The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Leroy CO., hog has beaten the
world by fasting 1877 days at time
Gereldnd Leader.
"A man at Oconee, Ca, who OBJ
tanned judgement for twelve hundred
dollars in y lawsuit, had just seventy
five dollars left after settling with his
lawyers.
DIR. Berry, of Lagrange, KY, has
received, by the award of jury, what
is considered the largest DOCTORS fee
ever paid in Kentucky, 1880. 1t was
paid for attendance on a wealthy old
maid.
"A New York letter gives this bit of
fashion news: Women no longer paint
and powder to excess. A man NAV
walk from one end of Fifth Avenue to
the other without seeing single face
that is artiticially illuminated. The
reign of artificial color is over"
Rowland Jones, aged sixty-nine, Of
Rochester, N. Y, committed suicide
the other day by jumping from the
Central avenue bridge into the Genesee
River. The body went down the river
and over the falls made famous by Sam
Pateh's last leap. Financial troubles
were the cause of the rash act.
Joseph Newman, of San Fran
cisco, claims that in 1870 he presented
to the Upited States Senate an Ameri-
can flag twenty feet by thirty-six feet,
made by himself out of California
silk, the first flag ever manufactured of
American grown silk, and he has sent
letter to Senator Miller asking what
has become of it. Chicago Herald
A ranchman down in New Mexico
tackled this note on the cover of his Sc
curel locked we'll: lowing to the dis
organized state of affairs in the terri
tory, and the lawlessness prevalent
everywhere, all parties are positively
forbidden to camp on the ranch or
take any water from this Well No
questions answered, but shoot on sight"
-Ismail Pasha, the dethroned Khe-
dive OF Egypt. says: 1.-The days of the
Turk are numbered in moral, material
and martial power. The great event
of the near future is the coming Arab
nationality. Where will it be initiated?
At Mecca. Who will supplant the
Sultan at Constantinople? Germany,
Austria. Russia will never come again
as near to the Golden Horn as she did a
few years ago"
In the new School of Medicine now
being erected in Paris it is proposed to
keep a registry of all the legally
recognized physicians throughout the
world. A preliminary investigation
has shown that such list would COM
prise about $4,000 names-65, 900 in
the United States, 5000 in France,
81, 900 IN Germany and Austria, $4,000
in Great Britain and colonies, 10000 in
Italy, 5000 in Spain.
William Penn and Thomas Story,
travelling together in Virginia in the
ante-reVolutionary days, were caught
in shower of rain, and unceremoni-
ously sheltered themselves from it in a
tobacco warehouse, the owner of which
happening to be in, thus accosted them:
lyon have a great deal of impotence
to trespaSs on my premises. You enter
without leave. Do you know who
amp To which was answered: mo. "
why, then, would have you to know
that | am a Justice of the peace. "
Thomas Story replied: my friend here
makes such things as thou art-he is
the Governor of Pennsylvania"
"A member of an engineering party
down on the Rio Grande, below Santa
Fe, writes that while going from Albu
| querque to Socorro they often had tC
walk along the line of the railroad fol
distance of ten miles. picking W
splinters, bits of bark, and chip:
dropped while laying the ties, in order
to get wood enough to build fire. 4
very large section of country there il
absolutely destitute of wood of am
kind. Finding whole tie that haC
been overlooked, they tied it onto /
donkey and carried it along and useC
it more sparingly than water, which wa
also scarce. Chicago Inter Ocean.
An amusing incident occurred re
Gently in q school house in Saco, Me
A lad of nine years, the son of lum
herman living a considerable distance
from the town became pupil in tn
school. As is usual in all schools, tn
larger and older boys began to chat
him, and among other things told hin
that he was too fresh and had bette
dip himself in pork barrel" Tn
bewildered lad, Immediately upon al
irving home, disappeared into the eel
lar, and when found two hours after
ward was industriously engaged il
washing his clothes in the brine of hi
fathers pork barrel. Trans
csipt.