The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-28
GLEANIEGS.

already driven $4,000 Jewish exiles to
| New York.
The authorities at the Vatican have
rejected an application TO put atelephone
in that palace.
OF SIP death sentences in England and
| Wales for period of twenty years, end
/ ing with 1880, but 279 were executed.
A Pittsburg Judge has decided that
married woman is not liable for debt
contracted in her maiden name.
Iowa has thiay-nine Communicates of
Knights Templar, ranging in member
ship from sixteen to III.
Loncfellow wrote Excelsior on the
back of letter he had just received from
/ Charles Summer, and wrote it at single
1 sitting. -
Patrolman Howard of Louisville re-
marked casually to the Chief of Police.
| '.You are a lying old crank" and is no
longer on the force.
| A single days fogs recently brought
into the treasury of one London gas
company nearly 100000. the price OF
$1,000, 900 feet of gas.
| There are 1886 Masonic lodges on the
roll of the English grand lodge, being
an increase of over 1000 since the be-
ginning OF the century.
California is to have cotton factory.
/ Manufacturers of wool there say that
California cotton is more serviceable to
them than that of the Southern States.
| Mrs. Sally Hall, of New Hampshire.
after having lived with Andrew Hall as
his wife for twenty years, found out,
after his death, that she had never been
divorced from her first husband.
( There are over 200 men and 100,-
| 600 horses and mules employed in rail-
road building in Texas. There are
about 2, 900 miles of road under con-
4 tract, and about 5000 more to be con-
/ traeted for
Eleven thousand eight hundred dol
| lars pay the yearly salaries of all the New
England Governors, and the Governor
/ of Massachusetts gets 5000 of it. The
/ Governor of New Hampshire receives
| only $500.
Two hunters in Gilmer Co., Georgia,
| chopped down the trunk of withered
| tree, and were Mortified to discover in
| the hollow stump the bleached bones of
dismembered human skeleton. On in
| spection powder-horn and bullet pouch
were brought to light, together with a
few Wondering articles of raiment, but
nothing else was found that would iden-
tify as to who the person had been.
Renting almost invariably depreciates
farm, and must be fatal to profitable
farming. The only successful farming,
with our present costly labor, is on pro-
ductive land. Poor crops do not pay for
the labor. The best income of the farm
is from the Improvement of its produc-
tive power, and the net profit of it will
| ir IN e-raa tar Y,rnnnrtiay, aVan than
its product Increases.
The New York San makes this class
| ification of the members of the Senate
and House of Representatives in Wash
ington: In the Senate there are 81 law
yers, 5 bankers, 3 each of merchants,
railroad officials, politicians,
manufacturers, miners, general bus
mess, editor and 8farmers. In the House
| there are 1876 lawyers, 10 professional
politicians, IL merchants, IL editors, IL
farmers, 10 manufacturers, 5 physicians,
3 railroad officials, 2 each of civil en-
gineers. miners and mechanics, clergy
man, capitalist and metallurgist.
Among the things in Boston which ex-
cited the wonder of the Zulu Indian
| chiefs. was negro minstrel show. The
clog dancing by row of spangled fell
lows gave especial delight This night"
said one. in his own tongue, 1--WE have
seen that which passes all other things
| n wonder. We thought our own dancers
we're the most perfect for keeping time
and for regularity of movement, but we
ind that this goes over anything We have
.ither seen or imagined, and we are COW
red with shame
Two convicts in the California State
Prison took delight in torturing a timid
| fellow, whose cell was between their
own, by pretending at night that they
saw ghosts. They talked to each other
about it, describing the most awful sights
| and eounterfeiting excessive fright. A
week or two of this treatment drove the
victim crazy, and he imagined that he
was haunted by the creatures which they
conjured up.
For sore shoulders on horse the Coua'-
try Gentleman recommends: ''Bathe
frequently with the following: ''Pow-
dered alum, borax and nitrate of potash,
of each three ounces; tincture of elixir
pro, four ounces; water (hot) three
pints; mix If they get sore get pack
i age of Moore Brothers gall powder, put
it into pint of alcohol and put on the
raw sores three times a day and they
will heal while he is at work. Alternate
the wash above with salt water for bath
| ing"
A man named John Trimm disappear
ed from his home at Augusta, Me-, five
| years ago. The supposed body of the
missing man was found floating in Port
land Harbor and decently inferred by
his brother. A few days ago the real
John Timm appeared before his aston
| ished relatives and explained that he
had been living in the West for five
years. He had read an account of his
| death, but really thought it of such little
consequence that he did not think it
necessary to apprise his friends of their
| mistake.
While some workmen were engaged
in excavating on the Denver and New
Orleans Railroad, between Cherry and
Running Creeks, their progress was in
terrupted by the discovery of buried
| forest The trees are all petrified and
| agateized, of various sizes, and are bu-
ried at depths of from ten totwenty feet.
as deep as the men found it necessary to
/ go. These trees were met in half adozen
! localities. are very perfect. and ifproper
machinery was used could be unearthed
nearly or quite whole.
General Newton, who is in charge of
tho New York improvement at Hell
Gate. is preparing for another explosion
compared with which that of the sum-
mer of 1876 will be insignificant. Then
the area of rock blown up was about
three acres; at the next affair Of the