The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-16
lost the franchise by reason of conyic-
ton for violation of the election laws.

| Gov. Stephens, of Georgia. gives to
! his official duties the closest personal at
| tention, has no redtape, no circunaIocu-
| ton. Ills office hours are all the hours
of the day, and he listens patiently to
every one of his many visitors that con.
Instantly throng about his rooms.
| The Minneapolis Tribune says that
| goats are the best land cleaners known.
| Il mentions that herd of ten hundred
| entirely cleared Il piece of brushland,
| consisting of five hundred acres, in three
years. So complete was the work that
not a vestige of underground was left.
A Philadelphia man has invented
| doll which creeps, sings and, ii wound
up at bed time, will yell like wild In
| dian right in the middle of the night.
The Philadelphia Neos man advises all
young fellows contemplating matrimony
to buy one and see how they like it.
A car factory in Georgia is alleged to
have paid 25 per cent. cash dividend
and passed II per cent. cash to reserve
fund the first year of its operation. 1t
built six hundred cars that scar, and
has capacity of over twelve hundred
per annum. This year it is doing even
better.
A valuable cow belonging to the Hon.
Harrison Bailey, of Kentucky, broke
into a corn-feld and gorged herself so
that she was about to die. A surgeon
made an incision in her side and took
out over six bushels of corn, corn-stalks
and grass. The opening healed up,
and the COW is doing as well as ever.
A California farmer hunts wild geese
with cow He has trained the animal
to walk slowly out into the field where
flock of geese has settled on the grain.
She browses meanwhile and he walks
alongside on the side away from the
geese. When within shooting distance
he gently murmurs, 800, boss and
the obedient bovine lies down. He rests
his fowling piece over her back and
blaZes away, both barrels at once, and
bags thirty or forty of the geese.
The value of Tennessee mountain
lands, of which Col. Sellers held title to
vast estates, is illustrated by a story
told by The lockwood CTenn. Repubtt-
can. Col. Duncan this week made
present to Mr.. Stith of one thousand
acres of mountain land by way of COM
pensation for the preservation of his life
last week Mr.. Stith shortly afterward
gave Col. Duncan five hundred acres of
the land for a drink of apple brandy,
and within the next half hour gave him
back the other five hundred acres for
the same consideration.
A London society publication saws
that "a gentleman should only offer his
left arm to his wife. The only time
when a lady is placed on a gentleman's
left is during the marriage service. when
the position indicates subsection" 1t is
now in order for hen-pecked paragraph
ers to remark that the subsection is of
a very temporary nature.
Queen Victoria seems to be treated
with deplorable disrespcct by the mer-
chant princes OF London. Her Maiesty's
statue in the central area of the ROYAL
Exchange is reported by the London
Times to be in disgracefuIly dirty con-
dition. with the right arm broken off at
the elbow-certainly not an agreeable
object for her loyal subjects to contem-
plate.
According to a comprehensive statisti-
cal return lately published in Germany,
there are in Europe ninety-two cities
with more than 100,0 900 inhabitants, out
Of which four capitals show each over |
million population, as follows: London.
3, 1872, 440; Paris, 1925, go; Berlin, l. |
l25, 500; Vienna, 1,103,110. Out of the
1inety-two cities and towns referred to,
England claims &c. Germany Is, Italy
Il, France 10 and Russia 8. The others
Ire divided among the smaller states.
There were in the United States in 1880,
twenty cities having 100000 inhabitants
md upward.
Parallelism between the Bible and the
Y orks of Shakespeare is the proposition
which the compiler of small volume.
ately published in London, aims to
His work is a bringing to-
,ether of corresponding passages, but if
5 not always that the parallelism ex-
ends to the thought, being often merely
imilarity of subjects. 1t is pretty gen
rally known, says the Boston ;: Herald.
hat Shakespeare, among his many
onrces, drew freely from the rich store
ouse of character which the Scripture
ontains.
Little drops of water and little grains
sand do not amount to much individ-
ally, but when collected into an ocean,
T as the componentpa of the beaute-
US land, their Importance is acknowl-
dyed. Five years ago a capital of
$4,000 was invested in the industry of
ringing sand into New York City At
he present time $4,000, 900 are thus
lnployed, aud the daily receipts by
oats average $500 tons. The greater
ortion of this great quantity is sup
osed to be used in making railway
sand' witches, though no account is
wen of the amount of cement employ
to effect the proper consistency.
Herr Won Bismarck had a shoemaker
'ho had often broken faith with him.
espite his most solemn promises, and