The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-04

Norric (aIso known as THE Texas Tornado'D
opines that the fapper will be the cause OF the
seize you can see the finish of her and that
of the nation as we'll
He may be right; but being modest-and
married-we look only just SO far
Discovered. The Neiger in the WoOdpile.
TClipped by Solomon Pif1e from the Bureau
County Tribunel
The buzz of John Neigers wood saw
can be plainly heard nowadays. j. c.
Sweitzer sawed Friday. L. d. Coulter
Saturday and Will Mercer Monday.
WE have often heard of these persons in
woodpiles" appends Solomon, but this is the
first time l know of one being positively
identified"
IN WHICH JUDY DEPLoREs, PHILoso-
PIXIES AND CONCLUDES.
Dear Mac: Along with Rory l deplore the
tendency of the public to refuse to use the
senses given them. l, too, was fahgued with
the boob who wanted to know what some three
syllabled word meant If one uses the eyes to
see the brain to analyze-to synthesize if nee
essary-and the Imagination to follow
thought to its logical conclusion, many unnec-
essGry queries are eliminated. But one must
be careful not to take in too much territory.
Last week in the parent sheet a sharp on
sports (some effete easterner, no doubt men
toned the Diplodocus: called it "a prehistoric
mammalian monster" I haven't any quarrel
with his noun; in fact, / believe it is inspired
as we shall see later. But his adjectives are
the product of abysmal ignorance. Take the
second, mammalian: mammal is one in which
the young are nursed by the mother and the
dip is said to have been a lizard and accus-
toned to slime. The prehistoric? Lessee
Lessee Diplo: double, or a pair; and docuS:
the Latin ending on doc: that is, a pairodocs.
Why, old B. j. across the river would never
stop with a pair-he turns em out by the
hundreds. Their oil may be prehistoric, but
B. ]. and his-what was that noun again?-
are still on the job. So we see the results of
chr hpf have
Another little matter. Almost everyone you
talk to is concerned about prohibition, its de-
gree of severity and its probable duration.
Everyone seems to have been caught unaware
and didn't bad up enough, although to eyes
that see prohibition was inevitable.
member when a mere baby 1 reclining
in my mothers arms, proving to the world that
was a mammal, and looking upward con-
templatively l noticed an eclipse of the moon
and 1 calculated bright spot on the high
ball 1 realized that this was a portent and that
prohibition was due to arrive But why worry?
Just be patient. For few minutes later, as l
was picking my teeth, the black spot moved
away from the highball and l realized that the
moonsh1ne was with US. And 1 turned
over and dozed to that dear old tune:
When we still had our juleps
And up above my two lips
wore a bi-i-i-g red rose
THREE dots, thus . and sometimes three
asterisks, thus are called ellipses, which
indicate something left out. :. Well the COL
yum conductors mind is one continuous ellipsis
Just now. Four hours ago he assembled what
ever it is that precedes this paragraph-at this
moment he has not the slightest recollection
what it is. :.
Four hours ago left the office and hur-
RED home. In the interim we have read the
comics TO the Young Ruf1an, undressed him.
washed him, reproved him for saying naughty
word, put him to bed and then, acting reluct-
antly upon the firm orders of T. l. w H t. D.
o. s., we YEARLY sorted out box full of clip-
pings, faded manuscripts, magazines and heay-
en- only knows what else, in order to separate
the chan from the grain. Well, the waste
basket is full now and the box is nearly empty;
IN which respect it has nothing on our head.
How to fill the balance of the colyum-tbat
is the as t were, burning question Let's see
what we have slowed away in our inside coat
pocket letters from neglected contribs
an! here pome from our once erudite
contrib, Benz A. Scamozzi. How are the
mighty fallen!" But we'll print it. At
tendez: