The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-12

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from 200 pounds to so tons.
A lady in Providence has. among hel
ELEGANT articles of bric-a-brac in her par
lor. a large carved wooden spoon with I
woodenchain attached, hung BY the side
of the fireplace. This unique orna men'
is over 200 years old
Servant-girls in Helena, Montana, T.,
and Portland, Oregon, get $50. 90 .
month. They might gee il IN this State
/ if they could be persuaded To do sui
ficient work TO earn il. Rochester Deni.
ocra
| William Knight who died III I4oreina
Ala, recently. was l09 years old, and
had served through the war Of 1872. He
| leaves los children aud grandchildren.
Besides these n great many are dead,
some dying from old age.
Simmons, of Manson, H., dug a els
tern for his neig'lbor, Moody On set
Element there wis II difference of 20. The
suit following has been fried five mes
in several counties and has accommodated
over 81 900 costs.
A writer i'm one of the medical jour
nails says he has found the application
of "a strong solution OF chronic acid, 3 on
4 times a day, by means of II camel s.
hair pencil, to be the best and easiest
method for removing warts.
In Lyons, France, the cold-bath meth
Oh treating typhoid fever has been
adopted with marked success. In the
civil hospitals the death rate was reduced
from 70 to y per cent, and ia private
practice to / or per cent.
To remove fixed glass shoppers, tap
and then unScrew with this sort of a
wrench made OF a piece of strong wood:
Have the. wood 3 5 inches long and inch
in breadth and depth, with piece NOR
tised out large enough to admit the flat
part of the glass stopper.
Competition between the two gas
companies of Baltimore has brought
the price of gas down to 81 per thou
sand, and it is believed by some that
they will be offering it before long at
25 cents. throwing in a ''beaufiful chro-
mo-
Rattlesnake skins are much used in
Florida for ladies' belts and slippers are
also made of the same material, the Pat
ties serving as ornaments thereupOn,
instead of bows or tasscls. Northern
visitors come home bearing numbers d
these trophies of their sojourn.
Bismarck, it is said, was much affect
ed by the news of Prince Gortschakot1' S
death ''Beaconsfeld and Gortscha--
koff, he remarked to those around him
-''the only men whom | could becom-
ingly recognize as antagonists both
disappeared! Friends. my turn is com
ing.
The cut of lumber this season in the
pineries of Minnesota and Wisconsin has
largely exceeded that OF any previous
year. The extra quantity of lumber is
probably no greater than is warranted
by the increased demand, but the in
crease only tends more rapidly to the fl |
nal destruction of the pine.
The Governor of Texas has signed the !
Land bill. 1t fixes the minimum price |
of public lands at 50 for common with |
transient water, and IS per acre with |
permanent water; mineral lands to be |
leased. A special commission is prOvid- |
ed for transacting the land business con
nected with the sale of school, univers- |
ity and asylum lands.
Mai. Low. of Brooklyn, advocates the
Swedish system governing the sales of
beer and spirituous liquors. Under this
system city is divided into excise dis
tricts, the number OF saloons allowed in
each district is fixed bY law according
to population, and exclusive rights to
sell liquor are sold at public auction to |
the highest bidder.
Massachusetts has still within its
borders n few representatives of its thir-
cen original tribes of Indians, number
NC about 225 families and LOCO indi-
giduals. 1t is thought to be doubtful if
any of them are of pure aboriginal
blood. and their number is slowly de
ereasing rs the Years go by. ENter-
nination seems to be their sure destined |
late.
Senator Jones, of Florida. intends to
'isit Europe this SUMMER, whence he
'ame forty years ago poor Irish boy to
eek fame and fortune in this country
lie says he will look England over. 90
o Paris, TO Rome. and perhaps to other
titles on the continent, and return in
october.
An old man named Seoley, who died
n Wayne county, n. Y, recently, in
ented the first machinery for making |
ressed bricks He was offered 500
90 for his patent, but refused it, and.
aking partner, began the manufac-
ure of the machine The result was
nat he realized but little from his valu-
BILE invention.
Davil Dudley Field is-one of the ,
lost repellant men, in a polished and
efined way, in New York He is a
reat lawyer and jurist of national
.anding, but as man he is frosty,
Did and unsympathetic TO a degree pos
lively exasperating. 1t is remarkable
Ow he keeps his grip on his law prae-
ce. Few men have reached his AGE
al retained his yieor and energy X
q is IS years old II ~, and his hair is
white as snow ht.t lie works as hard
ever