The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-11
THE DAILY ARGUS.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

drum.
The ladies at Long Branch are accused
of playing poker.
A favorite drink among English officers
is orange bitters and sherry.
Last year Texas imported corn, but this
year will have 50, 900, 900 bushels to sell
An Iowa girl said to young gentle
man: PA has 40 horses. and only one
me-
There was 262 deaths in Boston last
week. many of them attributable TO the
hot weather.
Many self-made man would have done
better by himself had he let the contract
out to somebody else.
A Texas paper publishes an account of
the lynching of two negroes, under the
head of sporting news
An aristocratic Jersey COW, with ca
pacity to evolve nineteen pounds of butter
a week, was recently sold at Philadelphia
for So, 500.
New York milk-dealers triumphantly
call attention to the fact that, though a
water famine is imminent, they have not
advanced the price of milk
A young man in Toronto, Can, who
took pledge not to drink at public bar,
has his liquor sent out to him, and drinks
il standing on the Sidewalk.
Great Pains Taken is the heading of
an advertisement in one of the dailies.
Probably some gentleman has eaten whole
watermelon Boston Commercial Bulletin.
A horrible result of monarchial insti-
buttons is reported from Servia Natalie,
the new Queen of that country, has intro
duced croQuet vice hitherto unknown
there
Voluntary insanity" is the euphemism
used by st. Louis coroner's jury, to
describe the condition of prominent
citizen who was killed while idulging in a
drunken spree.
The Burning of Chicago at the Oak
land Garden, Boston, has been viewed by
nearly SO, 900 people in two weeks. What
barbarous taste the Bostonians have, any
Cincinnati Star.
It is fortunate for the treasury that the
rising in the Licking did not occur twenty
four hours earlier for itawould certainly
have figured for 100000 or so in the
annual steal Philadelphia Inquirer
Office seekers in Washington are made
the victims of swindlers who claim they
can procure places in the departments for
their victims, and thus secure loans Of
various sums of money, which of course,
are never repaid
On the occasion of late visit of the
Prince and Princess of Wales to Brad
ford, the Catholic Bishop of Leeds gave
his flock permission to eat meat on Friday
as way of testifying loyalty, which seems
a rather singular way, indeed
Definition of loot: Students want to
know what is meant bv the word loot
in war dispatches. Why. lutte is thing
with strings that you strum with your
fingers Hence, anything that you can
get your fingers on to, that's loot Bu'-
jiBgt0n Haaekeye.
The oldest stove probably in the United
States is the one that warns the hall of
Virginias Capitol, in Richmond. 1t was
made in England and sent to Richmond in
1870, and warmed the House of Burgesses
for sixty years before it was removed to its
present location, where it has remained for
thirty years.
In one of the churches while the Their
mometer was in the nineties and the whole
congregation felt as though they were
being cooked, the minister rose to deliver
his sermon. At the announcement of his
text broad smile illuminated the face of
his hearers. They couldn't help it, 1t
was-"And Peter stood by the fire and
warmed himself. Neeobaryport Herald.
There is something appalling in the
statement that twelve and a half million
false teeth are made every year in Philadel-
phia, and that gigantic total is still more
impressive when considered in connection
with the fact that the same city produces
annually five tons of powder designed to
prevent the necessity of false teeth.
Sheridan had happy way of look ing at
"A debt When some one who was more
impertinent than courteous asked him how
he managed to buy so many expensive
things. he naively replied: why, order
them at the shop, and the shopkeeper puts
something down in book, | believe, and
once in while he speaks to me about it,
and that's all | know.
Juries give heavy damages in England
Mrs Mulch. the wife of Leicester doctor,
has recovered "a 500 damages from the
owners of a colliery. Because of a coils
ion between her pony carriage and the
defendants tram cars she was obliged TO
have her right leg amputated above the
knee and her left above the ankle.