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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
L Should b in Kvsry Hou,,.

j. B. Wilson, 371 Clay street, Sharps-
burg. Pa. says he will not be without
DR.. Kings New Discovery for consump.
ton, coughs and colds. that it cured his
wife who was threatened with pneumonia
after an attack OF ella grippe" when va
rious other remedies and several physi-
clans had done her no good. Robert
Barber. of Cooksport. Pa. claims DR..
Kings New Discovery has done him more
good than anything he ever used for
lung trouble. Nothing like it. Try it.
Free trial bottles at Hartz- & Bahnsen's
drug store. Large bottles, SOC and 81.
ELECTRIC BITTERs.
This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no special men.
ton. All who hsYe used Electric Bitters
sing the same song of praise. A purer
mepicine does not exist and it is guarant.
eed to do all that is claimed. Electric
Bltters will cure all diseases of the liver
and kidneys will remove PIN pies, boils,
salt rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood. Will drive malaria from
the system and prevent as well as cure all
malarial fevers. For cure of headache.
constipation and indigestion try Electric
Bitters-Entire satisfaction guaranteed,
or money refunded-Price so cents and
81 90 per bottle at Hartz s. Bahnsen's
drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
IN A LONDON STREET.

Tho sea and mount have beauty, and this but
what it can,
Thrice fairer than their light the light here
battling in the van.
The tragic light, the din and CRIME
The dread endearing stain of time
The beating heart of man.
l know the sun at boldest a bubble in the sky
mat where he dare not enter steals in shroud-
ed passion by:
L know the river sails the bridge;
The plane trees, each a greener ridge
To rest an urban eye;
The bells in dripping steeples: the tavern's
corner glare;
The cabs like glowworms darling forth; the
barrel organs air;
And one by one, and two by two,
The hatless urchins waltzing thro'
The level paven square.
Not on the Grecian headlands Of song and old
desire
My spirit chose her pleasure house. but in the
London mire;
Long, long alone she loves to pace,
And find a music in this place
AS In a minister choir.
things of awe and rapturel o names of
Legendary!
Still is it most of joy within your saddest town
to be,
Whose very griefs fain would Stake
Mine angels are, and help to make
In hell a heaven for me.
Louise Imogen Quincy in Harper's-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Edward BeIIamy's Wife.

Though she has been wife for ten
years and a mother for seven, Mrs. Bell
amy's face still retains much of the deli
cate bloom which is the heritage of New
England girlhood, and her figure the slen-
der grace of youth. She has dark brown
hair, bright, expressive eyes, and man
ner marked by quiet cordiality, devoid of
either formality or effusiveness Her
musical talent is her chief personal gift,
her voice being a mezzo soprano, and con-
siderable attention has been paid to it's
cultivation
For several years she has sung in the
choir of the village church, only a few
rods distant from her home. She chiefly
prizes her musical gift. however, for the
pleasure it gives her husband and chill
dren, all of whom are exceedingly fond of
music. The little melodeon which she
learned TO play upon when a girl still
stands in one corner of the family sitting
room, and no Sunday afternoon or evening
would be complete or happy without her
singing to its simple accompaniment
Fanny NJ. johnson in Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received AT the City
Clerks office. Rock Island, Ill, until Monday. D
O'Clock p m. August LIST. 1892, for constructing
city passed March eth. 1892 and amendments
thereto andis entitled AN ordinance for the i'm
proven nt of East and West Seventeenth streets
from First to SeCon avenues. aud OF sixteenth
street from First to Third avenues, and of FIJI
teenth and Fourteenth streets from Second to
Third avenues" and for furnishing the materials
and doing thu worS according to the plan and
specifications thereto file At the city clerk
Office. Blanks bi will be furnished on applica-
ton.
All bids must be accompanied with certified
check III the sum OF Five hun1red dollars, paya-
bic TO the order OF the trea of said city, hich
shall become forfeited to said city in the bid
der shall fail to enter into contract with approved
securi les to execute the Jrk for the price men
toned in his bid, and according to the plans and
specifications in the event that the contract
should be awarded to him.
The right to reject any all bids or propo sails
received is hereby expressly reserved by SAID city
ROBERT BoEHLER, City Clerk.
Rock Island, Ill. July 12lh. 1892
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Queer Chinese Customs.

