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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

VIENNA, May 12.-Stephan Won Kegel, the
famous Austrian millionaire, committed
suicide yesterday. The foundation of his
fortune was an inheritance of 10000, 600
horins, which he largely increased by for
tunate speculation. He was styled the hand
soonest man in the empire, and was the most
prominent sportsman in Hungary His
death occurred on his estate near Stuhlweis-
senbllrg
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12
nlsu Forty Cnrs From the Trnck.

VALPARAISO, Ind, May l2-Forty freight
cars were blown from the track of the Nickel
Plate railroad, many of them torn to splin-
tiers, and seventy telegraph poles laid low, by
the force of a cyclone which struck four miles
east of this place last evening. No fatalities
have yet be,n reported from the cyclones
wake, but it q feared that some lives were
lost
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

DUBLIN, May 12-The tenants on the
Scott and other estates in the parish of Kill
dysart, County Glare, have adopted the plan
of campaign. Moonlghters have raided
four farms in the same parish because the
occupants had paid their rent. They de-
stroyed property and injured the tenants.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 12-Johu Cullen,
who on Jan. 81 last killed his mother with an
ak, and who was found guilty of murder in
the second degree, was yesterday morning
sentenced to imprisonment for life in Auburn
state prison.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12
wheat-Irreg,,lar; No. / red ''' state tDs osa

Wheat-Irregular; No, red state, $50
9sI6c; No 2 do. 99c; No. red winter May
9714c; June g7lic. Corn-Dull; No . mixed
cash 6724c; ito May, &C; do June, csc. Oats
Steady; No / white state, 45Ni5Iac; No
. do, 42QfI34c; No. mixed June, 3G7sc do
August, 35IGc. Rye-Dul; state, 7hc, Barley
Nominal Pork-Dall; old mess, Sli2j0l450
Lard-July $40; August, Ss.5l-,
Live stock; CattIc-In good demand with an
upward tendency; common TO choice steers s. 10
6155O per 100 pounds; bulls and dry cows, S2.S5GD
a. Sheep and lambs Firm for good offerings;
dull and weak for Inferior clipped sheep, Si5O0
$50 per 100 pounds; unshorn do, $500 %;
clipped yearlings, S50575; unshorn yearings
S6.25@s.50 southern spring lambs S76o@9T0
per 100 pounds, with no really choice offerings.
Hogs-A bunch of soft hogs from Virginia, s. 40
per 100 pounds corn fed would sell at 500.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

=
portant resolution was referred to the com
Inittee ON state of the church. 1t provides
that committee of thirteen be appointed TO
meet "A similar committee of the church
south TO arrange a basis of union, A few
memorials Of minor importance were read and
referred, and then the conference adjourned
There is to he u sensation when Bishop
TnYlor's renort of bis work in Afrca is made.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

DUNKIRK, May 12.-Gen. Boulanger was
met at the railway station on his arrival
here yesterday by tremendous crowd which
was pretty evenly divided i'll cheering and
hooting him. A banquet was given to him
in the evening, at which, responding to a
toast, he denounced the government for
taking his sword which he had no thought
of using save in defense of the honor of
France
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

VIENNA, May Fit is reported that at
recent review of cavalry at St Petersburg
lieutenant named Timsfeief made an attack
upon the car with a revolver. His arm was
seized, however, and the weapon was dis
charged into the ground. Timsfeief was i'm
medately thrown into prison, and subse-
quent examination proved him to be insane
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12
Msst,ng pemocratic County Committee.

The members of the county committee
are requested to meet Friday noon, May
IS, 1888, at Turner hall for the purpose
of preliminary organization for the com
ing campaign. Members from the coun-
try are urgently requested to be present.
AS the republicans have been at work
for the last several weeks organizing. it
becomes necessary for us TO commence at
once. Let none be absent; If unable to
attend yourself delegate some one TO
represent your precinct.
j. H. YoRE,
Chairman Democratic County Com.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

OTTAWA, Ont, May 12.-Dr. &. Stone
Virgins predicts an earthquake in Califor-
MIA some time between this and October. 1t
will move across the Pacitic from Asia.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

