The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-20
GLEANINGS.

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Texas has nearly 2.40o convicts in her
penitentiary.
The '.Langtry' bonnet is little of crown
and large of brim.
/ Parasols are now called portable back
grounds for young women
There are $4,000 public school teachers
| in Illinois, who instruct about 1000 900
pupils
/ of the board of education of Baraboo city.
Wisconsin.
A young lady, on being asked where
her native place was, replied q have
none; I am the daughter of a Methodist
minister"
The English national union for improv-
ing the education of women has estab
lished twenty-four high schools for girls
in and about London.
Mayor Grace, of New York, has signed
the resolution of the aldermen recon-
mending an increase in the wages of the
city laborers from $1.75 to 200 per day.
When prominent politician from the
rural districts is asked about this time
whether there are any candidates for Con
gress in his neighborhood the answer is,
why, bless your soul, the woods are fu1Iof
them"
Boston Commercial Bulletin. The small
boy, who was sent by his mother to invite
some neighbors to tea, was asked by the
invited if his maternal parent would ex-
pect them if it rained, to which he naively
replied: fs0h, yes, heard her say she
wanted to have it over with !.
About how far is it. sir, to Squire Big
man's?' asked gentleman of dubious
individual. Lets see. It's about three
blocks ond two saloons from here. Not
much of a walk if you don't stop often"
His information was based on his knowl
edge.-Neac H00c1 Register
The Yale Csurant reports that it has
been found by actual count that of the
students assigned to four divisions accord
ing to scholarship, % per cent of the high
est grade use tobacco, AZ per cent. of the
second, 20 per cent of the third, and IS
per cent of the fourth. The majority of
the students at Cornell have, it is said, re-
solved to give up ON the ground of its bad
effect upon health and capacity for study
Last week Oscar Wilde dined at pri-
waite residence in New York. When the
cloth had been removed, the Oldest child
of the host, girl aged about eight, was
introduced to the notorious esthetic who
was marvelously arrayed for the occasion.
After timidly shaking hands with the
stranger and scanning HIM with open eyed
wonder, the little one crept close to her
mothers side and whispered. Mamma /
don't think Marie had better bring baby in;
it might be scared. - Brooklyn Eagle.
The terrible collision near Heidelberg,
Germany, on the first instant, bg which
thirteen persons lost their lives, and over
sixty were seriously injured, has attracted
very little attention in the Berlin press. q If
an accident of this sort had happened in
the United States, the papers would have
naturally been full of details; whereas,
there, little notice is taken of the event.
It is not that the press are unwilling to pub
Ish full accounts. but that the railway au-
thorities in Germany manage to hush up
affairs Of this nature SO cleverly that the
reality seldom becomes known.
Don Cameron removed Federal
official the other day on account of his cx
cessive profanity. We do not know what
manner of a man a Pennsylvania Office
holder is but it does net cure q Texas
official of profanity to remove him-from
office; on the contrary, the more he is re-
moved the more he stcusses. p 1eeas JSsfs-
faags.
Twenty years ago a Yankee yeo1nau on
an American man of-war wintering in
Genoy gave a German visitor LIGHT for
his cigar, and subsequently gave him some
valuable information on a technical point.
Recently the quondam yeoman, who is
now practicing law in small Maine town
near the New Hampshire line, has received
information that the grateful German,
dying, has bequeathed to him 72, 900
francs.