Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-25
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has won renown as collector Of HUI
man skulls.
A case of bleeding through the soune
skin is the subject of European med.
icai report.
Thorghatten, the famous Norwegian
mountain, has a hole extending en-
tirely through it from one side to the
other.
A church on Montmartre, Paris, has
already cost twenty-five millions, and
will require five millions more to COM
plete it.
Statistics in London show that in
that city the consumption of gas is
steadily increasing, Notwithstanding
the more general adoption of electric
light.
| The slowes5 railroad in the world is
the Arizona and New Mexico. From
Benson to Eogales is lightweight
miles and the schedule time is eight
hours. The fare is $3.50 or 10 cents q
mile.
The London Telegraph says that eff
forts are being made to preserve his
toric Malmaison, once'the residence of
| the Empress Josephine, from falling
| into the hands of some nineteenth
century vandal.
An interesting piece of information
brought out lring the Brussels con-
| ference is the fact that there are at
present no less than 800, 900, 900 of
counterfeit silver money in circulation
in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy
Spain and Portugal.
All the motions and sensations of
the various parts of the body are rep
resented in the surface of the brain as
on map. Thus there is separate
brain area necessary for sight, another
for hearing, another for the motions
of the fingers and so on.
A lady writes to say that as daily
experience she carries sixteen pockets
two in her divided skirt, four in her
waistcoat, five in her indoor jacket
(Which by reason of their contents
weigh just five pounds seven ounces),
and five in her outdoor jacket.
Ice one to two inches thick will bear
men. Two inches thick is estimated
tit to bear infantry; four inches thick
to bear cavalry or light guns; six
inches to bear teams with moderate
loads or heavy held guns; eight inches
teams with heavy loads.
A Westphalian city has invented
something new n athletics. Between
the Grand square and the Munster
strasse there are nineteen beer shops.
A foot race was organized between the
two points, but each competitor had TO
stop at all the beer houses and drink
bumper of ale al each.
No one can visit England without
being struck 9TH the extraordinary
superiority of English highways over
our own. This applies to city streets
and to country roads. 1t is safe to say
that almost every five miles of main
public road in Great Britain is better
than almost any five miles of public
road in our cour try.
The Elizabeth Gamble Deaconess
home in Cincinnati, which was dedi-
Gated four years ago, now has thirty
three deacOnesses who give their lives
to benevolent work, without salary,
and who accomplish great good by WIS.,
iting prisons, the poor and suffering,
and by conducting special mission
work among the children.
An enraged Partisan poet lately
brought an action for damages against
his publisher because some of hi.
rhymes were spoiled by printers
blunders. lie lost his suit, the court
holding that in Withdrawing the book
as soon as the error was discovered
and in correcting the offending line
the publisher had done all that could
| reasonably be expected of him.
The expedition sent out by the
Vienna Academy of Science to explore
the Mediterranean found its greatest
depth to be som ething over two and
one-quarter miles, between Molla and
| Cerigo. On the African coast, where
the water is clearer, white metal plates
could be seen at a depth of IA feet.
Sensitive plates we're acted upon by
the light at depth of over 1,6oo feet.
The general manager of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad says that they
can move from the interior of the
country to the seaboard (taking the
mean distance at 1000 miles) $50, 600
troops in so hours, together with their
| necessary equipment This could be
| done without serious interruption tc
regular commerc al traffic.
The general surface of the Sahara,
although parched and fiery in sum-
mer, wears mantle of green on all
places uncovered by arid sand after
the first autumnal rainfall. 1t keeps
green all winter, and from that verdi
ure the Bedouins derive their only
means of life, the food of their numer-
Gus herds of cattle, which is the only
tribute which that immense waste
pays to humanity
Mark o. Shriver says oysters yield
generally forty ounces of meat to the
bushel, but those caught this year
yield sixty ounces to the hushcl. A
bushel of oysters ordinarily averages
about three quarts, but when the oys-
ters are as fat and plump as those now