The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-21
BRIEF MENTION.

Louis XIV's throne has lately been
sold ut auction for $3.50.
Statistics show that in Massachusetts,
SINCE 1857 pneumonia has grown almost
twice as fast as the population.
There are about 200, 900 commercial
travellers in this country. The average
salary is $500 a year and expenses.
Victoria Morosini, the millionaire's
daughter who married Theodore Huls-
kamp, the coachman, is about to have
another boom. Theodore has been lock-
edup for selling beer on Sunday.
George Butler, nephew Of the general,
is again in the workhouse at Washing
ton. He believes that any man who
drinks liquor is suffering from a mild
form of insanity, and that he should be
locked up.
The Sandwich Islands send 5000
punches Of bananas to San Francisco
per month, but the price has been so low
since June of last year that many raisers
have lost heavily and are going out of
business.
One Of the business interests of San
Francisco is the gathering of old tin oil
and fruit cans for use in the packing of
matches. Collectors receive four cents
each for them, and 10000 are annually
| used.
Two Troy men have invented a ma
chine which, it is claimed, viii practical
Iy revolutiouize matchmaking. 1t has
been operated to make 24.00O perfect
matches in a minute, and its capacity is
= expected to reach $4,000, 900 in ten
lhours.
A beautiful rosebush, said to have
been planted by Charlemagne. IS one of
the great curiosities of the ancient city
of IGildesheim, in Hanover. It is gnarl-
ell and rugged as becomes its extreme
age, and in some places the principal
stem is as thick as a mans body.
A lady living IN Naugatuck, while
looking over the old family Bible recent
", found an old Colonial six pound note
dated 1853. The note was good for sew
enteen ounces ten penuyweights Of silver
in New Jersey. On one side was print
ed; ITO counterfeit this is death"
Consul Potter, of Crefeld, writes to the
State Department that a weaver in that
|. locality by long days work can earn
about 81 So a week They very rarely
Ntaste meat, except horsedesh, which they
occasionally buy for six cents a pound,
first making soup and then eating the
,meat.
The latest advices from Iceland show
What the first reports of the April ava
lanche were not exaggerated. Fifteen
dwellings, with their inhabitants were
swept into the sea, and twenty-four per-
) sons were thus drowned. The avalanche
destroyed fifty fishing boats. The
loss in one village alone reached $50
600.
Forty thousand persons assembled on
the St. Louis fair ground on a Sunday
afternoon to see wild west show
They broke through "a gate aud We're
only stopped by Capt Jack Crawford,
who, pistol in hand threatened to shoot
the next man thatcame in. The police
arrested Crawford, who then demon
strated that his pistol was unloaded, and
that he had taken this method to scare
the crowd.
a New York company which manu-
features every day 1900 bustles stuffed
with renovated antelope hair, has Just
begun the manufacture Of life-preservers
stuffed with the same material. A test
of the comparative value of different
life-preservers has just been made 1t
requires only ten pounds of buoyancy
TO keep a live persons head above water.
A cork buoy, weighing nine pounds, was
thrown overheard, and was found to sup
port thirty three pounds; buoy of Cali
rornia tule held up fifty pounds, and an
Alaska down buoy of five pounds held
up siXty-four pounds The company
recently fitted out several yachts with
antelope hair or Alaska down, cushions
which can be thrown overheard, and
each will support dozen persons.
Smoother Fellow.
Merchant Traveller,
Col Buffer was a noted character in