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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10
How Can You Tell a Good Cigar.

They used to say that q good cigar
could be known by the light brown
specks on it. These were made by
worms, the story was, and the worms
were epicures in tobacco and would
touch only the best; but the chemists
soon found way of Stimulating these
worm specks. So that spoiled that test.
Then there was no other guide but the
ashes If they burned white the cigar
was good; if not, bad. But the enter
prising tobacconist soon found a way
to make the vilest cabbagenia burn as
spotlessly white as the best Havana.
Another test gone. Finally, the makers
of choice cigars put little red label
around each. This was thought to be
something which would always be a sure
tuide; and so it would be, but unfortu,
nately some of the manufacturers have
BY a strange mistake, but the labels Oh
tie cabbagenias as well as the Havan'
nas-BoSt0n transcript.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

Glass Fvss that Seem Natural.

What's the cost of glass eye ?''
From $40 10 SO. Perhaps the doctors
charge more" Sometimes they move
ike d genuine eye, do they not?'' "Oh.
YES. Surgical operations are performed
on the eye more dellcately than former
II. when it was deemed necessary to
take the eye out entirely. Then the ar
t;ticial eye was fixed, CLASSY, staring
object. Now amputations OF portions
Of The eye can be performed quite often,
and the glass eye fitted on the stump,
which moves quite naturally. Some
people have several glass eyes with pu-
pills painted in them, which are OF dit
ferent sizes, so as to represent the dila-
tions which occur at different times IN
the day. Thus a man win havea morn
ing eye, an afternoon eye and large
PUZZLED eye to wear of an evening at a
party What colored eyes are the
most sold?'' That depends. In New
Orleans almost all are dark eyes: in
Chicago and Cincinnati light eyes are
more common.-Erona an IpterUtetc
aCtth an OcubiSt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

1t is related that while Wagner was
at Naples he was shaved by barber
who bargained in advance with certain
admirers Of the composer to sell them
locks OF his iron gray hair To his con-
sternation, however, the composer wife
carefully gathered up every hair which
fell from the shears. The barber went
home in despair, but his wife was equal
to the occasion.
1.-THE master is great composer, no
doubt said she, ''but his hair and that
of our neighbor, the butcher, are much
alike
The barber took the hint. and those
who had contracted with him received
locks which they rehgiously placed
under gl.ss for eternal preservation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

A game said by correspondent to
have been practiced in New York: "a
respectable man, occupying good posi-
ton in society, was detected in restau-
rant in the act of perpetrating most
contemplate fraud. 1t appears that for
many months he had been swindling the
proprietor out of succuleut meals, His
mode was TO enter the place, which is
large, and proceed to the farthest end.
away from the cashier There he would
order first class dinner, which he
would eat at his leisure, take the usual
check from the waiter, and saunter up
the room. Near the cashier desk is a
lunch counter, where he would halt,
take a slight snack, get q fresh check
for twenty cents or SO, which he would
present. pay. and walk leisurely out.
The fellow Is now in prison.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

Z Napoleon was not the first person to
declare a preference for men with big
noses. A century before his birth the
author of Nqatg6g females, in response
to his own question, pronounced 1.-The
: biggest nose the best nose,'' instancing
the cases of the Roman Eaperors.
Numa's nose was half foot long, and
earned for him the honorable surname
of Ponpilius. According to Plutarch,,
Lycurgus, and Scion ran to nose, and SO
did all the Roman kings except Tarquin-
ius Superbus, and he was dethroned.
Homers nose was several inches long.
big noses,'' says Vigneul Marville,
fare held in honor everywhere in the
world, except among the Chinese and
Tartars. - Titus Livius, Ovid, Camons,
and st, Charles Baromeo may be num-
bered among men of enviable nasal de-
velopment. Henri HIS brother Francis,
Duke of Alencon, had his nose fairly
cleft in two by the ravages of smallpox,
fact which inspired the epigram,
when, in 1883, he made a perhdious at
tempt on the friendly city of Antwerp.
Cvrano de Bergerac had SO huge nose
that he went about perpetually with his
hand on his sword prepared to punish
those who stared at him.. Mime. de
Genlis had a model nose-at least she
thought it to be such Judging from her
frequent illusions to it in her memoirs,
and from the scolding she gave the artist
who represented it as aquiline. sis
that she said, s'the little nez retrousse
celebrated in prose and yerse?' and she
went on to describe it in detail as most
delicate, the prettiest nose III the world,
with a hump on it, like noses of that
sort She thus anticipated Tennyson's
heroine with her nose tip-tilted ike the
petals of flower.
Among the ugly people mentioned in
history may be mentioned Margaret
Countess at Tyrol, nicknamed Sacks
Mouth" La Tremouille, Nine. de
Savigne's friend, who when he turned
his back on one person to pay attention
to another was said by the first to have
paid hera compliment; Mile. de Scuderi,
Delilie, Floriau, Gibbon, Grimod Gle la
Reyniere, Mirabeau, and Dauton. Eau-
venargues found himself such picture
OF horror after recovering from an at
tack of smallpox that he refused to APP
pear in society, but going into seclusion,
made the world his debtor for his books.
Hilsenberg, the Prussian naturalist, was
distinguished by the natives of NADIA
gascar with the surname of ''The
Fright" Becker having denied the ex-
istence of the devil, was adiudged by
La Mouncie to complete his good work
and free humanity from all its terriers by
suppressing his own portrait, Searron's
account of his Phenomenal ugliness. is
too familiar to need mention.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10
HOY to Carve a Turkey.

