The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-23
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The photographers say that there il
no longer a demand for Mrs. Lanetrv'
pictures.
Who says that dogs do not pay? 1t
is stated that the tax on those residing
in theUnited States brings in revenue
of $16,000,000
General Roger A. Pryor says: New
York is the strictest State in the Union
IN regard to divorce proceedings, and
Rhode Island the most lax
Talmage condemns half-mourning
tie thinks the person who can get halt
over feeling sorry for the death of a rel.
alive had better leave off mourning al
together.
Benjamin Hawkins, of Indiana, has
been driven by mobs ont of the five
towns in which he has attempted to live.
lie begins to suspect there is prejudice
against him.
Saving is too wasteful a process to be
used in the manufacture of veneer The
logs are first steamed until they are soft,
and then put on machine, and knife
shaves off strips as thin as the thinnest
tissue paper.
Ten years ago the parks of Detroit
were full of blue-bir and robins. To-
day the sight of either bird is a rarity.
The miserable nuisance Of a sparrow
chatters as he ponders over his evil in-
tluence.-DctrOH Free Press
Near Bozeman. on the Northern Pa
- L,
would make circle 600 feet in di
ameter. This is very sharp curve, MS
720 feet is the smallest diameter deemed
safe.
Henry Turnbull, once a wealthy New
York swell, who lived at the rate OF $50,
900 year, aud was member of the
Union Club, is now clerk in the wan
department inWashington. with salary
of 81 200 year.
A matchmaker, speaking of what h,
found in watches, said: Small pieces
OF iron, tobacco, splinterS of wood, and
once | found louise. Hairs frequently
get into watches. | have found them
coiled up and drawn tightly about the
wheels"
The leaders of male fashions in New
York wear white hats now. They have
given up canes with gaudy hammered
silver heads, and adopted canes with a
mere thmble of silver on the end.
| Their gloves are no longer terra Gotta,
| but of crushed strawberry hue; and they
have given up trying to wear the single
glass.
1t is announced that grand Germa.
musical festival is to be held in Brook
| lyn in July, 1885. The announcement
is made thus early in order that the
breweries in this country may work
overtime and thus have enough beer OF
hand in July, 1885, to save the festival
from becoming a ADMINISTRATION
Herald.
We are apt TO think transportation OF
coal in the United States is high. We
| find that there is a business in coal t,
| London. England, of 10.000.00O tons
annually. and the railroads compete fol
the carriage of the coal. 1t appears, OF
| the best authority, that the cheapest i:
S6-100 of a cent per mile net, and tn,
highest is | ITO cents net per ton pc
mile. Distance was 10 to l72 mile
from pits to London.
The following expressive poetic pros,
was found on the interior of a box ca
! at the depot by NJ. I. Streeter. IN,
reader will be convinced, after readin!
it. that there is at least one honest
minded tramp in the world: Barns anC
box cars is my bed room, rob a hel
roost when | can; take a shirt off tn
clothes line. am the stuff they sprea,
on land. Counting ties is my occupa
ton, hunger gives me many a Cramp
work and | am no relation, | am
f Pennsylvania tramp"
There is an awesome quiet in Wa!
street at night-a hard, cold, stone AM
iron quiet-not the hush of the summe
eve in the woods or by the seashore 0
the mill stream, with its oacasiona
chirp of the grasshopper or the pipe O
the frog; but stern, broodng, merci
less, crushing Stiffness, as if some cruel
heartless, merciless thing lurked anon!
these granite walls-something not
be wooed or won by frankness or hoI
: estv Or well-meaning or well-dOing
. >
lies and deceit and trickery and hare
e heartcdness and greedy craft.
/ There is on exhibition at jackson
vile, Louisiana, beautiful masOni
apron captured by Georgian artiller
officer in the Mexican war from the f;
nous General Antonio Lopez de SAINT
Anna at the time of his memorable n
treat, when. not only his private ba!
gage, but his wooden leg was left b.
\ hind in his sudden flight. The apron
of white satin with a back of silk.
the top is star embroidered in golt
within which is the mystic letter g; bt
meath this there is an embroidered scrO
resembling a Maltese cross, on eitht
side ofwhich, in large Roman character
are the golden letters NJ. B.. the signii
canoe of which no local craftsman hi
interpreted.
The channel tunnel project has bee
o treated to new figures. 1t can be bui
/ in ten years, thirty miles from Englan
to France, for $40 00O, 900, with an q
rangement, costing only $4,000,
| which the danger of q French army
oozing up on English soil and slayin
the British lion can be averted.
would accommodate two railway tract
and the patronage would need to |
1000 passengers day at $3.50 eacI
and 548 tons of merchandise, to insu1
So, 100, 900 a year, which would pay
per cent. after allowing 40 per cent,
gross earnings for running expenses.
The cause of cremation is makir
progress in Japan that may well start
o as well as encourage the advocates
] cremation in Western lands 1t is sa
that the number of bodies disposed of
that way is about 5000 year. II
furnace is a stone and cement structu
with tall chimney that makes it loo
like a factory, In the vestibule are
. number of red earthenware urns al
small shovels, which the relatives of tt
deceased purchase to collect the ash
after burning. Besides the vestibu
there are fOur chambers. the LARGEST