The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-23

we do not know about our own country.
Ex-senator Thurman appears to- be
the most joVial and contentesl OF the re-
tired statesmen. He laughed reporter
ont of his room in New York the other
day, saying that he really knew no more
about politics than his friend, John
Smith es
A distinguished Spanish physician, Dr.
Olive, after long term of close obser-
walton, gives it as his opinion that pow
dered cobwebs when taken in two
gramme doses, viii cure the NEST obsti-.
nate eases OF malarial fever. To make
cobweb powder, clean the cobwebs. dry
them in the sun, and pound them in q
mortar. One gets thus an ash-brown
powder, insoluble in water, and hardly
soluble in alcohol. j
Rev. DR.. Washington GLADDEN., of
Springfield. makes this interesting state
4ment: Il wish to record my own con-
viction, drawn from pretty extensive
knowledge of journalists and of clergy
men, that the average editor is little
more fair and Christian in his dealings
with truth, and in his treatment of those
who differ from him. than the average
parish minister. s
IO1- Il stthslitl, III DONNfO4H N2OECgC.
vouches for the story that Talleyrand
detested Aaron Burr. and that when the
latter sent his card, requesting an inter
view, the French diplomat said: ''The
minister of foreign affairs will see Col.
Burr at such an hour, but miniature
of Gen Hamilton always hangs over his
nlantel." Col Burr did not call.
If the tunnel which it is proposed to
build across the English channel should
cost 800, 900, 900, which was one of the
estimates, it would take 1000. 900 pass
engers at S2.50 to pay 5 per cent. onth
investment. Ofcourse, there must be an
allowance for freight, but no estimate
has been made of the possible business
of this nature.
Customer-Here, waiter; what do you
call this you've brought me? Waiter
Ham, sir: YOU ordered ham. Customer
When was it cookedP Waiter (snap-4
pishly)-I don't know, sir; we dom put
tags on with the date and time of cook
ing! Customer-You ought to! This
ham was cooked thirty or forty years
agoi Bring me some that was cooked
this year! 44s.4 -!
There's too much horse-racing at
your agricultural fairs, remarked Par
son Jones to the secretary of the county
society; 81 should like to know, sir,
what horse-racing has to do with agri-
culture?'' ''Well. parson,n replied the
secretary, with a pleasant smile, t'noth-
ing, perhaps; or, at least, no more than
church lotteries have to do with the
spreading of the gospel" Parson Jones
saw the point, and changed the CONVEX
sation immediately
An anecdote of Lord Beaconsfield is
related by a London paper. When he
returned to Office after his first retire
ment, aquestion arose as. to making
Lord Rosslyn master of the buckhounds.
His lordship had, it was urged, every
qualification for the post He was
good sportsman, was especially good
looking, and would like the work. On
the contrary, it was averred that he
swore like nobody since the army IN
Flanders. s'Swears, does he?' quoth
Dizzy. Then we will make him lord
high commissioner to the church of
Scotland" And it was done.
The new building for the German Par
lament is to occupy site $50 feet long
and 800 feet broad. There are to be
seats for 400 Deputies arranged like
those in the Hall of Representatives at
W ashington, each with desk All
around the sides of the hall will be
ranged boxes as in theater, with sep
al-ate entrance The two most import
ant of these are reserved for the Imper-
iai family and the Diplomatic body, and
only about $50 seats are set apart for
the use of the general public. v
A meeting of job printers has been
held in Baltimore to take some action
fol. the protection Of the trade. A MEM
her of tire State Legislature was called
to the chair, who was authorized to Of
fer bill in that body imposing tex of
$50 per annun on amateur printers, and
also an additional tax of $50 per annum
on regular job printers IN addition 10
their other taxes The bill will also,
contain provision imposing an annual
tax of $50 per annum on persons from
other places who solicit printing in Bal
timore. -.,,~e , -
The representative of an electric light
company appeared before the Aldermen
of Boston and said that the present cost
of lighting she streets of that city by gas
being 9 cents per lamp, his company
would furnish electric light at a cost of
So cents a lamp a night, or If the COM
pany could secure the use of the lamp
posts and lamps now owned by the city
It would furnish arc lights of 24-candle
power each, being 50 per cent more
light than gas, at IS cents a lamp q
night, or light of 4o-candle power at 16
cents lamp a night.