Place your fork in the lower part of
the breast. so as to have the turkey at
perfect command. If you understand
your business, the entire carving of the
fowl may b done without extracting the
fork. First remove wing and leg on one
side, then the other wing and leg. Then
slice off the breast, remove the ''wish-
bone,'' the neck bones and the neck
itself. Then cut through the ribs and the
Job is fairly done. With proper care
there is no necessity of firing the bird
of the table into anybody's lap, but if
this should happen it is perfectly proper
to ask the person to please pass the tur-
-TndtGndpotis Times.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10
Bananas.

A pound OF bananas contain more
nutriment than three pounds of meat or
many pounds of potatoes, while as
food it is in every sense of the word far
superior to the best wheaton bread.
Although it grows spontaneously
throughout the tropics, when cultivated
its yield IS prcdigious, for an acre Of
ground planted with bananas will re-
turn, according to Humboldt, as much
food material as thirty-three acres OF
wheat, or over one hundred acres OF
potatoes. The banana, then, is the bread
of millions, who could not well subsist
without it. In Brazil it is the principal
food of the labering classes, while it is
no less priced in the island OF Cuba
Indeed, in the latter country the sugar
planters grow orchards Of it expressly
for the consumption of their slaves.
Every day each hand receives his ration
of salt fish or dried beef, as the case
may be, and four bananas and two plan
tains.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

one occasion lite F1tzWIiHam S enter
tained at fete nearly 10000 people.
Lord Fitzwilliarn's income is not less
than 81. 100000 a year, of which prob
ably a third comes from collieries His
estate in Wicklow, Ireland, which
comes to him from the famous Earl of
Strafford), IS estimated at $500, 700 a
year. He spends every autumn there,
and did not miss his visit this year.
Last year. deeming his presence espec-
tally desirable, be was there for nearly
six menths.-Neit Y0rk SIN. 4 8. a =. = ).
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10
A Military EXECUTION IN Vienna.

The execution recently of a soldier OF
the line for shooting rs g n, which
took place in the barracks OF the Thirty
second regiment. at Vienna. was a some
what sinister affair. According to Gus
tom the major of the regiment and two
captains went early ON the morning fixed
for the execution to ask the military
governor of Vienna if he would grant
the condemned man pardon, and on
meeting with a refusal they returned to
the barracks and ordered him to be led
out to execution. A gibbet was erected
in q corner of the barrack-square, and
the condemned man was led up to it,
and his forage-cap was taken off his
head, by way of showing that he no
longer belonged to the army The exc
cutioner who had been called did his
work so clumsily that the unhappy man
was struggling for nearly ten minutes,
and when life was extinct and the body
had been cut down, the executioner re-
marked: Now that the work is done,
a drink of something viii be very ac-
ceptable. Two soldiers tainted while
their conrade was in his death throes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10
pxLEs!II
PILESl RILESi PxLESIIi
a Sure Cure Found at Last 10 One Need
PILES
RIL.E.aII

