The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

Like the dog in the manger. the
noseis above kissing, and is always
ready to interfere with the kissing of
others.
"A man over seventy years of age is
said to be in jail at Penn Yam because
his sons TO whom he gave fortune of
$4,000, can't afford to pay few hun
dred dollars for his release. Troy N,
7. Times.
Oscar Wilde told Liverpool audi
ence that while off the Pacific coast of
the United States he saw seal basking
on rock ON whose back was painted
the announcement of a manufacturer of
tooth powden-M Y. Graphic.
Headlines in the Louisville Courier.
Journal: ''Murderous-Ato tornado steals
| out of the quiet of n spring day and
sweeps from Chattanooga nearly to the
Gulf path of death and devastation un.
equalled in the history of that section. "
Recently occurred in New York the
annual distribution of $4,000 appro-
priated for distribution among the des-
titute blind of the city. Each benei-
ciary receives this year thirty-eight
dollars The object of the gift is to
keep the recipients out of the public
institutions N Y. Herald
The steamship Great Eastern has
never been success financially, but is
to be employed in carrying coal from
the Forth to the Thames in Great
Britain. She viii be able to carry about
10000 tons on each voyage, and from
this fact the owners are led to hope that
the scheme viii be remuneratiye.-C Cha
cago Inter Ocean.
At a barbecue given at Satartia by
the citizens of Yazoo County, Miss, a
Mr.. Warrington objected to the way
his son was cutting up sheep. This
eslraged the son and he attacked his
father with the knife, cutting his body
talmost in two. The elder Warrington
| died in few minstes. The son escaped.
| st. Louis Globe
| "A family in Craftsbury, Vt. is
terribly afflicted The father has a
cancer on his forehead; two daughters
are rapidly running down with the con-
sumption; son, on whom the family
has largely depended for supper is in
very poor health, probably in consump-
ton, and the mother, worn out with
labor and anxiety, is raying crazy
Rutland Herald.
Not especially handsome married
women make the most elaborate expo
sition of finery and jewels at Saratoga
this season. They seem to have lone
there for the express purpose {! ex-
hitJiting their wardrobe, and if you do
not stare at them and make remarks
they seem offended. This is the way
the social wind is blowing just now
~ T. Mail
The London Lancet stoutly opposes
the practice of putting binders on horses.
IL SAYS: 1T seems TO us that they are
useless, ugly, and, to some extent, in
furious to the eyesight. The most beau.
tiful feature of the horse is the eye. II
it were not hid from our gaze it would
serve to denote sickness, pain or pleas
ure Many a time would the driver
spare the whip on seeing the animal:
imploring eye.
Although it might be reasonably
expected that any husband would know
| HIS oWu WIG, ACts Sill al &c W say OpoC pL
Millen, of Baltimore, whose wife wen
on the excursion which ended in the re
cent frightful accident. recognized hel
features at glance among the victims
on the wharf, further identified the
body by close inspection, and wen
home crushed with grief and horror
There he found Mrs. Millen in perfec
health, to the utter bewilderment of hi
senses. She had returned to the city
by an early boat and was at HON,
when the accident occurred. -BaltiDlor,
american.
"A writer in the Portland Oregon
: Aet1s. describing a recent journey, say
} in the exaggerated language of the grea
West: From New York to St. Pau
the ride was commonplace, unmarked
) by special incident save few days
stop at Chicago, that busy city wher,
: men go on the run from eight o'clock il
/ the morning till four in the afternoon
: whether they have anything to do o
: not. The day arrived everybody wa
D rich; next day they were all poor bu
! the Armours, MeGeoch 6 Co. had faile,
D for many millions, and a break in lar,
threw fortunes into confusion. Such
t Chicago-always to be the great cen