He says his labors have
been successful, while
his opponents claim
they have been a
failure. One of the
African missionaries,
named Davenport, ar
rived Saturday, and
he will testify that the
work has been far
from successful.
The question of ex-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

after the devotional
exercises W e r o con-
cluded were by Dele
gate Kno colOred,
who declared that the
colored delegates were
solid against the ad-
mission Of WON e n.
. He was out Of order,
and was raped down
The ecumeuical coun-
ell committee reported
in favor of holding the
council in the United
Gttutau in 1901 An i'm.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

WHERE is the prophetic soul who said
the Mississippi was gradually diminishing
in breadth and depth? We would like
his phOtOuraph
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12
ANNOUNCEMENT.

hereby announce myself as Independent
candidate for the office Of States Attorney;
NJ NJ. CORBETT.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

OTTAWA, Ont, MAY l2-Both houses of
the Newfoundland legislature have passed
the fisheries treaty, which now awaits only
the governors signature
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

MILAN, May l2,-The emperor Of Brazil is
delirious, and his nervous centres appear to
be shaken. The duke of Aosta called upon
the empress yesterday, but she was unable to
receive him.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12
Fourteen Persons Drowned.


PARIS, MAY 12.-By the sinking of O
steamer in the Seine yesterday fourteen per
sons were drowned
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12
UNION WITH THE CHURCH SOUTH.

The Movement Proposed In the Methodist
Conference-Matters to Come Up.
NEW York, May l2.-Bishop Bowman was
the presiding officer at the Methodist confer
enee Yesterday, and the first remarks made
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

LONDON, May 12.-Gladstone is suffering
from an attack of lumbago and compelled 10
walk with cane.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-12

A farmer always wants the earth
Without it he could do nothing.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
ARTIFICIAL EYES.
a Fast Development of the Trade in Them
Down in Maize.

The artificial eye man in Portland was
talking, and he told some queer stories
about the business. He said that very
often it required an expert to detect al
artificial eye.
~ often have 4 customer come in here,
look at my artificial eyes and talk some
thing like this: ooh, yes, | always had III
idea that Mr.. So-and-So wore IN arti-
fetal eye. His is hazel, just like that one
in the corner
81 find, ten chances to one, that if the
person referred to wears u glass eye at
all, my customer believes the natural eye
is glass and the glass eye the Il through
which he gets his vision. l know OF a
man who lived with his wife q year be-
fore he found out She wore u glass eye.
"Oh, yes, they turn just like the human
eye and in Il majority Of instances pos
sess more fire and snap than the actual
one. 1t is astonishing the number of
Maine people WHO wear these goods. l
fit lots of them in q week. Oh, no, there
is no pain about fitting them.
people sometimes think they are 60
ing to be killed, but it only makes them
laugh.
II get s. for q glass eye, and come I'M.
der a contract to add to the beauty of the
p~hysiognomy of my customer SO per cent.
I have seen people sit an hour before n
looking glass after I had fitted them with
my goods, admiring their new eye."-
Lewiston Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
ooquetry Under Difficulties.

Ore would scarcely think there was any
such thing as coquetrY among Turkish
women, considering the arbitrary social
conditions under which they live. As a
matter of fact, however, there is q good
deal of Irritation going on in q sUrrepti-
tious
The Moslem lady coquettishly inclined,
has to be very careful; any Bluebeard de-
tecting the least %impropriety might cause
her ruin and even nowadays her death,
if the other party was u Giaour. The
Turkish lady ans very great risks and
firts under most decided difficulties.
The extent of her filtration with Il
Frank would be the stealthy removal of
her yashmak, to let himsec h~erface, when
meeting her at some unfrequented spot.
If a very bold coquettc this risky per-
Torrance would be supplemented by q
smile.-Thonas Stevens.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
A COLLAPSED
The Punster Too Many for the Initiative
Pill Maker.

