The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-27

tons burden, Aug. q, for Australia g..
600 miles away, was hailed by an inward
bound steamer in November, all well.
The question of the morality of WalI
Whitman's ''Leayes of Grass is to be
tested in Boston court A man there
has been arrested for sending it through
the mail. He is charged with .'circu-
lating obscene literature"
The London Queen says that ''house
rent should never exceed tenth OF
ones income" The American is fortrl-
nate who can kept it within twice that
| proportion and live according to his
wife's sense of propriety.
When spelling is reformed she'l II
write:
Pm sailing on the oshun,
The Sc is hi, no sail in site.
IL fills me with emoshun"
But one spell will not change its name,
For she'll be seasick ali the same.
The charge for the Edison light in
New York is now at the rate of 50 an
hour for light equal to 200 candles, or
about the cost of gas at 50 a thousand
cubic feet. Meters for the registry of
the current used are being put in as
fast as they can be made and tested.
St Louis physicians and druggists
unite in denouncing soothing syrups''
as poisonous, and consequently danger
Gus, especially when administered TO
children by inexperienced and ignorant
persons Many deaths are said to have
been caused by their use.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
leads off in the pardon business. Dur
ing his administration of nearly four
years he has pardoned more than ], 800
criminals, RENTED fines of more than
81, 900, 600 and granted respites to other
fines to the amount of some $1,000, 900.
A Bostonian says there were twenty
four stormy Sundays last year, and that
the average in Boston during the past
fifteen years has been lot stormy Sun
days year. The Bostonian seems to
have kept careful note of his excuses
for not attending church.
Miss Jessie f. Detchon, of Philadel-
phia, the sister of Miss Adelaide Detchon,
the actress, is one of the two practicing
female dentists of this country. She is
a graduate of the Pennsylvania Dental
College, the alma mater of the lady who
is private tooth carpenter to the EN-
press of Germany.
Judge James Garland, of Lynchburg,
Va, has just retired from the bench at
the age of ninetv-one. History records
but one instance before this of Judge
reaching his ninetieth year. while vet
performing the duties of the bench.
That was Sir John More, and Judge
Garland exceeds even him.
Whygo. Igo, Mosquito, Morecabbage,
Dabelcabbage. Ballcabbage, Yesyoucab-
bage, Cusecabbage. Mehigh, Yrmush,
Mycat, Crowbait, Cheek, Botherbroom
and Overcoat are the names of Allen
town, Pa, miners whose nation alities
are sbrouded in mystery. Some of
them, however, are supposed to have
come from Havana.
An Anti-Vaecination Society has been
formed nj Cape Town, Africa, where
the negroes are bitterly opposed To vac
cination. The population of the town
is about 40, 900 people and during the
last two months 5000 of them have
been afflicted with smallpox, and 200
have died from the disease. 1t will take
a great deal of anti-vaccination htera-
ture to confute such an argument as this.
The daughter of Covington, KY,
who was worth 500, 900, was so
badly treated that she went to Ciacin-
natl and hired out as house servant.
W hen her mother found out where she
was she went to her employers and babe
them beware of her. The girl was dis
charged. She sued her mother for
and the old lady compromised
by promising to settle half of her estate
upon her willful child.
Mary Anderson, the actress. was, it is
said, really mashed" on Oscar Wilde
They met at fashionable reception in
New York, and she-became victim
Mary's mamma and papa objected to
his calls: Mary, grown self-willed, met
Oscar by appointment at Long Branch,
and spent one whole day wandering up
and down the pebbly strand with him.
This all happened lastsummer-if at all.
The new penal code in New York has
alarmed the Chinese washerwomen,
who have been notified by the police
chat they must close their shops on Sum
Day, or else be fined and go to jail So
they make a virtue of necessity and say
that they are going to close anyhow
Tor they ''go to Mclean mans Sunda
school" Then they put on their door
some such notice as this: ..Notis.
ounda. No washee, no Gomez. Man
go ehurchee. New codee. Quong Long,
The record as mixer ot the wonder
Iul COW owned by A. ID. Hull, of Char
estown, N. H., is attracting considers
Die attention in that section from cattle
breeders and dairymen. She is wears
Did, and from a grade Jersey and
Ayrshire COW imported by Sherman
Paris. Her weight is $50 pounds, which,
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