Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-06
GENERAL NEWS.

No unpleasant eiiec arises frcm the use
Of that delicate ard ,efresaing Perfume,
Burnetts Florime.
The Oregon State Fair vas held last.
week At Salem. There WAS fine exhibition
OF stock. The Fair was greater success:
than E, any previous period.
A boy in Ohio tried 10 see hcw nea. Re
could stand 70 passing railway train. The
poor fellow probably knows, but he vas eat
to pieces and had his brains .pettcrad cut
IN finding out.
Out Of $685. conscripts Of France dur
ing the present year, 2lg.0c7 can read and
write, 7,o79 can read oaiy, 6o,266 can d,
neither, and no information was gathered as
TO 6,o02.
Speaking oiths high price.of beef, Pill.
adslphia paper says that the same steers i've
years ago would have believed for joT AZ
bringing one half the present rates.
A Rhinebeck On. " woman was had
TO pay fine for profanity. VIVA, a big
fund the State would accumulate if all the
male swearers in il were treated in Ike
manner.
A number OF Episcopal ministers have
founed a mutual insurance league in New
York, in order to secure the lives ofclergv-
men against want.
The stock OF bullion in the leadirg banks
Of Europe at the close ofJuly amounted 10
the enormous sum of $639, 200 an in
crease Of 81 200, 900 in two months.
A grape vine in Jonchecy, France, 6lty
four years old. has yielded three tons
weight of grapes this year. The stem IS
go feet long, and the branches cover space
Of 200 square feet.
Conscientious shignon builders now bell
their hair as o prscaution against gregarinss
The 'varmints' are believed to be greatly
amused by thu operation. A bath in blas
vitriol, il is asserted, will reach their case.
Two lottery-crazed fools at Danbury,
Conn., recently sent on their tickets for a
5000 watch that they had been informed
they had drawn. The received a package,
paid twelve dollars and fifty cants on il.
ard found in it some worthless pieces of
brick.
A voung Albany girl, after receiving the
attentions Of young man for several
months abruptly asked him when he in
tended to marry her. The young man said
be was not on the marry. She then broke
tea pot filed with boiling water over bis
head.
An exchange says that scientific men
have been taking observations and making
comparisons with other seasons, aud have
given their opinion that the coming winter
Will set 10 sooner and be longer and more
severe than any which have preceded i. fer
many years.
The New York Insurance Monitor SAYS
that there are secret organizations now ex-
is,ing in the North, whose mission it is to
intmidate men and destroy property, and
warns insurance companies to be on Their
guard.
Most OF the tavorite mecharicai TOYS are
invented by the man who cot up walking
dolls. From these dolls en- immense income
was derived: they were thought cut bv
him while a poor man, watching nigh. sad
day by the bedside Of a manise wife, wio
died just a. the Iaemen. Of hls success.
A Partisan arts. has discovered pre-.
cess for taking Photographs by which the
glazing the paper RI the white OF EGGS
is dispensed with. Tie Photograph has a
much greater so.tness rpon the dull paper,
and photographs taken from ercravings are
stinGuishab'e from tie All 1ua's. The
glaze that hitherto 2. ays bcrsyed &c
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