The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Women around White Oaks, N. M,
are like water claims taken up as soon
as discovered. - Chicago Times.
Salem, Mass, has three bank cash
iers whose united terms of continuous
service have been over one hundred and
seventy two years. Boston Post.
Several valuable diamonds have
been found in Montana, and many gold
hunters are turning their attention to
the precious pebbles. - Chicago Herald.
"A farmer of Warrenton, Ca,
watched for the robber of his s'hens' nests
and saw half grown heifer 60 to a nest
and eat its contents shells and all
Atlanta Constitution.
A roll of bills amounting to $4,000,
supposed to have been washed ashore
from some wreck, was picked up re-
Gently by person living in Black Rock,
near Bridgeport, Conn. Hartford Post.
The Supreme Court of Alabama,has
decided that the Inferior Court of
Criminal Jurisdiction of Mobile is no
court at all The court declares the
act of the Legislature providing for it,
uuCOtiStilutiOudL duu WIN T. o"ie'
Wing Lee, hideous looking China
man, and Nellie Burton, handsome
girl, eloped from Louisville and were
married by Justice Douglass, Of Jeffer-
sonville. The marriage created quite
an excitement. louisville Courier
Journal.
The Baltimore american, speaking
of the observance of New Years, says
egg-nogg has declined in favor as re-
freshment, and apple-toddy has virtu-
ally disappeared. Simple wines are
preferred Coffee and chocolate grow
in favor.
Mr. Tyler, the Zulu missionary,
says that when he first went to South
Africa, thirty-four years ago, the people
wore nothing but the skins of cows and
other animals. Now few of them appear
in town without civilized dress.-N. y
EGamtaer.
The ice crop of the Hudson River,
in consequence of additional ice-houses
having been erected during the past
year. is now about 4,000,000 tons, and
| it takes from thirty to thirty-five DAYS OF
good weather to house it. When all the
houses are taking in ice, fully ten
thousand men and boys, two thousand
horses, and fifty steam engines are en-
ployed. d.-TroV Times.
/ --Fogs, pure and simple, says an
English writer, are not caused by smoke,
but by dust, not the dust of the streets
or chimneys, but by the dust of invisible
atmospheric molecules Hence we
must look upon our breath as seen on 6
cold morning as evidence of the dusty
state of the air, and every puff of steam a:
it escapes into the atmosphere will re
mind us still more powerfully of tht
same disagreeable fact.
Probably the largest oleander tret
In the world is near Spanishtown, Fla
1t covers space of ground thirtY-s1
feet in diameter; from the ground t.
the tip of the topmost limb is twenty
five feet; at the surface of the grount
the trunk is divided into twenty O.
twenty-five separate stems, the groul
being at least five feet through and ont
single stem is, by actual measurement
fourteen inches thick.-St. Louis Post
We are informed by Deputy United
States Marshal Ricketts, that about thre,
S1, 500, 900, was left John Spring, VIII,
| died in this city few days ago Th'
property and coin was left him by hi
cousin, Captain Arthur Spring, mer
: chant at Callao, Peru. Inquiries 70
E John Spring were at once set on foot
: but he was not found until about thre
weeks before his death Fargenia Cit
(Neg.) Enterprise.
A request in the Boston Post for in
4 formation respecting the whereabouts c
a old clocks has stirred up a aumber c
n correspondents in New England. On
old gentleman has an eight-day clock
: with brass dial, and at running age c
one hundred and fifty years is still keeI
e ing good time. Another has the reeor
E of one made in Bristol, England, in 1884
which is doing faithful service in
Western State Hon. E. c. Moody, {
York, Me-, has clock made in Englan
in 1920, with tie date and maker
: name on the brass dial. 1t is still keeI
J ing good time. The case is handsomel
y inlaid with flowers and figures. TIL
Il clock was brought over by Mf. MOODY
ancestors in 1928;
1t has always been a subject {
. curiosity and inquiry as to how an
n where prairie dogs, living on the prair
, far away from any river or stream, ol
! tain their water Mr.. F. Leech,
= frontiersman of experience, asserts th'
q the dogs dig their own wells, each VI
i iage having one with a conceale
= !. opening He knows of one such we
> two hundred feet deep, and having
= circular staircase leading down to Il
!; : water. Every time dog wants a drir
!, ne descends the staircase, which, eonsi
: ering the distance, is no mean task.
J digging for water the animal displays
U much pluck as they do in resisting Il
10 efforts of settlers to expel them from Il
- land of their progenitors. .-Denv
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