The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1869-01-17
GENERAL ITEMS.

-Finly, Ohio, is to have "buck-whest
soiree.n N8 fE
brooklyn, New York, il $ls, 800 225 90
in debt.
--Bowdoin. Colby and Bates Colleges, in
| Maine have total Of 226 students.
The average price Of gold in 1868 was
| 139. 81; in 1867 it WAS 1852.
The Oshkosh (Wis.) high school build
! ing has already cost $4,000.
"A s'Sardne Club has been formed at
Hartford, Conn.
! A Broadway store makes a speciality OF
renting wedding presents.
Thirteen persons we're lynched in Indi-
ana during the last six months.
Monogram kid gloves are the latest out
| in New York.
| Up to date there have been $500 bank
rupt cases in Virginia.
| Workingmen's organizations are rapidly
extending over Germany.
1.-THE Archimedean Motivity Of Hercu.
| lean Equilibrity" Is to be the title OF Daniel
Pratt s next.
The Evansville Indianal Opera House
has been closed. The lessee could not pay
| the rent.
1t is estimated that not one-eighth Of the
people Of the United States attend public
worship on Sunday.
louisville is to have Republican daily
next month
| Last year 2,4s2,OS6 bushels Of wheat
were exported from Winona, Min.
England is said to have discarded Arm.
strong guns, and returned to muzzle.loaders.
Printers in New York do not average
over Is years existence.
The Boston Post says that in Massschu-
setts sthe pFohib ihonists are ns&ips aTrasge-
ments for etidA wave q cold waaef." Ill
The chicago ,Adtaaee.. she orthodoxy
! $40, 900.
Besides regular wages, the lady clerks Of
a Boston whole.sie dry goods house get one
per cents on their sales. n
Boston went to 5.76O funerals. talked
about 1904 marriages and welcomed 1884 lit
tie Hubbites last year.
The cupola Of the Boston State House
was closed on last Friday. having been visi-
tied in 1875 days BY 1897 persons, or $50
lpersons day.
/ "A Menagsr ie man in Paris heeps :hia
money nthe cage Of hisinust ferucfous mn.
mails. He has never lost any.
to have made a fortune Of three-quarters Of
La million on the stage.
! in the city of Boston, women are taxed
upon SIS, o0O. 900 Of real estate, and $l3,-
GOO, 600 OF personal property @S
4 "A Nashville mechanic is said to have in
vented shooting machine, which heA calls
the "Polyfer, which will destroy regiment
of soldiers, distant mile and half, in four
minutes.
An officer of the Britt sh navy states that
from II years observation he has ascertain ed
that tremendous gales follow from IL to "a
hours after the appearance Of the auroea
boreAlis, -.
The mystic words, drop Weston" tel,
egraphed 10 biz Agmss y ~ 1saaesf Of the
New York Associated Press. vsre the real
J cause Of the failure d! the predestrisn be1r-
ing that name to accomph1 Ms last walking
J feat within the specified time.s 1855
Id liatls eperetta, sst;aled = Les Hu-
reus de la Gaefre,h ritiic1liqk The profession
Of arms, which hss hsd 4 gteat rnn in Pafis,
two German Grand Dakss, each 1t the had
Of four soldiers, resolve % 70 ~ war for the
possession Of : fair damsel. ..s.s...
!, THE Californisns look with conse np& spoa
y the new velocipsdeI They win do very
well,' nysaa editor, "for PAtis, shets many
people cannot aGbfd to keep boysesi md
con a not rids them very weh Mthey Aid,
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