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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-15

The proceeds of sale of the real estate
of Signor Blitz. the magician, have just
been paid over to his heirs in Pennsyl
vanie. They amounted to 1874 043.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-15

We have 1853. 600, 600 cash in the
country, Of which 81 ,es3, 100000 is en-
gagged in carrying on our business.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-15

Ex-Secretary Blaine's daughter Margares
will soon return from her Paris visit.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-15
Deposits received in amounts OF 81
and Upwards.
Striking Head Lines

Are used to call attention to the fact that this
advertisement of the CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE
ST. PAUL RAILWAY.
Its EIGHT Trunk Lines traverse the best portions
of Northern Illinois, WISCONSIN, MIxNEso7A D
KoRA and Iowa.
Located directly ON its lines are the cities Of Ch
cago, Milwaukee, La Crosse, wiuona s. Psa.
Minneapolis, Madison, Prairie du Chen Mason
City, siouxCity, Yankton, Albert Lea, Aberdeen,
Dubuque, Rock Island, Cedar Rapids and CouuI
Bluffs. as well as innumerable other principal lui
ness centres and favorite resorts, and passengers
going West, North, South or East are able to use The
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, s. ST. PAUL RA1lwAR to The
best advantage
Ticket offices everywhere are supplied withNypI
and Time Tables which detail the merits Of the lr
and agents stand ready 10 Ournish informaton, sc
sell tickets at cheapest rates over the Chicago, Nj
waukee & St. Paul Railway
). ). MERRILL, A. Y. II. CARPENTDk
General Manager Gen. Pass s. J II q.
j. t. CLARK, GEO. II. HEAFFoRD
Genl. Cupt. Asst Gen. Puss AZ
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-15
Meat Market.

e. SCHNEIDER dealer in all kinds of fresh and sailed
eats NO. 1917 Second avenue, Rock Island. nh
oct1sd1y
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
If vouf feel dull. drowsv. oebi,;t.+,,

~lfyoufeel dull, drowsy, debilitated. ho-
sallow color cse skin, or yellowish brave
spots on face or body, frequent head.o"wso
or dizziness, bad taste in mouth. ;rtaaacche
heat or chills, alternated with hot Has,nlai
low spirits and gloomy forebodinps. irress,
ular appetite, and tongue coated, Won .eeg.
suffering from indigestion, dyspepsia. ARE are
torpid liver or "biliousness." In maui
cases only a part of these symptoms are az,
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has III -.
equal as 1t effects perfect and radical cn,a az
For weak lungs, splitting of blood. shos..
breath, consumptive night-sweats, and L;;a w.
dred affections, it is a sovereign rema Mn'
In the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs aSy;;
consumption, it has %astonished the medley
faculty, and eminent physicians pronounoa
it the greatest medical discovery of tbe
age. The nutritive properties possessaS
by cod liver oil are trifiing when Compared
with those of the Golden Medical Discover
1t rapidly builds up the system and ~
creases the flesh and weight of those 70.
duced below the usual standard of heaitL
by wasting diseases. -u
The plan of treatment that we have c..
briefly outlined in this article for the larso
class of chronic diseases referred to. hae %
long been acknowledged to be the most
successful, based as it is upon the belief
shared by the most skillful medical men Of
the day, that the only way to get rid of the
noxlous dlsease-producing germs in the
blood and system is through the liver, Kid.
neys, and bowels, and therefore that those
agents which are known to act most eff.
GENTLY in restoring healthy action of these
organs are the ones most to be relied upon.
For this purpose the Golden. Medical Dis.
covery is pre-eminently the agent that fnI.
fills every indication Of treatment required.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
A Patient Wife.

81 have heard" said the kind-hearted
Austin female philanthropist to the
woman who lived in a dilapidated shan
ty in the suburbs, whose head was tied
up, and who had one arm in a sling,
81 have heard that your husband beats
you, and l thought would consult with
you to see if we could not restrain
him."
"Yor are mistaken, Madame; nv
husband eve beats me. We have
lived together fifteen years, and he has
never beat me yet and the woman ad-
justed her arm in the sling.
II am so glad to hear that l am mis-
taken" replied the female philan-
thropist.
NO." continued the woman sadly,
putting the bandage over her eye, she
has never struck me q blow yet. He has
kicked me in Il dozen different places
forty different times, he has taken ms
by my two ears and bumped my head
on the floor, or on the corner of the
mantlepiece, he has poured hot water
down my back, pulled out my hair by
the handful, and he has stuck pins in
me a time or so; he feeds the horse on
my new spring bonnet, but he has never
beat me yet, and until he does, l don't
think [ ought to complain."-Teras
SUtiogs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
The Worlds Principal Tin Mines.

