The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-31
BRIEF MENTION.


dren under fourteen years of age COM
mitted suicide in the United States last
year.
A wagon-load of scrap iron and rub
bish which was bought for song by a
DeKalb Qll.) junk dealer, developed
pocketbook which contained $1,000 in
bank notes
Flower weddings" promise to be all
the rage in London this spring. At each
wedding the bridesmaids will be dressed
to resemble some spring hower--if it can
be DONE
General Grant has not yet acknowl-
edged the receipt of his commission as a
General on the retired list, and his name
has, therefore, not yet been placed on
the government pay roll.
In speaking of the nominations made
recently, Colonel Lamont said: eff you
would examine Gov Clegeland's record
at Albany you viii find that he was in
the habit Of selecting non-applicants for
Office"
The Brooklyn bridge earns an average
Of $47 coo month, or $15, 600 more than
expenses, but electricity as motive power
and rapid transit in Brooklyn may in
crease its receipts to 100000 month, at
least half of it net profit.
The day at Greenwich observatory for
melly began at noon, but now counts
from midnight, thus agreeing with the
civil day The twenty-four hour system
has been in operation for many years in
Greenwich, and the public clock outside
of the observatory is divided after that
plan.
A large Newfoundland dog, according
to a New York paper, swallowed a set of
artificial teeth belonging to his mistress,
whose little nephew induced asympathiz-
ing druggist to 90 to work on the ami
NAL with emetics, with the resultof hav-
ing the teeth restored to the owner,
without her becoming aware of the man
ner of their loss.
According to the Bulletin of the Socie-
ty of Naturalists of Moscow, the hitherto
unaccountable destruction of pine forests
is caused by the ravages of a species Of
mushroom which takes growth on the
surface of the wood and afterward pene-
trates and destroys the tree. Maps are
given in which the path of the destroy
ing fungus is traced through the pine
woods of Russia
A new machine for bicycle practice,
designed by Dr. Sargent, has been put in
the Harvard College gymnasium. 1t
consists of a stationary wheel, over
which is a seat which can be raised or
lowered at pleasure to accommodate any
one. The pressure ON the wheel can be
SO regulated as to make the work as hard
or easy as is desired.
The King of Bavaria has given another
proof of his love of extravagant magnif-
cence by spending quarter of a million
of marks at the Meissen porcelain manu-
factory for chandelier, four mirrors,
and boudoir table for the new Versail-
les, which he is building on the island on
the China lake. For the liquidation of
the kings debts 70 less than 5000, 900
marks We're raised last year.
Nottoway county, Virginia, the region
inhabited by the first settlers, and made
interesting by the "reminiscences of Capt.
John Smith and Pocahontas, is fast re-
turning to its primeval condition. I'm
twenty years it will be a wilderness, .
L.
old and sad. The young have gone to
more promising regions. Deer browse
where cattle fed, and the oak and pine
cover great plantations where the negro
aDnce cultivated corn and tobacco.
Or. Miller, the newly appointed Iuter-
nal Revenue Commissioner, is noted as
being one of the finest-looking men in
West Virginia. lie has a figure similar
to that of Secretary Manning. Hewears
small black side-whiskers and q nous
tache His hair, of the same hue, is
wavy and silky, while pair of piercing
black eyes, overhung with heavy brows
complete the picture. Mr. Miller is Of
medium age, and weighs about 25C
pounds. He is now Auditor of the State
Vaccination has been triumphantly
indicated at Durham, Eng, where tht
smallpox has been very vlrulent. The
disease has been entirely stamped out
There We're 103 cases treated in the hos
pital, of which 10 were fatal OF those
who died not one had been vaccinated
OF the other IS not one had been revac
cInated. These conclusive facts speal
for themselves. At the present tim
smallpox is raging almost like TIN
plague in large parish in the north c
London, and its devastation in larg
poor population are traced to a potman il
public house, not only serving at tn
har when he had the snlali.rnx hut &c