Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-23
DAILY DEMOCRAT
GENERAL. NEWS.

Tn. New York Indepsndent published a
lettes from lev Jos. Z. Roy. setting forth
the wonderful efficacy Of Jonas Whiic,mb'
Asthma Remedy.
The population OF Cleveland is about So
2ss.
New York las two thousand SIX hn1>
bred policemen.
II costs 81 500 a nj ut TO run Pnrepa n
Sa1 Francisco.
Groomsmen are discarded now at New
York weddings.
New YORK ha, a strest CIR that carries its
own rails along With 1t.
The women OF America wear l60, 900 coo
yards Of calico year.
Hoop. have actually gone out IN Paris.
Mississippi has, in Some par,s, raised
three crops ofhsy this year
II costs Vermont half . million year to
educate fifty thousand Of her children.
Astorm OF wind has Frustrated and in.
jured the Louisiana sugar cane.
Russia advises peopl. not TO emigra,e TO
that country ~ food is scarce and business
dull
The ladies' in Poland are not permitted 10
wear black or gray dresses, and are fogged
for nonccmp lancs with the law.
Down in Georgia the negroes voted Ia
tells Of IRA. and Roach Ext.rminator,"
beng told thot the picture OF rat on the
pa2er stood for ratification.
Pulverized plaster OF Paris, mixed with
the white Of an egg. makesss good cement
for china or glassware.
Black silk suits are very much worn
They are always gcnteel and stylish. and
can be worn on oil ordinary occasions.
Small clothes With silk stockings will be
the fashion for gent 'eman's full dress in
Paris this winter.
The elopemsnt OF Ilcndershott, the
drummer, with young girl from Pough-
ksspsie. year or 50 ago. has frues6ed.
Weight, eight pounds.
The wood Of the California laurel is com
ing into general use for cabinet and orna-
mental manufacture. 1t is very handsome
and takes beautiful polish.
There arc three thousand six hundred
and thirty seven homeopathic practitioners
in the United States.
By the law OF Kansas it appears women
can prosecute any landlord or saloon keeper
who sells liquor to their "lords and mas
tors"
There were IN the British Kingdom,
3.e33.O2 acres under wheat in 1868,
against s, 620,7s4 in 1867. The number Of
acres devoted TO the cultivation Of potatoes
in 1878 Was $40, 1875, against ,463, 762 in
1867.
An old architect in Paris has invented a
universal alphabetical piano, on which
children can BE- taught instantaneously TO
read, calculate and to play music. This
interesting and iugenius instrument costs
but six francs.
The wheat feds in Southern Indiana
chow healthy green. The wheat has taken
good root and With favorable winter an
other glorious crop is probable.
Not one literary man in fifty enjoys good
health in this country but it 10 quito the
reverse ia Great Britain.
sTParton's new edition Of Greely's autoii-
osraphy brought down to the present time,
contrary TO general expectation, has falleu
perfectly dead upon the publishers hands.
A number OF rsnale compositors. who
were excluded from employment in the
printing Offices Of San Francisco by the
Photographed Union Of that city, have
raised the necessary capital to fit out
printing office, have rented . place, pro
cured presses. type, etc, and are abou. TO
commence a woman's cooperative job
printing establishment.
About = week since, when . farmer,
about eocn miles from Leesbu.g, Va was
making an excavation in the brow Of huge
hill by blasting rock. he disclosed q rich
vein Of marble, said to be equsl in quality
marble has been traced over an arena Of e.
teen to twenty acres already.
The Falls Of Idaho are said 10 be four
hundred yards wide. The rapids form a
series Of cascs les ranging from twenty 70
sixty feet in height. The Falls proper leap
two hundred and ten feet in one unbroken
mass. The contour Of the Falls is not un-
like that Of regular horse shce. From
this il will be seen that Idaho Falls almost
equal Niagara Falls in sublimity and grand
eur.
A youngstcr in Peoria. H., recently, in
exploring his sisters things, came across a
package Of letters duly tied up and laid
away, being a CORES Fondencc which she
was carrying on With a nice young man.
He carried them dowd on the street, and
standing on the corner gave them away
singly TO the passers-hy. Tho young lady
didn't find it out until mutual friend, also
a nice young man, brought her one that
her brother had thus given him.