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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
DIR. J. W. IRELAND, V. y,

GRADUATE OF THE ONTARIO NETERINA-
Ury College. Toronto, Canada and member OF the
Illinois Veterinary Medical Association; office first
door east of InrtOn's sale stable, Davenport.
Calls by telephone or otherwise promptly atteau-
ed to
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
On the First and Second Floors

The building is of brick: heated by four large
boilers; lighted by gas interior finished in natur-
al wood; furniture new and elegant; water sup
ply unlimited bath rooms on every floor; the best
Skill and material have been empoyed IN securing
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
Perfect Ventilation and
Drainage.

tits believed that st. Mary's is unsurpassed in
ts refining Influences in the high standing Of its
pupils and patrons, in the beauty and comfort of
its appointments, in the thoroughuess and variety
Of Its instruction. in the spirit of order and indus
try that pervades it. st Marys scheol is recon-
mended to parents who wish 10 place their daugh-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
The Highest Advantages are
offered.

French and German are spoken; special atten-
ton il given to literary studies. Every pupil Ii
cared for as daughter in the family, IA 10 her
health, manners, conversation and character. All
sleeping apartments are
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
The Location is Perfectly
Healthy.

Ii is also easy of access from all parts of the
country on the c., b. Il Z railroad, at Knoxville,
Illinois, between Galesbnrg and Peoria. The es-
tablishment is first class throughout, the result Of
twenty years experience and an expenditure of
S2G0.U00 An extensive course Of study is provi-
ded, and
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
WIN. MfENikY,


ATTORNEY AT Law, Solicitor in Chsucery 81
Il Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and collec
ions. ONCE, Bufo.d's Block, I'd avenue, over
3sker's Jewelry store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22

EOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-CoUN-
L ty rights in very valuable patent; it IL some
thing that viii be used by every farmer; ii will
yield large profit to the party handling it. Easy
terms can be mads. Investigation T, quested. Ad-
dress :" ARGUS office ~ Al
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
A Christian School for Girls

Founded 1868; en- arced. 1872 and 1850: com
peted and newly furnished throughout, 1881
The Rector, Vice Principal and Matr0n who
founded the school, continue in charge. The OIL
GERS and teachers reside with the Rector and his
family in the school
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22
INTELLIGENCE COLUMN.

E'OR RENT.-FURNISH ROOM
4 at No. 1900 Third avenue. 1866
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22

k0R SALE A HOUSE AND LOT
l. in II very desirable location; apply to
NJ. NJ CORBETr, Airy Al Law.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-22

No. 1712 Second ave. Rock Island.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
MEMORY OF WRONGS.
1t Is the Receiver, Not the Giver, Who
Feels the Force of Blows.

1t Is the Receiver, Not the Giver, Who
Feels the Force of Blows.
The Impressions which we receive
from contact with ordinary daily oc-
currences are something like those
made by rain drops on sands, to be
partially effaced or blended with new
impressions as the rain of events con-
tinues. Among these events are a
class that continually repeat them
selves in nearly exact forms; these are
like the unceasing water drops which,
falling upon granite. wear the surface
into seams and cavities. Another class
of events strike us like blows that i'm
bed themselves, or break off some por-
ton of the substance. They do their
work in an instant of time; but the
marks of violence are as ineffaceable
as the hollow in the rock wrought by
the water-drippings of twice d score of
years.
1t is the receiver, not the giver of a
blow, who comprehends it's force. In
moment of blind passion the stroke
falls, the arm dealing it scarcely re-
turning to the excited brain any thing
beyond the most perfect intelligence
of jar or wound. But he on whom the
blow falls quivers in sudden pain, and
the married flesh ever after holds the
sign of injury. The striker forgets in
day; but memory, with an intense re-
alization of the wrong endured, keeps,
with the stricken one, the wrong ever
after sharp in the axis of vision.
Some men. from thoughtfulness, and
some from ill-will, strike a great many
blows, and hurt great many persons
with whom they come in contact; and
not a few of these wonder why they
have enemies. They have forgotten
the blows, the force of which at the
time were not estimated, and therefore
not recorded in their memories with
any more distinctness than the record
of rain drop on the sand; but they
who received the strokes have retained
them just as a rock retains the ham
mer's blow,-N y LedGer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
Corundum in the Useful Arts.

