The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-06
BRIEF MENTION.


Senate and five in the House-making
total Of 147 members in all.
London contains the Oldest Dutch Re /
formed church in the world. 1t is built !
near the Bank of England, and was built
in 1913 by the Earl of Hereford and |
Essex. The material is stone and the
style Gothic.
An old woman was picked up on New
ark avenue, Jersey City, recently, by a |
policeman She said she was eighty
years old, the widow of William Dwight |
who helped Horace Greeley to get out
the first copy of the Tribune. She is des-
titute and without friends.
During the first year of the Crimean
war the value of exports Of farm products
of this country increased from 1888, 800, 900
the previous year to $4,000, 900. The
following year the value was $40, 500, 900,
and in 1856 we exported breadstuffs
amounting to ST. 686, 455.
Mr. Villas Office in the Postofice De
partment building is the least attractive,
it is said, Of the rooms occupied by Cab
met officials. 1t is small and has no
ornaments of any kind One or two
chromos, sent out by steamship compan-
les, hang on the wall beside steel engrav-
ings of ex-Postmasters General The
carpet is red and worn.
The taIlest chimney in the world is
that of the Towneley works at Port Dun.
das, near Glasgow, Scotland, which is
built of brick and stone, and is 454 feet
in height. 1t is circular in form. The
highest stone chimney IS octagonal in
form, stands 381 feet in the air, and is
located in Halifax, England, In Rouen,
France, there is an iron chimney 219 feet
high which was riveted together and
afterward lifted into place with a crane.
The old chained Bible was recently re-
placed in the position it originally occu-
pied on Cranmer's desk in Canterbury
Cathedral. The Bishop of Dover officia-
ted, and said it gave him great pleasure
to replace the volume in the position in
witch it was chained in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth at the time when Bibles
of the same edition were placed in cath
edrals and deans houses throughout the
country. The hook had been temporar-
lily removed pending repairs TO the anci-
ent frame.
Elias Bisharah Fawwaz, a Syrian thir-
ty-lmee years Of age, and a subject of
the Sultan Of Turkey, has just put upon
record in Philadelphia his intention of
becoming an American citizen. The
Record Of that city says: "Mr Fawwaz
is the first one Of the Sultan's subjects
who has ever renowned his allegiance in
the courts Of this county. His signature to
this declaration was scarcely distinguish
able from ordinary shorthand.
There are plenty Of dirty faces to be
seen in the streets of Dublin, says a Lon
don paper, and yet Lady Morgan was
right in saying that the Dublin folks are
the "most seabathingest as well as car
drivingest people i'm the world" In the
summer bathing is the order of the day.
The Irish girls are far more courageous
swimmers than their English sisters :;
they take to the water like ducks, and
dive float and swim rs to the manor
born. Crowds flock to the water, and
lines of bathing places stretch along the
coast as far as Bray.
Although Costa RIGA is burdened with
public debt of about $40 per capita of
her population, the government supports
university and public schools in every
city and village. The schools are free,
except an enrolling fee Of s. for each
pupil annually, and teachers are paid
from $50 to $50 per month. In total
population of 100000 there are 50, 900
children enrolled. and the average daily
attendance last year was 66 per cent.
Between the ages of eight and fourteen,
attendance is compulsatory, but above
the age Of fourteen the pupil may attend
not only the public schools but the uni
yersity free of charge.
English oonsols, which have of late
been the most watched quotation on the
3htti hSta vi tue NOIlAs stiilouht III value ~
50, 500, 00o, coo, on which the annual in
terest is $4,000, 900. They constitute a
perpetual obligation of the United King
dom, bearing 3 per cent interest and rep
sesenting an irredeemable principal. For
seven years back they have not been
quoted as low as at present, their fluctua-
tions being confined to between 80 and
100 The idea of the eonsol, and where
in it differs from our national debt. is
that the principal may vary in amount,
but the interest never. The word con-
sui, 10y the way, is an abbreviation of
consolidated annuities."
@. J. JosEPU, c. e. WA. NJ. HUssON, c. E.
City Eng'r Il Co. Surv'r. Architect