The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

VI UENEhAL tNIEhESIs
"A cremation society has been organ
lied in Boston
I'm shape and color Eugene Boudous'
head resembles exactly that of calf.
He is making show OF himself in Paris.
The Second District of Gibson
County, Tenn, has three men that have
sixty-three children, twenty-one apiece.
One of them has seventy-fiye grand
children.
"A Mississippi man writes to Denton
County, Tex, for runaway wife, and
describes her with high cheek-bones,
upper front teeth out, crippled in one
foot, cross-eyed and quick spoken"
"A large Newfoundland dog that held
one end of rope while one girl at the
other end swung the rope so that an
other skipped it. amused New York in
the City Hall Park recently.-N Y. San.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, of Georgia, has caused pub
lication to be made of the fact that it has
no thought of calling political conven-
ton, or OF asking for the ballot for
women.
1t is said that the recent Georgia
cyclone blew Bible half-mile from a
farmhouse. When first found it was
lying open, and the first thing that
greeted the finders eye was the sixtieth
Psaim.- Chicago Times.
AT a recent meeting of medical men
in London new society was constituted
to investigate the various causes of
inebriety, and to educate the profess
sional and public mind to a knowledge
of these causes, and to recognition of
the physical aspect of habitual intern
perance."
"A walking cane made out of nine
decks OF old playing cards, six thick
nesses out of each deck pressed together
by machinery, with steel rod running
through the middle, is owned by VIII
liam Gale, of Eureka, New. The cane
is very heavy, smooth and supple, and
! Is decidedly curiosity Deauer Tri-
b2tne.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that beans are neither seeds nor
vegetables. They being intended pri-
marty to be eaten, they cannot be
| classed as seeds, which are for planting,
and being the seed of vegetable they
cannot be classed as a vegetable, there
fore they must pay a twenty per cent.
al vaiorum duty, as other unclassified
articles. 5 Washington Post
DR.. William H. De Courcy lived in
a house in Queen Anne's County, Md,
built with brick brought by the De
Courcys from England more than two
hundred years ago. This old mansion,
''Cheston, situated at the junction of
the Black Wye and Big Wye Rivers,
was burned a few days ago. Among
the valuable things saved were the fam
lily portraits, brought over in 1862.
The cyclone sometimes acts as a
moral renovator in Georgia. When a
cyclone passed through the Stevens Pot
| terry neighborhood, near Milledgeyllle,
in 1875, there was no church in the
locality. Some of the people thought it
was Judgment sent for their evil deeds,
and Immediately started subscription
and built church. Now there are none
more pious than the people of that Vi
cinity st. LOWis Globe.
-Hail-stones, it is said, recently fell
in the vicinity of Daingerfield, Tex, as
large as goose eggs or a man two fists.
One eyewitness saw them piled up by
the wagon-load. The storm tore limbs
from the trees, knocked through the
roofs of houses, killed calves, sheep and
fowls, totally destroyed the fruit and
gardens, and forty-eight hours after
| hail-stoneS were taken to town as large
as hens eggs.
| A Kansas correspondent wants to
know how Mr.. Gladstone name is pro-
nounced. Heaven, that knoweth all
things. only knows, anxious one. 1t is
an English name and the spelling thereof
is not ever so remotely connected with
the pronunciation. 1t is probably pro-
nounced Glerton in Liverpool, Galstor
in Manchester, Glisten down in tht
country and Chumley in London-Bur
lington Hdwkeye.
Daniel Campbell, man ovel
seventy years of age, who resided neal
New Plymouth, O., committed suicide
recently in the most singular manner il
the presence of some Of his closes
friends. He climbed up tree abou
fifty feet, and then got on limb, from
which he plunged headlong to tht
ground and was dashed to death. Hi:
neck was broken and his body terribly
mangled. - Chicago Tribune.
-Four little girls, who had crossed
the ocean unattended and with no on,
, to look after them except some of tn,
kind-hearted women in the steerage
were landed at Castle Garden with othel
passengers on the National liner France
The babies were sisters-Graeie, Josie
Lena and Nellie McRostia. The young
est was only three years of age and thu
eldest eight, Their mother died yea
ago, and they came out alone to NEE
their father, who lives in Brooklyn
Nea0 York Herald.
"A Chinaman, says the San Jos
(Cal. Times, was seen coming out o
the city hall, carrying loaded revolver
muzzle downward, in his hand, which
was extended as far as possible from hi
/ body. john said bystander, ''wh,
don't you put your gun in your pocketY
! ''Me heap too muchee sabee! Justlic,
Pleace tinee me tlen dollar cally con
clealed weapon. No catchee Chinamar
again" He went to his express wagon
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