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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
BLUE BLOOD IN DISGUISE.
morosinf,s Daughter and Coachman
Marrfed-ssCoachee' Count Kn
Hard Luck. Probably.

New YORK, Sept ll.-Capt. Mangin oi
Youkers. two of his officers, inspector
Byrnes and half dozen central office deteo-
tiyes secured the city Tuesday night for Miss
Victoria Morosini, the blonde daughter
of jaw Gould's colleague, and her fathers
coachman. E. J. Schilling, who eloped during
the day. They have discovered that they
reached New York early Tuesday evening
---I ...4rried bya Baptist minister in
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
THE PItTTI ST LADY IN ROCK ISLAND.

Remarked to a friend the other day
that she knew Kemp's Balm for the
Throat and Lungs was a superior remedy,
as it stopped her cough instantly when
others had no effect whatever. So to
prove this o. Grotjan will guarn
tee it to all. Price 80 cents and 81
IfinL size free.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
Hard Coal Market.

Pea coal 800; CRATE and egg. S7.75;
range, nut and No. 4 $500 per ton.
screened and delivered; all best quality of
Anthracite coal. Blacksmith's coal. Con-
nellsville coke and charcoal at 1908 Sec
ond avenue. dtf E. G. FRAZIER.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
At Clayton.

CLAYTON, Wis, Sept 1l-Half of the
lighter structures in the village were blown
down by the storm Tuesday night. The cy-
clone struck the town about 6 O'Clock, doing
nearly all the damage in fifteen minutes
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
5 Per Cent. Of AMMONIA.
PROTECTION.

Every housewife can try the "Royal,' or any other
brand of Baking Powder by placing the can, top down.
on a hot stove till heated. Remove the cover, and if
there she will smell AMMONIA After which she can
change for Prices Cream that has nothing base in it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
New East India yiceroy,

LONDON, Sept. n.-Lord Dufferin, tbs
British ambassador to Turkey, has been ap
pointed viceroy Of India
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
NOTICE.

FOR SALE-Five shares of Electric Light
Stock at discount. Enquire at this office
FOR SALE-old papers for sale IN any quantity
At this Office, cheap.
FOR SALR-Mrs Geu'l W. TnfTman's valua-
BILE family horse lnq0ire at herr's Livery stable
3-1w
FOR SALE-Sixty lots in my addition to Rock
Island. One fourth down, balance in yearly pay
ments, with six per cent interest. B. Davenport.
ml3d5m
FOR SALE-At my Office, on Eleventh street,
the best quality of coal. Also dry oak cord wood,
stone and sand. Orders. received by telephone at
car house. ID. G. Dohlman, agent. ml3d3m
WANTED-TwO (Outside) salesmen, one for
local cities and one 10 travel, Applicants having
some experience and of good address preferred.
P. f. Collier, stetfen's Block Cup stairs) Daven-
port Iowa 22-d6t
WANTED-Men on salary or commission 10 sell
Shetland and Zacaticas ponies, all eolors,-httle
beauties, just the thing for ladies and Children,-
largest herd of fancy ponies in America. $3.50
per month until Jan. 18th We also want fifteen
young men to herd stock raising on the rancho.
Illustrated group of spotted ponies, general de
scriptve list prices, terms, particulars etc, for
30cents silver. Address Proprietor, Don Carlos
Horse Rancho, Leon Springs, BeXar Co. Texas.
july-22-n
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11
TAINTED.

Chemists of the nation charge the Royal Baking Pow
der Company with the of the powerful drug AM
MONA in their Powder; that article of food should
be tainted by this unsafe drug; that it is unfit for ap
pearance in any human Diet that its long continued
in any form will derange the bood that it is only found
in the natural food and drink of incidental
impuTity
That NATURE ABHORS and expels it as au excre
That in Baking Powder it has not the virtue of
a necessity.
If the charge is unjust, would it not be act of JUS
tice themselves well polite concession to the
deeply interested public sentiment answerthe chaTge
To Immediately? To answer honestly! Oily
evasion won't do Oily dignity, oily plausbility, oily
non-committal won't do. Ridcule won't do. Come for
ward in manly way and give the public evidence that
justifes its
5 Per Cent. Of AMMONIA.
WHOLESOME
of Sentre from lis
nigh as Five Der
Prof CHARLES E. DWIGHT,
Chemist, Labratory, Wheeling W. Va
14h 1884
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11

FOR SALE-Five shares of Electric Light
Stock, at discount. Enquire at this office
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-11

FOR SALR-Mrs. Geu'l W. IInfTman's valua-
BILE family horse. lmq0ire at herr's Livery stable.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
Why His Pork SwelIed in the Barrel.

