The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

nose Is ABOVE Kissing, and is always
ready to interfere with the kissing OF
others.
"A man over seventy years of age is
said to be in jail at Penn Yam because
his son, to whom he gave a fortune of
$40, 900, can't afford to pay few hun
dred dollars for his release. Troy IN.
Y Times.
Oscar Wilde told Liverpool audi
ence that while off the Pacific coast of
the United States he saw seal basking
on rock on whose back was painted
the announcement of manufacturer of
tooth powder.-N y Graphic.
Headlines in the Louisville Courier,
journal: "Murderous-At tornado steals
out OF the quiet of spring day and
sweeps from Chattanooga nearly to the
Gulf a path of death and devastation un.
equalled in the history of that section.
Recently occurred in New York the
annual distribution of $4,000 appro-
priated for distribution among the des-
titute blind of the city. Each benef-
ciary receives this year thirty-eight
dollars. The object of the gift is to
keep the recipients out of the public
institutions. y Herald.
The steamship Great Eastern has
never been a success financially, but is
to be employed in carrying coal from
the Forth to the Thames in Great
Britain. She will be able to carry about
10000 tons on each voyage, and from
this fact the owners are led to hope that
the scheme will be remunerative. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
At a barbecue given at Satartia by
the citizens of Yazoo County, Miss, a
Mr.. Warrington objected to the way
his son was cutting up sheep. This
enraged the son and he attacked his
father with the knife, cutting his body
almost in two. The elder Warrington
. died in few minutes. The son escaped
st. Louis Globe.
"A family in Craftsbury, VT, is
terribly afflicted The father has a
cancer on his forehead; two daughters
are rapidly running down with the con
sumption; a son, on wh2m the family
has largely depended for supper is in
very poor health, probably in eonsump-
ton, and the mother, worn out with
labor and anxiety, is raving crazy
Rutland Herald.
Not especially handsome married
women make the most elaborate expo
sitiOn of finery and jewels at Saratoga
this season. They seem to have gone
there for the express purpose of ex-
hibiting their wardrobe, and if YOU do
not stare at them and make remarks
they seem offended. This is the way
the social wind is blowing just now
n, T. Mail
The London Lancet stoutly opposes
thepractice of putting binders on horses.
1t says: ut seems to US that they are
useless, ugly, and, to some extent, in
furious to the eyesight. The most beau
| tiful feature of the horse is the eye If
it were not hid from our gaze it would
serve to denote sickness, pain or pleas
ure. Many time would the driver
spare the whip on seeing the animals
imDloring eve
Sweet Nuisance What should g
| lady do if she wants to sneeze in church:
Why, she should take some cayenne
pepper to church with. her and inhalt
some, Boston Post.
The Concord School of Philosophy
has not yet determined how woman
should .act when her hands are in the
dough pan and an aggressive fly alights
ON her nose. Philadelphia Bulletin.
| "A Waterloo infant who had beer
badly bitten by mosquitoes, happening
to see lightning-bug one evening, RAJ
in to its mother declaring that one O.
the mosquitoes was looking for him witt
| lantern. Waterloo Observer.
"A young man who went to the wal
| began his first letter to his sweetheart
after this fashion: MY dear Julia
think of you, and say: Get thee bebin(
me, Satan; IN Y. Independent
- Jabez," said his wife sharply
''that man you hired last week is dow
with the lock jaw. Now l want tC
know if that's anything ketchin'?''
And Jabez looked at her wssh tears il
his eyes and said, in mournful tones
"Oh, no. No. No. Alas, no; tain
ketchin." And he says, although sht
won't believe it, that he doesn't know
what made her so outrageously mac
about it. Detroit Post.
-"I say, Paddy, that is the wors
looking horse that have ever seen il
harness. Why don't you fatten hin
up?' Fat him up, is it? Fax, thu
| poor haste can scarcely carry the littlt
mate that's on him now replied Pad
| dy.-EGchGnge.
She can work fancy screen,
| Just the incest ever seen,
| In a style that all her cuchawed set enchants
But my friend, twixt you and me,
| 1t would chill man to see
| How she stitched a patch ON the old mans
| pants.
N. Y Herald.