Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-12
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

If you would have your daughters bus
band pleased with his breakfast, teach he
to get q breakfast.
Bonner is erecting . magnificent marble
buill.n, on Williams street, New iorK
costing $4,000. II Isl publishing house
The condus. Of the Turkish commander
in throwing six I.raelites into the Danube,
has aroused astrcng feeling in Bucharest
There rs a bottle of rum in Newburyport.
Mass which defes tue constables. IL was
placed in the corner stone Of q brick builds
ing BY Willam Wood, in 1892.
A burglar, while engaged in robbing 4
house. on hearing . slight noise. exclaim-
ed Hang i'll il they catch the with these
spoons. | shall be sent to Congress sure y
The natives Of Palmer, Mass, are exer>
cised over a ghost story. A mans dead
wife 10 said to have appeared in his house .
few days ago, and blew out the lamp.
An Ohio paper gives the names Of three
prominent Radicals who have committed sui>
eide during the year past-an example
which the entire Radical party is following
with a certainty Of success.
The bark Oak Ridge, on a voyage from
4 hitooStPos1 DOSsOts ">rs
late gale, and all on board persisted save
the Captain, who was picked from a raft
nearly dead, by the Bremen bark Marco
Polo.
"Do you keep matches I" a.ked . would>
bc-wit Of a retailer. "oh. yes, all kinds.'
was the reply. "Well then I'll take q trot-
ting match" The retailer Immediately
handed a box Of G~raffenberg's Pills to him.
Two hours reading Of = good newspaper
10 as profitable a. six hours of work out OF
twelve. The farmer and the produce deals
er equally should understand the markets.
Sometimes to know . thing is the same As
TO earn 800.
The lockout in Pittsburg, which has last
ed over nine months, causing great distress
70 very many families, and keeping several
million dollars out Of circulation, has fortu
nately ended-a compromise having been
effected.
The "social evil" IS a subject Of agitation
in England ~ we'll ~ America. The British
Parliament recently, in . quiet way. passed
a Law placing the public women Of the mills
tary and naval stations under police and
sanitary regulations closely resembling
those enforced in Paris.
Roses and other plants and vines are now
infested With slugs. plant lice. canker
worms and other destructive pests. 10
drive them off, first sprinkle freely with
soap suds and then dust ashes over them.
We have had occasion TO use this remedy
the present season, and know il will do the
work.
How TO TELL Coop FLoun-A cores
pendent of the Farm and Firesiie'g gives the
following directions of determining the
quality Of -four. Place . thimbls full Of
flour in the palm Of your hand aud rub it
gently with the finger Of the other hand.
If the fous smooths down under the finger,
feeling silky and slippery. it is Of inferior
quality, though Of fancy brand. high-priced
and white as the snow drift. 1t hes either
been 10 low crowned, or made from grown
damaged, or perhaps wheat having All un>
usual per centum Of gfutten-murdered
with dull burrs, and will never make good
light, wholesome bread. But il the flour
rubs rough in the palm, feeling like fine
sand, purchase confidently. 1t will not
~disappoint you. Such -four, whatever may
be its branded reputation, though in price
it may be the lowest market fgure-will
make good, light, nutritious bread.
CONTEMPLATED CHANGES OF FASHION,
An exchange says the fall bonnets are en-.
,irely to revolutionize the present circus
ticket patterns, AMI milliners can live again.
For the last two seasons ladies who haye
doubted their ability to hem a dolly, have
been doing successful duty as their own
miiliners. The result has been that the
profits Of the head gear modistes have been
comparatively small.
Ladies' used to carry sun umbrellas Of
dark color outside with . lining Of white
The prese II fashion directs them to be made
with reversed colcrs-tt.e white outside,
the dark within. The idea, probably. is
two fold; the white cannot fade, while not
one complexion in a dozen is Of sufficient
purity to endure the contrast with , whites
lined parasol o. sun shade.
Five thousand and ninety unfortunate
dogs have been drowned in the New York
dogs pound during the present season, and
the little vagabonds who are bringing them
in are making so much money at the busi~
ness that the authorities now give them
only 20 cents per day instead Of so. as here.
%tofo,e. which is much less profitable than
informino an the Snring(iali s.nurns1 al AZ