county, there is one valley with
d quarter of million acres. Lone val
ey, between Silver peak and Columbus,
n Esmeralda county has 100, 900 acres
If salt Columbus lies right in the GEN.
er of salt marsh. Fifteen miles north
If Columbus lies salt bed of immense
resources.
There is one city provided with pure
milk, and that is Frankfort-on-the-M Main.
The business is conducted by concern
,alled the anstalt, established by the |
medical association and managed by a
commission consisting of three physi- |
ians, one veterinary surgeon. and q
hemist The cows are carefully select |
d and properly fed and housed,-man- |
ged, IN fact, pretty much as the herds |
t the 'egilt-edge" dairymen are,-and |
he milk is delivered within four hours
rom the time it leaves the cow, in glass
,ottles, sealed with wax.
The Virginia tobacco manufacturers
ave issued a circular to the tobacco
lanters of Virginia and North Carolina,
rging the importance of the cultivation
f Burley tobacco instead of Virginia
eaf in places where the latter fails to |
rove remunerative. Ten thousand
opies of the address are to be printed
nd distributed through the states NAM
d. The press of Virginia and North
'arolina are requested to give the mat
II favorable consideration and wide
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