A mandarin is one who holds an Office in
China. There are nine different grades or
ranks of mandarins, each being distin-
guished by a different colored ball or but
ton on the top of his hat. The Chinese are
a strange people and have strange customs
concerning their mandarins as well as
everything else. No officer is allowed to
hold Office in his native province, nor is he
allowed to marry where he holds Office, nor
TO have n relative in Office under him.
He must report truthfully every little
while how those under him are behaving
themselves and doing their work, and then
they are promoted or put down step like
boys in a class. No is allowed to re-
main in Office in the same place longer than
three years.-Montreal Star.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Wonderful Gains.

DR.. Miles Nervine not only cures all
nervous diseases, eadache, blues, ner-
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St. Vitus dance. fits and hysteria, but also
builds up the body. II am pleased TO
say that after years Of intense suffering
with nervous disease headache and pros
tration, I tried DR.. Miles Restorative
Nervine. and in two weeks gained eight
pounds in weight. could not lie down
to sleep, but now sleep perfectly easy,
and am still improving wonderfully.
Cannot say enough for the nervine -
MRS. L. B. WILLARD. Dunkirk, N. Y"
Zone customer used Nervine and gained
fifteen pounds in flesh.-BRowN s. MAY
BURY. Cortland, n. Y" Trial bottles and
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Plain Talk for Her Majesty.

There is story of her present majesty
being introduced to an aged Highlander
who professed himself devoted Jacobite
and stanch adherent of the white Rose. 5"
In II few kindly words the queen alluded
to the old mans known principles, and
added, But l, too, am half a Stuart" Il
know that" retorted the uncompromising
adherent of the white flower, for if it
were not for the Stuart blood in your veins
you would never be permitted to be where
you are."-London Standard.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

can recommend Ely's Cream Balm to
all sufferers from dry catarrh from per-
sonsl experience Michael Herr, Phar-
macist, Denver.
had catarrh OF the head and throat for
five years. used Eiy's Cream Balm. and
from the first application l was relieved
The sense of smell, which had been lost.
WIS restored after using one bottle.
have found the Balm tie only satisfactory
remedy for cstarrh, ard it has effected a
cure In my case.-H. l.. Niger, Waverly,
n. Y.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
For Nhy?'

Many persons must have been struck
with the awkward beginning of the line in
the hundredth psalm:
For why? The Lord our God is good"
The truth is, popular ingenuity-repre-
scented in this case perhaps by the printer
has taken the liberty of changing the old
word ''forwhy," meaning because" which
gave good sense and translated the orig
inal, but which had fallen out of common
use, into the modern for why?" Surely
the restoration of the word might still be
Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Low Rates to Denver.

Knights Templar triennial conclave-
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail
way will sell round trip tickets at half
rates east of the Missouri river to Knights
Templar and their friends to Denver,
Aug. TO = good to return 10 Oc- II :;
and west OF The Missouri river, July IS
to Aug 10, return limit Oct. 10. Ask
your nearest ticket agent for full psrtic-
ulars or address John Sebastian, G. T. s.
p. A, Chicago, III
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Women

You are digging yoEr own graves by the con-
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE

Estate of Edwin H. Barker Deceased
The undersigned having been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Edwin II. Barker late of
the county of Rock Island, stat. OF Illinois de-
ceased. hereby gives notice tina: IA, will appear
before the county court of Roc. island coun-
ty, at the office of the clerk Of sail. court in
the city of Rock Island at the Oct Der term on
the first Monday in October next at which
time all persons having claims agan,' said es-
tate are notified and requested to attend for the
purpose of having the same adjusted. Al per-
sons indebted to said estate are requested Il
make immediate payment to the undersigned
Dated this 18th day OF July, A. d. 1892
j. r. JOHNSTON Administrator
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Where Sea Food Is Cheap.

Bowery prices for oysters, fish and fruit
are the cheapest in town. A street stand
which advertses fish for Friday sells fried
cells for five cents soft shell crabs for ten
cents and CLAIMS and oysters on the half
shell for cent apiece, with all the pepper
and salt and other fixings that the custo-
mer may want free of charge.-New York
Sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
BUcxLEN's ARN1oA sALvR.

The best salve IN the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter. chapped hands, chilblains.
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 20 cents per
box. For ale bv Hartz & Bahnsen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
Caves on Easter Island.

