The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST


The sum of $25, 900 has been raised
for monument to Robert E. Lee.-N
Y. Sun.
Yes, I'm a cop, and I've several
little copies, " remarked the policeman.
N Y. Mail.
"A Brooklyn man has run away from
his wife for the fourth time, leaving a
note stating that this is positively his
farewell tour. Brooklyn m ~ Eagle.
The first white labor ever employed
on South Florida railroad glistens in
the shape of thirty Irishmen at work on
the International Railroad. Detroit
Post.
"A Penobscot (Me.,) lumberman
says he and another man picked 2, 200
pounds of spruce gum in three days
last winter, only taking what they could
reach from the ground.
Professor Paul Passey, of Paris.
says the United States is the dullest
country he ever visited He probably
didn't 60 out and interview the cow
boys Chicago HeraId.
Some workmen, while cleaning out
an old well at Lockeford, Cal, found
six hundred dollars in twenty-dollar
gold pieces among the refuse at the
bottom.-Sdn Francisco Call.
-Twenty-three counties in Texas
neglected to make any returns at all to
the Secretary of State of the votes cast
upon the Constitutional Amendments
which were submitted to the people and
ratified in August last.--N Y. Times.
Ten warriors, five squaws and four
papooses of the Omaha tribe have sailed
from New York to France. They are
under contract to give exhibitions in
riding, shooting, dancing, etc, receiv-
ing fifty dollars per month and expenses
Yellow Smoke, one of the braves, is
seventy years old. Chicago journal.
The San Francisco Alta says that
shad, which were planted in the waters
of California q few years ago, are natur-
alizing themselves along the whole Pa
citic coast. They are now caught in
Puget Sound, and, the Alta believes,
Will soon frequent every river and har-
Dor between San Francisco and Alaska.
Among the numerous relies and
curiosities possessed by Mr.. Zimmerman,
of Boston, Mass, are chair and bureau
| $50 years old, bill for load Of wood
hauled in 1868, costly china ware over
one hundred years old, four volumes of
literature published in 1914 and snuff
box which was carried by a person in
| Perry's fleet on Lake Erie.-BOSt0n Post
The States in which no tax is levied
upon commercial travellers are: New
York, Colorado. Connecticut, Dakota,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Min
nesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont. West
Virginia and Wisconsin, Chicago
| Times.
An ear of corn was on exhibition
at San Luis Obispo, Cal, grown in the
exact form of the hand of child, show
ing the wrist, hand, thumb, and fingers
all perfect, except the little finger, which
is double. 1t is covered with small
grains of corn to near the fingers, which
are bare prongs Of cob, giving itRhe ap
pearance of hand clad with q nit
San Francisco Chronicle.
"A twenty-dollar gold piece and +;
silver dollar were found on William
Petty's person after his recent arrest. il
Portland, Ore. He is a gambler Tht
coins were followed out, and in eacl
hollow was a mirror, and while the,
were lying on table at an angle of As
behind stack of coin in front of tn
dealer, he could see every card held b,
his opponents Chicago Journal.
A National Homestead Monumen
Association has been organized a
Mitchell, D T., for the purpose of CON
1 memorating the beneticent provisions @
1he Homestead law. 1t is proposed t
erect shaft 100 feet high in the cente
of a quarter section of land-160 acres
and 90 ask every settler to contribute 8
least one cent for every acre he ha
secured under the law.-Denrer Tribune
"A young man living in Dayton, o.
has commenced proceedings to ascel
tain by judicial decision whether tn
attached. had right to enforce with
horse-whip his order to keep away froT
. the front gate. 1t is rather late in tn
n season, but 1t Is hoped that the poIn
will be definitely settled in time for mex
> summers gate swingers. - Chicago Hel
! aid.
Political writing in Hawaiian jOul
mails is not much behind some othe
''barbarous" countries in vigor, as tn
following from a recent issue of tn
Honolulu Gazette may illustrate: 9TH
history of the present Administration
with its Kaleidoscope Cabinets an
\ boards, is an account of blunder upo
blunder, until now the Great Middle
has fairly sunk up to the neck in Sc
of mud, from which no skill can extr
cate him.
"A crematory has been ordered bu
at Jurujaba, Brazil, in which the bod
of all patients dying from yellow few
at the marine hospital of ST Isabel W