The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-23
eLsAETNGs.

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1t is estimated that $25, 900, 900 worth
| of small fruits are sold annually in ths
city of New York.
Miss Emily Faithful SAYS of American
women. II am satisfied that most o
them have II pretty good time OF it.
A correspondent of the Brooklyn
Eagle says that. there are ID 100000 o.
Spiritualists in Hle united States.
Thaddeus Fairbanks, Of st. JOHNS
bury, Vt, the inventor OF the celebrated
Fairbanks scales, is now over 80 years
old.
Steward William Cranlp, one of Pres
ident Garfield's attendants, has opened
a restaurant near the Treasury Building
in Washington.
A Florida gentleman spreads muslin
under his orange trees to catch the bios
SONS when they fall. He will convert
them into peIfumery.
The Cathedral in Pueblo. Mexico, is
the largest house of worship on the con,
tinent. 1t was commenced more than
three centuries ago. and cost 81. zoe, 900
General Francis A. Walker thinks
that all the work of the Census Bureau
viii be ready for publication by the first
of next July.
With 10000 lawyers in this country,
one physician to every thirteen families.
and the colleges in full operation. we
ought to be able to get along.
In Cincinnati, says the Electrician,
the telephone has achieved wide de-
gree of usefulness, $50 villages having
been brought within speaking distance
of the city.
Lucy Hooper says that "a great many
Americans who want to s'see Naples
and die do see Naples and die, the
Italian malaria, fever carrying them of
with astonishing promptness.
The New Jersey law prohibiting the
employment of children under-14 years
of age win result in the discharge of be-
tween 5000 and 1000 of them at Patcr-
son alone.
Meat is an unknown quantity in GER
tain agricultural villages in England.
and yet John Brown died worth So, GOO,
600. 1t pays better-to wait on royalty
than to till the soil.
A Pennsylvania court has decided
that the transfer of credits and debts by
telephone is as valid as that by word of
mouth. in which there is no, actual EVIL
dence in writing of the transaction.
The gilded nickel is still cheating the
simple, and it is likely to send some of
the sinful to state prison. To know
ingly pass one of the coins as $5 gold
piece is decided to be counterfeiting,
Almond culture is quite successful in
California Four varieties are grown.
The crop of 1881 was 800, 900 pounds,
about half of which was used to supply
the home trade and the balance shipped
East.
"A South Carolina court has decided
that where a person adopts a perilous
employment, knowing it to be such,
and is killed in the pursuit of his avoca-
ton, his heirs have no recourse against
the employer.
Telegraph poles cost about 81 each;
the wire stretched on them costs about
SIS a mile; the cross arms cost 5 cents
a running foot; the inSulators cost %
cents each By the hundred for light
wires, and to s cents for heavy wires.
Four states in New England have
made more or less changes in their di-
vorce laws for the better within five
years. Divorces have. in consequence,
fallen off nearly one-third in Vermont,
one-fourth in Connecticut, and the chan
GEES made in Maine laws will insure a
further reduction.
A species of wild potato has been dis
covered on the table lands of Southwes-
tern Arizona, in attitudes of 5000 to
$4,000 feet, which is spoken of as supe-
rior in the taste and flavor to the best
cultivated potatoes. Experiments in
the cultivation of the plant are being
made in the State Agricultural School
of California.
At one of the railroad stations in the
north of Ireland the following notice
was posted: Hereafter, when trains
moving in an opposite direction are APP
preaching each other on separate lines,
conductors and engineers will bring
their trains to a dead halt, and be very
careful not to proceed until each train
has passed the other.
Herr Krupp, the Prussian gun manu-
facturer, intends to found a new town
entirely for his workmen, under the
name of Neu-Kruppingen. The people
of Essen are beginning TO object TO the
great manufacturer colonies being in
cluded in their boundaries, as they are
chiefly inhabited by poor people, who
are thus not profitable tax papers.
Women are rigidly excluded from ST.
Malo, a place fifty miles from New Or
leans, inhabited by about half a hun
dred Maiays- They have lived there for
ty years, having originally deserted from
French ships when little more than boys.
They are described as low. Ignorant
and feroeious, with mixed Chinese and
JAPANESE features. They live by fish
ing, and gambling among themselves is
about their only diversion
Geneva in Switzerland harbors about
10000 foreigners. OF these 100 are
Russian Nihilists, German soldiers and
French anarchists. While they are
avowed enemies of the present social or
ganization throughout the civilized
world, they behave themselves so well
that only a small police force Is required
in Geneva. They are treated with great
tolerance aud therefore seek to avoid
abusing the trust imposed in them.
A large elm tree at Norwich Tow n
has moved house. The tree is more
than.70 years old, and the trunk reaches
a height of thirty feet before limb
branches out. During the March winds
the limbs spreading over the house
swept off part of the chimney and it was
The tree, which stands at
the northeast corner of the house, has
grown so large that it raised and moved
The house one foot from its original POI
sition
The statistics of the United States
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