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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30
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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

For Acknowledging New Publications.
Sheridan had convenient formula for
acknowledging all the new publications that
were sent to him. Dear Sir: have received
your exquisite work, and ] have no doubt
shall be highly delighted after have read it
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Of all other medicines by DR. r. V
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" is
approaching. uurivaled in bilious dis
orders, impure blood. and consumption.
which is scrofulous disease of the lungs.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Joachim, the famous violinist. requires
all pupils applying to him for instruction
TO be ever sixteen years of age, and they
must pass severe examination.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

NJ Blaine will deliver six speeches in
Connecticut. at Hartford, New Haven,
Bridgeport Waterbury, Meridian and
Norwich
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Salvation Oil, the greatest pain cure on
earth, is guaranteed to effect u cure
where it is possible for the seat of the
disease to be reached bv liniment Price
25 cents bottle
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

An exchange has an article headed,
every woman should wear smile" Blu!
there is no use talking. they won't do it
unless fashion says so.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

1t is said that Isabella, ex-queen of Spain
owns considerable real estate in Philadelphia,
and furthermore, is a shareholder in ths
KeelY motor
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Ruhinstein, the pianist. has grea!
weakness for games of chance.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Young George Gould is already quoted
as saying that marriage is a serious
matter"
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Miss Alice LoDgfellow, eldest daughter
of the poet, has gone to Paris,
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

There are men i'll Atlanta to-day who wou4
give 300 cash for a small ginger cake war
ranted TO taste like those they ate in their
school-boy days-At1anta Constitution
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30
ROCK ISLAND & PEORIA RAILWAY.
ROCK island 4 PBORIA
RALW AY.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO TIE
EAST AND SOUTH

Trains leave Rock Island
100 q. IN. Way Freight.
S.45 Fast Express.
i4Op m. Mail and Express
$50 Through Freight and Accommodation
Trains arrive at Rock leland:
l9Oa IN. Through Freight and Accommodation
e.isp. IN. Mail and ENpress.
$40 " Fast Express.
400 I" Way Freight.
The FAST EXPRESS leaving Rock Island at S.9a
M. arrives at Peoria 12.s1 p M at Springfield
lisp. M, at Decatur 5.oGp. ~, Jacksonville ITO
y. m, Alton 80 p. m, st Louis S.i5 y. m, and
Terre Baute 1l.5S y. m, THE SAME DAY. Making
This the BEST and QUICKEST route TO all points
southeast
The / 20 r. m. train makes Clnee connection al
r;alva with c. b. Il =. for points west arriving al
Galcsburg at As y. m. at Burlington $40 y. m. Al
KeOkuk 10.25 p. m, and at Quincy 10.G5 y. m.
Arriving at Peoria at $50 y. M, making Close
connections with the |. h. " ". and T. p. 4 W
Ter Indianapolis. connecting there with all fast
tains for the east and south.
Sc FAST TINE SURE CONNECTIONS, ana
sites as low ag hy any other route.
! r. II. CABLE, X. c. SfOCkHOUSE,
Gcn'l Supt Gen'l Tiki. Agt
The 6 80 y. NJ. Accommodation lcsves every day
except sunday
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Owns and orerAtes nearly $500 miles OF thor
Gughly equipped road in Illinois, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Missouri, Mime sofa and Dakota.
1t is the Best Direct Route between all
principal points in the Northwest, South
west and Far West
For mlps time tables. rates Of passage and
freight, etc apply to the nearest station agent
Of the Chicago, Milwaukee n St Paul Railway OF
10 any railroad agent anywhere in the wCrld
r, MILLER. AV.B. CARPENTER,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Il Tiki Ag
J. T. TUCKER. GEO. II. HEAFFoRD.
Asst ien'l Manager Ass'tGen. Pass Agt
MILWAUKEE. WISCONSIN
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For notices in reference 10 Special EXCur
sions changes OF time and other items of interest
in connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee Il -.
Paul Railway please refer 10 the local columns Of
this uaper.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30
A COLOSSAL LOG JAM.
THE WORK OF BREAKING 1T UP
WATCHED BY THOUSANDS.

