The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-11
BRIEF MENTION.

1t is calculated that the cholera scarce
kept rs, 600 visitors out of Paris last year
Mr.. Conner, Jay Gould's partner, dis
claims that there is any engagement be-
tween himself and Miss Nellie Gould,
who is scarcely fourteen years of age.
A rile-shooting match of an interest
ing character is shortly to come off in
India. The Viceroy and his staff are to
shoot against the commander-in-chief
and his staff
Mrs. Langtry has put another 1000
into New York real estate, nOtwith-
standing the recent statement that she
can't act worth a cent. That makes
$3.50 she has sailed in New York in
that way.
The Connecticut Senate has passed the
bill providing State bounty of ten cents
for any person planting, protecting and
cultivating elm, maple, tulip, ash, bass
wood, oak, black walnut, hickory, apple,
pear and cherry trees, not more than
sixty feet apart, for three years, ON any
public highway.
Despite the dull and hard times, in the
New York savings banks there has been
n net increase of resources in 1884 of
about S6, $50, 900, while the number of
accounts opened or reopened exceeded
those closed by IT, 1884 The expense ac-
counts of the banks are reduced some
$4,000.
The passage of the new penal code in
the Minnesota Legislature recalls the
fact that the last hanging in Minnesota
was in 1875 This was when Minnesota
was a Territory. Heretofore the pass
age of a death sentence was left to the
option of the court but no judge has
ever exercised that privilege.
Naval Cadet Tilton, late of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, and now in the
Chinese service, commanded the only
Chinese vessel that captured French
vessel in a late conflict. Captain Tilton
was thereupon made commander in the
Chinese navy. Ex-Naval Cadets Spald-
ing and Tenant are going to China, also
TO enter the Chinese navy.
Prof. E. G. Marshall says in New
York exchange: 81 have had occasion
lately to read up in French everything
that could find on the subject of bridg-
es. / discover that the French have
more suspension bridges than any nation
on the globe. Their engineers are put
ting up suspension bridges everywhere,
and at least one of the structures APP
proximates to the size of Brooklyn
bridge. So numerous are such bridges
in France that it is impossible to secure
an accurate list of them on this side of
the water
One of the most remarkable oils yet
discovered is that found in the Arago oil
basin in Wyoming Territory. In shaft
put down on the east side of Bath creek
to a depth of twelve feet, oil flows in ex-
ceptionally high specific gravity. 1t is,
Nyhen first exposed, of a brownish color,
and can be cut with knife like soft but
ter. 1t gradually turns black on expo
sure. 1t has little odor when it first
comes from the shaft. though what es-
capes on the south side of the adjoining
ridge has a slight pungency. which it
loses on exposure.
Mr.. David Dudley Field in his lecture
on THE Nomenclature of Cities ard
Towns in the United States" objects to
the classical names of Troy, Utica and
Syracuse as applied to modern cities no
less than to the barbarous and utterly
unmeaning names so often given to viii
lagos in the mining districts of the far
West. He advises American sto cling to
the euphonious and musical Indian
names so far as possible, and although
town" at the end of the founders name
might do, willie is not to be tolerated,
being French and utterly inharmonious.
A New York firm applied to Abraham
Lincoln some years before he became
President as to the financial standing of
one of his neighbors. Mr.. Lincoln re-
piled as follows: ''Yours of the 10th in
slant received. l am we'll acquainted
with Mr.. -, and know his circum-
stances. First of all. he has a wife and
baby, together they ought to be worth
$50 900 to any man. Secondly, he has
an office in which there is a table worth
81 so. and three chairs worth say 81.
Last of all, there is in one corner large
rat-hole, which will bear looking into.
Respectfully yours, A. Lincoln"
A fatal duel has just been fought by
two military officers at Cologne. The
weapons chosen were pistols, and it was
arranged that firing should go on till one
or the other of the combatants should be
wounded. Seventeen shots were in fact
interchanged, when Baron Won Willie, a
second lieutenant of the Sixty-ffth In
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