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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-16
County Building.


Estate of Benson Huntley. deceased.
Joseph W. Lloyd, VIM. D. Goodncr and
William Wheaton appointed appraisers.
Estate Of Frederick Radloof, deceased
Administrator report filed and ape
proved.
TRANSF ERS.
13-James p Early to John p Rifle,
mel nwI 90, %, 2e; 81 800.
John S. LundqGist to Andrew P. Lund-
gust, lot 10, block 8, Alday's addition to
Rock Island; 50. 100
James Thompson to Andrew j. Miller.
mel 81 90, &c; $3.100.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-16

The time for paying taxes to the col,
lector is limited, and it win be an advan-
tagc to tax payers If they pay their taxes
and save per centage and costs. Hours
8 a. m. to 8 p. IN. d. F. KRELL
Collector.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-16

DIR. j. w. Stark, Dentist, 1929 Second
avenue. d1Yr.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-16

sweency-signs, s13, 18th street.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-16

Mrs. Southworth' numerous grandchil>
dren call her Grandma Emma"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Punster's PurgatOry

From the New York Mail and Express.l
A baseball nein-"NOt Out!'
The rule of three-a trlumvIrate
Robbing the males-a church falr.
Small currency-sewing society Cos
sip.
The moonstone-an engagement dla-
mond.
Talk is cheap, except through tele-
phone.
The best coat-of-farmsf for America
manure.
It is about time for the peach crop
to begin to fail.
The place where money talks is the
United States Senate.
The average society woman is OF
opinion that charity begins at ball.
The laws delay is officially recog-
nized by the selection of Waite for
chief justice.
Miss Viele, of Cincinnati, and Mr.
Lamb, of Columbus, o., have become
one flesh.
1t is a pity that John L. Sullivan
cannot find some one to make him take
water.
A COW at Hagerstown, Md, has just
given birth. to three calves. Three OF a
kline.
A roller skating rink has it's disad-
vantages-one is SO apt to be thrown
into mixed society.
Mr. Steele is the chairman OF the
committee on vice and immortality In
the Pennsylvania Legislature.
One firm in this city desiccated
100000 cocoanuts last year. This
accounts for the absence of the milk
in them.
Niagara will continue to be the ia
vorite resort for, young married
couples this year. Bride goeth before
the fall
The monkey is, according to Darwin,
a thrifty animal. Everybody knows
that all the quadrumana are fore
handed.
An omelet of owls eggs is prescribed
as a remedy for drunkenness. In 9th
er words, take one egg of the owl that
boiled you.
A 19-year-old coachman at Quebec
has welded "A years of widow, being
evidently a man that wanted "a wife
of the good old sort"
The Six Companies are reported to
be more absolute than ever III control
ling the Chinese laborers in California.
The Chinese must Co.
Mr.. Watson Harris, of st. Johns,
n. F., has madenearly amillion in the
cod-hshery, and belongs to the Goldfish
harristocracy of the island.
Edith-"They sat in the cleaning"
means that they only occupied one
chair. A cleaning may be obtained
at any fashionable furniture store.
No parlot is complete without it.
Customer-"Give me pound OF
oleomargarine" Grocer-"Yesm ma am;
here's your change" Customer
"Why, you've charged me nineteen
cents-it used to be eighteen" Grocer
Eyes, ma'am; but we are not al
lowed to sell it now-there's a law
agin it-So it's dearer"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Titles in San Francisco.
From the Boston Transcript. ]


Probably no American city OF it's
number of inhabitants has SO many OF
it's own citizens with titles as San
Francisco. There is the Marquis
Oliver, a member of an old Galway
family, who received his title from the
pope; the Baron Murphy, who received
his title from the same source; and
Sir Claus Spreckles, who was knighted
by King Kalakaua, whom hefurnishes
with pocket money, and whose king
dom he virtually owns. A weakness
with this monarch is the receiving and
distributing of decorations, and it IS
quite the thing at a reception in San
Francisco to see a dozen or more blue
and white or red and white buttons OF
the order of Kamehamehain the lapels
OF mild, inoffensive citizens who have
at some time or other done Kalakaua
a favor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