Operations of Lumbermen at Taylor's
Falls, Ninn.-Nany Feats of skill.
Activity and paring-Biliy the Kid.
The Whole jam Moving.
The Dallos of the St Croix, as tho rocky
gorge is called through which plunge the fall
and rapids Of the river, are marvel Of
scenery worth a long Journey at any time,
but lust at present, for space Of three miles,
not a particle of water is visible, nothing but
a vast chaos Of logs damned III between the
rocky jaws of the gorge and representing
$50 90, 600 feet of lumber. Huge trunks of
trees, 80 70 % feet loag, they lie heaped in
every kind OF indescrilable position, some bolt
uprig ht like piles, so'ne at angles of A de-
graes, some headed 4 yvn stream and others
straight across it, Meanwhile, the whole
fore of the falls and rapids of a great river
has tn work it way through and under the
enormous mass. OF course, the problem is
how to di,io1ge this tremendous block, so
that the logs can float down to the Mississippi,
and the whole work has to be done at the
lower end.
As the visitor camps down on the rocks
ovc,hanging the river to watch the sight he
feels for all the world like spectator in an
oil Roman ampitheatre about to witness a
fight between men and the ugliest specimens
If the brute creation Indeed, the choice
between grizzly bears, lions and tigers,
and the terrible forces of such huge tree
trunks with the pressure of an avalanche
bchinl them and rapids that can make them
individually leap and spin like 50 many
bowling dcryishes, is not one worth drawing
lots for The combatants are taken in at a
Glance as a hundred or more men, strong as
hons and spry as cats, clothed most of them
from head TO foot in bright red flannel, and
armed each with a long pole, shod with a
steel spike and hinged semi-circular lever,
for clamping round the logs and rolling
them over Three hundred yards below the
| Jam lies a powerful steamboat. with
capstan capable of exerting pull of Su
horse power, and around which is wound q
hawser, the end of which is carried on TO the
lam, and attached to what are called the
key stone logs, that is, the logs that evince
| the most obstinate, dogged and absolutely
| rehcllious temper.
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THE FASCINATION OF THE SCENE.

Very curious is it to observe how, when
ever chance is given for seeing splendidly
developed human bodies in vigorous action, n
perfect fascination sets in for watching the
sight There was one old lady, of a singu-
larly bright and Intelligent face, sitting on
| the rocks, who said she could not tear herself
away from it, that she sat there all day long
| and day after day. On my cravenly and
| materially saying to her that | must really
GO up to the hotel to get something to eat, she
| broke out in the most reproachful tone, "Oh,
| let your dinner go; the men may any minute
start a quarter of mile of the jam, and then
it will he the greatest sight in the world. I've
ordered my dinner to be brought out to me
on the rocks" Such enthusiasm was truly
admirable
Contagious as was her example, must,
still in contrition, confess that did go up to
the hotel-some five minutes away-and had
| just sat down to bowl of soup, some beef
| and canned corn, when q cry was raised:
s'The whole jam is moving!' Billy the Kid
| himself would have been put to it to make
| better time than for the river ledge What
| sight it vast For fully quarter of a mile
in length and 600 or 700 feet in breadth, the
vast press and throng of the mob of giants
| were in furious motion. | could think of
nothing but u countless herd of frantic bufra-
| lOes leaping over one another and trampling
| one another under foot, the irresistible ava
| lanche of motion and terror from behind
| sweeping before it everything TO the front
| Indeed, the tremendous jam, thirty TO fifty
feet in depth, was working perpendicularly
up and down as well as forward along all its
| line. Whenever O temporary opening was
made, enormous trunks that had been sub
merged deep down would leap out into the
| air and on to the backs of the others with
precisely the motion 50 often witnessed in
herds of cattle Meanwhile the wrenching,
| strainng and groaning was such that ii
seemed as though the whole mass must be
ground up into pulp for the paper mills. For
perhaps fifteen minutes this striking scene
lasted, when finally the vast body of logs be.
came consolidated again in another Jam a
quarter of mile farther down the gorge al
the extreme end of which the same process
must he begun over again. Minnesota Cor
Boston Herald.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