The caves on Easter island are numerous
and may be divided into two classes-tnose
worn by the action of the waves and chose
due to the expansion of gases in the molten
lava and other volcanic action. Nearly all
of them appear to have been used as
dwelling places by the early inhabitants,
and many of them have been used as places
of Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
CHICAGO, Rock Island & Pacific RV.,

The Direct Route TO and from Chicago Joliet Ottawa
PEORIA La Sale, Moline, Rock Island. in ILLINOIS;
Davenport, Muscatne, ot;unwa, Oskaoosa, Des
Moines, Winterset, Audubon, Harlan and Council
Bluffs, in IOWA Minneapolis and ST. Paul, in MIN
HESOTA; Watsrtown and Sioux Falls. in DAKOTA,
Cameron, st. Joseph and Kansas City, in MISSOURI;
Omaha, Lincoln, Fairbury and Nelson in NEBRASKA;
Atchison Leavenworth, Horton, Topeka Hutchinson
KANSAS; Kingfsher, FL Reno ard Ninco, in INDIAN
TERRITORY; Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
in COLORADO Traverses new areas of rich farming
and grazing lands aording the best facilities of inter
communication to all towns and cities and west
northwest and southwest OF Chicago and Pacific
trans oceanic scapor's.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
A Limited NIenayerie.

A young hack writer was employed to
write up prospectus for circus. Say"
he said, turning to the manager, I've
about exhausted my vocabulary ON this
thing. Have you u thesaurus?" NO"
said the circus man, we've only got a hip
popotamus. "-Harpers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

California has 20, OOO, 900 fruit trees The
annual crop Of semitropical fruit is valued
at S12, OOO,0 900. The export of lemons alone
is 10000 boxes yearly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

There IS 81 400, OOO.OO in gold In circu-
lation throughout the world, and good au-
thority asserts that d. O0O. 900 of that is lost
annually by wear.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

The negroes of the West Indies eat
baked, fried and boiled snakes of all kinds,
to say nothing of their feasts of palm
worms and smaller insects and "wigglers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

The flume which conveys the water from
the mountains to the reservoir at San Die
go, Cal, is thirty-five miles long, and is
composed almost wholly of redwood.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

Many races of men live entirely on ami
NAL food, and these are the most hardy
and, from all an authority has been able
to gather on the subject, the most free
from diseases of all kinds.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

He-You have quite a number of brace
lets on your wrist.
She-I love bracelets.
He-Do you love anything else?
She-Yes; my mother.-Jewelers' Cir
cular
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28
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Close connections at Denver and Colorado Springs with
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STANDARD GAUGE
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Over which superbly- equipped trains run daily
THROUGH WITHOUT CHANGE TO and from Salt
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from Manitou Pixies Peak and all other sanitary and
scenic resorts cities and mining districts Colorado
DAILY FAST EXPRESS TRAINS
From St. Joseph and Kansas City and from all i'm.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-28

Accommodation trains leave Rock Island at
8 100 a. m and 20 p. m; arrive at Peoria $3.50 p.
m and is a m. Leave Peoria 500 a m. and
rs p. m arrive Rock Island ! zoo p. AID :25
p. m.
All trains rnn daily except Sunday.
All passe ger trains arrive and depart Union
depot, Peoria.
Free Chair car on Fast Express between Rock
Is'ond and Peoria both directions.
Through tickets 10 all points; baggage checked
through to destination.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
STOCKINGS OF SCALES.

II | were asked Of all things what most
would lilse Co be.
I'd choose 10 be a mermaid and live below the
sea
How nice. instead OF walking. to swim round
like little whales
And to wear. instead Of stockings. many shiny
pairs of scales.
Which don't need changing every time that
nurse says they wet
And then TO have no shoes that always come
untied!-and yet
And yet, although ii must be nice 70 swim
around in scales.
To attend a school Of porpoises and play at tag
with whales,
To be on friendly speaking terms with jelly
fish and cells,
And never to be sent to bed or told I'm late for
meals,
still, when | think of Christmas eve my reso-
luton fails,
For what would Santa think if hung up
pair of scales2
%. Herford in st. Nicholas.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