Nothing at all in front to obstruct
your view" he persisted, anXlously.
mo, sir, said she, smiling pleasantly
at his evident interest in her welfare.
But the next minute he had an admir-
able illustration of the changability
of woman's temper, for she tlounced
around Indignantly and angrily tossed
her disdainful head when he murmur-
ed politely: 81 congratulate you."-
Louisville Journal.
"YoU have heard the story of Cas-
abianca?" said the Sundayschool
teacher to the new tough who had
been brought in by thegood little boy.
"Wherdidelive?" asked the MT. at one
mouthful "The boy stood on the
burning deck" said the teacher with a
rising infection. ooh, you mean
Pat His name wasn't Pat, it was
Casabianca." "Come off. [ heard
my pap tell about it. He seq me last
night, where's the old deck, JIMMY
and when got it out from under the
burow, and he kind o shuffied it over
a while, he SEE to the bloke that wuz
visitin us, 4 stan pat IL that the
chestnut that yer tryin' to work on
me? tot this were a place where yer
made mishunarys. . Chicago Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
The Last Vintage i'm France.

From the London Times.
The total yield of the last vintage III
France has been 1872, 566,O0O gallons,
which, though about 27,O00,OOO gal
Ions less than in 1888, exceeds by
nearly 100000 gallons the aver
age of the last six years (1S79-84.)
The frosts of the spring months at
fected the yield in the departments OF
the Meurthe-et-Mosen the Haute-Sa-
| one, the Saone-et-Loire, the Vosges,
and one or two others in the East,
but in the Central and Western de
partments, such as the 1ndre-et-Lolre,
the Loir-et-Cher, the LOlret, the Vi
enne, and the Vendee, the temperature
was so far favorable to the growth
and maturing of the grape that there
was a large increase in the yield as
compared with the previous year.
In the Southern departments the eX-
cessive heat and drouth through July
and August, together with the increas-
ing ravages of the phylloxera, tended
to diminish the yield, the departments
which suffered the most being the Ande,
the Charente, the Correze, the Dor
dogne, the Gironde, the Lot, the Lot
et-Garonne, the Lozere, and the Var.
The American plants have, fOrtu-
nately, become well acclinated in these
districts, so that the total acreage
under cultivation shows a slight in
crease as compared with the previous
year, but the wine made from them is
not, of course, so good in quality,
and the native vines destroyed last
year covered 100000 acres, of which
nearly half was in the brandy-making
department of the Charente.
The terrible effect which the phyl-
loxera has had upon the French vine
yards will be best gathered from the
mere statements that while ten years
ago the imports were only 100000
gallons, the exports were $4,000, 900
gallons In other words, the exports
were thirteen times in excess of the
imports, whereas for the last four
years the imports have twice been
double and twice treble the exports.
The only two departments which
exhibit an increase are the Aude and
the Gers, in which a very common
wine is made, but the claret-groWing
departments of the Gironde and the
Observation-Disclosures, famous for its
brandy, have suffered very severely.
In spite of all this, France remains at
the head of the wine-producing coun-
tries of Europe, having an average of
782, 100000 gallons for the last six
years, as against averages of 525 ,OOO,-
600 gallons in Italy, 495, 100000 gal
Ions in Austria and Hungary, 40, 1000,
900 gallons in Spain, 100000 gal
Ions inPortugal, rs, 100000 gallons in
Greece, 5O,90O,O9O gallons in Russia,
48,O15,O 900 gallons in Turkey, 49,
4O5, 900 gallons in Germany, 24,75O,-
600 gallons in Switzerland and Is,
100000 gallons in Roumania, the
countries which do not produce any
wine being Great Britain, Denmark,
Belgium, Holland and Servia. Cider
of which a more or less considerable
quantity is made in fifty-five depart
ments, though the greater portion of
the crop is obtained in Normandy
and Brittany, is always included in
the return of the vintage, and last
year the total quantity made was
267, 1856, 900 gallons, or within trife
of the average for the last ten years.
The crop was, however, only half as
large as in 1888.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
just as the Baby Wore 1t.