Suffer.
A sure cure for the Blind Bleeding
Itching and liberated Piles has been
discovered by DIR. Williams Tan Indian
remedy, called DR.. Williams Indian
Ointment. A single box has cured
the worst chronic cases of Is and so
years standing. No one need suffer
five minutes after applying this won
defful soothing medicine. Lotions,
Instruments and Electuaries do more
harm than good Williams Ointment
absorbs the tumors, allays the intense
itching particularly at night after
getting warm in bedl, acts as a poul-
tice; gives instant AID painless relief.
and is PR pared only tor Piles, itching
o. the privaie parts, and nothing else
Read what the Hon. j. NJ. Coffin
berry, of Cleveland. says about DR.
Williams Indian Pile Ointment:
have used scores Of pile cures and it
affords me pleasure TO say that L have
never found anything which gave such
immediate and permanent relief as DR.,
Williams Indian Pile Ointment.
For sale by all druggists, or mailed
on receipt of price 81 90. fHgrrF- p.
s. f. Henry 4 Co. Props,
Cleveland, Ohio
For sale by McCabe & Wheaton. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10
The Positive Cure
For all Female Complaints,

This preparation, itg signifies, consists OF
Vegetable Properties that harmless the
icate invalid. Upon trial the merits of this Com
pound will be recognizad relief ss immediate; and
drcd permanent effected thousands win te
ticy. On account OF its merits to-day re
commended and prescribed by the best physicians in
the country.
It will cure eEtirefv tile worst form OF falling
of the uterus, LeuccrThoea, irregular and painful
Menstruation Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and
liberation f1oodings, all Dlsiacerets the CON
sequent spinal weakness, md g especially adapted TO
the Change of LIFE 1t win dissolve and expci tuInors
from the uterusin carly stage of development. The
tenoency to hUnors there = checked very
speedily by its use
IN fact 1t has proved to DO the great
est and bes3 remedy that has ever been discover
ed It pereates every portion of the system gives
new lifeand igor. 1t renose- Eatu.eTcy, de-
stroys all craving for stiInts. and relieves weakness
OF the stomach
It cures Doatins, Headaches, Nervous Prost~attcn
General Debility Sloepessness, Depression ard Il.i
gestioT. Thai feeling Of bearing down, causing pan
weight and bscI-ache, is always permanently cured by
its 1t vii at al times, andunderau circyInstaa,
ees, act in harmony with the law that she
female system.
For kidney Complaints of either sex this compound
Is unsurpassed.
Lydia {. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
prepared at 22S and 2s5 Western Avenue lynn Mass
Price sloa Six bottles for S5Oa Sent by mail in the
form of pills. alsoG the form Iozences on receipt
of price, S1oo, per box, for eithor. Mrs. PINKHAA
freely answers all letters of inquiry Send so- pam
phlet Adaress shove GertJorl THIS paper
No family should be without LYDIA Z IINKHAsr
LIVER PILLS. They Constipation, Biiiousuees
and Torpidity OF the Liver 70 cents per box
MORRISON. PLUM&ER & COS
Gener Agents, CHICAGO, LIE
- Sold hy McCabe Wheaton' Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10
TRUTH ATTESTED.
Some Important Statements of Wen-Known
People Wholly Verified.

In order that the public may fully realize the gen
uineness of the statements, well the power
and value of the article of which they speak, we
publish herewith the fac-simile signatures of parties
whose sincerity is beyond question. The truth of
these testimonials is absolute can the facts they
ammo hAi
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

MOLINE. H. July II, 1881.
FL. II. Warner &c Co.. Rochester. ". y:
GENTLEMEN: Your remedy. the Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure mas been used by both my wife and my
self. She used it ION general principles sys
TEN and liver regulator; took the medicine for
long-standing kidney trouble, which has been the
source of much Inconvenience and which failed to
yield to the doctors remedies any others, until
used your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. We both
unite in pronouncing it to be the best medicine We
ever used, and in recommending it 70 Others as a
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

An ordinary eight-wheeled passenger
locomotive sells for $4,000.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-10

command both left him and IN trenDlnS
voce he said: Gentlemen, have made
painful discovery; / have Brights disease
of the Kidneys and in less than year he
was dead"
You believe then that it has no symp-
toms of its own and Is frequently unknown
even by the person who is afflicted with
it,"
lit has no syptems of its own and very
often none at all. Usually no two peo-
pie have the same symptoms. and frequent
" death is the first syptom The slightest
Indications of any kidney difficulty should
be enough to strike terror to any one. |
know what am talking about for l have
been through all the stages of kidney dis
ease"
You know of DR. Henion's case?"
Eyes. have both read and heard of it. >
1T is very wonderful is it not?"
A very prominent case but no more
so than a great many others that have
come to my notice as hayeing been cured
by the same means
You believe then that Bright,s disease
can be cured.
Il know it can / know it from the ex
perience of hundreds of prominent per
sons who were given up to die by boil
| their physicians and friends
You speak of your own experience
What is it,"
"a fearful one. | had felt languid an'
untitled for business for years. But di
not know what allied me. When however
found it was kidney difficulty though
there was little hope and SO did the doc
ltors. | have since learned that one of th
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-16

