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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31
RANDOM READING

Inc first newspaper in the modern
sense was issued monthly n: Venice in
1886; the first English newspaper was
published in I62., the FIRST American
in 1904.
A machine for making tacks was
patented in 1906 but not nut into
practical use until near the middle of
the century. Now the world con-
sumes $4,000, COO lacks day.
Daniel Cos,igan, New York police
man. dropped his revolver as he was
running upstairs in q police station
and the weapon was discharged, caus-
ing an ugly wound in his left arm.
Farmers near Crown Point. Pa.
who have lost much stock, found the
thief prowllng around hog pen and
killed it. It was 4 big jaguar and
must have escaped from some circus
In hopes of abating the smoke
nuisance the city of Boston has passed
a now ordinance which requires manu-
facturcrs to consume seventy-five per
cent of the carbon in smoke before the
gases escape from the chimney
]. G. Rhodes. proprietor of the
Rhodes House, Girard, Ia, was speed
ing fast horse and was caugh. by an
express train and killed. Engineer
Brown is almost frantic over the
affair, for Rhodes is the ninth man he
has killed with his engine.
g. c. Kennedy of Lancaster, Pa,
has come into possession of an old
cavern sign of unusual interest 1t is
oaid tohavc been painted By Benjamin
West before he was known to fame,
and first swung in front of the Three
Crowns Tavern, in Salisbury.
James Foley of New YORK stopped
to witness two street fights the othe,
night, land was stabbed each time,
After being stabbed the first tine hs
started for the hospital. but before
reaching it was attracted to another
fracas, where he was again stabbed,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31


Professor Blackie was lecturing 10 q
new class. with whose personnel he was
imperfectly acquainted. A student rose
to read paragraph. his book in his left
hand. Sir" thundered Blackic, hold
your book in your right hand.'-and as
the student would have spoken-'No
words, sir! Your right hand. saw
The student held up his right ari.,. end
ing piteously ut the wrist. Sir. hae
nae right hand" he said. Before Black.e
could open his lips there arose a storm
OF hisses. and by L his voice was over
horne. Then the professor lief. his place
and wen. down 10 the student he had
anwittins'y hurt AID IN, HIS arm around
Che lads shoulders and drew hiia close.
and the lad leaned agains; his breast.
My boy, said Blacki,-he spoke VERY
softly, yet 20: 80 softly but that every
word was aadiblc IL the hush ,ta. had
fallen On the classrcom-..r boy. yo.'l.
forgive me that was overrough. l dit:
not know-l did not know He turned
to the students. and with "a look and tone
that came straight from bis heart he
said. And lie. me say 10 Won ali. ! am
rcjoiced to I've shown ] am teaching a
class Of gentlemen Scottish lads can
cheer as well as hiss. and that Blackie
learned.-San Francisco Argoraut.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31
GRAINS OF GOLD,

Fine words on a tombstone do not
mean anything in heaven.
The greatest trouble is easiest to
bear than the known guilt of one sin.
No man wants to be a saint until he
finds out what it means to be sinner.
The man who rides q hobby is al
ways complaining that the world Is
too slow.
It is hard for some men to believe
that sin can he black as long as Il
pays well.
A sclf-made man spoils his work
every time he opens his mouth to
praise himself
A false report does not last long,
and the life one leads is always the
best apology for that which one has
led.
A contempt of the sacred rite Of
marriage rot only endangers the
morality Of the individual, but strikes
at the very foundation of social order
and domestic happiness.
There is nothing purer than hon.
csty, nothing sweeter than charity,
uoeHihS WARMER Cu80 love, uOInlnR
richer than wisdom, nothing brighter
than virtue. and nothing more stead
fast than faith.
Just rs ignorance works more real
mischief in life than wickedness, so
docs thoughtlcssness bring moro dis
aster about its own ears aud the feet
OF those whom It effects than wilful-
ness or intentional ill-doing.
An ungrateful man il detested By
all; every one feels hurt BY his con-
duct because Il operates to throw .
damp upon generosity and he is. re.
garded - the common inj1rer Of al
those who staad IN need Of assistance.
Fine sense and exhaltoa sense sso
not half % useful - co0mon senoA
There are forty Den e VT toe enc nan
Of ssnsAaaA - that win 0ssy noAhing
sbeet hin tat gslA will - evssy 1a0
q Q Loo IT, reader cAaagO.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31
Club Rule In New York.

