The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-03
TIE DAILY ARGUS.
eLEhNINaS.

| A newly-opeped newspaper Office in
Boston is escribed MS, having ..ail thu
m mod intfoIlyenieaccss
| >Alr Eamund Y stas. editor of the I,en.
don Uoffd * :. stur,l, man. over sly
feet tall an his stockings. 4 81
/ 'iuIlt'o like MOST intelligent. irnnii
grants, has thr'iyen since hi advent IL,
America, having gafncd nearly a ton ii
| flesh.
Geaeral' Wade Hampton. of South
C'ti"siina, saws his grandfather raised
The iirst cotton crop over harvested ia
the South. eo ri
Heartfelt sympathy withqslt a tangible
accompaniment will never alleviate the
lang of hunger nor clad a, shivering
wretch With comfortable clothing
Canada l., beginning to cali herself, 4
'mMher country, because her children
h;Ae efGigrated 10 the. United States in
great numbers
There Is no bravery in carrying y
pistol, no cavalry in shooting, a nla mo
,gallantrY inv alsed in IA street fbrawl.
Qlr YOUNG men ought t0i understand
these things. atlanta Constitution. -:
r Maine has n discriminating legislature.
1t has passed "a law forbidCng the kill
a4g oil birds aud game ON Sunday, but
an amendment to prohibit fishing was
voted down. .i.s.,s 80. -tisy "a,
" The fifteen oldest vessels in the Amer
lean mercantile service are all owned in
New Bedford, beginning" with the
Rousseau, built at Phuadelphia more
than eighty years ago. IA
A dinner party was given recently I'M
London ct which thirty nine courses
were served. which fact caused Profess
sor Blackie to remark that 'sthere are
still some tools and beasts in high
places. s.....-
{, The Rev Dr., CuYler,, of BROOKLYN.
says that the late ". i. Dodge. the
nhilanthropic merchant prince of New
York, spent the first. hour Of every
morning in reading the Bible and in
praying. ua III. es..8
JAY Cooke has completed arrange
ments for the transformation of his
beautiful former home, Ogontz! near
Cheltea bills, Pit, into a young ladies'
boarding-sehoOL. The property is val-
ued at about million dollars
It is related of Boston man that,
seetn9 ~ lady take ont 6 cents with
which to pay her horse-ear fare IN that
cftNs Ffe IbEoHeIt0 II O-ctnt ttckpI,f
with the semartZ that she might as well
have the profit IA the railroad com
Panv." +a:
Georgia is said to have contributed
one Word to the English language
William A. Bogus, Georgia land lot
terry commissioner, caught years ago in
rascality in connection with his office,
has given his name 10 everything spuri-
0us and false. -s. lii -tE ...f.
Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, saws
hat Ireland's infpoverishment is due
argely to alterations in the track of the |
gulf stream. lie undertakes to demon
'trate that during the last fifty years
he climate there has changed very |
much. /
Mrs. William Evarts, of Letifz, Pa, /
las a lily measuring twenty inches in |
circumference She thinks it is the
argest in the country, but Freddie Geb-
lardt, to whom she has telegraphed fer
letinite information, has not yet re-
ponded
As bankers, the Jews have a good rec
rd. The San Francisco ArgOT1aat says
hat of the long lists of banks that have
obbed their depositors, not one has be-
onged to them; and of the long list of
defaulters, etc, not one is
+ their number.
Clifton r. Breckinridge, of Arkansas,
of the forty-eighth con-
'ress, is son of the late ex-Vice Presi-
entJ ohm c. breckenridge, of Kentucky,
nd at the time of the retirement of the
after from the United States senate, in
Sol, was Il lad of some IL or II years
age. H.. a-.. ..s-.1. so. ..
Peek bad boy anil ,.tufl has: been
it-;lonr by Il compile ot YOUTHS of Syra-
Use. N Y IneS tied 1t eat and dog
'peth her and let them FIGHT until both
ere nearly dead. fhen they saturat-
the beasts with Kerosene, set fire to
om and thus killed them. The law
rs dealt heavily with them. .+'
The king of Birmah was recently
resented by the queen with an infant.
reat was the jov in that household I'M
his august majesty was informed that
e child was only giri@ Whereupon
, became SO Infatuated that he gave
ders TO have his mother-in-law immed-
tely executed. OF such is the ridicu-
usness of ROYALTY ~ 300,
The Philadelphia z4tfrorW, u little
lille before the first President retired
ON his hioh office, printed the follow
q: If ever q nation has been de-
,uched by man. the American nation
Is been tlebauched by Washington. If
-er a nation has been deceived by man
% American nation has been deceived
r " aShington, Those ''good old
mes" had some bad features.
What a little six-year-old said about
re minister 5 sermon applies with equal
rec to nine-tcnths of the political
,eechcs made BY Congressman in the
terests of 1.-The people" How did
III like the sermon?'' the boy was ask
l. Pretty we'll, responded the youth |
Il critic ''The beginning was very
rod and so was the end, but it had too |
uch middle
Col Alexander *. Mcclure, of the
lustic Philadelphia Times, leetnred at
loomGeld. Pa, the other night, He
Id not been there for many years. He
as raised there. and worked when boy
al man at his trade of tanner. The
d tannery is standing yet, though fall
20 to decay. Il tan hides still, but not
the old way" the colonel said to his
lends.
As an example of southern shiftless-
ess, lady travelling in North Carolina
lis of the manner in which the daily |
ork of a house among the mountains
as carried on; There seems to be
ally one household appliance a tin
asin. 1t was first used for milking, |
ext the biscuits were mixed in it; then
came into play as a wash-basini after
ard the baby was washed in it; then it
as used for cooking hominy; and, fin
IL tho dishes were washed in it 1T