The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-19
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| yellow ochre In the country has beer
discovered half a mile from Markham
station, on the Manassas Gap railroad.
An effort is being made in Hartford,
Conn, to enforce an old blue law which
makes concert-going on Sunday nights
penal offence
A cry for matinees thrice q week
draws from a London paper protest
against such cruelty to actors, and some
Just remarks on the ignorance of the
public as to the very hard work of an
actors life. tls
About thirty thousand people in the
city of Buffalo are supported by the
railroad companies fife amount ex-
| pended there by the different roads in
wages alone will foot up over S3, 900, 900
annually.
A petrified alligator is said to have
been found imbedded in solid rock,
twenty feet under ground, in quarry
two miles from Saratoga Springs. 1t is
| five feet seven inches in length, ana
measures, two feet back of the head,
nine inches in diameter.
''There were three hours and half
lost by you this morning" said Sum
| day-school superintendent to late and
lazy teacher. II was only half an hour
late,n he replied. True" said the SUI
| bleIo WC1C cCfCA
| scholars waiting all that time for you"
An attempt is being made to bring
the s'Hogarth'' hat into fashion. The
| idea is taken from picture called 1.-The
forfeit" An arch-looking girl has put
on y young officer hat, and the young
officer bends over her shoulder and
takes compensation for disturbance"
| The hat is three-cornered.
Two Rockingham (Va.) young girls
who engaged in a duel with shot-guns
| about two weeks ago are members of
| respectable white families-daughters
of James Payne and James SLIDER. A
timely interruption only prevented
| further exchange of shots and serious
| results.
A colored man in Louisa county, Vir-
ginia, infected with smallpox was re-
| pulsed from the hospital at the muzzle
| of a shotgun. He returned to his
| home, seven miles distant, on foot, and
was considerate enough to carry in his
hand an improvised smallpox flag as
warning to people not to approach him.
| A middle-sized Indian squaw passed
through the streets in Virginia City the
other day, carrying on her'back stove
weighing fully $50 pounds It was sus-
| tanned only by a narrow band passing
over her forehead, and she had carried
| it nearly two miles.
A Canada paper says that a Mr.. Mel
| son, of Ottawa, shot an elk at Moose
jaw creek recently. whose carcass when
dressed weighed $50 pounds. The ant
lers were three feet nine inches from the
base to tips, and four feet nine inches
apart at the top. The two protruding
prongs over the eyes measured fourteen
inches long. It is said to be the largest
elk shot in the northwest.
Steam vessels for. whaling have proved
| highly profitable. The first one ever
sent out from the Pacific coast was the
Mary and Helen, which cleared last
year enough to pay her entire cost and
| S40,0 900 besides. The second venture,
that of the Belvidere, has returned from
| voyage of only six months with $780,
| 900 worth of oil above the investment.
| The great success of these steamers is
| likely to revive the business of whaling.
A capture of wild Arizona camels has
been made by Indians in the vicinity of
| ella Bend. A carload has been sent
east. 1t consisted of seven large and
| two small camels, and was consigned to
a circus manager of Kansas City. They
were in charge of an Egyptian, who had
| been sent out expressly to get them.
| They do not differ from ordinary camels,
/
| yet exhibited
Sudden wealth has had avery bad effect
| on Boston stock speculator. Formerly
he was weil-behaved. Now he keeps a
house lighted from attic to cellar all
| night long, and passes hours in smash
ing costly china and glass Occasion
ally he opens the windows and yells like
a Iunatic Officers who entered the
house lately found bushels of broken ar
ticles. He goes to his office in the day
time quite soberly.
Love of Home.
The affections which bind a man to
the place of his birth are essential in his
nature, and follow the same law as that
which governs every innate feeling.
| They are implanted in his bosom along
with life, and are modified by every cir
cumstance which he encounters from
| the beginning to the end of his existence.
| The sentiment which, in the breast of
any one man is an instructive fondness
for the spot where he drew his early
! breath, becomes, blythe progress of man
| kind and the formation of society,
more enlarged feeling, and expands in
to the noble passion of patriotism. The
love of country, the love of the village
where we were born, of the field which
we first pressed with our tender foot
steps, of the hillock which we first
climbed, are the same affection, only
the latter belongs to each of us separate
| "; the first can be known but by men
united in masses. It is founded upon
every advantage which a nation is sup
posed to possess, and is increased by
every improvement which it is supposed