The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-21
BRIEF MENTION.

OCAJ Bay Q COl' ItLSLE5 -hi-1OIS, MILITARY
attache of the Chinese Embassy at Paris.
Garibald's statue, recently unveiled at
Pavia, Italy, represents him standing on
a rock, leaning on his sword, while a
lion is crOuChing at the foot of the rock.
The monument cost 80, 600 marks.
The Bishop of Lincoln, England, said
recently that England has been punished
by the Lord with bad harvests for the
past few years because some people have
been trying to legalize marriage with a
deceased wife's sister.
Mexico has several industrial schools
established by the government for bring
ing up the youth of both sexes and all
classes, without expense, to skill in
Payments, which will make them useful
in the community and add to the resour-
ces of their country.
The death recently of Mrs. Kile, of
Richmond, Pa, at the age of SO, left
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Kile, triplets,
orphans at the age of seventy-twO. The
triplets have nine brothers and sisters
living. Their father died about four
years ago, after seventy-five years of
married life.
The Indian school at Carlisle, Pa, now
has 495 pupils, 325 boys and 1870 girls
Nearly half of these work on the farm
and the rest in the shops. A lot of things
manufactured there Were sent to the
Rosebud agency, including seven good,
solid wagons, two for the agency and
five for chiefs.
OF ninety-six railroads in the state of
New York only fifteen paid dividends in
1888. The total capital stock of the rail
roads is 1928, 718, 595, and the total
amount of dividends paid was$15, 074, ia
or about 2 per cent of the capital. Farm
property presents fayorably contrast to
such a showing.
The Attorney General of South Caro-
lima has given his opinion adverse to the
payment of the $500 reward offered for
'the apprehension and conviction" of
Began Cash, as the terms of the prOclama
tloh under winch the reward was offered
were specific, and under no other cir
Cumstances could the reward be paid
Rivington is perhaps the only street in
New York named for a newspaper man,
and he was the Tory editor in the Revo-
luton who made his peace with Wash
ington toward the end by furnishing him
with information. He could not, how
ever, make the soldiery understand it,
and they closed his publication out.
The number of cattle that have been
shipped through Fort Worth, Tex, this
year is very heavy. Up to the present time
one railroad has brought in over 100
trains since the season commenced, and
before it closes over 200 trains will have
come III on this road. This shows an ad-
vance OF 1OOper cent over the cattle traf-
tic Of this road during last year, as only
1O8 trains We're recorded for that entire
season.
In Swansea. Wales. during 4 recent
bank scare. an old woman drew S450
from "A savings bank and hid it in a sack.
Not long after the sack became filled
with wheat and was taken to the mill
Then she remembered that the gold was
in the bottom of il. and rushed franticaIIv
after it, reaching the mill only in time
to hear the miller profamely wondering
aloud what allied the wheat that it clOgg-
ed the stones so. The machinery was
stopped and all the gold recovered,
though in a much battered state.
The Russian general Saronoyich con-
ceived a plan for enabling cavalry regi-
men,s to cross rivers without making
bridges or seeking fordable places. His
soldiers carried rubber bags. which were
attached to the saddles on each side and
Inflated as soon as the horses reached the
Water. The experiment resulted in q
Queer discovery. When the horses found
themselves buoyed up they refused tc
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