From the New Orleans Pcayune.
Among the faded, moth-eaten but
priceless treasures displayed at the
exposition, in the Louisiana historical
exhibit, is a little child's dress with
small hand bag to match, cap and
linen embroidered mittens. 1t is an
absurdly old-fashioned thing, with
a long, pointed waist, lots of gathers
and full puffs, and no one ever saw
the like of the tiny stitches; here and
there the yellow bits of thread lay up
on the faded fabric like fine powder
of gold. There are creases in the cap
strings-that quaint, old fashioned
cap-and the embroidered mittens
make one think a long time ago they
were tossed aside hastily for the last
time. And thisis SO. Fifty years ago,
the ticket on the dress relates, a little
child coming home from church with
her mother, suddenly died, and ever
since the mother has kept, just as the
baby wore it that last day, the dainty
frOck and cap and bag and mittens.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
n Boom in Christian Charity.
From the Judge

Deacon Ito minister on q street cor
ner yes, sir, l believe i'll q practical
exhibition of sympathy. When we
meet the vice-bound fellow-man, | say
reach out a friendly hand and help him
up the hill and towards those lofty
SUBMITS r. manhood where tempta-
ton ca 70 assail and"
Drunk, Staggering up)-"Gimme
a mash-lish T piper"
Deacon-"Police. police! Here ar
rest this low creature!" Turning to
minister), excuse me, Mr.. Tract, !
have an engagement with sick friend
III meet you at prayer meeting
Thus the glorious work of savingou
fellOW-man goes on.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
IL VIII Cost Won Nnthinn

For what?" For a medical opinion in
your case, if you are suffering from any
chronic disease which your physician has
failed to relieve or cure. From whom?'
From Drs. Starkey & Palen, 100 Girard
Street, Philadelphia, dispensers of the
Vitalizing Treatment by Compound Oxygen
which is now attracting wide attention,
and by which most remarkable cures III
desperate chronic cases are being made.
opinion in your case, but to furnish such
information in regard to their Treatment
as will enable you to get an intelligent idea
Of it's nature and action. 1t viii cost you
nothing as they make no charge for con-
SuItatiOn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Skating-Rink Champions,
from the New York SUM-

The most striking popularity OF this
amusement is that the professionals
of most fame, the champions who are
known among the Kinks all over the
country, and receive from $25 to $50
for exhibiting their skill for an hour or
SO in an evening, are little girls all I'M
der IA years OF age. Little Jennie
Houghton of this city, who wears a
string of medals and has the words
Queen of the Rink" on the litho-
graphs which advertise her appear
ances, is a school girl of 13 years, and
attends school regularly when not
professionally engaged. Miss Jessie
La Fare of Boston is much younger,
and, it is said, is the daughter of a
merchant worth a million and a half
The children's societies do not object
to these exhibitions. Miss Minnie
Parrott is also advertised as the
"Queen of the Roller, and winner of
seventeen medals and champion OF the
world on unchanged skates" But
Gussie Schneider, who is not. a little
girl, calls himself the champion trick,
contortion and burlesque skater, one
of his favorite feats being to pick up a
pin from the floor with each eyelid
while bending backward on roller
skates
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
It Should be Generally known

mat the multitude of diseases of a scrofu-
lous nature generally proceed from torpid
condition of the liver. The blood becomes
impure because the liver does not act prop
erly and work off the poison from the sys-
tenn, and the certain results are blotches,
piimples, eruptions, swellings, tumors,
ulcers, and kindred affections, or settling
upon the lungs and poisoning their delicate
TISSUES, until liberation, breaking down,
and consumption, is established. DR..
Plerce's Golden Medical Discovery" will,
by acting upon the liver and purifying the
blood, cure all these diseases.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
THINGS THAT NEVER DIE.

