Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

| teen women, all of whom are alive.
The plan inaugurating the eight hour
labor system in all departments of the
| federal government has been adopted
| by the interior department with regard
to employees of the weather bureau.
Fully 100000 Indian subjects are
| now more or less acquainted with the
English language. The language most
spoken in India is HindOostanee, by 81
| 100000 people. Bengali is the tongue
! of 39,000000.
Two scholars at Grove Road school,
Harrogate, England, Dora Robinson
and Oswald COlbeck, have completed
eight years perfect attendance. Out
of 3.211 possible attendances they have
never missed once.
An American chemist has invented a
tube for truth. You speak into it; the
chemical solution changes color, ac-
cording to the tensity of your emo
ton, and truth and mendacity are de-
Fcribed as being quite distinct and
Tivid colors.
Duck dinners are the latest society
fad in New York The ladies who at
tend are dressed to initiate ducks.
Duck decorations appear on the table,
and the menu includes ducks cooked in
various styles. Even the ices are made
up in duck shapes.
1t is reported that the Russian minis
ter of the interior is considering a prof
ect for Matchmaking the medical pro-
fcssion. so that all doctors and chem
lists would be state officials. A commits
sion has been appointed to collect in
formation on the subject.
Two years ago the German Colonial
society offered prize for the finding of
a plant in the German colonies furnish
ing gutta percha suitable for cable
purposes. \ telegram from German
New Guinea says that gutta percha as
we'll as rubber has been found in large
quantities.
The Texas court of criminal appeals
has decided that a district judge has
not the right to prevent the publication
Of testimony which is given in open
court. District judges have frequently
forbidden publication of testimony lest
in the event of nistrial there would be
difficulty in securing new jury.
BY the record of the Cincinnati Ex-
press-GaZette it appears that there
were twenty-five train robberies in the
United States in 1902. In the last thir-
teen years, according to the same au-
thority, 32S railroad trains have been
''held up" in this country and 9S per-
sons have been killed and 1O7 injured,
mostly by gunshot wounds, in the per-
petration of the crimes.
Pupils in Michigan must hereafter go
directly home after the close of school,
The supreme court of the state has de-
clared that such a rule is valid and
may be enforced by the principal. Fur
thermOre, if principal sees fit he may
enter store and order the children he
finds there to leave and 30 homo. and
the owner of the store cannot get dam
ages on the ground that the principal
has driven away trade and injured the
business of his store.
White lines are painted across all
windows in third class cars in Japan
as Il check upon the impulse of occu-
pants to thrust their heads through
them. Window glass is an article with
which the people are not familiar in
daily life, and since passengers com
monty suppose that sashes are merely
spaces for air the bill for glazing was
one of the largest petty items in the
monthly accounts for all the compa.
MES until the white line was invented.