The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-28
GLEANINGS.

Mrs. Sarah Ray, a washerwoman o
Leadville, and the first female who
: Idared set foofin the place, has anassee
1 a fortune of 81. 200, 900 by investing hel
! earnings in mining shares.
The widowed Baroness Rothschild is
said to have set apart 500, 900 for thu
establishment of a home at Versailles
for aged and destitute authors and jour
nalists.
In Japan last year 3. 223. pa telegraph
messages were dispatched. 90 per cent
of which were in the native tongue
What collie the wires must have
had.
At the show-rooms of firm of cutters
in Sheffield, England, is exhibited an At
rican elephants tusk five feet long,
twenty-one inches in girth, and weigh.
ing 160pounds.
i The Cunard Steamship Company
made over million last year, out of
/ which ample provision was made for
depreciation, and dividend of 4 per
cent. per annum paid.
Four hundred and fifty miles of thread
are made each day in American mills,
and yet the women can't get enough
clothes to made them happy. Thirty
years ago all the thread was imported.
The borers of an artesian well in San
Bernardino, Cal, have encountered at
| the depth of 2S0feet tree which stands
perpendicularly Great pieces of the
wood, which appears to be sycamore,
are brought up IN the pipes.
Miss Dawes. the daughter of Senator
| Dawes, decided that Pittsfeld, Mass,
ought to have public park She made
/ oYd mead nd
suasively that the town has voted in
/ favor of the scheme.
The town of Silver Greek, Col, owes
| 1925, 600 for its water-works, and there
are only about twenty-five business men
in the place to pay the consequent-taxes
! They want to compromise on $780,
| 600.
Mr. Reddick, colored divine, vows
that he will vindicate his rights for hav-
ing been turned out of a refreshment
room on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road, on the ground, it is said that
President Garrett had tabooed ''cullud
pussens." g
Mrs. Richards. of Richford, VT, has
brought suit under the recently enacted
damage act, for S5.000sagainst Dan
Moore, of East Berkshire, for the loss of
her husband, who was accidentally kill
ed while Intoxicated with liquor alleged
to havezbeen sold him by Moore.
The Russian Government has the OPP
ton this year of buying up many of its
railroads which have completed their
twentieth year. Should it do so, the
government stock may rise consider
ably, as Russia though in financial
straits, has never repudiated her obi
cations.
A man went home the other night and
found his house locked up. After infinite
trouble he managed to gain entrance
through n back window, and then dis
covered on the parlor table a note from
his wife reading: 81 have gone ont
You will find the key on the side of the
step.
This advertisement appeared in a
newspaper at Rivina, New South Wales, |
and shows the progress of higher civil |
ization there: Wanted, a cultured gen
tleman capable of milking goats A
university man preferred. Applications.
with testimonials as to proficiency, to
be addressed" etc
The Custom House at Dunkirk, N. /
Y, last year cost the government 81 /
1872 and returned collections of $50, 20; |
the one at Beaufort. S. c., cost 81, 1914 |
and returned S13. 81; the one at Bur
lington, Nj, cost $218 and returned IS
cents. Custom houses arc expensive
uxuries In some places.
The sum of 25e, 900 francs, voted to
iefray the expenses of nj. bvaddington,
he representative of France at the Car
he declares to be altogether
insufficient; he says he must have at
east 600, 900. When man takes his
life in his hand he ought to be paid high
or it.
Mr.. Garcia, in his new book, the
Actors Art SAYS the celebrated | !
'rench actress, Dejazet. who played the
art OF young lovers at lineage of seven
7, used to get rid of her numerous
Trinkles by means of elastic wigs, that
ept the skin tightly drawn from the
The students of Hobart College liqui-
ate part of their expenses by corking
1eir faces and giving minstrel shows.
he Boston Globe testifies that Harvard
;udents frequently give minstrel shows 7
l the streets of Boston after dark, but :.
icy don black up, and it usually costs
lem more for the performance than =
hey make.
George Bancroft. the historian, is said h
} be an incessant buyer 81 books, and 4
most every mail brings him number q
French. German or English pubIca- h
ons. He keeps constant watch of 4
lneW movements in SCIENCE orpolitics, a
nd is especially Interested in German Il
Fairs, where he feels that Bismarck is ii
frsrfing mistaken policy of repres- / d
On. -
In the Northern Pacific swfms a fish / Il
hich explorers of the Northwest coast a
III the ortolan OF the sea. 1t is the fat Y
ST of all fish, and if a dried specimen a
taken, all that has to be done Is to Is
,ht the head of the fish, holding it ztIEs- | te
sht, and it blazes away like sperm | N
ndle, giving light without smoke or vi
leIl. The Indians call it the oolac- OF
n.
Felix l., Oswald says: THE true d
sis OF National wealth is not gold, but w
'od Forest destruction is the sin that W
st us our earthly Paradise. War, pes NJ
ence, storms, fanaticism and intem- az
rance, together with all other mis- | q
1es and misfortunes, have not caused or
If as much permanent damage as that va
al crime against the fertility of our CO
,ther Earth - III
Jathani Bey, the Jewish millionaire. to
ID recently in Cairo, aged 73. His fg
operty is estimated at over S25, oOO,- TO
}. He was private banker of the gu
mer vice King, whose unlimited con- on
ence he possessed. He owned syn We