The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-02
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lar cry in Egypt. 1t means Egypt for
the Egyptians
| Bob Toombs says he never smoked a
for twenty-five years.
The Cincinnati industrial exposition
| of 1880 cleared S11,624. IS. The expo
sition of 1881 lost SIC, 922.24.
The Thames embankment, according
to the London papers, is unsafe for un-
| armed persons after dark.
A farmer at Orleans, N Y, recently
sold his bean crop of four hundred BUSH
els for "a per bushel.
The eggs of the cheesemite are so
minute that pigeons egg would hold
fully 100, 600, 900 of them.
The present Governors of Kentucky
and Arkansas-Blackbu and Churchill
are brothers-in-law.
Professor David Swing, of Chicago,
says that the novel sis the worlds truth,
with beautiful woman walking through
it,
The proposal to send .s6-penny tele-
grams in England has brought out the
fact that there is now dearth of good
telegraph operators there
hO OdlPeAt vi COdl HUH GlIC CC0 StfACC
mines, Tennessee, for the year ending
277 tons for the preceding year.
I'm an astonished ghost! 1 didn't
know before that my boy was a girl
Phantom Of Hanalets father on seeing
the Dickinson.
The Gainesborough hat was first worn
by Mrs. Gaines. 1t is as old as her first
lawsuit, and at q theater is much more
difficult to see through.
''If thought / was going to become
gray, l know I should dier' exclaimed
Miss Springle. When she turned gray,
she did dye, sure enough.
Avoid that which you blame others
for doing, says one of our wise men.
Well, things have come to pretty pass
if a man can't kiss own wife.
Where one woman scans the horizon
for signs of the dawn of brighter era,
ten are scouting among their neighbors
trying to borrow saleratus.
Said she: II do wish I could read
French. There's an item in French in
the funny column of the paper, and
know there's something improper init"
The proposed Aroostook railroad of
Maine, to run from Dexter to Presque
Isle, about III miles, viii pass through
a wilderness Of forest and much lovely
scenery about Mount Katahdin.
Oberlin won't have it. Three students
of telegraph school became thirsty,
went over to Elyria and got drunk, and
on their return were promptly incarcer-
ated.
The Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain
Railroad company is remodeling its To-
comotives so as to burn coal because of
the scarcity of wood at reasonable
prices.
Economy is wealth. A Philadelphia
lady, who found a baby in basket on
her doorstep, took the infant to the sta
tion-house, but saved the basket to carry
home her marketing.
Boston schoolgirls have got so that
they can walk a mile in twelve minutes.
Each one is provided with gong, the
same us hook-and-ladder truck, and it
is only now and then that anyone is
killed.
'"Who says I am not steady?" asked
lymphatie Dutehman weighing two hun
dred and ninety pounds. IN Nobody"
said his friend; IF you were one degree
steadier. you d never move at all.''-N
Y. Mail.
The worst cut up man of the hour, ae-
cording to a Cleveland paper, is that
western. reporter who, in describing TIE
appearing of the belle of the town at a
local picnic, intended to say that she
looked az tait, but, of course, the types
had to get it '.all feet.
In Yavapai county, Arizona Terri
tory, north of the Little Colorado river,
there is q valley some ten miles in
length. where potatoes are growing
wild The valley is north of the Moqui
villages, and west Of the Navajo reser-
walton. The Navajo Indians collect
large quantities of the root.
The planting of oysters in the waters
of the town of Hampstead, L. l., has of
late years become an extensive business
giving employment to some seven hum
dred or eight hundred men. A careful
shows that the oystermen of
the town have sold oysters worth over
$500, 900 since last September. Last
year 242 acres of land under water were
leased to residents of the town only for
81, 210.
A Baltimore lad of is years went
home, one day recently, and told his
mother that his father had sent him for
$50, which he wanted Immediately. His
InOJDer gave MIN the money ana he TOOK
his departure. Having lied about the
money he was soon found at the railroad
station in the act of purchasing ticket
for Florida, where he said he intended
going to hunt alligators.
The nail=miIls, of Wheeling. w. Va,
constitute the chief industry of that city,
and their exhibit for 1881 shows pros
perity not only gratifying to their own
ars, but to the people of that growing
city as well. Seven of the mills have an
aggregate capital stock of $3.200,0 900,
and they earned and paid dividends the
past year amounting to $4,000, or
about % per cent.
Luray (Va.) NesOs: A short time since
q boy who lives with Mr.. Isaac Koontz,
near Alma, had been setting a steel trap
or opessums. On going to where he
had his trap one morning he found the
broken chain, but the trap was nowhere
10 be seen. On the following Monday
he and Mr. Koontz had occasion TO go
% the mountain, some distance off, and
seeing anunaberof crows fighting anoth-.
II bird in a tree, they approached the
rec, and found large owl with a steel
rap attached TO his foot being attacked |
~ crows. After capturing the owl the
rap was found to be the one lost a week
,efore The owl measured little over |
our feet from tip to tip.
4 petrifed skeleton recently found by |
Dr. S. A. Wilson, of Taylor county,
71o,;Ia ic rsao~arrssd as ono pf tho most