The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-18
BRIEF MENTION.


ed as 215. 000. the greatest number ever
attained
Immense crops OF mustard are produc-
ed in Southern California, and several
mustard mills have lately been establish
ed in San Francisco to work up the pro-
duct.
The four largest cities Of the world are,
in order, London, Paris, Canton and
New York. If Brooklyn and Jersey |
City were added to New York, it would |
crowd Paris for second place.
Lord Tennyson's birthplace of 1900
acres with quaint, old fashioned resi-
dence," at Somersby and Bag Enderby,
Lincolnshire, is advertised for sale in the
New York newspapers.
The money editor of the New York
Herald says that the Southern railroads
are getting the attention of capitalists
They are considered more promising than
the roads that are fully developed.
The Inauguration ball is said ID have
cleared all expenses. The preparations
for Inauguration are said to have exceed
ed $50 0O0 and the visitors brought over
$500, 900 to Washington.
The King Of the Belgians has invented
new decoration, exclusively military.
1t is called the Belgian Lion, and is in
tended to recompense those officers of the
BelGian army only who have served 20
years as officers.
The Greeks and Romans did not know
the use of stirrups. Among the thous-
ands of bronze remains Of harness, bride
bits. buckles and horse paraphernalia in
the department Of small bronzes in the
Naples museum there is not stirrup,
not a spur, not horseshoe.
The fact that three members of the
new Cabinet are named William has led
a curious newspaper man to look up the
Williams in all the Cabinets ever made
in the nation Among his discoveries
was that the Interior Department is the
only one which has never been presided
over by a William.
A rich merchant of the West Indies
died recently, and on Thursday tele-
gram was received by Baldwin Pierson,
of Bridgeport, Conn, saying that 100000
wasleft to him in the merchants will.
Thirty-seyen years ago Person rescued
him from drowning while school boys,
and had never heard of him since.
The Governor of the Island of Samos
recently discovered a tunnel measuring
about 5000 feet long, which was used al
least nine centuries before the Christian
Era 1t is completely preserved, and
contains water tubes of about ten inches
in diameter, each one provided with q
lateral aperture for cleansing purposes.
The Compile de Herisson relates that
on one occasion during the negotiation;
following the Franco-German war Of
1870 Bismarck offered Jules Favre ci
gar, which was declined. Then said Bis
marck: "By not smoking you have one
advantage over me, you are more vigt
liant. But then you have this disadyan
tage. YOU are more irritable. \ diploma
must be ready to make concessions, ant
tobacco makes one feel happier anC
thereby more conciliatory."
1t appears that Major Serpa Pinto, tn
Portuguese traveller, is encounterinI
greater difficulties than he anticipate
in the new journey he has undertakes
from Mozambique into the interior o
Africa. He has been compelled to de
viate from the course he originally in
tended to pursue, and was at the last in
telligence still near the coast. He is &C
companied by a considerable escort c
soldiers, and his expedition is believed t
have political quite as much as geograpf
ical objects in view. Hitherto the POI
tuguese have exercised no real authorit
over the native tribes at a distance {
more than a few miles from their settl,
ments.
The White House covers about on
third of an acre, and it has costup to Il
present time, about $4,000 600. 1t
modelled aftera castle in Dublin, and Il
architect, who was a South CaroliI
man named Hoban, got $500 for drawn
the plans. When it was first built, we
back in the nineties, it cost 100000, b.
the British burned out its insides, and
cost has since added to that sum 81, 70C
0O0. In it all of the Presidents sin
Washington have lived, and each h
added to its beauties and its expense
John Quincy Adams bought the first b
lard table which was used in it. But
John Adams time it was only half fr
nished, and Abigail Adams used to d
her clothes in the big East room. We
by year, however, the furnishing b
gone on until now it is sort of mu:
UNI of art and beauty.
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