The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-06
BRIEF MENTION.


sumed at the sacrament tables in the
United States every year.
The Office of mayor is considered the
road to high political honors nowadays.
Secretary Lincoln is spoken of for mayor
Of Chicago, and ex-senator Tabor is a
candidate for mayor of Denver.
NJ Pasteur has thrown the new chol-
era theory into confusion. After prov
ing that microbes are the cause of chol-
era, he shows that food which does not
contain microbes will not sustain life.
The microbes assist the digestive organs.
Although the Protestant population of
Great Britain has increased by 100000
people since 1870, only twonew churches
have been built, and the few pastors are
er-burdened. On a recent Sunday one
clergyman is said to have performed 108
baptisms and 9 marriages.
On the 10th of February Cyrus w.
Field sued for libel Henry Labouchere,
editor of the London Truth and publisher
of that journal. Friday a writ for libel
on Field was served on A. Oakley Hall,
London agent of the New York Herald,
and another writ was issued against
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the
same journal.
Judge Wilde, of New York, has given
his decision in the case Of Justus Schwab,
the notorious Socialist. There were two
charges against the prisoner-first, for
melting a riot at Socialist meeting about
month ago, and the other for resisting
the police who tried to arrest him.
Schwab was held for trial on both charg
es in 50, 500 bail.
Speaker Carlisle is making collection
of the most curious communications he
receives; such, for instance, as a letter
from Minnesota man who wanted an
appropriation by congress to provide him
with a good sleigh He told what kind
of wood it was to be made Of, how ma
ny bells it should have. and how thick
the steel of the runners should be; and in
post-scription intimated that the saliva
ton of the country depended on the APP
preparation being made promptly.
There are no hod-carriers in Germany.
Bricks are passed from hand to hand.
The higher up the bricklayers are, the
more men are required to toss the bricks.
Two men to story is about the average,
with enough more to lead from the front
of the building to the place where the
bricks are needed. One may sometimes
see three men on the ground, eight on
the front of the building and five on the
top, making sixteen men through whose
hands each brick passes before it reaches
its place of destination.
'It was strange" says Thackeray in
''The Virginians,' "'that in a savage for
est of Pennsylvania young Virginia of
ficer should fire shot and waken up q
war which was to last for sixty years,
which was to cover his own country and
pass into Europe, to cost France her
American colonies, to sever ours from us
and create the great Western Republic;
to rage over the Old World when extin-
guished in the New, and, of all the myr-
lads engaged in the vast contest, to leave
the prize of the greatest fame with him
who struck the first blow
A telegram from Geneva states that
about thousand persons were out skat-
ing on Lake Rothsel, near Lucerne,
which was only partly frozen over, Sud
denly an enormous foe, on which some
three hundred skaters were enjoying
themselves, broke way from the bank
and hoated out into the lake, to the ter
ror of everybody. A terrible catastrophe
was anticipated. but after three hours
patient effort by boatmen this raft of a
new kind was safely run against the
shore. The alacrity with which the ska
tiers slid off to terra firma needs no de-
soription.
The union of Germany will never be
complete until the whole of the empire
become subject to one code of laws. 1t
is almost impossible to say how many
codes are now in force in various parts of
the country. In Bavaria alone there are
no less than seven different jurisdictions.
OF the 3,5l5, 900 inhabitants of the king
dom about 2, 10000 are subject to the
Bavarian code; 641, 900 to the code Ma
poleon, which is the law of the Palati-
nate; 49, 900 to the code Of the bishopric
of Wurzburg; 321, 600 to the code of the
principally of Bayreuth; 1900 to the
Austrian code, which is in force at Red
witt; 200 to the Solms statutes, and 100
to the code of Coburg. The country
must be a paradise for lawyers.
France has followed the example Of
Germany in raising microbiology to the
rank of recognized science. The es
Enlistment over which Dr. Koch pre-
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