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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23
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CHICAGO Times: The Blaine organ
that can find that the new Mulligan let
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doubt he immeasurably pleased if 1t could
be shown that Blaine is professional
burglar and occasionally on dark nights
takes the road with a sand bag.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23

BRUssEIs, Sept 2S-The burgomaster of
this city has issued a proclamation pointing
out the duty of obeying the school laws re-
Gently passed by parliament and signed by
the king. He says it can be legally combatted
at the the communal elections. He forbids
the holding of meetings in the streets, and
appeals to the citizens to maintain order.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23

BLAINE ought not to have lied about it.
1t was very wicked thing to deceive the
girl with false marriage, but that was a
good while ago. His lying about it is
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23

READING, Pa, Sept. 2:i-An invitation has
been extended to Hon James G. Blaine Ia
visit this city on Wednesday on his way to
the west. A committee has been appointed
to visit Philadelphia and accompany Mr.
Blaine to this CITY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23

Water became very scarce at Shen-
andoah, Pa, on the 2lst The supply was
cut off for yearly the whole day, there being
but little water in the reservoir At nearly
all the colleries in that region water must be
hauled for a number of miles, and it is
feared some colleries will have to stop if re-
lief does not soon come
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23
PUT YOUR HAND

In a vice, turn the screw until the
pain is all you can possibly bear,
and that's Rheumatism; turn the
screw once more, and that's Neu-
ralgia. Such was the definition of
these two diseases given his class
by a Professor in a medical college,
and he added: Gentlemen, the
medical profession knows no certain
cure for either" The latter state
ment is no longer true, for it has
been proved time and again that
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23

COUNTY TICKET.
For Representatives.. IL. PADDELFOltD.
For States Attorney-ELM0RE W. URST.
For Circuit Clerk-GEO. W. HENRY.
For Coroner-JOHN ALBRIGHT.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23

CARTER HARRISON will be here tonight
and Rock Islanders can see what sort of
man the next governor to be is
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23
Heart Pains.

Palpitation, Dropsical Swelling
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CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
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STATE:
For Governor, -CARTER Fl. HARRISON.
For Lieutenant Governor,-HENRY SETTER.
Secretary of State,-MICHAEL j. DOUGHERTY
For Treasurer,-ALFRED oRENDORFF.
For Auditor Pub. Acc'ts-WALTER E. CARLIN
For Attorney General ROBERT A. MCKINLEY
ELECTORS AT LARGE.
O. B. FIcKLIN VIM. G. EWING.
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET
NATIONAL:

NATIONAL:
For President-G CLEVELAND.
For Vice President-THOMASA A. HENDRICKS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-23

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terest solicited from every town in Rock Island
and adjoining counties. Letters must reach the
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A TT0RNEY AT LAW, Solicitor in Chancery and
IL Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and collec
tons. Office, Buford's Block, ID avenue, over
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A TToRNEY AT LAW, Office No. 1913 Second
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TToRNEY AT LAW-0flice with j. T. Ken
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A TToRNEY AND COUNSELLOR AP LAW
n Rock Island, Ills, Office in Post Office Build
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The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
- FOV"|-------- TINE STONE MAsON's WALLET,

The stone mason uses a wooden mallet, says Mr, Rose, as quoted in the Blacksmith and Wheeiluight, be- cause it delivers just the kind of blow that is required. His mallct head is made circular, because his tools are steel, and have no wooden handlers, and he is able to use the whole circum- ference, and thus prevent the tools from wearing holes in the wooden mal- let face. The handles of both these mallets are short, because they will strike sufficiently powerful blow with out being used as q great leverage. On the other hand, the stonebreaker's ham mers have long handless, to avoid the necessity or stopping. The pattern makers hammer is long and slender long, that it may reach down into re- cesses and cavities in the work, and slender because, being long, it Las weight enough without being stout, Now, fake the blacksmith's sledge, and We find the handle nearer to the pene, or narrow end, than it is to the broad faced end, while the pavior's sledge has the handle in the middle of its length If we seek the reason for these diff ferences, it will readily occur to us that the blacksmith's helper or striker de- livers most of his blows in vertical direction, and uses mainly the face and not the pene of the hammer, and by having the eye, and therefore the handle, nearest to the pene end the face end naturally hands downward, because, as held by the handle, the face end is the heaviest, and as a result he needs to make but little, if any, effort to keep the face downward, The pavior's work however, lies near the ground, and he uses both faces, his hammer not re- quiring pene. Hence the handle is placed central, balancing both faces equally.
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
A GOOD AGRICULTURAL CREE ).

