Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-16

Dayton makes nearly 100000 gallons oi
linseed oil year.
Paris has 1858 cafes and eaiiu ghouses,
and 10000 billiard table.
They have raised about g. 200 at St.
Paul to relieve The Red river famine
.-,0ae quarter OF The whole populAtionso'
Maine afe depoSi:srs in saving banks.
Tlldcn, of New York. has given s2o,V0o
10 his nsnssakr. the female seminary at
Lebanon, n. IL.
The Governor General Of India has . sal
sry of $3.50, 900 in gold.
Business 10 50 dull in Memphis that the
Gayoso Hotel 10 closed.
Iron nails for common wagon reds are
talked Of England.
The circulation Of the A,lsntic is about
10000.
"A German philologiss, at Jena. predicts
that 10 five centuries English will b the
universal language.
An indignant foreigner has sued the Nor
folk vlrgininn for slanderipg him $40 900
worth.
The receipt. from internal revenue ere
now averaging a quarter Of . million per
day.
A German inventor is making cigar wrap
pers from tobacco stems instead Of using
the more costly leaves.
The Wild Indians on the Plains number
rs 900 1t will take some tine TO exteImin-
atc them, as some propose.
John G. Fremont lives at larry town, on
tho Hudson, on the estate formerly Owned
by J. Watson Webb.
There is crazy woman on Blackwell's Is
lard who insgines she has been deirauded
Of 300, 900 by Horace Greeley.
A Montana gal.ows Is three rails set up
like tripod, with q man hanging between
like pot.
A Charleston paper estimates the rice
crsp OF the Carolinas, Georgia and Louisi-
ana this season at 10000 to $4,000 tier.
ces.
A Visionary poet in an English magazine
talks OF "little mouth too sweet to Kiss"
Guess not
A man in London kept the body Of bis
dead daughter in the house seventeen day
until he could get up rattle opay the fur
tber expenses.
The Pennsylvania oil wells turned gu,
1925 barrels day last month.
The revenue authorities ct Washington
have decided that joo printers ere not lie
BILE to masufacturers' tsx, except on worl
which is sold BY them or BY others TO
their oeosunt.
Garrst Smith, Of New York. recently sole
$500 acres Of pine lands, situated in thu
counties Of Tuscola and Genesss. Michigan
for 932 per acre, or $lS5 900. These sam'
lands were offered about oas year ago fol
t25 per acre.
All Cutansous diseases, o. tan, freckles
roug hneas, sunburn, dryncss from cold o
heat, information, blotches. eruptione, yiel'
to the potency Of Burnetts Kaliiston.
Tho Southwestern Rolling Mill, At Chat
tanoega, has been closed in consequence
Of dull times until spring, and perhap
longer
Niagara has found rival in the viciori
falls on the Zambesl river, south Africa
which ara nineteen hundred ords wide at'
four hundred feet deep.
Last year two Germans purchased eight.
acres Of land in Southern Tennessee. Thi
season they gathered Strawberries enoug'
from four acres 10 pay for tho Who'll
tract.
Frank Leslie, o. New York, has sued til
proprie;ors ef the Boston Post for libel
clelmlng damages in the sum OF $4,000
fhe obnoxious paragraph stated that Mr.
Leslie had arrived at Klch6eld Syringe witt
a lady and two fast horses.
Qleen Victoria was charged 700 franc
FOR plain break fast by Swiss inn keeper
lie was demonstrated with on the groun,
that eggs we're plenty, but countersd with
"Yes, but sovercigns were scarce"
In New York city tho daily supply q
Cr,ton water is 10000. 900 Of gallons; Q
this. 19, 200 900 are used in houses. and 8,
100000 in manufacturing operations th
| remainder il wasted