The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-07
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his nose TO save the wear and tear on
his false teeth.
Another professional English beauty,
Mrs CORVALLIS West, will visit this
country She will be guest Mt the
British legation at Washington.
A perfectly formed ana healthy child,
weighing less than one pound, was re-
Gently born to- : woman IN Ashland,
Ohio
1T is the little bits ov things that fret
nd.worry rs, says Josh Billings; eve
kan dodge an elephant, but we kant a
n.y."
| There is a man in Luzerne County.
Pa, who placed so much confidence in
/ Virgins prophecy that he cut down a
| big Tree in front of his house, and the
tree in its fall crushed the house.
There is an apple tree in Rabun
county, Georgia, that is probably the
| largest on this continent. One year the
owner gathered 204 bushels of apples
| from it.
People should remember all the time
| that the act of Congress reducing the
| postage viii not go into effect until next
October. This is to give time to use up
all the Scent stamps one has on hand.
| About 12,000 cattle, one for every two
acres of its surface, exist on the Island
| of Jersey, it being not quite seven
miles each way if it were square. 1t
also exports one cow for every ten acres
| of the surface.
One of the youngest married couples
on record was seen at Castle Garden a
few days ago. The husband was seven
teen and the wife sixteen years of age,
and they had two children of their own.
They were from Hamburg.
When Mrs. Carey, the wife of the
Dublin informer, was told that it would
be better for her husband to tell all he
knew, she replied: well, l would
rather see him on the scaffold than in
the witness box
Elsie Ryland, a forgeress of New
York out on bail, has disappeared in a
bad time for her, as her spouse has just
learned that a legacy of $100,000 has
been bequeathed him by deceased
English relative.
Col. Delaney Astor Kane, hero of the
Tally Ho' coach, and for many years
one of the most prominent society
men" in New York City, soons sails for
England where he viii run a coach"
from London to the suburbs.
James Wiley, of East Haven, Conn,
wrote his win with a typewriter. After
his death, recently, the validity of the
will was questioned on the ground
that the document had been printed,
but the court decided that printed
viii is all right.
The latest case of Juvenile depravity
on record is that of a boy in Mobile,
Ala, who burned down two buildings in
order to win bets to the amount of 81,
which he had made, that there would
be two fires ia the city before certain
date.
A well-ciad and respectable man re-
Gently created great stir in London by
promenading the street sandwiched be-
tween. two boards, which bore these
placaTds: General Posteffice Dis
charged for not salnting clerk. Twenty
five years her Majesty's servant"
The Mayor of Brooklyn recently at
tended an exhibition at a kindergarten,
and in closing his address to the child
rem quoted that classic rhyme. The
rose is red. the violet blue; the pink is
sweet, and so are you" And he didn't
quote it right, either.
A favorite experiment among medical
students is to open the abdominal vein
of frog and eject salt water into it I'M
til every drop of blood in the body is
washed out. The animal hops around
AS lively as ever for two or three days,
when it begins to droop and finally dies
in about q week.
A man fifty-four years of age, living
in Kentucky has nine sons-in-law. He
is willing to wager 800, 900 that he and
his daughters husbands can outwrestle
any other man and his sons-in-law in
this country. This amounts to a bet that
no other man in the country has as many
as nine sons-in-law
The Chinese merchants of Waynes-
boro, Ga, do not intend to be expelled
from trade circles without making a
vigorous effort at self-protection. Three
of them, acting upon the advice of the
Chinese Minister at Washington, have
begun suit in the United States District
Court. at Savannah, for S115, 900. There
are eighteen defendants.
The first thing a city man does when
he gets rich, says the Philadelphia
NeeoS, is to buy a farm, move into the
country and bankrupt himself trying to
raise enough to keep himself from starv-
ing. rich countryman, on the other
hand, buys n brown stone front in the
city, and becomes Interested in stocks,
with like result.
French chemist claims to having
discovered a method of overcoming the
danger threatening vineyards from the
ravages of the phylloxera. His process
is to inoeulate the vines with the pheonol
poison. The paylloxera do not attack
plants thus treated, and are extirpated
for want of food. The vines are in no
way injured by the inoculated process.
A Pittsburg police officer arrested a
man who, he thought, was suspicious
character because he seemed to be the
weaTer of a false beard. At the station
the man took off his beard and showed
that in the wearing of it he was only ex-
ercising good taste. His under jaw had
years before been entirely taken off in a
railway smash-up.
The low price of wheat-is greatly dis
couraging to English farmers. After
seven years of greater or less failure,
they are doubling now whether a good
crop would pay at present low prices.
The acreage sown to wheat this year is
much smaller than usual. Thus the
evil of low prices corrects itself, and the
farmer who goes on without varying for
high or low prices has the best success.
A Cecil County md couple, who
had been living unhappiIy together