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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Marriage Brokers.

In large double parlor of an old
fashioned house in a once fashionable
downtown street, an old gentleman
with white mustache and a sparse
thatcn of white hair on his head sat at
table, says the New York San, OPP
posite younger man with bushy brown
hair and mustache imperial. Two large
piles of circulars lay on the table by
some bundles of cards printed in Eng
fish, French, and German. There was
very little furniture. Four chromos
gave questionable adornment to the
walls On round table in the back
parlor were two large photograph al
buns, one of them entirely empty and
the other containing half dozen photo
graphs of young women. The two
gentlemen spoke with foreign accent
They were waiting for bachelors or
maidens. They constituted the national
matrimonial alliance bureau, which has
been organizing in this city for two
months past. The promoters of this
benevolent enterprise have been engaged
in business of similar kind in Vienna,
and have undertaken to reproduce here
matrimonial exchange such as has OK
listed in Berlin, Paris, and London for
years. Their purpose is Ito facilitate
acquaintance between ladies and gentle
men as means TO lead to happy matri-
monial alliances"
A reporter who thought he might pos
sibly desire to undertake "a happy ma
trimonial alliance called at the office
of the bureau.
''How is your bureau conductedp" he
asked, bashfully, of one of the man
ayers.
mot only respectfully, but with great
F1Sv~s nd dniI-
cacy. We seek to engender confidence
in ourselves as mediators, and we prom
Use happy results
81 want a wife for instance
The affable mediator opened the emp
ty album, closed it quickly, and opened
the other one at the tintype of healthy
looking Chicago girl who wants hus-
band. She is twenty-three years old and
large for her age. The other pictures
in the album were of fair German girls.
All of them were of modest faces and
comely.
ssYou want wife" the broker con-
tinued. ''You pay So and register your
name, address and business. / look up
your reference and put your photograph
in the album. Then you pick out by
the pictures the girl you think you'd
like to marry. She looks at your pic
lure, ana IL MUTUALLY dgreetDie, you
meet here on Sunday afternoon. If the
promises of the photograph are inside
good in person, you two are left to. con-
duct your future negotiations as you
please, and you pay me one or two per
cent. on the money you give your
wife or the. dowry she brings you
SeeP''
'.Do you find that the people who
come to you have much money!
mot as a rule"
.'Who are theyP"
People of all sorts
1t was noteworthy that the photo
graphs on file were all of young women.
Separate days are set apart for men and
women to call, and a woman is in
charge of the rooms ON the days that
women may attend. Negotiations may
also be conducted by letter, and cores
pendence may be carried on in almost
any modern language. The managers
appear to be perfectly honest in their
expectation that their matrimonial en-
terprise viii thrive in New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
The Soaaish inflammation.

At the time when Angel Parton, the
spanish bull fighter, was recently wound
ed by maddened bull at Madrid, the
London Standard correspondent thus
describes the subsequent scenes in town:
t,All the evening papers were greedi-
" bought, read aloud under 1amp-posts,
hawked in clubs and cafes, while hum
dreds of the more enthusiastic sports
men called at Partor's house to con-
done with this gladiator of modern
Spain. The most common remark that
evening was: How is PartorH Well
might proper Conservative paper re-
mark that more enthusiasm, far more
interest, far keener curiosity is shown
for the national sport than for such
things as forms of government, imperial
policy, and other passing pre-occupa-
tons of the political world; that we do
not move the deeper strata, the under
currents where the real instincts of a
society and a nation are revealed as in
its most popular pastimes. The amaz-
ing thing is that such survival of bar
barism should not only be still popular
in Spain, but that, as public amuse
ment. it appears to have been for a time
qHickened into renewed vitality. The
only trouble now is to provide, not bulls,
but 'Matadors' who are willing to run
the risk of being ripped up by the horns
of an angry bull in the ring. And yet,
after their recent experience. it is not
likely that the mob viii be content with
any less sensational aspect of these hor-
rible spectacles. -
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Prices for Poetry.

