The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12

his farm 200 lambs
The American Tract Society reports
that it has distributed Il, 900, 900 pages
of evangelical literature in the past
year.
The importation of cattle from Europe
to this country promises to be more ex-
tensiye this year than in previous sea-
sons
1t is the belief of the Gentiles in Utah,
that within the last year plural mar
riages have been more numerous than
ever before.
In France and England scaffolding
is erected complete in advance of the
building "a practice which much dimin-
ishes the chance of an accident
Mrs. Booth, mother of the actor,
lives in Philadelphia She has kind,
sad face. and she loves to talk TO her
birds.
In view of the immense number
manufactured, the wonder is what be-
comes of all the pins. doctors and law
yers.
August Bartholdi, who designed the
statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World,h for New York harbor. is almost
fifty years Old.
One of the latest Partisan schemes is
tunnel between that city and Rouen,
to be over seventy-three miles long and
costing $25, 900, 900
Glass images of Hindoo deities are
manufactured in Birmingham and ship
ped to India for worship by the devout
! idolators of that country.
The two last descendants OF Amerigo
Vespucci are living in poverty in Italy.
They have peutIoned the Italian Gov
eminent for a pension of so per
month.
A Cincinnati dry goods man Won t adj
vertise because SO many other dealers
do. He hasn made dollar for the last
ten years because so many other dealers
have
You ask what a libel suit is. A libel
SUIT, my son, is where man pays law
yer $4,000 in order to get D 900 out of
another man he thought was a fool and
is now sure OF it.
The ashes OF Geo Whitfield, the ia
nous preacher, rep0se beneath the old
South Church, Newhuryport, in which
venerable. New EnglaRd editoe he dc
livered his last sermon.
England has two good agricultural
colleges suited for the education of
the more wealthy class, but beyond the
reach of the great bulk of tenant farm
ers.
Timothy Heating, so years of age,
has been in the employ of a gas conn
pany in Philadelphia forty-seyen years,
and in all that time has not lost
day.
The discouraged silver miners of Yir-
ginia City, New, regard The return OF a
pair of gray eagles 10 one of the basalt
cliffs of Mt. Davidson a. good omen.
They had been away since 1865.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone has given a
large lot of land in Washington and
| $3.50 in money for the erection and
| maintenance OF ii home Tor needy wild
ows of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
New England Baplists propose TO
| Crescent Beach, on the shore Of Long
Island, about seven miles west Of New
| London.
Washington is not the oaly city in the
| country where men are ruined by poker
| playing. And the ruin is worked in the
| parlors of homes As well rs at the club
tooms and at hotels.
Herbert Herkomer, the great English
artist, is described as IA 1.-the young
smooth black hair, parted in the cens
ter" r
A colored mother dreamed beneath
the stars of Georgia that she was beat
ing pone. When she rose next morn
ing she found her baby dead, The cor
oner said that every bone in its body
was broken.
shall We wear a silk hat?' was the
subject of lecture by Brooklyn di-
vine recently. That is question
which no man can answer, Every
thing depends on which way the cleo
tons go.
There is not a cuspidor in the whole
of the House of Commons, or i'll any of
the hotels of England says Joseph
| Cook. No wonder Americans return to
their country aud say there no place
like home.
| A gentleman card is engraved in
small, distinct script with the name in
the center and address in the right hand
corner; a member of club may have
the name of the club engraved in the
left hand corner.
| According to the United States Com
missioner Of Education, $61, AIS, 900 has
been given by private individuals for
educational purposes in this country
within ten years, This does not include
the recent gift of Slater and others,
amounting to SS,OO0o00.
An Oil City man, who lost leg in
the army, settled the pension agent by
saying he never intended to apply for a
pension, as he had been more than re-
Enumerated for his loss by his wife elop-
ing with another man while he was in
the service.
In 1928 Daniel Baum, a 20-year-old
youth of Huntingdon, Pa, became vio-
lently insane and was chained In room,
from which be has never emerged in all
these sixty years. In all this time his
two bachelor brothers have taken care
of him.
Officers and clerks of the Railway
Mail Service are TO be required to write
the names of States in full in directing
mail matter. 1t would be good thing
if the public would follow the rule,
especially where the authorizations are
nearly the same or liable to be mislead-
ing.
Lightning struck a Florida man the
other day in the side, ran down his leg
to the knee, forked and burned two
streaks to the sole of his foot. After
leaving him it hunted up can Of
powder, which it exploded and then
knocked a sick man out of bed, The
| latter fouDd himself eured of the chills