The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-12
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efr5 L ID4SSSOI 1lCes VINO ahIlOAs Sll dUOut
the weather, was sun struck. 1t is more
than likely that Vennor will be caught
out in shower some day and drowned.
Item from plumbers bill: 'sFoT
labor trying to thaw q supply pipe, with
out success, FIR. II 10.'' What amount
would have been charged for succeed
ing?--Le Figaro.
The state of Georgia has one town
Macon-in which there is queer super
stition. The merchants say that when
an grinder enters the town the
price of cotton falls.
-Campanani lost his voice while sing
ing the other night in New York. He
rushed in behind the scenes and .ewet
his WHISTLE came back and sung like a
bird
The Leavenworth Times reports that
many people who We're carried away
with the mining craze and drifted out to
Colorado, are returning to their old
Kansas homes with lots of experience.
Celery boiled in milk and eaten with
the milk served as beverage is said to
be a cure for rheumatism, govt, and q
specific in the case of smallpox. Merry
Gus people find comfort in celery.
A case of miraculous cure is reported
from Kingston, where q chronic rheu-
matte sprang to her unused feet and
walked at the mere promise OF matrl-
monial engagement with an eligible
widower.
When Mr.. stephens was asked years
ago why he had never married, he an
sWered, decidedly: ''Prjde. I have
always been too proud, knowing that
should always be an invalid, to ask
any woman to marry, me, to be my
nurse"
A fannelcloth dipped into warm soap
suds and then into whiting and applied
to paint, viii Instantly remove all grease
and dirt. Wash with clean water dry.
The most delicate paint will not be
injured, and will look like new.
Somebody has started the rather i'm
probable story that bug is now eating
up the anthracite coal crop. IF that
bug would set to work and eat up the
men who charge $3.50 o. ton for the
same, it would please us better.-A7a-
dred0's Queen.
The bar-rooms of Texas are now re-
CURED by law to be closed from 90 clock
to 3 O'Clock on Sundays. '.Ehiss ar
rangemcnt," says anvadyecate of the
measure in the legislature, Twill give
liquor and religion Just about an even
VIM
~ At Lawford, Essex, England, lately, s
lad died of wound from pitchfork
One of the witnesses being asked if
there was blood on the fork, said he had
wiped the fork, CREASED it and laid it
away 1t was ELECTED that supersti-
ton prevails that if this course be taken
the injured person viii recover The
fork must not be laid upuntil the wound
is healed.
A man who wanted to buy a horse
asked a friend how to tell a horses age.
'|By his teeth, y was the reply. The next
day the man went to a householder, who
showed him a splendid black horse
The horse-hunter opened the animals
mouth, gave one glance, and turned on
his heel. Il don't want him." said he.
''He's thirty-two years Old" He had
counted the teeth.
When the queen refused to sanction
the mutual attachment between Prince
Leopold and the now Lady Brooke. the
prince turned once more into the realms
OF art for an object on which to fix his
fancy This time there was no lack of
birth. wealth. or beauty; but, to the as
constituent of royalty, an obstacle came
from the young lady herself, which even
the concession of being allowed to as
sumo the title of royal highness could
not overcome. The present marriage
of the prince is entirely one of conven-
fence The bride is described as being
German eli over" large-footed, fiat
messed, close-fsted, and learned. But
she is passionately fond of music, and
perhaps lateron may be brought to love
.'boedry and bainding."
s.No," said Miss Eastwood, IT dom t
care about seeing Patience again, I've
seen it six times already. But that hor-
rid Kate Carleton, whom detest, hasn' t
seen it once. and when / found out that
she was going, learned what seat she
had bought, and I bought the one just
in front of it, and I shall wear the big
gest hat I've got, and you can be sure
she won't see much of the play.
Woman's hate cannot be thWarted.
A curious wager has been won by the
Vicomte de CivTy, He made bet with
the Marquis de Peiflitz that he would
swim his mare, Gphelie, one of Gladi-
ateur's progeny, across the Seine. The
mare. taking kindly to the water, started
with her rider from the Bots de Bou-
logne side and got safely over to the
Suresnes bank, about two hundred yards
lower down, having been carried that
distance by the current, which is toll
erably strong at this point of the river.
Catharine Doyle, of Hoboken, is q
heartless young woman. She was q
school-teacher, and ran away with q
policeman OF course he deserted her,
and her mother, condoning her fault re-
ceived her with open arms. The girl
professed sincere repentance, but while
her mother was asleep she gathered to-
gcther all the portable property she
could find, including the old lady's en-
tire wardrobe, and disappeared.
Brains do not always depend on the
size of hats, as witness the following
list: Lord Chelmsford, CT full; Dean
Stanley. 81; Lord Beaconsfield, q; the
Prince of Wales. full; Charles Dick
ems, Il; Lord Shelbourne, Il; John
Bright, Il Earl Russell, u; Lord Ma
cauley. e; Mr.. Gladstone, e; Louis
Philippe, Il; the Archbishop of York,
8 full.
This is the style of poetry the papers
publish away out in Washington Ter
ritory. We quote from the Walla-Waha
Union:
Mary had vaccine scab
Upon her snow white arm,
She warned her benu to this effect
For fear he'd do it harm.
But when they came to part that nlght,
She give mighty grab
And whispered, hug me awful tight,
And never mind the scat,
A matter-of-fact young man from
New York during q recent visit in Bos-
ton received an invitation from q lady
an old acquaintance-who has just bios
sorned out into typical specimen of the