The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-20
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Ssnous snakes phytge so II never
bad . csss cCu.sunosf G I. isassa ists ob1rs
tvo liule dasghtsrs II Mo- q. xishsu,aeed
three and 'fvs yeass sssspseglvUlSy wefs en>
gagged ia playing in the frpnt y1M OF tAeit
homszs6 low sNses, S>sx es4 ttsutf md
Eighth, when tn oldeaechild ran into the
house, End told the sefsant givls ~ sun Dut
! and 80 70 her sister, Who WI p4nyinx With
big anske Tbs servant 60atht nolhips Of
il, and continued her work. 10 Nov ainsses
thsschild again besought her " % right out
for the snake VS. hissing Il ."ss;ssy TIE
Girl went ont. and was struck spssshless and
made to grow palei On the brick walk near
the front gate N The iittie child, i1ughinKa.
and patiing huge snake 90 The hesdl The
snake vae csiled up like . spiral sprinS, and
with elsvaGsd head aud protrudins f.nes vas
allowing The child 70 play With Il. Il wee
blacklist monster: 'Stresked md Apotted with
green. When The child would cease pattins
il. the snake would strike at the little ones
hand, and stilfen as If preparing to jump 1t
the child. Then the little one would tap ito
head, aud il would lower its head and remsin
passive. The servant stood for . mvmept
unable to say aword. At last aha shrieked
for Mrs Lieben, who came ont. She also
WAS seized with error. but waited only sec.
sond before she seized her child and bore il
away. A lady who resides next door, who
was alarmed BY the servant g'rls cries, nov
arrived upon the scene. Before the snake
uncoiled itself, she threw brick at it which
struck upon its head snd stunned it. A man
who was passing by then siepped inand killed
the snake. II measured thirty eight inches
in length, and was of the kind known a. the
house adder, the bite or sting Of which il said
to be terribly poisonous. The child had
marrow escape from an awful death.
ArRoros Of Lord Lytsoa and bis bad wri.
ting, which has lately been the subject Of
paragraph which has gone the round Of the
papers. We . may mehtion that Lord Derby
writes very neat but very lady. like, running
hand that Lord Palmefston wrote boldly and
most leRibly that Disraeli writes large
and angular runnine hand; that Lord Russell
writes like lady, but with small and i'll form.
ed letters. very much such Q hand a. that of
the late Sir Robert Peel. Lopd Lytton writes
siovenly and carelessly, and in an all but illeg~
ible manner; Lord Houghtou writes an NC.
right scrawl; Mr.. Bright in small, neat,
scholar like characters; Lord Lyndhnrst
wrote fine, large, bold. legibe hand while
that Of Lord Brougham is fine. large, bold,
but wonderfully difficult To decipber-ap.
parently an expression Of the impetuousness
OF the writer character.
The LONDON correspondent Of the New
York Tribune having said that t.the Ameri-
cans have read Dickens for thirty years and
given him hardly the price Of his stationary"
Robert Bonner replies in card 1T seems
to iae that this conveys an idea not quite Just
to the people of this country. There IS no
hostility among our people to an information
al copyright law. | myself paid Mr.. Dick
ems 5000 for story Of three numbers.
think he has received no better pay at home.
The American people paid it back to me
with profit; so that do not think they can be
justly accused of being siingy or llliberal"
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SPONTANEOUS CONGESTION An official
circular from the Ordnance Office at Wash
ipgton, reports the recent occurrence Of q
well authenticated case of spontaneous com
bustion at Wateryliet Arsenal. New York
The combustion resulted from the spreading
of sawdust, instead of sand as was ordered,
on sone linseed oil which had leaked from 4
barrel. The sawdust thus mixed with oil
ignited spontaneously in twelve hours in
cellar where IL had been placed in box. /
The temperature of the cellar Was ,hirty-six
degrees, indicating that low temperature
will cause spontaneous combustion in mix>
ture OF inseed oil and sawdust.
A GENEVA letter says; "In Switzerland,
where the American plan of cars has been |
adopted in many cases. one sres rothihg but
American taml,es, with their guides, their
sharp poles for climbing the mountains.
There lie the iperiable fa,heF,whh seraygy,
cray beard thss mamma with discontented
face. the iuexpressible son. with the Paris cut
OF hair the two daughters who sleep invarias
t!y through all the beautiful SECRECY
CIV - 1As-4-@ IN - - = ----~----
MAGGIE MITCHELL returns from Paris about
the middle of neat month She no s6bner
arrived in Paris than she set herself to work
TO learn the French language, turning her
back on sight seeing and pleaNlring. and shut.
ing herself up with her studies all day long.
"MARs TWAIN is s. S. Clemens. 'Josh
Billings" is Henry w. Shaw. ''leemes
P;pesn Is Stephen Masse,t. Up. Y. Nasty
Is p. r. Locke. "John Phenix,'' "Don,
Jr;n Jack Downing and "Sam Sick
are no longer in the land Of the living.
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