Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-24
DAILY. DEMOCRAT,


4 Last Thursday 2,21O rations were issue,
At Louisville to refugees from rebeldotn.
In Munich, it is the custom whenever
gentleman goes into shop to buy any
fthing, for him to take his hat or and kee,
u on until his purchases are completed.
The Chicago Tribune says there is more
than double the amount of wheat and corr
IN store IN that city than there was year
ago.
Profound silence in public asscmblape
mas been thus neatly described: lone
might have heard the stealing of . pocl Of
handkerchief"
A single Spectator in Philadelphia has in
store twenty-five thousand hogsheads of
sugar which he holding for a rise. How
much less than apublic enemy is such
| many
The Empress Josephine, Napolcons first
vile, Is to have statue in Paris, on the
square before the Alma Bridge.
When the Monitor Tccumseh struck the
rebel torpedo, she was fairly lifted out Of the
water. She descended and instantly disap-
pearcd
The largest building in America is the
Cathedral IN Mexico. The edifice is 900
ieet long and 400 feet wide, aud will sect 30
900 persons.
The town Of Washington, Mass, docs not
pay cent to the Internal Revenue Depart
ment. II has neither church, post office,
clergyman, lawyer, doctor, income licence,
carriage, nor plate.
Several populous districts of China. have.
owing to the civil war between the Impcri-
alists and Taepings, been rendered so desti-
tute that the inhabitants arc in the habit of
eating the bodies of the men slain in battle
or dying Of disease
Hy recent law Of Congress, parties pur-
chasing one hundred dollars worth Of post
age stamps, or five hundred stampcd:cnvel-
opcs will be allowed discount Of five per
cent. from the usual price.
We are to have royal visitor. The King
Of bavaria is coming to this country. He
VIII travel inco2nlto-which means, in the
royal dictionary, that no one save the news.
papers and the gossi ps and the hotel and
steamboats, folks are to know where he goes
and when
An agent sent out by the authorities of
Jersey City to recruit in the rebel States,
from Beaufort writes to Mayor Cleveland
that recruiting agents are far more nulner-
Gus than ablcb bodied blacks DESTROYS of 90
ing into servicc.-Thc prices offered for re-
cruits range from $500 to 5000.
1t is announced by lecturer on chemist
that chloride Of hydrogen scattered from an
altitude Of two hundred feet to the wind
ward of an army would annlhiate it in q
very brsef period.
For us to able to see objects clearly and
distinctly, tits necessary that the eye should
be kept moist and clean. For this purp,s Sc
it is furnished with little gland, from which
flows the watery fluid ttears), which is
spread over the lid, and is afterwards swept
off by it, and runs through hole in the
bone to the inner surface Of the nose, where
the warm air passes over it while breathing,
avaporates it. II the eye had not been fur
nshcd with liquid to wash it Oft, things
would appear as they do when We look
through dusty glass. Along the edges of
the cyelid there arc great number of little
tubes, or glands, from which flows an oily
substance, which spreads over the surface
of the skin, and thus prevents thb edges of
the eye from becoming sore or irritatcd, and
II also helps to keep the tears Within the