l was somewhat shocked last week
while sitting in the Knickerbocker club.
where I was busily engaged in alternate
" gazing on those tiresome wall paper
bouquets and garlands and in keeping
up . desultory conversation with the
only two men Of my acquaintance left
in town, to see . man whom we all
knew nod to rs as he passed the club
window. although accompanied by his
wife. This is certainly very bad form.
A man should show more Difference to
his wife than to any other woman. OF
course he knew better than to bow.
One Is supposed never to recognize Q
woman acquaintance from . club win
dow. Otherwise W approved of him.
Vogue.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31

-. lke the breath Of ihst stove" e.
1,,, Ethel ono day when tho cas was 60.
. .. a., the sitting room stove. coal-sns 10
!, ,ss .-rsifsmss OF India. eompsssd Win 'ee
~, e., q rcr-'n "a'ie'ed win ea'sns' nut ,,
- e.. ,,r, o;ser symptoms the scsec OF sse'l
49,. s.,lene,.. 80 the sufferer !. us0oeseto1s
-. .r,-.vsne.- Of his pse.csee. Why any
- -,,u-e .uch . paisful. dangerous ana
% a,.ra.e. whea ~. saec's catsrra Rom
-, n: oaiy 30 ecats - oil cure the aoe'
- e,sc. = one % the May mysteries
s-e.s-. arr 90 eosn icat 81 she ssecese a
..s...--h semc,.y. ssst 'hey oder TO scsfsf
10 o, any ea.c Of eAiasrA tag e.nses euse. y
.rass suede Tor 'hei' cneey. 'ss nee Y
-. ~. SET. asle-s ihey undesrseoa tts exse'
over.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31
Fen,m,M,r,ss.

Early and late" inscribed on IN In
vitation means that varied entertain
ment will be provided.
Jack Brown and his sister Emily
arc twins, aren't they?" They arc
now. but they won't be when Jacks
90"
Elmore-Did you ever sec a COM
pany of women perfectly silent?
Decker--Once. Some one had asked
which was the Oldest
A housekceper in Portland. Nc, is
undecided as to whether it were better
to do her own washing or mind her
washerwoman's baby.
Ncll-Who was the belle of the sea-
son at Atlantic? Bellc-Dollie Smith
was the belle, guess. At any rate
she got the most rings.
civilians seems to be going all to
pieces since he got marricd!'' "Well,
that's not surprising. understand
that he gets blown up every day."
The English horticultural college
reports that several applications have
been received for women head gard.
encrs, and one for a woman to take
entire charge of conservatories and
greenhouses
Some lady amateurs in New York
city are contemplating the organiza-
ton Of \ woman's chess congress, and
Of tournament in connection there
with. About twenty have given their
support to the movement
Baby pillows" are not designed
for cradle use. but are dainty little
things to be scattered around the
room. They arc sometimes made of .
couple Of cambria handkerchief with
the edges stitched together.
Laura-1 wish George wouldn't
smoke. To be kissed by . man who
smokes is horrid. Irenc-Eat onions,
Laura. and you won't notice the odor
OF the cigars Laura, aghast-Why.
then he'd never kiss me at all!
Mammal hope my little boy, while
out at tea this afternoon wi.h friends,
remembered what I told him about
not taking cake the second time?
Little Boy-Yes. mamma, I rcmcm-
bercd. and took two pieces the first
time.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31
Castoria,

aren. Mothers have repeatedly told mo q ID
god eject upon thef childrea."
Da. q. O. OsoooO,
LoWe1. NaR
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31
..,,,,, seif-ConnsDencs.

A., Tather-wcll. veil. little
r. 80 =, looking magnificent this
= What's all this for?
-, pauchtcr-Oh. Mr.. High.
=. /. Going TO propose tonight
= rafher-Hc is? How do you
- pia he tell YOU?
nrrrrr paugh,cr-why no You
= s,d darling-l decided that -
,--r'f tribunc.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31

r", nc ancient customs con-
o. Oh swedish funcrals wss 20
- .raIl looking glass In the
an unmarried female. 90
~ the last trumpet sounds
-. h able to arrange her
y l. wa the practice for
- naidcns 70 wear their
s'-s.Tirr loosely. while the ma
y - IL bound about the head
- ,,.-allv covered with somc
y ,ao. Hence tho unmarried
~ "a. imagined as awakening
70 I'D -meni day with more un-
.. ,,.k. than her Wooded sisters
y -. need OF a glass.-Wcst-
- res CIV.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31

