The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The only Chinese paper in San
Francisco has suspended publication.
In Europe the States which have
most women are Portugal and Germany.
Greece has q few more men than
women.
So closely do the ladies' dresses of
to-day resemble the costume of the last
century that only powdered hair and
face patches are wanting.-N J. Mail.
San Bernardino, men (Cal.) are
known as Alfalfa Chewers, Los
Angeles men as Pumpkin Rollers and
San Diego men as "Bee Herders,' in
Calico City.
"A firm at BoZeman, Montana, has
secured the contract to take visitors
through the Yellowstone Park for
term of ten years at the uniform price
of twenty-five dollars head.-Gh Chicago
Times.
Making young man a clerk in a
dry-goeds store, it is said, knocks all
thoughts of matrimony out OF his head
He not only learns what it costs to dress
woman, but he realizes how they can
| talk Chicago Journal ..
1t issnot generally known that the
autumnal tints of foliage are not pro-
duced in regions where the air is pol
luted with sulphur fumes. The leaves
shrivel up and blacken without pre-
yiously turning red and yellow Detroit
Post
A New York Judge decides that
there is nothing binding about mock
marriage, but he doesn't mean that
sort of mock marriage where they
swear to protect and cherish, and love,
honor and obey, and then do just OPP
posite. Philadelphia Chronicle.
"A man in BelleviIle, New, remem-
bered Just where he had lost his purse
containing three hundred and eighty
| dollars, but upon returning TO the spot
found that forty loads of earth had been
dumped over it. 1t took him day and
half to recover the purse DenUer
| Tribune.
"A young couple of Lafayette, Ala,
procured marriage license, engaged
preacher, invited guests, and dressed
| for the ceremony, but just before the
hour for their marriage arrived they
concluded that they We're not vet ready
to marry, and the nuptial papers were
returned Endorsed Not executed. -
Philadelphia Press. -t
p. Z. Bernum is stakeholder in
two sewing machine companies; owns
three newspapers. two of which are in
Bridgeport; four hundred houses,
numerous vacant lots, and a cattle
ranch. He has one thousand vacant
lots in Denver A building owned by
him in New York pays him rental of
$65, 900 a year.-M y Tribune.
The custom of inaugurating special
sales of odd lots Of goods at great bar
gains, after the holidays, is one which
stimulates large special trade. We
remember that for several years some
of our live advertising merchants, in
stead of going into the dumps after the
holidays, have built up large January
and February trade. There is no dull
season with live advertisers. -LeWiston
Me- Journal.
/ La "A New York man seeks divorce on
the strong ground that his wife's breath
Is so bad be cannot kiss her But sup
pose women should begin to ask d.
vorces for similar reasons, what a pro-
longed howl would go up from many
lips stained with tobacco juice and
breath poisoned with beer, sour mash,
and old cheese A man of sense who
has smelled the multtudes of men
| hn # ri
breath. Indianapolis journal.
| Brushes OF combs used on the heads
of persons afflicted with scaly badness
will communicate the disease to other
heads, and Dr. q. Lassar considers that
badness is spread by hair-dressers who
employ combs and brushes on their
customers, one after another, without
any regular cleansing of these articles
after they are used. Hair which Cell
from heads in which dandruff occurred
pfentifully were collected and rubbed
up with vaseline. The ointment thus
made was applied to the fur of rabbits
or white mice Soon badness made
rapid progress in the parts so treated.
1 Vaseline alone produced no effect
Chicago Journal -.
j The Limited, - that makes the run
of nine hundred and twelve miles be-
4 tween New York and Chicago in twenty
five and half hours, makes only seven
stops; but there are SO many bridges tc
cross and villages to pass through that
the speed is necessarily relaxed as otter
as once every ten miles-else the aver
| Cor he 1iUb ha 1n}
higher than 1929 miles an hour. Its
greatest speed is on the run between
New York and Philadelphia; and here
the slowest mile is made in two minutes
and the fastest in fifty -seven seconds
Many mile is made in sixty seconds. :
N. Y Herald.
1 The death of DIR. VIM. Osgood Page
of New York, recently, has disclosed an es
pecially interesting romance in his life
While studying at the Columbia mediea
school he became engaged to be married
TO a beautiful young lady of Boston. ant
the wedding day was set. The youns
lady was suddenly taken i'll and diec
upon the nuptial day. DR.. Page eve
after to the day of his death cherished
her memory with an affection approach
|, ing idolatry. He constantly carried il
his pocket her portrait in miniature
On bis deathbed be begged that the little
picture should be buried with him. Hi
request was granted, and it lay upon hi:
breast when his remains were inferred
in Greenwood.-N 7. Sun.
,, "A book agent living near Savannah