Much interest has been created of
late in the extended application of
corundum to the useful arts, and it is
believed that in the near future it will
assume a far more prominent place
among the valuable minerals as the
source of the metal aluminium; the
cheap production of the latter SUBJ
stance has long been an object of ex-
pertinent with metalurgists and corun-
dunn, therefore. furnishing as it does
the purest source from which it can be
obtained, will probably prove the most
valuable ore, and for it there is a
steady and regular demand; it is gen.
orally found associated with crystal
inc rocks, such as granular limestone,
gneiss, granite, or slate. The corun-
dunn and emery are largely used in the
arts as abrading and polishing mate
rails; the mineral is ground, and sep
arated by passing through sleeves into
classes of various dimensions, and these
are then further prepared in different
ways, according to the purposes for
which they are intended. 1t is not a
long time since the discovery was made
that crystalized corundum, when
ground. forms a better abrading ma
terial than emery, owing to the fact
that it breaks into sharp-edged frag-
ments, while emery has rather a round
ed form. Large deposits, both of CO.
rundum and emery, have been found
in various States of the Union.-N 7.
Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
Facts About the GuilIotine.

1t is certain that neither DR.. j. T.
Guillotin, who did not die by the in
strument called, or supposed to be
called, after him, nor DR.. j. B. V. Gull
lotine who did so lose his head, nor
Nj. Louis, who had such credit as was
due to the invention, was the real in
ventor of the guillotine, though one or
other of them may have recommended
it, and, perhaps, perfected it. 1t was
in use in Italy at least two hundred
years before their time, as is proved by
a manuscript Neapolitan diary in my
possession, of which the last entry is
dated 1893. The book is full of col
ored drawings of professions, en-
bassies, battles, fleets and various his
torical events. Among the drawings
are two of veritable guillotines, stand
ing in no need of being further per-
fected, at one of which a condemned
person is kneeling, in expectation of
the fall of the death-dealing steel.
Notes and Queries:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
A Clear Case of Drunk.

81 am sorry to see you here. Mr..
Shadbolt," said the police magistrate,
ION charge Of being drunk on the
street. 1 think this is your first Of
Tense. though, and l am not disposed
to"
'.But / was not drunk, your honor
protested Shadbolt. 81 knew exactly
what l was doing. l can remember
every thing that took place, from the
time Dinguss asked me to lend him ten
dollars till the policeman collared me. -
'You are well acquainted with Mr.
Dinguss, presume?'J
Certainly"
Ibid you lend him the ten dollarsP"
81 did. your honor. but"
1.-The fine, Mr.. Shadbolt, will be three
dollars and costs" remarked the mag.
istrate, shaking his head sadly.-Cht-
cGgo Tribune
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
INJUSTICE TO POPLARS.

One of the Most Beautiful Shade Trees for
Farms and Koad-Sides.
There seems to be a prevalent idea
that because few species of poplar
sucker freely the entire family should
be tabooed. For street-planting this is
not a very serious fault in any tree,
but on the lawn any species that in
clines to reproduce itself too freely
should never be used. Among the most
Objectionable kinds may be mentioned
the silver-leaved ADELE, a beautiful
tree, of rapid growth, but an unmitigat-
ed pest; the Athenian poplar (Populus
gr8ca) a foreign species of little Or no
value, although very extensively plant
ed for ornamental purposes in tie
early part of the present century; the
Lombardy poplar, a tree that, in addi-
ton to suckering somewhat, soon
becomes diseased and is not to be rec
commended excepting for its striking
fastigiate growth. Our native species
are generally less Objectionable than
those introduced from abroad, as are
all three of the above, notwithstand-
ing some of them, as the American
quivering aspen, and Populus grandi-
dentata, will sometimes sucker a little.
The newly introduced so-called
Carolina poplar" has proved to be
one of the most beautiful, hardy and
valuable trees for street planting that
we possess. 1t is a well-marked form
of one of our native species, possibly
P. angulata. or angled cottonwood,
and does not sucker. 1t is of easy
cultivation and quickly forms
tree. The growth is decidedly
upright, and for the few first years
after planting the long vigorous shoots
should be headed back each spring.
This pruning thi ckens up the head,
which soon develops into roundish,
in place of columnar form. The foil
age, which in thrifty specimens is
large, deep green, and glossy, is ex-
ceedingly attractive, and creates a
dense shade. Like all the family, it is
not especially partial to any particular
soil. but the best result is always OBJ
tanned from liberal feeding. and the
poplars are no exception to the rule.
1t is a tree that may be recommended
without fear of unprincipled persons
creating "a corner on it's sale, as each
cutting will grow freely, and in two
years form a merchantable specimen.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
THE MEXICAN WASP,
An Insect that Carries the Spanish In
QUESTION in Its Tail.

