The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-02
THE DAILY Argus.
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Is her first son day.
The feet of Gainesville Ella. mer-
chant are thirty inches long.
Lieutenant VerYas system of night
signals has been adopted in the navy
The most pronounced lie on record is
that OF young man who asserts that
he likes his girls small brother.
The fashion OF short sleeves never
made pretty arms, bat tits more than
probable that pretty arms made short
sleeves fashionable
A French physician says that raw
oysters and chicken soup viii nourish
any girl through at least six disappoint-
ments in love.
training-school for servants has
been established in St. Louis viii
they teach n pretty house-maid not to
scream when the old man kisses her. by
mistaken
At a recent test of plain boiler fiues
in England against corrugated fues the
former collapsed at 225 pounds per
square inch, while the latter withstood
1,02o pounds per square inch.
A farmer at Fargo. d. T., has a very
profitable supply of fuel in the product
of a gas well struck on his premises.
He uses the gas for heating, cooking
and illuminating purposes.
The first locomotive ever built south
of the Ohio River has just been com
pleted in Chattanooga. The material
used in every part of the work was pro-
duced in Tennessee.
An Indianapolis paper estimates that
the farmers of that State are yearly
swind1ed out of 80 600, 600 by tricks
which the newspapers have exposed
over and over again.
Out of twenty-eight samples of ''pure
cider vinegar" submitted to a Cincin-
matt chemist for analysis every one turn
ed out to be q base fraud, being made
of acids and drugs.
The late Ell. ID. Hirst of Germantown,
Pa, was remarkable for his mania for
roses. He had in his collection about
1880 rose trees. which he cared for with
religious faithfulness. He literally lived
in bower OF rare and beauteous roses.
The old elm known as Washington
Irving's tree that had for so many
years stood in Battery Park, New York,
was cut down q few days ago. 1t flour
ished at the time of the revolutionary
war.
With his hands fixed immovable in
bear trap Maine hunter sat staring
death in the face till gaunt starvation
came to his relief. He left his home
last spring. His remains were found
only few days ago.
A child with a shell upon its back
and claws upon its hands and feet, with
head very much resembling turtles.
is a reported natural curiosity in the
vicinity of De View, Woodruff county.
Ark. It was still-born. and weighed
four or five pounds,
A curious story comes from Indiana.
where a tool manufacturing company
shipped an invoice of steel pitchforks to
Italy. The implements were so smooth,
sharp, and hghly-iinished that the par.
ties to whom they were sent refused to
receive them, because they feared that
the natives would use them as deadly
weapons.
There was time when the European
pilgrim could be instantly known by
the cut of her clothes. but these delight
ful ear-marks can be no longer monop-
oIized by ladies who have crossed the
raging main to secure them The stay
at-home wears as chic "a toilet, though
she probably pays double what it would
cost abroad. The distinction felt in
the pocket, but it is not observed in the
street.
Dr. Wilson. of Meriden, has found
that malarial disease invaded Connec-
ticut in 1860. in the town of Southport,
in a wave scarcely more than twenty
miles wide, spreading laterally from
this line of progress only after reaching
the northern boundary of the state, and
occupying about fifteen years in its
march. This migratory feature of the
disease has not been heretofore noticed
in America, though not unknown on
the continent of Europe.
A German arithmetician has been
calculating the aggregate number of
combinations in the game of dominoes,
and has shown them TO be 284, 528, 2ll,
$40! Two players, playing four games
a minute. would only exhaust these
combinations in 118, 100000 years.
The Indian school at Carlisle, Pa,
has $50 pupils on its roll. The eXper-
iment last summer of sending the chill
dren out among the farmers OF the
neighborhood was so successful that
the plan has been adopted, and about
fifty of the Indian children now under
the care of the institution will be placed
with farmers during the winter and at
tend the public schools.
A man has Just been released from
the penitentiary of Pennsylvania who
has been in prison thirty years. He
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