The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-04

4 n ew5 DIRK Central and Hudson klvel
| road: Main line, New York to Buffalo
| Al miles branches. owned, BOG
branches leased. PA second track. sos
| third track, 316; fourth track, 298
sidings, sos total, 2,622. The whole
property represented is valued at $685..
210, $50, and there are 5,674 stockhold-
ers.
The state of New York expended 3d.
675, 992 last year upon public schools
q larger amount than any other state.
| Illinois follows with $6,T35, 47S; then
comes Pennsylvania, with 6,O46, 116.
New York has 386, 225 illiterates out OF
population Of 5,082,871, aid Massa-
chusetfs 16S,615 out of population OF
| 1,7S3,085. s-4 x.ess#
Ruskin was unfiatteringly truthful
| when he said: ave are all, and al
| ways asleep half our lives, and it is on
ly by pinching ourselves hard that we
ever learn to understand anything. At
least it is not always we who pinch our
| selves, sometimes other people pinch us,
which, L suppose, is very good of them
but it is sad life, made up of maps and
pinches. !,
The old Hindoo, saw in his dreams,
the. human race led out to its various
fortunes. First. men were in chains,
which went back TO an iron hand.
Then he saw them led by threads from
the brain, which went upward to an I'M
seen hand. The first was despotism,
iron, and ruling by force, The last was
civilization, ruling by IDEAS Wendell
Phillips.
Jacob Tesch died near Jacksonville,
Oregon, last month. He was about 81
years old and was herding sheep when
he became unconscious, and in few
hours passed away. He at one time
had owned large portion of the town
site of Cincinnati. He had been in the
employ of one man as sheep-herder
for twenty years, and living in almost
entire sec1usion.
Henry Mackinson, Philadelphia boy
aged IL years, armed with pistol, was
discussing modes of suicide with his
aunt, to whom he said he would never
cut his throat, but 'swould do it in this
way" and, suiting the action to the
word, he placed the muzzle of the
weapon to the back of his head and
fred. The ball entered his skull and
has not yet been extricated.
Hartford, Conn, figures up gain of
81, 900, 600 in the valuation of local
stocks during the past year. Of this
stocks, $15, 1888 in life insurance stocks,
1865, 900 in manufacturing stocks, $210,-
765 in bank stocks, and $97, 900 in rail-
road securities. The increase during
1880 in local stocks valuation at Hart
ford was $5.81O,573, making an ag-
gregate gain for the past two years of
$3.50, 026, an average daily advance Of
about $4,000.
Two sons of Erin, shovelling sand on
hot day, stopped to rest, and ex-
changed views on the labor question.
pat, this is mighty hard work we're
att 'It is, indade, Jimmy but what
kind of work is it you'd like if We could
get it ~ ssWen,'' said the other, lean
ing refeetively on his shovel and WHIP
ing the perspiration with the back of
his hand, s.for nice, aisy, clane bust
ness, / think would like to be a bish-
OPP"
In speaking of fire-proof buildings,
the Arnergcan Architect says: 1.-THE or
binary, so-called fre-proof structures,
consisting of a granite shell, inclosing
naked iron beams, carrying brick
arches, and supported by unprotected
cast iron columns, in point of security
against fire are little better than frames
of timber and plank, and far inferior to
tkfIEGI IEdIi1tS COfCTSG With Wiit CiOtn
and plastered.'
The old Man is Blind and cannot see.
He holds his Hat in his Hand and there
is a Dime in the Hat. Go UP quietly
and Take the Dime out of the Hat.
The Man cannot see YOU. Next Sun
day you can put the Dime in the Sab
bath School box and the Teacher viii
Praise YOU. Your Papa will put some
money in the Contribution box, too. He
will put More in than You do. But his
Opportunities for Robbing are Better
than Yours.-DeaUer. Tribune
Work on the Kentucky Central extern
sion is about to receive an impetus by
an addition of 1900 negroes from Vir-
ginia to the force. When the Cincin-
matt Southern railroad was finished a
number of its laborers resorted to crime,
and, having landed in the penitentiary,
were set to work on the Big Sandy
road. Some of them, having served
out their terms, are now laboring on the
Kentucky Central, one of them having
become boss at the price of So SO
per day.
During the past season the soft-clam
spawn has been SO prolific gin the
river, New Jersey, that the
bottom of the river could not hold it.
of small CLANS, varying from half an
inch to an inch in length, lying so close
to the surface that they have been wash
ed ashore in immense quantities, and
lie along the beach between high and
low water mark in such quantities as to
threaten disease, as they rapidly de-
compose. Thousands of bushels have
been carted off the shore by farmers for
fertllizing purposes.
One of the engineering cranks of the
Atlantic states has invested his money
n postal-card to the San Francisco
Academy of Sciences, and proposes to
each the north pole by tunneling with
similar to that used at Mont
Cents. He suggests that by this meth
ID greater progress could be made I'M
Ter and through palsecrystie ice than
aas been made up to this time over it,
md he insists that the climate is mild,
md If sufficient inducements were de-
7eloped railroad could be put
through it, Next