The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Boston oculist protests against
dotted wells.
Samuel Hoffman, of Ohio, went
crazy because the Prohibition Amend
ment was not adopted. C!e0eland
Leader.
The Denver Medical Times says that
there are more physicians in that eity,in
proportion to the population, than in
any other in the United States.
Two brothers named Lynch died in
the same hospital in New Orleans re-
Gently without either knowing OF the
presence of the other.-N. o. Ptcdyane.
The most important and valuable
stamp collection in the world belongs to
son of the Duchess of Galliera.
Though it is yet incomplete, the stamps
alone have cost $500, 600.
1t was a pet monkey that struck n
match and fired the British bark
Marqurite at Bayonne, n j., laden
with 1875 barrels of naphtha and 1000
of petrolcum.-N. Y. san.
"A Castleton (Vt) man has lived
within four miles Of Lake Bomoseen
twenty-five years and never set eyes up
on it. His brother has crossed the
ocean five times since 1860. -Rutlaad
Herald.
Mrs. Fred Fisk, of Canestota, N
Y, has set of embroidered curtains.
the work of her own hands, and which
has occupied her four years. She has
| refused an offer of four thousand dol
lars for them.
General Grant has had made at Hart
| ford. for presentation to the Viceroy of
China aud the Mikado of Japan, two guns
modelled after the Gardiner patent,
which have been fired at the rate of
seven hundred shots per minute.
David Hawthorne, of Philadelphia,
beat his wife. She dealt him a mortal
blow with tImbler He lived week,
and went around all right, when the
artery burst, causing death. His wife
was exonerated by his own statement. -
Philadelphia Press.
"A civil engineer who recently
surveyed one hundred and seventy
miles of railway in Arkansas reports
that the citizens strenuously opposed
The construction of the road on the
ground that it would scare all the game
out of the country .-St. LouiS Globe.
Pearl street, New York, is the
crookedest street in the world 1t is q
mile and half in extent, and vet its
curves are SO incessant that you cannot
IN any place see more than two squares
ahead 1t intersects Broadway twice,
forming half circle whose arc is nearly
one mile in lengthy. y Mail.
"A New York Judge says there is nc
law to prevent woman dressing in
mems clothes if she wants to, and dis
missed one in that garb brought before
him by avaliant policeman. The Judges
head is level Any woman so lost tt
the sense of the beautiful as to be willing
to make herself hideous in the masculine
costume Of the day ought to be allowed
the privilege. IN. T. Times.
On a railroad train from Macon
Ga, the other day was remarkabl,
couple. The gentleman was Mr. Thoma,
9: Smith and the lady was his sister
They were born in Sandersville, but a
the age of eight years Mr. Smith wen
to Texas, where he lived and prosperet
up to few weeks ago, when he returned
to Georgia and met his sister afte
seventy years of eparation.-G .scaq,
Herald
4 THE. great Napoleon married
widow. Scarron's widow became
court. favorite. Rousseau went Graz,
after widow, and Gibbon, the historian
made himself ridiculous over one
Disraeli married widow, and three 0
) the most distinguished widows i
!, Europe to-day are the Empress Eugenie
. of the French; Queen Isabella, of th