The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-20
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Pnragraphs of Interest to Almost Every
body-CIfppingS from the Exchanges
When the smokestack of the Allen
town thread mill is completed il viii be
227 feet high. the loftiest in the United
States.
AS a prevention against trichinosis
small quantities Of pigs meat coming
from Poland into Silesia are now exam
ined at any of the toll stations at a fee
of Sd.
The Chicago board of education has
decided to name one of the new public
schools in that CITY ssthe Washburne
school" in honor Of the late E. B. WASH
burne.
A tower now being erected on the
highest point of the Mount of Olives by
the Russians viii be SO high that the
Mediterranean and Red seas may be seen
from the top of 1t.
Sam Jones, the revivalist, had the
audacity to say before a Boston audi
ence that he did not believe in culture
with big c. And Boston now be-
Eeves in Jones with a small 81
There is a strange natural curiosity in
Fayette county, Indiana, known as Shaky
Hin. 1t comprises about twelve acres,
and is occasionally subject to tremulous
movements affecting several acres OF
for ffty-seven years.
An American dentist has been fined in
Berlin for putting the title doctor" on
his cards. The judge said the law ap-
piled to all foreigners; he would fine even
the crown princes doctor. DIR. Mackenzie,
if he attempted to use the title doctor"
in Prussia
The remains Of John OakIy were dis
inferred and reburied near Albuquerque.
n. NJ, recently. and it was discovered
that his face ard head were covered with
a thick growth of hair, although when he
was buried ten years ago he was both
bald and beardiess.
Mrs. craik was prompted to write her
last book, .'An Unknown Country,
which discusses the condition of the poor
in the north of Ireland. by overhearinS
the remark of a laboring man, who, when
rallied upon helping a little girl across the
street, replied, "Av, but 'andful of 'elp
is worth a CARLOAD of pity"
Poultry men say that pullets Matched
by incubators and raised in brooders lay
much sooner than those hen Matched and
raised. A Trenton man has one of these
artificial young hens that began laying
when 10 weeks old, and has laid an egg
a day ever since.
At public auction of old furniture in
one of the Lancaster, Pa, market places
the ether day, claw foot mahogany
sofa that had belonged to Thaddeus
Stevens was knocked down for SO;
three legged table that once occupied
place in ..Old Thad's'' office brought only
50. and an old quaint looking glass that
had belonged to him sold for S1.50.
The Guild Of the Iron Cross is a new
| Catholic organization having for its OBJ
| ject the spreading of the principles of
| temperance reverence. and chastity. Fa-
| Their Field, of Philadelphia, the guilds
| chaplain general, has just returned from
| a successful tour in the west and in Can
| ada, and reports 1000 members, 1T
| priests and 2 bishops connected with the
| guild.
1t is stated that a German steamship
recently took to Colon from Africa 200
Liberians. men of gigantic stature and
powerful physique. They were half
| naked, carried queer looking bundles
upon their shoulders. and spoke q Ian
gusge which no one else on the isthmus
understood. II is said that SEQ more
will follow. and that these men viii
| work on the Panama canal.
Chief Drummond, of the United Statee
Secret Service. in reporting on a band OF
Italian counterfeiters now operating in
this country. has called attention To the
existence of formidable secret organi-
zation originating in Sicily, but having
branches in New York, Boston, Chicago,
st Louis st. Paul, San Francisco and
several other cities. The members Of
this society are described asassassins and
villains of the worst type, engaged in all
sorts of criminal schemes, but especially
in the counterfeiting business.