mo- - AAAn19. IN ssussla, an0 m rnc
central part there are almost twice as
many people - In Belgium and Saxony.
and yet 80 per cent Of tho population in
this part Of the island live by agricui-
ture. Rice is the staple. and the statistics
give 23S Kilograms to each inhabitant.
Only about Is per cent of the surface Of
the island is devoted to the culture Of
rice. This is still in very primitive
state. but the government has taken it
mp, and the production will he greatly
increased. Java is mountainous coun-
try hut these mountains are not high,
and the rainfall is great, and rice can be
cultivated on 80 per cent of the surface
for the first crop and 10 per cent for the
second. We have therefore a possible
extension Of the cultivation of rice to
100000 hectares. An average crop to
this amount of acreage would support
9.000,0 600 people.
The surface of Java could bc divided
in this manner: Thirty per cent Of the
water surface would produce rice. vege-
tables. brcadfruit and agricultural ex-
ports. Fifteen per cent. not watered.
would produce breadfruit and agricul-
tural exports; eight per cent, not water
cd, coffee and tea plantations: two per
cent. watered. sugar cane. There would
then he left a Per cent for forests. gar
dens, meadows. waters. roads and dwell
ings. The people Of Java need not then
be condemned to live on rice alone.
Fruits are very important and necessary
for health, and in Java alone are found
100 different kinds. Cattle can be easily
raised, and the superintendent numbers
Of water plants, insects and worms that
are found in tropical countries fnrnis:,
an easy means Of feeding fish and fowls.
We ind therefore that in this country
SO men could find support on one square
6Iometef, oe more than four times as
many people ~ are now there.-Alex-
under Wokkof in Breslau Deutsche
Revue.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-31
s1RAsseR's UNION BAND
us,ur-rE,. DAVENPORT. Il.
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v....-a .h.d &c parties. rccr piiou.. thea
= - Al -sl'snf >srin- gusvt~ti snd - ain
80 -. a ~ an. tysuin- cnteftaiuuents-
1855. pi-tVtor. Henry sinat Naua-
- Fasifeuer TesrNcne Nc. L.. psvcnfort.
,4c1 IlayJs Sr're AID Ia-nef uai' iassnTc''.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04

ITO LET-Money to loan on first or second
Il mortgages on real estate. life insurance
policies, commercial paper or any good collat-
eral security. Inquire of A. G. LIBBY, 421a
Exchange street. Telephone 1858. 2l-4
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
OF Interest to Potato Growers.

From the Kansas station comes bull
letin giving results Of experiments in the
potato field that are of general interest.
When the season is warm enough and
rather long, the second growth of pota-
toes often appears in the fall from the
few tubers that have been left in the
ground after harvesting. In colder eli
mates these potatoes often sprout up the
next spring long before the regularly
planted ones have been put in the ground.
The freezing Of the winter does not seem
to affect their vitality, and when they
have been allowed to grow they often
produce better crops than the newly
planted seed.
In the bulletin mentioned it says that
the second crop of potatoes found in the
fall in warm climates makes better seed
for the next spring than the regular seed
purchased or saved. They start earlier
and yield good crop some time ahead
of the regular crop. They keep in the
ground until spring without sprouting,
and they are firm in texture and not
shriveled. Where this second crop can
be obtained the bulletin recommends
the potatoes as seed in preference to
others. In trial of two years at the
station these second crop potatoes used
as seed gave an average gain of 483 per
cent, and they were found to resist
drought better, as well as to produce q
finer and better potato.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
IRISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING.


