The Rock Island Argus., 1883-03-13
GLEANINGs.

-"i1s yexy good world that We live tn
Ruf to beg, Il to borrow, or geta mans ssfn.
'Tis Just the worst sTorld that ever was knows.
/ Five sixths OF the receipts of the most
successful New York theater GO to pay
necessary expenses.
The Chattanooga Times says large
nambers of farmeFs from Ohio, Indiana
sad Illinois are settling in the section
eonsiguous to Chattanooga. "a aa.
At recent ermont squirrel hunt
By two teams cfeigh teen men each, the
winners counted s.090 to the losers
5.010.
Vermont has 29, 600 less pupils and
623 less teachers than she had thirty
years ago, although since then the
population has increased about six per
cent.
Beecher has looked over several Sum
day-school libraries and It is his candid
opinion that eighteen books out of every
twenty are too boshy for any intelligent
child to read.
A grocer in Columbus Ohio, caught
rat and put bell on him. and 10 days
afterward say 3 the identical rodent was
captured in Warehouse in Cincinnati
Do rats tramp? $50
There are 326 benevolent associations
in New York, which disburse annually
the sum of $4, ,000, 900. There are twelve
such associations in London which ex-
pend annually $50, 600, 600.
The hanson cabs introduced in Pliila-
delphia some months since have become
immensely popular, aud the projectors
of the enterprise have concluded to add
to their outfit
Boys can be lawfully removed from
the rear platform of ears, when stealing
rides, but the New York Court OF Ap-
peais has decided that the removal must
be 50 gentle as not to injnre the aretl-
ms. ~
A belle of Butchertewn, a suburb OF
Louisville, at ball the other night see
| ing her beau too attentive 60 another
Girl, went To him. gave him the price he
! paid far tickets. chose another escort.
| and returned hoIne.
Ezekiel Peabody. of Marblehead.
Mass. when twenty .one years old pal
| $500 in a saving bank 1T per ceat-.
| and, never having touched it, wants 10
know how much he Is worth now in hls
9i,th Year, ~ ~
The Boston Tiaa3cfiat has seen a
Theatrical audience applaud the actor
| who vowed never to touch liquor again.
| aud then three-iifths OF tt.tia rush .ssist
for beer as stsssnaas the saafaln Went
l down.
Tie editor OF an Italian paper at San
| Francisco WAS arrested At a church fair
the other evening" for an alleged attempt
! to Kiss one of a hs.ss Of misses wha
1 thronged about him with knick knacks
/ 10 sell. He will Ia future give such places
q wide berth.
Near ColnInbus. ky.. q raiic of the
late war has just been unearthed. II is
a ten-foot 64-pound cannon which was
dug from sand-bar The gun was M
doutr left where fnnna By the confafiar-
ates In 1862 when 4hey evacuated tha
town after the Belmont battle.
In town ia Australia the wind blew
aaf gas=light, and by reason Of dark
ness traveller broke his leg. A jury
promptly gave him damages TO the anm
Of $1s0OD, although it was shown thai
the wind blew hard enough to drivavss-
sells ashore.
+ "A bent equatorial telescope, an M
vention of Mons. LoeWy, is now in OPP
eration &C the Paris observatory. The
pecuIiarstY uf the instrument Is that. In
uonseuueiIoe Of the bending and the ase
Of two raEiecting mirrors the astronomer
can observe all the elestial bodies with
ont rising from his table.
Two monster ratslesnakes hare bsen
sent alive TO the National museum IN
Washington by its Florida agent. 0ne.
which came from the banks Of tbs 5u-
wannee river, measured twelve inehes
around its middle, weighed II pounds,
and was nearly z feet long Tia other,