The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-20

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ton, of Ray County, Mo-, was murdered
and a neighbor was suspected of the
crime, the circumstances being strongly
against him. But he was acquitted,
and recently the brother of the muir
dered man, as he lay dying near the
scene of the murder, confessed that he
perpetrated the crime on account of
jealousy. He had been very active in
pushing the prosecution against the
accused neighbor. Detroit Post
The Virginia City (Nev.) Enter
prise says: In the tunnel of the Dan
lei Webster mine, northeast of this city.
beyond the Wells Fargo mine, at point
over three hundred feet beneath the sur
face, flow OF water of strange character
has been encountered. The water boils
up through the fiooriof the tunnel. and
in the light of the candles presents an
almost blood red appearance Itsmells
like creosote and has pungent, disa-
greeable taste. When bottled AMI
brosght to the light of day, the water
has rich burned sienna color"
A female contributor writes ''Ah,
Journalism Literature A world OF
untold wealth lies for you locked up in
the brains and encased in the little white
hands of educated women, and at last.
since the bars are giving away and
woman as well as man can choose her
life work, what a wondrous burst of
sunshine will flood with its golden light
the vast arena of American journalism -
The untold wealth, it may be remarked
doesn't lie around loose for any such
sublimated flapdoodle as that, Neqo
York Graphic
"A New York observer who has
studied types of feminine beauty during
long course of years says that the
blonde is gradually disappearing in this
country-or, at least, in New York
He begun his observations in 1889 or
1910, when he found that the proportion
of the blondes among hundred women
was fOrty-seven, the brunettes number
ing thirty-two, and those who were not
decidedly one or the other twenty-one
In 1880 the blondes We're but twenty
! three, the brunettes titty-two, and the
Intermediates twenty-five. The change,
SO far as his observations 90, has been
| gradual.-N. I. Tunes
Except for those who may have
wealthy friends living in the interior in
favorable locality, Australia has been
practically found to be not suitable
place for invalids. Any one who has
made acquaintance with bush hote
would be slow to recommend it as resi-
dence, even to a man in health, ant
would certainly advise an invalid t.
avoid it. The most eminent physician
in Melbourne has recently stated tina
out of hundreds with weak lungs wht
had consulted him during period o
| twenty-five years, not one of those who
had remained on the coast had materi
ally improved. Il Chicago Inter Ocean.
Professor Thompson, IN a recen
lecture, informed his audience that tn
magnetic pole is now near Booths
Felix, or more than one thousand mile
west of the geographical pole In 1S6
the magnetic pole was due North,
having been eastward before that year
Then it began to move westward unit
1916, when the maximum was reached
This is now being steadily diminished
and in 1876 it will again point du
north. Professor Thompson says tina
the changes which will have been OF
served not only in the direction, but i
the strength of the earth's magnetism
will show that the same causes whic
originally magnetized the earth are sti
at work - Chicago Journal
Harry Leslie, the rope-walker, die
recently at Kingston, Va, of the II
t suits of wound received in 1876. A
that time he was walking tight rop
at Richmond, and was just about to ste
into an upper window of the buildin
to which the rope was fastened, when b
saw little girl rolling down the stee
= roof upon which she and her parent
a had been watching him. As she fe
: from the caves he caught her safely, bu
D lost his balance. and swung head down
= wards with the child in his arms, stril
e ing his head against the window-sill &
he fell. But he elung to the rope wit
his feet, and slowly raised himself upo
it with his burden, while the crowd file
the air with cheers. The child was III
hurt, but Leslie had received a dee
cash in his head.
Bishop Turner. the colored Bisho
of the South, says that he was recent
/. on train in Tennessee with his wifi,
n holding first-elass tickets for both, frol
Cleveland to Atlanta, when brakema
+ ordered them into the smoking car. Il
. told the brakeman his wife was sick an
n could not stand the atmosphere of tt
smoking car, when, says he, 1.-THE roug
reply came, Don't stop to argue viii
me; get out or [ will put you both out
and he moved toward my wife. ! int
cepted him and said: Please let n
say a word to you kindly. | want r
:. trouble, and l pray God you viii SAY
n me from any. but if you touch my wi
there will be funeral tomorrow
either your family or my own L
gave me terrible look and then passe
on. Ny wife remained in the car and
went into the smoking car in order n,
to give too much offense. IN T. II