The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

4 -Toads are. 6I.50 dozen in London
| 1t costs nearly $50 to kiss married
woman against her will at Cincinnati.
! Admiral Lessoffsky has written q
letter to Mayor Lincoln, saying that the
Russian fleet will visit Boston in the
spring.
In tract distributed BY the Mormon
preachers. the following question and
answer occurs: "What shall be the re-
ward of those who have forsaken their
wives for righteousness sake? A hun
dred fold of wives here, and wires ever
lasting hereafter
In Erie county, Penn, lake, cover
ing two hundred acres, iroze over SO sud-
denly recently, that the fishes hadn't time
to dive 10 the bottom Of the lake, were
frozen up in the ice and have been cut
out BY bushels. Fishy, isn't it?
California is bad place for insura nee
companies. The losses more than double
the premiums. English companies ave
Deen The heaviest losers.
-SA1aael r. Sears, New York ner-
chant, died few days since from iuha-
ling laughing gas. chemically known as
nitrous oxide gas. He inhaled the gss
for the purpose of having teeth ex-
tracted.
The steamship City OF New York, Of
the German line. made her passage hence
to Queenstown in eight days and sixteen
hours-tbe fastest sailing ever made by
screw steamer.
-Messrs. Carter, organists OF Toronto,
Montreal and Quebec, are in this city, en-
route for Boston, where they will perform
upon the new organ in Music Hall. on
Thursday. They are experienced cathe-
dral organists. formerly of1ondon.
DIR. Van Duzee OF Buffalo, has pur-
chased and mounted telescope which is
one OF the largest mounted achromatic re-
fracting telescopes in the world. 1t is
10 inches clear aperture, Il feet focal
length, with magnifying power of 1000.
Capt Edward G. Lott Of the steamer
Persia, "a honored with eomplimenta
~ entertainmenf, on Monday evening
last, 1t neinonico's Fifth Avenue House,
New YofF, previous to bis commene ing
his three handredth voyage across the
ocean.
The whole body Of German Am eri-
cans are deeply agitated OF the subjec,
# the Sehleswig Holstein question -
Without regard to party politics, all m
brace the cause OF the two Duchies against
the claims OF Denmark.
High medical authority states that
smallpox may very easily be Distinguish
ed from other eruptlve diseases In its
earliest stages. By pressure with the
finger upon the crup,ions, small b hrd
substance may be felt as if there bad
been fine shot placed under the cuticle
OF the skin.
The French academy Of sciences has
received from Madagascar lately dis
covered species OF quadrupad that is 45
inches long, has long and woolly fur, has
monkeys face and hands bare and
black, and utters cry ike a distres sed
person. "What is it q
George Peabody, the eminent L pm
don banker, has sent over to his native
town Of Danvers, Massachusetts,, By the
steamer Asia, upward OF two thous and
volumes which are to be formed int b a
library bearing the name Of the mu1if- :
cent donor.
The following is singular calc ,la-
tion of the number of stitches in a shirt !:
Stitching the collar, four rows, 3b0o
sewing the ends, 500; O;button holes, and
sewing on buttons, 10; sewing the col
lar and gathering tie neck, l.s04; stitch
ing wristbands. 1928; sewing the ends,
6S; button holes, I48; hemming the Sits,
264; gathering the sleeves, $40 setting
on wristbands. 1,43S; stitching on shouI.
der straps, three rows each. 1850; hem
ming the bosom, 3o3; sewing the sleeves.
9,539
The number of clerks and other off,
cisls in the various departments at Wash
ington is thus given in round numbers !:
Stale department 30, treasury 1900, in
terror $50, war 500. navy 100, postotfice
40, agricultural department 80, COM
missioner Of public buildings 40, Senate
100. House l2o. police $50, whitehouse,
courts, DC, loo. Add to these 5000
men employed by the quartermaster's de-
partment in this city. aud at least 5000
more at the navy yard. arsenal, and on
the works at the capitol and other public
buildings. and one can form an idea Of
Of the army of occupation paid by Uncle
Sam.
Nfm aoprrtisements.