The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-11
GLEANINGs.

Syracuse has female architect. !"
Norristown hasn't female architect,
but she has more than one designing
woman.-No7Yistosgs Herald.
A Missouri woman spent eight years
in making a collection of 1000 spools,
and sold the lot for 15 cents; which
shows that perseverance as well as vir-
tue is its own reward.
The Lady Clara We're de We're: Yes, it
is vulgar to eat pie with a knife. But
then it is more vulgar still to offer young
striplings wine on New Years Day
Albany Journal.
During the thirty years since the Port
age bridge on the Erie railway was first
built the falls have gone UP stream 274
feet. the rocks having been worn away
by the action of the water.
A lady who died in Newburyport,
Mass, recently, in her ninety first year,
was attended by physician on the oe-
casion of her fatal illness for the first
time in her life.
No more bay-windows projecting in
to Philadelphia streets. The courts
there have decided that people must keep
structures of the kind within their own
lines.
A man with small salary and large
family says if pride goes before fall,
he would ike to see pride start on head
of the price of coal and provisions
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The Sacramento Bee says: There is in
this city tame deer which not only
chews tobacco like q man. but goes
the human beast several points better
he eats all the weed that is given him,
and begs for more.
There were 395,350 pieces of inmi-
grants baggage which passed through
the baggage-room at Castle garden in
1881 This does not include the small
pieces of baggage, bedding. ETC., carried
in the hands of immigrants.
Somewhat mixed: Two little girls,
aged and 6, had just had new dresses,
and were on their way tc Sunday-school.
Said Eta, the elder: ''Oh, / have for
gotten my verse verse =; II haven't forgot for
BLESSED are the dress-makers.
Gloves viii be worn as long as swal-
low-tailed coats are in fashion. What
swaIlow-tails do with their hands if
they could not keep buttoning and I'M
buttoning their gloves? -PstlGdeto isG
Meas.
Don't you Think asked Brown,
s.that Pingrey is laboring under an hal
lucination?'' mo, don't" replied
Fogg; she has an hallucination, but /
don't believe he is laboring under it.
never knew him to labor under any
thing. Boston Transcript
On Oak river, in Manitoba, is q res
ervation of refugee Sioux Indians, who
refused to come across the line with
Sitting Bun when be surrendered. The
chief IS White Eagle, and his people
number 200. They now have eighty
acres under cultivation, and have fifty
head Of cattle, including sixteen work
ing oxen. They appear eontented. and
cause no trouble.
81 never ate q raw oyster IN my
life,n said Hon. Martin I. Townsend to
a gentleman who was indulging his taste
for the bivalves at an oyster-stand
the other day; .sand never smoked
cigar nor drank a glass of whisky. OF
what use can be in the world, any
way?" queried the rugged old common
er.
California lions are coming down
from the mountains in great numbers
and concentrating at the localities near
Kaweah River, Tulare county, where
many hogs are at pasture As yet they
have not made any damaging raids,
but are preparing for the winter CAM
paign. In that neighborhood there are
about 2, 500 hogs, many of which viii
fall prey TO the lions unless hunters and
trappers are sent out at once IN active
search.
Another great engineering project Is
contemplated-the closing of the north
erly outlet of thevalley of the Mackenzie
river at the line of So degrees north,
and storing up the water of 1,260, 900
miles square; to this could be added the
water of other large areas, and thus
lake would be formed of about 1000
miles in length and SOME 200 average
width.
TO the average man marriage With
out a baby boy is like q good cigar with
no match to light It with.