The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-24

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$60, 900 from ice stored there, during
the coming summer.
A four-foot vein of excellent camel
coal has Just been opened on the Guy
andotte river, West Virginia.
Eighty-fve acres of Washington coun-
ty coal lying near Monongahela City,
Pa, sold recently for $32, 200.
The Boston and Albany Railway COM
pany has bought two hundred Babcock
fire-extinguishers for its passenger-cars.
All the burial places in France have
been declared open and free to people
of all religions.
Note by our economic editor-What's
the good of purchasing new diary
when the old one is only half fullP
The census of 1880 showed that there
were in Pennsylvania LAG, 1873 children
over 10 years of age who could not
read.
Land in Fleming county, Kentucky,
sold recently for $110 per acre, the
highest price that has been paid since
the war
A firm in Darien, N. Y, have evapo-
rated at their dryer 100000 pounds of
apples the past season, which they sold
for 124 cents per pound.
A new tent making for Barnum's
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feet long by 270 feet wide. 1t has given
employment to 800 men.
A track of six thousand acres of land
in Lincoln county, West Virginia, be-
longing to Gen. Jubal A. Early, is adj
vertised FOR sale for delinquent taxes.
"A child that was recently discovered
dead in bed, at Syracuse, N. Y, was
found to have died of cyanosis of the
heart, or imperfect naturalization of the
blood.
This seasons ice crop on the Kenne-
bee river is estimated at 800, 600 tons
not an insignificant addition to the
prodigious harvest of the field and ORCH
ards of Maine.
According to The E@ge7ae City (Ore.)
Guard, the American consul general at
Shanghai has lately sent twenty boxes
of bamboo cuttings for transplanting in
Oregon.
There are two colonies of Mormons in
Arizona that are free from territorial
and county taxes. They are so isolated
that the cost of collecting amounts to
more than taxes.
The ice at the base of Yosemite falls
has formed in cone that extends up
ward some two hundred feet and with
the falling water forms a scene of sur
passing brilliancy.
A dentist in Morgantown, WA, has
made from india rubber and gutta percha
an entire face for Elias Cartwright, of
Marshall county, who had his lips, eye
lids, and nose burned Off
A boys idea of having tooth drawn
may be summed up as follows: 1.-The
doctor hitched fast on me, pulled his
best, and Just before it killed me the
tooth came ont.
The average daily error of the Yale
observatory standard clock which dis
tributed the daily-time signals to the
railroad telegraph offices of Connecticut
during the month ending Jan. 81, 1882,
was 25-100 of one second.
NeWbern, sometimes called the Athens
of Carolina, has taken a new start with
the tide of enterprise sweeping over the
south. Water facilities have been vast
ly improved and railroads are seeking
direct connections.
Il don't see the use of these arctic
expeditions" remarked Mrs. Miggs,
peevishly. They only get lost and
keep folks looking for them who might
be better employed Perhaps You
don't see the use of them now" rejoin-
ed Mr.. MiggS in tone expressive of
contempt for his wife's Ignorance, ''but
if we have to pay two cents pound for
ice next summer, you'll wish that Mr..
Benefits attempt to organize an indie
pendent consumers anti-monopo1y ice
company at the north pole had sue
eeeded."
The Philadelphia council proposes to-
impose license fee on all ticket scalp
ers, whether in the railroad or amuse-
ment business, and the newspapers
thoroughly endorse the scheme.
Senator Pendleton's house is said to
be the most beautiful in Washington.
1t is wholly American in the material,
all the wood being pine, maple, and
poplar, polished and oiled so as to show
the beautiful grains. There is not a
marble mante1, nothing heavier than
wood, simply carved in light, graceful
designs.
A man in New Jersey attempted to
vaccinate n bull dog, the other day, just
for an experiment. said man in cafe,
the other evening, sit took, presume
replied his companion. ssTookr' Well,
should say it did; the bulldog crouch
ed like ball, and, letting himself sud-
denly out, took couple of fingers off
the man, who took to his heels. 1t was
one of the supremest cases of took on
record.
The Lakeciew (Or, Herald says that
the remnants of the Modoc Indians that
were transferred from the lava-beds to
the Indian Territory are now among the
Quietest most peaceable and industri-
Gus in the country There are only 100
left, but they cultivate AGO acres of land,
have established schools, and are thriv-
ing generally. Scar-faced Charley, one
of the heroes of the Modoc war, is now
a respectable. well-to-do farmer.
Some ladies of Ardmore, Pa, were
relieved from dangerous predicament
the other day by means of a telephone.
While gentleman was away from home
a drunken farm hand became so demon
strative that the ladies were obliged to
lock themselves in the house to escape
his violence. One of the ladies be-
thought herself of the telephone connect
ing with a neighbours house about a
mile off. An alarm was given, and in a
few minutes man arrived to their re-
lief, just as the drunken rascal was
breaking through the kitchen window.
According to an ordinance of Port
land. Or, only string instruments may
be played after midnight The must
clans of the Chinese theater violated the
law recently, and were arrested and
taken from the stage. The large au-
dience of Cinnamon present We're in
dignant Mt being deprived of few min
utes amusement, and readily converted
themselves into mob. The gas was
turned of. and they were left in dark
ness to scramble out. They collected
in the street, and threatened to gut the
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