The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-29
lfLEANINGS.

/ the largest since Ile WaF-
A dozen people in Hartford, Conn,
have formed an characterization So
| ciety.
For alternating from her her husbands
| affections a New York woman has sued
her father-in-law' for 500, ZOO.
The Protestant Episcopal service has
been translated into Italian, and services
are held in two churches in Rome.
i darkey who died i'm Louisville was
found to have a heart weighing two
pounds. The abnormal development of
that organ was the cause of his death.
The Birmingham Medical ReUieU rec
ommends for chilblains equal parts of
dilute nitric acid and peppermint water,
to be applied daily at first and then
twice a day.
A girl employed as spinner in a
Lowell mill has taken the first prize
offered by the Boston Musical Society
for the best criticism of vocal and in
strumental music.
The increase in the use of the electric
light is indicated by the fact that forty
nine electric light companies, with ISL
$50, 900 of capital, were organized in
England last year.
A woman recently arrested in Cincin-
was the wife of California millionaire.
whom she had deserted years ago, be
fore he became wealthy.
AS Georgia man says he can raise
$4,000 pounds of watermelons to the
acre, the inference is that he has taken
the Herodic precaution to kill all the
boys within ten miles of his plant.
Colorado is becoming civilized. A
man at Colorado Springs was not
lynched for the commission of horri-
BILE crime, but was ''sent to Jail in de
fault of bail" just as though he We're in
the United States.
A son of Mime. Loyson, the wife of
Pere Hyacinthe, is employed in one of
the bureaus of the Treasury Department.
He is fine linguist and draughtsman,
and is quite favorite in certain circles
in Washington.
An itinerant comic opera company
was fined $50 and costs at Dallas, Tex.
for performing Patience" one Sunday
night. 1t is not clear whether the otlense
was in the presentation of the opera or
the desecration of the Sabbath.
The respectable youth who applauded
by Kissing a song in the New Orleans
Academy of Music was sentenced by the
recorder to pay fine of So on be i'm
prisoned ten days. He paid the fine
and was released.
Mrs. De Points, of New Orleans, offers
to sell to the United States the original
draft of the rebel constitution for $50
900. 1t isn't worth as much as the draft
of the original compact of The Forty
Thieves, and ti.at wouldn't bring $780,
600.
The late Prince Karl. of Prussia, is
a .s.ef.t
twenty-four cigars every day during the
last sixty years. His early death, at
the age of 50 years, is a warning which
all anti-tobacconists will welcome az ar
argument.
The census report, little work OF
fifteen thousand pages. will probably be
issued in July. The eXtravagant zeal
of its authors in collecting a vast mass
of useless information will probably he
forgiven by persons who find that
single copy is n winters supply of fuel.
Observation-Disclosures would never have
won the Vicksburg fair lady who re-
fused her sutton four times, bat yielded
when he fell on his knees before her in
parlor in the presence OF dancing
company and for the fifth time urged
his suit. She accepted him on the spot,
and appointed day for the wedding
She was asked What she thought @!
one of her neighhors of the name OF
Jones, and with q knowing look replied
''Why, l don't like to say anything
about my neighbors, but as TO Mr.. Jones
sometimes / think. and then again
don't know, but after all, | rather guess
he'll turn out to be 4 good deal such
sort of a man as | take him to be
While attending a spiritual seance in
Philadelphia, Il few days ago, lady re
eeived a communication from the al
legged spirit of her husband, directing
her to dig up a certain portion of her
cellar, where she would find lot of
gold. She followed the instructions,
but instead of finding money, opened
the mouth of an old well and fell into it,
and was nearly suffocated.
DR. Siemens, President of the British
Association. said i'll IA recent letter on
Waste:" 1.-The burning of raw coal for
domestic purposes is very wasteful
Coal should be reduced to gas and coke
gas can be burned more economically
than coal, while coke and other so-caIled
waste products resulting from the manu-
facture of coal gas are of more money
value than the coal originally used.
A most surprising story is told by
Southern man. He says that he set
rats; that one rat poked his nose in and
was caught; that the sharp edges of the
trap tore the skin of his nose loose, and
his ratship wriggled himself or forced
himself out of his hide, leaving it in the
trap, bearing bloody evidence of the
terrible effort made to get out OF it.
1t has come at last A Virginian
claims that on removing a cake of ico
that nad been for several years in the
bottom of his ice house he found it per
forated with cells which were occupied
by long worms of a whitish color.
Others in the same vicinity report SINH
lar experience. 1t will no longer be
considered safe 10 use ice until it has
been thoroughly cooked, so as to effect
uallv kill these parasites.
A Western farmer advertises that he
wants frst-class potato masher; there
are lots of Washers in Philadelphia, but
they are all of the small potato ORDER
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