Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-24
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


Quebec is helping starving Labrador.
Uornis selling in Georgia for Atty cssts
per bushel. That smaeks Of old times.
England pays ESQ, 900 year for diplo-
macy.
$1,000, 900 of fractional currency Is prin-
ted daily.
Two lines Of telegraph connect Jerusa-
lem with Europe.
Europe plants six and ,hree-quartsr mil
lion acres Of potatoes.
Spurgeon has rheumatic govt and can
not preach.
Nine hundred and ninety millions men
use tsbacco.
The Marquis Of Westminster has m In.
come Of 100000 day.
100000 Of fractional currency Is re-
turned to the Treasury Department daily.
n. Cochus estimates the "a ue of Paris
man ufactures At 2,2OO, 000, 900 frances.
The lumber production Of Marie this year
u estimated At 666, 900, 900 feet.
Yves. Virginia reports the finest grape
crop ever gathered there.
There are at the present time more than
$40, 000, 900 Of taxes In arrear In Italy.
John &. SAKE il said to be preparing .
new edition Of his poems for the press.
Peter Lorillard, the well-known tobacco
mist. is dead. Ills age was 70.
Snow fell to the depth Of ten inches in
the northern part of Maine last week.
A double tree grows near Liberty. Miss.
half Of which is oak and the other half
pine.
A New York ferry company has accu-
lnulated % barrels Of pennies.
Three story cars are run on the railroad
between Paris and Strasburg.
Vermont reduced it's State debt $685..
600 during last year.
The ST. Louis street cars carried 1,10o,.
600 passengers in August.
OF the II 900, 900 Of people Of Italy, IT,
coo, 900 csn;neitbsr read nor write.
II beng necessary to verify . will in the
Probate Court at Cincinnati one day last
week, an old lady came into the city for
the first time in forty eight years. though
she has always lived within ten miles Of
the place.
The little Prince Imperial Of France 10 .
good typo lie learned from toy case in
the Impsrisl printing establishment.
One cause of the defest Of eQua, suffrage
10 Ohio is said to have been the apprehen.
sion that il adopted it would cause Ken
lucky freedmen to swarm into the State.
An Englishman, named Van Horn, 10 on
record who has thrown himself outside Of
80, 6SS bottles Of port wine within twenty
three years.
Il has been remarked in New Orleans that
no enc Of sixty wsrkmsn employed in lay
ing pavement there, and werkisg oil day
amid the fumes Of sas. has caught the yel.
low fever.
The asthos Of the "Dodgs Club Papers"
published 10 Hsrpsr's, Is Psof. De Mill, Of
Dalhousis college, Halifax. Nova Scotia.
A Baltimore wholesale dealer has been
heavily fined for distributing bis business
cards in Georgetown, D. c., il being held 10
30 violation of the law in relation to
''drummers."
"There's our grandmother" says co
Temporary "a striking instance why womes
should vote. She's paid taxes on dog for
the last ten years, and now declares she
won't stand il any longer-shs'll either vote
or kill the dog"
A horrible incident is reported - occur
ring at Taylor, Cortland county, N. T.,
wherein . woman gave birth TO twins, one
Of which had the body Of . child With the
head of snake, and the other the body Of
. snake, With the head Of . child.
Tns Boston Post has heard of the recent
visit Of Judge Chase to Put in Bay, and its
poetic "Quilp," puts it thusly
''Says SALnoH r.
CHASE, says he,
'I'll wish, BY Jupiter AmmenI''
He went to Ohio,
Aud threw in his fly -oh.-
But never a sign of = SsImonan