The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-24
BRIEF MENTION.


The National Aid Society of England
has arranged to send a supply of cocoa
inc for the soldiers and sailors in Egypt
and the Soudan.
The states of Maryland, Alabama,
Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maine,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon
and West Virginia have never had lieu
tenant governors.
Five officers Of the German army are
going to the Congo for the purpose of
organizing the black soldiers of the ne
gro prince in that region on a European
military footing.
In Ceylon, at least, says Sir James
Tenant, 'leopards have strange fancy
for the flesh of smallpox victims, the
specific order of the disease seeming to
strongly attract them"
A dispatch from Topeka, Kan. says
information from all sections of the
wheat belt Of Kansas shows that the
winter wheat crop is very seriously dam
aged, and the contiued cold weather does
not present a very cheerful outlook for
that small part of the crop which is not
damaged.
A fire in an Iowa church was extin-
guished in novel manner by quick
witted druggist. The fire was raging in
the floor under the joists, and no water
was at hand He quickly mixed up
pailful of common soda in a lot Of sui
phuric acid and poured it down Suf-
fieient gas was generated Immediately
to extjnguish the flames.
There was mutual establishment when
the Rev. F. A. Vanderberg, of Utica n.
y, met committee from the Salem
Baptist Church. of Salem, Mass, at the
depot in that place the other day. He
had partly arranged to become their
pastor, but each side retreated when it
was learned that Mr.. Vandenberg was
white and the Salem Baptists were col
ored.
A New York fruit dealer says the
fruits of the Mediterranean are arriv-
ing in great abundance, owing to the
very large crops that have been gather
cred along the Mediterranean coast. Or
anges, lemons, figs, and dates are be-
coming almost a drug, and can be had
at almost half the price last year at this
time. Dealers are clearing out their old
stock at nominal prices.
Mme. Aurtreli, a well-known society
society belle in Paris, was arrested for
drunkenness. In defense she stated that
she read that the surest way of preserv-
ing furs from moths was to place them
in az empty spirit cask She according
" purchased one and in it put her cloak.
The weather being chilly she required
the garment, and the alcoholic fumes pro-
duced intoxication She was acquitted.
Near the close Of last year a Swiss
guide made wager with a wealthy
Briton that he could visit every country
in Europe during twelve months time,
and make the entire journey on foot.
The guides expenses are paid, and if
successful in the undertaking he will re-
cejve $4,000 prize money. He began his
tour on Jan. 1, and is now in Spain, hav-
ing visited Switzerland, Italy, France
and Portugal
There is in Schuyler cQaAty, n. Y,
young old man who, witSout apparent
cause, living plainly on q farm, has in
eighLsneyears passed through the physi-
cal naes Of four score. At the age of
six 10 BAD all the development of
strength and muscle usual in a lad of
fifteen. At twelve his beard was grown
and gray hairs appeared. Now, ct
eighteen, he is as decripit as an old man
Of eighty, and seems lettering on the