The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-07
BRIEF MENTION.

At Bellefontaine, O., baby was left
on the steps of the residence of Joseph
Chambers, the other night, and he and
Mrs. Chambers adopted it. They already
have seventeen children, every one
adopted.
The recent Papal encyclical against
the Free Masons is aimed at no less than
8,065 lodges throughout the world,
with IA, 100, 543 members, whose annual
receipts are estimated to amount to
about 1890, 900, 900, of which sum fully
two-thirds are expended in charities.
Last week, when abOunt to break up
for the holidays, Mr.. Sturgeon dismiss
ed his young men with a caution. Don't
get counting. That is not good for stu
dents. Come back as some one puts it,
with your hearts and manners uncracked
Walk in the fields like Isaac, by all
means, and mediate, but don't lifet up
your eyes for Rebecca. She will come
soon enough"
The cry of '1eprosy" again comes
that twenty-five Asiatic Iepers have been
gathered together in one of the city hos
pitfalls, and forty-eight lepers have been
shipped to China, and that still there has
been no thorough search for lepers in the
community. The same journal asserts
that there are hundreds of lepers in the
city making shirts, rolling cigars, and
cooking food for Caucasians.
A fiddle upon which Washington used
to play is now in the possession Of Col.
J. Washington, and an effort is being
made to raise $500 to purchase it, that
it may be placed in Miss GUSTS music
room, at Mount Vernon, where are al
ready the harpsichOrd presented by the
General to Miss Gusts on her wedding
day, and the flute upon which he used to
accompany her.
Capt Welfare, master of the bark Oak
land, which arrived at Port Madison,
w ashington Territory, from San Pedro,
tells the following story as fact: when
in latitude 35o north, longitude 1877
west, we captured a female shark that
had been following the vessel for some
time This shark measured eleven feet
in length, and upon being cut open was
found to contain forty-seven young sharks
each about one foot in length, and four
live suckers about ten inches long"
Before NJ Grevy became president he
was a neat careless sort of a man, with a
bald head, shaven chin, and closely
trimmed whiskers, and looked eminently
respectable. The only reprehensible
things about him were his hat and hands.
He always wore a wide-awake instead of
the OthodOx Chimney-pOt, and he es-
chewed gloves. If his hands were cold
he put them in the pockets of his trou-
sers. Latterly he has allowed his beard
to grow, and is almost always attired in
evening dress, with the edge of his scar
let Gordon peeping over his waistcOat.
The aged Count Zowaski, who is trav-
cling around the country in search of a
livelihood, was among the dodgers at the
Worcester (Mass.) Police stationon Tues
day night. He claims to be ninety three
years old and a native of Poland. He
says he fought under Napoleon at Aus
terlitz, Leipsic and Waterloo, and claims
to have taken part in a number of his
tOrical European events. In 1851 he came
to America, and resided in Pennsylvania.
During the civil war he served in the
101st Pennsylvania Regiment, being then
over seventy years old. He is on his way
to Boston.
The Rev. DR.. Goodwin, of Quincy, Ill.
was a delegate to the Methodist EpiscO-
pal Conference at Philadelphia, and left
home with a draft on the Marine Bank OF
New York, because he thought it more
convenient than currency. Before his
pocket money was exhausted the Marine
Bank had suspended. He returned the
draft to Quincy for better funds, and re
ceived a check on the Metropolitan Banl
of New York, but the day of its arriva
the Metropolitan closed its doors. Not
discouraged up to that point, DR.. Good
will again returned his check tothe Quin
cy hank, but by the time it reached hi
home the Quincy concern had collapsed
and the minister found himself pennies
in a strange city. The facts were laiC
before a gentleman, and money enough
to take him home was advanced.