The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-29
Tile DAILY ARGUS.
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the British House of Commons
The Dallas Times reioices over the
fact that the penny is to be added to the
currency in use in Texas.
The government building in Utica. N.
Y, is now practically completed, at
total cost of about 425. 1000
Deer Lodge City, Montana. win re-
main the terminal point of the Utah
and Northern for some months.
Windmills are coming into general
use in Paradise valley, Nevada for
pumping water for irrigating purposes.
Harper's Ferry is the dullest, sleep
lest and most dilapidated place on
God $ foot-stool.
One result of the large crops already
noticed is that the lucky farmer feels
his oats and is happy.
The merchants of Dubuque. Iowa,
claims that theirs is the strongest city
financially in the Union.
There are seven thousand five hum
bred men employed in manufacturing
and mining in and near Birmingham,
Ala.
The shipments of peaches by express
from North Carolina to the northern
this season above those of any previous
years.
During the reign of Ismail Pasha he
involved himself and Egypt in debt
amounting to 1882. 223, 200. Once he
paid $1,000 for two beautiful Circus
sian girls for his harem.
An Indiana man gave his horse pint
of whisky to send him along in the race
l. IL
NAL tried to step over the grand stand,
and in the effort broke two legs.
Some of the California fruit-gfowers
are not pleased with the Chinese immi-
grafton bill, and say it viii be impossi-
Bile to raise fruit at profit in that state
without Chinese labor
Excellent crop prospects are reported
in the New England states, although the
season is backward A large amount of
hay viii be secured. and an immense APP
pie crop is expected.
The largest believer made from
single width of hide is said to have just
been made at Hartford, Conn, for a
New York fiouring-mill. 1t is forty
eight inches wide, seventy-six feet hong,
and weighs one thousand pounds.
The driver of farm wagon near Sun
bury, Pa, finding the railroad crossing
INSTRUCTED by cars undertook to play
brakeman and cut the train, instead OF
which his arm was literally burst from
the shoulder to the elbow.
The Eesos. of Fort Jones, Cal, says
that the Umatilla Indians are becom-
ing more self-reliant every year They
have two thousand acres of land under
cultivation, flour and saw-mill. thresh
i Al. s5p.t 4txvzs
plements.
The men on q north-bound gravel
train on the Texas Central at Waco ex-
hibited the other day "A petrified leg of
n monster animal. 1t was found in a
pit south of the city. 1t seemed to be
one of the bones of the lower hind leg,
and measured six feet in length, and
| was half the size of q mans body.
A large and peculiarly shaped caleu-
| lus was removed from the bladder of a
| man IS years of age, at the Swinburne
|. dispensary in Albany, n. Y, few days
since. The stone weighed nearly two
| ounces, and measured one and three
| quarters by one and one-half inches. Its
| form was that of an oblate spheroid.
A man at Monterey, Cal, the other
| dav observed a squirrel cleaning out his
| him drag out something resembling a
piece of money. Picking it up, it was
| found to be a coin of the time of Char
| les Ill, king of Spain and of the In
| dies. and bore date of 1882.
A novelty in the shape of strawber-
~ bed is to be seen ut Westfield. 1t is
/ a hooshead filled with loan and stones.
| and from its sides are growing, from
| holes bored through the wood into the
loan, over one hundred thrifty straw
berry plants, bearing a profusion OF
large, luscious fruit.
| Some twenty years ago, Daniel Coe,
| of Durham, n. Y, gave 81 500 for the
purpose of Presbyterian education in
| Iowa. One thousand dollars of this was
used in the purchase of eighty acres of
land near what was then the village of
Cedar Rapids. The village has grown
to a city. and the city has taken the col
lege farm into its plat, which makes it
very valuable. It is worth now $50, 900,
and on it has been put a building which
cost $4,000 From small beginning
| has grown up Cee College, an institu-
, | ton of which Cedar Rapids is very
proud.
The following effusion is pretty good
| for Dakota orator: mo sharper, no
bier, wide-awaker, straighter-tobacco-
splitting, more enterprising, whole-soul-
ed, generous, true-hearted, and public
spirited men than ours ever left their
. stoga footprints on the golden sands
| of tiyoa And no hYiphfer daarer love-