The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-16
our readers know how much hard rubber
adds to the price of any article of which
it forms part. On the other hand
cassava produces abundantiy.
ITEMS or GENERAL INTEREST.


Stray Bits of Good Reading Clipped from
the Various Exchanges
Chambersb,ng, Pa, has fire COM
pany that was organized 10S years ago.
The most trying position truthful
clergyman can be IN is to be preaching
the funeral sermon of man who died
rich and mean.
A movement has been started for the
purchase of the early home of the poet
Whittier and its preservation as shrine
for patriotic Americans
An English firm calls attention to its
admirable supply of sermons for meian-
clloly occasions, which they retail for
seven pence each. Special sermons are
two and six a head.
A New Orleans nt.wspaper says that
the millions of pickaninnies seen around
the cotton fields of the south furnish a
complete refutation of the theory that
the negro race in America Is dying out.
An eighty ton flat car, which is claimed
to be the largest ever made in this coun-
try, is being built in Packerton, Pa. and
when finished will be used for hauling
lot of machinery from New York to
Bethlehem.
An Orlando (Fla.) newspaper man has
substituted pair of sand hill cranes for
watch dogs, and he finds that their loud,
clear note of warning when a tramp or a
burglar comes near is an effective means
of protection
The manager of the automatic machines
which furnish weights, sweetmeats, pens,
paper, and other things to London
| people. recently showed the police half a
| ton of lead and zinc dies and thousands
| Of pieces of cardboard that had been
dropped into the machine instead of
| pennies.
| The two new victorias of the senators
from alifornia are said to be the most
| elegant carriages seen in Washington.
Senator Stanford's attracts the greater
/ attention for the reason that the coach
| man and footfnan are IN deep mourning
and match the somber hue of the horses
and the harness.
The crown princess of Austria pre-
scented her husband, Prince Rudolf, with
| complete outfit of goemetrical instru-
] ments as a New Years gift. The case
| of walnut, inlaid with silver, which held
| the instruments, also contained a pretty
| letter from the princess trusting that
! their lives would .'henceforth be hap
| pier. -
/ California is proud of her record for
1887. Three hundred miles of new rail-
road were laid, the assessed value of
| property increased $780,, 900, 900. the
wine and brandy product was large,
| $4,000, 600 pounds of canned goods and
35, 900. GOO of green FRUIT were shipped,
and there never was such q year for
tourists.
Among the gifts offered TO the pope
on his birthday is continuance by a
| French engineer, named Arragon, for
ringing large church bells by electricity.
A similar arrangement is, we believe. at
present at work in London church, the
apparatus having been designed and
erected by some of the students at the
Finsbury Technical college.
A Russian general has created a great
sensation in Europe by furnishing an
elaborate scheme for the construction of
railway through Siberia to the Pacific
ocean. 1t is intended to go by the short
est possible cut from the Urals to the
Pacific ocean. The total cost of the road
is estimated at $500, 600, 900, which, ii
is believed, can be readily raised in Rus.
STA itself.
Ex-Governor Alger's great Michigan
pine forest is located at Block river, on
Lake Huron, near Alpena. 1t comprises
10000 acres, or over 100 square miles.
The annual product of the forest is from
rs. 900, 900 to 10000, 900 feet of lumber,
according to the state of the trade There
are 500 men employed in the nine camps
in the forest.
Eucksters are so numerous in some
parts of town that they are a serious an
noyance to housekeepers. A lady in
West Philadelphia, tired of their repeated
rings at her door bell, adopted a very
shIewd means of getting rid of them.
She notified every one who came to her
house that she would have him arrested
for selling without license If he came
again. 1t was only guess of hers as to
the license, but the shot went home in
every case.
The wife Of United States senator is
believed to have broken the Washington
visiting record. She made forty eight
calls in one afternoon. Assuming that
she galloped the round of her social duties
in four hours, she made twelve calls an
hour, or one every five minutes. De.
Quoting the time taken in going from
house to house and estimating it at two
minutes, the average duration of call
would be about three minutes. Three
minutes. however, is sufficient for the re.
quirements of Washington friendship.