The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Denison (TeX.) man pawned s
cork leg with a pawnbroker for an ad-
vance of twenty-five cents.
Deer in Florida are being slaugh-
tered so rapidly that it is believed they
will become extinct in few years,
1t is said to be a habit in rural
Germany to-day for men to comb their
hair the first thing after they have sat
down to table.
The name of Tussekiah Post-office,
Lunenburg County, Va, has been
changed to ''Nutbrush," with Lucy T.
Hart as postmistress.
The mail rider who carries letters
to and from the Cour d'Alene mines
charges fifty cents each, and often has
from forty to fifty. He takes the risk
of being either scalped or frozen. Chi
cago Herald.
After a physician had tried in vain
to dislodge two false teeth which 4
Pottsville Pa.) woman insisted had
lodged in her throat, she found the
teeth in a drawer, where she had put
them. Pittsburgh Post.
The deep bass of the organ ceased
suddenly in a church in Lewiston, Me-,
when lady voice was heard by the
whole congregation distinctly to declare:
81 don't care one bit; | do want a
piano. "-Boston Transcript.
Frank Bert, fourteen-year old boy
of Lynn, Mass, hung himself the other
day because he could find nothing to do
to support himself and relieve his par
ents Of the burden of his board and
clothes. He was soon cut down. Dos
! ton Herald.
Physicians declared that two chill
dren of L. +. Grant StraDg, of Amster-
dam, who were suffering from diptheria,
caught the disease by playing with 8
| doll, which had been handled by their
sister, who recently died of diphtheria
Troy IN ~ Times.
There are three thousand seven hun,
dred Cinnamon in New York City, and
quite q number of them attend Sunday.
school, where they go to learn the En-.
glish language. Many more ChinameT
are leaving the country for China thar
are coming here. N. !. Times.
Mono Lake, in Colorado, was re
Gently swept from one end to the othel
by a tornado, which lashed the watel
and piled lathery foam upon the shore
twenty feet high In the mass of foam
were thousands of dead ducks that haC
been dashed against the rocks.-Denue
Tribune
We are thinking of writing grea
temperance drama in four parts, as fol
lows: Part Admitted to the bar
Part I.--Hanging around the ba
(samc actors, but different scenery.
Part IIl.-Behind the bars.-Part "
Stranded ton the bar).-Burlingtoi
Free Press.
in certain countries in South Amer
lea birds are kept to tend tlocks as dog
are here. The bird generally used
the chana, an allied form to the horne
screamcrs. 1t is extremely pugnacious
darling at dogs or other birds when the
approach lis charge, driving them ava
with loud cries and sturdy blows tror
the beak and tail.
William Hycks, of Huntingdon
sold his little daughter, aged abou
twelve years, to laborer at the reform
atory for the consideration of thre
drinks of whisky. The child, upon re
. fusing to accede to the inhuman trans
| action when called for by the purchaser
was mercilessly beaten by her bruts
: and drunken father,-PhiladeEpht
, Press.
We met two of our friends fror
the country, both disabled, one with
! black eye and the other with lam
back, and both attributed their mis-
! fortunes to dream The first spran
upon an imaginary foe who was abou
to as5ail him, and ran the bed pos
into his eye, and the other poor fellow
tumbled over chair trying 10 kill
. snake, -NeU Boston (Ter.J Herald
A Matters must have come to prett
0 pass in Boston, when the Herald talk
{ out in this strain: Between garroteI
e on the streets and bald-headed ol
e 'mashers' in the horse-cars maxim
themselves diragreeable to ladie,
Boston is not improving her reputation
Q A few straig ght shots or long sentence
for the footpads, and woman or tw
= with spirit enough to grind the corr
=, or slap the faces of the salacious ol
wretches, will help Ito restore goo
order and decency.'