The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-18
Foreign Gossip.

The rev official map Of France is
finished This immense work, executed
BY tia general stafl OF the army, has oc-
cupicl nearly sixty years.
Tho Germans say when a man IS. tip
sy, saa VAS sat under the juniper tree =
for lis branches are Us ed a. signs for the
hosiery
-An Interesting wor6 in German.
called the thessians in America. has
recently been published. Il is rumored
we may have a translation Of it from the
scholarly pea Of Professor Charles An
thon.
-Ablul Az'z. the present Saltan If
Turkey, has but one wife. whom he loves,
and be has dispersed his harern, and the
common PEOPLE Of Con>tantinople believe
that he set ire to the palace in order to
eeI nd d. tue women.
-lsrrgsr. the great French bllli1rd
PLAYER VII pol long since astoni>hed the
New Workers BY lis wonderful sill, has
settled down ia Lyons, where he has
opened q cafe which be calls The Nine
tcenth Century,.
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, son Of
the Prince OF Canine, and cousin ot the
Enneror. is abJu. 10 proceed % Mexico
with his regimen, The foreign Legion ]
wits the rams OF Captain. Nv Do knows
big Ia caee Naximiiian does not ACCEPT,
this cousin q the Emperor may answer
al a substitute.
The sensation novelists are deter.
miuaa ~ attract attention to their works
by their tides, If not by their contents
Here is q specimen Of some Of the lates,
announcements in London: "Hel- headed
Huga. "Ihe Man IN GraT, "The Bash
lsk's Eye, Tire Gypsey Buceaneer,
THE .~eeret ot lhe Red Lodge" "Tho
Indy Iiiehnavmaa, and "Blae Skin aud
Blace Bes-
The fertilizing properties Of The gyp-
sum ne the subject os scientific research
IA Deb laln, o. the French Academy
has been giving the results Of his studies
ola the SUBJ c. His results do not corrob
CRATE the idas that plaster tayors the pro
ductiou III niue. iii the soil lie alst
finds that gypsum IS without influence ii
essi~tiug tie formation at ammonia, auC
uuik e.u,tic lime, do4s not favor the 80.
Tuition ct phospha.es.
We have great news for the topers
Whisky aud brandy can now be made on
ct coal Gas, which consists OF carbon ant
hydrogen, Is does alcohol, with tie add
lion @. oxygen. For several years pas
tha PROCESS 81 converting olehant gas in
Is rst has been talked o., but now
French patent has been obtained for thr
purpose and sold 70 company in Lon
Don. You take away cne-half the hydro
gen, add little oxygen, and presto yol
ilsve 3 bottle Of brandy.
~ relic Of old Lcudon IS fast disap
peariag- Blue Bosr Inn. or tht
George ana Blue Boar, as II came TO ),
called ater-in Hob IN. For more thar
two hundred wears his was one Of the IA
nous coaching houses. where stalls ar
rived from the Northern and indian,
counties. j is mere famous sill as bein,
the p.4ce-if Lord 0uery's cbaplain
Morrlce, may be aredted-where Crom
we'll and Ireton, disguised as troopers
cut from the saddle flap Of messenger
letter which they knew to be there iron
Charles the Fms Henrietta Maria
Rss- The Gslena Democrat tells of
man, who in buggy, was slowly passin
a farm house in the neighbnhood Of War
rem. one of the cold days last week. Tb
good woman Of the house thinking
must be very cold. called to him to com
IN and warm himself. He made no repl,
but turning neither to right or left, ker
slowly Ga the way. The lady fearin
that the man would freeze-knowing th,
there was no house for five miles ia til
direction he was going-rcquested he
husband 70 follow him and induce him
stop and warm himself He did so. an
coming up found him frozen stiff, dea,
with whip in one hand and lines in Il
othay