The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-22

city council to put the sewers down III
Reid and Lemon streets, and the arrests
were made without the shadow Of au-
thority, as was demonstrated by the
prompt discharge OF the gentlemen when
the facts were made known in court.
The Tampa Tribune thus comments on
Palatka's productions: ave have just
received copy of Life and Adventure
in South Florida, by Andrew P. Can
ova, published by the Southern Sun
Publishing Company Palatka, Fla. It
is a neatly and well gotten up pamphlet
of 1856 pages. Part l. contains Reminis-
cences of Trip Through the Everglades
and Big Cypress During the Last Indian
War. Part II. contains Sketches of
Travel, Incident and Adventure Among
the Lakes and Hammocks of Semi Trop-
ical Florida. The name Of the little book
itself is enough to excite the curiosity
and interest of the reader. The trip
through the Big Cypress and that verit-
able terra incognita, the Everglades of
Florida, and among the Ten Thousand
Islands and the South Florida lakes and
hammocks; interspersed with incidents
of camp life and adventure among the
Seminole Indians is well worth reading.
The narrative is written in ID pleasing,
natural and attractive manner, and bears
the impress of its own truthfulness. 1t
is not only interesting but instructive.
Besides the main trip, the author de-
uOtes chapter to the gathering and dis
posal of sponges at Key West; another
to catching the manatee or sea COW;
another to a description of the green corn
dance and other Seminole customs; an
other to the curious and interesting in
habitants of the Indian river region; and
very interesting description of the trop-
ical fruits which find home in Florida
besides numerous personal sketches of
Florida characters" anecdotes and sto-
ries delineating life in tropical Florida.
Most of the sketches have been hereto
fore published in the Southern Sun at
Palatka and the popularity of these con-
tributions created the demand for their
permanent preservation in book form.
Tight Lacins a Hundred Years Ago.
Atheneum.
Devoted as she was to the world of
fashion. Miss Frampton did not admire
I'll its ways. Under the date of 1880 she
wrote:
My sister, Phillis Wollaston, now be-
tween IS and II, was beginning to be
produced little in the world. At that
time everybody wore powder and poma-
tum; a large triangular thing called Z
| cushion, to which the hair was frizZed
up with three or four enormous curis or
| each side; the higher the. pyramid oil
/ hair, gauze, feathers, and other orna
! ments was carried the more fashionable
| it was thought, and such was the labor
employed to rear the fabric that night
caps were made in proportion to it anC
covered over the hair, immensely long
black pins, double and single, powder
pomatum and all ready for the next day
think remember hearing that twenty
| four large pins were by no means an IN
| usual number to go 10 bed with on you
head.
Inc peiieStioh VI HSu'S, oCCoioihS L
the then fashion, was the smallness o
the circumference into which your un
fortunate waist could be compressed, an,
many poor girl hurt her health yer.
materially by trying to rival the reignin:
beauty of that day, the Duchess of Rut
land, who was said to squeeze herself t
the size of an orange and a half. Sinai
hoops were worn in morning and large
for dress, some going outward as the
went downward, something in the form
of a bell. Sacques Were very common
my mother constantly wore them. The
were dresses with loose backs and
stomacher. Gauze handkerchiefs trim
med with blond were worn on the neck