Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-03

a member of the advisory council of
the worlds fair
Gen. r. E. Lees signature is worth
SO in the autograph market. Gen.
McClellan's So, and Gen. Sherman's
| So.
! Tiburzi, an uncaptured Italian BAN
dit, died of old age recently. He had
been sentenced to death thirty-seven
times.
| Baby Ruth, it is said, although only
year old, already can speak two or
three words. She looks like her
| mother.
But for his delicate health Ruskin
would have been elected president of
the Society of Authors to succeed
Tennyson.
| The prosecuting attorney of Kas6as-
ka county, Mich, was elected in 1886
by one majority, in 1888 by two, and
in 1892 by four.
Mr.. Gladstone was in Parliament at
the early age of %, but he seems to
have more irons in the fire now than
he ever had before.
| Nine. Christine Nilsson has given
f1,000 toward founding a hospital in
France especially for the cure of
| diseases of the throat.
Madeline Brohan, one of the most
charming of the actresses of the Fran
Gals, turns out to be the daughter of a
| Scotchman named Brown.
When the young king of Spain has
been bad boy he is taken to church
instaad of being allowed to spend the
Sunday in seeing bull fight.
Professor McFarlane. of the Texas
university, does not take much stock
in Genekal Dyreuforth's experiments.
Noise doesn't bring rain in his opin-
| ion.
The car of Russia is the largest in
dividual land owner in the world. The
area OF his possessions is far greater
than that of the entire republic of
France.
Mrs. Ellen Richards has new word.
"Ekology." for domestic science, which
may, with more safety than ever, be
now included among the ekIectic
studies.
Mrs. Sarah Kiple, of Scranton. Pa,
is SO years old and has smoked since
she was %. She has spent thousand
| times as much in tobacco as she has in
doctors bills.
DR.. j. c. Hepburn and wife are in
| San Francisco, after thirtv-three wears
of missionary work in Japan. Mrs.
| Hepburn was the first white woman to
enter that country.
A novel position in German journal
4 &c hot hx-
| HGuStrduen Ze5tuRg. of Leipsic. 1t
will contine its efforts to the interests
of Jewish women.
Jesse Grant, the youngest son of the
| famous General, is now settled down
with his family at Piedmont. Cal.
where he has been quite successful in
the mining business.
NJ. Charpentier de Cossigny. of Paris.
retired general of division of artiI-
lery, escaped all the dangers of battle
only to be killed by fall downstairs
in his own residence.
| Queen Victoria and her three dauoh-
| ters, Princess Christian, Princess
| Louise and Princess Beatrice will be
among the contributors TO the woman's
| department of the worlds fair.
Arson Phelps Stokes new COTTAGE
at LenoX, Mass, is to be the largest
one in that fashionable resort. II is to
be 400 feet long and 100 feet wide, and
its walls are to be of gray granite.
Princess Doigorouki. the Russian
| violiniSt, VINO has come to this country
for concert season, is described as
"slim and graceful young creature.
with fair hair and pleasing face"
Henry Willard SAYS that Prince Bis
marck owns so, of stock in an
American street railway company.
This explains the ex-Chancellors sur
prising impudence in blufing the Ger
man throne.
Over $500, 900 was bequeathed to the
poor of Boston by the late f. V. Ash
ton, of that city, but the money has
| only just become available through
the death of his childless widow at
| Tunbridge Wells, England.
The youngest woman who ever came
| out of the west and won fame in the
east is probably Mrs. Eva Wilder Nc
Glasson, who is still nearer 20 than
25, and who has written a remarkable
story called IAN Earthly Paragon"
Moses Lorio, wealthy Hebrew who
died recently in Milan, left a fortune
estimated TO be worth S., 900, 900 to the
City of Milan to found an institution
to supply work to worthy persons
unable to find employment elsewhere.
Edwin Gould has ordered from q
press-clipping bureau "all the COM
ments and accounts about" his father
which has appeared, or will appear, in
"all the newspapers of the world" He
will have a mass of cheerful reading
for the family.
The executors of the will of W. j.
Gordon, the Cleveland millionaire,
have refused to accept the compensa-
ton provided for them in that instru-
| ment, $1,000 year, because it is not
explicitly specified that they shall each
have that amount.
Mr. J. w Delano of San Francisco