The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-30

Since 1876 over II .Onj miles Of til
drain has bsau laid in Illinois.
An effort is being made to essablis
: Stale experiment station "a Mich
gan.
A Paris SURGEON adye.tisos that Ii,
will supply people with all the dimple
they may desire at q ntpoleon apiece
One of the Jeannette survivors :
Wheeling Nv ga.3 boy named Lauter
beck VINO denies his Identity.
A farlne. in Clark count Ind
works a farm IF loo ;.clt..;, which HI
owns, without Icing able either to re:s
or write
A lady in Newport, II l.. now oyel
four-scoro years of age, has lived all
her life in the house in which she was
born
Murderers in France, if they have
money, are compelled, under the law,
TO pay lar.se sum to the family of their
victims
The Jews in Great Britain are said to
have more children who can read and
write, in proportion to their number,
/ than any other denomination.
| The New Jersey Legislature has made
Long Branch city of the fourth class,
but it will continue to be second-class
watering place, as heretofore.
A Pennsylvania manufacturing com
pany has bought all the liquor licenses
| within several miles of the establish
ment, and thinks it has solved the tenn
prance problem for its employees
A faro bank in Arizona has trap
door in the floor through which the
players can let their watches down into
pawn shop underneath. without leay-
| ing their seats.
| In Henry county, Indiana. the "Biack
Swamp" which covered an acre about
two miles square, has been drained, and
it Is worth 800 per acre. 1t was formerly
worthless.
A Lacrosse county. Wis. farmer who
had adopted a boy from Il charitable in.
stitution slit the la1's tongue with a
pair of scissors because he caught him
in lie.
While.seining in the river at Shippen-
port KY, fishermaa Brought up
rubber ovarcoat containing pocket
book, in which were $50 greenbaclz
and 800 gold piece.
There are /, 100 foundlings at II single
institution in New York city. and the
collection has been male within tive
years. Most of them were left upon the
doorsteps OF wealthy residents.
There are twenty=three telephone, ex-
changes with 1000 telephones in Mex
leo. In the city of Mexico there are 700 |
subscribers and 81, 10000 are invested
in telephone stocks in Mexico.
The postal cards are made at Holy |
oke, Mass, BY forty men, swho turn out
about million daily. fhey .hayadHe1s
mini g the sepaaa e 80 i writing ~,
80 b from 81 1900. 900 to IS, ooo.9s
900 d year.
In selecting. fruit.Tree Iocts<~-father TO
getting good roots than a large top A
small well shaped tree, with good roots,
will soon outstrip a large one with an
insufficient root, and will make a thrift
Ter tree all the way along
The Lancet thinks if children would
wear WOODEN next the skin, and wear
longer clothing, suspending it from the
shoulders. we would hear more of bois-
ferrous health, and less of back aches |
and pains.
A member of the Western New York |
Farmers Club sprayed his orchard with |
q solution of paris green, to exterminate |
the canker-worm and reports the apple |
aphis, which had formerly infested his
trees, had wholly disappeared.
The museum at Reading, England, |
contains among its curiosities a bride |
formerly used to stop the mouths of |
scolding women in that town. There |
is tradition that it was an effective in |
strumeht.
A letter has been received by the sec
rotary of Castle Garden from n man in
Cincinnati, asking him to look up I
wife for him among the immigrants. as
he lacked the courage to ask a woman
TO marry him
Professional incomes in Germany are
very small in comparison with those of
America. The average income of
Judge, lawyer, doctor, professor or SUI
perior officer, is not generally more
than $1,000.
The Tribune, of Oakland. CAL, re-
ports that several young ladies of that
town. whose vanity is in excess of their
common sense, have partially destroyed
their eyesight by the use OF a prepare
ion for coloring their eyelashes and
Uniting their eyelids.
Judge Griffey, of Nebraska. has re-
signed from the bench because his horse
ssdead. "'Old Doll had Carried him
hrough the War, and afterward on all
lis hunting and judicial Journeys. He
aid that he was too old to break in a
lew steed.
|
i'm the Prairie Farmer,
gives some experiences in draining up
ands in Scotland. A test was made on
wo acres of ground, otherwise alike,
With rye. The drained acre yielded Gil
bushels, and the undrained 49, bush
is
The Iowa Stote Register, making re-
mark which many will echo, says:
Cor our part we believe that the Uni
ed States no longer needs, and should
10 longer encourage, any but the very
'est class of Immigration. 1t wants and
hould seek quality rather than quantity
lows''+
Operations have commenced by which,
t cost of 81, $50, 900, New street
tatian, Birmingham, England, will be
onverted into the largest railway depot
n the world. 1t will cover a total area
f forty-five thousand square yards, or
yer eleven acres, and will have three
latforms each one thousand feet long.
Rufus Choate once chided his clerk
DR. not charging client more for GER
ain. service rendered II took every B
emmy the man had was the meek q
nswer Then Choate ran his hands n
trough his curly locks and said: c.
Youngman. you did the best you could q
nder the circumstances, and your con.
uct in the affair has been strictly pro-
sssional."
s'Ben Butler says Washington
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