The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-19
GLEANTNGS.

GLEANINGS.
BradStreet's estimates put the cotton
crop of 1892 at $500 600 bales.
The anti-polygamous Mormons in the
United States number 30 900.
A Cleveland man has patent for
using wire fences for telegraph lines.
Why.not?
Before the war only taxpayers could
vote for city officers in Galveston,
Texas
The Duke of Argyll is trying to ac-
climate American wild turkeys in Scot
land.
The Cincinnati flood was not an I'M
mixed evil. 1t cleaned thoroughly the
streets of the city.
Great Britain has no less than 1,074
Generals in her army, but only $50 of
them are iii active service.
There are 10000 beer saloons in New
York city. There is movement to re-
duce the number to 1900.
Socialism is said to be the probable
subject of Gilbert and Sullivan's next
opera. They viii not succeed in max
ing it more ridiculous than it is already.
Charles Mitchell, the best amateur
pugi&ist in England, is medical stu
dent. He would be a good man to take
care of a delirium tremens patient.
Salt Lake City restaurateurs display
in their windows oyster shells brought
from Utah Mountains, 0000 feet above
the sea level
William X, the son of William II.
Vanderbilt is looked upon as the bust
ness successor of his father. He is 30
years of age.
There is St Louis woman who
sleeps only two honrs at night. Her
husband belongs to all the secret organ
izations in the city.
If Jay Gould carries out his plan for
q tour around the world, New York will
be able to draw the first long breath in
wears But it viii be hard on the news
papers.
Artist and critic: The artist is one
who knows beforehand what ought to
be done; the critic is one who knows
.afterward what ought to have been
done.
As kalakaua is now crowned King,
it is proper to speak of him by his
proper name, viz: David Laamea
Kamanakapun Mahinulnni Nalolachuo-
kalani Sumialani Kalakaua.
Gov. Butler reiterates his belief that
the fourteenth amendment fully covers
the right of women to vote, and that
the United States Supreme Court will
so decide whenever the question is pre-
scented.
Tea has been grown in India forty
years. Its manipulation and cure are
done by machinery. and not by hand as
in China Because of its greater strength
g ..hRorAnr than nina TO
and is coming to be used in this coun-
try.
A new organization called, THE
hree-Drinks-a-Day League is said
to have been formed among the de-
partment clerks at Washington. Any
member going beyond the limit of
three drinks in twenty-four hours has
to pay fine of S..
The terrible story of starvation in Ire
land would bring the blush of shame to
any country but England. But that
.ountry reserves its bushes for outrages
Russia permitted in Bulgaria. England.
which is the Mrs. Jettyby of nations,
has a sympathetic heart.
A Battle Creek (Mich.) savant sup
posed he had discovered wholly new
and rare insect He sent it to the Agri-
cultural college for examination, and
the learned professor wrote back that it
was an ordinary cockroach. That wise
man has never been in the composing
room of a well-regulated newspaper.
The Boston & Providence railroad is
appropriatinm to its switch engines
number of names which Dickens made
immortal. Among them are the dick
Swiveller," Sam Weller" ''Micaw-
ber,'' and stPancks." The newest
switcher, just received from the loco
motive works, is called Jack Bunsby.
During the last thirty years the Cali
fornia quicksilver miLes have produced
100, 222, 267 pounds, of which 67, 397 800
pounds were exported. California pro-
duced one-half of all the quicksilver in
use throughout the world. The Roth
childs control the Austrian and Spanish
mines.
Elihu Vedder now enjoys wealth, but,
as correspondent of The Troy Times
learns, he was struggling with such diff
ficulties as to be an object of sympathy
in New York twenty years ago. A gen.
tleman of my acquaintance. says the
same writer; mentions lending this
very artist 81, which was gratefully re-
ceived. -
Seaweed, or Irish moss, upon which
many starving families in county Dom
egal are now trying to sustain life, is
familiar to American housewives
transparent vegetable used in the de-
coction of jellies. 1t answers very well
as the basis for dessert, but when it
co<nes. to a steady diet seaweed is not
very ''6llin'.''
Lecturing in Boston on the sun, Pro-
fessor Samuel p. Langley said that if a
column of ice having diameter at its
base of forty-five miles and extending
to the moon, were erected on one of our
western prairies, and all the heat of the
sun were concentrated suddenly upon
it, it would melt and become vapor in
a single second
A woman relates that she recently
sat beside another woman, a stranger
to her, IN an Old Colony car. As the
train passed Quincy, the stranger point
ed to the crowded burial-place, so near
the track and remarked in eompla-
cent tone: I've got three of the best
husbands layin' there that ever o wo-
man had.
Doubtless some men do enter the
ministerial profession for the money
they can make but wa read af ono Eail