Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-02-20

/ the Immense quantity Of vine ma NJ featured in
France, only about one eighty eighth part il
exported.
The Canadian Parliament has been sum.
moned to meet on the 2sth inst.
The boys Of a district school in Union
county Indiana, demanded that the teacher
should s.apd treat on New Years lie re.u,>
ed, and then they iucked him through a hcl.
ia the ice. He sued them and collected 50
apiece all around There's the young idea
tor you.
The London Times thinks that the San
Juan difficulty can be settled BY giving the
largest portion ofthe disputed territory to the
Americans. while Great Britain retains tie
island which gives name to the qus,ion a. il
sue.
The Emperor Of Russia has Just publish ed
a ukase, by which the government lar de in the
provinces Tamhoff. Catherino~af fl Kherson and
Orenburg are freely granted to such peasants
Of the Crown az desire them. on leases for from
4 IL to 90 years, and on certain conditions, in
Zee simple These provinces are the granary
OF Russia, and doubtless, this is the first step
toward general land reform.
A new telegraph lire between Boston and
! New York is in contemplation, TO use the in
sirurnent invented by Mr.. Farmer Of Salem,
called the " Dipthoug telegraph" by this
system messages can he sent both ways at the
! came time on one wire. One Of the instru,
ments is at work in New York, and t legraph
operators are Ilensed with it. 1t will be pu.
in operation at once on Dales line between
New York and Philadelphia, which is not in
use, but will lie rut in order fer the rev
instrument An ate i. ut is TO be made to get
Congress to renew the Morse patent but i.
viii be resisted earnestly by many large tele.
graphic interests.
The tin boxes stuck up in post Offices
throughout the country. for the Washington
monument, don't yield much That at n. Y.
city turns out an average Of about nineparce =
day Patriotism dosen't run in such unseen
channels Somebody writing for the Ledger
delivering addresses around. or stirring up
excitement, corld 10 more in week than all
these boxes i'll yield in a decade Of years
Meantime the shaft of the monument is board
I'd over, and the lucky officers of the organza
ton find the receipts to be happily equal to
their salaries.
A Frenchmen has invented what il called
a barotrope a sort OF human LOGON olive, by
which man sits on wheel and walks h;mself
along five miles in thirty-ti.e miuutee on the
J boulevard Bazar of Paris. at noon, when the
street WAS yECSb cTOWItu. AT dHhtHtT Tune
the same man made thirteen miles in ninety
six minutes, the exercise being SO easy that he
offered to keep it up alternate hours, day after
day, and though they could without difficulty
averge flty or sixty miles day. singular
thing about it il. that it beats the best turn
outs on steep grade, if they present q compact
or paved .urfacs.
The great question Of the day is embraced
Z. L 4 a
prize fighter, .marriel Adah Isaacs Menken,
PLAYING in the Troy theatre, says he is and to
her; and she writes pretty poetry to the Troy
papers entreating him to 50 como back to me- .
But another Menken, him oft male persua
| son. writes to the Cincinnati papers that Hee,
nan is not married unless Alah |. has two hus>
band. he himself being "unfoItunately" (so hs
says) the frs, OF til m 10y virtue OF jus
tice of the peace and the Sd day of April 1856:
Furthermore, it is charged that the poetry was
written by Adah several years ago for par er
out west, before lIeenan had ever been thought
of, has been published as original in almost
every plac. where she has STOPPED, and may
! be regarded general invitation to 'go In
The cjitor of the Columbus (Ohio) Journal
vouches for the male Menkens theory on per
sonal knowledge.
The hiadelph;ans have nearly completed.
an immense hotel, which they Say is to be the
largest and best hotel in the world. The
building is six stories in hight exclusive Of the
basement, and presents front of 10 feet on
Chaenut street, $50 feet on Ninth street, and
| l94 feet on George street The building. ex
elusive of the stories in the basement. has been
leased for the term Of twelve years, at reni
of $40 ,0G0 per annum. by Sr. Stephens. pro
rris;or of the fremont aud Revere houses. Of
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