Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-02-06

| ItE hiLLlNG Of W LID BILL.
offerings to the ladies by using paper
flowers, or postponing the ball until
| golden rod gets within the reach of all
A dinner in New York may also be ar
ranged much cheaper than $40 plate,
by having several 'bright conversation
alists at each end of the table and skip
ping the horse doovers, arriving at once
at the removes of say broiled pigs foot
on toast, bottle of Ann Hizer Sec and
ice cream. A bright conversationalist
or a good humorist who is willing to give
I fair equivalent for his food can save
you at such a meal hundreds of dollars.
You might have TO take the converse
| tionalist and humorist out into the wood
shed and give them something extra
before the meal in order to keep them
up to where they would be willing to
sparkle and be the life of the party, but
even then it would be great saving to
| you. l once went to a delightful dinner
of this kind, but was not told to sparkle,
so talked entirely with a young lady
near me all the evening regarding Mr..
| Russell and the Delsarte theory.
The host was 50 mad that he did moi
pass me the pie at all. and ate my dried
prunes with the rich umbrella juice that
went with them, while was looking the
other way. When he gave me my hat
and overcoat at last, in the hall, he Missed
in my ear;
"You have went back on me and have
came to my house for the last time. II
you had of done the square thing you
would have had as good time as you
was ever at, and got your little old s
besides, but now you can be excused.
didn't asst you to come here and stuff
yourself full of my victuals and then
talk art to a mere STRIPPING of girl. II
you want to get ahead you want to do il
some other way"
/ told him that when l found out
where to get n head | would be sure to
| give him the address. then selected a
| good pair of overshoes, took what |
thought TO be fresh cigar from the
stand and went away. 1t did not smell
so fresh, however, after lighted it as /
thought it would.
He was a coarse, vulgar man, with a
great deal of money, but too mean TO
| give his wife money enough to build her
dress sufficiently high to protect her
chest from the biting blast. Little do we
know, Mrs. Pennypacker, of the suffer
ing there is from exposure even in the
homes of wealth.
bright Alfarata," San Jose, Cal. 4 asks
what to do for an ingrowing nail and
how to make salt rising bread. do not
know what to do. never had eyether.
Theological Student. NO, you are
wrong about that. At Gutenberg. on
the 4th, the fifth race of six and one-half
furlongs was won by Fordham, Blue
Rock second, Carnegie third; time,
1914.
"Sangamon," Erie, Pa, asks how the
passenger steamships of the United
States compare with those of other coun-
tries, England especially. The United
States does not or do not compare well
with England in the matter of passenger
steamers. Aside from the Hoboken
ferry and a naphtha launch our keels
are not found blowing the waters very
much. Buffalo Bill goes over to London
with his Indians and scouting clothes in
foreign steamship, and then foreign
steamships take 300,000 people over there
to see him. Then, when they get
through, foreign steamships bring them
home, also the heecy William and his
band. Then he gees to Paris in a for
eign steamer. Several hundred thou
sand Americans go over there also, util-
izing English and other alien keels for
that purpose in order to hear Col. Cody
converse with Chemise La Rouge in
French. Then they come home the same
way, and he follows suite
When we get the Worlds fair it will
be the same way. The American is not
an aquatic bird, but rather newer Of
wood and vender of town lots. He
riseth up in the morning while it is vet
night, and saith unto himself, / will
buy n farm in Anoka county, and /
will lay it out in lots, and / will also
lay out the gentle ass that buyeth the
same, and will make him for to brav be-
fore the evening has come, for behold he
shall call for room at an inn and he
shall record his name thereat. and the
name wherewithal he shall record him
self will be Dennis
Birdie" South Brooklyn, n. Y, asks,
Who was Wild Bill, and how did he die?
Wild Bill was gentleman named Hick-
ock, and he did not reck aught for any
one. IL was said that he had most pecul-
lar thorax. All his ribs and breast bones
were so closely united that his heart and
side lights were encased in bony pam
opiy almost impervious to bullet, and
he was frequently spoken of as the man
with the hunting case thorax and Bes-
semer works. He could drink, or he
could let it alone, so he divided up the
time in such a way that he would let it
alone mostly while engaged in slumber.
He was shot in the back of the head by
a brave but cross eyed man at Dead
wood in the spring of '76, as he sat at a
card table in one of the social centers of
that city, playing progressive euchre.
Wild Bill wore profuse hair, in which
at early spring time the swallows were
won't to build their nests and rear their
young.
The murderer of Wild Bill, after his
crime, came at once on horseback from
Deadwood to my town, where through
strong political influence got an intro
duction to him. He talked pleasantly
and even kindly to me, although he had
denied himself to all other reporters and
held himself aloof from the general pub
lie. He was rather plain in appearance,
and yet can truthfully say that among
all the murderers have known, and who
have written inmy autograph album, he
was the most transformations and least
pulled up by his sudden elevation. He
told me that he only regretted that he
had not fitted himself for the position to