The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-07
GLEANINGS.

ohiOAS LHC APPS.
There are 5000 Cinnamon engaged
in making boots and shoes in this coun-
try.
Railroad property inGeorgia increased
two and quarter million dollars in
value last year.
The abbey of St. Vincent, near Lat
robe, Pa, is the oldest monastery in
America, having been established in
1890.
Oscar Wilde has unusual qualities at
''poteen." Even in Colorado no one
could be found who could ..drink him
under the table,
A Boston millionaire recently said:
THANK God, although | have been
very poor, | never Was so poor that [
was obliged to live out of town.
Gen. Joseph +. Johnston saws that if
he had staid in congress he would have
become beggar. He is an insurance
man now. and presumably makes more
than 50, 00O.
Some of the richest men in Boston are
said to be the ones who could close fast
houses and gamhling-dens if they would
withdraw the capital they have invested
in them.
The sheriff of Chehalis Co, Washing
ton territory. advertises for sale all the
Northern Pacific lands within his iuris-
dIction, on account of nonpayment of
taxes in 1881.
One of south Gcorgia's most popular
society ladies, a resident of Lowndes
county, has cleared this season on an
acre and half truck farm over $3.50
she superintendent its cultivation in per-
son.
Gold is coming in quite rapidly from
the mines in the foothills near Oroville.
Cal. The large amount OF snow in the
mountains has afforded the miners an
abundance ofwater to work their claims
with.
Professor Schiff. the vivisector of
Florence, has used up more than A.
600 dogs in his experiments, and in or
Der TO silence their complaints always
begins work by cutting their vocal
chords.
Capt. Constantenus, the tatooed Greek
is soon to be admitted into the masonic
order. He will become a voter next |
year. and means to take up his resi- |
dence in New York, having amassed a
fortune.
The queen of Italy has a nice sense of |
the picturesque, and in summer never
wears bonnet if she can help it. She /
takes her afternoon drives with her beau
tiful head covered only by the mantilla
or the black lace veil.
A lady lecturer in Chicago asserts
that chicken should be boiled one
hour for every year of its life. The or
binary restaurant fowl would by this
rule simmer in the pot about twenty-four
hours.
Within less than four months of 1882,
2, 991 miles of new railroad have been |
built. Only in one year 1856, was this
mileage exceeded during the whole II
months before 1869. So many miles
were not built during the whole of any
one year from 1873 to 1873. 1t is COS
miles more than were constructed dur
ing the same period of 1881.
The Oldest deed in America is said to
De in the possession of Maj. Leland, of
New York city. 1t was written eighteen
7ears after the discovery of the new
/ conveyance of Fishers island. near the
mouth of the sound. from certain Indian !
chiefs to the celebrated navigator, John
cabot, whose signature it bears. ,
While DR.. Glenn, the great California
arming operations, still he will realize t
nough to pay all his expenses for the 6
urrent year. He expects to realize at /
east 500. 900 bushels of wheat from this
ears crop. This will give him 80, 0OO,-
100 pounds, which, if sold at II cents r
'er pound, will amount to $450,000 for S
he entire crop. He estimates his ex- +
lenses for the crop this year at some il
hing near $3.50. 900. {
M. Mackart recently withdrew, with !,
ut giving notice, his picture of Sarah =
Sernhardt from the Vienna salon, and
n its place hung the portrait of Wen
ese belle. Mime. De Teschenberg. Wis.,
.ors unfamiliar with the actresses face, q
OF knowing of the change of pictures, o
yere thereafter frequently heard to ex- II
lain: Zach, Gott! How fat Sarah is n
growingr' fl
An enterprising justice of the peace =
! Russell county, Alabama issued q
'aIrant of arrest for freedman, charg- 9
lg him with stealing rations, breaking g
is contract. and living in adultery with :,
woman. This j. P. is an honest, clever n
Olored man. He framed his warrant ~
} as to cover accidents and found -
he prisoner guilty of living in adultery, =,
nd thereupon committed him to jail. l.
The Russian newspapers announce W
lat the Holy Synod is contemplating d]
he necessity of reducing the number of a
sligious holidays, observed by the gi
reek Church. The number of saints M
avs upon which workmen have a hol- T
lay in the course of the year is 160, so pj
lat, instead of doing about 800 days OF
ork in year as in other countries, in Y;
ussia they hardly do more than 200 re