Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-28
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GEyEnAQ. NEWS.

New York.
There are 10000 schoolsble children ir
I Cincinnati.
The marriages in Chicago DOW almost
equal the divorces.
Why is Kiss ike arumor! Because It
goes from msu,h 10 mouth.
4 truly great man never puts away the
simplicity Of q child.
sixty million pounds Of tea have been
shipped from China this season.
Leonard W. Jerome's moustaehe is
inches from tip 70 tip. So says jenkins.
The exhalations from swamps, water
| closets, sewers, and fre0 washing the side
walks early in the morning, are highly in
| furious.
The population Of San Francisco is nov
one hundred and thirty thousand. en- in
| crease Of seventy four Thousand 10 seven
years.
The house at St. Helena once occupied by
Napoleon l. is now stable. The French
people are indignant about it.
| It requires two hours to wind the clock
on the Parliament House 10 London. The
dials are twenty-five feet in diameter, and
| the hour bell weighs fifteen tons.
L. would take train nearly seven day
| to run from New York to San Francisco by
way Of Chicago, going At the rate Of twenty
niles an hour, and making the usual ex-
press stops.
Broad street, Philadelphia, is eleven miles
and a half long. In one straight line, and
one hundred and fifteen feet wide, and ex-
tends from League Island, on the Delaware
river, to the northern boundary Of the pres
snt city limts.
Vermont has twenty eight thousand Ro-
man Catholics.
The Great Eastern will sail from France
next May with . new cable.
10000 600 bushels Of coal are shipped
down the Ohio river annually.
Gen Lee has COO students at his college
against 400 last year.
Louis Napoleon's cabinet is filed up
with the old furniture he used during his
exile.
The dedication Of Conklip, cashier Of the
New Milford Comm Bank, is S4s. 944 49,
The witty Personal Of the N. Y. World
describes Miss Leo Hudson's performance
as - small cattle show-one horse add two
calves"
The New York Tribune proposes pay ing
Mrs. Lincoln SIS, 900 hush money, by The
Government. Hadn't those who are afraid
Of her exposures better do il?
The Cincinnati Gazette kindly eoacedes:
"No one need deny that there 10 reaction
against the radical policy Of making black
States in the South"
The New York Nation (radicaD says
New York will 60 Democratic at the No.
vsnbsr election by 1000 to $4,000. Dem
ocrats themselves are confident Of . much
larger majority than the Nation comedies to
them.
Secretary Seward wrote letter from AL
bany to Warrington, . few days ago, 10
which he predicted the success Of the Dem
ocrats of Nsw York in the coming election,
and the downfall of the Radicals.
The person who was employed ~ garden
er by Mr.. Lincoln appears to be in the mar
ket with Mrs. Lincoln's private correspond
enee, and threatens to wash what Napoleon
used to call an extensive lot Of "dirty lin.
en- if no, bribed 10 hold his tongue
The Chicago Journal SAYS that the Re-
publican party needs coherent organiza-
tion." There is every evidence that the
Republican party needs coherency in other
respects than organization.
Since the election ia Ohio some of the
New York radical organs are trying to shirk
the negro suffrage issue in that State,
though their party have already endorsed
il in the constitutional convention and in
their convention to nominate State officers.
The Galaxy magazine is said to have lost
$4,000 within the last two years.
Many Of the dwelling houres in Fifth
Avenue. New York, have mirrors so placed
as 10 reflect in the boudoir the figure Of any
standing at the front door, by which
"at home or mot at home was deter
mined.
The BARRIERS pole originated in the prim-
tive ages, when the barber was also phle-
botomizer. 1t was the custom to wrap the
bloody bandages around . brown stick
and stand il at the door for n sign
Hence the red aud white curvaturcd
stripes
A cup Of tea contains volatile oil, chic
rophyl, wax, rosin, gum, tannin, theme. ex
tractine, apotheme, albumen, sulphur, phos
phorus. chloride Of potassium, oxyde OF
iron, carbonate, sulphate and phosphate OF
lime, carbonate of magnesia, nganese and
silica.
All railroad employees in New York are
to be dressed in uniform, in accordance
with law OF that State. Conductors are
10 wear dark blue suits with brass buttons,
ard cap Of the same co,or trimmed with
gold lace.
Great Britain now contains thirty millions
Of people, an increase Of two and a half mil
lions since 1852, and during the time she
has furnished three millions Of emigrants
to this country, and other portions Of the
globe. During the past fifteen years Ire
land has decreased in population nearly
eight hundred thousand.