The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-05
GLEANINGS.

coast OF Long Island. Iney seem anX-
ious to be taken.
Mr.. Aston, United States minister in
Rome, is collecting illuminated manu-
Scripts and ancient missals.
Belts Life deplores the scarcity Of
good thoroughbred brood mares in Eng
land.
1t transpires that the school house in
New York where SO many children Were
killed, was reported eight years ago as
being unsafe.
1t is said that speculation has SC
far declined in San Francisco that deal
ings in stock scarcely average $500
a day.
Mrs. Garfield, it is said, looks ten
years older than when her husband was
killed, and there is a sprinkling of white
in her hair.
Mrs B. p Shillaber, the wife of Mrs.
Darlington" died recently. She was
the daughter of Macmillan John de
Rochemont, Huguenot.
GeorgeWilliam Curtis, Rev DR. Eggles-
ton, William Butler Duncan, and others
are trying to raise a fund to establish an
eye and ear hospital on Staten Island.
General Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is
blind in one eye and can read with the
other only by the light of student lamp.
He is soon to undergo an operation for
cataract
An inexhaustible quarry of blue mar
BILE has been discovered near the Dalles
in Polk county, Oregon. 1t is suscepti-
BILE of receiving high polish, and is
very hard.
A board of supervisors of California
recently appropriated $3.50 to provide a
pauper with wooden leg, and charged
the amount to permanent repairs and
improvements.
1t is said that the deadly malarial eli
mate of the Roman campagna has been
rendered innocuous by planting eucalyp-
tus or blue gum trees from Australia
abundantly therein.
Recent tests of yarn made from differ
ent hemps gives the following relative
strengths: Manila, 245; Italian, 221;
New Zealand, 143; Russian, 128. Manila
is evidently the yarn to be hanged with.
There has come into the possession OF
a bank at Danbury, Conn, a one dollar
bill, upon the back of which is written,
in purple ink: II, Jenny Cramer, fell
in love with j. Malley, Oct. 5, 1878"
The yacht Namouna, ownedby James
Gordon Bennett, is said to be an uncom-
Portable boat in which to sail, being, as
quantity expressed by the former cook,
''too short for two waves and too long
for one"
If there is any one farm employment
in which women can engage with sue
cess it is poultry raising. Incubators
q va 70 ord 4boco a
woman can manage just as well as a
man. There is money in the business,
and it's good way to replenish the
purse.
A family in York, Pa, owns part of q
silk balloon taken from the Confederate
gunboat Teaser in 1868. There were
about twenty different shades and colors
in the balloon. This was explained by
the fact that the Southern ladies sent
their silk dresses to be made into wal
balloons.
A negro in Mobile, Ala, created SEN
sation and caused himself to be suspect
ed of murder by making a false grave
and putting near it corn sack saturat-
ed with blood. His object was to ''hoo-
do the witches who protected a suppos-
ed buried treasure of which the negro
was in search.
1t is stated that conscientious counter
feiters of the nimble nickel turn out a
coin that contains more valuable metal
than the nickel issued by the govern
ment, the profit to the government on
coins Of that denomination being fully
so per cent. Last year the revenue
from that source was 100000.
Senator Jonas, of Louisiana, is the
oh CT szaf Ia 20 nj 10,
haired and heavy mustached He is q
good senator, but not brilliant speak
err and his sole ambition ii to improve
the Mississippi river. The people of Ar
kansas think this can best he done by
bailing out few quarts. The river Is
seventy miles wide down there.
The panther has had its day in Yer
mont, and now il is the mouse turn.
According to a local paper farmer in
Barnard slowed away under straw three
months ago the carcasses of two big hogs
and three quarters of beef. The othel
day he went after piece of meat fol
dinner, and found under the straw a
pile of shining bones and one solitary
mouse too fat and logy to escape.
Portraits of professional beauties"
have ceased to be in demand in London
only the portraits of actresses and motor
ious women have now an active sale.
Taking up the Photographic notori-
Gus actress, lately mentioned in di
vorce case, a leading photographer said
the other day: Il have to print a thous-
and of these now for one of the princess
of Wales. -
About Salmi Morse, author of Pas
sion Play" Parents were Jews. Made
a fortune in Australia keeping hotel
Had twenty barkeepers. Receives q
pension for services in the Crimea. Has
spent $3.50. 900 on the Passion Play. >
Cares nothing for money. Sleeps I'M
der a 800 quilt. Intends soon to de-
liver a course of lectures entitled 1.-The
Jews and Jesus.
The cotton factors of st. Louis have
united in a circular addressed TO the
merchants, farmers and tenants of the
cotton belt, advising them to abandon
the credit system and TO discourage the
planting of a large acreage in cotton
this year, and to devote their labors
first to the raising of grain, cattle and
hogs, giving a smaller portion of then
time to the culture of cotton.
A jealous young woman in Pennsyl-
vania, hearing her lover come up the
stairs, swallowed a whole bottle of laud
anum, and then pointed her pistol at the
door. intending to shoot him as he en-
tered. But his attention was attracted
elsewhere-perhaps by another girl