Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-07
DAILY DEMOCRAT,



L.avi.t, the Boston pest faneisr, ise1-
ploring the beds Of Minnesota.
The Appletons have ihirsy-sx new books
IN press.
Excessively bell crowned hats are threat
ened 10 Paris extfpring.
The Boston matrimonial mWks: is very
active.
aTns Grecisn bend has received the name
Of the Ash onsbls double-up."
TIE frst printing dore by steam vas the
issue Of the London Times for November
IS, 1914
A four-acre crop Of peaches in Paines'
vile. Ohio, has been sold oa the trees fcr
q, 700.
The servan. girls Of New York gave, .
few weeks ego, about 5000 Tor :hs
Pope's private pocket.
The peanut crop of North Csrolins thi'
year 10 represented TO be . hns one. Int
yield will be 100, 900 bushels.
Lady Franklin is staying 1t Bagners de-
Luchor. . watering place in the Appsnines.
She aceomplishes prodigies Of endurance
for an octogenarian.
Fashions latest novelty isa necklaces
made Of band of black velvet, fitting
tightly TO the throat, and onwhich are seen
small gold or gilt bells.
Afrm in Cleveland has sold four hun.
bred and sixteen thousand papers Of pop
essn during the last year.
Mr.. Henry Be-gh has written letter,
in which be states that the cattle plague u
mainly attributable to the bad treatment
which the cattle experience while IN tran
cit for market.
The Louisville Journal denies the report
that George ID. Prentice is poor, or that
be has been discharged from the editorial
staff of that paper.
Burnet,'s Stan lard Cooking Extracts are
carefully prepared from fruits and spices o.
the best quality, differing essentially frsr
all others
An old covered fiums in the cotton mill
at Middleton eugh Four Corners Mass val
recently opened and $40 eels were found
in it averaging ~, pounds each.
An observant sexton says that the 70
mains OF those who are buried With flowers
in the coffin invasiablv decay sooner than
the bodies Of those who are buried without
them.
For more than . century, 1t is said, su>h
heat has not been known 10 Paris in the
month Of September. a. IN 1868. On the
sth the ther nometsr indicated ninety de-
gress Fahrenheit.
A gentleman in Philsaelphia With quses
habit OF using an old stove for safe, put
tl35 in bills On deposit the other day. and
. few hours after bis wife cold the stsvs
and its contents 70 junk dealer.
Two new lines Of nilvay have been
opened this month il connection with the
Suez Canal. Hereafter passengers from
India coz 70 By rail from Alexandria Ia
Suex in ten hours.
An ice msnufacturing naehins has been
Introduced in the North German navy with
satisfactory results. and the Admiralty haa
given directions that no ship Of war shall
sail for the the tropics without one Of them.
The FIRST Partisan velocipeds hes made
its appearance in Central Park, and created
. sensation. II was . long, clpper-built
affair, running on two wheels, and went u
abe rate Of fifteen miles an hour over the
tsmoe,h. hard Park roads. In Paris, the
mail carriers are to ride on this swift con-
veyance, economizine time IN the suburban
delivery Of letters. 1t 10 proposed to intro
duce the same noble steed here in place Of
the horse, for equestrian purposes. 1t has
the advantage Of inexpsnsivensss, requiring
neither fodder, stable, nor grooming, and il
. gymnasium in itself. We shall soon
hear Of trips made from New York to Chi.
cage upon this animal.
Tins olored troops fough,ly nobly."
Ofeourse they did The radical papers eli say
90. But Why we're not the colored soldiers
invited 10 grand soldiers' and sailors
eonveeations such - have been recently
practicing frauds upon the country st Phila
delphia Either the eolored troops dldn ,
fght nobly. or those place holders, bum
mers and quartermasters now pumping
stage thunder into Radicalism in Phiidel-
phia are guilty Of gross injustice 10 thsr
African comrades in arms. How about this
A MINING broker. who has recently tax en-