The Punster Too Many for the Initiative
Pill Maker.
81 want some consecrated I've, he slow
II announced as he entered the store.
"You mean concentrated lye," sug-
gested the druggist, as he repressed q
smile.
"Well may be l do. Ii does nutmeg
any difference. It's what / camphor, any
how. What does it sulphur"
Eighteen cents a can"
"Then you can give me n can"
81 never cinnamon who thought himself
so witty as you do" said the druggist, liz
a gingerly manner, feeling called upon to
do a little punning himself.
"Well, that's not bad ether, laughed
the customer, with Il syruptitious glance.
81 ammonia IL novice at the business,
though I've soda good many puns that
other punsters reaped the credit OF. How
ever, | don't care q copperas far as
1 am concerned, though they ought to be
handled without cloves till they wouldn't
know what was the madder with them.
Perhaps l shouldn't myrrh-myrrh. We
have had a pleasant time and Ishall car
away"
1t was too much for the druggist. He
collapsed.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
NIandingo BilI of Fare.

Here is q Mandingo bill of fare which
Reade, the explorer, leaves on record for
the amusement Of the curious:
"Then followed" he says, ''gazelle cut.
'ets q In pappillote; two small monkeys,
served cross-logged and with liver sauce
on toast; stewed iguana, which was much
admired; u dish of roasted croeodile's
z some slices of smoked elephant
from the INTERIOR; a fewagreeable plates
of fried l%ocusts, land crabsand other crus
tacB; the breasts of mermaids, or man
atee, the grand bonnie bouche of the re
past; some boiled alligator and some
hippopotamus steaks"
While this dinner does not equal ia
courses some of the elaborate feasts of
civilized lands, certainly no one viii say
it lacked variety.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
ADDING UP THE ROUNDS.
Vow Il Few Drinks q Day Would Run UP
to Barrels in Time.

low q Few Drinks q Day Would Run UP
to Barrels in Time.
Glow many drinks of whis&ey do you
average Il day. said one gentleman to
another, as they Were enjoying u social
glass at q rcstful resort yesterday after.
noon.
ooh, taking the year round, l presume
my average would be about ten u day."
"And how long has this been going
on?'
Straight along for twenty years, /
guess, but it never hurt me any, and /
can attend to my business just as well az
/ ever could"
"But how much whiskey, taking your
own statement for it, do you suppose you
nave drunk during that time?'
"I'm sure ! don't know. / never
thought about that"
"Well, let us take enother nip and then
figure on it," and they did, and here is
the result of their work:
''Ten drinks aday would be 20 drinks q
week, or $3.50 drinks in a year. In 20
years that would give the enormousnu1n-
Der of 1900 drinks. Now, the average
drink taken in this country is said to be
GO to n gallon. Then divide this 10, 600 by
GO, and you will find that you have con-
sumed1 ,2l6gallons and u fraction. Divide
1,216 by30 and you will find you have
drunk just about 81 barrels of the stuff"
The old topper looked ut the figures and
then at his friend, and then remarked:
well, let's take one more, ard then PIl
give my stomach a rest for day or two"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
Cut and Dried.

The practical working of our public
school system was thus set forth by one
of its subjects:
Miss Rectangle addressing her scholars
of the - grade)-"Now, children, this
afternoon when Prof. Solfahma comes to
give the music lessons and says, We'll,
scholars, what shall we sing?' whoever
speaks is to say, Page 81 and after chat,
when he says, what neXt?' you are to
call out, Page co."
1~en-ycar-old girl (%raising her hand)-
"But, if you please, Miss Rectangle, we
don't any OF us want to sing those tunesa
We have practiced them every day till
we're tired Of 'em."
Miss Reetangle- THAT doesn't make
any difference. Any scholar calling out
any other numbers will be kept after
school. Remember, now. First choice,
page 50; second choice, page 80. Position
all. "-Chicago Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
TopsY.ruRyY &
Contradictory Facts Observed By 2 Nan
with His Eyes wide Open.

