The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-05
GLHANINGs.

The largest milk-pan on record, hold
ing 800 gallons, has just been made for
an Iowa creamery.
In recent speech the Prince of Wales
said London had now about 100000
inhabitants.
Every man who carries a pistol ought
to be obliged by law to wear it in belt
at his side, and have it labeled ''emo-
tional insanity. '-Springfeld Union.
The sword presented to General An
drew jackson b. the General Assembly
OF Tennessee, in honor of his victory at
New Orleans, is to be placed in trust
with the Tennessee Historical Society.
Myopia is spreading to an alarming
extent in Germany. Of $4,000 school
children recently examined, one-half
were near sighted If this continues
the German eye may so degenerate as
to be merely rudimentary.
Theodore Tilton's once fair brown
locks, says contemporary, now hang
over his shoulders in ragged tanglcs of
gray, his eyes look heavy and iaded,
and there are deep wrinkles all over his
face.
We are sometimes disposed to think
that the administration of Justice in
modern society is vast absurdity. a
huge "reminiscences of the middle ages
numbering the nineteenth century,
Buffalo Courier.
There is new French gun twenty
nine feet six inches long, weighing fifty
tons, costing G25, 900. Its wire wound,
and is expected to put a ball through
fifteen inches of armOr at a distance of
seven and half miles.
A woman writes to the Boston Globe
that, finding she could earn more in
business than her husband, they revers-
ed the usual order of things. She now
goes to business, and he does all the
home work, and does it excellently. The
plan works very satisfactorily.
A butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead, says the best butter color is
pailful of corn meal mash, fed warm
once a day, the corn to be of the yellow
variety; adding that it will increase the
milk and butter, rs well as give good
color.
The San Francisco Post is responsible
for the story that during the latter part
of the war David Davis was challenged
to fight duel by fire-eating, Southern
ex-member. of Congress. The former,
it is added, very properly declined, be-
cause his antagonist refused to permit
him to stand thrce-ffths behind stone
wall.
Business is duller at Denver at pres
ent than it has been for several wears.
Every department of labor is over full
1t is estimated that there are now 5000
people in Denver out of employment,
and this state of affairs applies to clerk
ships and such occupations as well as to
the day laborers that WELD the AK and
spade.
In 1858 the rich alluvial lands of Ash
ley County, in the southeastern portion
of Arkansas, readily commanded from
S25 to $50 per acre, and the uplands
| from S. to $40 per acre, but now these
lands average only about 50 to SIS per
acre in the lowlands and the hill lands
can be bought for from 81 to s.. The
excessive cultivation of cotton is the
cause.
An architectural paper, says the Bos-
ton Transcript, prints plans of acottage
'fOr a young man of unexceptionable
position. Next issue viii probably
contain drawings of a ranch for an old
fellow of no position to speak of, and
with q character blacker than stack
of black cats IN moonlesS night. The
unexceptionable young men needn't ex-
pect to have all the good things in ar
chitecture
The nature of the bite of the leech has
been examined by M. Carlet He de-
tached the animal from the shaved skin
of a rabbit at different stages Suppose
a scarifier with three toothed and equi-
blades Withdrawing from one another
while they press into the skin, and oper
ating several times successfully in the
the same place; this gives a pretty ex
act luea of the mechanism.
President McCosh may be right in hi:
estimate Of the influence of Carlyle up
on the English language, but report:
| published by leading American journal!
|
matches show that the rugged element:
of our mother tongue are not to be sap
ped by the demoralizing slush spattere(
over the domain of literature by the au
thor of The French Revolution.
1t is now proposed to change the nam,
of Washington Territory upon her ad
mission into the Union as State to Ia
homa, which is said to be the propeI
photography for the name usually writ
ten Tacoma. Tahoma is an Indian
word meaning almost to heaven, anC
was the name given by the Indians tt
Mount Rainier on account of the grea
height Of that mountain.
The people of Pittsburg, Pa, hav,
| just discovered that they have an inter
esting relic of the colonial times in thei
city. 1t is old Fort Duquesne blocl
house, for which nations strove cen.
turv and half ago. 1t is now sur
rounded by all kinds of dilapidated ten
ements, and is itself domicile for ,
poor family. There is movement OF
foot to acquire the property and Great,
public park, of which it shall be thu
principal attraction. .-..
The proprietor of one of the finest vii
las in Newport this season win have I
bed of the new ornamental leaved plan
known as AHe7RanthOra Mayor, con
tanning 10000 plants, which will cos
$4,000 The plant is now growing, ris-
ing above the lawn but a few inches
The leaves are of rich crimson, carmint
and orange tints, beautifully blended
which in contrast with the green of The
lawn produces an effect almost impos
sible to conceive.
| How the Mormons increase their pow
er and numbers is thus explained by &
Salt Lake gentleman: The new con
verts, taken from all parts of the world
are, as rule, superStitious and ignor
ant. They are brought here undel
false promises, and before discovering
the lies they have been told are made t.
marry several women. That done, an(
the church tells them they have sinneC
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