Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-07-18

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There are 500, 900 Luthsrans in the Uni
ted States.
Louisiana produces this year 10, 900 hog,.
hesds o. sugar.
Canada has more Scotch Highlandsrs
than Scotland itself.
Wisconsin has potato bugs half an inch
long ana very vorscious.
Negroes everywhere in the South are
abandoning the icvai ,essus.
The coast Of Florida 10 Are miles in
, leng,h.
-Four OFT OF seven Congressman cleo. in
| Georgia arc Democrats.
Put Q few live fish into wells, II angle
worms iuisss them.
The Pensacola Commercial is bosssful
over watermelon weighing 60 pounds
Some fishermen use cotton for bait 20 90
some women.
The latest novely Is fan that can be used
Is . paraso, . vail or bonnet.
The Hebrew temple in New York - 70
cost 81 100000.
A prominent New York City banker has
lust insused his life for &l50,ooo.
New York he's 10 daily papers IL hsd
about - many ten years ago.
Bsaursgard has captured, and will soon
tske the formal surrender Of Staten Island
hs,rsss. '.Booty and beauty"
Over 1l3.000 have been subscribed In
England TO defend Eyre, the butcher Of the
Jamaica negroes.
There are about I, GOO. 900 telegraph posts
in the world. which it costs about 81 ,0oo,-
600 TO keep up.
A Londsasr wants to bet &c. that
ofnnihusss will run With balloons within
year.
The lame, halt, blind, sick, and pleasure
ssseoes IL West nnsssss, instead sf g.
isg North. nsv gashss q Raleigh springs.
Roscoe Ceskling, Republican United
States Senator frem New York, is married
10 sister Of Horatio Seymour.
The white Fawn" pssosably expired At
Nibls's Garden on Saturday evening. II
has been played $50 times.
Up. Alsxandsr, called the Seattle King
Of Illinsis, owns over 1000 head Of cat
tie.
In Madrid, the family washisg 10 hung
QUE 10 dry over the drawing room balcony
Of Ne nHsst heusss.
.Tns SiAmese twins srs going 70 Paris 10
b separated. They have lived tegsthsr 50
ysass, and are tired Of II.
TIE average deaths Of negroes occurring
In South Carolins, from accident, In hand.
ling firearms, ne absut Eve every week.
vnmsnt has one city, thirty seven Chris.
sian Associations and more msrino bucks
than any ether Eastern State.
The attempt to introduce the American
method into the largo hotels Of London hes
proved failure.
From the statistics Il appears that Brock.
Ign has nineteen Baptist churches. with .
membership Of 6,252.
One Of the Ontario (Oanada) towns ap.
propriated i've cents for the celebration VI
Dominion day, and appointed . committee
to see them judiciously expanded.
A Democratic Legislature Was elected in
Mississipp. which will not convene because
of the defeat Of the coostitstion. Congress
would set aside this election, but since
Sambo has betrayed Congress, there's no
| use.
Sugar candy. II 10 estimated, 10 consumed
In the United States at the rate Of 25O, 900
lbs. per dsy, or 100, OoO. 900 lbs. per year
or THE amount New York manufactures
about n, 900 pounds per day Philadslphia.
$4,000; Chicago, $4,000; st. Louis. TO-.
800; Cincinnati. 10000 Baltimore, 5000;
Boston. 1900.
Eight miles from 81. Charles, No., there
10 an apple orchard Of enc hundred acres.
In 1897 the yield, at On average price Of
81 per barrel, was worth over ~ 900.
A. r. Stewart intends living thirty years
longer.
An eccentric clergyman lately said that
about the commonest proof We have that
man IS made Of clay, is the brick 90 often
found in his hat"
An eight hour law in Pennsylvania be
came operative on the 1st inst. II does
no. apply to farm or agricultural labor, or
service by the year, month or week.
The yellow fever has carried Of ten
thousand people In Callos, South America,
since January last.
1t is said that Oolfax, when . boy, called
his mother "ma."
Mary" Don't you think, Angellna. that
Angelina" | was so taken with the
clothes Of Miss Gsldwaiths, that l didn't
notice the close Of the sermon"
The Toronto Globe 10 net satisfied with
the first year Of the Dominion.
Nine hundred editors we're in New York
u the Convention.
Sweden 10 contracting loan Of six mil
lions for railroad building.
Z. W. Bacon, who made . very hand
some failure in Chicago. - editor of0shs II.
Illustrated News, has been assigned BY the
propristors Of The Boston Advertiser TO the
charge Of An evening edition Of that paper,
sson to be started.
Trsis oraeularly informs the London
bankruptcy court: ~ owe Els,77s. aud
the way ! account for Il 10 by telling you
that spent $4,000 on myself, on travel
ing expenses, .ofRcas and ether things.
cannot tell you were the balance went. and
you may find out the best way you can. !"
Paris occupies seventeen and half mil.
lion Of acres. and contains two millions Of
inhabitants aud atty thousand houses. -
Londen covers seventy seven and half mil.
lisas Of acres, has sbsut three millions Of
Inhabitants and three hundred and sixty
thousand houses.
Sidney Howard Gay. now managing sdi-
tor Of che Chicago Tribune, has salary Of
$1,000.
The death Of Hon. Edward Colss. one q
the early Governors llliuois-from 1929 e
1626-is ansouncsd. He died q Philndel.
pho - he 7sh inst, in The s2d year u HE
age.
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