The Bowery is something less than a
mile in length 1t reaches from Chatham
square to the little wedge in front of the
Cooper Union at Eighth street which splits
1t in twain, sending one-half up town to be
the great Third avenue and one-half close
beside it to be the Fourth avenue. 1t has
the width of both these wide avenues TO-
gether Its width varies, as becomes an
ancient thoroughfare, but l think 1t aver
ages more than 100 feet from house line to
house line, sXty-tive feet being the road
way, II you are stranger and walk down
the Bowery in the daytime without a
guide, you will be apt to notice nothing
more particular about it than that it is an
enormous, crowded, noisy street of retail
shops, lodging houses and museums.
Any old New Yorker will show you some
very old and respectable shops-notably a
grocer's, bakers and a shop for the sup
ply of firemen's goods-which were estab-
llshed there in the days of other genera
tons. But these are not so interesting to
stranger as the many little stores that
give distinct character to the street. Ex-
cept in the main street of Havre. | never
saw so many shops for the sale of iewelry
as there are on the Bowery Most of them
display new, cheap and iiashy ornaments;
half a dozen are what are called pawn
brokers' sales shops, or shops for the sale
of unredeemed pledges; one is "A mart for
duplicated presents received by persons on
their wedding days or on anniversary oc-
caslons.-Julian Ralph i'll Century.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

Third in the list Of famous war horses
of recent times was Traveller, the favor
lite mount Of General r. +. Lee, but he
died prematurely. surviving his master
but a few days. General Lee bought
him in West Virginia in 1861, when he
was years old, and rode him through
all the battles of 1862 and in the Wilder
ness, at Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor,
and in the last campaign. At Apo
mattox he was party to the surrender,
and then went home with his master, &C
cording to the generous terms extended
by Grant. Traveller was dark iron
gray, sixteen hands high, docile, endur-
ing and calm as his master under fire.
Six years after the war he became almost
milk white from age, and while yet
vigorous trod on a nail, which penetrat-
ed his hoof, causing locRjaw and death.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
House Numbering in Alaska.

This system of numbering your streets
by commencing every block with new
hundred" declared a guest at the Girard
house to Philadelphia friend, sis an adj
mlrable plan, but the Indians of Alaska
have the most novel system of house mum
bering on the entire continent. When |
was in Sitka | was ineXpressibly amused
during my stroll along the water front. Ii
Is along that that these Indians have built
their houses. Being half civilized they are
imbued with a laudable desire to emulate
their white cousins, but being only thus
half civilized their application of their half
way notion Of numbering their houses is a
most laughable affair.
They have evidently appreciated the
fact that the house numbers should grow
larger as they progress, but the regular
increase of numerals seems to have been
battling to their untutored minds. The
first house we noticed started in an indeh-
mite way with the number 500, the second
was 600, the third $50, the fourth l,OOO the
fifth l,075, and so on. The jumps were
most erratic, an undeniable merit, how
ever, being that they certainly increased
steadily AT the end of the brief row of
houses we had reached some number away
up in 5000. The houses of every Indian
town throughout Alaska are numbered in
the same unique manner. Philadelphia
Record
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06
with wounds.

Another horse as famous and as much
beloved was Rienzi, the shining jet black
Morgan" 3-year old, which Captain
Archie Campbell, of the Second Michi-
gan cavalry, presented to General Sheri-
dan in 1869. He had been pronounced
''vicious," but that was Islander or he
recognized his master, for with Sheridan
on his back he had all the docility one
could wish and with it amazing powers
OF endurance. His ordinary walk was
at five miles per hour. On every I'M
portant occasion thereafter Sheridan
rode this magnificent animal to the end
of the war, and he is the steed celebrated
by Buchanan Read in his "Sheridan's
Ride"-from Winchester to Cedar Creek.
Jet black, except for three white feet,
and sixteen hands high. with a look of
almost human intelligence and courage
and nerve equal to that of his famous
rider, Rienzi was the beau ideal of the
war horse-the glorious creature of Job
that was SO eager for the battle that he
snuffed it afar off, even 1.-The thunder of
the captains and the shouting" Though
many times wounded. Rienzi survived
the war and died in 1873 of old age.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-05-06

In one OF my trips through the navy de
partpent | was introduced TO the chief
clerksQf the bureau of construction, whose
naIne.is Darius Green. Not the Darius
Green Of dying machine fameg" | asked
upon hearing his name Exactly" he re-
piled smiling, that is just vino am" He
then told me his story. Some thirty-five
years ago" he said, Il was a boy attending
school at MedGord, Mass. One day the Poet
Trowbridge called upon the principal, who
was personal friend of his. and sketched
out the plan of his celebrated story of the
flying machine. i have, he said, every
thing now except name for my hero
Can't you find among your scholars one
that will suitp My teacher thought over
the names of his pupils and mentioned
mine TO MF. Trowbridge, who accepted it
and made me famous" Darius Green was
employed in the navy yard of Boston for a
number of years. In 1889 he came to
Washington and accepted his present posi-
tion in the bureau of construction.-Wash
ingtOn Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.