Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-21
DAILY DEMOCRAT
CRNERAl. NEWS.

MEXICO is trying prohibitosy Law.
Ptussia wants Wor'd's Fair At Cologne.
JEFF Davis and family win winter in Nice.
Sriritusiism is said 10 flourish ia Mlehi-
gan.
saxs gets rich from his poetry and lee
turing.
The Herald is ssid 10 msks . clear prs6t
Of 81 600 . day.
The French penny papers haze the fastest
presses in the we.ld.
The Sun was the irst Newspaper printsd
in steam IN the United States.
The Herald 10 printed on both Hss and
0sllsek presses.
An Bsssss lssssrsr 10 On his "Asst an
nual lasswsll tour"
The salt mines Of Asetsia are worked ~
million ninsso.
0ulssaAa ~ ssssstsae oseeepoo vosts
sespia0 = ysar.
JAolseossy tos1nsss - tesn vesy pre-,
psssae ~ Wtssss. pssls ''sllll live
nusspeslsasa - - seaiag ~ 81 Of bio
'slllsrss q New Yssk."
TIE Daily News prints shout eight thou
sand copies daily.
Dirty Weman's Ranch 10 the name Of .
prospective metropolis in Colorado.
The vslocipeds il to have newspaper al
to itself, in New York.
Two Of the Nashville City Magistrates
and elk Common Ceuneilmen are cSlersd.
II IL said the Chinese centsnplate sp-
pointing missionaries 70 this eouatry.-
They are sadly needed.
Messrs. Lanthrop and Ludingten ars
compromising With their creditors ct sixty
ssnts % the dollar.
The GALAXY 10 sid to b the emily muga-
zine which constantly has "unparsllslsd
success"
Pssls. the great London tailor. is an
American, and used . 30 sseeud-rate
taller 10 Worcester. Mass.
Nesrs's Rsrsl New Yorker 10 the hand.
soonest agricultural journal 10 this country.
A Deelish0su hos isvsnlsd - appa-
resss fss warming The ksss sfan ss0an o.
pians.
Assy sffssstssa ~ ssssnG,y psssisd
q holly SSsis0D. Mass.. tss wsmss Of
shissy.tve.
II b ssid list go lsus. bsaetilsl blssk
whistles spas On BesadWsy nsv sssspisd
By the Hospital Lawn.
Aeeordingts FSgsss, there are more
than twsnty theussnd persons in Paris whs
sever wash themselves.
In California, after three wst winters
dfv one 10 on hsnd-and dry winter i'm.
plies ds6sisney Of csrials.
Seven thsatsrs in Paris are to be swept
away TO make room for the new Boulevard
d. Prinss Eugene.
The World has fos its agricultural sdit~,
Hon. T. G. Peters. practical farmer, and
ssrty years writer for the agricultural prss.
Philsdslphis hes three hundred and
eighty i've churches, which will not nearly
give sitting rson 10 oil lie people.
Ad Istssim, Of The Rsilroad Gazette says
humanity 10 divided into three sexes: The
male sex, the female sex. asd the Sssessx.
Miss Clara Anna Clark, female psdestri.
an. challenges ary man In Ameica - walk
enc hundrsi miles with her, On . wager Of
81 900 . eide.
The Society 70 Propsg.s. .h. Catholic
Faith last year received 81 .000. 900 Of which
nius-tsnths was from enc cent per week
subscriptions.
The Boston advertiser says philanthrs-
pists generally approve Of the new plan sf
dosing with chlsrsform, criminals about to
be executed.
An Ohio philanthrspist offered to give
I every poor widow IN his town . winter sup
ply tweed. il his tewnsmsn wosld turn
out and cut It, which they did.
Steve Mssssts hes fsvorits baIlsd called
when shall see Ny Darling Again ?"
That depends upon eircuustascss. Steve
should apply to the personal column Of The
Herald.
The sditsr Of the Galsns 0asstts offers
90, zoe worth Of eutstandisg accounts fos
$500. Who weuldn't b Newspaper man,
and do business zen tick :"
The crowd 10 90 great At DE-. Jshn Halle
church in New York, every Sunday, that
pew holders have 70 hang cut .ticksts
bearing the wsrd Tick %, like these at the
| theatre.
A Philadelphia surgeon, who WAS On his
way TO perform an operation on patient,
had his carriage robbed aad lost his surgi-
col Instruments while making . temporary
step, whereby" adds the reporter, 1.-THE
operation was prevented and the patients
life aaved,"