The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-19

q While Miss leila, the daughter of DR.
r e. Taylor, was walking in the street
at Blorehouse, La, she discovered that &
frog was pursuing her. When she would
stop,t the frog would stop; when she Quick
ened her step. the frog did the same. She
became alarmed, ran into her fathers
| house, the frog still following her She
ran through the hall of the house, the
| frog in close pursuit The young lady
| nnaliE sprang upon a bed, and the frog
! strangely disappeared, and was not seen
again.
The daughter of an English baronet fell
| in love with a poor lawyer nearly 100
years ago. She challenged him to fight
duel which he WAS forced to accept She
appeared masked, and gave him the
chance of either fighting her or marrying
her. His second. who was also unaware
of the woman's identity or the cause of
her strange conduct, advised his principal
to marry her. After the ceremony, during
which she still wore the mask, they drove
to her rich home, and after withdrawing a
few moments she returned and at once
captivated her husband by her beauty and
tasteful dress.
There is a superstition about thirteen
persons sitting at table and eating
meal, and many people who profess to be
not bit superstitious wonld by no means
be counted as one of thirteen alta feast.
One must retire and banquet alone, or
one must be added to dispel the omen of
thirteen club, organized as it were, to fly
in the face of fate They have just had |
their seventeenth bauquet-thirteen at the |
table, and none of them dead yet The |
members eat, drink and get hilarious mer- |
ry, among their yiands and bottles, and |
talk politics and religion usually forbid /
den topics where the peace is to &c kept,
and not one of the thirteen has been killed |
in quarrel. They drink themselves dead
drunk. but cannot get up a funeral. These /
experiments of the Thirteen club |
have, however, not uproeted the super
stitlon-
An ordinary family letter has been
travelling through the mails for ten years.
twas mailed in Denver, Col, to a Young
lady IN Auburn There was NO State
mentioned on the address, but the letter
81. 1t was addressed within
o. My Dear Niece, and signed t.Auntie''
Recently it has been at the Post Office in
Auburn, in this State, and careful INQUIRY
lowed that nobody by the name mentiond
md the letter ever lived within twenty
1oiles of that Auburn, and the letter has
been sent back to the Dead Letter Office
o be forworded to Auburn in Maine
Vea0 York Times.
Archbishop Purcell is sadly broken ]
Town both in body and mind, He lives !
the ursuline convent OF Saint Martins. !
ohio, He is suffering from partial par I
lysis which affects his tongue and redu {
es his voice to q whisper He passes G
much of his time in easy chair. dressed 5
long blue cassock and with a gold
ross upon his breast. At times his mind ;
Vanders, and he is in many respects as !
lelpiess as an infant. The various move :
nents winch have been devised with !
new to the payment of his 81 600. 600 !
seem to have fallen lifeless. /
ma shere are no present indications that
ne creditors will ever get their money. G
IL is thought by those who are most in
imately acquainted with the venerable a
archbishop that he cannot live long.
u Is told OF the father of young lady :
Philadelphia that ON the occasion Of !
lef ma marriage the other day he distributed {
pi,ooO among the poor. This nupiial =
marty ls not new. 1t has been done r
lere IN New York whenever a daughter i
= she mousse CT the Astors, the Jaffrays / 3
tna o.neIs has been married, and The /
um distributed far exceeded ST O0a
NesO York Mail. Vi''oo-- z
An Enghsn manufacturer was latelv
ined 5000 Tor an Infringement of the fac.
CRY act. The Inspector had found FORTY 1
we women IN the mill seven minutes af- | S
er the hour for closing e