The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-29
BRIEF MENTION.

her nieces. The honeymoon is to be
spent at Balmoral.
New York city has twenty eight relig-
ious denominations, 500 churches and
other places of worship, and about 3d.
400 church members representing a pop
ulation of nearly 100000 So says City
Missionary Jackson.
The biggest gun yet, now in process of
construction at the Woolwich Arsenal
will weigh 110 tons withoutthe carriage,
and will weigh 200 tons when mounted
and viii have bore Of 16 inches. 1t is
TO be a breech-loader, 43 feet 8 inches,
with a diameter of 81 feet at the breeeh
and of % inches at the muzzle.
African colonization has already affect
ed the price of elephants. A Press In
dia exchange quotes Asian elephants six
feet at $4,000, tigers at $3.50 and panthers
at S476. Yet at recent sales in England
elephants have been sold as low as $500,
six Iionesses, with cubs, at $3.50, "a tiger
that had devoured two keepers brought
only $3.50, and panther was traded
even for poodle.
w. Fl. Vanderbilt has let the contract
for a family tomb to be built in the Mo-
ravian Cemetary, New Drop, Staten Is
land 1t will be in the Romanesque
style, 100x100 feet on the ground and G3
feet from the surface to the apex of the
domes. Of whiclrtheie will be two. 1t
viii require about 5000, 900 pounds of
granite. marble and limestone to COM
plete it, and will cost $3.50, 900. 1t is to
be finished by December.
Castor Vassy, who had reputation
as the most daring of the Partisan re-
porters, is dead Once he personated the
project Of the police, and obtained a
story that the people of Paris talked
about for weeks. In his later years Vas
sy was blind, but went about to the tie
alters and everywhere else, accompan-
led by his secretary, who told him how
things looked and what was going on,
and then Vassy dictated his reports IN
his own inimitable style.
Every stop of a train costs money to a
railway company Recent statistics kept
on certain trunk line showed that du-
ring given year the $50 daily trains
made 1000 extra stops every twenty-four
hours, the traffic being largely suburban.
Experiments showed also that each stop
costs forty-two cents reckoned largely
in extra time to employees who for that
number of stops, put in the aggregate
$50 extra hours per day, making total
loss to the company of nearly $4,000 a
year.
Something new in the line of competi-
tive civil service examination is reported
from Philadelphia Sewing teachers for
the schools were to be hired, and 200 girl
applicants were ranged in class rooms
where each mothers daughter hemmed,
gathered, backstiched, overseamed, tuck
ed, feled aud patched according to di-
rcctions on the blackboards, and gave in
the fruit of theirto to be judged at the
leisure Of specialized matrons
Mr. Randall deprecates the statements
which attributes to his influence the APP
pointment of Malcolm Hay as Assistant
Postmaster General He said: "The APP
pointment was a personal one by the pres
ident Mr.. Hay did not apply for the
Office, nor did anybody apply in his be-
half Twas asked about him and of
course it gave me pleasure to say what
knew to be true about him. l am rather
surprised that he should be willing to
drop his private affairs to accept the
office. but a better man for the place
could not be found"
Labor in England has gained in wages
not more than II per cent. in seventeen
years, while labor in this country has
advanced in wages, according to the re-
port of the Massachusetts, Bureau OF
Statistics, %. 36 per cent. since 1860. Il
appears that the average paid in Great
Britain is less than half the admitted
average paid to labor in this country. Ir
Massachusetts,, according to Mr.. Wright'S
report, the average in 1888 was 50 II
weekly, or sos 04 year. An admitted
decline of 10 per cent in 1884 would make
the averages 1857 "a. In his recent WORK
on wages, Mr.. Atkinson, the free trade
economist, estimates the average earn
ings Of all the people in this country a
S433 60. But Prof Levi estimates thu
average for the workers of Great Britial
at S207 50.
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