The principal front looking toward
College green is colonnade in the Ionic
order, a facade and two projecting wings.
This colonnade was 10 years in building
and cost $4,000. The house of lords is
in form rectangle 40 feet by 80, with
recess for the viceroy's throne. The
walls are magnifcently paneled, and the
design was for six great historic pictures,
but Of these only two were completed,
to the great chagrin and no small pecu-
MARY loss of Robert Baltic, who had
gone to great expense in getting up the
designs. Of the two one represented
King William and his army crossing the
Boyne, and the other scene during the
siege of Londonderry.
Together they cost but e436, and it is
safe to say that one of the first acts of
real Irish parliament would be to order
both removed, for William Of Orange
and Governor Walker of Derry are not
their heroes. One might as well expect
an American congress to glorify Lord
CORVALLIS and Benedict Arnold. And,
by the way, it is one of the oldest things
in history that the word " Irishmanais
used with such reckless ignorance in
America. Thousands of tolerably intel
igent people think that Grattan, Cur
ran and Mitchell, Dean Swift and Arch
bishop Usher were Irishmen in the same
sense as the Burkes, the Sulliyans and
the O'Connors. One might as well
speak of Lincoln as an Illinois chief and
of Santa Anna as an Aztec.
Of truth, the so called Irish parlia-
ment Of 1782-1800 was no more Irish than
the one now sitting in London-much
less SO, in fact, for this one contains
many Catholic and Celtic gentlemen,
and that contained not one. No Catholic
could sit in it. Neither could any Pres
byterian, Quaker, Baptist or agnostic.
1t represented by the best estimates only
one-eleventh of the people then living in
Ireland. 1t was the parliament of
minority Of the minority, representing
only the English and other Protestant
Episcopal landlords and leading men
resident in Ireland.
It was in 1889 that Henry Grattan,
backed by the volunteers NEARLY all
Professionals, by the way. which had or
ganized to repulse French invasion,
achieved the SO called independence of
the Irish parliament. In truth, it had
SO little power that discomfort rapidly
increased, and on Oct. 10. 1871, Theobald
Wolf Tone organized the first society of
United Irishmen. The avowed object
was to make Ireland self governing by
union of Catholic, Protestant and dis
senter, but inside of this organization
grew up fercely revolutionary party
Of which Lord Edward Fitzgerald was
the leading spirit.
The British government, informed by
spies of every move, 'forced the hand"
of>the patriots, and thus precipitated the
bloody insurrection Of 1898, which re-
suited in the destruction of 10000 Eng
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
The PaIo Alto Horses.

Stanford's catalogue for 1899 of trot-
ting and thoroughbred stock at Palo
Alto stock farm, California, is full Of
valuable and interesting statistical in
Formation on trotting and running pedi-
srees.
; The book contains 576 pages. In the
Eotting department there are 575 horses,
bf which 80 are distinguished sires Of
trotting speed, and 1877 are trotting brood
mares, dams Of great performers among
them.
In the thoroughbred department. there
Ire SO animals, of which are stations
and 46 brood mares.
The collection Of horses on this one
breeding farm numbers 663. Among the
hotting brood mares are Wildfower,
g-year-old record 2:21; Waxana, dam of
Bunol, 2:064; Sallie Benton, 2:174 at A
years old; Mayfower, dam Of Wildfower
and Manzanita, 4-year-old record 2:16;
Dame Winnie, the dam of Palo Alto,
BOSE; Beautiful Bells, dam of Belle Bird,
l-year-old, 2:984; Bellefower, 2-year-old,
e:S44; Bell Boy, 3-year-old, 2:191, and
linda Rose, s-year-old, 2:l91.
The blood Of the thoroughbred race
horse is very prominent in the trotting
brood mares of Senator Stanford, and
be has thoroughly demonstrated the
great efficiency of that blood in produce
Ing the greatest speed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
The Squash Borer.

Some experiments have been made in
New Jersey regarding the best means of
preventing the ravages Of the squash
borer. According to The Farm Journal,
Spraying with Insecticides seems to have
little effect. The eggs are laid by the
moth generally on the stalk of the first
leaf or later on the running stalk of the
vine. The only way of avoiding the pest
seems to be to break the eggs, which are
very brittle. This is an expensive opera
ton. 1t was done in New Jersey by
carefully rubbing the first leaf stalk with
little earth between the thumb and
forefnger, and when the vine has begun
to run covering it lightly with earth at
the leaf joints. In this way, even if the
main stalk Of the plants attacked, a good
crop can be matured from the sucker
roots -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
THE NEXT ROYAL ATTRACTION.

