Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-05
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


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Sweden boasts five hundred iron minss.
Girls are employed as dry goods clerks
in Boston at 81 week.
A Prenchman has Just proclaimed t'lst
woman is Superior to man in America.
New York city parks feed 1900 spar
rows.
In twelve year, England has doubled
her school capacity.
Ship-building Is terribly dull in Osns-
da.
| Nashville is urgieg more manufactur-
ing.
London furnishes living for fifty thou
sand street peddlers.
There are women horse stealers in Penn
syivania.
Utica. n. Y, has skating rink contain.
ing 90. 900 square feet.
For 12,60 per day one can board at
Thebes. in Egypt
| The castor-oil bean is raised in Texas.
Austria 10 getting breech- leaders from
America.
English turfmen are beginning TO train
horses for trotting.
Napoleon recently paid 10000 francs
| for a 6ne Arabian horse.
Venice is said to look like Pittsburg un-
der water.
The families of deceased soldiers receive
| IS month In Massachusetts,.
JEFF Davis bail bond is Autographed and
for sale In Richmond.
The New York canals all told are nine
huNdred miles long.
Bath brick are being manufactured ct
Stratford, Canada.
The Post Office Department is expert
menting Oh new style Of stamps.
One thousand cars for the Pacific Rail-
way are TO be built in Marshall, Michigan.
The inssnity of poor Carlotta is now ad-
mitted to be hopeless.
English steam navigation 10 suffering
fsarfully from French competition.
Timber in France is colored BY liquid
dies poured upon the roots OF the trees.
A temporary railroad bridge will be
thrown across the Missouri, at Omaha, this
winter.
The tax payers Of ST. Louis are delin-
quent this year, to the amount of 81 &c.,
U0o.
There are still in circulation four and .
half million dollars New Orleans city notes
The only monument over Brsddock's
grave is . shingle nailed to IN adjacent
tree.
mississippi doctor cures cholera by in
jecting sulphusic acid into the veins Of the
patient.
| One sharp fellow in Boston has made
$4,000 By specializing IN Dickens tickets.
The British revenue from tobacco is
greater than the income Of the English
Church.
A successful Australian digger has =
gold collar for his dog. Another shod his
horse with gold.
| Accor ding to Paris physician, half .
dozen cigars day will shorten life five
years.
A philosopher has discovered that men
don't object to be overrated, except by the
assessors.
German women In Pennsylvania husk
corn for the husks as compensation for
their labor.
krupp, the Russian founder, has orders
for two thousand guns. The peace of Eu-
rope looks shaky.
One Of the upper ten" Of troy, N. Y.
is abou, 70 erect mansion in that city at
= cost Of $3.50, 900.
Hosts Of nuns and Catholic missionaries
ssc arriving in New York from Europe.
But two cars are run on the Evansville,
Ind, street railroad. and their average re-
ceipts are $50 per day.
A ton Of paper was used upon the Vel
verton divorce case. Heavy writing.
A lady ofliciates as horse-car conductor
in New York and others are trying to imi-
tate her example.
A new cave haa been discovered, and ex.
plored 100 feet, near the famous Howe's
cave, in Schoharie county, New York.
The Mississippi, which 10 now lower than
it has been for many yerrs. is also clearer.
BgANpY was first made By an Irishmaa
named Hcnnessy. The second manufactu-
rer was Martell, an Englishman. who es-
tablished q factory at Cognac, France. in
1910, which has increased 10 an establish
ment in which are now stored 10000 bar
rels of brandy. In one gallery, says a wri
ter there is enough spirits to make drunk
one qusrtcr of the inhabitants Of the globe.
The plan Of putting greenbacks in pack
ages of tobacco must have been successful
for it is finding imtstois. A coffee dealer
advertises that every purchaser Of one
pound packages Ct his coffee will receive
greenbecks in small or large amounts. y
The smallest grcenback is the three-cent