The pure, the bright, the beautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulse of q worldless prayer,
The dream of love and truth,
The longing after something lost,
The spirits yearning cry,
The striving after better hopes
These things shall never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need,
The kindly word in grief's dark hour
That proves friend indeed;
The plea for mercy, softly breathed,
When Justice threatens nigh;
The borrowings of a contrite heart
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must find some work to do;
Lose not a chance to waken love:
BE firm and just and true;
So shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high,
And angel voices say to thee,
''These things can never die.
The Guardian
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
The Notwithstanding Race.
John Fiske in Harper's Magazine

Onn F1Ske III Harper Magazine.
Now a very simple operation in
arithmetic will show that this means
a population Of fifteen hundred mill
ions, or more than the population of
the whole world at the present date.
Another very simple operation in
arithmetic will show that if we were to
60 on doubling our numbers even once
IN every twenty-five years, we should
reach that stupendous figure to about
the close Of thetWentieth century that
IS, IN the days of our great-great-
grandchildren. [ do not predict any
such result, for there are discernible
economic reasons for believing that
there will be a diminution in the rate
of increase. The rate must neVerthe-
less continue to be very great in the
absence of such causes as formerly re-
tarded the growth of population in
Europe Our modern wars are hid
eous enough, no doubt, but they are
short. They are settled with a few
heavy blows, and the loss of life and
property occasioned by them is but
trif1ing when compared with the awful
ruin and desolation wrought by the
perpetual and protracted contests OF
antiquity and of the middle ages.
Chronic warfare, both private and
public, periodic famines, and sweeping
pestilences like the black death-these
were the things which formerly short
ened human life and kept down popu-
lation. In the absence of such causes,
and with the abundant capacity OF
our country for feeding its people, |
think it an extremely moderate state
ment if we say that by the end of the
next century the English race in the
United States will number at least six
or seven hundred millions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

When YOU visit or leave New York city,
save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire,
and stop at the Grand Union Hotel,
opposite Grand Central Depot; 600 elegant
rooms fitted up at a cost Of one million
dollars, reduced to 81 and upwards per
day. European plan. Elevator. Restau-
rant supplied with the best. Horse cabs,
stage and elevated railroad to all depots
Families can live better for less money at
the Grand Union than at any frst-class
hotel in the city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

MANY ladies who for years had scarcely
ever enjoyed the luxury of feeling well have
been SO renovated by the use of Lydia Pink
hams Vegetable Compound that they have
triumphed over the ills flesh is said to be
heir to, and life has been crowned with add
ed charms and fresher beauty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Wbatthe Sexton Said,

Mr.. Lewis Edwards, Sexton of Mt.
Vernon Place Church, Washington, ID.
c., certifies that for several months
past he had been suffering with a
severe cold which distressed him day
and night. He was very much debili-
tated, with constant pains in his chest.
After trying various remedies he used
the Red Star Cough Cure, which gave
him entire relief
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Pile TunnOnS

When neglected or improperly treated often
degenerate into cancer By our new and
improved treatment without knife, coustic
or salve, we cure the worst cases in ten to
thirty days. Pamphlets, references and
terms, three letter stamps Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, 663 Main
Street Buffalo n Y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

WHAT Georgia needs worse than any
thing else is a simple, effective process
for compelling her people to pay their
debts Albany (Ga.) News.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

The ribbon belts beginning at the
under arm seam, which are worn with
morning wrappers, have long bows
and ends reaching to the hem of the
gown. The ribbon used is six inches
wide
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

THE Boston Globe says "a pretty
stocking never looks better than when
hung up for Christmas presents" Oh,
Boston! Who told you that?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

THE yearly consumption of meats
IN the United States per capita is 100
pounds; in England, 1O4 pounds;
France, "A pounds; Germany, 50
rO1106C
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
The Dearest Spot to Him.
from the Boston Journal

