The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-04
KEOKUK.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY !.


aBN11Ax NnWs TxUas.
New York pays e4l1.04S annually
for lighting her streeta.
Fresh air is forced into the tunnel
under che Alps BY applying the power OF
the water from the mountain streams.
-Thers are eleven hundred diferent-
religions in the world. No excuse for .
mans moi having any surely.
Some pathologists claim that dipthe-
ria hes been oecasioued by the introduce
ton and nse Of kerosene oil
"A paper passed through the post
Office few days since, directed Is fol-
lows: ITO Honest Father Abraham. God
bless him, Washington, D. c."
During the last six months letters
have been received at Ypsilanti, Michi-
gan, on which the name Of the town is
spelled sixty -four different ways.
The farmers in the south of England
have been obliged to abandon the practice
Of feeding cattle chiefly on wheat, on ac-
count Of the mortality it produced.
- The new official map Of Franco is
now terminated. This immense work,
executed by the general staff of the army,
has occupied nearly sixty years.
"A sensible Jerseyman has willed
$500 to the New Jersey Bible Society for
buying spectacles for old people, 50 that
they may see to read.
"A merchant of Philadelphia, who q
few years ago WAS reported to be wealthy,
and making annually from FIVE to ten
thousand dollars, is now q driver on a
passenger railroad car at nine dollars per
week.
-Artemus Ward is coming east again
from California, and is going to lecture TO
Brigham Young and family on his way.
He has pocketed els, 900 for twenty lee
lures in California.
The University Of Michigan, At Ann
Arbor, Michigan, catalogues $50 stu
of science, literature and the srts, 300
department of medicine and surgery,
339; department of law, els.
Some of the merchants OF st. Louis
are taking steps 10 secure "a restoration
of the legitimate trade of the city," which
they think is in danger of being diverted
to Chicago.
An Eastern paper states that "Miss
Carrie Wildwood has los letters 10 .hs
Pembroke post-office." If she has adyer
tised for husband she can congratulate
herself on getting large mail-if tn,
letters do not miss Carrie after all.
The California wines have mad.
their way 10 the old world and are warml,
welcomed by connoisseurs. The Win,
Trade Review, the organ of the British
dealers, calls them ga great success, To,
wines being excellent and the qualit,
good
The women of Holland and Belgium
who make their linen so beautifully white
use borax instead Of soda, as washin,
preparation. 10 the proportion Of larg
handful Of borax powder to about ten gal
Ions of water. Its effect is to soften tn
hardest water.
Washington aud Jeffsrson Colleges
in Western Pennsylvania, are within
few miles Of each other. A proposition
has lateiy been made BY 4 beRssolen
gentleman, to give fifty thousand dollar
to the institutions If they will snite an,
establish first-class institution at eithe
place.
LA France has learned from ST. Pc
tersburg tba: a Geographic line from
Eastern Siberia to Pekin has been agree,
on BY the Russian and Chinese Govern
meuts, and that series of block houses
to be conceded to the Gar along tn,
whole extent of the wires, for their pro
lection within Chinese territory up to tn
very gates of the celestial empire.
by law Of the Puri.ans, which wa
IN force less than u century ago, boys Q
l6 and upwards, who would not min,
their pas and mas, and who rename,
rebelllous after proper chassisement
should be put to death. What wout
Young America of now a-days do Wit
such law in force They would hav
to choose between obeying parental O,
ders and making paragraph under tn
mortuary head.
On the LIST instant the new yaccip,
ton act to further extend and make con
pulsery the practice of vaccination in lr,
land came into force. Ali children bor
after the LIST of January, 1864, are to /
vacclnated within six months of the brit
and ale to be medically inspected on Ii
eighth day. For Noncompliance Wit
either OF the requirements the parents I
guardians are liable 70 penalty of los
~ The Fulton Journal states that
young gentleman arrived in Lyons, low,
the other day, from California, claimip
large portion Of the real estate of th,
city-it having been the property of h
father, who removed from the place .
wears ago. and ia nov dacoosad M