Pure tin is an elementary metal, as
much SO as lead, iron, silver or gold.
The principal t~in-producing country is
England. The Phenicians traded with
England for tin LOO years before the
Christian era. There is reason to be-
lieve that they got tin from Spain also;
but England was depended on for nearly
all the tin used in Europe optil this ore
was discovered in Germany III 1910. 1t
was discovered in Northern Africa, in
the Barbary States, in 1910; in India in
1910; in New Spain in 1882. Tin was
mined in Mexico before the Spanish
conquest, and used in T.shaped pieces
for money, and in a bronze composition
for sharp tools; the principal mines be-
ing at Tasco. Peru has valuable mines
OF this metal; SO have New South
Wales, Australia and Banca, and
Malacca, in the Malay peninsula. Tin
has been discovered in Pennsylvania,
Missouri, California and other States OF
the Union, but not in quantities to
tempt capital to engage in mining it.
The chief tin-producing countries are
the following, arranged in the order OF
Importance: England, about 10, 600 tons
a year; Malacca, about $500 tons;
Australia. about 5000 tons; Banca,
about 1000 tons, and Billion, about
5000 tons. Both of these last-named
places are islands of the Dutch East
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
The Church Of England.

The London Mail, in a recent issue,
sounds the following warning to the
Church of England. 'There is no
church, there is no government, there
is no institution in the world that SO lit
tie adapts its ear to its ends, its re-
sources toits work, its entoi its positions,
as the Church of England. The fact is
proved, the want supplied, and the evil
mitigated by the surrounding atmos-
phere of nonconformity, everywhere
pressing in to fill the void. Always and
everywhere there are to be found those
who will reap a harvest of souls wher-
ever it may offer itself. The kingdom
of grace has a spontaneous develop
ment, which vel supplies the short
comings of human government and adj
ministration. No Bishop, however ex-
allied, NO theologian, however narrow
or however Quixotic. can deny, even
upon his own theories, a divine origin
and order to the ~self-denying zeal of
the men who do their best, by the sim.
plest means at hand, to raise the sur
rounding tone OF morality and religion,
to rebuke vice, and to encourage the
virtues that all alike recognize, even if
they practice them not. The good work
to be done is as plain and universal as
the sun in the heavens. The school and
the field of true faith is all the world,
and knows no demarcations or prohibi-
tons. An artificial and cumbersome
establishment, standing upon by-gone
ages, and inheriting innumerable
anomalies, hindrances and scandals,
may be too sacred a thing to be rudely
handled. But it can not cover the
ground, or reap the harvest. Part
indeed, the greater part-must be left
to those who, if less privileged, are less
trammeled, and who have the power
not of authority, but of freedom. In
such a case there must be some Earring,
some antagonism. How shall it be
cured? How shall the established
church acquire for itself that full liberty
of action which it sees continually en-
ployed against it? 1t must condescend
to gather all the lessons it can from the
organization and tactics of those whom
it only too naturally regards as it's.
rivals, if not foes. How do they get
possession OF the ground? How do they
advance everywhere, and hold the
ground they win? They do it by the
use OF common sense. That is what the
Church Of England will have to submit
to. The ministry-that is, the entire.
system of employment in the service of
the Church of England, will have to be:
adapted to the work everywhere to be.
done, unless the church is to find itself
one day the shadow of a great name"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
German Advertisements.

