The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-03
BRIEF MENTION.

Three hundred thousand pairs of roller
skates, it is stated, are manufactured in
this country each month.
Col. Ingerson was asked to reveal the
secrets of oratory, and said: use small
words to express the idea, and be sure
the idea overlaps the word at both ends"
1t was Napoleon Bonaparte who said
when the conquest of the Chinese was
proposed to him: mo; there are too
many Of them. Once teach them the
art Of modern warfare, and they will
overrun Europe and crush out our civil
ization."
A Kansas farmer is the proud father
Of twelve children. He has bestowed
names upon the six oldest children. but
the other are as yet nameless. and are
designated and distinguished by num-
bcrs The idea back of this rather novel
arrangement is to allow the children
when they arrive at years OF discretion
to choose names satisfactory TO them
selves, and not to compel them to go
through life with name fastened to
them that they abhor.
A New York lawyer received a lesson
ia law at police headquarters in that city
on Saturday. He had hired a truckman
to remove some furniture, but on reach
ing his destination the latter refused to
unload until he had been paid, and car
ricd the furniture to the police headquar-
ters to be stored. The lawyer was evil
IDENTIFY surprised when he learned that
under am existing ordinance he could
not compel the truckmaL to deliver his
goods until the carriage had been paid.
William Waldorf Aston made himself
very unpopular with the Americans in
Rome. He gave two receptions last win
ter, one to the diplomatic and prominent
officials at Rome and the next one was
exclusively to Americans The Ameri-
cans cared nothing about meeting each
other and were very anxious to meet the
diplomats It is also said that the for
eigners were not averse to meeting the
leading Americans who were there.
They call the two receptions the separa-
ton Of the sheep from the goats.
Dom Pedro wants Capt Eads to go
down to Brazil and tell him how to i'm
prove the port Of Rio Grande du Sui. II
would be a great undertaking, because
of the length Of the estuary and the dan
gerous bar at its mouth, but a good har-
Dor there would do much to develop the
resources of Southern Brazil, and the
Emperor doubtless is not unaware of the
great military advantage it would give
him when the long-threatened conflict
with the Argentine Republic for Uruguay
can no longer be postponed
Mr. Tortat, an EpiscoDalian missionary
at Gettysburg, has resolved on raising a
memorial church, which shall not conf
memorate the triumph Of the federal
arms, but be "a tribute to Him who out
os strife has brought reunion, and in
honor of those Whom either side of the
fierce conflict attested the strength of
their convictions by the surrender of
their lives" The stones will nearly all
be inscribed with the names of those
who fell during the civil war OF these
many have already been. contributed.
Internally it will be finished with encaus-
tic tiles, bearing also memorials of the
brave.
\ citizen of Pipesville, o., writes to a
New York paper of discovery he made
in regard to the distance the sun is from
the earth. The gentleman is evidently
sincere. He says: 7 measure the same
way that we measure the height of tree
while standing, and, being about 5000
miles north of the equator, by taking a
spirit-level and a carpenters square,
find the distance to the sun is just 5000
miles from the equator, or, in other
words, 5000 miles from the earth. l also
claim that the earth is stationary, and
the North Pole is the centre, and the sun,
moon and stars travel around it. By my
measures the sun is 100 miles across the
face"
The report on the day census of the
City Of London states that the number of
passengers entering the city during
twenty-four hours via the four most inn
portant thoroughfares are as follows:
London Bridge, 7S;943; Holborn, 81, 222;
Whitechapel or Aldgate High street,
1905: Temple Bar, 1913. 1t is assum-
ed that about the same number leave the
city in twenty -four hours as enter it, and
that about so per cent of the passenger
traffic both ways is on foot Therefore
the total foot traffic passing to and fro
daily via the four above mentioned prin-
cipal entrances reaches the following
enormous numbers: London Bridge
t26,309; Holborn, IS, 355: Whitechapel OIL
Aldgate High street, 79.04s; Temple Bar