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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

Some clever rascal in London advertised
that he would, on receipt of sixpence in
stamps. return to the sender one shilling.
The advertisement was published promi-
nently enough to attract considerable atten-
ton, and it naturally excited remark. To
most persons it seemed a very transparent
humbug, too silly to be called a fraud, but
there were few curious individuals who de
termined to see whether the advertiser was a
crank or whether he had some game, so they
sent on their sixpences. By return mail each
one received the shilling. A few DAYS after
the same advertisement appeared again in
several of the newspapers, and everybody
who had tried it before told ell of his friends
| about it. The result was that several hun
| dred sixpences were received, and next day
as many shilhngs went back. The third time
the advertisement appeared the mail received
| by the clever sharper was simply enormous.
Letters came from all parts of the kingdom
and from all sorts of of people, high and low,
rich and poor. The rogue pocketed several
thousands of pounds, and, curiously enough
, neglected to make any returns.-The Argo
naut.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

New York has no less than ten reforma-
tories for the rescue and help of fallen wo-
men. Philanthropy is in the ascendancy,
for fifty years ago the poor outcast was COM
PEELED to seek temporary shelter in the de-
grading atmosphere of the almshouse, or end
her isolation and misery by destroying her
self. But in this benefcent age generous
hearts and wise heads have laid a foundation
for the solution of very difficult and ancient
problem. There is an air Of mystery gathered
around the various Magdalen houses in this
city. The matrons of these institutions are a
shrewd and discerning class of women who
seem born to fill some mysterious and pre-
carious position in the world Thev can tell
at a single glance who is who" and what is
what" For the good of their cause few Of
them are willing to relate anything that
transpires behind the scenes. The inmates
who really reform generally go out west
somewhere. Their histories are as safe in the
hands of the good matrons as they would bt
if they were not known to human being
New York Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

A striking illustration of the influence Of
environment on animal forms may be quite
easily produced, according to Dr.. Winslow
Anderson. If the embryo Of the land sala-
mander be taken from the egg and kept in
water of moderate temperature, abundantly
supplied with oxygen, and amply fed with
small water animals, the organism is remark
ably changed even in a single generation.
The embryonic lungs remain undeveloped
and gills grow instead, r1dder tSil and
even fins are gradually developed for the new
function of swimming, and the unnecessary
feet and legs become mere rudimentary ap
pendages es-Arkansaw Traveller.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

To allow prejudice or ignorance to get
the better of good Judgment. Ithss been
conclusively proven that constipation,
bad breath, dyspepsia, kidney affections.
and all diseases OF the liver, stomach and
bowels have been cured by simply taking
Simmons Liver Regulator II is harms
less, not unpleasant, and easily procured,
so there is no reason to be ignorant OF
this remedy we especially commend to
your notice for trial.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13
$500 Reward.

We will pay the above reward for any
case of liver complaint. dyspepsia, sick
headache. indigestion, constipation or
costiveness we cannot cure with Vests
Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions
are strictly complied with. They are
purely vegetable. and never fail to give
satisfaction. Large boxes containing 80
sugar coated pills. 25c. For sale by all
druggists. Beware of counterfeits and
limitations. The genuine manufactured
only by John G. West & Co., s62 W.
Madison St. Chicago, III.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

A novelty in toilet apparatus is bottle Of
ammonia, perfume or lotion connected by a
rubber tube with tiny atomi2er. The spray,
which is thrown by means of rubber bulb,
is too fine and mistlike to injure the eyes if it
touches them, and the person using it is thus
enabled to reach every part of her face with
out half the trouble attendant upon the old
way of carefully washing and drying the
face by hand Chicago News.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

Nearly all diseases originate from in
action of the liver, and this is especially
the case with chills and fever, intermit-
tent fevers and malarial diseases. To
save doctors bills and ward disease. take
Simmons Liver regulator, a medicine
that increases in popularity each year,
and has become the most popular and
best endorsed medicine in the market fol
the cure of liver or bowel diseases
TELEGRAPH. DUBUQUE. Iowa.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13
The average lengtn OF life is c