Though the paper runs aheavy list of
advertisers. there are no long column
or more Of dry-goods house announce
ments or theater displays. Each "ad''
is condensed and put into it's smallest
compass. The greater number are an
nounccments of rooms to let and each
one is crowded into a line or two. OF
course, in order to do this in rather
narrow columns, a great deal of abbre-
Walton is necessary. But a German is
just in his element when it comes to
making one letter do for a whole word
in an advertisement. So it comes
aboutFthat column after column is filled
with announcements which might be
translated thus: Groom, T. +. & c.,
Blank ST., O." That is, Groom, finely
furnished and cheap, No. o Blank
street." After one has disposed of all
the furnished rooms advertisements and
alnraveled all the various and numerous
combinations of abbrevial consonants
and vowels, the next thing that strikes
the attention is the numerous matri-
monial advertisements, and the cold
blooded, business-like way in which the
love-lorn SWANS 90 about their public
Wooing is quite amusing in it's way.
One very seldom finds a woman adyer-
Using for a husband, but there are al
ways a number of men advertising for
wives, which shows that the ladies are
not at all backward in coming forward
on such occasions. A marriage is
looked upon as a business matter
mixed up, of course, with a little love
which has to be arranged and bargained
about and the dover carefully fixed.
settled and sealed, it is not surprising
that the matter Of pfennigs and marks
should receive its due mount of atten-
ton in all the advertisements.
Here is one such literally translated:
"a well-born business man, thirty years old,
seeks the acauaintance in behalf Of marriage,
tune OF 1000 to 5000 marks desired. Address
with photograph etc.
When n remembers that 4,OOC
marks is quite a small fortune here, the
modesty Of the advertiser and the value
he sets upon the honor of becoming his
wife will be apparent. Another thing,
OF which one sees many examples in
the daily press, is the advertisement
asking for the loan of a small sum of
money. The advertiser-generally "a
poor widow"-'seeks u undetermined
gentleman " lady who will be kind
enough to lend the sum Of thirty marks.
Prompt repayment guaranteed Thir-
ty marks is about the amount needed,
A larger amount is quite noteworthy;
while the demand for a sum reaching
into the hundreds gives one, by con-
trast, Che idea that he is reading the
desire of an humble Rolhschild. As
these appeals appear every day, it is
evident that the German people are be-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Large amounts of peanuts will be
planted in Tennessee this year.
"A gentleman of Enterprise, Fla,
has spread muslin under many of his
orange trees, to collect the orange bios
SONS when they fall. He will make per-
fumery out of them.
San Francisco claims to make more
and better chocolate than any other
place in the world. The ingredients
are sugar from the Sandwich Islands,
cocoa from Ecuador, and vanilla raised
in California.
-Hearths are decorated with tiles
in imitation of polished woods. Deep
browns, reds and black represent ma
pies, mahogany, cherry and walnut,
the high glaze Of the tile giving the ex-
act effect of the polish of natural wood.
"A new idea is a continuance for
holding open the pages of a book which
obstinately refuses to lie flat on a table,
or to keep quiet on a music desk. It is
made Of wire twisted into a shape that
resembles the confused snarl of a crabs
locomotive machinery.
The staining of bricks red is eff
fected by melting one ounce of glue in
a gallon of water, then adding a piece
of alum as large as an egg, one-half
pound of Venetian red, and one pound
of Spanish brown; redness or darkness
is increased by using more red or
brown. For coloring black, heat the
bricks and dip in fluid ~asphaltum, or
in a hot mixture of linseed oil and as
phalt.-Chicago Journal.
According to La Libertad, of Mexi-
CO., Don Nicolas Zunigay Miranda of
that city has invented an apparatus
that it is claimed will give notice, sew
eral days in advance OF the coming of
an earthquake. Its Indications, Senior
Zuniga atfirms, are so accurate that it
will mark not only the day, but even
the exact hour when the disturbance is
to occur, and show what the degree of
intensity of subterranean commotion
will be.
An enormous quantity of water
passes through the roots Of plants. An
English eNperimenter has ascertained
that for every pound of mineral matter
assimilated by a plant, an average of
1000 pounds of water is absorbed. At
the French Agricultural Observatory of
Montsouris it was found that in rich
soil, 727 pounds of water passed through
the roots Of wheat plants for every
pound of grain produced; while in a
very poor soil, 1858 pounds passed
through the wheat roots for each pound
of grain. :
"A Mr.. Brooks, who lives about a
mile north Of Somerset, Pa, duga well
on his farm last fall, but the water had
such an odor that he could not use Il.
Upon examination of the well a few
days since he found it contained about
ten feet of petroleum. In the same
neighborhood petroleum is running in
a small stream from a spring. About
two years ago a Pennsylvania oil man
examined the land in that section, and
wanted to lease the farmsfor boring and
inspection, but a number of farmers re-
fused to lease their lands, and the mat
ter was soon dropped, but now the oil
excitement Is on the rise.-Micago
1gr7eS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
PITH AND POINT.