81 don't guess nothing about it; /
know It's so, and that's all there is to
it, said Salathiel Ward, taking out a
quid OF navy plug and shifting his po-
sition. Salathiel's remarks were oc-
casioned by a discussion among some
OF his neighbors as to whether salt made
pork swell in the barrel. He came
along and joined them in the debate at
u very opportune lime.
"Let me tell you" he continued; SIT
var in the fall of ~ that I had q shote
just like unto yourn, Deekin-looked
near enough like him to be his twin
and he wouldn't fat, nary 4 bit. l gin
him more'n thirty bushels O. meal, and
be wal poorer when | got done than he
war when | fust begun. / knowcd what
allied him at once Twas a black.
holler tooth that w%ouldn'tlet him fat.
So n day 1 jest TUX and yanked out
the tooth, and then l did something bv
accident like that made me sure O. what
I'm a%-tellin' ye."
"N hat that, Artemus:?" asked two
or three; this name Artemus being one
they had given him because he had no
resemblance to the great humorist of
that name.
"Wait till ye hear. 1t wur this way:
| knowed as | had to put some salt in a
hole cut on the back on his neck afore
he would lay on flesh any, so l caught
him and got his head right atween nv
shins, and-do you believe mcp-as
soon as the csitter felt the knife a-cul-
tin into his neck he made a squeal and
a Jump and went out from under me
Guicker'n scat He Jest ruined through
atween my legs and drawed that knife
the hui length on him. 1t cut a purity
cash. clean from his ears to his tail.n
I'll don't see what that has got to do
with what makes pork SWELL" re-
marked an old farmer, who was watch
ing u flock OF crows that had lust
alighted in his corn-tield.
You Jest hold turn till l git done,
will you? AS l was a-saying, that cut
was q bad one, and the critter wasn't
with sewing up. So l jest het up a
klttle OF water and stuck my knife into
t'other side of his neck, and dressed
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
Tobacco and Eycsight.

For many years it has been known
to opthalmlc surgeons that abuse of to-
bacco may lead to failure of sight. This
tact has been made use of by the anti
~tobacconlsts, who are mostly we'll
meaning but meddlesome persons, and
whose actions have too close a resem-
blance to those Of agitators in the cause
OF various reactionary measures for the
impeachment Of scientific research and
the obstruction Of sanitary legislation.
In the report Of forty cases of tobacco
amblyopia by Mr.. Shears, of Liver
pool, it appeared that atrophy of the
optic nerves is very rarely met with as
the result OF excessive smoking, al
though tobacco is the essential agent in
producing failure OF sight. Great
moderation in smoking, and especially
the employment of mild forms of to-
bacco, is all that is necessary to insure
recovery. Mr.. Hutchinson has found
that Il very small proportion of smokers
suffer from amblyopia, and that among
those who do become subject to i'm
paired vision are many who show an
hereditary tendency to that intirmity:
many Of their relatives who do not
smoke being similarly afflicted. Work.
men in tobacco factories do not e
to be subject to deterioration of eve
sight; in N large mandatory, where
1000 men and women are employed,
Mr. Shears has found that not one sin
gle person on the premises suffered
from failure Of eyesight, although MANY
OF the hands had been working there
Tor ten years.-LoussUile Courler-Jout-
nal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12