The average length OF life is on the in
crease. The science of medicine has made
great progress; many diseases are now
controlled that were formerly thought in
durable The greatest discovery is DR..
Bigelow's Cure, which cures cOnsump-
ton in stages that other remedies are of
no benefit. Coughs colds, Group, whoop
ing cough, bronchitis, and all throat and
lung diseases speedily and safely Price
50 cents and 81, of druggists.
During the Prince of Wales recent Wis
it to Hamburg he initiated some wheel
barrow races, with ladies in the barrow!
trunded along by the highest English
nobility
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

Who of us are without trouble be they
small or large? The blessings of health
are best appreciated when We are sich
and in pain. A hacking cough, severk
cold, or any throat or lung disease are
gery troublesome; but all OF these may be
quickly and permanently cured by DR..
Bigelow's Cure. Safe and pleasant fol
children Price 50 cents.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13
NE DulCiS SATURET QUlES.

Let me be quiet, let me lie
Stretched at my ease,
While lazily the clouds go by
Above the trees;
Where apple blossom flutters down
At eve and morn,
In orchard slope a-near a town
Long left forlon;
Or idly watch, within a moat.
The sleeping lily buds afioat;
Or, grazing past the reeds, drift slow
A crumbling castle wall below.
Let me be quiet; let me lie;
Stretched at my ease,
While lazily the clouds 60 by
Along the seas;
And gleam and shadow set the ships
In gloom and light,
And like dream the sea bird dips
From morn till night;
And ripples swirl along the land,
And perish in the amber sand;
While o'er their unwrit doom the breeze
Chants dirges In the sea marshes.
Thomas Ashe in Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

"Where did the Bowery get its name?'
That's easy enough. Bauer is good Dutch
for peasant or farmer Two hundred and
odd years ago there was a road running out
from New Amsterdam. Along its borders
were the comfortable houses of the farmers,
surrounded by green pastures and fields
of waving grain. The bauer lived there.
Hence Bauery or Bowery. York Even
inrr Wnrld
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

''You are the most worthless man that
ever made woman's life intolerable, John :"
And week afterward she sued railroad
company for 100000 damages for killing
John. The perversity of some women is
past comprehension -Pittsburg Bulletin.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

When you make mistake, don't look
back at it long Take the reason Of the
thing into your mind, and then look for
ward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The
past cannot be changed.-Hugh White.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13
A Luxury ard Necessity

For rich and poor who wish TO enjoy
good health, and who do not wish to re-
sort to bitter, nsuseous liver medicines
and csthartics, is the concentrated Cali
fornis liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs.
HarlZ 4 Bahnsen agents.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

Brown taking Robinson home)-What dye
spose your (hic) wife'll say t'morrer morn
ing, Robinsona
Robinson-She'll (hic) shay new hat an
silk dressh, Browny, ole boy, an bgosh she
won't shay 'em (hic) more'n once, either
Texas Sittincs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

A swimming dress TO enable the swim
mer 10 blow up mines and hostile boats
has been tried in the German navy. 1t is
a sort of modified Paul Boynton affair.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

It is not true that love makes all things
easy; it makes us choose what is difficult
George Eliot.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

Deer are fast being exterminated in the
mountains of Oregon, and the legislature
will be asked to adopt measures for their
preservation.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

Sir John Lubbock, speaking of bees be-
fore the British association, said that
there Seems strong evidence that the
mother can control the sex Of the egg .
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

The greatest shooting ever done in q
single day was by Lord Walmingham on
his moor on. Aug. 80 He killed 1,05e
grouse in thirteen hours, there being for
ty drivers. isr, ,5.-.s.,.1...
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

A mans nature runs either to herbs or
weeds; therefore let him seasonably water
the one and destroy the other.-Bacon-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

The amount of loss to creditors in Eng
land and Wales through bankruptcy last
year was g, 905.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

DR.. E. c. Vests Nerve and Brain trestment, q
guaranteed specific for hysteria, dizziness, con
vulsions, fits, nervous neuralgia, hesische, ner-
vous prostration caused by the use Of alcohol or
tobacco wakefuness. meal tai depression, soften
ing Of the brain resulting in insanity and leading
to misery, decay and death, premature old age,
barrenBess. loss Of power IN either sex, fnyolun
tary losses and spermatorrhoes caused by over
exertion Of the brain, self abuse or over indul
gence Each box contains one months treatment,
81 box or six boxes for S., sent by mail prepaid
nj NJ Drica
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

