The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-19
GLEANINGS.

| quite lneir ulSODeuience.
II Mrs Garter, of Bellair, Ohio. had nc
applied for a divorce no one would hay
suspected that her husband had com
PEELED her to swallow spools and button
to punish her for smiling at a railroa'
mam 1916 ss
Rutland. Vt, elected Miss Isabella nj
Brown toWn clerk at the recent election
She is the first woman ever elected t.
office in Rutland The Office has beer
virtually in charge of her family TO
nearly quarter of a century.
Large baskets of artificial yiolets ar,
now used to decorate the center of tn,
| table at dinner parties, aud are sprinklet
/ with a perfume somewhat like that o
violets to heigliten or make better tn,
fraud.
1t is said that Mr., Burnand, the editor
| of Punch, has been married twice, /,
the father of fourteen children, and i.
an incessant jester. Herein lies an ex
| PLANTATION of the righteousness of thai
alleged funny publication.
When Gen Spinner was asked by 6
Florida man, few days ago. how old
he was and if he was in good health yet
he said: 81 am 81 years of age, still in
good health, and believe L can whip men
of my size yet
Hoodfums in New York are said to be
thieves and villains, and hundreds OF
them are growing up to be our worst
criminals. Here is Il chance says the
Boston Globe, for missionaries from the
South Sea Islands.
The late Col. Gilmore met Gen. Grant
in New York, and approaching the ex-
President saluted him and exclaimed:
General, | suppose you forget me?''
mo, replied Gen. Grant, ''you are one
of the hornets who stung us so badly
during the unpleasantnesstn
A two-year-old girl fell flat while play
ing. with her little brother. and she
Thoughts that IA sharp stick Dunctured
her neck. So did her parents; but, af-
ter the wound refused to heal, and a
physician had extracted a bullet, the
hoy colEfessed that he had shot her with a
toy pistol
The Prince of Wales is, it appears,
to be held responsible for the popularity
of the cigarette. Fifteen years ago they
were not only unfashionable, but were
considered fast. Albert Edward con-
in his travels, and, presto, it became the
fashion of Pail Mall and ST. James.
According to the Boston Herald. it was
at first proposed to sentence young Cush-
man, who swindling the wise men of
Concord, to attend three full terms of
the Concord School of PHILOSOPHY
After mature eleHberationit was decided
thai the proposed punishment would be
altogether too severe, and Cushman was
sent to States Prison for three years in
stead. ii
New Fneland. sfhrift Is highly com
mendable in many respects, but when it
embraces the cleaning of ordinary wood
en- toothpicks, that they may be used at
the next meal, as IS done by a St. AL
bans, Nts, housewife, the average man
viii discard tsfor the reckless extrava-
gence ofsthe community where napkins
Are used at every meal and Butter may
be had at dinner
1T was not many years ago that the
best American dictionary defined the
word boil as ''circumscribed
Inflammation character
lied by 81 pointed pustular tumor and
suppurating in central core; per-
What was simple and famil-
lar. was made fadicrously complex. In
the Imperial the same word is dis
posed OF satisfactorily as IAN infiamed
and painful suppurating tumor. p"
Some time ago gray squirrels placed
on the Boston Common killed-the song
birds. eNeighburing cats made nocturnal
warfare on the Squirrels Next day the |
policemen Killed the eats. Then the old |
maids who owned the cats went for
the policemen. IT was like The House |
ina: Jack Built. regularly ascending |
a,.;a- L,,,~ al - ,,r,. 90, -. ,. -.,,. A.. d.
on newspapers meyer reported.
There was servants ballat the Angel, |
md Mary Jane went Pretty early in
he evening She iionnded in with an in
famed countenance. why, Mary |
Tane,.s said the Inissiis, surely II mot |
II over yet?a mo, mum, but I've been
nsulted! As was comm out OF the /
bakers Young man he says |
o me, i hope, miss says he, your
5 not quite full, and me that
lad eaten hardly anythink."
There was once in Georgia most re-
old man who, AT tife~age@ of
ne hundred and one years, became the
ather of a boy whom he lived to see
ast ballot This son is now seventy
i've years of age, is rs full of vim and
Mercy as a person in the prime of life.
an split rails as well as anybody. and is
aid to be able to outrun any man OF his
gre in the world. His oldest brother,
Jere he living, would be one hundred
nd fifty yearsof age.
Experiments lately made at Leipsic
nth a cuirass made of steel, the formula |
1 which is not stated, indicate that the
ew material combines both tenacity
nd ductility in the highest degree. The
leel plate OF the cuirass ia, this case was
My .06 inchsthicll and lined inside with
layer of wool; and of eleven rounds
rom Martini breachloading rifle, fired
t distance of It's yards, only two of
he bullets pierced the metals and even
iese were completely fiattened and
tuck in the lining.
The whistling craze is spreading
mong the women of Texas SO rapidly
nat it is now estimated that not less
lan 80 per cent of the entire female
opulation whistle like hooking birds.
young lawyer recently went from
alestine up to Jefferson TO call on his
financed. Thinking to surpris him she
tipped up behind him as he sat in the
arlor, clapped her hands over his eyes
lille she whistled the ..Mocking Bird |
Faithfully. He was so disguised when
e saw Who it was that the only words
e uttered was: "Good-day"
The brightest and best of the after
inner stories with which Oscar Wilde is
,galing his Partisan friends is that old
chestnut about the sign. Please
1n't shoot the pianist, he is doing his
ast - which he claims to have seen ,