In some "reminiscences of Longfellow
Mr.. Samuel Ward, the lobbyist, chiefly.
describes the service he was to the poet
in securing him on several occasions re-
enumeration for his poems He sold the
skeleton in Armorn to Lewis Gaylord
Clarke, of the Knickcrbocker Magazine
for $50, being thirty cents line, al
though Clarke said he could not afford
to give more than s2I Thirty years
after he got an offer of So a line from
BONNER. Of the New York Ledger, for the
Hanging Of the Crane accompanied
by a check for 81, 900. Longfellow re-
turned the check. thinking he could do
better with Osgood, the publisher. Bon
ner threatened legal proceedings, but
through the Intervention OF Bartiett, ms
LAWYER. the whole business ended in
Bonner's giving $4,000 for the poem
81, 900 going to Ward himself The
CormhsI Magazine once paid Tennyson
three guineas line, but Bonner pad
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Fashion Notas

Ruches outrival ruffies or plaitings for
dress trimmings.
Flowers are extravagantly used for
hat and bonnet trimmings
Lace frills are worn around the neck
and wrists as much as ever.
Large sagging puffs form the paniers
OF many new model costumes.
1t is the fashion among the French
aristocracy to wear black silk under
clothing
The Gainsborough hats, SO long in
popular favor, have lost their prestige
entirely.
The long redingotes of the newest
Par1s dresses are a return to style in
vogue here last year.
New embroidered lace fichus of black
net glitter with dense covering of fine
cut jet bugles and pendants.
Sicilienne, Bengaline, Victoria, vel
ours and other repped silks, are used
Tor full dress toilets in preference to
satin.
Sleeves of French dresses with stylish
fuilness at the armhole have but one
long seam-that inside the arm, while
the outer seam begins at the elbow.
Many slender ladies have their gloves
reach nearly to the shoulder, pushing
them down to the elbow and allowing
the extra fullness to wrinkle over the
arm
Fine colored hosiery should be wash
ed In tepid water, with white CASTLE
soap, and rinsed in cold water 1t
should be dried in the shade, and should
be turned wrong side out when being
laundried.
The newest trimmings upon dress
skirts are made with the old-fashioned
Louis~XIV. sagging puffs. These puffs
are really pretty and effective upon the
tunic or overdress, but give an under
skirt baggy appearance, quite the re-
verse of graceful.
Glaze silks, which always make up
into bright and stylish dresses, are to be
much worn this Summer. Some of the
new patterns have a satin chene stripe,
frightened with tiny bouquets of field
flowers. Satin and Pekin reps are also
in fashion once more.
Both bonnets and hats run through
small, medium and immense sizes, the
bonnets developing through numerous
notifications of the little French toque
and the snug-fitting princesse cap, into
the more pretentious Directoire or poke,
and ending in the formidable Callache
bonnet of other days. In round hats
the styles begin with pretty cottage and
Gypsy shapes, and grade up to the di-
mansions OF small cart-wheel; these
monstrosities of straw being made up
of numerous dents. smashed-in angles
and eccentric curves-an eceentricity
which is noticeable both in crown and
brim, with wild freaks in garniture in
keeping with the shape of the hat.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Measurements of Men.

What / propose to speak of in the
present memoir are those measurements
of the bodily form and faculties that can,
or apparently could. be made with some
precision, but the personal data in res
pect to intellectual and emotional ca
pacities, and to special aptitudeS and
tastes, require separate treatment
The progress of the art Of measurement
of the more purely bodily faculties has
been by no means uniform 1t has never
been specially directed toward further
ing the knowledge of the life-hjstory of
individuals. but for the most part to-
ward other theoretical Investigations.
In some cases elaborate instruments and
methods of observation have been de-
yised BY Which certain faculties have
been tested with extreme minuteness:
in other eases 40 weIl-contriyed and APP
proved system of examination exists. II
everything should be. stated by which
anthropometry might profit. the effect
would be not unlike the map of some
partialy-settied country, drawn on
scale SO large as to show the cadastral
survey of its principal town lands. A
fraction of the whole would thus be
infinitely engraved. the wide adjacent
regions would be represented by few
lines of route, and the remainder would
consist of blanks. In order to convey
in the best way an idea of Whist is known
about such country rs this, the gener-
al map of it should be on small scale,
and then uniformity of treatment be-
comes possible. Acting on this prin-
ciple, / shall avoid entering into details
on those subjects where here exists very
much to speak of, and shall nowhere
GO further than is sufficient to express
the simpler requirements of antnropo-
metrv.
Let us, then, consider how we should
set at work TO define and describe the
various bodily faculties of person
whom we had ample means of observ-
ing, say one of our own children. Some
of the observations could hardly be
made except at n properly equipped an
thropometric laboratory; others, as it
will be seen, could at present be carried
on best in the playground / shall not
care to distinguish these in the descrip-~
ton; they viii be obvious enough when
they occur. The tests would define the
capacities of q person at the moment
when he was observed. They arc ex-
pected to be renewed at intervals, so as
to serve as records of successive periods
in his life history. Francis Cation, an
Popular Science M0nthiy.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Domestic REGIMES.

