Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-14
FACTS IN FEW LINES

cancer is the German.
Insurance against automobile acci-
dents can now be had.
York's ancient city moats will proba-
bly, be laid out as public gardens.
Anewanmsthetic preparations known
chemically as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Chemical vinegar, catsup and table
sauces contain no vegetable matter
whatever.
There were 1895 street accidents last
year in London. Ten years ago the
number was 4,S06.
Baden Powell Makepeace was the
name of little girl who died recently
at Bendigo, Victoria.
Brick kilns are now fired with petro-
ieum, 100 pounds OF oil being sufficient
to burn a ton of bricks.
There are nearly $4,000 Welsh resi-
dents in Liverpool, where it is proposed
to found Celtic chair at the universe
ty college.
Nine eyes and three mouths were
possessed by a collie puppy born re-
Gently at Henley, England. 1t only
lived four hours.
After his marriage the rector OF
Warrington, Yorkshire, England, sent
pound of wedding cake to every
householder in his parish.
There are 366 places of public wor-
ship on Manhattan Island, There is
reported membership, Protestant and
Catholic together, of 690,942.
Owing to the increased price of coal
several British boards of guardians
have decided to give an extra sixpence
weekly to the recipients of outdoor re-
lief.
For uttering a strong expression of
disapproval while quarreling with a
constable at Vienna a nobleman has
been fined 16s. Sd for insulting the po-
lice.
Forty-two packets of cigarettes were
smoked in four days by q youth Of
eighteen who has died near Bedale,
Yorkshire, England, after two days ILL.,
ness.
After being hooked in the river Eden
large salmon was played" for five
hours by three men, who relieved each
other. Eventually the line broke and
the fish escaped.
Ptomaine poisoning, the result of eat
ing part of a banana, roasted apple
and date, has caused the death of Ar
thur II. Luty, aged two, at Elland,
Yorkshire, England.
At Alien, in Hesse, the other day a
prominent tradesman was sentenced to
twenty-four hours Imprisonment for
the grave reverence of reading a
newspaper in court while case was
under trial.
In 1897 a salmon weighing eighty
three pounds was caught in the Tay.
This is the record British fish. The
largest American salmon on record was
eighty-two pounds. 1t was caught in
1893 in the Columbia river.
As it was apparently suffering from
indigestion a bullock was slaughtered
near Spalding. England, when its ill
ness was found to have been caused
by tennis ball it had swallowed.
Six pounds weight of spent bullets,
three pieces of steel, q NAIL hairpin,
some glass and small stones were found
in the stomach of a horse which died
suddenly at Ferntree Gully, Victoria.
French journals speak of a substance
which, when placed upon the roads,
does away with mud and dust. The
composition consists of a mixture of
scoria from q blast furnace and tar.
The preparation, carefully pressed,
renders the surface of the road imper-
vious to water.
Despite opposition at Athens. where
the press was strongly opposed to the
scheme, the municipal council of Corfu
has ratified the contract which the
mayor of Corfu made with syndicate
of European capitalists to allow the
establishment at Corfu of a gambling
casino on an elaborate scale.
In many country villages and iso-
lated sections of the New England
and the middle states women still may
be found who earn living by spinning
and knitting wool and by weaving and
knitting rag carpets and rugs. There
is quite revival in demand now for
nicely made rag rugs in some localities.
One of the largest genealogies ever
undertaken has been partly completed
at oxford in the history of the Smith
family. The Investigations have not
been carried beyond the fourteenth
century, although Professor Mahaffy
discovered a record of a brewer named
Smith in a Pertrie papyrus dated two
centuries before the Christian era.
Countess Lonyay and her daughter,
Princess Elizabeth Windisch- Graetz,
have determined to erect n monument
in the grounds of Hetzendorf castle,
near Vienna, in memory of the late
queen of the Belgians. The permits
sion of the emperor Will have to be
obtained prior to the erection of the
statue, but no difficulty is anticipated
on that score.
The principal powers of Europe are
about to adjust the differences in their
domestic laws on the subjects of mar
riage, divorce and the guardianship of
minors. The only powers that have not
Joined in the movement are Great Brit