him and sailed him down. 1t was
mighty mean pork and no mistake,
and | reckoned we should hev to fare
slim for pork an cabbage that winter.
By gosh, the rine in some places was
thicker'n the meat. Howmsoever. l
laid it down in salt, and thought no
more about it till Mirandy como to me
one day and sez, SCI she: :Slath, the
pork barrels busted I went down
cellar, and there, sure enough, every
hoop was broke clear'n two. l got
some new Norway iron ones over to the
blacksmith shops, and when [ come to
take the pork out o. that barrel, by
Jeems, if it hadn't growcd III thick
ness nearly double. 1t was in big
white chunks s good as you can buy
at the store. 1 fixed up the barrel put
in a lot more salt, threw the pork back,
covered it with pickle, and left it be.
Well, sir, by hockey, that pork kept
on a swellin' and a CROWN till it over
run the barrel, and / had to get n
other to hold it all. 1t was white and
fat and clear, and some on it would cut
up'ards of six inches"
''That is queer" said the nervous
farmer. elbow do you account for
it?'
II account fur it in this yer way. I
reckon that hog was SIGH a big eater
and ]le ct so much that my thirty BUSH
els o meal passed into his meat afore
it swelled. It didn't do him no good,
you see. 1t was jes lying locked up in
his system awaitin', and when the salt
got in there it turned the meal into fat
and busted my barrel"
"Well l do declare" said a chorus
leaving Salathiel by the roadside alone,
-BOsLOn Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12

imal after eating its fill, covers its VIC
tim over with bushes and then watches
it. In the wild retreats of the Andine
valleys when you see great flocks OF
condors wheeling round a spot and
suddenly gliding up and down, you
may be pretty sure that they are dis
putting with the puma over the guanaco
that he has just killed.
The Gillian Government has deter
mined to treat the condor as an enemy
to the republic. A price varying from
five to twenty francs has been put upon
his head, so that condor hunting now
combines profit and sport. There are
two or three ways of catching the on
doris. One is to lie in wait at night
neal a recently killed animal. As soon
as the remarkable scent of these birds
brings them to the carcass, the hunters
are ready to fire upon them. Others
again will climb the trees where the
condors are known to roost. and throw
their lassos over them while they are in
heavy sleep. But perhaps the most
common method is the following: Dur
ing the night, and with the least noise
possible, q circular wall of earth or
sticks about two feet high is made to
enclose a little space into which is
thrown a dead animal. The hunters
hide a short distance off in waiting.
Soon the condors come down and
voraciously attack the carcass till they
have gorged themselves to stupidityand
~heaviness. Then with lassos and clubs,
utteribg the most confusing cries, the
hunters rush in among them. There is
a regular scrimmage. The scanty
space will not allow the condors to give
their bodies the necessary momentum
to rise from the ground; and so one
after the other they fall before the fatal
blows of the hunters.-Cor. Baltimore
american.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
A Silken Cannon,
.ss%!sa

Nearly a century ago Benjamin
Thompson Count Of Rumford, made q
number of experiments on the tenacity
of different substances, and discovered
that a copper plate on~e-twentieth of an
inch thickness, rolled into the form of
q cylinder, has it's strength doubled
when coated with we'll sized paperone-
tenth of an inch thick; that q cylinder
made of sheets of paper glued together
and having a sectional area Of one
square inch supported q weight of fiji
teen tons, fairly applied 20 as to exert a
perpendicular pdll. A similar cylinder
made up of hempen tibres lying side by
side in straight lines, without any
twisting and glued together, supported
forty.six tons per square inch of Sec
tlonal area, j. e. moro than the best
iron can bear. Had he combined silken
tlbres in the same manner he would
probably have obtained still greater
tensile strength, as silk ropes are three
times stronger than ordinary flax OF
hempen ropes. I am reminded of al.
these old and almost forgotten experi-
ments by q newspaper statement con-
corning ga German INVENTOR lname
not given or any further identification)
who proposes to w,ap steel tube with
silk until it reaches the outer diameter
OF an ordinary cannon, doing this bv
mounting the tube on q lathe and wind
ing the silk over it from several spools.
When the desired thickness is attained
the silk is to be coated with gutta
percha or hardened c%aoutchouc to pre-
serve it from air and dampness. 1t is
stated that a cannon will thus be OBJ
tanned OF equal strength to one Of iron
or steel OF the same Dimensions, and
OF course be much lighter.-M Y.
Hp3NZI.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
The Demands OF Business.

