The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-21
GENERAL NOTES.

One Chinaman is employed on the New
York Press as reporter.
A laborer in some of the western dis
triets of Ireland is forced to live on the
munifceut income of $25 year.
The total estimated population of chill
dren of school age in Scotland is 1,169,
943, of whom $50, $50 are in the elemen
| tary day schools.
A Washington paper says the White
House is haunted. There are hundreds
of men haunted by desire to SLEEP
| there.
| The Key West sponge fleet, numbering
seventy vessels and about 600 men, is out
on a cruise large catch of sponge
brings about $500, 600 into that city.
The magnificent mantle which the
Czarina will wear at the coming corona
ton is made of cloth of gold, bordered
with armorial bearings embroidered in
silk and gems. The crown placed on her
head will be the one used at the corona
ton of the Empress Catharine III and
Elizabeth Its value is estimated at
3, 900 600 of rOubles. and it is composed
of diamonds rubies, and a large number
of pearls In her scepter will blaze the
great Orloif diamond, which is said to
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moor.
A new shaft over the grave of Thomas
Jefferson, to replace the old one Clipped
to pieces by vandal admirers, isnow being
erected. The pedestal is massive block
of hewn granite, unpublished three feet
high, containing the. dates of the birth
and death of Jefferson The-shaft is also
solid granite. pyramidals form, twelve
feet high, containing the inscription
selected by jefferson himself; "IIere was
buried Thomas jefferson. author of the
Declaration of American independence, of
the statute of Virginia for religious free
dom, and father of the University of
Virginia.
Governor Tabor's mines in New Mexico
give promise of yielding him even greater
returns than his Colorado strikes. 1t is
openly stated that if they pan out as
richly as they promise, the governor will
enter upon the erection of opera houses
in New York, Chicago. Washington,
Kansas City and San Francisce-struct-
ures equaling in splendor his theatre at
this point, the New York edifice to cost
50, 900, 600. Tabor has long had this
scheme in view-in fact. his Intimates
say it's his pet ambition. He has divulged
it to eastern managers, and they have en-
cOuraged him in it.-Den ger Tribune
When the new electric lights in the
Big Mountain colliery, near Shenandoah,
were first put in operation. last week,
seven dazed and dazzled mules, which for
five years had seen no brighter luminary
than the Davy lanterns, turned tail and
fed into the depths of the mine. The
workmen tell interesting stories about the
habits of colliery mules. their toughness,
their COntentment, and their total deprav
ity. Seven months ago the lower levels
in the largest colliery at St. Clair were
flooded, work was stopped, and all the
mules were hoisted to the surface More
than dozen of them had passed eleven
continuous years in the mine, and had
forgotten that there was a
world of grass and sunshine.s for when
they were turnedseut topasture they hud-
died together in evident alarm. and for a
whole day did nothing but gaze on earth
and sky. The probability is that they
were at first blinded by the glare--a com
mon experience with their kindred under
similar circumstances. Just as they were
beginniRgsto enjoy theirsnew life, work
was resumed in the mines, and they went
back to their old home in the darkness.