Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-28
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Girls over II can make valid wills
under the laws of Scotland.
Nearly 100 different machines have
been invented for boring rock.
The Egyptians kneaded their bread
in wooden bowl with their feet.
The first French newspaper was the
Mercure Francois, published in 1905.
The rice crop in the south this year
is estimated 20 be 225.0o0, 900 pounds.
The anthracite coal fields produce
more than 5000. 900 tons of coal
year.
900 lunatics at a cost of 5000 a
year.
Intoxicating liquors have been made
from the sap of the birch. the willow.
the poplar and the sycamore.
Unbroken 4-year-old colts. suitable
for military purposes, can be bought
in the Australian colonies at from $50
to SO each.
A confectioner. being curious as to
the weight of % pennies. placed them
in a paper bag on n confectioner's
scales and found that they weighed
three pounds five and quarter
ounces.
a San Francisco exchange raises the
alarm that California i suffering "a
famine" In every large town in that
state. with the exception of Alameda
there is lamcatauIe parciiy of the
gentier sex.
4 study of Il &c. man map, on which
is plotted the stations of the troops in
their huge army. shows that the
majority are 50 placed rs to be con-
.l.., ,,n,-al SpstiHnS - ha
French frontier.
The Athcnian Archaeological society
has carried out some excavations on
the site OF ancIeut Coriath which have
resulted in The discovery of a consider
able building belonging to the fifth or
sixth century Il. {.
4 resident of Dayton. Pa. was sur
prised the other morning when he went
to milk his COW 10 tind a placard at
tached to her horns. which bore the
following Inscription: go down and
pay for the cabbage | devoured last
night"
Bavaria continues to take the lead
in Germany in beer drinking. the con-
sumption during 1872 D-9l having been
over 26) quarts per inhahitant Posen
heads the list in schnapps drinking
about twenty-five quarts per inhab-
liant.
The superiority of tea over brandy
in many cases i beyond question.
The idea still fingers that alcohol keeps
out the cold. As a matter of fact
mountaineers have found by repeated
experience tina, the opposite of this
holds true.
Among the sUperStitious natives of
Bulgaria the prophet Elijah is believed
to control the elements During heavy
thunGrr>torm> the women fall on their
faces aud pray: Dear Lord Elijah,
do not drive 80 fast with Your fiery
horses
Vanilla is an orchid. which, in the
West Indies creeps over trees and
walls like ivy. a substance called
"saleD," somewhat reSem bling arrow
root or sago, i obtained from the
tubers of variety that grows in Tur-
KEY and Persia. where it is highly
esteemed.
Recent studies of cancer not only in
dictate that it i an organic growth. but
almost certainly prove that it is itself
liable to the attack of another parasite.
Better acquaintance with the relations
of these parasites may possibly bring
the lOng-sought method of arresting
cancer.
Senator Don Cameron has seeded 100
acres of his Donegal farm. near Mariet-
ta, with Kentucky bluegrass. which he
believes will do As well On his ground
as it does on the historic soil where il
is indigenous. He intends to put the
nutritious pasturage to the use of fancy
blooded stock.
There are two fixed rules for proper.
4 IN no hn t,ttft
They are that eight heads Chat is
skull lengths) make the total height of
the figure and that the invariable CEN
ter of the total length of the whole
figure should he the front termination
OF the lowest part of the pelvis-
The Fries old broad gauge No. "a
was regarded as the most unlucky
engine that ever ran on the road. 1t
was used in the Susquehanna yards
and is said TO have killed thirtv-nine
persons, including four women and
three children. In addition to this
seventy men were crippled by this
engine.
new luminous fungus has been |
forwarded from Tahiti to Europe. 1t |
Is said to emit at night a light resemb- |
ling that of the -lowworm. which it re- |
tains for period of twenty-four hours |
after having been gathered. 1t is used |
by the native women in bouquets OF |
flowers for personal adornment in the |
hair and dress.
During the campaign in Dahomey |
the French soldiers found the Daho- |
meyan women much more reCou bta BILE |
than the men. and what amazed them |
most was that the amazons not only /
carried repeating rifles. but also had |
cords around their waists for the pur-
pose OF binding any Frenchmen who