The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-21
GLEANIEGs.

The Legislatures of North Carolina
! and Tennessee have granted pensions
! to soldiers who were disabled in the
; Confederate service.
, There are 10000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests in North Caro-
{ lima, comprising pine. chestnut, oak,
maple, beech and hickory timber.
The latest mathematical question runs
as follows: Two girls met three other
girls and all kissed. How many kisses
were exchanged
/ A colored grave-digger aged il2
years was married few weeks ago IL.
Yonkers, N. Y, to aspretty mulatto glrl
just ont of her teens.
The Canadian Parliament remains IN
session M average of seventy working
DAYS and costs $28 n minute, or about
1852, 900 per session.
The CITY Council of Chattanooga pro
presses TO impose II privilege license OF
800 on drummers who sell goods to the
merchants of that city.
Gail Hamilton says that n mormon is
husband who. Harnesses his wives
abreast, and man who has been wild
over three times is one who drives them
| tandem.
Mrs Sally Turner, an elderly lady re-
siding in Athens, Me-, has become so
habituated to the use of opiates that she
takes eight bottles of morphine week,
or over one each day.
| Over 10000 Canadians returned to the
Dominion from the United States last
year. The Manitoba craze carried them
back, and took with them thousands of
Americans. In due time the Americans
will be returning to their native land
l fnI hy or n
| The late ex-senator Matt Carpenters
son, who is said to have inherited his
| fathers genius, was asked when little
boy what he would beswhen he grew
up, and replied: ''Oh, would like to
be a coachman, but L suppose I've got
to be a Senatorn'
Poultry per pound, let the breed be
what it may, will cost very near the
same One bushel of corn viii produce
nine to eleven pounds of poultry. 1t
makes no difference whether Leghorns,
| Plymouth Rocks or Brahams eat the
corn.
The scavengers having brought to
| light the pavements of Philadelphia, the
composition of which had been nearly
| forgotten, the Times says it is discover
| cd that there are not ten miles of even
| tire city; the rest is worn out, bnken,
and irreparable.
An English lady once asked Richard
| Grant White, at a London reception,
whether the people of *Chicago were
| troubled by.wolves now. MIR. A1aplesen
says that an Englishman once asked
him gravely whether the American In
dams enioyed the Cincinnati opera fes-
tiVal.
What was probably the finest collec-
ton of flags in the country was recently
DESTROYED with the Piper Opera House
| at Virginia City, Ney. The owner had
spent ten years of time and Sc, 900 in
money in making it, and it was thought
to be complete, all nations being repre-
sented
One ton of cotton seed yields thirty
six gallons of crude oil, worth about
S18 The hull from a ton of seed weighs
about 900 pounds, and meal before
pressing weighs LOO pounds. The oil
cake is worth 1927 to $50 per ton. 1t is
calculated that there is net profit of
about 80 in grinding the seed of a bale
of cotton.
A Philadelphia wife, who didn't be-
lieve her husband spent so many even
ings at the lodge, put on her hat and |
When she saw him enter a saloon she
waited so long for him TO come out that
she caught the pneumonia This is a
terrible warning to women to stay in of
nights and keep the cat company.
Prince Frederick Charles, son of the
late Prince Charles, of Prussia. falls heir
to his fathers immense estates, which
yield him SO, 600, 900 cash in hand and
as much more in real estate. to say
nothing of other vafuables Previous |
to his fathers death be had to slzimp |
along.@on an ALLOWANCE OF 500 900 n
year, about whichihe complained great |
deal.
Judge LawrenSOn, who outranks all
the officials and employees of the Post
office Department in Washington, first |
entered the postal service in 1919, in |
Baltimore. 1t was in 1884, when he was |
chief clerk of the office in chat city, that |
Major Barry President Jackson's Post |
master General, induced him to accept |
an appointment in the Washington of |
flee, and he has ever since continued in |
the office.
Word comes from the Ursuline Con- |
vent in Brown County, Ohio, where |
Archbishop Purcell resides. that the |
venerable prelate is enjoying better |
health than he has for twenty years. He |
is remarkably well for one so aged, and |
with the care and attention of his faith |
full friends is enabled to Danish from his
mind to some extent the financial I
troubles which have weighed SO heavily |
upon him.
The chief -of Nevada band of Piute
indians has hit upon a happy way of re-
storing to sobriety, and at the same time
furnishing, the members of the band who
get under the influence of fire-water.
He causes them to be lowered into an
abandoned mining-shaft forty feet deep,
and keeps them there, feeding them on
bread and water until they are perfectly |
sober and willing to promise to abstain
in the future. The cure has been found
very effectual.
A pair of Delaware lovers visited
Wilmington recently to get married.
They got the license, but while the
bridegroom was waiting for the bride to
slick up her hair, he went out and treat
ed himself-in fact he treated himself
about seven times, and when he return
ed the expectant bride wanted TO comb
his hair. They finally went home with
out being married, and now she says he
has got to sign the pledge before the
knot is tied.
Louise Michel has a competitor in.
France in the person of Mile. Derlin-