Hominy Fritters- cups cold
boiled hominy, small-grained; one ta-
blespoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
of cream, two beaten eggs. one-half tea
spoonful soda dissolved in vinegar,
little salt Rub the sugar and salt into
the hominy, wet with the milk, and
when smooth beat in the whipped eggs;
drop by the spoonful into boiling fat,
and fry quickly. Drain in a hot colan-
der. Every thing depends upon beat
ing and cooking. The soda should go
in last of ali the ingredients, and be
whipped in hard.
Drowned Potatoes. - Mash soft, with
butter and milk; mound smoothly upon
a creased plate, and brown in a quick
oven. glazing with butter. Slip to a hot
flat dish
Lettuce Salad. Pull ont the hearts
and pick them apart. Heap loosely in
a salad-bowl, and season, first sprink-
ling lightly with powdered sugar, with
oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Toss up
with silver fork; lay cold boiled eggs,
cut into sixths, lengthwise upon the
top.
Deviled Kidneys. -Wash pound Of
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

sleeps or pig kidness. dry them on a
| towel. and split them open without en-
| tirely separating the two halves; spread
them thinIy with a paste made as fol-
lows, and broii item over brisk lire
until they are brown.
Paste for Deviled Kidneys to-
gether one tablespoonful each of dry
mustard, flour. and vinegar, one salt
spoonful of salt. quarter of saltspoon-
full of white pepper, and dust of cay
enne pepper.
Broiled Kidneys.-W dry, and
split the kidneys as above; dip them in
the following mixture of oil and Vine
gar; run small skewer through each
one to keep it open, and broil four min
utes on each side, or until the kidneys
are brown, placing the inside first over
the fire. The seasoning mixture for the
kidneys is made by mixing together
three tablespoonful of salad-oil. one
tablespoonful of vinegar, sa1tspoonful
of salt, and quarter of a saltspoonful of
pepper.
Every cook who makes tea or coffee
in tin pots. knows that after few
months her results are not the same as
when the pots are new. If she can af-
ford it, she throws them away and buys
new ones. They can be cleansed in a
very simple manner, and SO last long,
er time. Put enough water in to near
ly fill them, and then drop few live
Goals in the water; gases are absorbed,
and the coffee or teapot is fresh and al
most as good as new.
Salt in Diphtheria.-In a paper read
at the Medical Society of Victoria, Aus
tralia, DIR. Day stated that, having for
many years regarded diphtheria, in its
early stage, as purely local affection,
characterized by p marked tendency to
take on putrefactive decomposition, he
has trusted most to the free and con-
slant application of antiseptics, and,
when their employment has been adopt
ed from the first, and been combined
with judicious alimentation, he has sell
dom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In
consequence of the great power which
salt possesses in preventing the putre-
factive decomposition of meat and other
organic matter, DR.. Day has often pre-
scribed for diphtheritic patients living
far away from medical aid the frequent
use of gargle composed of teaspoon
full or more of salt dissolved in tum-
bier of water, giving children who cam
not gargle a teaspoonful or two to drink
occasionally. Adults to use the gargle
as prophylactic or preventive three or
four times day.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Zuni Method of Managing Husbands.

Among the Zuni Indians, who have
recently come to the front by coming
East for ocean water, there is said to
be social custom that might be worth
adopting in more civilized circles. II
Zuni-land the houses belong to the wo-
men instead of the men. so man can
marry without first being obliged to bug
or hire house; marrying men are.
therefore. abundant among the Zunis
On the other hand man who marries
can only occupy his wife's house during
good behavior, the wife having always
the right to put an unsavory husband
out of doors. This is a privilege thss
would raise many an American wife
from abject slavery to the rank of equal
partner in the conjugal firm But.
whether for husband or wife, the Zuni
plan is an advantageous one; it eneour
ages early marriages. assures every We
man of home, SO that she need not
marry merely to get one, and il keeps
husbands in order, for almost any man
will behave himself if, by so doing, he
can avoid the onerous duty of paying
rent.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
EATU 3E's TRIUMPH.
Fraxier's Root Buffers.