From the Boston Journal
"Leander, DEAR" cooed Hero, after
they had been talking for some hours
IN q confidential strain about one
thing and another, "what is the dear
est spot on earth to your"
Hero fancied in the present stage of
the bill that he would say something
IN It's favor, but Leander, whose mind
was tinged with gloomy Renaissance,
replied that yester morn, while cross
ing the Campus Martius, he had en-
countered q lewd fellow of the baser
sort, who him had held upon q wager
that he couldn't point out the location
OF one OF three certain small cards; so
hotly then did they pursue the chase
that he, that is, to-wit, Leander, was
entirely denuded of his sesterces, and
said that he reckoned the nine-spot
was about the dearest thing he'd struck
since the river opened.
The thermometer dropped rapidly
after that and Hero grew SO cool that
when Leander started to swim home
he noticed that the Hellespont felt
several degrees warmer than when he
came over In the edge of the evening.
DoN'T hawk, and blow, and spit, but use
Dir. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
WYOMING TERRITORY has gone crazy
over onion sociables. Six ladies take
an onion with them into a room, and
one of them takes a bite out of it.
Then young gentlemen is admitted,
and, if after kissing them all, he fails
to tell which of them bit the onion, all
of the girls are obliged to kiss him.
GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER has begun
in Boston q course Of twelve lectures
on the results of the census.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

MAMMA-'Yes, my child, we shall all
know each other in heaven" Edith
But, mamma, we can make believe
out when some of them call. can't We?n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

COLES CARBoLIsALvE instantly relieves
the pain of Burns and Scalds and never
leaves a Scar. 1t is the best salve in the
world for general family use 25c. and soc.
At druggists or by mail. J. w. COLE q
CO., Black River Falls, Wis
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Knocked Out by Disease.

The most vigorous physique and adamantine
endurance cannot hold out unaided against eli
matte and other influences preiudical to health.
No one can persistently breathe Initiated or mi
asmatic air, eat unwholesome food, indulge in
excess, or toll increasingly, without eventually
falling a prey to disease. One of the surest de-
fensive measures against it is Hostetter's StOm-
ach Bitters. But potent as this auxiliary of
health is it would be preposterOus to expect it
to maintain sanitary condition of the system
if they who seek it's aid Wilfuly abandon every
other precaution against disease and thus
thWart its operation. Sobriety, the avoidance
Of exciting cause are important elements in
health maintenance. regard being had to
these, a system fortified by the Bitters will be
exempt from malaria, rheumatism dyspepsia,
constipation and other maadies.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Jr., is
the youngest Judge that ever sat on
the supreme bench of Massachusetts,,
and, as he looks much younger than
he is, old lawyers irreverently talk
about what they call the Kindergar-
ten Court.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
A Clear Skin

is only a part of beauty;
but it is a part. Every lady
may have it; at least, what
looks like it. Magnolia
Balm both freshens and
beauties.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

THERE was young man so well bred
That the hair would not stay on his head
But the Carboline oil
Put new hair on the soil
And now with an heress he's wed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Horsford's Acid Phosphate,

DIR. j. n. ROBINSON, Medina o., says
I'm cases of Indigestion, constipation and
nervous prostra ton, it's results are happy"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

DoN'T hawk, and blow, and spit, but u
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
FAEH TelegrapHly, orSfiOrt-hand and Type
I @'sss'S We r1t1Rs Here. Situations furnished
@ Address VALENTINE BROS.

NbETNENR Treated and cured without the knife
Z IN ~ lNM Book on treatment sent free. Addres
OIALsO A4Re F. 1. POND NJ D., Aurora, Kane Co. III
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER has begun
in Boston a course of twelve lectures
on the results of the census.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
C0NSumP TION,

have positive remedy for the above disease by its
thousands of of the kind and of long
standing have been cured Indeed, strong faith
in its efficacy, that will send TWO BOTTLES FREE
together with VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease
to any sufferer. Give express and P. o. address,
DIR. I. A. SLOCUM, ISL Pearl ST., New York.