The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


The Jacksonville (F1a.) Cont
house is to be built of granite from
Maine.
The French have a machine for
stamping letters and canceline the
stamps.
There are not more than two or
tnree women whose wealth is greater
than Queen Victoria's.
1t is estimated that the farmers of
Maine have this year scattered over the
potato fields fifty thousand dollars
worth OF paris green in their efforts
to destroy the potato bug.
"A gang of burglars on. Staten
Island appointed two of the number to
serenade the inmates of well-furnished
house, while the others broke in at the
back and robbed the premises. N. Y
Sam
There is said to be in the Museum
OF Exeter, England, a book bound in a
portion OF the skin of murderer, who
was executed in 1880. The binding is
OF atawny color, and is neatly chased
in gold.
Discussing the suicide of animals a
London paper declares that the dragon
ny ''held securely by the wings curls its
tail upward to iss mouth and chews itself
ylciously to pulp" This beats the per-
Torrance of the Kilkenny cats.
A painter in New York tried to
smother a fire in his office with a coat
After the coat was burned up he re-
nembered that there was sixty dollars
In cash and check for one hundred
and ten dollars in one of the pockets.
N Y. Tribune.
The inventor of an electric appara-
tus for deaf people claims that no ear is
so dead that it cannot be made to hear,
and that In many cases the apparatus
Will cure deafness. Ii may be con-
ceaied in cane, umbrella handle, fan
or any such article of Convenience
Chicago Herald,
/, "A fiye-yeah-old son of Austin Brady
OF Steubenville, O., was stung to death
by black hornets recently, and a little
daughter narrowly escaped with her
life. Blood poisoning followed the
stlngs of the insects. Mr.. Brady has
lost several members of his family in q
like manner CleUeLdnd Le0Cler.
The primeval woods of Maine con-
tain nineteen thousand square miles and
still cover an extent seven times that ID
the famous Black Forest of Germany.
The States of Rhode Island. Connect
| cut and Delaware could be lost together
IN Maine forest and still have mar.
gin OF wilderness wide enough to make
its explorations without compass q
work of desperate adventure Boston
Journal
The degraded, half-fed farmers OF
France keep the treasury of the Repub-
| lie always full of money The farmer
loves the Republic rs much as the Paris
ian detests it. The Republic receives in
its savings banks the money of the pool
up to one thousand francs, and gives
them three and one-half per cent. for
its use. The peasant farmers have
nearly eight hundred million dollars or
deposit in these banks.
| A young man who is serving a five
years term OF imprisonment for theft il
karthus, Bohemia, has turned his en-
forced leisure to use, and manufactured
a straw watch five centimetres in diam
eter by two in thickness. The works
comprise few bits OF straw, some cot.
ton, two needles and Il pin, small
piece Of paper forming the dial. 1t i:
said to 90 for six hours and could be
made to go twelve with few improve
mentS.
Indiana has one illiterate voter il
every thirteen; Massachusetts, one il
every sixteen. The Northern State.
range from one in ten in California t.
one in thirty-one in Colorado. In Tho
Southern States, the illiterate voters il
South Carolina are more than one-half
in Alabama. Florida, Mississippi
Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia
one in two; while Missouri with one il
nine presents the best record.-N Y
| Herald.