The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1869-01-09
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A man OF fscruples-An apothecary.
NdAs4he post Of honor--ths whipping
Why ha horse like the letter o! Because
g maker II go.
Ralph Waldo Emerson will give series Of
readings In Boston thie wintsr, to : select class
He proposes TO read passages from various
authors. and comment upon them ~ he gees
along.
Tho City Of Still watsr, on the s Csoix River
Minn, il more romantically situated than
any Other western city. High blafh rise al
most perpendiculary fromthe principal streets.
These are ascended through vindink favinss
or BY lights OF stairs. Nest Of the private
residsnces are built on top ofthe bluhs.
'.Imagine." says correspoQbsnt - strest
lined With ba1insss houses, and : wooded bluG
rising abfup.lp fton iAr-at ths sigks deep
favine through which road cireuitously
winds, hyoo0 IT, ascaivity . stres'. then
villa with it, sloping lawn circumscribed BY
rocky 1solivitiss-A MOST billy, gorgsd, asd
unevea surface, wild and romantic, at oaee
Of 2 900 ard t,O00 inhabitants"
The speed STAINED by the swifter kind Of
velocipedss averages fron twelve TO thirteen
miles an hour; adopts find NO difficulty what
ever in acco nplshing fully fifty miles within
i've hours without ones alighting from their
vehicles. A coup sf amateurs. making tour
through part OF France challenged each other
- to which could perform the greatest dis
tanoe within foor and twenty hours One
gave In aftsr having accumplishsd eighty.
seven miles: the other went On an sdditiohA
six and thirty miles, making one hundred and
T.. IL al
pede, the limbs are not constantly in motion.
A slight impulsion given to the vehicle from
time to time sufices to keep up the speed.
IS said to be impracticable. When the rider;
therefore, encounters hill gilmore than aver
age steepness he has to dismount and lead his
vslosipede with his hand, which he. can do
with almost the same ease - he can carry an
ordinary walking stick. Although ono whssl
is directly in front of the other when in mo
tion there IL no moro tendency to all over
than il hoop, which viii procede perpendic-
ularly until il loses its momentum, or in
top or gyroscops, which tends 70 preserve it,
plane Of revolution. The almost universal use
Of velecipedes in the Champs Elysees, Paris.
after dark, has led 70 30 many accidents that
. police edict has been inucd compelling RI
ders Of these nachino 70 display : lighted
lantern.
Larkin @. Mead, the Vermont sculptor, has
married an Italian lady with large black eyes
and fair complexion. She has very queen
ly manner, and il much taller than her hus-
band She is just beginning to talk English.
A gossip tells that when Mead married her
she could not speak a word of English, nor he
. word Of Italian. All his friends in this coun-
try wers very much opposed to his marrying
An Italian woman, but he whispered that fhs
did 90 It dumb he didn'Hgo it blind. He
lived in the house with hsr for three years.
Mead is short and slender, and weighs less
than his young wife.
Gen. Edward II. Gtounghton late Of New
York, died recently 1t Boston. He is the
same who vas captured BY Mosby in 1868, and
about whom President Lincon 10 said to have
remarked; II dom tmiDd the brigadier-I can
make another one any time; but I'd like TO
get hees horses bsck-they cost 8 l26 apiece" J"
The writsr was in Stouhton's brigade at the
time Tho General was young, handsome, cd
scated and brave enough, but was unpopular
owing 10 his superabundAnce Of that quality
which sa611u19 koe1saGta ahAee s'srad taps"
At the time Of his capture he was st his head
quarters. which were several miles away from
His oommal d. for the reason, ~ they believed
that he could subsist more com fortably there.
He wss lawyer BY profession, and . son Of .
prominent Vermont psaitician.
The town Of Sauk Rapids, Mian., was once
An antedeluvian graveyard. Workmen have
recently found the remains Of giant imbed-
ded in solid granite. Tho skeleton measures
10 feet 81 inches in length, The circumfer-
ence of the head is SlA inches that of the
chest feet, lacking half an inch The fore
head is low. and the top Of the head fat. The
petrihcd bones weigh SO4 pounds. The old
gentleman, when in full flesh, must have turn
cd the scales at 900 pounds. The remains
wore found in grave IL feet long,7 fest be
low the surface, and 81 feet below the upper
stratum Of rock, The grave was covered by
large fat limestone rock. perfectly separated
from the surrounding granite. The relics have
bsen brought East.
The hotel keepers Of Harrisburg, ,pennsylva-
mia are notorious for their extortionate prices.
The following instance more than supports
their previous reputation. A gentleman from
New York stopping 1t the State Capitol Ho-
tel committed suicide there while labor
inE under temporary insanity. He had been
some two days tths house. but thsproprietor
pu. in claim Of $3.50 . she amount Of his
bill against the deceased. The family refused
to pay, the landlord raised his claim to $500.
ana mas ehtered eult against tne estate. II tne
man had lived his bill would have been some
eight or ten dollars; but the landlord claims
the rest on the ground that his death will
injure the reputation ofhis house.
England has coined 40, O0o. 900 gold sover-
igns and Ia, GOO, 600 gold half soverigns du-
ring the past ten yean about $2l6.OOo, 900.
These coins, piled one on the other, would
make golden column nearly IS miles nigh.