The Canada Farmer says: "We be- believe in small farms and thorough cultivation; We believe that the soil lives to eat, as well as the owner, and ought, therefore, to be well manured; we be- lieve in going to the bottom of things, and therefore deep ploughing, and enough of it, all the better if it be sub soil plough: We believe in large crops which leave the land better than they found 1t, making both the farm and the farmer rich at once; We believe that every farm should own good farmer; We believe that the fertilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry, enterprise and intelligence; without these lime, gypsum and guano would be of little use; we be- lieve in good fences, a good farmhouse, good orchards, and good children enough to gather the fruit; we believe in clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy, and a clean conscience; We believe that to ask a mans advise is not stopping. but of much. benefit; we believe that to keep a place for everything, and everything in its place, is pretty sure to lead to good tools and to keeping them in order; that kindness to stock, like good shelter, is saving of fodder; We believe that it is a good thing to keep an eye on experi- ments, and note all, good and bad; We believe that it is a good rule to sell grain when it is ready; We believe in produc- ing the best butter and cheese, and marketing it when it is ready" All this may certainly be commended as "sound doctrine."
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
IRyINa,s PARTICULAR PET.

To write to Mir. Irving without men tioning to his constant companion, Charlie, would be great oversight. Charlie is a Scotch terrier, who, despite the order conspicuously displayed in the hotel "no dogs allowed in the rooms, " feels himself quite the most important parsonage in Mir. lrving's apartment He attends his master to all rehearsals, excepting that of the "Lyons Mail. " In this play pistol is fired, and as he is no lover of war he withdrew from the stage the first time he saw it presented, and since he cannot be persuaded to go to the theater when this play is on. When Mir. Irving is on tue stage he lies in front of his dressing room and al- lows no person to pass through the door, with the exception of the dresser. The Baroness Burdett-C COutts gave the ani- maj to Mir. Irving, and he seems to re- gard it as his right and privilege to guard his masters person and property.
 When Charlie first saw the rehearsals of "Louis XI," he raised considerable disturbance before he could understand the play. The kings crown is to be taken from his head without his knowl- edge, and in order to do this extreme caution has to be used to accomplish the act successfully. Mr. Irving, after explaining the situation to the actors who were to take the crown, saw that they did not fully grasp his meaning, so, seating himself in chair, he placed on his head what he calls "my billy cock hat" which was to represent the crown. As the actors approached him with stealthy step "Charlie" eyed them suspiciously, and when he saw their purpose he jumped for one of them and stopped the proceeding on the spot
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
HOW TO CURE A COLD.

Go to bed. Take off your clothes, including underwear. Lay wet towel (so it won't drip) over your chest. Wrap yourself up in a soft, warm blanket. Put another over that. Pile more on that. Then quilts. Become a huge roll, with only the head exposed. A living mummy. Mind that these wraps must be tightly about you, especially about the neck so that no warm air may escape. You must be rigidly tucked in from head to foot. You
 must be dramatically sealed, so far as
 blankets can seal you. Now you are in
 for it. The object is to make you sweat.
 Sweating is natures effort to burn out her chimneys and make them "draw." The operation may not be pleasant. You will feel very hot and uncomfortable.
 You will feel hot waves roll up and down your body. You will experience smothering sensations, and all manner of miseries of this character. The more nervous, sensitive and imaginative you are the more misery. Minutes stretch into small hours. The forces inside of you are working to throw the dead matter out. If you have lowering about you any friends who have recommended this treatment and who are doing all they can for you, you will regard them as friends. You will burn inside for half an hour or more. Then you will begin to sweat. You will want to have the treatment over a few minutes after you commence sweating. Your friends will tell you you must remain 'In pack" longer, much longer, possibly an hour. You will put yourself down as a martyr and hero for every minute you remain in the blankets. If you do stay an hour you are hero or heroine as the sex may determine. Now jump out and sponge the body lightly and quickly all over with cold water, put on your fan nels, jump into bed again and cover with the ordinary amount of bed cloth ing. You are in comparative heaven The throat or lung soreness is diminished or gone entirely. The cough is no longer hard, but loose, the expectoration freer. You feel no longer as if you were bringing up tacks and brass filings. The skin chimneys and fues are cleared out. The draught is restored and the fires of life burn freely New York Graphic.
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
PROFITS IN POULTRY.

