The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-10
- GLEaNIEG3.
A Georgia darIey aas. eight Eears of
ace has a fun beasal.

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about to bee.nnea mother
Corrosive saonnate was found IN the
iarberspole4 offs which \ dead Ne
biaska man lad eaten.
Gaslight companies in England are
earning. bigger dividends than ever since
the electric LIGHT came in, chiefly from
increased saleA 80
An organist in a church at Providence,
Il. L., relieved the monotony of waiting
for a belated bridal party by playing:
..Oh, Deari What Can the Matter Bep
A Kentucky sehoomaster got verdict
of $17 the other day IN a suit brought
against the trustees for damages from a
cold caught running after them to get
his pay.
Sitting Bull says he would not return
to the war-path on any consideration,
but he feels as if he would be a success
as railroad ticket-scalper in Denver or
Omaha.
While in Toronto Mrs. Langtry visited
the cemetery where her brother, who
died in 1870, lies buried. She will erect
a handsome monument over his neglect
ted grave.
The Mayor of certain Mexican town,
assisted by two boon companions, recent
" hung a sick man to tree and then
forcibly abducted the sick mans daugh-
ter, a beautiful young woman, who has
not been seen since.
Oscar Wilde now makes his appear
ahce in London drawing rooms in an
open-worked embroidered shirt showing
black silk lining, a large yellow silk
handkerchief thrust in the breast of the
coat, and n high stock of the past ages.
A police Judge at St. Joseph, Mich,
remarked, in dismissing a case, the other
day: II shall dismiss every case Oh
woman-nsulting where it can be shown
that the woman first iiirted with the ac-
cused. "
Penelope is not dead. Rosanna Cut
ter of Natrick, r. L., agsi 108, is dim of
sight and weak of memory. passing the
time in drinking strong tea and monoton-
ously knitting all day and unraveling at
night, pain of socks which she began
| thirteen years age.
Italian murderers are very rarely
hanged, but there fate is, if convicted,
far from pleasant. Passavante, who
tried to kill King Humbert in 1873, is
fastened to the wall of a nearly dark cell
by iye-foot chain riveted to his ankle.
ne mas DccOIllt iHlDtclIC.
Radcliff' Baldwin thinks we shall have
smaller immigration this year because
the western floods pinch the adopted
citizen who furnishes most of the pass
age money to bring his brotheE lover,
OF friend across. Ii this latter be true,
it partly rejects the idea that The coming
citizen is full of money.
Down in Campbell county,z Ky, is an
old beech tree on which there IS a per-
fectlys outlined portrait. A small knot
or gnstrl forms the ears and eyes, while
a well-detied lines forms the facial
features. Standing few PAGES off one
can see a perfect picture OF a female head
and face.
A Michigan man. desiring to commit
suicide, fired at his head four times with
out hitting it. Then he concluded he
had no head and went to- hospital to
see about it. The physicians-decided that
his head was in place, but its contents
were wrong, and sent him to an insane
asy lum.
Mrs Henrietta Wiley, of White Plains
N Y. was recently acquitted by a local
Justice, whereupon she testified her great
10Y by repeatedly kissing that official, pre-
sumably much against his will. 1t is not
vet determined whether she will be held
for an assault and battery, or an attempt
to bride the court. = s
An indignant Justice of the Peace in
Utah, before whom a man was arraigned
for arsou. imposed q penalty of forty
DAYS in the work house. and ruled that
the prisoner must work forty days for
the man whose barn he had burned down.
There may be very little law in the last
Il. Int j. in, II acfA nal of
Justice.
Something new in the funeral line is
the holding OF the regular church SER
ayieG.5in the evening. ;tii the friends and
acqltsintances attending. The next
morning the remains are taken to the
cemetery, the family and most intimate
relatives being. the only persons in at
tendance. Another Innovation is the using
of sons and nopliews for pall-bearers. =
For brevity in the statement of a
tragedy, commend us To this paragraph
"A party of the name of Russell Lester
went to Ninita, Indian Territory, for the
ayowed purpose of killing mannamed
Rutledoe. The remains of Lester were
returned in the baggage of the next
train. The best, of plans are sometimes
thwarted. -
After JIle Newman House IRE t.
Wilson OF New York, slept restlessly for
many nights. and in one of her disorder
" sleeps dreamed out a fire escape,
which. on waking, she designed and per-
feeted and this fire Escape, invented by
a vision, has been patented. and practi
cal tests show it to be the best and
simplest of them all.
The~New York man who wanted a
warrant for the arrest of a man who had
called him thief, was asked what he
wanted that the magistrate should do
nto the offender make him prove it, -
was the response. '.All right, said the
magistrate, ''but if he proves It / shall
have to lock you up" The warrant did
not issue.
Millet is an excellent fodder planA, OF
which cows are exceedingly fond. 1t is.
a warm-weather crop, and needs 10 be
grown on a light, sandy soil. By ma
nuring well it may DO made TO produce
from two to five tons of hay tofl1e acre.
A copious flow of milk is produced by
cutting the millet, salting slightly.
moistening, and sprinkling with a little
meal.
A late invention is called the grave
torpedo" II is a dynamite cartridge
which, if properly attached to a coffin
in grave will explode when the coffin
is tempered with. A recommendation
in its favor says that it is powerful
enough to blow ''resurrectionists'' into
fragments. Nothing is said as to the