The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-31
TIE DAILY ARGUS.


It is reported that Judge Poland, of
Vermont, has discarded his blue coat
and brass buttons.
Hoop-snakes have recently been seen
in Orange county, New York. One
was killed recently which measured three
feet in length. This snake had hard,
fine-pointed, bone-like substance at the
end of its talk with which it strikes IL
forms itself in the shape of hoop, and
speeds over the ground at lively rate;
but 1t is only necessary to step one side
to avoid it, it being impossible to alter
its course when rolling.
A police magistrate is questioning q
tramp whose bearing indicates that he
has seen better days. ssYou look as II
you had been a gentleman he re-
marks. Yes, says the prisoner with
sigh; ''once | MAS worth a hundred
thousand" 's{s,tnb.efi. eh?'' NO, sir. !"
s'SquandeI'ed It III riotons living?" mo,
SIR ''ften to what VICE were You ad-
dictede' ''Friendship, SIR
That man is a phrenologist, Pat"
"a phat?'' asked Pat. puzzled. "a
phrenologistn '.Phat's that?'' why.
q man that can tell. by feeling of the
bumps on your head, what kind of a
man you are.'' Bumps on me head,
is it?'' exclaimed Pat. s.Begorra, then,
I should think it would give him more
of an oidea phat kind of a woman me
wife isr'
Baked eggs are sometimes relished
by those who find fried ones greasy and
indigestible. Butter deep earthen
pie-plate, then put in the eggs, taking
care not to break the yolks Of any; put
little lump of butter on each egg, and
little pepper and salt, too. If the
oven is hot, the eggs viii be cooked
sufficiently in four minutes. As soon as
the whites are firmly set they are done.
DIR. Declat, of Paris. has pushed the
theories of Pasteur and Coeh to the ex-
tent of claiming that all diseases result
from the presence of parasites in the It's
sues or blood of patient. To cure all
diseases it is only necessary to find some
thing that will Kill these parasites At
ter much experiment, DR.. Declat has
ascertained to his own satisfaction that
what he calls chemically pure carbolic
acid or picnic acid is the universal nos
trum.
The London Lancet saws that musca-
rine, the active poison of mushrooms, is
directly antagonized by atropia. A
heart completely arrests its motion;
drop of atropia will start it up again,
although it may have remained motion
less for four hours. In human beings
poisoned by mushrooms one minim of
atropia, administered hypodermically at
intervals, effects complete cure,
1t is proposed to erect, on the place
where the bodies were found, a monu-
ment to Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Mr. Burke, and if this be done it will
front the central window of the vice
regal lodge. Many persons think that
the assassins deliberately chose the only
spot where their crime could be seen
from the yiceroy's residence. There
seems no other reason why the deed
should have been carried out there, and
had it been done twenty yards further
east or west it could not have been seen
except from the upper stories of the
lord lieutenant 5 mansion; and yet, with
all this recklessness, the desperadoes
escaped.
Herbert Spencer will sail for this
country on the 18th of August by the
Servia, and upon his first arrival will
be the guest of DR.. Youmans, of New
York. Among his fellow-passenger
who are also London friends of his, will
be Louis Sterne, brother of Simon
Sterne, of New York, and DIR. Morrell
Mackenzie, the leading English practi-
toner in throat diseases. Mr.. Spencer
will remain about three months in the
country, and will avoid public appear
ances and lionizing as much as possible,
but he is expected to be present at the
meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Sciences at
Montreal. Mr.. Spencer will travel
quite extensively in this country. He
is dreading the ocean passage, as he
suffers seriously from sea-sickness, but
on his last voyage to Egypt he suffered
less than in former experiences of the