II you are weak, or languid, use
Frazer's Bittcrs.
If your flesh is fiabby and your CON-
plexion sallow, use Frazer's Bitters.
Ii you live in a malarial district, use
Frazer's Bitter's
If worn down with the care of chill
dren, use Frazcr's Filters.
If you have got the blues, use Fraz
er's Bitters.
If you kept late hours aud lived con-
trary to the laws of health, use Fraz-
er's Root Bitters.
If you need toning up, take Frazer's
Root Bitters.
If you have abused instead of used
natures gifts, use FraZer's Bittcrs
If you feel old before your time, use
Frazer's Bitters.
Iflife has become burden and you
have gloomy forbodings, use Frazer's
Bitters.
If your hands tremble and yo~r eyes
have grown dim, Frazer's Root Bit
tiers will make you feel young again.
Sold by all druggists everywhere at
the low price 500 per bottle. F. S.
Henry Co., Sole Proprietos, Cleveland
Ohio.
For sale by McCabe d wheaton. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
A number of influential Jews recent

A number of influential Jews recent
ly met in st. Petersburg to consult upon
the miseries of their race in Russia, and
to devise measures for the prevention of
further atrocities. After several persons
had spoken, none of whom had anything
to recommend except emigration, an
aged man named Schmerling, represen-
tative of the community of Berditcheff,
began to relate the trials to which his
neighbors had been exposed. AS he
proceeded he grew more and more ex-
cited. until apparently overcome by his
examination showed that he was dead.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
MOLINE
FRANK HAYWOOD, Reporter
Ohace:-Harwood's Livery.
Reporter.
rrExs IN BKrEF.

R. G. Boyd is spending week at home
Company B. held their regular weekly
drill on Thursday evening.
Sam Renett is slowly recovering from
his recent accident.
Chas. Deere has just received nea
snowy dog cart from the east
Albert Mansur, of Deere, Mansur & Co.
will leave for st. Louis on Monday.
The Muldoons at Timm's hall next Sat
urday night.
DIR. MeKinnil has returned from his triI
to Kansas.
The school teachers have all left fol
their homes to spend their summer vaca
| ton.
Miss M. A. Kendall left yesterday morn
| ing for Boston, where she will spend the
| summer.
The Boys in Blue" will go to Clinton
next weew to play base ball nine in that
city.
The next heat in the hose race for the
medal will be run week from next Thurs
| day night.
About forty of the Moline firemen Wis
tied Muscatine yesterday to witness the
tournament and gain new ideas.
Ed. Osborne has commenced his duties
with Rennick, Shaw & Crosset of Daven
port.
Mapes Bros. are running crockery
store in the stand lately vacated by E. E.
Hood
Strawberries are selling at fifteen cents
box and now everybody can afford box
or two of the lucious fruit.
The Rev. G. T. Llnfield, of Muscatine,
will conduct the funeral service of Mrs.
Ben Piper this afternoon.
III. o. Sleight says he has not been in
Henry county fixing up his fences, but he
has been in Iowa visiting.
Mrs. Frank Gould and Miss Fannie
Morris went north on Monday on the
Moline" They will return some time
next week
Politics in Henry county is the cause of
the split in the Cstszsn, and is the reason
why Captain johnson retired from that
paper.
C. I'll. Deere will catch for the office
nine that plays the nine from the wood
department and rare sport may be ex-
pected.
The office men at Deere & Cos. will
tackle the men of the wood department on
the diamond field this afternoon, at the
gun club park.
Ed. Kittleson is the manager for Timm's
hall at present and will be after the hall
has been overhauled and converted into an
opera house.
The Rev. Mr.. Waller will preach a ser
mon ON accidents tomorrow evening,
which will be well worth the attendance of
those who are employed in the manufac-
tories.
The evening hand bill INDUCED in
deluge upon the ARGUS last evening. The
ARGUS came to Moline to stay and will do
so long after the E. FL. has been buried
and monument placed over its financial
grave.
The Sylvans got badly beaten yesterday
by the Boys in Blue" The score stood at
the end of the game, twentysix to thirteen
in favor of the Boys" who did some
splendid playing. Strong batting was a
feature of this success.
Miss Ella Cleaver, who has been the
faithful and efficient teacher in the gram
mar room for the past five years, has re-
sighed her position. Her many friends
and the nuhIic also will be sorry IN lose go
good worker from the schools.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

