The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-16

Is a gentleman he VIII furnish you with /
duplicate key without your asking, but .
some editors are not gentlemen.
Surgeons Egotism.
New York Tribune.
An English lady had occasion, some
time since, to travel without escort from
Suffolk to London, and she was forced
to take train on which there We're no
carriages reserved for ladies.
"There is a compartment occupied on
ly by the Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon" the guard
said in answer to her expression of dis
appointment; perhaps you do not object
to riding with him.
The lady acquiesced, and accordingly
was so placed.
An inquiry on the part of the reverend
gentleman in relation to the window
opened the conversation, and presently
the two travellers were discoursing ami
cably upon general topics. AT length
they reached Mr.. Surgeons native vii
lage, where the train paused few mo-
ments.
4 presume, madame, the gentleman
observed with genuine enthusiasm, 'that
you have heard of Sturgeon, the great
preacher. This village has the honor of
being his birthplace"
He went on from this text, drawn
out somewhat, it is true, by the lady
and praised himself most unsparingly,
declaring Sturgeon to be the greatest di-
vine in all England. When London was
reached he politely assisted the lady into
a cab, and was bidding her goodbye
when she said:
''I thank you very much for your
kindness Mr.. Sturgeon =
Surprise, chagrin and anger all painted
themselves upon the face of the other,
but he apparently struggled to maintain
his countenance and his temper. Strik-
ing himself melodramatically upon the
chest he exclaimed:
"Down, temper! Down, temperr'
And turning upon his heel he left hen
abruptly.
An Epidemic of Resignation.
Philadelphia Times.
The fact that four thousand Postmast-
ers have given up their offices, which
now await occupants, suggests that al
epidemic of resignation is raging over {
large portion of the country. As it i
nearly twenty-five years since the las
visitation Of this kind the present specta
Gle will be new and strange to a larg
proportion of the persons now living il
: the United States.
Yet the infection scarcely requires
close examination by specialist in orde
/; to disclose the germs from which 1t ha
arisen. None of the bacilli are know
to have existed prior to the fourth da
of November of last year. In spite c
: this fact the disease has spread so rapid
!, ly that by the fourth of March, only fou
months after its appearance, it had as
sumed the epidemic form, and now, onl
r two months after the Inauguration of
/ new President, it has spread into ever
, part of great country.
e It is the more interesting, too becaus
: in the early history of the country sue
e a disease was practically unknown
Y Thomas jefferson had occasion in 180-
2 soon after his accession to the Pres
e dency, to lament that neither death nC
= resignation were active enough to enab
A him to put a Republican into a
= office occasionally. 1t is now suspecte
! that the only way to stop the ravages
# this epidemic will be to put Democra
/ into the post offices as quickly as poss
:. BILE As they have been out so long it
) thought they will be practically exeml
@ from the disease for at least four year
) City script in Gainesville is worth
:. cents on the dollar.