They were on their way to the d.
pot. She was going to the country
Tor a few weeks to visit her mother, and
he was to remain in town and SLAVE
away at the Office.
"lt's too bad, JOHN she said. "thar
business should keep YOU in the city
during the hot weather.n
cit can't be helped" he replied
manfully. Cuisines must be attended
to even If the weather is hot" Then
something that sounded like .sRum-te-
tum-tiddy" came from under JOHNS
breath.
"What did you say" she demanded,
suspiciously.
81 said that business, my dear, mist
be attended to without regard to the
weather."
"oh, l thought you said something
clse."
mo-, that was all. I shall miss YOU
very much. dear" he went on, .;Eut
it will only be for a few weeks. Won
know, and then we will be tooett,er
again. Rum-te-tum-ti--n
"The shrek of Il locomotive drowned
the latter part of his remark, and.
placing his wife on the train, he kissed
her lovingly, and in a broken yoice
babe her good bye.
When the train had pulled u of
sight John vent into the station and
said to the Agent:
give me lrum-te-tum-tiddy) ticket
to Coney Island ana return. (Oh-rum.
te-tum ,tiddy> Hi-ho!'') = New Yorh
iiu2a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
e=~ 'Beyrout.

lhere mas been some gnsh wasted
over Beyrout. 1t is pleasantly located
at the foot of the Lebanon Hills there
is abundance of trees Cor shrubs, as we
should call them IN America). and the
houses are large and motherly in aspect.
Altogether | should designate the city
as an exceedingly comfortable one. To
the tired pilgrim from desolate Pales-
tine it might even look goodly. But to
the discriminating critic l do not think
it would commend itself as a really
beautiful place. The streets of the
more modern portion are wide enough
to admit of carriage travel, and tho
long lines of b%arouches are among the
first things that favorably impress the
fugitive from the Holy Land. But the
city is anonymously put together,
somewhat as Singapore is, and has no
really elegant or imposing architec-
ture. Everything is comfortable. That
is %all-perbaps that is enough.
Here meet the ''Syrian Courts for
the first time, a pleasing feature in
house-building for this climate. Each
large private house, convent, hotel, and
public establishment is built with a
covered court, running up to the roof
Of the building. Marble is a common
material. and many of these courts are
paved with it, as well as supported by
columns hewn out Of it. These hotels
are really a surprise. They look from
without like greatstone barns. but once
get inside and you will find that they
eclipse everything else in this part of
the L-evant-with the one exception of
the Victoria Hotel at Damascus. +.
notwithstanding this modification of
architecture in view OF the climate.
there are no mechanical contrivances
for combattingsthe heat; no punkahs.
no kuss kuss tatties, no thermantidotes,
no solar topees (worth calling topees).
and no hats for the horses. The
European citizens forsake all their
''beautiful Beyrout'' for the Heights of
Lebanon during the summer months.
Up there, nesting on the mountain
sides, are many charming summer
homes looking owe the sea, some of
the highest Of them commanding a
view even of Cyprus. The foreign elc-
ment is mainly French. OF the En-
glish-speaking population America has
the most representatives. Of course
French is here, as in Egypt and and all
over Europe, the chief medium of inter-
national intercourse.
Gas the city has not, and the scarcity
OF coal promises some delay in the at
tainment of this advantage, unless the
people may learn how TO use their cas-
tor bean for gas, as is done at Jcypore,
India. The castor bean is very com
mon here and easily grown. 1 see
donkeys and camels wearily climbing
these hills OF Palestine and Syria, loaded
to their utmost capacity with great
boxes Of American coal oil, labeled
Philadelphia or New York. I saw the
same thing in Japan, China, India,
Egypt, in fact. all over the Orient.
But even American coal oil is too great
q luxury for general hotel use, and the
very finest hotels boast only of candles
for private rooms. The proximity OF
the bright fountains of Lebanon has
led to the construction of a good wa
ter-works system. There is n small
public park,-Cor. AZ. Y. Erenia0 Posi-.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
Brazilian Diamond Mines.