To cure any case. With each order received by
us for six boxes, accompanied with IS, we Will
send the purchaser our written guarantee TO re-
fund the money II the treatment does not AFFECT
cure. Guarantees issued only by Marshall q
Fisher Harper house drug store, soie agents,
Rock Island Ill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-13

Americans, as a Glass, Live Too Fast to
Live Long-The Strong Mans Great Mis-
Apopiexy
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22

shall greet him in answer 10 this cues
tiop, Where was cur Lord orucitisdf II
there should be NO other advantage gain
ed by the acceptance OF new s.ts a.
now proposed, his wouio BE- enough; n
would put an end 10 the awkward aud Of
fsnsive impos 'urts dEily exhibited under
the roof OF that filthy old church. They
are standing mookery Of Tho Chains ct
the Christianity Jhey prOtce- tu Mp cid.
Those ceremonies of Easter a. The tom >
where our Lord is declared TO have hrru
buried are caricaturt -: tu ,veu' -
yiad aud h"iy. The struggle around tn
flames tnat are chemically forced CA o.
a-' smoky hole in the sepulcaer, 80 that
deyotess in frantic zeal may light rheis
lamps, bri gs death from he tram ping
of thousands, fills the house with howls
that put hesthenism to shame, aud sends
true believers away with an infinite dis
gust and horror deep 10 their hearts
How long must such scanGal be patient
ly endured?n
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
where wns .the place c.lIed Cnlyarr 2,

From an illustratedger;icic under the
above title by Rev. DR.. Charles l.. Robin
son in the November Century We quote
the following: "The only representative
site for Calvary now offered pilgrims in
Jerusalem is found in a couple of rooms
inside the old eiifce; one is owned sud
exhibited by the Greeks, another by the
Latins These share the same disability
both--since the church is already so full
of traditions on the ground hoor-had
to go up a fight of stairs into free space
nearer the roof. And there il is, amidst
taSdry curtains and gilt bedizenments
of candles and altar shrines that this an
cient spot upon which the cross of Jesus
Christ rested is pointed OFT, and the VERT
able hole is shown in which it vas fla
ed. And the thieves crosses "A decoro
but rather inadequate distance of
feet between them on the right and left
Of the middle one-Lre ranged alongside.
And down underneath, far below
some intervening space left by grading
away the actual soil OF the hill, so We
are ssgely told, is The grave of Adam!
Tradition has related that at the cru
c.fxion of Jesus some drops Of blood
fell through upon Adams ekull and
raised him suddenly 10 life; and there
are commentators who declare that so
the prophecy quoted By the Apostle Paul
lEphesians Y. IA was well fulfilled:
Awake, thou Adam that sleepest for
thus the former versions read in the text /,
and arise from the dead, for Christ shall
touch thee The art-people say that this
Is the origin Of the fact that IL those
early rude representations Of the death
of our Lord a skull is introduced.
Can any man Of sensibility be blamed
Ii he makes an imperioas demand that
something more-somsthing else at least
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22

Joseph Howard, writes 10 America re
garding salaries paid TO domestics in
New York. Here ere his statements: IL
don't believe Mr.. Vanderbilt pays $40
600 year for his head cook. | should
think less of him than do if such we're
a fact, but that cooks-chefs rs they are
called-are paid as much as $1,000 in
several private families is fact. That
butlers ane crgck coaohmep, and particI
Larry einsome footmen, get high pay, and
that favorite ladies' maids and useful
personal attendants make much more
money than their less favored sisters, is
uldeniable. Wages, however they may
differ in individual instances, average
$25 month for man walters, the rest o (
the servants being women; $40 for the
cook, $17 or SIS for a laundress, ST. for
q chambermaid. suppose in family
where two servants are uployed, cook
receives Cd the average SIC month and
chsmbermaid $13; and in homes where a
general housegirl alone is mployed, from
$12 TO $40 . month. THESE prices are
much higher than they were 20 years ago
when moderately placed families paid 81
q month for cook and Sc for a chamber
III aid
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
Not a Bad Test of Faith.


