Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-10
KbKNOWLEDGEoN TAP.
siLL NyE ANSWERS ANOTHER BATCH
OF ANXIOUS INoUIRERs.

vursxixe raets About Calvary, Libby
pr,s.,. managerial Prevaricators and
she mckinley Bnl-siot Machines-een'
Harrison's Portrait,
irooyrivb,, 1890. by Edgar " Nyel
The following notes and inquiries are
waiting Tor reply this month, and hasten
to aftt1d 10 item In this issue OF the pa
psr Others are in hand, bat space Will
forbid INV attention 10 them for some
tirna at ieast If rot even longer than
that:
Mr.. ST. Clair Hinckley, of South Man
dan writes TO know s'if it is really true
that company has been organized to
acquire title to Calvary for exhibition
purposes, and IL so, briefly, what are the
particulars Is Libby prison ON exhibi-
tom
Such syndicate objectionable
syndicate--has been formed in London
with Sir Andrew Clarke as the head.
Il Is not always the Yankee who buys
up holy ground for such purposes.
The idea is to put barbed wire fence
around Calvary and other places OF sa-
cred interest and charge an admission.
Whether Kiralfy will give his spectacu-
lar show inside the Enclosure every even
lug, closing with ballet, do not know;
but the Sultan has granted TO the new
corporation special privileges in Aslatic
Turkey and Palestine, So that those
who desire to see this sacred spot before
admission is charged should lose no time
in going.
Certainly the commercial spirit has
advanced with rapid strides during the
past 1900 years. Souie time ago man
living in California whose wife had been
dead for ten years removed the body
from its original place of burial, and on
opening the casket it was found that the
body was completely petrified. The
husband, who had long wished to pay q
visit to his old home in New England,
therefore started out, giving exhibitions
Of the body in order to pay expenses, "a
he was poor man and had not visited
his boyhood home for many years.
He did well, travelling in good style
all the way, and taking his time to make
the trip and see the sights. Reaching a
town Of some size, he would get out some
dodgers, hire Il rink for day or two
and do first rate. His attraction was
tractable easily managed, no board to
pay, no quarrels, no late hours or dissi-
patton. All was comfortable, quiet and
respectable. 1t partook of the solemn,
fearful nature of public funeral, with
the comforting box Office reports of The
Clemenceau Case.
People came from long distance to
see the petrified partner of the door
tender, who was bathed in tears. People
who had infested funerals for Years
came and brought their families. Also
their dinners. They speak of it yet with
pride.
A friend Of mine, who is sort of sci
enlist, sort Of a self made scientist who
has kept it very quiet, shrinking as he
does from publicity, the publishers also
shrinking from publishing his writings,
asked the husband If it would be posi-
Die for the advancement of science 10
obtain ut y reasonable figure toe or fin
ger of the remains He had no hope of
doing so, but he was that kind of man.
he would do anything in the world for
science. So the impresario broke off a
finger as you would divide your stick OF
peppermint candy with a friend, and
when the scientist took out his check
book 10 adjust the claim, and asked
rather apprehensively what the price
would be, the stricken man said: well,
OF course don't know what I'd ort for
TO charge ye; but do you think six bits
would be too much?"
he was like everybody who is careful
Of small matters, viz, an ass in heavy
transactions He could just as well have
charged the scientist $50 as rs cents.
Did you ever see slzinfiint who could
successfully operate on big scale?
On second thought, however, there is
q notable exception comes to my mind
now. 1t is nan in New York who is
worth at least score of millions of dol
lars, and yet he hangs around in the de-
pot sometimes for hours waiting for
some one to put a nickel in the slot of
the little locomotive model, SO that he
can hear it play and ''see the wheels GO
round" Twice he has maddened me by
this course. He knows my weakness.
He knows that | cannot pass slot ma
chine. even if it be out of order, without
monkeying with it, and SO he follows
me around at the depot sometimes for
hours, hoping | will start one up.