An Insect that Carries the Spanish In
QUESTION in Its Tail.
When Western wasp feels well and
is not troubled with rheumatism in the
back, it can put more of its fine work
into the square inch of mans cuticle
than any other live fowl on the globe.
A man who has been thoroughly stung
by Mexican wasp takes delight in
drinking melted lead or gallon or two
of hot liquid sulphur, they are so de-
icious by contrast. A few red hot
nails driven into the soles of ones feet
seem to ease the pain Inadvertently
left by these wasps.
eff you have never been stung by an
old-fashioned Mexican wasp" writes
Charles Brazil from Pueblo, Col, it is
an experience you want to avoid care
fully, contenting yourself with such in
formation about the little beauty as
you can gather from third parties and
documents. 1t is, when mature and
healthy, about two inches long,
with a sting that looks like the
point of fine cambria needle.
1t is a brOwnish red in color,
and its disposition is always hostile.
When it stings you there is for mo-
ment or two a sensation of numbness
about the part which rapidly gives
place to a pain that can only be de-
scribed as agony. If you can imagine
how it would feel to have wire drawn
the most sensitive part of your
body and then raised slowly to white
heat you could perhaps form theo-
retical idea of what the feeling is like.
The sting is never fatal, and the
pain passes away after an hour or two,
but it is simply anguish while it lasts.
During the Mexican war one of the
companies of Doniphan's command
camped in an old building where there
was a colony of these wasps. They
to disturb the insects in some
way, and the company was completely
routed and demoralized; some of the
men ran miles away from the place be-
fore they were found and gathered in
again. DIR. Cunning, of Beshoar, COL,
has made quite a study of these articu-
lates, which, he says. represent an I'M
classified member of the wasp family.
There are, / believe, no living Great
ures outside of snakes, scorpions and
centipedes which are able to inflict so
much suffering on their enemies. ~
Y TeLe0ra7n
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06

however, it is better to accent the sec
ond syllable, yet there is some author
ity for accenting the first.
Agricalturist. Not agricultu-ral-ist.
Albino. The here should be pro-
nounced like and not like e.
Albansen. The second syllable re-
ceives the accent, not the first.
Alcordn. The first syllable, al, re-
ceives the accent.
Atgebraist. The later editions of both
Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries
put the accent on the first syllable of
this word.
alias. The first syllable, a, receives
the principal accent.
Alien. A word of two syllables only.
1t is pronounced ale-yen, not alien.
Allegiance. The best usage makes
this word of only three syllables.
Auopathy. This word is divided thus:
al-lop-a-thy, and the second is the
strongly accented syllable. Ahopathist
is divided and accented in like manner.
Attude. Care should be taken to
make the of this word clear u.
AHy. This word and its plural, al
ties, are accented on the second syila-
BILE.
almond. The is silent.
Aims. The is silent, and the a has
its broad sound as in father.
alteration. The first syllable here
is pronounced like al. in alum. The
first syllables of alternate and of altern-
atire are pronounced in like manner.
AtUeolar. The second syllable, ne,
receives the accent, the third syllable,
o, being barely touched.
At,Oays. This word should be pro-
nounced as it is spelled. and not al
wus.
A'neliorate. This is word of four,
and not of five syllables, a-meel-yo-
rate.
Amenable. The second syllable is
me, not men.
Anchouy. The second syllable, which
is cho. receives the accent.
ancient. The first syllable is pro-
nounced ane, not an.
Andiron. The last syllable is pro-
nounced urn, not ron.
Angel. The second syllable of this
word is jel. not jul.-AJred Ayres, in
N. Y. Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY
Vanity the Most Munifieent of All Human
Weaknesses.

Vanity the Most Munffioent of All Human
Weaknesses.
Vanity is a munifcent weakness. No
virtue, not even Charity, is so lavish
in it's expenditures. Whoever minis
tiers to it successfully, on comprehen-
sive scale, is almost sure to amass
fortune.
Several of the followers of Columbus
spent years in searching for the fount-
ain of Eternal Youth, which supersti-
ton assigned to some portion of this
hemisphere, and the ladies of CASTLE
and Aragon-especially the old duen-
nas-subscribed, it is said, most liber-
ally toward the exploring expeditions
All hope of discovering natural
source of rejuvenescence has long since
been given up, but of artificial sue
cedaneums the name is legion. The
lily and the rose are for sale at every
drug store, and private interview of
ten minutes with a fashionable hair
dresser will enable '.any lady with hair
of an obnoxious color (see the bar
bers' advertisements to fiaunt ringlets
of bloomy black defiantly in the face
of Time. The operation must be re-
peated every five or six weeks, how
ever, and costs many dollars. But
what of that! Vanity is liberal to
itself The poor shall want bread, ere
Vanity shall lack its lads to beauty"
Thus it happens that while those
who labor to benefit the mind are but
too often poorly rewarded, your toilet
thinkers. inventors of liquid blooms,
floral lotions. hair dyes, depilatories,
pomades, and the ct ceteras with which
fools vainly endeavor to counterfeit the
charms which nature has denied, or
age obliterated, often accumulate great
wealth. The carriages of such men
roll along Fifth avenue daily, and the
fashionable world is indebted to them
for the make up" of innumerable in
dividuals of both sexes. who, if natural
beauty resembled the wax-work images
in hair-dressers' windows, might pass
muster, but who, as it is, are looked
upon with ineffable contempt by real
men and women.-N 7. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
RuTH's BIRTHDAY.

