The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Sahaoa refuses to allow Kentucky
whisky to 60 through the Dominion. an
route to New York. N Y. Sun.
Who wrote the most, Dickens
Warren or BulwerP Warren wrote
snow and Then;'' Bulwer wroto
Night and Morning. and Dickens
wrote "All the Year Round DRY
Goods Bulletin. ''
-Gustave }. Lowengart, of San
Francisco, having lost heavily by osmh.
hing, threatened the life of his nncle
unless 81 900 was given him. When an
officer arrived to arrest him. Lowenoart
killed himself with revolver,
The British Consul in Galveston
mas word of warning for ne'er-do-
wells intending to emigrate from En-
gland to Texas. He saws: Young
men from desk in an Office, unac.
qualnted with country life and unaccus-
toned to manual labor, had better stay
al nome. | find many such are induced
to come here, and the result is that thew
become 'loafers, and rapidly descend
in the social scale" -,
There Is law in Minnesota pro-
vlding for the punishment by fine and
imprisonment of the crime of stealing
or destroying fruit, and much heavier
penalty for wilfully or maliciously mu-
ulating in any way trees, ornamental
plants, or vegetables, upon any street
or highway in any city or village. This
Is good law and deserves to be adopted
by every State.-N Y Examiner.
1t was the punishment of Sisvphus
VINO was an original seller of strawber
rles, that he had to forever roll a huge
stone up an impossible hill. The mod
ern strawberry dealers punishment is
| somewhat similar. He is doomed to
the perpetual attempt to put quart of
berries into pint box. He ALWAYS
fails, but he keeps at it with a pluck
that deserves communication Toronto
Globe.
"A young Jerseyman sued Young
lady who rejected him for the engage
ment ring he gave her, whereupon the
maiden father sued the youth for tho
firewoOd and oil that were consumed
during the courtship; also for the meals
the wooer ate at the house and for the
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the same time. The most discouraging
part of the affair is that the father of
the tickle maiden won the suit But it
must be rendered that this happened
IN New Jersey Chicago Herald.
How little some business men know
OF their neighbOrs, says the Philadelphia
cat, is well illustrated by story told
| by q gentleman in the street car. He
has been living in his present home for
nearly year, and his nearest neighbor
was in the street before he came there.
The other day his little boy broke a
window next door while playing ball.
The father called that evening to apol-
ogize, and to his surprise recognized
in the gentleman of the house an old
school friend who had once saved his
life at the risk of his own.
MIR. W. w Graham read paper
recently before the members of the
Royal Geographical Society, London,
on Travels and Ascents in the Hima-
| lays" There can be no doubt, he
thinks, that mans range is increasing
In describing tho highest point reached,
he said the last slope was pure ice, at
an angle of from forty-iive to sixty de
greeS. Having surmounted this peril
Gus mountain, he reached the lower
summit Of kabru. at least 23.700 feet
above the sea. This is the highest re.
corded ascent by LOO feet.
In n voyage from Rio Janeiro tc
Bordeaux two French savants carefully
investigated the quality of sea air.
They found in all instances that over
the open sea, at a distance from the
vessel, the air was singularly free from
the multitude of organisms which are
found in land breezes. tits now believed
by these and other Investigators that
none of the germs of an epidemic car
cross an ocean with the wind, but thai
all low forms of life contained in it mus
soon reach the water and die. SCI
vosages are now sometimes recon
mended on this special ground