The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A large flint arrow head was found
firmly imbedded in the back of a whale
captured off San Diego the other day.
Chicago Herald.
The compilers of the Australian CEN
sus report that Australia could furnish
$50, 600 men from twenty to forty, ca
pable of bearing arms.
The meanest man in the limited
States lives in Pennsylvania. His wife
hit him with rolling pin, and he had
her arrested for stealing wood.-N Y.
Herald.
In recent parade at Hartford one
OF the drum-majors gracefully tossed
his stick over an electric lamp wire,
thirty feet from the ground, and caught
it when it came down without losing
step Or jostling his lordly bearing
Hartford Post.
The man who started the restau-
rant in Paris at which a workingman
can get good dinner for half a franc
is M, Rucl He began life by selling
matches, and later on became the
largest manufactnrer of them in France.
His wealth is estimated at 25,000, 900
francs (S5, 000,000)
The diamond is said to be an anti
d0te to Satanic temptation. The ruby
makes its possessor brave. The topaz
is preservatiye against poison. The
amethyst is a preservative against
drunkenness. The turquoise acts as a
charm against the evil eye and from
looks foreboding misfortune. The en-
era!d promotes piety.-Detr0it Post.
A St Louis doctor saws that bon
bons, sweetmeats, ice cream, etc, cause
indigestion, headache, congestion of
the liver, and is a great source of boils
and pimples. Cut this out and show
it to your girl. Philadelphia Call. And
get turned out for limiting at such a
falsehood as that she is 50 afflicted! Not
much!-N Y Post.
-Apropos of the recent gloomy
weather in London, a correspondent
communicates the following stanzas to
the Pail Mall Gazette;
Old England is afraid of none.
She fears no foeman's threats,
For on her mighty empire
The sun 1t never sets.
He who retails this axiom in
His generation wise is;
The sun it never sets because
The sun ii never rises.
The Hudson River will soon be as
picturesque as the Rhine. Baronial
| castles, turreted towers, lordly man
| sions and splendid homes of every style
| Of architectural beauty and magniti-
cence are rapidly studding its banks
1t is there that New York millionaires
live when they retire from contact with
the common people, and pass their
leisure in luxurious enjoyment and
| seclusion. Residences costing $500
to $780, 900 are numerous, while every
where one finds beautiful grounds. ex-
tensiye lawns, Conservatives andparks.
N. T. Tribune.
There is still much room for geo
logical investigation in Iceland; a large
part Of the island is, scientifically speak
ing, unexplored, and, in spite of the
researches of the late DR.. Hjaltalin,
and the various foreign biologists who
| have from time to time visited Iceland,
| its mineral resources are but little
known and very partially developed.
The sulphur deposits have of late years
been exploited by enterprising English
men, and are now being worked with
every prospect of success by an English
company. But, besides sulphur, the
| island contains other valuable minerals,
such rs Iceland spar, coal, Ignite,
borax and copper, none of which is al
present worked to any practical extent
An English paper says that pena
servitude is, as now carried out in En-,
gland, a very dreadful punishment in
deed. From the dock the convict i
carted away in the prison van, and OF
his arrival at the jail the heavy gate,
are shut to with horrible sound, be
hind him. He is thrust into a narrow
cell, there to remain without com
panionship for nine months. Scarcely
ever hearing n human voice, save the
wardcr's, fed on coarse food, his fate j:
sealed for thirty-six weeks, and after
that he will probably be sent to another
establishment where the discipline i
somewhat less severe. The nine months
solitary confinement of a five years
convict is hard to bear.