PROPOSED PAVING LAws.-There are two bills
now pending before the city council which, II
enacted into laws, will change the rule heretofore
I'm force with respect 10 the paving OF streets Un-
der the law which now exists the city has never
compelled the paving OF sidewalks, unless where
the street itself is paved. Under the proposed law
the owners OF lots viii he compelled 70 lay down
pavements on all streets which may be laid In shell
or gravel
The DAMAGE TO THE SOLDIERS CEMErERY.-Th0
Quartermaster's department has notified Mr. W.
j. Holland that he must re-erect the fallen wall
near the northwest corner OF the Soldiers Gene
terry, on the suburbs OF this city, near the Stone
bridge. The authorities say that the undermining
OF the wall was caused by the dam which Mr..
an ice pond Mr.. Edgar Flemming visited the
Quartermaster's department to-day on behalf OF
Mr. Holland, who insists that he is not responsible
for the fall or the wall
FUNERAL EscoRr.-The Catholic Beneficial So
ciety, nearly one hundred strong, with chapeaux
and feathers, baldric and belts, attended this
morning the funeral OF Thomas Coomes, from hia
late residence, on North St. ASaph street The ~.
lgt0us services took place at St Mary's church.
THE PATRONS OF HusBANDRY.-The granger4,
now holding the state grange here, held no ees-
sion to-day, but embarked at 30 this morning for
Washington. They reelected Dr. BlaDton chioe
ofcer and the other officials yesterday afternoon,
and last evening the lady ofncers were chosen @
follows: Mn. DR.. Blanton, OF Cumberland county,
ceres: Miss ]. Cogbill, OF Petersburg. pomonAS
Miss H0ge, OF L0udoun, nora, and Miss Bal.
lard, OF Norfolk, etewardess. The meetings WIN
be resumed to-night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-16

Serious Fire at I.yuo. Ma~s.

BosToS, February l6-The fire at Lynn, Mass,
late last night proved more serious than was at
first reported The fire originated from gas ex-
ploSion in Edwin Evans fixture store on Mon
roe street. The upper portion OF the building was
used for morocco manufacturing purposes. The
flames communicated TO the adjoining tlree-stnry
wooden frame building. owned Ivy W.Akelly, and
occupied on the lower floor by Jesse L. atwcl as a
picture frame and upholstery store; on the second
floor by Alfred Newh1ll. shoe manufactu urer and
George ffartt and j. h. Rowell. sign painters, and
on the third floor was the han or the Emmett as
sociateS ana the Lynn land league. The adjoining
building was occupied 10y W. A. Kelly, morocco
MANUFACTURER; McF Irane d Co. printers, and
others. ClarkS' building. where the fire origina-
ted, and that belonging to Kelly were soOn guttssi.
{. G. Clark & CO. S total loss IT. upw ri of $50 00o
fully covered by Insurance. HIS building was
worth s. 500 kellyS building was worth about
the same, and is fully covered by Insurance.
Evans loss is about $500, partly insured Jesse l.
Atweil'S loss by water r. considerable. Rowel
and Hart, painters and A. r. Newhall, shoe man
facturer lose less than 81 900 each Two fire.
men were Slightly Injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-16
He building tine Navy.
RESULT OF AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE LAST EVEN