Professor Law says that .'the great
majority of ringbones in young horses
come from the failure to shorten the
toes To this may be added that ring
bone is apt to be formed if colts are al
lowed to stand on plank floor, or any
where else where the footing is hard
during the first eighteen months of
their age Whesher in stable or yard
during this period, let them have earth
for standing or walking free from stone
or gravel
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
PILES! PILEsl. PxLESnII
q sn~7 Cure Pound at-Last. NC. one Need
EufFaF
Px1Esl

Suffer
n sire cure for the Blind. Bleeding
ftcning and liberated Piles has been
discovered by DIR. Williams ian Indian
remedy, called DIR. Williams Indian
Olntment A single box has cured
the worst chronic cases of Is and 80
years standing. No one need suffer
Ave minutes after applying this won
derfut soothing medicine. Lotions,
Instr aments and Electuaries do more
harm than good Williams Ointment
apsorbs the tumors, allays the intense
itching particularly at night after
getting warm in bed). acts as poul-
ticc; gives instant and painless relief.
and is prepared only for Piles, itching
o! the private parts. and nothing else.
Read what the Hon. j. M. Coffin.
berry, of Cleveland. says about DIR.
Williams Indian Pile Ointment: Il
have used scores of pile cures and it
affords me pleasure to say that / have
never found anything which gave such
immediate and permanent relief as DIR,
Williams Indian Pile Ointment.
For sale by all druggists, or mailed
on receipt of price 81 co.
s. E. Henry & Co.. Props,
Cleveland, Ohio
For sale by McCahe & Wheaton. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

Longfellow (and Ward) the equivalent
of four. In the course of tire interview
between Bartlett and Ward, the lawyer
paid the following tribute to his client:
although | am Mr. Bonner's legal adj
visers he sometimes goes off at haif-cock
without consulting me-" AS in this
case his lawyers advice cost Mr. Bon
ner $1,000, his disposition ITO go off at
half-cockn is hardly to be wondered at.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

1t is with feelings akin to pain that
we observe that our best young men are
clothing themselves in trousers that fit
Them too quick and hats that are built
IN the model of schooner yacht. This
gives them the appearance of animated
wash-bowls trying to walk or stills.
Neg Hacen Register
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

II man lksof his nisfortunes, there
rs something in them that is not disa-
Greeable to him .r0hnso,a
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

Life is a succession of lessons which
must be lived to be understood. All is
riddle, and the key to riddle is another
riddle. There are as many pillows of
Illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We
wake from one dream into another
dream.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND GPACIPTC R'Y

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND PACIFIC R'Y
Calls the attention of trayelers to the central posi-
by the snortese route, and carrying passengers.
City, Council Bluffs, Leavenworth -Atehison
Minneapolis and St. Paul. 1t connects in Union
Depots with all the principal lines of road between
the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. Its eouip-
ment Is unr1vaied and magnificent being eomposed
OF Most Comfortable and Beautiful Day Coaches-
Magnificent Horton Reclining Chair Cars. Pull
mans Prettiest Palace Sleeping Cars, and the Best
Line OF Dining Cars in the World. Three Trains
between Chicago and Missouri River Points Two
Paul via the Famous -
ALBERT LEA ROUTE"
New and Direct Line, via Seneca and Kanka-
kee, has recently been opened between Richmond
norfolk, Newport News, Chattanooga, Atlanta Au-
eusta Nashville louisville, Lexington. Cincinnati
Indianapolis and Lafayette, and Omaha MiuneaT1-
oils and st. Faul and intermediate points.
All Through Passengers Travel on Fast Express
Trains.
Tickets for sale at al principal Ticket omces in
the United States and Canada
Baggage checked through and rates OF fare al
ways as low as competitors that offer less advan-
tages.
For detailed information. get the Maps and Fold
@ss of the
GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE,
At your nearest Ticket Once. or address
We & GABLE, {. ST. JOHN,
Stse-Pres & GeuI Mgr, GENT Tiki 4 Pass Agt
CHICAGO.