Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-03-08
.|DAJLY DEMOCRAT
GENERAL NEWS.

Burnstt's Extract Lemss and Vanilla are
Is fresh as the fruits. Houseksspers would
do we'll 10 tes, their superiority.
4 Hindeo gentleman, just dscsasd, has
left 81, 600 to his family idol.
There are twelve treupes Of "0risinsl
Christy NJ. nstrsls" in England.
Mr. Cyrus W Field has gone 10 Nice for
the benefit Of his health.
The police 81 An Ohio town advertise that
II will wake up persons whs want to
leave by early trains.
A man died in Scotland lately by msrti.
6cation, from running . needle into bis
thigh in sitting down.
Bierstadts picture Of . seeaes 10 he
Rocky Mountains. has just bssa ssld 10
Psris fss 100000 francs.
Il il rumsrsd that trained deg are eosn
TO b introduced to held Up ladies' long
dresses on vet days.
Massachusetts, makes enc hundred nil
lion dollars worth Of bsets and shoes an
nuslly.
The State Of Alabama gives %. COO. 70 the
| widow Of each person asssssinsted in that
State.
George Francis Trains real estate in
Omsha has risen 1900 per cent since
pur chased.
II has been found by careful measurs<
mens, that Lake WinneDissoges 10 exactly
Eve hundred feet above the level OF the sea.
No banking or msrchantils house in
Eng and but the Bank Of England is allow
Cd to use paper with water mark.
It costs English railroads one and three
quarter million dollars to pay fer personal
injuries done in one year.
London editors write their currant peit-
ical leaders in the Parliamentary chamber
while listening to the debates.
The female teachers efSan Francisco are
married Ut more rapidly than their places
ean be properly supplied.
II 10 safe rule in Richmond says the
Inquirer. 10 address gentleman - "Col
enel" when you do not ksew bis name.
Debates in the Louisiana Legislature are
conducted partly in English. partly in
French and sometimes in German.
Ofthe 10000 shopnsn in Paris, no
more than hundred earn $1,000 . year,
though they work fsem twelve . seven
teen hours . day.
The New York Tribune Almanac fer
1863 has advanced e ito fourth edition.
and many Of its earlier sfrsrs have disap>
| pssrsd.
In one window in Trinity Church, New
Haven, there are ten thousand pieces Of
stained glass, each prepared end cut sspa
ratsly.
The sheriff in Glasgow has decided that
an omnibus proprietor 10 not bound to
carry . sweep or baker in bis working
clothes.
The volunteers in Great Britain number
100, 900 men, aud the Government contrib
utss 81 900, 900 towards the general q
pensss.
| Mr.. VIM. Hamlin, Of Providence, 10 now
o. years cid, and has bssn . mason for 81
years He 10 put down - the oldest mem.
Der in the United States.
One Of the soldiers Who shet Marshal
Nsy, in 1915, died On the lat Of January,
1868, at the advanced age Of ninety tive
years. at the poor house.
Golden bracelets, anklsts and rings we're
recently found in the stomach Of . crocs>
die ct Agra.
A writer who enjoys handling huge fg.
ures, estimates the amount Of human
blood wasted, up to date. BY the wars Of
the whole world, at 200 pipes.
J Owen Moore, Of Albany, has invented
. key for FIRE alarm boxes which may Be
distributed in large numbers without dan,
ger Of false alsrms. Each key can be used
but once.
The editor of the Talladsgs lAla.l Re
porter had the ore dug FROM his ewn land
last week, the ore made int iron. the iron
into plows, and the plows running before
tho end Of the week.