The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-03
OF GENERAL. INTEREST.

Georgia papers are urging the use of
the whipping-post in that State.
1t is said that sparrows and swallows
forsake district when cholera is about
to make its advent.
An Albany On. y butcher figures
he has sawed seventy-eight miles of
bone in thirty years at his block.
Cleveland woman got two thous-
and dollars damages because of a cough
she acquired in newly plastered hotel.
--UeUeiand Herald
If the area of the United States was
as densely settled as that of France,
there would be room here for $50, 900, 600
people Chicago Ne,os.
The town corporation at Caldwell,
Idaho, offers to deed lot to each child
born in the town between the 10th of
May and the 18th of June, 1884.
The Victoria Falls, in South Africa.
are nearly twice as wide as the Falls of
Niagara, and more than one and half
times as high Chicago Herald.
The decision that cat is not prop
erty did not prevent New York Judge
from sending to prison for ten days q
vixenish girl who had poured kerosene
over cat and then set fire to the ami
NAL
The cigar points cut off by the clip
pers now found at every. cigar stand
e>.-e 1-.>tte ep.-a,,,.li,,a ny slsa in New
York. They are collected. sent to Ger
many, and there sold for the benefit of
an orphan asylum. Y. San.
More than three thousand snakes
were killed within mile of Falls City,
Neb., during a recent overflow. They
we're driven by the water from the bot
tom lands and swarmed upon the en-
bankments thrown up for railroads.
As part of the marriage ceremony
in Servia the bride has to hold piece
of sugar between her lips as sign that
she will speak little and swectly during
her married life. 1t might be well to
introduce some such custom .in this
country,
-Ex-Governor Coburn, of Maine, re-
Gently sold eight hundred thousand
dollars worth of Western land
in a single lot, and it is said that
| it was the largest sale of country prop
| erty ever made in the United States by a
single individual. Boston Herald
There are two things says a
| patent lawyer, THAT have absorbed
more brain tissue from the heads of in
ventive geniuses than would be neces-
sary to outweigh all the gold that has
in consequence been put into their peck
ets-railroad couplings and bedsteads. y
Chicago Herald.
1t was novel game of whist that
DIR. J. Fl. Zukertort, the champion chess
| player, played in the rooms of the Union
| Club, New York, the other afternoon.
| When his hands were dealt to him he
glanced at them. threw them on the Ia
bic, face downward and played the
game from memory. He said after
ward that it was very simple thing to
be compared with playing blindfold
games of chess.-N. Y Herald.
Marriage for those who live in the
Siberian mines has peculiar features.
When prisoner desires to undertake
| it, the only thing necessary for him to
do is to send in an application to the
overseer, who forthwith allots him a
wife. Three days of probation are
then allowed, and if any Incompatible
ty of temper seems likely to arise, the
| applicant may receive twenty five lashes
and another wife. This process is con-
tinued until he gets wife to suit him.
| Japanese funerals are always con
Quoted at sunset, in accordance with Il
superstition that is rather beautiful than
otherwise. The procession is headed
| by priests and q company of musicians,
who play upon samisens and beat TOM
toms. The coffin is wooden tub, in
which the deceased is squatting as he
has lived, with his feet tucked under
him. There is this difference. however
The face of the dead man is looking to-
ward the north. whereas this position is
religiousty avoided by the living Jap
| anese.
Simon Carson, a farmer near Sedalia
No, missed small sums of money sever.
al times during the past three months
but could not understand how any one
could break into his house without leav'
ing some marks of having been there
One night recently, however, he dreamed
that one of his servant girls was thu
culprit, and that the money would b.
found concealed in the mattress of hel
bed. The next day he had it torn oper
and searched, when he found that BIZ
dream was true, The girl is now il
| jail Chicago Herald.
The Board of Supervisors at Sacra
mento sent some carpenters out to wher
the Chinese leper lives, beyond tn
north levee. to build for him comforta
BILE winter quarters. The poor fellow
was much pleased at the interest taker
in his case by the Mclean man. ant
| was very profuse in his thanks for thei
kind services. Holding up his hands
the fingers of which are dropping Of
one by one. and pointing to his feet, tn
toes of which have disappeared, he said
with grave smile: 'sYou see; bimeb,
| Chinaman all gone. San Francisc
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