Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-18

Hittite, hornblende, serpentine, ashes
tos, wavettite, brucite, baryta, gypsum.
Gale spar, tale. stalactites, free silver
tale, stalagmites, fiuor spar, sulphur,
graphite, alum, borax, bluing, salt, coal,
lime, cement, green and dry hides, stove
wood and plastering hair. There will
also be pilasters of white and colored
marble, alabaster, onyx, agatized wood
and obisidan. Other things will be
added from time to time. 1t is really
going to be most wonderful collection
of the rich minerals of the most wonder
full state in this most wonderful repub-
lie.
Ihad strange and wild experience
last month. had been IN the hills of
North Carolina four days, and beauti-
full mauve beard had sprung up like
bed OF asparagus all over my face, be-
cause l was not within eight miles of
barber shop. l got on a late train at
Biltmore. The Biltmore station was
formerly hog incubator, but it was
found that the air was so bad that the
piglets died off, and so it was condemned
and made into depot. | sat there three
hours, and all that l could find to read
was copy of The American Beekeeper
for 1879, and it had been used to clean
the lamps with. But | read all of it.
Part of it memorized.
There was a barber shop at Biltmore,
but being Sunday it was closed while
the proprietor scrubbed the clotted blood
off the floor do not shave myself yet,
though | am going to try it this sum
mer. So took the train, bearded as
was like pard, as heard poet get off
the other day. I stopped overnight at
Knoxville, but left before the shops were
opened in the morning. That evening l
had to argue in the hall at Dayton. O.,
and would get there at S:15 p. IN. So
saw no chance to get shaved. | feei
naturally great pride in my personal ap-
pearance. 1t is all l have. When one
has been endowed that way l do not
think it is wrong to add to ones per-
sonal beauty by shaving every five days.
spoke to Joe Harris, member of the
Tennessee legislature, about this, and he
said it was rather tough to lecture with
Ten Nights-in- -Barroom" beard, and
would l mind letting him shave me at
the junction, where we had to wait
thirty minutes. l thought moment,
and then l said l believed l would vent
ure. He was very kind. He did not do
it as general thing, but he wanted to
do me favor, and he had nice razor
that came as prize to each subscriber
of The Little Hustler, monthly child's
paper
We got off at the junction and retired
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near by. The rest of the passengers
came along also. All of East Tennessee
not otherwise engaged came too. Some
left their work and came They We're
still coming when we got through. The
effects OF the an;esthetic wore off as l
approached Lexington, and my face
panied me good deal, but l looked bet
ter, every one said. Mr.. Harris deserves
my thanks, and l heartily tender them.
l can truly say that l was never more
delightfully."- shaved in my life-by a
member of the legislature.
Since then l have bought some razors,
and as l write these lines l am nerving
myself up to try one of them. Napoleon
said that the men who won victories and
| conquered the world shaved themselves.
| l have got some new shaving soap that
smells like the upper drawer of Cleopa-
| tra's clothes press, and | have bright
new strop, with red case for it, and
| beautiful pad Of shaving paper. and
hunk of alum to staunch the blood if
cut the core out of my Adams apple by
! mistake. Tomorrow, if the sign should
! be right, will shave myself
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