The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-26
T'IIE DAILY ARGUS.
GLEANIHGS.

Enough malt liquors were consumed
in this country last year to give each
adult gallon per week.
In the United States one person in
2S5 is said to be pauper; in England
one in 80.
Two women of Rochester, N. Y,
have. been declared kleptomaniacs,
when brought suddenly in contact
with holy Bible
The clubs of London exceed eighty,
and have property aggregating G5,
600, 900, and have, TO all appearances,
become as much institutions as hotels,
banks or churches.
A lady living at Athens, Ca, not on
~ has n number of love letters written
to her by John Howard Payne. but the
original manuscript of ''Home, Sweet
Home. :"
Ex-Governor Samuel J, Tilden is
spendingahe winter at his country res
idence on the Hudson, and is enjoying
an unusual measure of health and
strength.
The cathedral church, built in Lubbock
in the years 1l70-1314, has a curious
clock. On the end of the hour-hand is
a little clock which keeps exact time
with the large one.
A Milan professor who has been in
vestigating drunkenness, finds that men
and women given to INVESTIGATION seldom
commit suicide. This is not stTsage
They are thinking too intently OF how
to get another drink.
Rhode Islands reform school for
boys has no locks on the doors and no
bars on the windows. There IS very
rarely an attempt to escape, though the
$50 inmates include many lads who
have been considered incorrigible.
The Chinese are said to be very fond
of horned toads, which has led an enter
prising Texas man to start a horned
toad cannery. He says all he wants is
little more money and some good
''toad stabbers" to make a million
Some of the Cape Cod people would
feel no worse if it was proposed to take
that sand bar and tow it 100 miles out
to sea than they do at the simple project
of cutting canal across it to accom-
modate navigation.
A reprobate at Richmond, Va,
thought he would have a little fun ."
So he took boy II years of age to a
low groggery and gave him nearly a
pint of whisky to drink. The boy died,
and his murderer was sentenced to
twelve years Imprisonment.
The term s'dudu'' is now applied to
those dandified young society chaps in
New York who are +just too nice for
anything" The word is changed from
dodo, an extinct member of the duck
species, the popularity of which was
its ridiculously small wings and tail on
a big puffed-up body.
An eminent French physician, who
has known Prince Bismarck well for
nearly a quarter of century, says that
all talk about the Chancellor's health
breaking down is sheer nonsense. His
nerves and general constitution are in
an admirable condition, and bid fair to
remain so for twenty years to come.
It was discovered by Bloomington
physician the other day that the internal
organs of Samuel Fuchs, aged twenty,
who sought treatment for lung troubles
were all misplaced, his heart being on
the right side. and his other interior
mechanism outside of their proper
spheres. Heretofore he has enjoyed
good health.
One Anderson, telegraph operator
at Ottawa, Ont, was recently gazetted
as heir to a Scotch estate worth SO, 000,-
900. He purchased on credit summer
residence at Brockville, valued at $780,
900. but has now been arrested for OBJ
tanning 800 by false pretenses. Tbs
report of the big inheritance was re-
garded as rather fishy when published
The old wooden lighthouse standing
on the northeast side Of Fort Schuyler,
and marking the northwest side of the
entrance to the East River, New York,
is to be torn down to give place to a new
structure of pressed brick. The present
building was erected ip the year 1926
and is one of the oldest coast beacons IL
the United States.
An employee of the telegraph company
at Manila had a narrow escape recently
having taken sugar of lead in a mistake
for ammonia. He telegraphed to Hong
Kong for a doctor, who came to the Of
flee and sent him advice by. cable which
resulted in his recovery. The distance
is about sos miles. Probably this is the
first time that doctor has prescribed
for patient 500 miles away.
There must be a very mean set of
people in Syracuse, N. Z. The en-
gineers of the many locomotives that
pass constantly through the city have
been complained of for unnecessarily
footing the whistles of their engines,
and though the engine-drivers have ex-
planned candidly that they were just do
ing the footing to salute their sweet
hearts the people are ungallant and
nervous enough to demand that the
practice cease.
A German has patented an invention
which stamps him as a Yankee by ma
ture, If not by birth. 1t consists of a
little book whose leaves are made OF
perfumed toilet soap, and is meant es-
pecially for travellers When he wants
TO wash his hands he simply tears out
leaf Zone is sufficient for the purpose);
and the book can be put back dry into
the pocket.
Only fourteen cities in the world,
including those of Germany itself, have
q larger Teutonic population than
Paris. AT the beginning of the present
year the French Capital contained no.
900 persons whose mother tongue is
German. OF these over 10000 belong
to the German Empire. The rest are
Austrians, Swiss. Alsatians and Ger
mans who have acquired citizenship in
Russia and America.
A prominent citizen OF Hartford,
Conn.,, became displeased with the way
his wife dished up the fried potatoes for
breakfast and ordered her to leave the
house which she naturally refused to do.
TIn fhau diaraisaed the servants turned