The Heir Apparent to the Austrian Throne
Will Visit the Worlds Fair.
Francis Ferdinand d'Este, archduke Of
Austria and heir apparent to the impe-
rial throne, is to be the next royal at
traction at the Worlds fair. He is on
his way around the world and in few
weeks will arrive in Chicago with his
cousin, Archduke Leopold Ferdinand,
eldest son of the ex-Grand Duke of Tus-
cany. Leopold Ferdinand is "a years
old and Francis Ferdinand but little
older, and both are unmarried, gay and
reckless, while neither is thought tai
ented.
Only few months ago Francis Ferdi-
nand was a mere attache of the Austrian
court, tolerated and but barely tolerated
as the nephew of the emperor, disliked
for his surly manners and selfish DISPOSE
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
FODDER CORN.
Good From the Time 1t Tasse1s Out Until
the Ears Form and the Kernels Glaze.

Good From the Time 1t TasseIs Out Until
the Ears Form and the Kernels Glaze.
Fodder corn sown in drills three feet
apart, or planted in hills three feet apart
one way and two feet the other wav.
should be regular crop with every farm
pr who keeps COWS. If a dry season comes
when the pastures do not furnish feed
enough, it can be cut and fed green,
though right here, says The American
Cultiyator, we will say that it is much
better to allow day or day and night
OF willing before it is given to the COWS,
particularly if not quite grown when
fed out. In cloudy or rainy weather it
is better even when cut longer than that.
The whiting not only takes out some of
the water and renders it less liable to
cause indigestion, but it brings about
chemical change in it that makes it more
valuable for milk production and for
butter production. Probably the same
increase in the solid matter of the milk
would make it worth more for cheese
making.
Any that is not used green can be
saved for the silo or cured by drying for
the winter feeding, and it is good either
way, and good for milk COWS, working
oxen or growing young stock. It may
be that some of the lately introduced
foreign crops are better than our corn
as fodder, but we shall continue to be
very skeptical about them until expe-
rience has shown their results.
We know that we can grow more fod-
der to the acre from corn than from any
crop we ever tried, and it will induce a
larger flow Of milk, and of milk that
will be richer to eat and will make more
butter than we ever could get from any
other fodder, although good clover
comes very near to it if cut just at the
right time. but cut too early or too late
the clover is not very good, while the
corn fodder, whether sown expressly for
that purpose or the slower from field
corn or from the garden sweet corn, is
good from the time it tassels out until
the ears are formed and the kernels
glazed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04

SpA1St Va p1tl1UlO44
to complete his explorations in Africa.
Africa is indeed the land of romance
and daring exploration at present. All
the civilized world is interested in it,
and each successive report Of the re-
turned explorer seems only to excite the
ambition more. The gratifying fact is
that every late exploration shows larger
and larger areas in the interior, where
the climate, on account of elevation, is
very favorable to white men. Lieuten-
ant Ehlers declares that all the highland
region about Kilima-Njaro has a climate
not excelled on earth and predicts that
it will some day be the home of many
millions of highly civilized people. For
many years to come, however, its chief
value will be as a sanitarium for men
worn down by the climate of the coast.
1t was in 1885 that Lieutenant Ehlers
went out to Africa, and his journey to
the summit of Kilima- N aro-19, 800 feet
above the season made him famous.
He next accompanied Major Wissman,
the German commissioner in Africa, in
his movements against the Arabs and
received some severe wounds in the
desultory fighting of those years. In
1887 he went home for short time, and
after another trip to Africa made a long
tour through the Himalayas, Tonquin,
Assam, Corea, China and Siberia. This
tour will be detailed in his Forthcoming
book.
It is in Africa, however, that he looks
to lay the foundation for his enduring
fame. One of his schemes is to take
troop Of trained elephants from India
and by their aid train the captured wild
elephants of South Africa to be carriers.
When this is done, it will be compare
lively easy, he thinks, to journey from
the low coast to the high and healthful
interior, and by alternating between, SO
as to preserve health, Africa may be re-
deemed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
Many Young Ge1dings.

A correspondent writes that one vet
primary surgeon in Kentucky has gelded
over 300 young stations this season and
has orders for 100 more on his books.
He estimates that in and around Lex
lngton this season not less than 5000
stations will be gelded and states that
among the number are many youngsters
of the very best breeding. The more
general use of the ecraseur has been ad-
Socated by the turf journals as remedy
for the imitation caused by every stallion
that came within the standard rules be-
ing kept entire, and it is evident that
their advice is bringing forth fruit
Horseman.