Poultry as a source of profit, is gener- ally undervalued by most farmers, for, from the hap-hazzard style they are kept in, perhaps there is not much profit-nor would there be in any other farm stock -if no more care or attention was de- voted to them than there is usually be- slowed upon poultry. If only the mul- titude of insects destroyed by poultry (so injurious to the crops of the iarmer) are considered they are of great value while their guano, if properly saved, is worth five times what it cost to feed them.
 Farmers are too prone to conclude that "chickens eat their heads off," when,
 if they kept correct account of all food furnished, the number of egg laid chickens sold, and those eaten by theil families, they would discover evidence sufficient to convince them, that their prejedice, was without reason or founda. ton.
 When poultry have to roost in trees, scratch in a neighbours garden for a living, and not considered worthy of at tention, they are truly of-not much ac- count. Common fowls, which may pos sess good laying qualities-derive those good traits from some strain of pure bred fowls, but if allowed to intermingle promiscuously, will soon become so crossed that the laying propensity is de- stroyed or bred out. It would be the same with pure bred Herd book cattle unless kept pure. There are several varieties of pure bred fowls, that are very profitable egg producers, some lay ing as many as eighteen dozen in one year. At the average price of thirty cents per dozen, amounts to S5.4 per hen. Thisis not mere surmising, for have had hens that laid twenty one dozen in year.
 If farmers who think poultry does not pay, would give their feathered stock to their sons or daughters, with permission to enjoy and own any profit that might accrue from keeping them, they would soon be convinced that, "there's some- thing in it." Poultry rearing in some parts of our country, by ladies, is indeed quite extensively carried on. There is certainly no more health promoting exer- else than that afforded by caring for, or having the management of flock of poultry, and if the ffock is any of the pure breeds-there is in addition to the eXhilarating influence, an enthusiasm that causes what might otherwise be considered task, to become a pleasure, and therefore profit and pleasure are happily combined. A young lady in Bethel, Pennsylvania, during the year 1874, kept strict account of all the ex- penditures for feed, &c., for her yard of fowls, and at the regular market prices for eggs and chickens, she cleared above all expenses three hundred and sixty dollars, besides having more stoc k on hand than she started with.
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
A<OA THE ANVIL.

Ordinary alvils are forged in six or seven pieces and then put together.
 Cast anvils are hardened in a float
 instead of being dipped, and larger
 sized ones are swung into tank by
 means of crane. These latter are also
 frequently cast about a corse, which
 permits them to cool more uniformly.
 Gold beaters use for an anvil a steel
 block having a surface about three by
 four inches in extent. Upon this the gold is reduced to plate one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness and afterward
 beaten out on an anvil of black marble. The forms and uses of the anvil are constantly extending in variety and, from the liliputian one of the watch maker to the great ones used in forging heavy cannon, they are daily growing more busy throughout the world Many of the common blacksmiths' anvis are provided with a second horn socketed upon the beak and having grooves upon it's upper surface into which horse shoes are driven for the purpose Of bevelling the inner surface, so as to prevent "balling" when travelling in snow. The various special forms of the anvil are exceedingly numerous. The progress of machines and the introduction of steam hammers have brought into use in late years enormous anvils weighing, in many cases, several hundred tons. These are usually cast in the form of a quadiangular pyramid, and placed with the smaller end upon substantial foundations of masonry Industrial World.
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
10 ( BREAD.

"Bread!" exclaimed a Vassar Col lcge girl. "Bread We'll, should say l can make bread. We studied that in our first year. You see, the yeasts fer ments, and the gas thus formed perme- ates everywhere and transforms the plastic material into clearly obvious atomic structure, and then" "But what is the plastic material you speak of?" ooh, that is commonly called the sponge" "But how do you make the sponge?" "Why, you don't make it; the cook always attends to that Then we test the sponge with the ther- mometer and hydrometer and lot of other instruments, the names I don't remember, and then hand it back to the cook; and l don't know what she does with it then, but when it comes on the table it is justlsplendid. ."-T Chicago Saturday Herald,
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
THE THING NEEDS CLEARING UP.