And now the tug of war begins The cap
| stan slowly revolves, the hawser lifts from
| the river. fine Jets Of water spinning from it
under the fierce tension. The upright tree
| trunks wrthc and groan and twist, their
anarchcal bark-clothes torn off under the
| irresistible police grip i'll which they are held,
| till they are left all white and naked, and at
last slowly, sullenly, and with groans and
| curses of despair, detachment of perhaps
| lOO logs is torn away from the main body.
| And now the fun comes Nimble as many
eats, the re1-shirted, red-trousered lumber
men leap on it TO break it up Here a dozen
are shouldering away with their levers to
| roll off a huge trunk at the top, here they are
pushing down under water to head the right
way a cross binding log As the units of the
mass get more and more dislodged, huge
hol.s of trees shoot up from underneath and
fairly leap like enormous fish ont of the
water Everything is now spinning and
pluucing. and an unlettered layman would
| as lief attempt promenade down hill on the
sides of So many rolling barrels, as essay the
feats these agile fellows are easily upto.
Down below stands ready and manned
rowboat for the rescue of any who should
fall into the rapids But the thing is not to
| IHiI III, Tor the llSh VI uiVNlliiiF to
to the risk Of being caught and ground up
between the logs. Only once did we see n
man tumble off, but while women shrieked
and his mates tore round to point of the
| ledge where they could drag him out, the
brave fellow himself seemed TO take it as a
simple little incident Of the profession
Every other time there were logs enough left
between the torn off and captured detach-
mcnt and the main army to enable the men
to leap back from point to point. Billy the
Kid, as the universal voice had christened
one 1.-the, graceful, yet powerful young fel-
low, was always in the lead. He wore a
white rose in his hat Deaping like deer
from log TO log he was always at the point
where effective work was to be done, and SO
great was the glow of admiration he awak-
ened in every unlocking feminine breast that
he would only have had TO leap dripping
ashore and fling himself, soused Leander,
at the feet of any Hero of them all to have
borne her off as his forever.
|
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30
CHICAGO, BURLINGTON d QUINCY.

UtpOt, WOIIHt ANtHU'.
J. F. CO0K, Agent. Rock Island.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-30

Operations of Lumbermen at Tayior's
Falls, Ninn.-Nany Feats Of skill.
Activity and Daring-Biliy the Kid.
The Whole jam Moving.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-05
RAMA CATESBIANA.

This is the learned name of the common
bulifrog. Coi.mon as it is, it is safe to say
that not one in Il thousand OF those who see
it every year know its habits or how long it
lives.
First the frog is hatched into polliwig,
commonly called tadpoe. When it comes
to that how many of us ever know, without
looking into the dictionary, that the correct
spelling and pronunciation are found in the
word ''polliwig ?" Again, how long does it
take the little tRdpoe to push out its legs,
slough off its tail and develop into full
grown following bullfrog that keeps people
awake nights
Well, generally it requires two years to
produce the full sized batrachian. 1t is
hatched from the egg in the warm days Of
spring. If food is abundant, and it must be
very abundant, and if the weather is warm
and water is very plentiful, and so on, the
little polliwig will develop into frog before
the w!nter. But, generally, it is not till the
second summer that it can slough off its de-
grading caudal appendage and rise to the
full dignity of a creature without tail. In
Canada it always requires two years.
The bull frog is a most ravenous eater.
Ele is carnivorous, eating every living crea-
ture that he can get outside of. Bugs, mice,
birds, spiders, snakes, and small turtles and
grasshoppors aud crawfish are alike fish to
his net. He is not particular, but he is aw.
fully hungry most CT the time. Good sized
pebbles have been found in his stomach.
These frogs have been known to even COB.
BILE up young ducks. But on the other
hand, young ducks also gobble up the frogs
when they get the chance, so honors are
easy The tadpolc Of the bullfrog is large
and strong, and grayish green in color. In
winter the old frog ceases TO sing and buries
himself i'll the mud, hu5 pcliwigs in brooks
and pools are common enough throughout
the cold weather.
This frog is the oGe that is eaten. Only
the nind legs are used for this purpose, and
they are IL great delicacy, tasting more
dainty than the finest game birds. In South
Carolina tho bull frog grows sometimes to
I've twenty one inches long. 1t is caught for
market either by shooting or by batting q
hook with piece of red flannel or with an
insect Of some sort. The creature ia so vo-
racous that it snaps st everything it sees,
and tbereiu lies lis destruction.
The anatomical structure of the frog bears
To that Of human being I, weird resem
blance that Is startling In swimming the
motions: of The Two are identical. The queer
likeness suggests strange kinsbip.
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Heavy Eaters.

