The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-27
GLRANMes.

inner at his old country place out on the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Gen. Rosser, the -cavalrsman, expects
Ito. buy q farm in the valley OF Virginia,
There. TO pass the rest Of hisslife.
/ All Wong. bright young Celestial,
is reporting Chinese news in New 4 YolS
in both the Cainese and English Ian
ggiages.
About 2.oo9 applications for employ
meat xnle resolved .he Londom man
who advertised only once that he desired
to hire clerk ut a salary OF 80 q
week.
There is creek several miles from
Waynesboro, Ga, which i; SO highly i'm
pregnated with lime that it win take the
hair off horses legs in passing
Through it.
A man in Winthrop, Me-, plays the
piano, organ, violin, banjo, eornet, fife,
ties like a nightingale The Maine
people are proud OF hun.
OF all who composed the United
States Senate which assembled in July,
1861, only Mr. Anthony and Mr. Sher-
man can be said To be still in active pol
iticaL life. The rest are deadsor re-
tired.
A man was discovered few days
ago, concealed behind the door of
back entry in honse near Boston.
When asked what he wanted, he said.
~Beg pardon, | should have knocked.
Do you want Your life insured?"
The countries of England and Wales
spend $15. 5.000.00o; third of it for po-
lice, and 81. 400. 900 for roads. About
half the entire receipts are from local
taxation, nearly all the rest being from
the imperial treasury
Mr.. Charles A Parsons, IA brother of
Lord Rosse. of telescope fame, ami n
friend of Mr., George w. Childs, is in
Philadelphia with his bride. He. visits
this country TO study its latest invented
machinery.
An effort is To be made at Ottawa,
Canada, to train Ia harness the twin
moose recently purchased by the Coy
.ernor General. The Marquis. viii prob
ably send theIa to the park al Af masor
Castle.
A Kansas paper in its dramatic per-
sonals'' makes pleased mention of the
fact that ..thc donkey which will appear
on the stage at. fhe Whitley Opera
House this evening is quartered at the
Gilchrist livery stable"
In response To an advertisement for
twenty young men to appear. rs peas
ants and courtiers in new piece ut the
Madison Square Theatre. 750 people of
every age, size and complexion presen-
ted themselves as applicants
The city government of Cincinnati
has found the police patrol wagon sys-
lem SO ef1icacfonS that it has appropria-
ted so, 900 for.the purchase and equip
ment of four more WAGONS. and 100 tel
ephoRe boxes. with complete electric
apparatus.
Mrs. David Davis. nee Burr. is :; dis
tant relative of the famous Aaron Burr
When her mother took the rich old Bos-
ton merchant, Ellery, for Il second htls-
bandsshe was running Il small millin-
cry Store In New Yprs0- and that is how
Mrs Davis became rich.
PhilologiSts say that the ''Eenty.
meentY, Ninety, no. and "Eny, |
meeny. mony mike" which children
use for counting in some of their games,
and which are commonly considered |
gibberish, are in reality the sole survi- |
val of the language spoken by the ear
lest inhabitants OF the British Isles.
The tax-gatherer has fine thing in |
Madeira, and tie taxpayer is luckyif |
he has anything left About Is. per |
cent. is paid on property. - for Il horse, |
10 per cent. house rent. 500 4 year for |
tax. and, on top of all this, |
per cent. on the total taxes paid of all /
kinds.
The Cable Construction and Maintcn- |
ance Company earned almost half a |
million clear hast year, ont of which |
dividends were paid at the rate of 20 |
per cent. and over 100000 carried |
over The laying of submarine cables
svide ntly IS not an Improbable bnsi-
ness.
Connecticut demands Il law To pro-
ect railroad brakemen The Hartford
courant. SAYS. NOBODY doubts the
gtory now going through the news
papers that a railroad Superintendent
old an applicant for the place of brake
nan that he had no vacancy then, but
would be killed off in few
lays. 1t is too true to be questioned" ="
correspondent of the Wcstern
PstrGtTecently sent Il sample of sugar
bought at u country store. for good cane
agar. An analysis Instituted by that
PAPER showed that 90 per cent of it was
grape sugar (made from corn, and
worth about / cents a pound,) and it
llso contained large quantities of
sulphur. The chemist pronounces it a
7ile compound.
s. A sSwede once laid Il wager that he
would go down one of the almost per-
)endicular ladders in Lake Superior
ron mine, face foremost, with a can of
in his hand Not only
lid he do it, but crowd of his fellow
miners gathered to witness the feat, al
hough one false step would have been
.eEtain death to the reckless fellow. and
lalf the lookers-on might also have been
killed.
Mr. G. F. Watts, r. a; English ar
ist, tells his scountrywomen that ex-
RENE tightness of dress is q very hazard
,us experiment. Even beautiful arms,
when very tightly enclosed. hook not
title like sausages.- But it is always to
'e remembered that.folds, with their in
mite changeableness of shade, light
nd shadow, are more beautiful than
excepting that perfection of
orm which is rarely found.
There have now been sixty years of
american novels, for it is about that
ime since Cooper dashed into promin-
nee with his Spy and his sea stories.
nd his character of Leatherstockings
lie was our forlorn hope for some years.
lnce Irving could not properly be call
d a novelist; but now our authors, like