The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-11
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ted from Florida, will be used for
trimming bridal robes in New York
City during Easter week.
Large numbers of Cinnamon are
emigrating from the Pacific coast to
Southern cities, where they will
work in their historic occupation
washing.
Fort Ross, Sonoma county, Cal,
with a population averaging from
fifty to 100 persons, has not had a
death since it's settlement, thirty
years ago.
Julien Sherman, an English wri
ter, has written a book which bears
the very pungent title, GA Cursory
History of Swearing" He comes
to the conclusion that swearing is
going out of fashion.
Alfred Chadwick yoked his wife
to pillow with steer, for which
Judge Jennison, of Detroit, gave
her divorce. He insisted that he
only followed the general usage
among the market gardeners of
Western Canada.
The Paris Figaro declares that if
Americans do purchase pictures in
great quantities and at reckless pri-
ces, they, nevertheless, purchase
good CUES 1t estimates that $4O,-
100000 have been spent in France
for pictures by Americans during
the last twenty years.
The death at Cairo of the mother
of the Khedive is a matter of some
political Importance She was of
humble origin, but she exercised
considerable influence over her son.
She had tendency to superstition,
but in spite of this she often dis
played considerable common sense.
A Boston firm adyertises book of
dialect poems, written on
the rail" Dialect poets have accu-
muIated so rapidly within a few
years that we are not surprised to
hear that one of them has been rid
den on rail. He may consider
himself lucky that he escaped the
tar and feathers.
A woman strolled into Tuckahoe,
n. j., the other day with rifle
sIung over her shoulder and created
a sensation among the town loung-
ers by shooting the ashes from CT
gar held in a mans hand. She
wanted the same party co give her
shot by holding it in his mouth,
but he declined
A curious bathing establishment
is about to be erected near the Sea
Beach Hotel at Coney Island, New
York. The structure will be in the
shape of a whale, and about the
size of the Elephant Hotel The
building will rest on the sand, the
entrance being at the tail, while the
bathers will make their exit to the
water through the mouth. A res
taurant will form principal feature
of the interior, and a steam-engine
for drying suits will be so arranged
that the escape steam shall seem
like the "spout" of a whale
The newest thing in incubators is
one that matches out the little chick
ems by the aid of electricity. The
nest or basket is filed with fine hay,
upon which the eggs are laid. The
cover is thick layer of soft down,
attached to a round box containing
coils of wire. These are heated by
an electric current, whose tempera-
ture is regulated by a thermometer
placed on the cover. When the
heat becomes too great the rise OF
the mercury cuts the coils out OF
the circuit and allows them to cool
All the attention required is tc
sprinkle and turn the eggs once each
day.
An Ohio congressman gives the
Washington correspondent of the
Brooklyn Eagle an interesting &C
count of the eccentricities of jus
tice in Cincinnati. Any man who
reads the testimony taken before {
coroner in Ohio becomes thereby in
elepible as \ iurOr unOn the trial OF