The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The Prince Imperial of Austria
speaks, it is asserted, every dialect
known in the Austrian dominions, ex.
cept Turkish.
Thirty States and Territories have
more men than women, and seventeen
States and Territories have more women
than men Chicago Times
"A colored preacher in Buffalo gave,
notice to his congregation recently that
he wanted less shouting and more money
in the future. Buffalo IN ~ Express.
The city fathers at Olean, N Y,
have instructed the police to compel all
boys under the age of fifteen years
to vacate the streets after $3.50 O'Clock
p. m.
"A five-year-old girl fell from third
story window in Cincinnati, recently,
but gentleman passing by saw her
coming, caught her in his arms, and
saved her from any harm. Cincinnati
Times.
A couple of Flushing On. Y squirrel
hunters caught Canadian stoat or en-
mine, which was nestled in tree. 1t
whipped their dog before they killed it.
1t is the first known to have been caught
on Long Island.
The adage that at is an i'll wind
that blows nobody any good" finds n
new illustration in the report that the
health record of Cincinnati has greatly
improved since the flood cleansed the
unwholesome districts.
johnson Sides, Piute Indian chief,
says that the order of the Virginia Il
Truckee Railroad, prohibiting the free
riding of Indians. is beneficial to the
tribe, and that there are less manned
redskins than formerly.
Until 1928 not single steam YES
sci had visited Maine waters, and the ap-
pearanee of apufiing, smoking steamer
in Casco Bay, in that year, terrified
some of the superstitious jewellers on
the islands and the coast. Boston Post,
Lovers of the so-called 'blood
oranges" will be interested to hear that
their favorite fruit having fallen short,
certain dealers now prick the skins OF
ordinary oranges and then subject the
latter to bath of colored liquid. - Chi
cdgO Inter Ocean,
"A native Jehu at Catskill has fixed
up an old Concord coach and painted
on the sides the words sally Hoe. )"
Nobody has as yet pointed out to him
his mistake, and the vehicle is likely to
cause many laugh this summer as it
goes up hill and down Troy IN
~ Times.
Miss Jennie Cassidy, of Louisville,
who is incurably confined to her bed as
an invalid, is nevertheless prominent as
superintendent of flower mission, and
now she wants to send bouquets to all
the prisons. penitentiaries and reforma-
tories in the United States. She thinks
it will humanize the inmates while the
flowers last -L0uaSrIIie Couraer-J0ur-
| nal.
An eccentric hermit woman died
recently atShirley. England, and among
her effects an old piano was sold for
half crown. 1t turns out to be of
the year 1880, thirteen years after the
making of the first piano in England
Offers of seven hundred and fifty dollars
have been made for this antique, which
is valuable in the history of piano
making.
One of the only two remaining Ro-
man milestones in Great Britain is in
Cannon street, London, the other being
in Chesterholm, in Northumberland
There is Roman work about the Tower
of London. Until quite recently an old
Roman turret was standing within a
hundred yards of Ludgate Hill station,
and in Cripplegate may yet be seen q
splendid specimen of the original Roman
| wall.
A report having been generally cir
culated that cinnamon bear belonging
to Mr.. Dram, living in the woods near
Fort Montgomery, West Point, N. Y,
had been set free, it led to a tragedy
recently. A miner who was intoxicated
took refuge in Joe Connolly's barn, near
by, and one of Connolly's boys, hearing
the movement of the man, ran to the
house. and, obtaining shotgun, fired
into the hay where he was lying, and
seriously wounded HIM T. Mall
From a French State paper, lately
brought to light, it appears that in 1910
the following Parliamentary decree was
solemnly passed and drf ~ registered
under King Louis XIV: "WhoseeVe"
by means OF red OF white paint, pei
fumes, essences, artificial teeth, fals-
hair, cotton wool, iron corsets, hoops,
shoes with high heels, or false hips
shall seek to entice into the bands OF
marriage any male subject of his Males
ty, shall be prosecuted for witchcraft
and declared incapable of matrimony. "
Jonathan Wheelock deposited in
the New Hampshire Savings Bank, in
Concord, March %, 1888, one hundred
dollars bounty money which he had re-
ceived as Revolutionary soldier. Two
other deposits of fifteen dollars each
were added to it-April Is, 1884, and
April 9, 1855. The money still remains
in the bank, and amounted on the first
day of January last, with accrued inter
est, to two thousand and fifty dol
lars and forty-four cents. - Boston
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