Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-01-26

is bad
Ash Wednesday and Valentines day
comes on the same day this year.
Every trade j. represented in the New
York State prison.
The Pennsylvania Legislators get twenty
dollars day.
A tremona violin was lately sold in Bal
timore i,r for 1850.
Myr'ads Of fish in Cape Ccd Bay perish
ed during the recent cold
The largest barn in New York State is
22l feet long, 40 feet wide, and 50 feet high
The Mormon women have large feet, they
wear hoes from D to 8 In size.
\ Massachusetts, minister liiycs three
minute horse in Central park.
An cx~rcbcl officer died Of starvation on
the streets of Mobile.
The new poem Of Robert Browning will
not a pear for year or two.
They are about to cstablish a Second
National Bans in New Orlcars.
a bold editor in California has mar
ricd literary lady, widow, whose non de
plume is "Topscy Turvey.'
The village of O,can, New York, suffer
ed havily 10y fire, on Tuesday morning
Every store was destroyed.
Captain John Travi., the famous pistol
shop is preparing % open u gallery in Say
| aunah.
The city of Philadelphia has no fur
MIS- ei n ni,ed States Senator in thirty.
five years, nor Governor during tif V
years.
A patent has becp taken out for prnpfl
| Ing boats with oars in such mar ncr that
the rover faces in the direction i'll which
he is gonr.
The Michigan Supreme Court has rcvers
ed ali legal ruling made heretofore in that
State. 10y deeiaing hat a husband may deed
property t. his wife.
| Gen Arns,cad Long. one OF Lees staff,
and subsequently III the Confederate States
artillery has TIE sup etdrncy of the
second section Of the James RN er and Kan
| ava Canal.
a fro, was recently pumped UP from an
| oil shaft tia, was sunk in the Smiths Fer
ry oil region If ohio, at the dep. h Of 43O
feet. lie was blind.
An intoxicatcl Jealous woman attempted
suicide in Indianapolis the other day, b>
| submcrsin. herself max d in barre, Of
water. Her husband found her in that in
tercstng cordl'icn alive but cool.
Sauk county Wisconsin,, almos. untou,h
ell by railroads, aroduccd.in 1864, GOO tons
| Of pig IRON a The Ironton mines. 1t has
also raised n ary ioo, 900 pounds o! hops
In Washington city there are upwards Of
20 churches, VIZ: Methodist II 1; Fpisco-
palian, 9; Baptist. > Lutheran, 3 20
colorcd, and say dozon OF other ''rersua
sione.'
The Spiritualists Of Massachusetts held
convention at Worchc>tur on the 18Th and
l9lh instant, 10 organic permanent ST tc
cons ention and appoint State mis- ,ionary.
The japanese send TX worm eggs TO tue
French via San Francisco anil New York,
50 as to avoid the trophies. \ recent ship
from Japan brouch, $lSo, 800 worth Of them
to San Francisco.
French photographer has made arrange
ments TO descend to the bottom of the sea
in submarine vessel, and take autographs
of submarine objects. lie proposes TO use
electric Light.
A mortgage On the Platte county, Mis-
souri,, Railroad, for 81 200, o0o, was lately
reeo'dcd in the Recorders Office OF Buchan
an county, by Messrs. Osborn and Carpcn-
ter, tho stamps upon which cost s ,29o.
Az Italian inventor named Casolari has
recently produced mechanical press. by
which 1t is said. speech may be printed
while it is being delivered, and BE- all read,
for publication a. The time the speaker
leaves the platform. a public trial OF it
recently took place at Mo.ena, when five
stanzas Of pant,'s great poem, together
with 'earpad commentary of the same,
were read and printed from the reading in
lines containing each thirty letters. in the
space Of nine seconds We are not acqain
ted with the construction of this wonderful
machine. but if it proves to be all that its
inventor claims, it will be invaluable for
purposes of legislative reporting.