Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-23

| \ or, especially amoog the Democratic
politicians. The whereabouts of the
defanlter has not yet been discovered.
Messrs. George Law and Gustavus A.
Conover, Nj. Fowler's bondsmen, have
been notified to pay over tie sum which
they stand responsible for, and it is like
Iy that they will respond without delay.
Mr. Fowler's friends, it is said, are ex-
ertihg themselves to make up thh deficit
in his accounts With the Post Office De-
partment, with every prospect Of sue
cess.
LATER AND INTERESTING FROM JAPAN.
The New York Tribune has recently
received letter from its correspondent
at Kansgawa, Japan, dated February
25th. Nothing is said in it Of the death
Of Mr.. Townsend Harris, the American
Minister in that country. We conclude
that the report of such an event. lately
circulated here, is without foundation.
The correspondent reports an important
movement Of Russia against Japan. A
fleet Of seventeen Russian vessels of war
is expected to arrive before Yeddo, ap-
parently with the purpose OF compelling
the Japanese to make ccssion Of terrific
~ which Russia desires.
IL DEEP MoURNTNs.--1t Is understood
and positively declared in public that a
por lion Of the New York delegation will
return home to their constituents, wear
ing black Grape about their arms
mourning for the loss of the favorite
candidate of the Republican party Of
the country-Wm. H. Seward. This is
harmony for you. 1t BODIES certain de-
feat to the Opposition.
A STATE Convention of the Democ-
racH of Florida was called for the sec-
ond Monday Of June next. At the re-
quest of the Delegates from Charleston,
it is understood that it will be held a
week earlier, so as to act on the course
to be pursued by tho Delegates before
the assembling of the Baltimore Conven-
ton.
TIE Missouri Republican wants to
know why Mr.. Bates did not receive a
SIM lie vote at tho Baltimore Union Con-
ven,ion We do not think it at all
more wonderful than that the Republi-
cans Candidate received no vote there.
BELL IN TENNEssEE.-The Nashville
Union, of May 18th, speaking of the
nomination Of Mr.. Bell, says "the an
nounccment was not welcomed with
those manifestations Of JOY to which it
was entitled to-"
OusAV" = 0OSo IN = MAhVSVYmys AseS anu
Sciences.
Silver may be beaten into plates,
100000 Of which make one inch in
thickness.
A silver wire, the thirteenth of an
inch in diameter, will sustain 1877 lbs.
A wire of lead, of the same s;zc, sus-
tains 20 lbs., and tin SO lbs.
The surface of the earth is l96, S62,-
266 square miles, and its solidity $751;
726,934,4l6 cubic miles. No more
than one.tifth of the whole Garth is hab-
table by man. The mean depth of the
ocean is about three miles, and the mean
height of mountains above the level If
the ocean is II miles. Distribute this
land equally over the bottom of the
ocean and the waters will cover the
whole surface of the earth.
The earth has been penetrated about
5000 feet; if we add to this the height
of the highest mountain, we have one
eighth-hundredM of the distance to the
center of the earth less in proportion
than coat of varnish on globe two
feet in diameter!
If the terrestrial gravity prevailed at
the sun, body would fall as feet in a
second, and common sized man would
weigh about 1000 lbs.
The sun is equal to 2O,6lO,OOO Of
Mercury, 100000 of Venus, 1888, 900
Earth, 9,334,OoO Mars, 973 Jupitcrs,
1894 Saturns, and 1896 Herschells
The mean motion of the moon is
1872 feet per second.
The moon increases its velocity II
seconds in hundred years.
II all the planets were in one, it
would equal the 55th part Of the sun.
One thousand twenty-five stars can be
seen with the naked eye.
There are % stars which change their
color.
The mean annual temperature of the
Earth is so degrees. The thermometer
is generally the highest at p. NJ, and
lowest little before sunrise. The term
gas is the German for ghost.
Torricelli made the first barometer in
1913. Otto Guericks made the first air
pump in 1864.
CannoEs we're first used by the Moors
in Spain, in 1912. Clocks with weights
and regulators were invented in or about
the year 1850. The first pendulum
clock was made in England by Dutch
man (something extraordinarily by the
name Of Fromantel, in 1862.
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