Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-13

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the audience. BY his first wife, discovered
| the deserted nest of one of the celebrated
| Little MamEo OH Black Hornets of Ten
nessee. This IL sect is called in the south
the Typhoid To1ch-me-not of the Tropics,
and wears platinum singer, with an
alcohol lamp for same, all the time.
The black hornet is now said by a
writer on war topics, whose article was
returned to him by some of our leading
magazines, to have been the cause of the
mastery forced march from Bull Run to
Washington. The black hornet has broken
up eight district schools in Tennessee,
and if the colored Zion NJ. E. church at
East Conquest is barred out of paradise
by the committee on credentials the
black hornet that built his nest in the
hot air register during the summer will
be to blame for it.
Let others admire the delicate texture
of the black hornets deserted home, but
blowing down the barrel of deserted
shotgun is good enough for me. More
over, will look just as well on the fol-
lowing day and suffer less.
We buried the little youngster in the
cool, yellow mud down at the branch
all but his head, and 1t we poulticed
with wet plug tobacco and ammonia
TIL toward evening, when he could bear
to have his fathers hat on and go home.
He did aot see my fireworks. He had
to worry along with those he had stirred
up in the clinker built household of the
black hornet.
We opened the evening with song. |
sang selection from I'll Trovatore, >"
accompanying myself on the xylophone,
that pleading and almost human instru-
ment. | then touched off bunch of
frecrackers in order to seat the audi
euce and then let off Roman candle,
the breechpin Of which blew out, send
ing eight beautiful variegated balls up
my sleeves.
then sang a song entitled Spark
ling and bright in its liquid light is
| the water in our glasses. Twill give
you health, twill give you wealth, ye
lads and rosy lasses"
After this came a mine which the cat
alogue said would spout gold and silver
showers, interspersed with red. blue,
yellow and green meteors. This mine
was a nondividend declaring mine, like
one that partly owned in Wyoming If
! had owned il entirely | would have
been poor man today, but l only owned
a little of it and so have no reason to
complain. 1t was called the Paupers
Dream, and was discovered by Buck
Bramel. He owned the two mules. Yeller
and WALLER, which had almost national
reputation. The Pauper's Dream showed
rich at the grass roots with blossom
rock that looked Ike jewelry store, bat
It ran into nlcaceOus slate and pyrites
Of poverty at zen feet. Then we got
| some good Quartz again and the lead
was better defined. neglected my life
| insurance premiums TO pay my assess
ments, and then we struck at a depth of
eighty feet one Of the incest springs Of
water from which | ever drank out of.
Buck was working in the mine at the
time. He got to the surface about eight
minutes ahead CT the water. Either of
us would sell the mine now to people
who mean bus. ness. Possibly would
be better man to deal with than Buck
would. | would be more liberal and !
would be more liable to make IL an OBJ
ject than Buck would.
The pyrotechnic mine, however, acted
as it might if it had got wet in some
way, so we dried it out near the stove
this morning.
1t did not loo k so well when it went
off as it would II it had been at night.
but ii lit up the little plain kitchen and
made it look almost like fairy palace.
/ got an war SCARED veteran to let off
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carnage, having been a veterinary sur
Seon IL cavalry regiment. He let off
one of my big rockets first. He said il
would be best to stick the stick in the
ground. and after it got to burning it
would fee as a bird TO its mountains, or
words to that effect
He stuck it in the ground too far. It
pulled and swung round the circle. now
and then knocking out the eve of north
ern invalid with hot ball. then it gave
scream that sounded almost human
and buried itself IN the corset Of a col
ored nurse girl from Savannah who
cannot read or write, but who got me TO
write TO her relations there and tell them
that race prejudice, she thought, had
nothing 10 do with it.
we then had some more Roman can
dies can readily see that the Romans
as people could not have enjoyed read
ing much by cardlehght if these things
suffered then a they do now, and ] can
see why the Roman nation thus got be-
hind and lost their power. The Greeks,
also, We're not practical. Who could en-
JOY an evening clustered about Greek
fire side?
But enough! The summer is passing
most delightfully."- here, with cool, restful
and beautiful nights, devoid of mosqui-
toes or straw rides. The days also are
filed with rest for the tired mind, whilst
ever and anon ole can seem to hear his
weary brain turn over and yawn and go
to sleep again.
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