The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-04
| Spanish, and Queen Victoria, Of the

Spanish, and Queen Victoria, Of the
English.
eyes of war; the old phrase
used by English poets, is curious re-
suit of phonetic spelling. Vair is the
spotted fur made by the skin of the
gray squirrel; verre is the French word
for glass The poets evidently meant
what Chaucer wrote: Eyes as grey
as glass" but they wrote vair, and
hence the counterpart of the mistake
about Cinderella's slipper, which was
of ''vair, y not ''verre. y
Long shelves in one of the offices
at the White House contain cases, each
of which bears the label eccentric. -
These cases are crammed with written
communications bushels of them in all
which. have been received by the
President in the last two years, and
which are so eccentric" that no man
can tell what their writers We're trying
to express. Such letters of course re-
main unanswered = Washington Star.
Our own tobacco exports" says
the Boston advertiser, "are at least ten
times larger than are those of Turkey;
but probably few people know that in
the production, consumption and export
of tobacco America exceeds every other
country, and that, as a producer OF
quantities, it is followed Immediately by
| Russia, Hungary, Germany, France
not by Cuba, which has but about 4,50C
tobacco farms, and exports less than
does Turkey
"A Philadelphia young man has gone
into court in order to find out ''a
woman's reason" He was engaged tc
marry one of the elusive creatures, and
not only engaged, but ready and willing
to fulfill his promise, when she suddenly
and without explanation, refused to SEE
or have anything further to do witt
him. He now sues for breach of prom
Use. not to recover pecuniary damages
but to find just why she treated him so
At the end of the trial the inquisitivt
young man will, probably, have learned
that she Tilted him because she wanted
, to. Philadelphia Record.
Mrs Charles Dunlap, living a few
. miles from Circleyille, O., a poor WON
an, depending on daily labor for support
went to town one day recently and I'm
expectedly came across man whom sht
had worked for several years, and re
| ceived of him over $500. This she haC
earned by hard labor. After shopping
in town she set out for home, and on tn,
way encountered two men on foot, on,
of whom asked permission to ride IN ne,
4 Z 4
To carry the mans valise, whereupol
both men climbed into the wagon. On
of them seized the reins, and the othe
seized Mrs Dunlap by the neck an(
took her money, amounting to $235
The robbers then fled - Chicago Times
! "A good many young people try tC
be original, and make a miserable mis-
take in the endeayor. They imagine
they can turn the whole world round by
some eccenTicity of dress or behavior
or by some method of speech. In gen
eral, they offend their friends, and de
light their enemies. As a matter o
fact, people had better let well alone
take up the custom of those about them
and rest assured that what the collectiv
wisdom of the world agrees to do, is o.
the whole, best-THe Household
- p
In the neighborhood Of Agra, il
India, sixty-fye children. from a fey
months to four years old, are stated +
have been carried off by wolves durin,
the recent hot weather and the rains
, The ravines bordering on the Jumn
and Chumbal Rivers are infested b
! these animals, which are apparently be
coming more and more daring year b
year.
, Along the side of the Sierra Valley
] at an altitude of fifty to one hundre
: feet, there is a warm belt, free fror
frost and climate changes, and whic