Don't you think the bride is foolish
| that she never marries the best MANI
N. Y. Ledger.
Tight trousers are going out OF
fashion. They always did have a slim
chance, and latterly the wearers' legs
have had to combine for support.
The great question of the day at
present is, how to wear a high %all-round
collar and still be able to sneeze hard
without cutting your throat.-Puck.
-He-Good-by, Miss Smith, I'm
sorry l have to leave SO soon. She
I'm very sorry, too; but still, ''parting
is such sweet sorrow. "-Harcdrd Lam
poon.
"A cynical old bachelor thinks that
women, as a class, should be called
"maple sugar." because it is almostim-
possible to tell their age.-M. Y. DID,
vertiscr.
Be respectful to every one, no mat
ter what his or her position may be in
the world. Never, for instance, ask
your washerwoman where she "hangs
out. "-Earv5We Graphic.
Mrs. Sam Millidge, an Austin lady,
vas busy trying to make q pincushion
of sawdust when the colored cook came
to ask what she should cook for dinner.
$50 away, and don't bother me now.
Ny head is full of sawdust now, and I
can't think of anything else.'-Ieras
Sittings.
"A young lady was recently asked
by her gallant what she considered the
height Of impudence. Looking archly
at him, she said: "Spark girlfor three
solid hours and never offer to kiss her."
1t is needless to add that he is not so
impudent now.
-"Woman's rights!'' exclaimed a
Philadelphia man when the subject vas
preached. "Wha more rights do they
want? My wife bosses me; our daughters
boss us both, and the servant girl bosses
the whole family. It's time the men
were allowed some rights"
"A Pittsburgh girl who had refused
a good-looking telegraph repair man
three times within six months gave as a
reason that he was too much Of a wan
derer. That he roamed from pole to
pole, from one climb to another, and if
he did come home he'd be insulate
that the neighbors would be sure to
talk.
The Earl of Ashburton has a col
lection of manuscripts which he values at
$8O0,000. If he were to send them to
a magazine editor he would probably
discover to his dismay hat they were
not worth 500. Many an author who
has valued his manuscripts at 500 has
disposed of them at one cent a pound,
after they had been respectfully de-
clined. '-NorYistoWn Herald.
The theory that photographs can
not be taken at night was upset the
other day when a thief was marched up
to the bar in a Justices courtroom
Judge-'Whatis the charger" Officer
"Stealing." Judge-sStealing what?:"
Otiicer-'stealingphotograph Judge
-''When did he steal them?" Officer
Last night, your Honor" Judge
II will discharge the prisoner, for ]
know that thousands of dollars have
been wasted in the attempt to discover
a process whereby pictures could be
taken at night. The prisoner may CO."
| Carl PygtzerS WeeEIu.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
nevolent toward the ''poor widows"
OF course. there are advertisements

