The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-22
GLEANINGs,
In China sl5o.OOO, 900 are spent every

VINO HVesby gambling.
Runnels county. Tex, has never had
murder in it, nor robbery, nor q
forgery, nor a man sent TO the peniten-
tiary, nor gambling hell.
In Paris the bride who is past her
youth does not wear pearl gray or Law
ender, these hues belonging to the wild
ow who marrics again.
The manufacture of oleomargarine in
ST Louis las been Investigated bv the
Board OF HeaIth. and proof was obtain
ed OF the use OF fat from horses and
logs.
DIR. Sawyer. of Alabama, saws that
Iuinine used yPOdermically-th is,
thrown under the skin with a syringe
results benefically when large doses by
mouth have completely failed.
Deacon Jones was happy, indeed.
when he was told that his daughters. dear
girls had gone to the revival Their
mother didn't tell him that it was re-
vival of ''Pinafore"
William Walton. of Kentucky. has de-
cided TO visit the capitol of every nation
on the globe bearing the United States
flag. and earning days wages in each
of those cities.
The hosting of safe is one of the
most fascinating of street sights to idlers.
In Providence the expectant crowd saw
the mass of metal, weighing four tons,
fall on workman and crush him to
death
The Iunis visited newspaper office
in Boston. and were greatly struck bv
the mysteries of the machinery. When
the presses were set agoing, one put the
query. lis this all talkp' That was a
cruel center-shot.
Sophronia: Can Senator David Dav-
is, as President of the Senate. if drawn
as juror, be compelled to sit on iury?''
We don't know. If he can we wouldn't
like to be one of the jury that he would
sit S0merriiIe J0urWa1
Modesty; Do you pretend to have rs
good judgment as have?" exclaimed
an enraged wife to her husband. "Well,
no. he replied slowly, ''our choice of
partners for life shows that my Judgment
is not to be compared with yours
The poctical and the practical-Senti
mental diner: Eat lark Partake of one
of the quiring songstcrs at heavens gate.
| would as soon eat hymn Practical |
friend: "Ya-as, never touch small birds |
they all feed on worms.'
At the Whitehouse glass works of At |
terbury d Co, new trade is about to |
be opened up. They are about to manu- |
facture glass shingles, ornamented and |
of different colors, for houses. In strength |
they are to be superior to any slate now
in use.
The execution of two Indian murder
ers by shooting instead of hanging. in |
= bn Ill al.
urgent plea of the doomed men. They
had an awful dread of the moose. but
professed fearlessness rs to death by the
rifle.
Scene in the auditorium of theater:
Actor (who has appeared in the first
piece: Good evening. May take the
seat next you?" Lady: Certainly; but
iOn't you appear any more to-night?''
Actor: No" Lady: ''Oh, | am so glad.
Pray sit down.
Someone says: Bread and butter is
he dress of this world; love and kind
ness its trimming" Wen bet 300 the
nan who wrote that isn't married.
Any married man knows that the trim
nings always cost four times as much
rs the dress.
Prairie and wood fires have been rag
ng in southern Arizona and southwest
IN New Mexico recently. The terri 6
DRY burned over is reported to cover I
ORTIZ miles square, and the damage done
5 immense. The origin of the fire is at I
rtbuted to the Indians, either domestic ;
T renegade, who roam at viii through
ut the country. except on ration-day. f
"How are you getting along?' asked h
widow of her late husband, who APP i
cared 20 her as a ghost. Ghost: VERY t
yell, indeed-much better than during
~ twenty years married life on EARTH" Ii
Widow (delighted): Then you are in b
eaven?'' ooh, no. s& e
The emigration from Switzerland last v
ear was the greatest on record. the
lumber of emigrants who left the coun- r.
v in 1881 having been 10, 935, against a
255 in 1880. and 4, 2SS in 1879. BY far
ne greater proportion of them were e
ON German Switzerland.
The Russian bath is said to have or q
,inated with Peter the Great. 1t is re- +,
0rded that when he was advised by
'reigners to introduce hospitals and
ispensaries into Russia he was wont to
eply that ''While Russians had baths
icy needed nothing else as health .
wing remedy against mortal Ills y
Lord Cranbourne, an elder brother of | 81
le present Marquis of Salisbury, who SC
led before his father, was stone blind, Il
1T he could distinguish colors by the ii
uch as accurately as others can by ty
e sight. He could also tell by sound bl
e extent and hight of any room he en- in
red. tb
A Rochester street-car horse shot out Of
it'll his heels the other day and hit the sy