The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-11

Howling gusts of rushing wind,
crash OF branch through sodden air.
Creatures struck with terror, blind
Shattered homesteads here and there.
In each heart, a dark despair!
Broad fields, stript of ripening grain,
Gone the breath of perfumed air;
When the sun shines out again
wreck and ruin everywhere;
Desolate, the scene, 81 fair!
ruiz Hugh Ljttig1OiR, IN Manhattan,
p. L. Barnum is a stakeholder in
two sewing machine companies; owns
three newspapers, two of which are in
bridgeport; four hundred houses,
numerous vacant lots, and cattle
ranch. He has one thousand vacant
lots in Denver. A building owned by
him in New York pays him a rental of
$50, 900 year,-N Y Tribune.
The custom of inaugurating special
sales of odd lots of goods at great bar
gains, after the holidays, is one which
stimulates a large special trade. We
remember that for several years some
OF our live advertising merchants, in
stead Of going into the dumps after the
holidays, have built up large January
and February trade. There is no dull
season with live advertisers. -Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
"A New York man seeks a divorce on
the strong ground that his wife's breath
is so bad he cannot kiss her. But sup
pose women should begin to ask d.
yorces for similar reasons, what pro-
longed howl would 90 up from many
lips stained with tobacco juice and
breath poisoned with beer, sour mash,
and old cheese. A man of sense who
has Smelled the multitudes of men
would never raise the question of bad
breath. Indianapolis Journal
Brushes or combs used on the heads
of persons afflicted with scaly badness
will communicate the disease to other
heads, and DR.. o. Lassar considers that
badness is spread by hair-dressers who
employ combs and brushes on their
customers, one after another, without
any regular cleansing of these articles
after they are used. Hair which Fell
from heads in which dandruff occurred
plentifully were collected and rubbed
up with vaseline. The ointment thus
made was applied to the fur of rabbits
or white mice. Soon badness made
rapid progress in the parts so treated.
Vaseline alone produced no effect
Chicago Journal.
The Limited, that makes the run
of nine hundred and twelve miles be-
tween New York and Chicago in twenty
five and half hours. makes only seven
cfn hJrt Ibid TO
cross and villages to pass through that
the speed is necessarily relaxed as often
| as once every ten miles-else the aver
age for the entire run might be much
| higher than 1929 miles an hour. Its
| greatest speed is on the run between
New York and Philadelphia; and here
| the slowest mile is made in two minutes,
and the fastest in tifty-seven seconds
Many mile is made in sixty seconds. =
| n \. Herald.
The death of DR. VIM. Osgood Page,
ofNew York, recently has disclosed an es-
pecially interesting romance in his life
While studying at the Columbia medical
school he became engaged to be married
to beautiful young lady of Boston, and
the wedding day was set. The young
lady was suddenly taken i'll and died
upon the nuptial day. DR.. Page ever
after to the dav of his death cherished
her memory with an affection approach
ing idolatry. He constantly carried in
his pocket her portrait in miniature
On his deathbed he begged that the little
picture should be buried with him. His
request was granted, and it lay upon his
breast when his remains were inferred
in Greenwood. y. SIN.
1t has always been Il subject OF
curiosity and inquiry as to how and
where prairie dogs, living on the prairie
far away from any river or stream, OBJ
tain their water. Mr. T. Leech, a
frontiersman of experience, asserts that
the dogs dig their own wells, each VII
liage having one with concealed
opening. He knows of one such well
two hundred feet deep, and having q
circular staircase leading down to the
water. Every time dog wants a drink
ne descends the staircase, which, consid-
ering the distance, is no mean task. In
digging for water the animal displays as
| much pluck as they do in resisting the
efforts of settlers to expel them from the
land OF their progenitOrs. -Dt9UeT
Tribune.
Where do these beggars dispose Of
the surplus food they cOllect?' asked
the reporter.
They sell it to saloons of the lower
class for free lunches. Am | sure of iii
Well, am as sure as any man can bt
of thing which he never actually saw
have had the admission from beggar
l themselves, and in speaking in our so
} ciety the other night about this practice
3 was interrupted by a lady who sale
she knew positively of one case in whicl
| it was done. In short, there can be NJ
: doubt at all that after collecting thei
baskets full of eatables, the bcggars sci
enough to enable them to buy whisk!
i. and tobacco, and then eat the remain
der. One day had an old woman u
| in court with an enormous basket full
| of food which she had Just collected from
charitable doors, and | asked her wha
g she was going to do with it all, and sh
# stammered some reply about having
e large family, but there was no possibl
doubt about her habitof selling her co
= lection She was committed, and too
+ the basket to prison with her. Their
;, was enough in it to make her ndepenc
= ent of prison fare for many day. "A
?. Herald.