The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-15
GLnANIuGS.

Ilnated TO nave been DESTROYED by the
pennsylvania forest fires.
A citizen of Atlanta, Ga, has offered
| the city 100 acres of ground for a public
| park, and the authorities have accepted
gratefully
A Georgian threatens the publication
| OF a directory of the names of all the I'M
married young ladies in Georgia who
are heiresses to $1,000 or more
Kate Fields eagerness to distinguish
between .'men and walters is snobbish
and vain, the Syracuse Standard thinks,
for tomorrow her man might be q
waiter and her waiter man.
Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil,
| has nearly finished a volume of travels,
entitled 'Impressoes de Viagem." 1t is
written in French, and is to be illustrat-
ed.
1.-THE Broom Drill" which will for q
time be popular in church amusements,
| to the extinction OF the spelling bee.''
has already its manual. published in
New York.
Miss Louisa Montague, the $4,000
! beauty has left Forepaugl's Circus, with
which she travelled last year, and has
| sued the proprietor for the sum which,
she says, he agreed to pay her.
One of the most successful hunters
and trappers of Maine has the use of
| but one arm. With that he can bring
| down a fox at longer range than almost
any other man in Oxford county.
| A collector of curiosities two years
ago bought two pieces of enameled jew
| elry at Brescia, for which he paid 2, 900
| francs. He has just sold them to Frank
fort amateur for 1000 francs.
Traces of a workshop occupied by a
| flint manufacturer of prehistoric times
| has been discovered by NJ. Cavaroz in
! the Jurd, near Saiinos. This atelier
would appear to belong to the neolithic
| epoch.
The long Black canyon in the Gunni-
son river, in Colorado, which the Den
yer and Rio Grapde railroad is to pass,
| is narrow and tie walls are so high that
| the stars can be seen from its depth in
| the brightest day. In some places the
| walls are mile in height and scarcely
more than forty or fifty feet apart. The
engineers have zigzagged the line across
| the stream.
A case of attempted poisoning is re-
| ported at Fall River, Mass, which, hap
| PLY, did not prove fatal Two lovers,
| who lived at the same boarding house,
| quarreled; and the girl put poison in the
! glasses of herself and lover, and both
drank of the poisoned water. Prompt
medical assistance prevented serious
| consequences
A diminutive babe, weighing eight
ounces. was born to a miners wife in
Candelaria, Cal. recently. Its face is
about the size of horse chestnut, and
a ring worn upon the little finger of its
mother was easily pulled over the babes
foot and drawn nearly up to its knee.
Capt James A. Sylvester, who died in
| New Orleans recently was the man who
captured Santa Anna after the battle of
| San Jacinto. At that time he was a
| printer boy, and had enlisted in Texas
| regiment in the spirit of adventure. He
was walking through some high grass
! after the fight, when he stumbled upon
| the Mexican.
A great many migratory quail sent
over from Italy by George Ii. Owen,
United States consul at Messina, have
been let loose in Vermont, but they have
| an unfortunate habit of flying down
south and staying there. Gen. Ripley
and Judge Evarts, of Rutland, are now
trying their luck with birds from Texas,
having released $50 in the northern part
of the town.
The sum of 50. 81, which remained of
the fund used III celebrating in Ports
mouth, N H., on the 22d of February,
1882, the centenary of Westinghouse
birth, was deposited in the local savings
bank against the bi-centennial celebra-
ton, and now, st the expiration OF half
the time, amounts to S143.5S.
The curious enterprise is being con-
| Quoted in New Jersey Of grinding up
worn-out india-rubbef overshoes to make
| what is called stock This material
is supplied in barrels and is pressed by
the manufacturers into new india-rubber
goods. A thin coating of fresh rubber
varnish makes them look quite equal to
articles of the best quality, but they are
said to have an outrageous lack OF dura-
bility.
Under the head of Yankee Notions"
the Boston Globe tells the following
yarn: "A New bury miknaan put into
his wagon hen secured, rs he thought,
in bag, day or two ago, for one of
his customers, but the hen and bag dis
appeared on the read, and how the fowl
could fly away inside a bag is a mystery
which the man cannot explain. He only
knows that the bird is gone
Had not hanson been in such hurry
to secure q few pounds to put an end to
the absolute want from which he suffer-
cd. he might have escaped discovery.
Everything requires time; don't hurry
to speak, said the Italian Count Buon-
delamente, as he stood weeping and Sob
biug by the bedside of his dying wife,
who had been fading away for more
than year. t.Dut / must hasten to tell
my sin gasped the wife. II cannot
die without confessing that / have been
unfaithful to my marriage vow. and
that l have loved Count Malvazzi." II
know it well enough returned the
Count blandly, . aud that is why I be-
gan to poison you from the moment he
first entered the house"
The Philadelphia Rccordis grumbling
at the want of sarac;ty displayed by the
late Mr. Penn. Listen to this: when
William Penn laid out the streets of
Philadelphia he had the whole state to
90 and came in. If he had made them
FOO feet wife he would have encroached
upon theterr.iory OF no other proprietor.
He could not have f0reseen that the city
would swallow up tie county in which
it was located, and that lis growing traf-
fic would choke up tie marrow roadways
upon which it is concentrated. He was
a great man. bat he WAS not so great
that he could fully grasp the measure OF
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