nevolent toward the ''poor widows.
Of course, there are advertisements
! asking for business loans running up
into the thousands and tens of thou
sands of marks, while offers to lend are
frequent and large in sum.
Among the other curious advertise
ments are those announcing engage
ments, marriages, births and deaths. 1t
is a German custom to announce these
four events in the life of man in a man
ner differing considerably from the
American custom. Engagements arc
announced to an interested world either
by the parents of the blushing bride or
the happy groom himself. Here is an
example of the formes.
The engagement of their daughter Jane
with Carl Schultze, in Berlin. is hereby an
nounced with great pride by ludwig Muller
and wife,"
Sometimes this announcement OF the
parents is followed by one from the ex-
pectant swain, in which he acknowledgg es
the corn about as follows:
MY engagement to Miss Jane Muller,
daughter of Ludwig Muller, of Berlin, l have
the honor to announce. Carl Schultze."
Marriages receive hardly as much
space as engagements. Generally a
simple announcement of the fact is
deemed sufficient. Births receive about
the following notice:
The happy birth of a sprigthtly, healthy iag
William Smith, Wilhelmirnia Smith nee
Braun.'
Deaths requireemore space than any
other event, as the following will show:
Last night at I o'clock, aftcra long and
painful illness. died our loved husband.
brother, father and son, the hatmaker, julius
Grun. The deeply sorrowing wife, Anna
family
Nor does the sorrow of the bereaved
ones stop there. They frequently take
a melancholy pleasure and show their
politeness even under the most difficult
circumstances by inserting a notice
something like the following:
''sThanks. Returned from the grave of our
beloved mother, we hereby offer our most
heartfelt thanks to those who gave to her the
last escort; also, for the great number Of
floral decorations. Further, most heartfelt
thanks to the Herr Pastor for the comforting
words at the grave; also, to the kind physi-
clan for his untiring endeavors to keep our
dear one in this life. The sorrowing family"
i A husband and wife announces:
"After three days of torturing sickness, the
death OF our only, warmly loved child, from
scarlet fever and inflammation of the brain.
Those who knew her will be able to appre-
ciate our pain"
Berlin Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

-Teacher-"Well, how stupid you
arc, to be sure! Can't multiply eighty
eight by twenty-five! I'll wager tina.
Charles can do It in less than no time.
Absurd pupil-':I shouldn't be sur
prlsed. They say fools multiply very
rapidly these days.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

"A number OF the women clerks in
washington were recently examined UNI
der he old civil-service rules, and all
passed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

ulOH SulllClCllUly ny uu0 lllllu la4uUlVe Drop
critics possessed by the Golden Medical Dis.
covery, DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
Pellets little liver pills), taken in small
doses of only one or two each day, will aid
materially in establishing healthy action,
and in expelling the disease-producing
germs from the blood and system.
At the risk Of repetition and by way of
recapitulation, we may t%ruthfully say that
Golden Medical Discovery cures all hu-
mors, from the worst scrofula to a common
blotch, pimple, or eruption. Erysipelas,
salt-rheum, tever-sores, scaly orrough skin,
in short, all diseases caused by disease
germs in the blood, are conquered by this
powerful, purifying, and invigorating med
icine. Great eating ulcers rapidly heal
under its benign influences. Especially
has it manifested its potency in curing tet-
ter, rose rash, boils, c%arbuncles, sore ewes.
scrofulous sores and swellings, white swell
lngs, goitre or thick neck, and enlarged
glands.
"The blood is the life." Thoroughly
cleanse this fountain of health by using
Golden Medical Discovery, and good diges.
ton, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital
strength and sOundness of constitution are
established.
Consumption, which is s~crofulous dis.
ease of the lungs induced by the deadly dis.
ease germ bdcilus, is promptly and posi-.
lively arrested and cured by this sovereign
remedy if taken before the last stages Of
full power over this terribly fatal disease.
when first Offering this now world-famed
remedy to the public, DR.. PIERCE thought
favorably Of calling, it his Consumption
cure" but abandoned that name as too re-
strictive for a medicine that from it's won.
dertul combination of germ-destroying. as
well as tonic, Or strengthening, Alternative.
or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, diuretic'
pectoral, and nutritive properties, is un,
equalled, not only as a remedy for con-
sumption OF the lungs, but for all chronic
diseases OF the liver, blood, kidneys. and
lungs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-02

turned ones face out Of his sight, he
was capable of nothing one said.s' II is
a melancholy thing that this curious
proof of what could be donefor thedeaf
was for generations rather viewed with
barren wonder than as an example to
be initiated. For long time the harsh
maxim, '.Surdus natus mutus est, ct
plane indisciplinabilis," ruled in law
and social usage. When the attempt
was seriously made to instruct the deaf
and dumb the false track of finger
speaking was entered upon, and until
recently it has been followed. To teach
them to read spoken sounds on the lips
and to enuncIate them. thus entering
into the general intercourse of society,
was deemed an impossible task in most
cases and barren feat in others. The
mistake is now recognized. The con-
gr"ss at Milan three years ago decided
in favor of the purely oral system, and
the members the of conference at Brus-
sells have chiefly had to consider the
methods of giving effect to it.-London
NeUs.