The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
BRIEF MENTION.

the gain for the rest of the country was
only 80 per cent.
According to the decision of the Inter
national Arbitration Court on the Peru
wan war claims, Chilli is assed $29, O0O,- |
900 in favor of Peru.
Miss Cleveland has invited Miss Lamar,
the daughter of the Secretary of Interior,
to be her guest at the Executive Mansion
for several weeks.
The moss crop of Florida is worth
more than its cotton crop. Every coun-
ty in the state produces it, and the de-
mand is far ahead of the supply.
A puzzle now troubling the people is
simply this: Place eight checkers on a
board so that no two will be either on
straight or diagonal line in either direc-
ton, if you can.
The matches consumed in the United
States require wood to the annual value
Of 50, 299, 562; the railroads use about 3d.
600. 900 of wood for fuel and s., 900, 600
for ties each year.
The revenues collected from wharves
and docks in New York last year amount
ed to 81, 246, 858, and have steadily in
creased every year, while the expenses
are diminishing
In Washington there were erected
last year 1900 buildings, valued at 81
100000. One Of the most valuable resi-
dences in the city is that of Bell, the
telephone man 1t cost him $115, 900.
or all the patronage in the gift of the
Postmaster General the place of inspec-
tor, or special agent, seems to come near
est to the desires of the average young
democrat. There are 125 Of these inspec-
tors. and the application ON hand for the
vacancies to be made number over three
thousand
Nine Mariscal, wife of the Secretary
of State Of Mexico, who is on visit to
Washington, is said to have caused a
sensation by her beauty She is describ-
ed as 'superbly moulded woman of the
blonde type" Her maiden name was
Laura Smith and she was brought up in
Baltimore
No ground is so replete with historic
memories as the rugged country in the
, northwestern corner of Afghanistan,
where the first clash of arms between
Russia and England is expected. Cyrus
and Alexander the Great have passed
over it with their armies, and from the
walls Of Herat have issued the conquer
ing legions of Tamerlane and Nadir
Shah.
We had in 1880 nearly two million
common laborers. the number of cler-
gymen in 1880 was GA, 0G0, against 43, 900
in 1870; the number of lawyers Ga 600 in
1880, 10000 in 1870; the number of ply
sicians increased during the decade from
10000 to $4,000. In 1880 there were 4,
500 actors and 10000 journalists in the
country.
One by one the instruments and pro-
cesses of our fathers are being regulated
TO the domain of the antiquated. Now
the churn must go. According to a
French patent the passage of suitable
electric current through milk causes the
rapid separation of the butter and rem
ders churning unnecessary. The manu-
facture of cheese and the removal of
rancidity from butter by electrical aid
are also claimed.
Leopold Won Ranke is considered in
Europe the most astonishing author OF
his time, in respect to the preservation
of his mental powers. There is not an
other living example of a man occupied
with historical work in his ninetietf
year. An American who met him re.
Gently asked him when he expected tC
give up his literary labors and he an
swered, ''When get old He believe.
he will be able to continue his studies
and writing till he has reached the agt
of 100
president Cleveland told friend the
other day." says the Boston Herald
that at first Judge Endicott was not il
his mind as one of the possible list O
New England men for the Cabinet; tina
he sent for the judge to get his opinion OF
certain names, and was so impressed
with his medicines and knowledg,
of men that he said to him, after Ions
talk: You are just the man want 70
my Cabinet The matter was thei
settled"
Lord Wolseley contradicts the report
as TO his eye trouble. He can affor,
ophthalmia less than most men, as, eve
since the Crimea, he has had the sight o
but one eye. When he was doing dut
in the trenches before Sebastopol a shel
exploded in a gabion full of gravel. i
moving which he and two sappers wer
engaged. The sappers We're both kille
outright Wolseley got SO severe a pei
pering from the gravel that he was Iii