The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-17
GLEANINGs,


S67. so an acre, or $2,700 for the whole
place.
The New York Times is of the opin-
ION that wedding presents are made for
show purposes. They swell newspaper
account of wedding to great and graf
Tying proportions.
Lebanon county, Pa, has a man AZ
years of age, who never had any hair or
teeth. The Philadelphia Press, which
tells the story, is very trustworthy on
most subjects.
A large trade in new American cider
has sprung up between New York and
liverpool. The English article is in
terror and brings less price than the
American.
Two propositions al being considered
co protect the obelisk in Central Park,
New York, from the weather. One il to
place plate glass sheath around it, and
the other to build q museum with
dome for the shaft to stick up in.
The Ssenpao, a Chinese newspaper,
gives an account of a man thirty-four
years old with thirty-two children-six-
teen pairs of twins. The father is a
poor farmer and the children are sup
ported by their neighbors.
Silver coins reduced in weight by
abrasion are redeemable at their full
face value; but clipped and punched
coins are bought by weight as bullion.
There are few clipped coins still circu-
lating. Let them be retired.
Miles away from the coast in a Ger
tain part of Texas, high and dry in the
rank prairie grass, lie the remains of
once gallant ship. The vessel is sup
posed to be of Spanish build, and is
thought to have been driven inland by a
tidal wave. So long has the vessel been
there that there are not even tradition9
concerning IIrr.
House lizards have long been known
to be very sensitive to the strains of
music, but scientific writer says that
it is not due to the sense of bearing, but
to the sensibility of the cutaneous sur
face of the reptile to sound waves, and
that double chord struck with suffi-
cient force upon 4 planoforte will shock
one to death.
When John Eicholtz died at Urbana,
Ohio, he left behind him the accumula-
tons of forty years. On his farm We're
10000 bushels of barley, thousands of
bushels of corn partly rotted, old
horses that had never known harness,
vehicles with solid wheels cut from logs,
and among the curiosities was an old
pump mounted on wheels like cannon
California has a spring which emits
free sulphuric acid, a trace of nitric
acid, chlorine gas and ammonia. The
overpowering stencil which permeates
the circumambient atmosphere is so
potent in resisting close inspection of
the premises that the exact source OF
this sulphurous conglomeration has not
yet been aseertained. In the opinion of
the residents Whereabouts, hades is not
far distant from that locality.
DIR. Neuber, at the late Congress of
German Surgeons, spoke highly of the
antiseptic virtue of peat or black earth,
which is filled into bags made of loose
gauze and laid over wounds. The bags
are held in place by bandages of the
same material. There seems to be little
or no necessity to change the dressing.
All secretions are rapidly absorbed by
the earth or turf, and the healing pro
ceeds very rapidly.
The application of science to the frus-
tration of justice has been remarked in
the case of Tennessee horse-thief,
whose distinguished features were q
least" in the right eye and broad sur
face scar on the left cheek. A skilful
oceulist Strengthened the eve and an
equally skilful surgeon cut out the scar.
man sans hair, sans teeth and sans
pores in his skin, is exciting Abe wonder
of the medical fraternity of Philadelphia.
He is forty-eight years old, has a wife
and eight children, who partake Of none
of their fathers 9eculiarities, except
that not one of them has perfect set of
teeth. The strange being experiences
great Inconvenience from his inability
to perspire, because his body, being de-
prived of natural means of cooling it
self. becomes intensely hot, and he is
obliged TO pour water over his clothing
to keep himself cool. He has good
health and never has been sick.
Boston lady took Off her jeweled
ornaments and laid them upon her
bureau. A few minutes afterward, no
one having meanwhile entered the apart
ment, she missed valuable diamond
ring. Search for it was fruitless and its
disappearance mysterious until weeks
afterward, when around the body of a
trap-caught mouse the missing ring was
found. II is thought the mouse had put
his nose into the ring, and, being fright
ened. fastened to escape notice, and
that in so doing the ring was forced
back over the forelegs, and there it re-
manned.
William Parsons, a Swe1e by birth,
who has lived twenty-nine years in Cal
ifornia, and is now making a visit in
Stockton. has written to the Hon. Thorn
as w. Palmer. of Detroit, for informa-
ton about land in Michigan He an
nounces his intention of bringing to
this country in April, preferably to
Michigan, from / 800 to 1000 Swedish
families, provided he can secure tract
of land suitable for a colony of that size.
If it We're possible, he writes, Il
would like to locate them somewhere
on waterfront so as to lay out a town
and settle the farmers around It
hl EngiaE d women are stIi hanged.
The latest Sictim was Louisa TAYLOR
who had poisoned Mrs. TregeIlis ut
Maidstone. When Marwood began the
pinioning process the prisoner merely
asked for glass of water. She walked
steadily TO the scaffold, her last words
being. Lord, receive my spirit. As
Marwood was fixing the rope around
her neck she swayed, and would have
fallen had not two wardens supported
her. The bolt was drawn, and Miss
Taylor fell distance of nine feet, death
being Instantaneous. The hoisting of
the black flag over the prison gate was
watched 10y about fifty persons.
They Lave up in Oregon gailroad
which does a profitable business, al
though a hand-car and a push-car con-
stitute its entire equipment The road,