The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-03
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GLEANINGS.

world nearly one-haH are printed in Eng
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Rochester, N. Y, has subscribed $780,
600 toward the erection of $500, 600
hotel, to be situated on the east side of
the river
Mr.. William d. Howells, the novelist,
married sister of Mr. Larkin G.. Mead.
the sculptor. and she has been of great
aid to him rs an author
Some one in Stockton, Cal. has made
it business to scratch many of the
largest and finest plate-glass windows
with diamond.
1t has cost twice as much to take care
of the criminals as to educate the chill
dren of Nevada. the figures since 1865
being for state prison, 1867, 900; for
schools, S468, 329
A servant maid named Angelo Sibie,
living with o lady in the Avenue de
Friendland, Paris, has Just inherited
$500, 900 from rowing and long-forgot-
ten brother in 4 caerica.
The lake of Constance has recently
been lower than as any previous time
since 1906. AT Hoernlin, on the Swiss
side, interesting lacustrine formation
have been exposed and number of val
liable discoveries have been made.
1t has been discovered that the poplar
tree is a natural lightning rod. and the
next thing is to discover how to get one
on the roof of house and make it stay
there.
acres of land in Guatemala. He says
he is bound to have room for himself
and family TO move their feet when they
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Pensacola, Fla, boasts of a model
alderman. He is of the sseolored per-
suasion,'' is ALWAYS punctual, and is not
above spending his leisure between ses-
sions in mending chairs and lamps and
making repairs upon the council cham
Der without charge.
Mary A. Townsend says: 81 feel
poem in my heart tonight, still thing
growing" Gracious goodness, Mary,
is that so! Well, that is bad. If you let
it slip out, however, it will be worse, ev-
er so much worse. Bottle it up, Mary,
bottle it up.-Rochester Express.
The cautious Mr.. Newdegate recently
said in parliament that England and
Russia were strong because they had
each an established church, while
France and the United States were weak
because they had none. Mr.. Newde-
gates mind 10 3 truly powerful engine
of thought.
State balls at Toronto are no longer
the source of heart-burning in fashions
bic circles that they used to be when
people imagined themselves neglected
by being omitted from the invitations on
account of limited room. Guests are
now invited by installments and in al
phabetical order. *
Joseph Arch, the English agitator, de-
clares that 'sraek-renting'' has not been
confined TO Ireland. He asserts that be-
tween the years 1857 and 1875 the rem
tails of the farmers of England were in
creased to the enormous extent of &c.
600, 900. English papers admit that this
statement is substantially true.
Capt Pereival, a Cape Cod mariner.
of the old school, was once awakened in
his bunk by shipmate with the an
nouneement that the vessel was going
to eternity. ''Well," replied the cap
tain, 1--we got ten friends over there to
| one in this world; let her GO" And he
I turned over and went to sleep again.
A large number of men win be want
ed to work in the logging camps of
Puget sound the coming summer. Hard
" camp on Puget sound has a full
| complement of men, and with the new
camps starting and the enlargement of
old ones, loggers are getting scarce. 1t
is feared more will be required than can
be obtained. The wages given by the
lumbermen on Puget sound are greater
than in any other employment, and
they are higher than ever before known.
There are at the present day establish.
ed in the Fiji islands about 900 Wesleyan
al, 400 cnlonlo M
municants are numbered by thousands
The schools are attended by nearly 50,-
900 children, and out of population of
about 120, 900, over 1901 600 are reekon-
ed as regular attendants at the churches.
A Louisiana paper says: The gentle
men from Michigan investing so heavi-
| ly in timbcred lands in Calcasien parish
| propose going into the log business with
| q vim They say they will show ous
| log-men something about logging that
| they never dreamed of. 1t is said that
one of them will bring three hundred
| lumber1nen from Michigan into our pine
| woods next spring. and that he intends
to run one hundred log teams.
Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi. has fol-
lowed up his liberal inaugural with a
special message to the legislature earn
estly recommending the passage OF a
law exempting all capital invested in
cotton-factories within the next three or
four years from taxation for a series of
| years. The governor believes that 1.-The
largest cotton-growing state in the union
ought to be the greatest cotton-manu-
featuring state" and he sees that the
way to attract capital for such enterpri-
ses is by making known the advantages
| which Missouri possesses and offering
inducements in the way of friendly and
liberal legislation.
The New York Steam company,
which has the right to lay pipes through
the streets for the purpose of supplying
| steam heat and power to buildings. has
its pipes now laid in Courtlandt, Green
witch, Vesey, Barclay, Warren. and 9th
| or streets down town. The locality OF
| the pipes can be definitely fixed by the
| ridges, hollows, and other irregularities
in the pavement, for the work of relay
ing the paving-stones has been done in
| such careless manner that in many
places it is actually dangerous for cart
men to attempt to drive their horses
over the roadway.
The late Sir Robert Christison was the
| discoverer, by an experiment on himself
which nearly proved fatal, of the prop
critics of the Calabar bean. and was one
of the last pupils of Orfila, the great
toxicologist. At the Palmer trial. after
testifying that he knew q vegetable aka
loid the minutest dose of which was ia.
tai, but which no test could detect In
the body he was adjured by the judge
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