The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-13
BRIEF MENTION.

and it is a mooted question whether the
gas companies are losing money or not.
The Agricultural Bureau reports that
Kentucky owns 81, 878 horses, valued at
s25, 436, 455; 116,064 mules, value. So
S57, 500; 304, 720 cows, value, $40, 49, 51;
500, 907 oxen and other cattle, value, 3d.
554, 200.
A French female doctor near Paris has
been curing rheumatism with Cruel of
kittens, rats, earth-worms and brandy.
She has been arrested, but her patients
demand her release on the ground that
she is public benefactress.
The new crane now being erected at
Hamburg will have a lifting capacity of
147 tons. This will be the largest in OPP
Grafton on the continent, the next in size
being the one now working at Antwerp
and which lifts 100 tons.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decid-
ed that subscriber cannot swear over
their telephone wire when the company
objects. The girls at the central office
will, no doubt, keep a record of the tele-
phone numbers that swear at them here
after.
The very remarkable statement is
made in the Medical Times that DIR.
Fleisch, of Vienna, has discovered that
the hydrocIorate of cocaine administered
hypodermically in doses of from one.
twentieth to one-fourth of grain will
cure morphinism, alcoholism and similar
habits within ten days.
Even theQueen of England and Empress
of India has to submit to orders Her
Majesty got her feet wet walking in the
gardens at Osborne the other day, where
upon Sir William Jenner went down at
once, ordered-the Queen to go into warm
rooms, and then peremptorily forbade
her to leave them.
Col. A. K. Mcclure delivered lecture
before a workingman's club in Philadel-
phia recently on "A Trip Through the
South" He recounted his experiences,
and gave his impressions of his recent
tour, dwelling particularly upon the
wonderful resources and brilliant indus
trial prospects of the South He COM
mended this section as offering peculiar
inducements to energetic workingmen,
and at the conclusion of the lecture a
vote of thanks was rendered.
The reduced fare on the New York and
Brooklyn Bridge Railway gives great sat
isfaction, and is likely to increase the
travel between the two cities more than
sufficient to make up the difference in
rates. The fare is now three cents a pas
sage or twenty-five cents for a package
of ten tickets. The managers began the
reduced fare with stock of 700, 900 tick
cts, and the bridge railway is doing bu-
siness to its full capacity.
Henry Willard is living quietly at Ber-
lin. He severed the last remaining tie
that bound him to America only short
time ago by resigning the position of
president of the Oregon and California
Railway. When his blind pool was in
full swing and the Willard stocks were at
their highest figures he was worth, on
paper, Sc, 000, 600 His fall was tremen-
dous and the wreck was complete. Out
Of the chaos he saved 100000, and that
represents the fortune he took to Berlin
to settle down ON.
Amid the current rumors of Ismail Pa
sha's intrigues to regain his Khedivate,
it is interesting to remember that Gordon
few days before setting out for Khar-
toum, said: eff Egypt is to have ruler
capable of maintaining a really efficient
native government, Ismail must be the
man. He is the worst used man in Eu-
rope. He was the best and most capable
ruler Egypt ever had, with all his faults,
and the calamities we are witnessing are
the natural consequences of the with
drawal Of his master hand"
'Richelieu" Robinson, whose burly
form will not be seen on the floor of the
House next session, relates an amusing
incident in which he was the chief ac-
tor. More than forty years ago he took
out his first papers of citizenship. The
clerk repeated the usual formula, which
required the applicant to renounce allie
glance to all other governments, and con-
cluded, without ever making a pause,
but especially to the Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland so help you God give
me dollarw Pardon me, sir, Mr..
Robinson said, ''but shouldn't you have
put comma between God aud the dol
lar?n
A celebrated will case of some forty
years standing was recently decided by
the United States Supreme Court, which
gives to the Macarthur heirs of Circle.
vile, Ohio, 10000 acres of valuable land
situated in the counties of Highland
Scioto, Rosa, Madison, Franklin and
Pickaway, of that State. The claimant;