Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-02-03
DAILY DEMOCRAT


The eder Of Burnstts Tloromsl 10 that Of
. choice boquet.
Rschers s.ceni sen 10 . clerk in .
French sas Office.
Burlinfame ana h. associates pay g.
| coo meth rent fl their Paris apart
ments.
Compressed csai is the latest novelty in
fuel.
| Florida las eighteen million acres rub
jest to lscaiien under the Homestead act.
Mrs. Mary Kyle Dallas has engaged to
write exslusivsly fer the New York Ledger
fer five years at 81 900 year.
Seventy five thousand eartes Dc visits Of
Mrs: Lincoln have been seld BY enc dealer
1t Frankfort On the Nan.
We learn from the Tswu Clerks report
that one death occurred in Hartford Conn.
last year frsn "ignsranss."
Tsrre Hauts haa fsliew named Dollar.
Whether . grssnbuck or grssnbaek the
paper fails to state.
The Philadslphia Press suggests that
the letter carriers in the city b furnished
with vslocipsdss.
A man in Adair county, Mo-, has been
| sent to the penitsntisry for two years for
| altering the mark on sheep.
The Louisville Courier Journel opposes
the practice Of giving medallions to Indians,
because they will melt them and make them
over into bullets.
Capsn, the Boston "wethsr prophet"
predicts that "the next ten days will be an
l. IL IF s.~
shaky localities"
The landlord Of the Iowa House, ct
Wapsllo, amuses his leisure hours BY dare.
ing JIG with his twenty first baby in his
arms.
A Troy clergyman says: "a wsshsrwo>
osn 10 an evidence Of civilization, and
the flag that futtsrs every Monday upen
the clothes line Is . symbol Of progress and
liberty"
An Austrian author asserts that Napo's-
on l. had Il illegitimsts children, Of whom
five are still alive. The Emperor Napoleon
III. supported nearly half Of them, while
be refused 10 do anything fer others.
A New Orleans court gave "a. 600 daus
eyes to boy whs vas injured while swing
ing on . neighbours gate, which broke dswn
With him.
At . vslseipsde expedition in Cincin>
natl. = little boy, nine years old. made half
. mile in one minute and ferty-nine sec
ends.
Said a youngstsr in high glss, display
ing his purchase to . bosom friend on the
sidewalk Tive cscsanuts for ten cents
that will make me sick tomorrow, and l
wAn't haya IA % II achoOl -
The New York Express says: "Ths
New York Tribune, it 10 said, divided $780,
0eO smeng its shareholders daring $685.
and its aggregate profits during the year
are said to have been q quarter Of . mil.
lion dollars"
The New York Wsrld 10 pushing its in.
vsstigati0n into the silk circles and finds
the most extensive and surprising frauds
both in length and weight Of the silk. Tn.
less the World rslents frem its persssu-
tions, it will drive the public to the con.
clusien that the newspaper business 10 the
only honest one there is.
The dairy interests Of the United States
employ capital Of $500 900, 900, while the
cheese prsduct Of last year was valued ct
$500, 900. and the butter product was
el00, 900 900, while there ere eight hun
dred cheese factories in New York State
/ alone.
The average attendance at the New York
Tammany Theaser since the first night, has
been about goo people, and nearly . third
Of these have dropped in after ten o'clock.
or after the other thca.srs were cut, thus
making Tammany asert Of night-cap, TO BE-
taken before going to bed.
Mr.. Sanford. Of Bethany. Conn, died
lately. Forty years ago he contracted a
habit Of net wearing hat, and, on rare oc
casions aimee, has net wern auy covering to
his head. He has been seen driving bis
OK team, hitched to load Of wood, through
Chapel street, in a cold February day,
without anything upon his head but its
natural covering.
D. Appleton 4 Co.. will shortly com>
mencs the publication Of . weekly Journal
Of popular literature, science and art. In
the first number, Victor Hugo's new 70
nance, "By Command Of the King" will
be commenced. The Journal will have
several original and distinctive features
and will be conducted with . view - to it,
value ~ an organ Of thought, - well u
70 the means Of supplying . varied, sound
and entertaining literature