The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-27
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Longfellowss physician has ordered
absolute rest in his case. and the poet is
not likely to appear in public for some
time.
Col. Arnat Won Steuben is busy pre-
| pairing report on the centennial ceIe-
bration at Yorktown for the Emperor
William, OF Germany.
The Philadelphia Chronicle SAYS that
o. Wilde likes Philadelphia because its
streets and sidewalks are so utterly gut
ter.
A Washington Spectator has paid
Guiteau $3.50 for 1000 autographs.
thinking he viii get $3.50 apiece for
them the day after the hanging.
Out of 100 samples of wines and
whiskies sold over the heightened bars
IN New York, only two we're found free
from poison and gross adulteration.
The farmers of New South Wales are
troubled with kangaroos, wallibies, wall
aroos, 'dingoes, wildcats, bandicoots,
rats, snakes, and eagle-hawks.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe reports an
improved condition of health during her
Florida sojourn this winter, where her
two daughters are with her.
The SON and heir of the Sultan of Fan
zlbar, is said TO be a dusky Apollo in
person, and to be possessed OF an anus
ual amount of intelligence and ambition.
kentuckians are actually praying for
rain. That people in that State should
ask for water in any form is surprising.
Nothing makes SO much noise as a
rickety wagon with nothing in it, unless
it be man who insists on talking when
he has nothing to. say.
G. E. Parker, a Pittsfield (Mass.)
rrnctayr IoaIor hoo foIap how ~ n
100000 fortune in Texas real estate by
the death of awealthy cousin in the Lone
Star State.
''What is the worst thing about rich
esp asked the Sunday-school Superin-
tendent. And the new boy said:
having any"
The musket of Private Taylor, who
was killed in the Baltimore mob of Apr.
10, 1861, is placed in the room of the
governor of Massachusetts,, and over it
hang the colors of the 9th regiment.
Edward A. Freeman, the historian,
looks like a typical Saxon. He is short,
stout, heavily bearded; his eyes are
shrewd and his manner often abrupt and
independent to the last degree.
1t is probable that Queen Victoria and
Princess Beatrice viii go to Germany
for the Easter holidays, to the villa Ho-
henlohe, at Baden, where they stayed in
the spring of 1880.
Among the neighbors of Samuel j.
Tilden. on Gramercy Park, New York,
are Gen. Mcclellan, Cyrus w. Field,
John Bigelow, Peter Cooper, and Abram
S. Hewitt.
The Mormon authorities arc reported
as stating that the magnificent white
granite temple at Salt Lake viii be COM
Tod hoC n1r HvT
cost several million dollars, and is not
vet much more than half finished.
Eastern Oregon butchers have no diff
fictlty in finding cattle fit for the mark
ct on any of the hills. The grass has
continued so green that stock have not
only managed to live without extra feed,
but have really fattened.
The great movements in railroads and
minerals now maturing about the mouth
of the Great Kanawha river, it is stated,
will 90 far to realize the dreams of the
old projectors of the James River and
Kanawha canal.
The well-known sLsthe' farm of 433
acres, in Rockingham county, Virginia.
has been sold for ST., 900. 1t is one of
the historical farms of the State, having
been in the Gilmer family for p century
An ex-State Senator of Colorado,
while recently in New York, rode up to
Central Park to see the obehsk- He
Immediately understood why the Gov
ernment brought it here. He said is
showed that the Egyptians had recorded
on it the fact that they used the same
kind of cattle marks that are employed
by the Mexicans.
They are complaining of the new sue
perintendent of public instruction Of
Virginia that he doesn't know how to
spell, and they instance "WEDNESDAY"
chooses" for losses, ''editoral, - "colum,"
correspondent s'untramulled,' and
other words.
Ann Eliza Young says: 1.-The women
of Utah are like the women of Illinois,
just as sincere, just as pious, just as
faithful, according to their light. En-
tangled in the meshes of polygamy are
thousands of intelligent, sensitive and
devout women
Miss Mary E. Conley, a sister of ex-'
Gov. Conley, of Georgia, has died fairly
broken-hearted over the failure of the
Mechanics bank, at Newark. Her
whole fortune was invested in the stock
of the bank, and she was unable to make
good the amount called for by govern
ment.
A net underneath q trapeze does not
seem to be perfect safeguard for the
performer. A girl with Barnum's cir
Gus was killed last summer by a fall in
to net, her chin striking on her knee
so violently that her neck was broken;
and now Zerello has lost his life in the
same way in San Francisco.
The James A. Garfield is the pioneer
steamer of the President line' for the
Mediterranean trade. She was launched
recently at Philadelphia, is of 5000 tons
dead weight, and her tween decks are
specially adapted and ventilated for car
rying troops. cattle, fruit, etc. She will
have accommodations for thirty first
class passengers.
A hen at Pawtucket, r. l., was ar
rested the other day charged with steal
ing a.young mans 800 diamond PIN
There was no evidence discriminating the
hen beyond the naturally reckless pas
sion of her sex for trumpery, yet after
three DAYS of duranee vile she was be-
headed and the missing stones were
found snugly hid away in her gizzard.
The Union Benevolent Association. OF
Philadelphia, since its organization has
distributed, in round numbers, 1,000,-
600; over 200, 900 families have been in
its charge; 10000 tons of coal and 40,-
600 tons of coke have been supplied TO
the poor 1t has been the almoner for
thirty-two Dorcas societies and a very
large number of other distributing insti-
tutions.
All persons entering the public houses
- otolc restaurants and LIQUOR saloons