The diamond beds OF Bahia and
Minas Geraes, in Brazil, are very SINH
lar in character as regards the minerals
composing them and their plateau
form, or situation on water-courses.
A new bed has been recently opened on
the Rio Pardo in Bahia, which presents
some differences to those hitherto
known in Brazil. The country around
is low and marshy, and covered with
forests. The working OF these forests
has led to the discovery OF the dia-
monds, which are found in q white
clay along with beds Of decomposed
leaves. The deposit appears of modern
formation. The minerals of the clay
accompanying the diamond are, &C
cording to M. Gorceux, quart. SLICK,
monazite, %zircon, disthenc, staurotede,
grenat almandine, %corindon, and some
oxides Of IRON. There are no oxides
OF ttanium, or tourmalines, as is ire
quentlv the case in diamond beds. The
clay appears to be from Its character
and situation the debris of the granite
mountains bordering on the Bahia
coasts,-Scicntifc Ame1ican.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AT least twenty food-reform socie-
Ees are nov in q tlourishing condition
In England.
1t is one of Gladstone's peculiarities
that he cares very little what he eats,
when he eats it, or where.
The cod-fishery at Iceland has
proved a total failure this season, and
great distress exists nthe consequence.
The proposed worlds fair at Rome
has been postponed until 1894, as
France has set its heart on having one
in 1889, the centennial of the revolution.
For many years it was a rule that
no officer in The Italian army should be
a married man, but complaints became
SO numerous that the King has relaxed
the rule.
"A London clergyman has taken
advantage of the organ-grinders and
organized . band OF musicians. who,
with organs and pianos, play on the
streets, collecting money for charitable
purposes.
k-The London courts have decided
that it is unlawful for q man to keep in
his yard a dog that barks and howls;
~hand-organs may not play when they
are forbidden, and cocks which crow at
unreasonable hours, in short. anything
which acts as q disturbance to those liv-
ing near. may be suppressed by law.
Florence Nightingale says that her
experience in India conyinces her that
cholera cannot be communicated from
one person to another, but Is q purely
local epidemic, dependent upon the
clean or unclean condition of the earth,
air. water or buildings, and its spread
can he checked by the isolation of
patients and keeping the ne;ghborhood
in q Clearly condition.
In Il Greek monastery at Mount
Athos there lived an old monk, known
as the mysterious monk. He entered
the monastery at the age of twenty,
and hal been there filty-seven wears
whom his death occurred a few weeks
ago. He gave the name of Alphaupon
his entrance. and retained it until his
death. HIS name was never known.
He was learned, and spoke English,
Greek, Russian, German, French, Bel
gian, Italian and Servian. He Jos
sessed great powers of intellect, and
knew how TO keep his S c ret.
The London Lancet condemns the
practice of giving and taking such de-
pressing narcotics as choral and bro
mide OF potassium as a remedy for
sleeplessness, as mischievous and
wholly ndefensib!c. 1t is as clumsy in
theory as knocking a man down be-
cause he needs rest, and yet. as by
common consent, this eminent authority
States, the profession sanctions the
abuse Of such drugs as poisoned
sleep" producers. There are more
than a score and q half OF known
causes on forms Of sleeplessness, each
one re luir.ng d rect and specific treat
mont.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
True Friendship.

els a heart estranged worth the re.
gaining:?" used to be and perhaps is now
a favorite subject for school compost
ton as we'll as for sociable debate
among men and women blessed Cor
cursed) with a preponderance of senti-
ment. In general terms it may be an
swered that it depends upon the heart.
Some hearts are SO worthless that Their
only value consists in that muscular
contraction and expansion which ena-
BILE them to DO their pump-like labor OF
keeping the blood in circulation. The
moral nature of which they are the en-
blem keeps nothing in circulation SO
excellent and vital as that fluid, impure
as it may be, which is the life stream OF
the system. But if we wish to estrange
q noble and loyal heart, which has
seen something in us to esteem ana
love, which has found its happiness III
our happiness, and which has thought
nothing Of seli-sacritice even beyond
the point where wisdom would counsei
hesitation, we shall have to labor sss'4
for the very essence of such Loyalty -
that it ''beareth all things, believeth
all things, hopeth all things, enduretn
all things" 1t is a long while N tax
Ing ~oilense, and when it does take o.
tense it is like the stricken deer thSs
leaves the herd and goes to bury ltsell
in loneliness and silence, rather thah
like the stag, desperate with WOUNDS,
which turns upon the pursuers VINO
seek its death.-N. Y. Herald.