The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr.. Robert Bonner puts the probable
limit of trotting speed at :0j. He thinks
Maud S. may trot between 2:05 and POS.
A large portion of the foothill region
of California is being devastated by such
swarms Of grasshoppers that they threat
en- to amount to nothing short OF a pla-
que.
A man in Epson county, Ga, twenty
five years ago buried 5000 silver half
dollars, and did not unearth them again
until last week, when they were exhum-
ed and put into circulation.
Writing Of the Princes visit to Ireland,
Il correspondent of the Philadelphia Tele-
ghaph says: 81 remember at Punches
town hearing man, right in the shadow
of the pavilion where the Prince was,
cheer for the Mahdi."
Alexander III, of Russia, recently
wrote, says the London Truth, to his sis
ter, the Duchess Of Edinburgh, that he
was as anxious for peace as she was, but
that she must remember that he might
have to choose between war and revolu
ton.
/ y foreign Journal says that Lord Sails
y bury has been severely reprimanded for
u a remark in a recent speech that all ath-
eists are Liberals, ard the negative in
ktances-Hume, Glbbon and Bolingbroke
have been quoted in evidence against
/ him.
n Tt is said that Vice President Hen
Z bricks was anxious to be relieved from
delivering his promised Yale College adj
fNdress at commencement, but the college
4 authorities will not release him from the
engagement, which will compel the Vice
President to postpone his intended trip
to the Pacific coast.
Sergt Lewis Loffman, the oldest vete-
ran of the United States army, died at
Niagara Falls last Friday. He was eigh-
ty-eight years old, and some years ago
he was retired on a salary of $50 per
month. He fought at Waterloo under
Napoleon and carried a medal presented
by the Emperor for gallant conduct on
the field.
The statement is made that "of cattle,
sheep and swine, all told, Great Britain
possessed, in 1884, about one head per
capita of its population, or 100000 600
u head. For the same period the United
81 States possessed two and one-half head
. per capita of its population. In the for
mer country there are 900 head to the
Il Aquare mile, and in the United States 30
~ head"
4 A fortnight ago the last member of one
+. Of the Oldest noble families in Germany
died at Bamherg, the Baron Macmillan
Won Paulus. There was a great con-
course at his funeral and after the coffin
y had been lowered into the grave the Pau
Inns coat of arms was solemnly broken
and the fragments thrown upon the coffin
y rs a token that this ancient line had be-
come extinct.
Life in New York is grimly illustrated
10y the experience of well-known bro
kerr Two years ago he bought a $780,
600 house on Fifth avenue, furnished
it handsomely and moved into it. He
was president of a mining company. In
less than year he lost his presidency,
his mine, his money and his home and
now nas a desk in a small room of an OBJ
scure lawyers Office on Broadway, and
is sought only by his creditors.
Hawaiian currency is not on a specie
basis and great complaints are heard from
the poorer classes, who are compelled to
pay for clothing and provisions in gold,
but many of whom receive their pay in
silver or deprecated paper. Some firms
are honorable enough to pay in gold, but
it is notorious, observes the Hawaiian
Gazette, that the government invariably
pays its employees and its obligations in
the cheating currency.
English dairymen have at last walked
mp to the necess ity Of keeping records of
their Jerseys, although, singularly en-
ough, the amount Of milk is recorded,
instead of the amount of butter, since it
is quality, and not quantity, for which
the breed is famous. The cow Daybreak
yielded in a year 919O pounds of milk
and Dahlia 1896 pounds. If CT ordinary
Jersey richness, this milk ought to have
produced something like 500 pounds of
butter.
1t is stated that Lieut. Greedy was off
cred by a publisher S25, 900 for book
detailing his arctic experiences, to be
done within ninety days after his return.
ground that his first duty was to make
his official report to the government.
The work is stu incomplete, owing to
his badly broken health and, in view
the fact that the prospect is that lie
will be unable to return to active duty
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