Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-11
DAJLY DEMOCRAT.
0ENEnAL NEWS.

p.per psntelsttes are the latest nesisns.
The next Presidential election will be
the twenty first.
french engineer wants 70 build bridge
.cros. the Channel for $50, 100000.
A Springfield, Mass. rnilkman waters his
horse and wagon Al the same Pump.
The recent snow has made the wheat in
Virginia look finely.
The London Times opsnsd the year Win
a seven column editorial.
Clinton. Mass, il to have *leo,ooo pa
mar mill 10 arrest the alarming exportatioo
Of rags.
Daring the year 1857, the recsipts Of The
nnhuoue. Iowa. Post once over oil s1psn
ditsreslwefs @la. 5000.
There are six female physicians 10 Phila-
a.lnh;a e,ch OF whom has % iDco@e IRON
th.ir orseties Of over q. 600 annually.
uoasl waters in Boston, fee fifteen end .
half hevre Of hand work daily, receive ealy
&25 month.
As,is. inventor thinks that b. has found
L..,.r motive power than Oseam, and
go 10 sell the secret for $40 ,000, 900.
Rostonian has invented an engine 81
ono how power, which will throw water
through chemically prepared chamber OF
the machine. and in one minute, and with
ten gallons Of water, exsinguish tity-snree
blazing tar barrels.
LONG bearded miller at Logan, o., the
other day, carelessy suffered ms moving
honors to get caught in revolving snaft
Br,cing himself promptly, his beard went
by the roots
Al Dresden, in what are known IS the
C,ean Vaults. among the cufiosites are
ussLl,cc Of diamonds valued At $750,0O0.
and = single green diamond worth half
million moro.
The only fruit, it 10 said, which is known
~ y,ov in syery climate 10 the strawberry.
Il % the only fruit which, somewhere on
the earth, is picked every day in the year.
On. m.a 10 Boston sued another for
.,.nder in accusing his wife Of having an
o,he, husbaud. and although on the trial.
Tussday. a dozen witnesses testified to the
trutb Of the offending statement, the jury,
v;th remarkable independence Of action,
gave the plaintiff 81, 154 damages.
suez has = model post Office. On the
arrival Of mails from England and India,
The rush for letters - said to be indsscsiba-
BILE Each one helps himself to whatever
letter or letters he can lay hands upon. In
thes crambls many letters arc torn to sh5eds.
The Morning,ide Mirror 10 monthly
journal written and printed entirely By lu-
natics in the Royal Asylum, Morningsids,
near Edinburgh. Among the articles y enc
in praise Of the banquet in honor OF toe
Reform Bill.
The Steel Pen manufactures Of Bismiug
ham employ $50 men and 1000 womsn.-
They turn out weekly $4,000 gross Of pens,
in which 10 tons Of steel, valued at I'll, 900,
10 used
A mixture OF equal parts Of trescls and
bi carbonate Of soda, If applied to the feet,
il said 10 be IN infallibls cure for shilblains.
l. il said there 10 Boston capital invested
in Colorado suficien! to establish line Of
ten first-class steamships.
The North Carolina Convention elected
the valet of jeff Davis its doorkeeper. That
person is getting as numerous as the body.
: servant of George Washington.
"Woman is a delusion = exclaimed a
crustv old bachelor to witty young lady
"And man is always hugging some delusior
or other" WAS the quick retort.
A gentlemen Of Cleveland, aged IA, 10 ID
Jail for whipping his mother. His mother
ought to be in jail for not giving the young
ster q spanking.