The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-07
GLEANINGs.

| sea, pray twice; before getting married,
pray three times.''
Lake county. in Oregon, was organic
ed ten years ago, and it is asserted that
thirteen murders have been committed
within its boundaries since that time,
| without any convictions.
/ The immigration by ocean steamers
to Oregon is now 1000 per month. OF
these about so per cent. are actual set
tiers, who bring with them from $500 TO
$1,000 each, and usually their house
hold effects.
President Garfield's grave on every
pleasant Sunday is visited by thousands
of quiet people. The sentinels still pace
about the vault, the bronze doors of
which are thrown back, revealing the
/ coffin.
M. Damala, the husband of Sarah
Bernhardt, is a tall and handsome man
/ of middle-age, who looks the thorough
Greek he is. His father was a. mer-
| chant at SYRIA and his mother was a
daughter of NJ. Rail-, mayor of the pir-
! eus.
Senator Jones, of Florida, learned the
trade of a carpenter, but he does not
handle the jackplane and saw as MINI
/ bly, as he once did, and when he wants
exercise he bowls over the concrete
streets of Washington behind a tail
black horse.
+ William Gowen, of Lawrence, Mass,
whose creditors four years ago accepted
his offer to settle an Indebtedness of
| $4,000 for 40 per cent, has just inform
| ed them that he is prepared and willing
to pay the remaining $4,000, with in
| terest.
The San Francisco Chronicle COM
/ plains much of the delay in the settle
ment of the James Lick estate, and says
that the residuary legatees mean to take
some steps to compel, if possible the
trustees to make a distribution of the
property in their care.
The two days artillery experiments
on Herr Krupp's private range at Mep-
pen ended with the most successful re-
suits. They were attended by about
forty artillery and marine officers. Herr
Krupp treated his critical visitors with
! lavish hospitality.
The latest place struck by the oil fe-
yer, which prevails to such an alarming
extent in the New York southern tier, is
| Watkins. An extensive oil operator
| from Pennsylvania has been looking
over the town, and gives his opinion
that it is promising place to sink an
/ oil well.
A physician says that exposure pays
secondary role in the production of apo
| pickles, BRAIN settings and the like
when compared with dissipation; that
| both in the higher and lower ranks of
| life, whilst work and worry count their
victims by hundreds, dissipation counts
| its by thousands.
A cunning Spaniard named Emanuel
| - al II. l. L.
been hunted down in New York and
| captured by Inspector Byrnes and three
| detectives He has led the life of a
| criminal in America for twenty-five
years. and has been in prison frequent
| ". He is now held to answer to eight
cen forgeries.
Mr.. Christian K Ross, father of the
| long-lost Charlie, is again looking for
| his boy. A boy has been found at Parts
Road, Fla, who is said to be named
/ Hustled, and who is said to answer the
description of Charlie. The police say
he is the. SON of Mr.. c. H Hustled. of
Philadelphia, who is also claimed by a
woman named Snyder.
While workingmen were engaged in
| pulling down the walls of the old city
armory in Brooklyn, there fell from q
| cavity an Theoretically sealed leaden
| box. 1t was found to have come from
| the cornerstone of the Apprentices Lii
| brary, built in 1925. In the box was an
account of the laying of the corner
| stone, as published in the Long Island
| star General Lafayette had charge
| OF the ceremony.
Senator Frye, of Maine, is said to be
| the Youngest looking grandfather in
| Washington. He has seven grandchild-
| rem. and always likes to have them
| about him. Il couldn' wait any longer"
| he said the other day, land sent word
| to have one of them sent down here
| from Maine He came along--a six
year-old- Mrs Frye has been con-
| stantly busy ever since mending trouser-
/ legs and jacket-sleeves."
Pure alcohol is now prescribed by
many physicians in preference to whisky,
wine, beer, etc. To. use standard al
cohol is believed to insure an accuracy
of treatment which cannot be had with
articles which contain the spirit in I'M
certain quantities 1t is thought impor-
| tant not to disguise the taste of the al
colol in any way, in order that the pa
| fient may feel that he is taking it as
medicine and not as a beverage.
! Michael r. Far,onc, lawyer of
| Springfield, H., and Mrs. Reynado,
| very wealthy widow of Louisville, met
| for the first time 1T Hot Springs, Ark,
and were in the same hotel a week. On
parting, they each promised to consider
| the question of marrying, and, it OF the
| same mind at the end of another week,
| to go to the Southern Hotel, St. Louis,
| to meet the other. Both were on hand
at the appointed time and place, and the
wedding was celebrated.
Certain New York ladies are accused
of securing at the engravers the cards Of
the aristocracy and displaying them os-
tentatiously upon their drawing-room
| table. as if Mrs. So and So had just been
in The wife of a Boston Congressman
was once detected at Washington of
writing with compliments Of upon
card of Sir Edward Thornton and at
taeiIing it to the handle of a bouquet
| We may pack pork and make our mon
| ey in spare ribs in Cincinnati. but we
were never guilty of any snobbery as
| this Cincinnati Gazette.
The intellect of New Haven has been
| soreIv tried of late in trying to discover
whether servant girls or shop girls make
the hest wives Instead of proceeding
in the scientific way by collecting sta
tistics and making experiments, the
parties to the controversy argued from
a priori considerations. The tedium OF
the discussion was relieved by a new