Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-31
A Winter in the Azores.

Europe and America:
AzoRIAN PoLITENEss.--Th politeness
of the people here is very striking TO an
Englishman. A country man will hard
ly ever pass you without taking off his
hat, even when his load may make it
real Inconvenience TO him; and as there
is a serious composure about their cour-
tesy, and an apparent absence of servil-
ity. these recognitions seem like tokens
of sincere good will. do not know
that there is more downright civility of
purpose among them than there is in
John Bull--very possibly there may be
much less. There is certainly more
varnish; and good watch looks bet.
ter in gold case, though it may go
as well in one of Brittania ware.
A stranger is likely to be set down as
most unmannered until he knows that
every man is expected TO take off his
hat to every lady whose eye he catches,
whether in her balcony or in her car
riage, or in the street. This outward
mark ofpoliteness is almost universal.
The country people do this with
deliberate gravity, very different 10 the
graceless but equally civil mode in
which country people in English villa>
ges, remote from the defilement of large
towns, pinch the brims of their hats TO
those better dressed than themselves.
The custom is agreeable enough to
strangers, as it deprives strange place
Of its soltariness. The mutual recogni>
ton awakens slight sympathies on each
side, and on this account should not be
despised, though it is worth no more.
PACKING ORANGEs.--Walked this
morning, Oec. 27,) to an Orange gar
den beyond the little village of Rbeira
Secca. AT its entrance was a path
way with evergreen faya-trees on each
side, meeting in arches overhead. Sud
denly we came upon merry groups of
men and boys, all busily engaged in
packing oranges in square and open
plot of ground. They were gathered
round goodly pile of the fresh fruit,
sitting on heaps of the dry calyx>leaves
of the Indian corn, in which each o.
range is wrapped before it is placed in
the boxes.
A quantity of the leaves being heap
ed together near the packers, the ope-
ration began. A child handed to a
workman, who squatted by the heap of
fruit, prepared husk; this was rapidly
snatched from the child, wrapped round
the orange by an intermediate works
man, passed by the feeder to the next,
who, sitting with his chest between his
legs, placed it in the orange-box with
amazing rapidity, took a second, and a
third, and fourth, as fast as his hands
could move and the feeders could sup
ply him, until at length the chest was
filled TO overfowng, and was ready tc
be nailed up. Two men then handed
it to the carpenter, who bent over the
orange chest several thin boards, secu
red them with a willow band, pressed i
with his naked foot as he sawed off the
ragged ends of the boards, and finally
despatched it 10 the ass, which stoot
ready for lading.
The pressure of these flexible board
is Immediately upon the oranges; ;
plan admirably adapted to spoil them
for they are thus flattened and squeezed
, OF course, there are cogent reasons 70
, this. One is. that the duty paid il
England is calculated according TO tn
size of the box, and consequently tn
r more oranges that can be squeezed il
: the less duty is paid. Another reaso
9 is, that the wholesale dealers in Londor
S Liverpool, &c. prefer the present mod
' Of packing, which enables them 10 tax
2 out a couple of hundred oranges an
! then to send the boxes TO their countr
C customers as full ones, which they pei
}, haps may be, since the squeezed orar
d ges. when their pressure is removed
swell out to their original size. OF tn
: | was informed by proprietor of I
d range gardens, who had tried the pla
e of sending his oranges in square box'
less tightly packed, but did not find tn;
2, his customers were pleased by it.
o PECULIARLY IN ORANGE TREEs.-
is March 26th-accompanied Senior
"a to several of his orange gardens in Il
town. Many of the trees in one ga
den were a hundred yea;s old; S
bearing plentifully, a highly p. lzcd Il
,r- skinned orange, fol- of lice, and Fl
of of pips. The th!Inness of the rind of
81, Mlchaers Orange, and its freedom frt
'o- pips' o.epcnd on the age Of the tree. 1
uld ycuGg trees, when in full vigor, bt
als. t1uit with thick pulpy rind and an