The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-03
Brief Mention.


Why dosen't O'Donovan Rosa
go to England and manipulate the
Dynamite in person?-Chicago
Herald.
Evidently Father Kelly wants the
United States to wrap the drapery
of protection about it and lie down
to rot in eternal isolation Chicago
News.
An English soldier sentenced to
death, while on the march to the
place of execution, complained of the
man in front of him for not keeping
step to the music. He said the most
disagreeable thing, next to being
hanged, was to see a soldier march
ing out of time.
The President of Mexico went in
to Office four years ago poor. He IS
now worth four million of dollars
He must evidently have studied the
lives and followed the example OF
John Sherman, Blaine and other
Republican patriots who went into
office poor and came out as he did.
One of the "infant industries" of
the Northern communities which
seems to be fourishing is the base
ball business. The best paid man
on the Boston team is Morrill,, whose
salary is 5000. Whitney gets $500;
Hornug, Hackett, Hines and Sutton
$4,000; Burlington $1,7OO and the
other regulars smaller amounts.
The first cotton exported from
America was a lot of eight bags sent
to Liverpool just 100 years ago, and
the customs authorities detained it
awhile because it was reckoned i'm
possible that so much could have
been raised here. The crop last
year amounted to 6,949, 1855 bales, of
which 4,766,597 were exported.
Some of the English medical jour
nails have already begun to point out
the great Importance of not over
feeding infants with starchy foods,
such as bread, farina Cruel, etc, as
the warm season approaches. Ac-
cording to authorities like Sir James
Paget, such overlooking is a fruit
full cause of the large infant NOR
tally in warm weather. The one
article most necessary to the life of
the child at all times is water.
Recent Roman Catholic statistics
show that in England the numeri-
cal strength Of that church has
nearly trebled during the last forty
years, while in America the increase
is more than tenfold. The United
States is, in fact, the more promising
portion of the Pode's spiritual do
main. There are 7,628,l7G Catho-
lies this year, against 736,36O in
1910. The aggregate includes all
nominal Cacholics and baptized
children.
The Polytechnic states that the use
of paper towels in cleansing wounds
has been found very satisfactory.
Sponges have always been regarded
with suspicion by surgeons, as it is
difficult to keep them in perfectly
purified condition. But the paper
towels are to be used once only, and,
as they cost only from Sc to $3.50
per 1000, avail BILE in the sick room.
They are from 4,Yan, and the pale
colors with which they are decorated
are found to be unobjectioable
An old and skilled New York
physical, when interviewed on the
hot ", 'er craze, said: at has long
been used. 1t is an internal wash.
nothing more or less. AS such it is
excellent. An old trainer of prize
fighters used to tell ME about it be.
fore had even heard of it elsewhere
He said he had cured everything
from toothache to rheumatism Will
it. My lady patients often beg me
to prescribe it for them, and l very
often do so-sometimes because
think it likely to do good, and some
times because l don't thing it vii
do any harm"
The costliest pulpit in the worli
is said to be that which is to be con
e. Il L I