The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


number of female counterfeiters.
-Whalebone is now selling at the
rate OF Sl2, $50 per TOM, Y. Sun.
The ruined cliff city discovered last
summer in Arizona, which occupied the
sides of canyon, has been named Wal
nut Canyon Chicago Herald.
"A grandmother at the age of thirty
Is more familiar sight in China than
a spinster, says Colonel Tehenc-ki-
Tong, military attache of the Chinese
Embassy at Paris.
Complaint is made in several Maine
villages that the number of robins and
other birds that annually return to
build their nests is constantly growing
less. Various causes are given, among
which are cats and small boys.
"A returned missionary says that
the greatest foe to industry and civiliza-
ton in tropical countries is the cocoanut
tree. 1t goes on bearing fruit abundant
ly for forty years without any cultiya-
ton, and the natives, knowing that they
can depend on it for substance, remain
lazy and savage.
A correspondent of the Tucson CA.
- Star, writing from the San
Carlos Reservation, says the Apaches,
who year ago were on the war-path,
ready to sweep down upon our herds
and ranchmen, rifle in hand" have
now clustered hands holding the pillow
and using the hoe
The girls are giving up the fashion
OF banging their hair, but the Jockeys
and dudes have gone to banging the
horses tails. If horses could talk dur
ing fy-time no tail-banger would have
the least chance for life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness" in this world
or the next Chicago Inter Ocean.
Thomas Bell, the naturalist, tells a
story OF how spider caught a tartar.
A big blue-bottle fly bounced into a
spiders web, The spider hastily pre-
scented himself and threw his long arms
around the fly. The fly returned the
compliment, and, after tearing and bat
terinS the web to pieces, flew away
with the spider. Chicago Herald
A recent edition of the New Orleans
Itcag'1'ae was printed on paper made of
bagasse, the refuse of sugar cane after
the juice is squeezed out, and the event
has created quite a stir among paper
manufacturers. The sugar planters of
Louisiana, who have burned this hith-
erto worthless stuff to get rid of it, now
see possibility of making money out
of it. and some of the more enthusiastic
OF them think it will be nearly as profit
able as the sugar crop.
-Blakely Hall is authority for the
statement that every big firm in New
York City has an athletic club among
its employees. The proprietors take a
lively interest in the contests and twice
every year the different clerks. sales
men, porters, drivers, floor walkers
and window dressers adjourn to the
athletic grounds of some popular clnb
and hold contests to see which in the
house is the -swiftest runner or the best
athlete in general. IN T. Graphic.
The pitiful condition of the labor
market-in Austria is shown by strike
of blacksmiths and farriers, which has
Just been begun at Pesth. The strikers
demand only that they shall be allowed
to rest on Sundays; that twelve hours
shall constitute days work, and that
their pay shall be seven forins ($2. sly
per week. At present they are required
to work fourteen hours per dav and
half time on Sundays, and receive as
wages only about thirty-six cent per day.
General Grants recent difficulties
have encouraged newspaper CORE
spondent to inquire into the lives of the
various Presidents after their retirement
from Office. Washington, he finds,
went to Mount Vernon and raised to-
bacco, and Jefferson, Madison and Mon
roe followed his example at their
homes; John Adams returned to Quincy
and raised corn and cabbages; jackson
returned to the Hermitage; Van Buren,
went to his Undertook farm; Polk died
few months after returning to Tennes-
see; Fillmore re-entered his old law
office at Buffalo; Buchanan pursued ag-
rieuiture at Wheatlands; HAYES lives on
his Ohio farm.-BOSto71 journal.
A prominentP Philadelphia insurance
man said to a reporter: 1T is surpris-
ing how few people would insure their
lives unless induced to do so by agents
or brokers. do not think one-fiftieth
of the number of policies annually is-
sued by life insurance companies are
| unsolicited. In consequence a large
| proportion of the years premiums have
TO be paid by way of commission to the
agents. very. Woodworking body of
men, by the way. 1t seems strange,
| however that Wa cannot huy reaI aCta+a
or dabble in stocks, or insure our lives,
or do hundred other things without
employing and paying somebody else
to do it for us.-PtiIadelphia Record
In the little village graveyard at
Rockville Center, l.. l., stands marble
monument four feet square and twelve
feet high, that marks the last resting
place Of hundred and thirty-nine peo-
| pie. The monument contains the fol-
| lowing inscriptions: ITO the memory
of seventy-seven persons, chiefly emf
grants from England and Ireland, be-
ing the only remains of one hundred
souls composing the passengers and
crew of the American ship Bristol.
Captain McKnoun, wrecked on Far
Rockaway Beach. November q, 1886. -
ITO the memory of siXty-two persons.
chiefly emigrants from England and
Ireland, being the only remains of a
hundred and fifteen souls formerly the
passengers and crew of the American
bark Mexico, Captain Winslow, wrecked
on Hemstead Beach. January 1887. u
N ]. San.