ING.
Upon the invitation Of SECRETARY Hunt there was
an important conference at the Navy department
last evening in regard 10 the necessity ana plans
for building up a competent navy. Beside the
Secretary there were present Senators Anthony
and Rollins, OF the Senate naval committee: Rep
resentatives Harris. De7endorf. Thomas Wilson,
Davidson and Talbot, OF the House naval commit
tee; Rear Admiral John Rodgers, Commodore
Temple, Captain 7. c. johnson. Commanders
HowisOn and Evans Lieutenant Commander
Berry, Chief Engineers Isherwood and Loring,
Naval Constructors Wilson and Hichborn and
Commander Crowninshield. OF the naval advisory
board; Admiral Porter, Rear Admiral &. r. p.
Rodgers, Rear Admiral Ammcn, Rear Admiral
lish and Chief OF the Bureau OF Steam Engineering
Shock.
WHAT WAS SAID.
Secretary Hunt opened the conference with a
strong speech in favor OF doing something and
doing it speedily for the navy. All OF the gentle-
men present had something 10 say 10 the same
effect. The general opinion was that fast-saing
cruisers OF steel armor were the kind that should
be built Commander HOwison made a strong
speech in favor OF long-range smaller caiiber guns
as against the naval ordnance monsters which
have been put upon foreign ships and found, he
argued. TO be less effective than the kind OF ord
nance which he advocated Admiral Ammen spoke
In favor OF rams as against unwieldy, heavy IRON
clads, as being cheaper and more effective IL was
the general impression that an the material TO
build and equip tastsailing steel cruisers could be
furnished by our own people ii the proper encour-
agement and time were given them. Admiral Por-
ter spoke particularly in favor OF fast cruisers.
PLAN OF THE HOUSE NAVAL COMMITTEE.
Mr. Harris give outline OF what the House
naval committee has determined upon in the way
OF building up the navy. They have determined
to recommend the construction OF the following
steel arnored fast crusers:-One not less than
$3.50 tons, speed IS knots; not less than 4,5o0
tons, speed IA knots; not less than 0l0 tons,
speed 1s Knots; Ammen) ram, speed lS Knots;
torpedo gun boat. 450 tons. speed ID knots cruis-
ing torpedo boat. about 25 feet long, p knots The
armament OF these vessels 10 consist OF 9, SAND
10 inch guns, The approximate cost OF the vessels
and armament is fixed at $9.5000O0. The Secretary
OF the Navy is to be authorized 20 employ an exc
pert in naval architecture steam engineering, and
ordnance for his assistance and advice, and the
sum OF $4,000 for that purpose is TO be available
out OF the appropriation for the vessels and arma-
mpnt thereof
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kilograms to The Star.
NEBRASKA STAR ROUTE CASES
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LYNN. MASS
Chicago Notes.
SUSPICION OF MURDER.

SUSPICION or MURDER
CHICAGO, February i6.-rhn relatives Of IukS
Ransom, WHO on the morning or February qth was
found dead NJ III tn>dale. pushing an tnyestt-,
CATION rlgcrcu 'ly. New Developments nave been
made, which IL il claimed, "atr,'ly d.Spa-s OF ths
suicide theory. Ransom lad an insurance on his
life OF 900
TuE SUSPENSION or KENYON 4 90.
The urn OF A. q. Kenyon a Co. which Srrs-
prhiei yeSter9ay, had up aS nearly a. could ne
estimated last evening. margins IN The naignbor-
hood o: S65 .0a. They now owe slsan They are
long 3Nn.ec0 bushels OF wheat. They began
buying at l39. Mr.. Kenyon. who is IN IN the east
Is nephew oi Henry kceB. Mt. Moran a tneu,-
Der OF Tue firm. in an interview last ui-hf, said
mat they confidently expected u nay lnl CENTS
on the dollar, and 10 continue the business very
shortly They expected rlnilt9ncrS from country
customers sufficient tn cover all liabilities.
sTRIKE ENDED.
Inc strike OF the Pullman car cOmpany's en-
ployecs is practically at an end.
FIRE.
Early this morning r flrc occurred in G. F. pprio-
lat & Co. s fur store. The II lrk WAS am grol To
the amount Uf SIS Gao or s210O0 and the building
which Is owned by Ely Co, tallors. 10 the
amount OF $1,000
A PASTOR CALLED.
The First Baptist church has extended p call 10
Rev y. ;. Henson, ID. d., OF the Mem rial Ban
ust charch, fhiladelphis, ana has ~ 'eyad taat
gentleman : assurance OF his acceptance.
Nail Factory Burned
WHITEHALL Ny. February i6-The lower horSe
nail factory OF the Ans lhin forSs Nal camnhnv az
heeS"Yllle, NY. was DESTROYED hv mir, last chit
The loss Is $4,000: partially insured. The origin
or the fire is not known.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-16
Failure Of the Nebraska Star Route
Prosecutions.

OMAHA, NEB., February 16.-Judge Dundy pre-
siding over the United States court at Lincoln,
Neb, where the trial or Corbin and Iddiiigs in the
''star route cases has been in progress several
days, yesterday morning directed the jury "a
turn verdict OF acquttal, which they accord
ingly did. The government had completed the
animation OF its witnesses. The defence had not
offered any testimony, and the prosecution had
utterly failed % show any wrong doing 10y the ac-
cuoed. The veriicts gave universal satisfaction,
as the defendants are well known and rcspec ted
citizens