The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-25
GLEANINGS.

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Thofeet of Gainesville ella. mer-
chant are thirty inches long.
hLioutenant very's system of night
signals has been adopted i'm the navy.
The most pronounced lie on record is
| that OF Young lnan who asserts that
he likes his girls small brother.
The fashion of short sleeves never
made pretty arms, but it is more than
probable that pretty arms made short
sleeves fashionable.
A French physician says that raw
oysters and chicken soup win nourish
any girl through at least six disappoint-
ments in love.
A aining-school for servants has
been established In ST. Louis. Will
they teach pretty house-maid not to
scream when the old man kisses her, by
mistaken
At recent test of plain boiler fues
in England against corrugated fiues the
former collapsed at 225 pounds per
square inch, while the latter withstood
1,02O pounds per square inch.
A farmer at Fargo. d. T., has a very
profitable supply of fuel in the product
of gas well struck on his premises.
He uses the gas for heating, cooking
and Illuminating purposes.
The first locomotive ever built south
of the Ohio River has just been COM
pleted in Chattanooga. The material
used in every part of the work was pro-
duced in Tennessee.
An indianapolis paper estimates that
the farmers of that State are yearly
swindled out of 8, 100000 by tricks
which the newspapers. have exposed
over and over again.
Out of twenty-eight samples of 'Fpure
cider vinegar" submitted to. a Cincin-
natl chemist for analysis every one turn
ed out to be a base fraud, being made
of acids and drugs.
The late Ell. d. Hirst of Germantown.
Pa, was remarkable for his mania for
roses. He had in his collection about
1880 rose trees, which he cared for with
religious faithfulness. He literally lived
in bower of rare and beauteous roses.
The old elm known as Washington
Irving's tree' that had for so many
years stood in Battery Park, New York,
was cut down few days ago. 1t -four
ished at the time of the revolutionary
war.
With his hands fixed immovable in a
bear trap Maine hunter sat staring
death in the face till gaunt starvation
came to his relief. He left his home
last spring. His remains were found
only few days ago.
A child with shell upon its back
and claws upon its hands and feet, with
B. head very much resembling turtles,
is reported natural curiosity in the
vicinity of De View, Woodruff county,
Ark. 1t was still-born, and weighed
four or five pounds. -
A curious story comes from Indiana.
where a tool manufacturing company
shipped an invoice of steel pitchforks to
Italy. The implements were so smooth,
sharp, and highly-finished that the par
les to whom they were sent refused to
receive them, because they feared that
The natives would use them as deadly
There was time when the European
pilgrim could be Instantly known by
he cut of her clothes, but these delight
ul ear-marks can be no longer monop-
,lized by ladies who have crossed the
aging main to secure them. The stay
lt-home wears as chic toilet, though
he probably pays double what it would
,ost abroad. The distinction i felt in |
he pocket, but it is not observed in the |
treet.
DR.. Wilson, of Meriden, has found |
hat nalarial disease invaded Connec- |
icut in 1850. in the, town of Southport,
n a wave scarcely more than twenty |
niles wide, spreading laterally from |
his line of progress only after reaching |
he northern boundary of the state, and
occupying about fifteen years in its l
march. This migratory feature of the
isease has not been heretofore noticed |
q America, though not unknown on
be continent of Europe.
Our White-Pine Supply.
The announcement made by authori- 1
y of q Government bureau. that the /
Ehite-pine forests of the United States |
would at the present rate of consumption
urnish less than twelve years supply of
hat indispensable timber, although |
opted into most of the papers. has not
eceived the general attention which it |
and probably will not until |
ne advancing cost of pine lumber
rings the lesson forcibly home to the /
ublic mind. This advance has, how
yer. already begun, the price of land
I the great timber-producing States
aying' doubled within few weeks, and
ne question of the employment of some