The GermnnS, always celebrated for heavy
eating, furnish Us with some curious Gull
nary Items In The middle ages the goose
was the granr dish among them; but they
also ate crows, storks, cranes, herons, swans
and bitterns--,heSe last named dishes being
arranged il a circle of honor around the
goose. The geier, or European vulture, the
dog-lish, the dolphin and even the whale
were eaten; while roast guinea pig was
considered a very great delicacy. All their
foods were highly spiced, and sauces were
endless in their variety three or four kinds
being served up with each dish. In these
sauces, pepper, mace, cinnamon, cloves, gin.
ger, garlic, saffron aud pimento contended
for the mastery, and the more decided the
flavor the better tie COOK.
OF course, the great art was TO arrange
these sauces in an ascending scale of piquan-
cy. So great, indeed, was the passion for
highly favored foods that turkeys had often
an allowance Of musk in their daily rations.
The most fashionable wines were those of
Chics, Cyprus and other Greek vim
tages; but, as highly favored foods
require drink 10 correspond, the wine
was generally spiced, and was served
under the maine of hippocras. 1t was not
thought unpelite even as late as the six
teenth century, for guest TO ask his host
what wines he intended to provide, so that
he might make his calculations as to what
he would take before he confiued himself to
the particlar tippe which should place him
under the table; nor was it thought unpo.
lite in the middle OF ~ banquet to undo the
girdle in order to make more room for such
tempting ,id-hits US pike tails, barbels'
heads, skin of roast goose, aud swan tongues.
The feast usually commenced at eleven
| O'Clock il the forenoon, aud the longer the
host could Keep the guests at the table the
better was he thought of !; but in the matter
of drinking he was expected to encourage
potations by providing bacchanalian songs, or
| at least by being himself the first to become
hors du combat. 1t was with this latter OBJ.
isct that rich man would mix his wines,
! while a poorer one would contrive to have
his homeiy tankard strongly dosed with
wine, or even spirits, when these had become
, general.
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James z. Clements; and
Samuel &. Brent, P'4' mar4-w4w

VIRGINIA: at Rules held in the Clerks office
' of the Circuit Court of Westmoreland coun-
ty, on the first Monday in March, 1886.
Frank kintz and Nellie Kntz, minors under the
age of twenty-onc years, by Elmer E. Kintz
their next friend, (all Of tho city OF Alexan-
dria, Virginia,) compainauts, against John T.
Given, trustee SC, James H. Gridley, Ed
ward w. Byrn, X. II. Evans, Howard @. Hey
worth aud Henry J. Kintz, defendants. In
chanccry
The object of this suit is to have partition of
the real estate in the bill Of tho complainants
mentioned, and that that portion belonging to
the compainants may bo set apart and allotted to
thcm and placed again under the authority of the
trustee selected and named in the will of their
grandfather. Anthony Kintz, deceased, late of
the State OF Now York, and that John T. Given
one of the defendants, may be required to settle
al account of the proceeds arising from sales of
lots OF land mentioned in the complainant's bill
and to distribute the same, under an order of
Court, TO the parties entitled thereto, or to a
trustee designated by the Court to receive the
eamc.
Affidavit having been made and filed that the
defendants. John T. Given trustee &c James n.
Gridley, Edward W. Byrn, R. H. Evans and How
ard O. Keyworth, are nonresidents of the State
of Virginia, it is ordered that they appear here
within one month after due publication of this
order and do what is necessary to protect their
interest in the premises A copy-tcste:
]. WARREN HUTT. Clerk
Jno. Critcher, jr, p. q. mar5-w4w
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ADVICE TO MOTHER.

