The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-28
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Report says new daily papers win be
started at Dayton, O., and Atlanta Ga.
Michigan peach-growers are already
blowing about a good crop this season.
Over two thousand five hundred men
in Utah have more than one wife apiece.
| The latest New York snobbery is to
| distribute flowers to coachmen at we'd
| dings.
The church s.debt-raiser,'' Mr.. Kim
ball, has eased It's churches of their
| financial burdens.
! delegate from Alaska? What right
has that $12, ZOO. 900 icicle to delegate
In congress?-Boston POST
Louisville talks of establishing free
art gallery, where citizens may pass the
| time between drinks.
/ A dog-killer would be popular with
Iowa wool-growers. They want |, O00,-
600 killed and as many more taxed.
The cotton crop of Arkansas is claim
ed to have a greater money value than
the wheat crop of Minnesota.
Chattanooga's council has declared
war on English sparrows. Ten to one
the sparrows come out ahead.
1t is stated that Col Mosby, of Vir-
| ginia, will marry well-known society
lady of Alexandria on his return from
China.
The total value of farms and farm i'm
plements in the United States is S13,-
SOL, 200, 433, being two-thirds of the
productive wealth of the nation.
Owing to the great increase of manu-
factories and the abandonment of poll
teal agitation, Poland is now called
1.-The Belgium of Russia
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, of New York,
daughter of ID. o. Mills, the California
millionaire, it is said, has been rendered
cripple for life by an attack of rheu-
matism.
Money often leads men astray. Some
of them will run after a dollar; but a
hound dog is more avaricious. He win
follow a scent.
A United States commissioner in San
Francisco has decided that a man who
takes n newspaper from the top of a
street letter-box commits no crime
against the United States, even though
the paper be stamped.
Trout and perch have been success
fully introduced into the rivers of New
South Wales, and an effort is now be-
ing made to naturalize salmon. The
ova, numbering 10000, were received
from the United States fish commission.
Since the law against the socialists came
into force, on Oct 81, 1873, there have
been altogether in Germany 225 socie-
ties dissolved, and 758 publications sup
pressed or prohibited, including two in
the English language.
One boy is boy; two boys are half a
boy, and three boys are no boy at ALL
Ben. Franklin. It is different with girls,
Benjamin. One girl is a girl; two girls
are more than a girl, and three girls are
an entire circus.
The Board of Health of Arcade, N.
Y, has served notice on a farmer liv-
ing near that village to wash himself.
He has not done so, it is claimed, for
forty years, and SO filthy had he become
that committee was appointed to abate
the nuisance.
A gallery boy'' writes to the New
York San, complaining of the admis-
sion to the gallery of Wallack's Theater
of a man who wore swallow-tail coat.
Every class in the community has its
rights, and even those of the gallery
boys should be respected.
When a mans hair stands on end, an
ordinary person says his hair stands;
but you can't get a doctor to talk in
that way. The doctor calls it horripila-
ton. This makes the patients hair
stick up worse than ever, but it gives
the family confidence in the doctor.
They are Dragging good deal about
the locomotive in New Jersey that goes
one hundred miles an hour; but a Third
Street youth who went serenading. the
other evening, returned home at the
rate of one hundred and three miles an
hour, and had a spotted dog hung to bis
trousers at that.
The coal beds of Yavapai county, Ari-
iona. are first encountered about twenty
G,.ax- Hra nd
about 175 miles almost direct north
from Prescott They are a part of the
great coal beds of Apache county which
extend from The Grand Colorado almost
to the Rio Grande.
A young lady in New York city, who
was accosted by a well-dressed man in
an insulting manner, accepted the offer
of an old woman, who was grubbing IN
an ash barrel close by, to ''coVer him
with ashes for ten cents" The man
was pelted with handfuls of ashes, COW
ering him from head to foot, before he
could escape. The old dame was re-
warded with quarter.
Mr.. Manyaman arrives at the pearly
gate. St. Peter-''Well, Mr.. Manga
man. you're here at last. / suppose
that during the summer you shaded
your sidewalk, and in the winter spread
ashes or sawdust when the bricks were
slippery?'' Mr.. Manyaman-"Wen, no,
1 can't say that did; very few of my
neighbors would do it, andL thought it
of no USE" st. Peter Sorry to hear
it Mr.. Manyaman; you can't pass in
here Applause from within, while an
arriving devil, with hollow laugh,
seizes Mr.. nj. by the trousers and flies
with him to a locality where ice never
collects on the sidew alk.-Loutsettte
C0sGTier-.JoHr7aaL.
The relatives of Daniel Webster now
living in Boston are the grandchildren
of Hon. Israel w. Kelley, whose father,
Moses Kelley, married Lydia Webster,
the niece of Ebenezer Webster. Israel
W. Kelley, a correspondent of the Bos-
ton Herald says, was the friend and
companion of Webster's early years.
He married Rebecca Fletcher, of Hop
kinton, Mr.. Webster marrying Grace
Fletcher, the younger sister of Rebecea.
at Judge Kelley's house, in Salisbury.
The parents of Grace did not approve of
the marriage, contending s'she might as
well throw herself away upon a COM
mon farmer as wed a man, poor, I'M
practical, and with his head buried In
books Young Daniel first met Grace
Fletcher at the little church in Sails
bury, to which she came one Sabbath
morning on horseback, habited in black
velvet, with close-ftting bodice, and,
as he often afterward described her,
Cooking like an angel
Deacon Eldridge's pretty daughter