Win Ektb L4YSs tEAuS Ct2sA'
This IS a sort Of topsy-turvy world. No
one seems to be satisfied.
One man is ordered to eat eggs because
they are nutritious, and another is caJl-
toned to leave them alone because they
produce bile.
Robinson takes IL sherry to give him an
appetite, while Brown, who has II wine
cellar, can't ouch it on account of his
apoplectic Tendencies.
The prize-fghter reforms and becomesa
preacher, while Tie theological student
leaves his university TO become u profess
sional baseball pitcher.
One rich man wears poor clothes be-
cause he is rich and can do anything,
while q poor man wears fine clothes be
cause he is poor ana wants to create the
impression that he is not.
One man escapes all the diseases that
flesh is heir to and is killed on Il railroad,
another man goes through half n dozen
wars without q scratch aud then dies of
whooping cough.
The laborer with ten children keeps out
of debt on SO q week, while many an I'M
married bank official with S100 q week
can't get along without helping himself
to the banks fund.
Good people die and bad people live.
The MAJ who is fat with health can't get
employment, and the man who is making
money hand over fist has tc give up bust
ness on account of his Ill health.
One mani is spending all the money he
can earn in taking q girl tc q theatre and
sending her flowers, III the hope that he
may eventually make her his wife, and
his ueiohbor is spending all the gold he
has saved to get q divorce.
The doctor tells Morrill, that if he
doesn't stop work and take a rest he'll go
into a decline, and hen tells Blakely that
if he does not abandon his s~cdentary posi-
ton and go off somewhere and work on a
farm he win die of torpidity of the liver.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
H MONITOR
"a PATCHWORK CHARACTER"

The Remarkable Epitarh that Adorns q
Tombstone in an English Churehyard.
Mr.. e. Y. Viett has furnished the fol-
lowing epitaph, which was copied from a
tombstone in Holydown Church, Cum
berland, England:
Here lie the bodies
of Thomas Bond, and Mary, his wife.
She was temperate, chaste and charitable;
But,
she was proud, peevish and
passionate.
She was IN affectionate wife and q
tender mother;
But,
her husband and child, whom she loved,
seldom saw her c-ountenance
without a disgusting
fr0Nn,
while she received visitors; whom she
despised, with an cndearing smile.
Her behavior was discreet
toward strangers;
But,
~imprudent in her family.
Abroad, her conduct was influenced by
good breeding;
But,
at home, by i'll temper.
She was Il professcd enemy to f~lattery,
and WAS seldom
known to praise or commend;
But,
the talents in which she principally
excelled were difference of
opinion and
discovering flaws and imperfections.
She was an admirable economist, and,
without prodigality,
dispensed plenty to every person i'll her
family;
But,
would sacrifice their eyes to Il farthing
candle.
She sometimes mad her husband happy
with her good qualities;
But,
much more frequently unhappy with
her many failings.
Insomueh that in thirty years
cohabitation he often lamented that,
maugre all her virtues,
he had not, in the whole, enjoyed two
years of matrimonial comfort.
At length,
finding she had lost the affection of her
husband, as well as the regard
of her n~eighbors,
family disputes having been divulged by
servants,
she died of ~veXation, July Is, lies.
Her worn out husband survived her four
months and two days, and
departed this life November 2S, 116S,
In the fifty-fourth year of his age.
William Bond, brother to the deceased,
erected this stone
rs q weekly monitor to the surviving
wives of this parish,
that they may avoid the infamy
OF having their names handed down to
posterity,
with a patchwork character.
Charleston News and Courier.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
LITTLE AFRICANS AT PLAY.
Sports of the little Boys and Girls Vt
the DIRK Continent.

the Dark Continent.
The missionaries in Africa have found
that the little girls there make imitation
babies, clumsy, awkward, but to them.
lovely.
just like the little girls in America,
they prefer live dolls if they can have
them, and so play with dogs, treating
them as dolls; doing just rs our children
do, and yet so differently!
When our children play with u kitten
or dog and call it Il baby, they put an
apron or a towel on it for q dress, and
hold it in the lap, rocking it, and singing
''By-o-baby!'' Or they put it carefiIllyon
pillow or the sofa or lounge, and pat it,
perfectly content if it will only lie still
and "be good" just as they see real
mothers do with real babies, so they do.
The little girl in Africa ties her little
dog, or pig, W, and then ties it on her
back, and has Il lovely time; she does just
what she sees real mothers do with real
babies. The little Indian girl straps her
baby on q board and swings the board on
q tree, or on her back, and would not feel
that she was having a good timeif shcsat
and rocked it, or made clothes for 1t. She
never saw q babydressed in pretty, dainty
clothes, and would not know what to do
with a doll so dressed until she is taught.
Little boys III Africa do not play ball,
or cricket, or fly kites, or make tele-
phones, or put up telegraph wires be-
tween their own or their friends houses.
They make spears, shields, bows, arrows,
and initiate their fathers in their games;
make animals of clay which they shoot.
They know few games, because their
fathers can do but few things; they are
cruel in their sports, because they know
SO little, see so little of kindness.
Little children are the tiny photographs
in their play of the life lived in their
homes and about them.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
Pats Suspicion.