A plumber and an upholsterer were re-
Gently engaged in fitting up a fashion
able residence in Van Ness avenue, and
got into a discussion % to which was
the heavier, pound of lead or q pound
of feathers,
"l'll bet you -four bits that I can prove
to you that pound OF Iced - heavier
than pound of feathers SAID the
plumber.
I'm take that bet, - said the uphols ser. r.
The plumber cut off piece OF lruG
pipe and pared IL down until II weighed
10 ounces. Then he gDe from The up
hulstereT the same weight IN feathers
"Now," said the plumber, holding the
lump OF lead IL bio right hand and tue
bag OF feathers IN his lett hand, 'let me
drop the lead on our lett foot and the
feathers on your right, and if / do not
prove that the lead is the heavier IN pay
four bits'
The man of feathers you'd not cor sent
t. the trial. but paid for the whisAey ard
cjpars.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22

blossoms, for pair of young, dusty, aud
dusky lovers, says the Leary (Ga.) Court
er. Wiley George had long been suing
for the hand and heart OF Alma Stevens.
He had won her heart, but parental on
position stood In the way of oulming-
ton OF his fondest hopes. 10 the fase OF
the protest of Alma's father, J Stevens,
Wiley continued his attentions until last
Monday, when the enraged father fell up-
on him and smot- him hip and thigh.
Wiley and his mother, Josephine, came
to town next day he 9et q warrant Tor Toe.
Joe and the girl alev oame along go o
'em out" The party collected az b.
store and made known their trouble a.
the Captain, whO grasped the situation
and convinced them that marriage Ger
tidcate was the remedy for their trouble.
The boy, however, held back, from the
fact that be was ont of ready cash aud
was not properly attired, being barefoot
ed ana in his coat sleeves.
"Oh, III sell you pair of shoes, loan
you q coat, and give you the money 20
buy the license" said Captain Boyd.
"Au right" said the boy, and DR..
George was called, and ar. Bunch, who
wes authority from the ordinary TO issue
marriage licenses, filled out blank and
handed It to DR.. George, who, stepping
forward, said;
"Do you, Wiley George, take Alma
Stevens for your wife?"
Yer or right, boss, said Wiley.
"Do yoo, Alma Stevens, take Wiley
George for Your husbandf"
eyes SIR" replied the modest girl
"Does anybody bjeot to the com pletion
Of these bansYn said the doctor No one
objected.
Then he continued: "8y the authority
vested in me as an officer of the great
state of Georgia, which is sometimes
called the Empire State of the South; by
the fields of cotton that lie spread ont in
snowy Wilderness around us; by the howl
of the coon dog and the gourd vine whose
clingiug tendrils will shade the entrance
to your humble dwelling place; by the
red and luscious heart of the watermelon,
Sweetness fills tbe heart with Joy; by the
heavens and the earth, and all that is in
or under them, in the presence of these
witnesses, | pronounce you man and wife,
and may the Lord have mercy on your
souls."
At the conclusion of me impressive
ceremony al evident feeling OF relief
stole over the couple. They received the
congratulations of the onlookers, after
which they took their departure for the
Holt place, where they held a reception
in the middle of hundred acre cotton
field.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
LuXURIJJs LIylNGs.
How Wealthy Russian Duke Manages 10
Spend His Income.

How Wealthy Russian Duke Manages 10
Spend His Income.
Brilliant nove,ists and dramatIsts would
undoubtedly find a subject worthy of
study and description in the person of
the Duke of Iondelh, an opulent member
of the important Russian colony in Paris.
The Duke leads life which resembles to
certain extent that OF one of those
Roman emperors or oriental potentates
described by picturesque historians. He
lives in splendid hotel in Avenue du
Bots de Boulogue with his mother,
Princess Woronzoff, who was a sister to
Prince Nicolas Troubetzkoi and mem
Der of the household of the Gear before
her lawsuit with her nephew, Count Wor-
onzof, one OF the Emperor Alexander's
court marshals.
The Doke of Moudelf is reputed to
haze elS000o year, most of which he
manages to spend in magnificent man
ner. he never goes to bed until day
light appears, and he generally gets up
at O'Clock in the afternoon. After q
meal, and extended at full length on the
sum ptnous divaD, ne receives his friends
and visitors, his mother, the Princess, be
ing present at the ievee. On these ocoa-
sions the duke wears either superb
dressing gown in an ivory colored plush,
lined with satin of the hue of the peach
and garnished with silver braiding and
ornamented with jewels. or an ample
jacket Of heiotrope velvet, gold braided,
and clsshed together with ducal coronets
studded with hri!nauts. While cOnversing
with his visitors the hos, IT is said, toys
with precious stones end diamoo6s of
rare valu-, bat polished and uncut. In
the intervals OF conversation band OF
Nsapolitan singers MARBLE the melCdious
airs of euDny Italy, and these are sue
ceeded by Tzjgne musicians who make the
duoal halls ring with their wild and 6ia-
bolieal strains. After each musical per-
Torrance the leader of the bend sp-
proaches the divan. kisses the hand Of
the most noble master of the house, aud
receives his orders for the next moroccan
of demoniac music. Later in the even
ing the Duke repairs to splendid cafe
on the boulevards, where he dimes with
his friends and listens once more to the
tiddlers, TO whom he distributes bounti-
full largesse in the shape of hstfuls OF
louis, while his guests quaf liberal bum
pers of sparkling champaign in his
honor. Such is an outline of the ordin-
airy life of an aristocrat In this capital,
which dispute its Spartan republicans
and the lamentations of those who still
praise past days, is still evidently rem
devious of the gay and the luxurious.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
Starting by the Flag.

Starting by the flag has an ancient
history, going back TO the time of the
Roman era. Suetonius msntions that
the Emperor Domitian presented as
many as 100 races or matches in day
the bookmskers of the period must have
got very tired of Offering to take 2 to l -
and the horses were started by mappa
Ia napkin which was hung at the pretor's
tent or from the presidents seat. Nero,
when sitting 10 dinner Oh one occasion,
did not seem inclined 10 go on with the
horse-raoing, and the people began 20
clamor that the sports might begin. The
Emperor threw his white napkin ont of
the window as a token of the wish 10
grant their request, and the white uapKin
was carried on tho occasion on o spear,
and lowered as signal Cor the start.
This was the real birth of the starters
flag. The jockeys colors, too, were used
by the Romans as they are now. Green
was favorte hue in the times of Cali
gula and Nero. Saete Mus mentions
that Domitisn introduced among the
prevailing colors yellow and purple. The
Romans raced not only horses, but asses
larger and better, of course, than are
brsd in England generally, ostriches,
elephants and cames.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
HABI 5 OF THE cocKQUAcn.


An Insect That Has Great Facilities for Gel-
Ing Along in the World
Wherever 10 came from, the cocproach
is true Anglo-Saxon in its capacity for
colonization in Britain it has establish
ed itself all over the length and breadth
of the land, but is chiefly, II not intirely
TO houses, inhsbiting Kitchens sculleries,
bake houses and such places, where
plenty of food eau be obtained Moth
ing that is edible comes amiss TO this
voracious insect. In addition 70 almost
every article of human food, such APP
parently unpalitable obj as wooden
gaTmeuts, the greasy rags used in clean
log steam engines and other machinery,
shoes and other articles of leather, and
even books and paper, enter into his bill
Of fare. ia warehouses and on board
ship, the rayages it commits are great,
whole barrels and sacks of -four, corn
rice and other articles being consumed
by II. Among other thiugs, cinnamon is
said 10 present great attractions for the
coekrOach palate, and there il scandal
to the effect that those whose business II
is 10 reduce cinnamon sticks TO a powder
are not very careful to separate the spice
from from the insects-which sometimes
constitute nearly hall the contents of the
bags--but tumble them in together in the
mill. Though TO its other crimes the in
sect does not add that OF oannibalism the
bedbug often falls a victim which is one
point in its favor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
ItPaysN No Doubt.

II is said by the prohibitionists that
George Cox, a saloonist, il spending $50
to 800 day Of the Republican cam
psigu fund in the saloons OF that city,
"making it solid with the b'hoys."
While so much money u TO be had for
the asking, it is a wonder that Bishop
Vincent does not solicit some Of the
Doodle to help the Cnautsuqua, and hat
Bishop Newman and DR.. Dorchester do
not demand their share 20 send tracts 70
the heather. Why sh0ul6 they not turn
some Of the campaign funds into chan
nels OF usefulness and deprive the sa-
loors OF the pelli We charge nothing
for this suggestion