Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-10-01
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A Lodge Of Massns hes been established
q Yekehama, japan.
Bayssd Taylor Il = HE eodsssy seat .
Chester County. Pa. ssanslas'ne "Fsnss
France 10 said to have advised Austria to
Weld nov end wait fos revenge hereafter.
At the Mobile, Alsbams, markets. noth>
ing 10 sold for less than two bits-twensy'
| Eve cents.
Gan Sherman left Denver. Colorado. on
the 18th Of September, to visit Southern
posts.
The author Of Maryland Ny Maryland.
| il an editor on the Augusta constitutional
isf-James r. Randall.
Artemus Ward has engaged Egyptian
Hall. u London. md eoameneee bic lecture
season early In October.
A Latin motto on the zeal ring Of A. 7.
Stewart, says: Keep busy aud mind your
chances"
Catholics and Protestant are 10 exhibit
the evidences Of their missionary labors At
the Paris exhibition.
Il is proposed to supply London with Va
ter from the river Severn, ls3 miles distant,
at a cost Of e43. 900, 900.
The vile Of Admiral Faragut 10 one Of
the hsndsomest women Of Washington
Her maiden name wss Virginia Loyal.
Longwossh's celsbrateo vine cellars, con.
taining l5O, 900 gall No, have recently over.
flowed, and the champagne bottles went on
in dssfening (usillade.
A chemical analysis Of tie waters Of the
Dead See. shows that they contain 20 per
cent. Of salt. mostly chloride Of sods and
chloride Of mssnesia.
The population Of London Is over $780,
900. In this vast population there are more
dress makers and m,llinere, than bakers,
grocers, tailors OF boot makers.
Msrk Twain tells Of a mcmLer VI the
Wnshoc Legislature who always used to
prop his vast feet upon his desk aud got 30
prayer BY the Chaplain.
A race horse having been recently killed
in South Carolina BY lightning, the owner
said there VAS some consolation in know
ing that nothing but streak Of lightning
ever caught him.
A man in T.xas says he once saw his
obituary notice published, and wss abe 10
resd il with pleasure. The only regret he
had vas the fear that when he did de he
would not have as many good things said
about him, for he was young then, and-in.
nOcent.
Two strangers hung up their coats in =
Baltimore BARRIERS shop. The 6rst on
leaving took the wrong coat, which contain
I'd 81 800. lie did not discover hrs mis-
take Til sceosted ~ . police officer. lie
was alarmed. m his own coat contained
$4,000. A. exchange, drinks, &C., fol
lowed.
Ireland claims The invention of the nee.
de gun. Captain James Whitley 10 named
N the inventor, having had brcech load
ing needle gun made in 1928 in Dublin
Discouraged by the indiGFt,en shown at
woolwich 70 Captain Nor,on's elongated
shot, Captain Whitley did not carry out the
design Of patenting his invention.
The whole expense Of ,Thoreau's "Trip to
Canada, whereof he makes = most graphic
account in his new book, just published,
, vas, including two guide books and map,
just twelve dollars aud seventy five cents.
lie travelled on foot, mostly, 100 for this
small sum.
A Missouri young lady wore her newly
purchased ''frizzle" head. dress 70 bed, and
on being suddenly awakened and finding
said "iriszIs" on her pillow, she WAS greats
y alarmed, taking the same ter . negro'a
head. She screamed, grasped the "irizzie"
and tainted. Restora,ives, . light and mo =
mentary survey explained the mystery.
A young lady nov employed - . compos-
itor on the Montgomery Adurfiser had 800
bales Of cotton burned during the war. In
stead Of repining over her misfortune she
now goes 70 work At business most con
genial to her intellectual taste. Her heroic
sclf.felaacs is truly commendable.
The Montreal Herald renews the CON-
plant about the silver nuisance, as follows !:
! Let any Of our rendcrs Wet the Lover
Provinces, and they will find that. except at
q brokers who buys silver to export, they
cannot get rid Of the American quarter dol
lars which they have in their pockets ct .
higher rate than 20 cents. Even in our own
Province We understand that at Toronto the
quarter dollar 10 current only At % or -
cents