The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-07-17


No The loss can be endured;
Brown Is richer than before
( Brown was 'heaviiy insured
/ Mr. Mnrcy's Habits ana Death.
4 The Ballston correspondent Of the New
/ York Evening Post, in speaking of MIR. Mar |
/ cy's death, says:
Hence, during the last few weeks Of his
life, when he had worldwide and honor
able reputation, when his circumstances we're
such rs to allow him to rest upon the honors
which he had acquired, he was in his happi- |
est condition. His old books and his old
| friends were his constant solace, and when
he stopped at the antiqae, shaded hotel, at
Ballston, where he died, it was noticed how
he would take his chair out under the wide.
spreading elms and entertain his landlord
AMI the. plain, old. fashioned people who
gathered about him, delighted with the pleas
ant stories which he told and the philosophc
humor, and shrewdness, and social feeling
which twinkled in his keen, bright eye.
At other times he would eturn to his room,
as his custom was, and taking up some ia
vorito old author he rarely read modern
literature.) Milton, Shakespeare, Hervey,
among the poets; South, Barry or Robert
Hall, among divines; his French edition of
Machiayeli, Ga favorite work, by the way,
losophic writngs-would read until he fell
asleep. And this, indeed, was the way in
which he fell asleep on the noon Of the Inde-
pendence Day. He had retired to his cham
Der, put his boots in the usual corner, put on
his dressing gown, and laying down with
knights edition OF Bacon's Essays--a small,
red, quarto volume, with illustrations. When
he was found he was still on his bed; his
eyes were quietly closed; on one side were
the speciacles, on the other the well-remem-
bered snuff box, and open on his breast lay
the book he so much loved-that immortal
epitome of human wisdpm-the Essays of
Bacon, and over it were clasped his hands,
hugging it to his heart.
Such was his final sleep peaceful, serene,
and worthy Of SO great life--n the midst
OF the thunders which commemornted the
birthday Of the nation whose fame and power
he had done SO much to uphold and extend.
Now to Prevent suu.strske.
The following sensible remarks on the
cause and prevention Of Sun Strokes, which
We clip from an exchange, may be useful to
many of our citizens during the present ex-
cessively hot weather:
Sun stroke occurs mostly among the la
weather, in or out Of the sun. There il
merely IN undue amount of blood thrown
to the brain. 1t ia rare to find case Of
J un-stroke without intemperAnce and it is
: well understood that nun may eat food or
drink COLD water Unexpectedly. But il n
man is temperate in eating and dDnking,
and must work through the hottest days, he
g may almost 10 certainty prevent an undue
amount Of blood from being thrown into
0 the brain; or, if there, can prevent inHamma-
I tory action, by keeping his head cooL.
lst.-By always wearing a coarse palm
8 leaf hat.
2l.-By keeping in the top of his hat a
J, broad, thin and very porous sponge, which
d must be wet from time TO with COOL but no,
ICE water.
: In this manner, persons can prevent the
= alarming effects resulting from an overaeatet
!. brain, which are 50 often fatal to larg,
: number of our working classes.
' ToBAcco AND THE FREseH.--A Or. Budget
0 has published n pamphlet in England agains
tobacco, in which he says "Ths esssntia
}, principle OF tobacco il nicotine, of which 4
II single drop will kill dog" Amongst 9TH
! er pleasant little consequences, may be emu
e merated enervation, hysteria, dwarfsh de-
Y formity, consunptiye suffering, and earl,
. death of the children Of inveterate smokers
All such are, however, not so fortunate as e
q have any children to lose for Mr.. Tyrell i,
quoted to show that sit destroys the YER,
principle of MANHOOD and statistics prov,
the fact with most fearful correctness. l,
Paris the consumption Of tobacco is four lbs
per head per annum, whilst the failing of o
the population in that city during the las
h five years is something appalling. France is
-. L.. -. II
! will shortly, like the Dodo, b long to the ex
Q tinet tribes; should you want specimen, i
o must be like the megatherum, q fossilixcc
II one; and in the next generation he may be
&c looked for, along with restored animals il
!. the gardens of the Crystal Palace, monu
. ment TO the skill of some future professor
: 0wen.'
A HARD BoY.--General Sir Charles J. Ma
:. pier tells the following story Of his child
! hood
: "There was in Limerick a great coars
= woman, wife of Dr.. When she heart
!, OF my misfortune, she said. "Poor boy,
: suppose fly kicked his spindle -shauks. -
!, Being little fellow then, though now, be i
:, known, five feet seven inches and q hall
! high, this offended me greatly; and as thu
: Lord would have it, she broke her own LEI
:. just as was getting well. Going to he
: house with an appearance Of concern, 1 tol,
the servant how sorry was TO hear that 4
. bullock had kicked Mis- and hurt its lie,
= very much, and that had called to know /
= her leg was also hurt. She never forvsy
me- This is u very characteristic openiul
! of /. long life passed in public aud priya,
n ~ warfare.
ID Sir MILAN WALLAcK.--In Cincinnati
IN the natives OF ancient Caledonia, from high
land and lowland, and mountain and valley
re have dubbed together and collected, in
:, brief time, four hundred dollars, FOR III
10 monument to Scstis's great and gallant chief
Sir William Wallace. Throughout America
se but especially in the British provinces, wher
A. the Scotch are numerous, there might be
IL sum sufficient collected, if patriotism inau
&c enccd, and the national pulse beat respon
VI sycly, TO the applications from ssborni
" Scotland," to construct the monument with
We out further appeals, or awaiting increased
meSns.
DAhaEgors CouSTERYEtr.-W learn TIM
- large quantity of one dollar bills on th
~ John Hancock Bank, Of Springfield, Mass
- have been put 10 circulation in the We,
- within short time. They are fac siD,iIx
I, OF the genuine notes and well calculated I
70 deceive. They are printed on an inferio
quality 1T paper. and the impression lieh,
~ ana .he large eagle IN Inc ,oi. hand .ow !,
40 quarter OF the bill is roughly engraved.