Pat had recently secured q place on a
farm. One day 1t noon he was handed a
glass of buttermilll. He tasted the liquid,
set the glass down and went into the
house.
sol say, sorr,' he said to his employer,
''Don't yezthinko Old better beafthergoin'
out am seem to the stock"
"Why?"
because, Olive me suspicious that
somebody's left the COW sthandin' in the
sun and lettin' her milk get sour"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23

Winchester, Mass, says: | am personally
acquainted with Mr.. and Mrs. Carleton,
and was astonished at the remarkable
effects of your Sulphur Bitters in curing
their son, and its large sale is undoubtedly
due to the fact that 1T is IN honest medi-
cine. / know of many others who have
been cured by its use, and do not think
too much can be said in its praise. Yours
truly, Geo. p. Brown, p. NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
oycrtaxipg Ills Brain.

Old Mrs. B~entloy--''Did yehear, Josiah,
that the young student who has been
boardin' at the uendrickses is very
sick p"
Old Mr.. Bcutley-''Ye3, I heerd SC;
what's the trouble with him?'
Old Mrs. Bantlcy-.'studyin too hard,
l ~s'rose. THE doctor aiys he's got in
formation of the braia. "-Omaha World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-15
A Unique TELEGRAPH system

There has grown up among the farm
ers of county in Michigan a telegraph
system which might be extended
throughout the rural districts every
where. The system began by two farm
ers connecting their houses with a wire
for their own convenience and operating
their line with an ordinary Morse in
struments. Gradually other farmers ex-
tended the line to their houses, and after
time the wire was run into a ne ghbor-
ing village. Seven years ago the COM
bined farmers and few village
merchants organized themselves into a
company and it has since been extended
until now 1t has sixty-fve miles of wire
and ninety offices, two-thirds of the lat
ter being in farm houses, and nearly all
the rest in stores where these farmers do
their trading. One or two newspaper
offices, as many more railroad freight
offices, the County Telephone Exchange
and the larger post offices are all con-
nected. Every farmer is his own opera
tor, battery an and line repairer Of
course, any quantity of private COM
is kept up between the stock
holders of this independent system.
There are two or three independent sys-
tens of these lines in the country, ar
ranged so that they can be connected
with each other at intersecting points.
and the whole scheme is being worked
very cheaply and successfully. - Chicago
Times
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-15
A Wonderful Printing Machine.

The -4m6rjran B1oEnnker describes a
machine which takes in paper at one end
and turns out comp etely bound books
at the other at the rate of 5000 copies an
hour There are three great iron evil
inders, segmental in form and each
having diameter of six feet, and
weighing about three tons each. On one
of these are the forms which do the
printing in quadruple series, the other
two acting solely as impress ion cylinders.
In combination with the cylinder carry
ing the printing forms are ink fountains,
form and distributing rollers, while in
comb nation with, the impression cylin-
ders are novel appliances for hand ing
automatically, re-, sing, assembling.
folding, covering and delivering the
complete books III remarkable con-
trivance requires eignt tons of paper
with corresponding amount of printing
ink, and this it turns into books in a
single day, and it requ res twelve box
cars, of 81, 00D pounds capacity each, to
transfer the output for a ngle week.
This machine is built III Philadelphia by
its inventor and patentee, at whose
esta ll>hment the visitor may see in da ly
and nightly operation no les than six of
these mammoth ma, ues turning with
surprising rapldty and regularity their
miles OF paper into nted matter ready
for the lerusal of the reader.