The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-23
SIZED ii 1882. off Eyemouth, amounts to

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over $3.50, 600
Queen Wictoria's Park estate on til,
! Harrow Road has 2,I73 comfoliabl
houses to let to workmen, laborers AM
railway men. On the Shaftesbury es
tate are 1000 dwelling houses. rented
On an average, six and a half person
live in one house.
Only eight insane asylums had beef
built in the United States in 1904, be
ing state institutions; by 1870, sixteel
were built; by 1850, twenty-five; 1860
forty-four; and by 1880, ninety, of which
sixty-six are supported wholly Or in par
by state aid.
The sword of Hampden, who was kill
ed while waving it To cheer his men fol
a charge against Prince Rupert, has re
centllsbeen sold at auction for Eco. L
is Il rapier of steel, with cross hilt anG
scroll guard, and is thirty-eight inches
long from the hand plate.
Miss Belle Bryan, of Lafayette. Ind,
who had one-quarter of her skull torn
out in a sleighing accident last winter,
is in n fair way to recover, although she
lost more than cupful of brains. Her
| mind is clear and she suffers but little
pain.
Out on Texas prairie, several miles
from the coast, lies the remains of a
Spanish-built ship. No one appears to
know anything of its history, as it was
there before the -'oldest inhabitant" 1t
is supposed, however, to have been ear
ried there by tidal wave.
The cultivation of the olive in Cali
| fornia promises to be great success. -
| The trees begin bearing in three years,
and continue to yield for centuries
Some of the olive trees are already eight
years old, and produce $50 bushels of
fruit to the acre, representing 81, 250 in
Oil
Loo Chm coon, the famous Chinese
actor, was asked what he thought of the
Chinese drama in America His eyes
took on a dreamy, far away look. as if
he We're thinking of other DAYS in the
Flowery Kingdom Then he said with
great emotion: No. No what?"
''No sable
At the railroad station in West Corn
wall, N. Y. the travellers were stupe-
fled ut seeing young woman attempt
the difficult feat OF entering the car
through the window. She had never
before seen railroad train, having liv-
ed ia the inlahd country, and said she
thought that was the regular method of
ingreSS.
A young lady of Lincoln. Neb, has
sued well-to-do young man from the
country for breach Of promise, they hay
inc been formally engaged and the day
set for the wedding. lie says that he
discovered that she powdered, and he
did not believe that any girl who did
that would make a good wife for a farm
er
America supplies the world with Cos
samer wat'' 'frp1f garments. The
u l',-.t Eu her Cin!t,ia.r CONG. ny
o- 81; i. Mass. tiara .,,.l.. 800 .e:tr
t's.lt'r day. anh their diti.iI tables
80. forty a,'les of %rouId. j'he Goods
arr sold in Australia and SDulh Africa,
III EGr,.pe anl Asia. South America and
in the Sandwich Islands.
1t is told of General w. T. Sherman
that when he was Il Lieutenant of .artil- |
Iery stationed in Upper California. he |
once undertook to brew ii big bowl of |!
punch. He used 100 gallons of Ca1ifor- |
nia agaurdient, but spoiled the punch |
by mixing it with salt water and for
getting to put in any lemon or lime
uice.
Immense reservoirs of naphtha have
been struck at Balachana and Sabunt-
cha, in the neighborhood of Baku, in
Russia. There are at present twenty
prings in full flow. The gush is de-
cribed as extraordinary. The price at
present is a little less than copecks
Der pood, or fraction less than a half
penny per thirty-siX pounds English.
Connecticut is accused of stinginess
n investigating crime. A man was re-
emily found dead under some railroad
les, and there was reason to believe |
hat they were piled on him by murder -,
rs; but he was only a tramp, it would ,
Dst Il few dollars to search out the :
nth, and the matter was cOolly drop
ed. This is said to be a fairly illustra-
We case.
One of the special features of the Lon
on Fish Exhibition is to be fish din. '
er, provided at a very low price, and Il
hich will be served every day from II 81
D. Some kinds of fish will be fur p
shed as low as a penny. The object .
this is 20 introduce fish as food among ?
e lower classes of English, who have, a
appears, an intense prejudice against "
process by which planks can be "
anufactured from straw has been per 4
cted, and in Chicago building six %
cries high, and occupying an entire 81
OCh, - btIup eTccIcu 1OE TIE new IN
lstry. The board is manufactured BY n,
'nverting straw pulp into thin paper N
te sheets, which. are passed through a Dc
nth containing certain chemicals in So "
tiOn. They are subjected to enormous az
assure, and finally 10 thorough dry va
z process. We
1t is alleged that careful statistical "
vestigation among the Good Templars IN
an entire county in England has prov 20
the smoking teetotalers to be over
'e times more liable to break their
edges than those who abstain from
bacco. Consequently, the newest
axe in the ranks of the hydropads is a ar
badge of blue, with -
lite stripe down the middle, 1.-THE mean 20
p of which is that the wearer has or
ken a pledge not to use tobacco an
The latter half of the present century y. y,
a period of gigantic undertakings mt
Ic Suez canal is Il marvel of engineer "a
: skill, and in addition to the present
mama canal and the scheme for flood oh
: the desert of Sahara, it is proposed oe
drain the Valley of Mexico at cost sol
$40, 900, 900. This work will be
ntinuation of that begun in the see
Il century after the conquest and
zen completed will completely change Sol
sanitary and agricultural conditions ing
the valley. for
r., +lo. ;, IS D--; l.1. g. a. ma
.eption of 10000 criminals, more than ma
1000 persons are at present confined the
e consequent crowding, sickness. inn ina