The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-25
MISCELLANEOUS.


--Seooba, Miss, boasts of an OK seen
on her streets with two perfectly formed
tails.
The northern parts of Minnesota
and Dakota are filing upwith Canadians
who started out to settle in Manitoba,
but after arriving there repented.-St.
PdUJ Press.
The State Government pays 5000
apiece for Apache scalps in Arizona,
and a sharp Yankee was arrested the
other day for selling counterfeit scalps
to hunters. The spurious articles were
made in Massachusetts and were read
lily calculated to deceive. All was per-
feet even to the blood stains. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Lieutenant Wissmann. the African
traveller, who, like Stanley, walked
across the Dark. Continent, has left
Hamburg again on another three-years'
tour of exploration in the Congo region.
He has undertaken to furnish the Royal
Museum in Berlin with all the natural
specimens which he may collect during
his travels.
An anxious father in Fort Gaines,
Ga, who was DESTROYS of hearing the
conversation between his daughter and
her dudelot, posted himself in hearing
distance. recently, and listened for two
solid hours. The following are the only
words he heard during that time: He:
''If LOWE die, what'll dovie do?" She:
''Dovie die, too. "--PbiLadeIphiG Press.
Cinnamon IN this country, and es-
pecially in the West, have been quick
| to see the increased value of their serv-
| ices caused by the enforcement of the
restriction act. Soon after its passage
| the Chinese farm laborers in California
demanded and received at least third
more in weekly wages, and now many
of them are agitating for another in
crease.-DenUer Tribune.
Mr. Paul Delanger, Inspector of
Cars on the Intercolonial Railway OF
Canada, is the father of thirty-three
children. He has been thrice married.
His first wife was the mother of nine
teen children, his second had six, and
the third has presented him with eight.
The last two are twins. Mr.. DelangeT
is sixty years of agc.-MoRtredt Va
ness.
The observatory on the top of Ben
Nevis. Scotland, is now in good work
inc order, and NJ. Omand and staff are
domiciled there. The last ascent was
made with difficulty, as the snow was
fourteen feet deep, and passage had
to be cut through. The party sank
often to the shoulder The journey oc'
cupied nine hours. The observatory
will be cut off for months from the
world
The fellow who went on wedding
tour, got broke, and had to leave hi
wife behind is solemn lesson. MINI
cases in ten the money expended Oh
wedding tours could be better used TO
future comforts and luXuries in tn
( home. A young couple OF moderate
means are sensible who marry and Sc
about arranging the dishes and putting
up the kitchen stove. The expense 0
q single day at fashionable hotel vii
buy good many juicy beefsteaks.-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The officers Of the Cincinnati steam
boat Golden Rule have a pet cat tha
travels the Ohio and the Mississippi t
New Orleans, and sometimes goe
ashore and stays until the time for hau
ing in the gang-plank. She went ashor
: at Evansville once and wandered abou
7 town until the boat had gone; but sh
took the next boat up, and was agai
, in the Golden Rule a few days latel
: At another time she was lost at POI
5 Hickey, and then she took the next DO,
for home--Cincinndti Times.
5 William Sexton recently remove
, from Short Beach to Babylon, takin
2 with him fifty tame ducks, ten of whic
, were old birds The ducks wei
brought off in close box. They r
. manned about their new quarters 4
, one day, and then disappeared. II
following morning the ducks wei
4 found at their old home on the beac
e waiting to be fed As their wings WEI
Z clipped they must hate SWAN the e