LORNA DooN.-lt's very clever, and awfully thrilling, beyond doubt but there are few points, here and there, where we don't quite understand it.. When the Earl throws open the oaken doors and rushes down into his ances- tral hall, and says Civilian, pause T" what makes Arabella go off into a dead faint? You killed her two chapters be- fore. And we don't understand how the simple country maiden, Elsie May, could come back to the cottage door from which her cruel father drove her in his anger, and come back at that in the midst of driving snow.storm, when the sleet was driving down on her un- protected features, and let her taper fin gers play with the honeysuckles around the door. Why, you had that cottage destroyed by a connagration just after the poor child wandered out into the calm summers night and smiled bitter ly to hear her little brothers laughing as they snow balled each other in the back yard. This thing needs clearing up, somehow. Call around during bus mess hours with calendar, and clear it up.- From Puck.
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME-,

"Two for half dollar?" asked the polite druggist.
 "Yes, that is the kind, but will only take one tonight; have left my case at home, and they break up terribly in my pocket" was the reply.
 Reaching out a choice brand to his customer the apothecary waited until he had selected one to suit him. and then replacing the rest in their proper box took the proffered twenty-five-cent piece and dropped it in his till.
 After doing this he furtively took two dimes from box in his money drawer and procuring some matches from A shelf, dropped the money and the luci- iers in the young mans hand, saying, as he did so, "Here, have a match ?''
 This advice was taken by the youth. and when he had succeeded in lighting hls purchase and it's costly aroma reached the olfactory organs of his ad miring companion, she turned her love- lighted orbs up to his and said in tones of worshipful awe:
 70, Charlie, how can you afford to smoke twenty-fve-cent cigars" !"
 When he had assured her that "the best is good enough for me-" his con. quest was complete and she departed in company, willing to follow him to the ends of the earth Boston Globe.
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
EXPERTS ON BLOOD STAINS.

Referring to some recent experts tes- timony as to blood stains the Microscope says: "IIuman blood cannot be told from dogs blood, except under favor- able conditions, and not invariably then" Mir. Woodward, of Washington, says; "The average of all the meas- urements of human blood I have made is larger than the average of all the measurements of dogs blood. But it is not rare to find specimens of dogs blood in which the corpuscles range so large that their average size is larger than that of many samples of human blood" When it is remembered that the measure ments of human blood by so-called high authorities vary from 1-3050 to l-4630 of an inch, expert tes- timony on the subject takes on serious aspect, and juries should receive it with great caution.
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
EVOLUTION AT THE POLLS.

Would abolish Rum, Spittoons, Pro- fanity, Vulgarity, Filth, Riot and Vio- lence, by organizing public Morality, and true citizenship through both sexes over eighteen voting together in Public Halls, with Music, Books, Paintings, Statues, Flowers, Birds, Polite conver- sation and children, making each elect ion National Holiday of pleasure for every Father Mother and Child, in Land First where it's Creator speaks twenty languages, Crossed ocean forty seven times, Travelled thrice around the planet and initiated Clipper-ships Horse Railroads, Credit Mobilier and Union Pacific, and guiltlcss of all crime, has been used by benighted world to ma cadamize Fourteen jails In short, this is the Fist Newspaper ever published large enough to absorb George Francis Train
The Arizona champion., 1884-03-29
SCOTT WAY FALLS OVER A wHEELBAR.
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Beloved reader, did you ever come home in the night time and go gaily around through the darkness towards the back door, and suddenly, without the slightest premonitory symptom Of your impending fate, walk with extreme sangfoid squarely upon the wheelbar- row that had in some mysterious man. ner got itself across your path? If you haven't, you have missed an exciting experience. If you have, you have probably sold your wheelbarrow and Low borrow a wheelbarrow, when you want one very badly, of your neighbor. There is nothing that demoralizes a man more than falling over wheel barrow in the dark. There is nothing that fills him with more vehemence and keeps him falling for a greater length of time than wheelbarrow in his path in the night time. The wheel is generally toward him. He walks upon that first, and before he recovers from his first little surprise his legs strike the shaft, and he turns double summersault over the dashboard, as it were, and the wheelbarrow rears up and kicks him, and gets it's legs tangled up with his legs, and falls over on him, tears his coat, and skins his face, and knocks the whole top out of his hat, and brings him about in such change of appearance generally that when he finally recovers in a measure from his surprise and gets loose from the in fernal machine and crawls to the door his own wife takes him for tramp and refuses to let him in. There is truly no event so full of exciting situations, and pyrotechnic displays, and pro lem surprises, and evanescent reflections and general ecldt, an one to-be-con- tinued-fall over a wheelborrow. Beware of the terrible wheelbarrow when it is night.