The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Demson (TeX.) man pawned s
cork leg with a pawnbroker for an ad-
vance OF twenty-five cents.
Deer in Florida are being slauoh-
tered so rapidly that it is believed they
will become extinct in few years.
1t is said to be habit in rural
Germany to-day for men to comb their
hair the first thing after they have sat
down to table.
The name of Tussekiah Post-of1ice,
Lunenburg County, Va, has been
changed to ''Nutbrush," with Lucy F.
Hart as postmistress.
The mail rider who carries letters
to and from the Cour d'Alene mines
charges fifty cents each, and often has
from forty to fifty. He takes the risk
of being either scalped or frozen. CHI
cag0 Herald
After physician had tried in vain
to dislodge two false teeth which a
Pottsville (Pa.) woman insisted had
lodged in her throat, she found the
teeth in a drawer, where she had put
them. Pittsburgh Post.
The deep bass of the organ ceased
suddenly in church in Lewiston, Me,
when lady voice was heard by the
whole congregation distinctly to declare:
Il don't care one bit; | do want
piano. boston Transcript.
Prank Bert, fourteen-year old boy
of Lynn, Mass, hung himself the other
day because he could find nothing to do
to support himself and relieve his par
ents of the burden of his board and
clothes. lie was soon cut down. -Bos-
ton Herald.
Physicians declared that two chill
dren of l.. f. Grant Strang, of Amster-
dam, whowere suffering from diptheria,
caught the disease by PLAYING with
| doll. which had been handled by their
sister, who recently died of diphtheria.
Troy IN. T. Times.
There are three thousand seven hun
| dred Cinnamon in New York City, and
| quite number of them attend Sunday
school, where they 90 to learn the En-
glish language. Many more Cinnamon
are leaving the country for China than
are coming here. ". 7. Times
Mono Lake, in Colorado, was re-
Gently swept from one end to the other
| by i tornado. which dashed the water
and piled lathery foam upon the shore
/ twenty feet high. In the mass of foam
were thousands of dead ducks that had
been dashed against the rocks. -DenUer
Tribune. "..
We are thinking of writing a great
temperance drama in four paris. rs fol
lows: Part Admitted to the bar
Part H. Hanging around the bar
! (samc actors, but different scenery. J
Part IIl-Behind the bars Part "
Stranded ton the bar).-BHTjiagtoB
Free Press
In certain countries in South Amer
lea birds are kept to tend floclls as dogs
are here, The bird generally used is
the chana, an allied form to the horned
screamers. 1t is extremely pugnacious,
darling at dogs or other birds when they
approach its charge, driving them away
with loud cries and strdv blows from
the bcak and tail
| William Hycks, Of Huntingdon,
sold his little daughter, aged about
twelve wears, to Il laboror at the reform
atory for the consideration of three
drinks of whisky. The child, upon re-
! fusinc to accede to the inhuman trans
action when called for by the purchaser,
was meroilessly beaten by her brutal
and drunken father hjladtlphja
Press.
We met two Of our friends from
the country, both disabled, one with Il
black eye and the other with a lame
back, and both attributed their mis-
fortunes to dream. The first sprang
upon an imaginary foe who was about
to assail him, and ran the bed posi-
into his eye, and the other poor fellow
tumbled over = chair trying to Kill {
+ snake -Nel0 Boston (Ter.j Herald.
Matters must have come to pretty
pass in Boston, when the Hcraid talks
out in this strain: Between garroter:
on the streets and bald-headed ole
Washers in the horsc-cars making
themselves diragreeable to ladies
Boston is not improving her reputation
A few straight shots or long sentence!
for the footpads, and a woman or two
with spirit enough to grind the corn
or slap the faces Of the salacious ole
wretches, will help to restore goo,
ID order and deccncY.'