The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-06-10

varioas Isens.
A man having asked how many dog
asswer that it was impossible 20 number
them, - "svery dog he's ~ day."
1T is said thas no forts svss su6sced q
much from single battls a. hos the piano
forte from the battle Of Prague.
Why is Louis Napoleon's the most m"th
ematical governmentp Because it 10 estab-
lished on trigger-nonetry.
Law, Mr.. Smith, what makes your hair
90 red? Mas got some stun that turns
hers such a jolly black.
- Buchanan's appointment OF Howell
Cobb as Secretary OF the Treasury IL said
to be but new mode Of acknowledging
the corn"
lis the King Of Japan coiored gentle
man? Certainly. Who has not seen his
escutcheon and title in the store Windows,
"Warranted Japan Black king.
In writing, in criticism, and in life, in
all these, first Impressions are to be pre-
served.
There are about nine thousand cells in
n square foot Of honeycomb. Five thousand
bees weigh pound.
-Polygamy 10 allowed 10 New Zealand,
but the head wife 10 the only one who 10 al
lowed to commit suicide when the husband
dies. The other wives are denied this privi-
lege.
-Thistles, though noxious things in them
selves, IRE usually signs Of m excellent
ground wherein they grow; so bashfulncss,
though it be weakness and betrayer OF the
mind, is yet generally argument Of soul
vigorously and virtuously inclined.-l Aus
waller.
Goethe says Of Shakespeare: "His char
acters are like watches with dial-plates Of
transparent crystal; they show you the hour
like othcrs, and the inward mechanism also
IL visible"
The Avenir d'Anvers states that 40 Ant
werp lady has just given birth to her Goth
child.
The Providence Journal expresses the
opinion that il New York city doss not dis
appear some night, and the Sound steam
boats end themselves sailing into new Dead
Sen, people will mot believe the account Of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
A little girl nine years old, having at
tended soiree, being asked BY her mother
how she enjoyed herself, answered: 81 am
FULL Of happiness. couldn't be any happier
unless | could grow"
Prof. Mitchell, in his lecture at Cincin-
natl, on Comets, said thst there was not the
least probability that the comet that now
ngitates the public mind would ever coms in
collision with the earth. There Was more to
be feared from . collision with comet never
yet discovered, than from any one whose ex-
istence was known to astronomers.
How singular it is that people who were
never alarmed that whisky should poison
men, denounce the poisoning Of pigs with
grain from the distilleries, and think that the
law should punish the offence.
An elephant once nearly killed an Irish
man for an insult offered to his trunk. ''The
act was rash in the extreme said the Hiber-
man, shut it was impossible to resist nose
you could pull With both hands,"
The distemper among the hogs of the
West 10 certainly very serious matter,
especially in view Of the fact that the lard
Of the dead carcasses is tried and sent to
market.
The Texas papers state that in the party
Of Capt. Edward Beal, Of the Pacific Wagon
Road, will be employed Is camels and drom-
edaries. The object is to test their endurance
and adaptsbility TO the climate.
Harry" said a young lady 1t tho thea
tire; Show should like to be IN actress"
"Why 7" asked Harry. ooh il must be 90
nice TO be made lore to in such pretty words
every evening""
Many women are loved without knowing
ii, but more women think they are beloved
when they are not. They generally discover
their mistake after marriage.
A big OK 10 now on exhibition At Spring
field. The Republican says it is about the
size Of one Of Sands, NsthAns 4 Co.'s big.
gest elephants, and moves placidly about,
much as one Of the elephants would do. Il
is said to be the largest framed OK 10 the
world, and weighs though far from fat, 1900
pounds, measures feet inches in height
at the shoulders, girts ten feet, and il thir-
teen feet in length from stem TO stern. Well
fatted he waaRi weigh in the neighborhood
of 5000 pounds.