The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-11-10
MistelIaueous Items.

Pope Plus TX, is the 9th PoutiF who
sat in the chair of st. Peter. E
Fanny Fern has made over 500, 900 by
her writings, most Of them for the Ledger.
Derter is worth half as much.
"A wife in Indiana recently held chatty
conclave with seven of her own husbands"
Is there Salt Lake in Indiana?
Some chickens in Australia Toasted ON a
swarm ofliving ants. The ants ate their way
ont of the chickens crops and flew away.
1t is stated that the customers of the
Black Crook have been re>nude, Having
seen the ''Black Crock" in New York, few
nights ago, we pronounce the above state
ment impossible.
Walt Whitman is to shoot back at
Carlyle's shooting Niagara. He will with
great exertioD. conhne himself to prose-"
No "exertien" whatever he never went
beyond prose
'Lord Russell says boldly that the Irish
ought to have the franchisement on the same
condition as Englshmen" The Fenians say
boldly, "0n our own conditions.
Cattle are gullot;ned in France, instead
Of stunned and stabbedr So are men aud
women. But when death must come by vo-
lence, the most rapid and gentle violence is
best.
The only fruit which grow in every climate
isthe strawberry. tits the only fruit which,
somewhere on the earth is picked every day
the year round.
IA new brick machine which has made
over 100000 bricks in three working days, is
onexhibition in Chicago, where it was invent.
ed. =
"A Religious newspaper remarks ftIt is
said that the drawngup OF the declaration of
Independence would have been committed to
benjamin Franklin il it had not been feared
he would put joke in it.
"A London correspondent asks regarding
the Prince of Wales, what woud You think
Of the manners Of man who mazda point
of entering ladies drawing.rooms with a cigar
in his mouth? Nothing.
The Pyranees are sinking at rate that
will take them out of sight in 1000 years.
But tourists needn't hurry just yet. Is that
recent developed genius who proposed to
bridge the Atlantic already at work, slicing off
the Pyrenees to make his PIERS;
Prize fighting in England is 'ignomin~
iously going ont Of snuff rs the Pail Mall
gazette says, while it is increasing in Amer.
lea The most debasng and destructive of
our importations. If the law be not strong
enough 10 put down the P. r., it be made
so speedily.
"A man ninety years old was buried at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday,
who had kept his er4yestone aud bis coffin in
lis garrett fer the last twenty years. Silly as
a Ghlnaman, whose first act in life is thus TO
prepare for the last. In this case it is pity
that the gravestone and coffin we're kept on
hand % long.
a sub marine telegraph from San Fran,
cisco 10 japan and China is suggested, and
the opening trade OF the new line of steam
ships hold out strong encouragement for IN
dertaking the enterprise. This will soon be
as indispensable as the overland telegraph
from the East to California: and wha. golden
line it will prove
In the production Of "Arrah>na Pogue,"
under the Boueicault management, at the
Princess Thester, London, the song Of
Wearing of the Green has been omitted,
lest it should prove an incentive to Fenan
troubles, Verify, in some places, cor ing
events cast their shadows before. The
"MarSelllaise' is prohibited in France; but
every now and then it wiH break OIL