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lren tecthing, IS the prescription of one Of the
best female nurses and physicians in the United
States, and Aas been used for forty years with
never failing success by millions of mothers for
their children. During the process Of teething
its value is incalculable It relieves the child
from pain, cures dysentcry and diarrhBa, gripping
in the bowels, aud wind collie By giving health
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Putz Pomade, the best known article for cleaning
brass Silver Soap, Knife Brick, Stove Lustre,
Furniture Varnish, Ready Mixed Paints, white
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I, Benjamin Anstin, Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Alexandria county, Virginia. do hereby certify
Commissioner, with approved security according
to law, in the above entitled cause Given under
my hand, as Clerk of said Court, this 18th day of
March 1886, Test: BENZ. AUSTIN, Clerk.
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AGNEW.
JOSEPH KAUFMANN,
HENRY STRAUSS.
nh29-ts

RY VIE UE OF DECREE of the Corporation
- Court of the city of Alexandria rendered on
the 1oth day of March, 1886, in the chancery
cause therein depending between John A. Field
and wife, plaintiffs, and Isaac Buckingham and
others, defendants, the undersigned will offer for
sale at private sale until SATURDAY, the 18th
day of April 1886, at 10 o'clock M on the said
day. when if sold at private sale by that time)
will be offered in front OF the Royal street en-.
trance to the Market Building, at public auction
to the highest bidder the following property, viz:
l.. A THREE-sTORY BRICK DWELLING and
LOT OF GROUND on the north side of Prince
street, between St. Asaph and Pitt streets, for
merly the residence of Mary Buckingham, de-
ceased.
A VACANT LOT OF GROUND adjoining
the abovodescrbed property on the cast
3. A TWO-STORY BRICK DWELLING and
LOI HF GROUND on the west side OF Fairfax
street, between Cameron and Queen streets, 'front.'
ing on Fairfax street % feet 1Ol, inches.
forms of sale: One. third of purchase money
cash on day of sale, and the residue in three equal
instalments at six, twelve and eighteen months
from the day Of sale; title to be retained until
the whole purchase money is paid, and tho bonds
of tho purchaser to- bO taken, with approved Sc
curity and bearing interest, for the deferred in
JAMES r. CATION.
Special Commissioner.
l, John S. Beach, Clerk of the Corporation
Court of the city of Alexandria. do certify that
James Il. Cation, special commissioner above, has
executed bond, with approved security, in the
penalty of $4,000, conditioned according to law
mh10-ts JOHN 8. BEACH, Clerk.
BY Green & Wise, Auctioncers.
DY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Circuit
- Court of Alexandria county, rendered on the
25th day of May, 1885. in the suit of Robertson
VS.. Robertson the undersigned, special commits
5ioners in the said decree named will on SAT-.
uRDAY, the 18th day of April, 1886, at twelve
oclock m in front of the Market House, in the
city of Alexandria, sell at public auction, to the
highest bidder, all of that VALUABLE TRACT
OF LAND, lying OH the waters Of the Potomac,
in Prince William county, which was heretofore
sold in the suit of Robertson vs. Robertson, to f.
NJ. Willis, except the G7s4a acres which has been
to the said Willis-the tract to be sold
295 acres.
Tcr"s of sale: One fourth cash, and the residue
in six, twelve and eighteen months; the purchaser
to give bond and security for the deferred pay
ments, and the title to be withheld until the
whole of the purchase money is paid.
c. E. STUART,
+. E. MEREDITH,
Commissioners.