MY little girl is eight to day
That is, she's just twice four:
Or four times two, perhaps you'll say;
And maybe that's q better way
To make my love seem more.
For when my pretty Ruth was two
When she was just half four
1t seemed as il the love knew
Had grown-or. as she'd say, ''had grew
Till it could grow no more.
She was little midget thsn,
When she was only two,
And used to say: "Dear Lord, Amen;
Dress Papa, Mamma, N me again;"
Twas all the prayer she knew.
And now she's four times two! dear me,
And writes big round hand;
And when they're passed cup OF tea
She makes her dolls exclaim !" -I,yc,e'
Which French dolls understand.
When eight? or two. scarcely know
Which birthday I would choose.
At eight I'd b ave, keeping her so,
Four times as much to love-but OIL
Four times as much to lose.
At what age did she seem most dear?
All. we'll. to tell the truth,
A different blossom bloomed each year:
They all seemed sweet: but this one here.
You know, is really Ruth.
~ p. Babeock, in 81. Nicholas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
VENEZUELAN GOLD.

How the Precious Metal Is Carried from
Callao to Caracas.
At eight o'clock in the evening we
arrived at Las Tablas, the nearest port
to the famous Callao gold mines, that
were for several years the most pro-
ductive in the world. Of late, how
ever, their yield has been falling off.
until the price of shares that paid SO
each per month upon "a par value of
5000 has dwindled down to 81. The
decrease, it is said, is due partly to a
change of management and partly to a
contraction of the vein of ore. Shafts
have been sunk only to the depth of
800 feet, however. and it is expected
that as they progress more will be OBJ
tanned.
The gold was brought aboard in four
boxes, each containing two bars of a
thousand ounces tied up in gunny
cloths, with wooden buoy attached
in case of an accident coming off the
steamer. They were thrown down on
the cabin floor with apparent careless
ness; but two well-armed men watched
the treasure carefully all night, and in
the morning it was is be landed at
Ciudad Bolivar, in transit for Caracas,
where it was coined.
When the morning came, as it does
down here. almost with bang like
Pats sunset, the steamer was tied head
and stern to volcanic rocks half i'm
bedded in white sand, alongside steep
hill of the same, some sixty feet high.
Up and down its shifting side few dis
consulate donkeys were climbing, car
rying grass upon which to feed the
rest of the day; and at the top dark
wall stretched along the town front,
showing above it few yellow-walled
fiat-roofed houses. And that is all that
is visible at first glance of the fourth
city of the Venezuelan Republic.
After this difficult hill was sur
mounted the town developed into a
rambling lot of streets upon series OF
hills, the highest one crowned by a
cathedral church and a pretty little
square containing one fair bronze statue
of the great Bolivar, and four wretched
plaster ones, representing the four
countries that owe their freedom to his
craftsmanship and valor.-Anserica,
Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06

thy" that the witch contriveG her
baneful spells. To destroy a liv-
ing man or woman it was suf-
ficient to model them III wax, and
expose the efigy to fire, or stick
it full of pins. Wasting sickness, or
pains in that part of the living body
which was pricked in the image, re-
suited from such practices. Hair, even
when cut from the head, was still in
such sympathy with its owner that
to burn lock was sufficient to injure
it's original producer. The custom of
giving lock of hair as keepsake
may have been proof of confidence as
well as a token of affection. Belief in
''sympathy" was an integral part Of
the creed of the Rosicrucians. By the
exercise of this power they protested
to be able to bring 1.-The dead from be-
yond the sea-" and gold and jewels
from the bowels of the earth. One of
their number described kind of SYM
pathetic telegraph. which was to
consist in the transference of a
piece of flesh from one human
On this transferred surface the letters
of the alphabet were painted, and the
two individuals were then supposed to
be able to communicate at any distance
by touching these letters-a pressure
on one arm being ''sympathetically"
communicated to the original owner OF
the portion of flesh touched. The
author of ''Hudibras'' has alluded to a
treatment of ''transference," and of
the possible inconvenient effects that
might follow its adoption. What is
the modern belief in the powers of
thought-readers but literal survival of
the old doctrine of ''sympathy?" Quite
recently a thought-reader claimed to be
able to detect where stolen property
was concealed; by putting himself en-
rapport with the thief while the latter
was mentally dwelling On the hiding
place of his ill-gotten goods. Those
OF us who are most incredulous re-
garding the powers of the thought
reader must have been struck by the
curious manner in which unspoken
ideas can be communicated by one per-
son to another without any outward
sign. Strange also is the manner in
which we are often attracted to entire
strangers ''as those we have known
and loved before" Plato's doctrine of
the dual soul has found favor in many
later generations Standard.