The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-30
BRIEF MENTION.

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Mackay has given 100000 to Bishop
Monogue for the erection Of a church at
Sacramento.
The committee which has just given
out the revision of the Old Testament
held eighty-fve sessions of about ten days
each, comprising in all 1872 days of six
hours at 4 sitting.
About 30, 600 people visit the White
Mountains during the summer and fall.
The hotels can accommodate about 1 2, 600
souls at one time. The guests average a
stay of two weeks.
The people who want to nominate Lo-
gan for President in 1888 should remem-
Der that one swallow certainly does not
make a summer three years and a half
in Philadelphia Times.
The SchuylkilI arsenal, at Philadelphia,
manufactures 100000 rounds of am
munition and $4,000 600 rifle balls each
year. Three millions are used for target
practice by the rank and fiIaof the army.
President McCosh, of Princeton, said
recently that the age of nine or ten was
the true time for learning languages.
Then the child can acquire more in
this department than man of twenty
five.
Street cars in New York, Albany and
Washington are to be moved by com
pressed air The air chambers are under
the cars. which can be run at the rate of
twenty-five miles an hour, and can be
stopped at once.
Stephen Bulmer, the well-known Eng
fish atheist, recently deceased, left $4,000
to his co-worker, Bradlaugh ; and to his
own wife, who had supported him for
years, he left the princeIy allowance of
50 a week.
Experiments show that light penetra-
ties the Mediterranean Sea to a depth of
400 metres, but the Lake of Geneva only
200 metres. The inference is that the
water in the lake is less pure than that
of the sea.
There are at least 1900 girls in this
city engaged in the manufacture of arti-
fetal flowers, said large manufacturer
to a New York Tribune reporter. Most
Of them are French girls, and the work
is done in old lofts up around the French
quarter"
Mrs. Stewards gift of the Garden City
Cathedral is not received with universal
satisfaction in the Episcopal Church,
since its endowment is too small for sup
port and the parish too small. If the
cathedral We're IN Brooklyn or New York
it would be better appreciated.
According to Bishop LittIejohn, says
the Brooklyn Union, the city Of Chur-
che5" is an absurt misnomer. Brooklyn
has hut one place Of worship to every
1924 inhabitants, "a less proportion than
any city in the United States" The
proportion Of church communicates to
the population Of Brooklyn is only clio
percent, or less by ! per cent thanit was
in 1885.
The Retail Grocer5 Union of New
York City, representing some 1900 firms
in all, have agreed to boycott the soaps of
"a noted manufacturer because he sells
his product to small consumers at price
as low as that charged the large jobbers.
The manufacturer retort5 by saying he
will sell all his soaps at his own figures,
and to whom he pleases. All he wants
is the cash, and the Union can whistle if
it does not like it,
Ex-Representative Broadhead has left
Washington for Paris, France, where, as
special government agent, he will exam
inc the records Of the prize courts in
search of information in connection with
site French spoIatirn claims. The Sec
rotary Of State has received information
from the United States minister at Paris
that the preliminary legal proceedings in
award cases will cost at least so in each
case. Persons in this country who
are interested in the matter should
make arrangements to meet such eXpen-
SEES.
Since Secretary Whitney discharged
employees from the Mare Island navy
yard for political offenses further devel-
opments concerning other matters con-
nected with the establishment there are
said to have been brought to light It is
intimated that some interesting informa-
ton will soon be made public in regard
10 the cost of repairing the Mohican, q
vessel which has cost the government
5000, 900 since she was first commission
ed. Three vessels equal to the Mohican
in every respect could have been built
for the like sum.
Il see, said a personal friend of SEN
ator Don Cameron the other night, that
the net profits of the Bell Telephone
Company last year amounted to $780,
geo. Senator Cameron told me recently