The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-24
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cultural schools.
vi the bishops of the Church of Eng
land three are over eighty and nine
over seventy years of age.
A Boston reporter embellishes his base
Dali column with quotations from the
Greek and Latin poets.
Charles Parrish, the coal king of the
wyoming region of Pennsylvania, has
retired from business after twenty years
hard labor.
The demand for alligator skins for
ladies' reticules and things, required
the slaughter of 100000 alligators last
year. The reptiles are growing scarce.
Ex-Governor Stanford, of California,
owns one ranch at Vina, Tehama coun-
ty, covering $4,000 acres of land. 1t
will be planted in grapes.
Rolling a barrel over onions inclined
to run to tops will partially check
their growth, and leave the bulbs to
get the full benefit of the fertility of the
soil.
The Palestine Exploration fund has
indirectly recovered from Bedouin
tribe, east of the Jordan, pieces OF skin
containing portions of Deuteronomy and
the Commandments, made about 800
years before Christ
Professor Tyndall has made observa-
tons in Switzerland that show that the
silent flashes called cheat lightning"
are not, rs generally supposed, harm
less, but indicate thunder-storms which
may not be twenty miles away.
A California millionaire is preparing
to erect Il Chinese theatre on a grand
scale for the entertainment of visitors,
who will have boxes, where the atten-
ton may be equally divided between
the stage and the Chinese portion of the
audience.
Miss Louisa de la Rance, 'Ouida, "
writes to the London Times in favor of
making copyright treaty with the
United States with the concurrence of
publishers. She opposes any admission
into England of American reprints of
English works as ruinous to authors
and 10 literature.
As early as the time of Alexander II,
of Scotland. a man who let weeds 90 to
seed on farm was declared to be the
Kings enemy. In Denmark farmers
are compelled to destroy all weeds on
their premises. In France man can
prosecute his neighbor for damages
who permit weeds to go to seed which
may endanger neighboring lands.
London seamstresses are paid pence
for making BOYS suits. Children get
and 8 pence for making Il gross OF
match boxes, furnishing their own
paste. Emigration is talked of as q
means OF relief. but then it is said emf
grafton would only take away the hes;
of the poor people, leaving tho worst
specimens of poverty behind.
Thomas A. Edison. the electrician,
said the other day: II have given up
inventing and experimenting. | am a
business man now, devoted 10 making
inventions pay. 1t requires just a.
much ingenuity to make money out OF
an invention rs to make the invention.
| am n contractor, and | like the work.
| have sold out my interest in the cleo
trio locomotive, and do not want to see
the inside of laboratory.
A Bordeaux merchant owns mon
ster mastiff called Lion. Walking with
him on the quay, there came little
mad dog along, followed by an excited
crowd. Lion seized it by the neck.
leaped into the water, and held it under
water until drowned This was excel.
lent, and Lion received an ovation; bu
as Lion subsequently developed a ten
dency to do the same by all small dogs
mad or sane, he has perforce been muz
zled.
An Ohio man. who was born ant
brought up in New England, and who
ought, therefore, know something aboH
the weather. SAYS he doesn't like the
GLORIOUS old climate of California
above all, " he writes. don't CONT
out to southern California to raise t
'anlilv. The climate will make the
boys and girls so lazy as to be utterly
worthless. No, no; stay where there
are four seasons in year, not in q
day."
Hon. Rufus Prince, president of the
Maine State Agricultural Society, writes
the Maine Farmer: Il am no horse
doctor, but will give you very sim
Pile but effective cure for scratches
given me by one that had the care OF
horses for long time, and which has
never failed with me. 1t is this: VIM
a wooden rag around the horses ankle
and fasten it on and let it be until Il
wears off. No matter if you drive youl
horse IN the mud. do not take off the
rag, and before you think of it the scratch
es will be cured -
European statisticians are gradually
reducing their estimates.of the popula
ton of China. 1t used to be put at ovel
| 400, 900, 900. Benin and Wagner reduce
their estimate for China aud Corea from
434. SOC, 900 to 379, 100000 Peterson re
duces his estimate by 75,000,000 max
ing the present total 350,000,00 DIR
Happier, missionary, believes this car
safely be reduced another 10000, 900
Mr.. Hippisly, Acting Commissioner o
Customs, thinks $50, 900, 900 more near
" correct than $50, 100000. The losses
DIV the, 1aeplng anu MOnanlneuaH re-
bellions, and by the famine and pesti
lence which swept the provinces of Chi
Il, Shantung. Shansi, Shensi and Houal
are variously estimated at from 81 900,
900 to 81, 100000.
There is something beyond calcula
ton in the speed of steamboats,. Tw'
boats may be built simultaneously from
the same model, with every effort t,
make them precise duplicates as t.
shape and machinery, and yet one viii
prove faster than the other. Why thi
is no man can tell. The Mary Powell
has for fifteen years been the swiftes
boat on the Hudson river During al
that time she never has been beaten
Time and again an exact counterpart
has been built, with everything copie
as nearly as the best mechanics and ia
cilities could do it, but none of thes
has turned out as good as the original
Experience has been the same witt
| Jachtsmen. They order copies of tn
swftest craft or combine the suppose
good points of several, and nine time
out of ten are disappointed in the re
| suit