Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-10-29

Black tea Of Gee quality floasiahes 70
nsrkably well On the coast d 0sesgss. I
A pill-box factory Of BRISTOL w.. -
three hundred cords Of birch weed per %"
nun.
spccimens Of salt from the Salt Nous
t.;ns in Nevada, have been received in
Washington.
The quantity Of glass necessary for the
Exhibition Palace, in Paris. wosld cover
twenty acres.
A letter received in Boston says, Monsig-
non columbc, the only living descendant o.
Christopher Columbus, intends vis't'ng
America next year. fyrs %aa24
The u,anuiacture Or The wire foe thsAA-
lan,ic cable kept tso hundred ard nfty
hands employed for eleven months, supply
ing over thirty thousand miles.
There are lS7, 900 persons in Brooklyn
Who DO business in New York, The dir
ence Setw een tls Number Of people thse ~
side in New York, and those doing business
there, II 1877, 600.
= Al express train carried the twenty MIL
lions Of thalers which form the war indsm-
nifty AustssS must pay Prussia. The whole
amosnt wss paid in silver. Il wss lcsded
By the tsn end teek twenty men six dAys 20
count it. Ten clerks. twelve tsllers. and
shisty-six gendsrnes accompanied the
train.
Tho cost u living in New York u he
present time Is almost incredible. and Il ID
: astonishing where III the money comes from
TO support such extravaganza Furnished
, houses in fashionable avenues rent for 81 ,0oo
per moth. A family living at one Of ou'
large hotels pay $500 per week for rooms
and board. The average price for larg'
= rooms and board in the principal hotels can
no, be less than $3.50 per week.
g We have always maintained that the tax
; alton necessary 10 pay the current expense
: OF the Government and tho interest Of d
10 public debt should be raised upon articles o
luxury, and that all necessary articles Q
n consumption should 10 exempt 30 far ms pos
ut siblc. Hence we are pleased to chronicl
&c the fact that q large tobae:o establishment
p Of New York paid the enormous tax q
d. $l,2OO,oOO on their business during tn
i. past year.
ia A practical saw maker San Fraucisc
TO has solved the difficulty Of saving sectio
in Of the big tree in Calavcras county TO cen
ng to che Paris Exhibition. BY bis plan, tw
'e. cuts are to be made on the tree, three e,
=. apart, as deep as the saw will allow; h
90 wood between the cuts being spit out b
ne wedges, angles are left which can bc save
and wcaged as before. BY the labor Of II
men the secton can be ready for transport
's' ton within months time. The whole e
80 pensc need not exceed tivc hundred dollar
ms
~. lived five years with ball in his head
job Squires says he has known ladies
lived twics o. long with nothing but bal
The IN their heads.
lde
,an Fifteen million pins are said TO be del
his called ior in England, in which 2.727 poun
ms. Of brass wire are consumed. Some idea
me the consumption OF brass wire may be gst
ans cred from the fact that one fis0 in Birmin
Of ham consume $50 tons per annun, or 1884,
on 900 pounds.
men The Darlington Harkeye says that Dost
ne who was killed in the riot ut New Orlea'
was ,,embcr OF the Convention. This
iae not true. Doetie was one OF the Radici
And Who was at the Convention for the purpo
INA of resisting tho Ulcers Of he law in the p
'e,e forn.nce Of their duty. lie was one OF thu
n. who fred upon the police when they ca
Tue Nv order Of the courts to arrest the me
ecs bcrs of the convention. and he was "
nn- properly HIT down for his ,iotous and tr
nun sonabls conduct.
ONE
arc Hartford. Conn.,, u known the world o
the Tor its vast insurance business. but Il 10
so we'll known for its MANUFACTURES (,
:. many Who have heard Of these weap.
~, never knew the place Of their manufactu
"e' The Spencer rifle, also. was first tested
Hartford