The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-01
Brief Mention.


1t has been decided that the in
scription placed upon the bust of
Beaconsfeld, in Westminster Abbey,
shall be simply: "Lord Beacons-
field, twice Premier of England"
"Avoirdupois sociables" are the
rage in Pottawattomie county, Iowa.
Each young lady is weighed on en-
tering the dining-room and her es-
cort pays for her supper at the rate
of half cent pound on her weight.
Blaine newspapers in New York
are actively asserting that Arthur
cannot carry the State, and Arthur
organs are quite as persistent in de-
claring that Blaine would lose New
York. The World emphatically
afirms that both are correct.
Gen. Simon Cameron said to a
visitor the other day: 81 have no
purpose to serve in politics. | am
taking no part in any way in politi-
cal movements, and there is nothing
I could say that / know of which
would do anybody any good. ]
served my term. l want TO rest
now"
Mrs. .Stonewall Jackson told a
friend in Chattanooga the other day
that she had talked with numerous
old Southern soldiers who had
fought the war through and who
she knew would respond as quickly
to the call Of arms to protect the
Union as they did in 1861 to severit.
People along the Northern Pacific
Railroad hope to get a water supply
from artesian wells. At Miles City
water has been found at a depth of
BAL feet; at Billings, $50 miles fur
Their up the Yellowstone, a well has
been sunk 900 feet without success,
and is still going down, and at Hele-
ma there is more experimental boring.
A few days after the fall of Sedan
Bismarck received from his countess
a letter, from which he read: 81 fear
that you will not find any Bibles in
France, and, therefore, shall send
you the Psalm-book, so that you
may read the prophecy against the
French-I say to you the goddess
shall be exterminated.'"
A Frenchman has suggested the
following method of detecting in
fernal machines: All luggage to be
placed on wooden tables supported
by iron feet, but not nailed to them.
A microphone to be placed on each
of the tables, when any ticking or
-Qher noise proceeding from the lug
gage would at once become audible.
Arrangements are being made in
New York City whereby all passen-
gers and their baggage will be land
ed at the customs barge office instead
Of at the several steamship docks as
heretofore. The steamship agents
object to this change as incommo-
ding the companies, but at the same
thing is done across the water the
authorities claim that there is no
reason for complaint.
Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira,
al amateur clergymen and journal
ist, is trying to attain something of
the notoriety of his big brother,
Henry Ward Beecher. He has lately
publicly advocated the entire pro-
priety and even desirability of sui
eide under some circumstances, and
now he thinks it is not wrong to
hire ignorant men to vote the right
ticket.
There is great excitement among
Catholics in Canada over the rumor
that the Pope has ordered the clio
sing of Laval University and its law
and medical branches, because of
the expenditure of over 100000
of church funds without reaching a
self-supporting basis, The arch
bishop of Quebeck has started for
Rome to secure a rescindment of
the mandate.
In French Algeria the work of
exterminating wild beasts is making
rapid progress The number killed,
for which rewards were paid by the
Government, rose from 647 only in
1881 10 1656 in tho follOUiDo war