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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-11-27

beaten eggs and little salt, put a
piece of butter the size of an egg into
a frying pan, and when melted pour
il the mixture. Turn when OF
ljqbt brown and serve with or with
out vinegar.
TO l1ake GOOD R3t8b.-One pint
warm milk; half pint of yeast, and
-four to make thick batter when
light, add fhree.quarters Of a pound
of butter & add cinnamon orhutmeg,
according to the taste, and -four to
make them stiff as biscuit dough- let
them remain till of a spongy likeness
then mold them into cakes of the size
YOU mold biscuits; lay them on but
tered tins let them remain half an
hour in warm place before setting
them in the oven; they should be
baked quick; mix a half cup Of sweet
milk with large teaspoontul OF
sugar, and rub over the tops as soon
as baked with cloth tied on the end
OF stick. e,
Preparing Quails. = Each quail
should be carefully picked, cut open
down the back, and pounded slightly
with the steak FOUNDER, to break the
bones, SO they will lie fiat on the grid
iron; salt and pepper them, and broil
to nice brown; have a pan of'melted
butter ready to dip each piece in, as
soon as cooked Have ready slices
of bread toasted to light brown,
and we'll buttered. Lay quail on
each slice of toast, then pour the but
ter which they were dipped in, over
the whole. Serve hot
Mulberry Wi'ae.-When the null
berries are perfectly ripe they can be
shaken into a sheet which is held
under the tree, and afterwards clean
ed from all the leaves, wood, and I'M
ripe berries. The manufacture ofthe
wine is entirely the same as of black
berry wine, and if laid upon ice,
forms a pleasant and refreshing drink
in hot weather.
-Bee5steaks Bgoized, - Steaks cut
from the sirloin are the best; from
the rump the next best; those from
the rimp are not so good, but usually
bought for a less price. Cut three
quarters of an inch thick, place on a
hot gridiron overa good bed Of Goals,
sprinkle with pepper and salt, and
turn the moment the fat begins to
drop. Turn constantly until done.
Place on hot dish, spread with but
ter, and serve. They may be
sprinkled with shallot or with onions
cut very small, and sent to the table
with oyster sauce, dish Of greens
and boiled potatoes. May be garn-
ished with scraped horse-radish.
Porksteak Broiled. = The tender
loin is the best steak, but any lean,
white meat is good. Broil slowly,
after splitting it, so as to allow it to
cook through without drying or burn
ing. When ready to turn over, dip
the cooked side in a nice gravy Of but
ter, pepper and salt, which should be
prepared on plate and kept hot
without boiling. 1t must be we'll
done. 1t requires slow broiling. 1t
will take at least twenty minutes to
broil porksteak.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-11-27
The Boys and the Apples.

Now when the autumn was come
it was so that the land of Bur-ling-
tor and the country round about
abounded with much apples, so that
the sound of the cider press ceased
not from morning even unto the night.
And in the morning the husband
man arose and he said; Go to, apples
are not worth much, but so much as
they will fetch / will have. And he
loaded up his wagon, and filled its
bed even to overlooking, with bell
flowers, and seek no -farthers and duch-
esses and spitzbergens and snow APP
Piles and russets, each after its kind.
And when he was come nigh to
the town, 10 three town boys met him
and spoke unto him delicately and
said; Give us maple.
And his heart was moved with
good nature and he hearkened unto
their words and said unto them Yea,
climb in and eat your fill
And as he .journeyed on he met yet
two other boys. And they waxed
bold when they saw the first three
riding and eating apples, and they
cried aloud Give US snapple. And
the man spoke unto them and said
yea. And they climbed in. .lr3c
And they spoke not one to another
neither did they cease to eat apples
save when they paused that they
might take breath. +Q1
And the husbandman made merry
and laughed with himself to see them
eat, and he said Ho, no; no, no.
But the lads laughed not, for they
were busy.
Now the eldest Of the lads was
thirteen years old, and the youngest
thereof was in his ninth year. And
they were exceedingly lean and ill-fa.
vored.
And when 1.-THE husbandman was
entered into the city he drove along
the streets and lifted up his voice
and shouted aloud: Ap-pulls APP
pulls Here's yer nighseatinnapples
Ap.pulls, Ap-pulls!
And the women of the city leaned
over the fences and said one to the
other, Lo, another rapple wagin.
And they spake unto the man and
said Hast thou of verify good
eatinnapples?
And he said Of verify have
Come forth.
And when they came forth they
looked into his wagon, and they were
wroth and cried out against him.
And they said Thou hast Knocked us
and thou hast deceived thine hand.
maidens with the words of thy mouth.
Verify thou hast naught; wherefore
then dost thou drive he city crying
Ap-pulls?
And when he had turned him
around and looked, he was speech
less
Aud the women of the city cried ::
Go to; are not thy words altogether
lighter than vanity?
And he smote upon his breast and
sware unto them, saying am truth.
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An Irishman, upon his arrival in
the United States, noting the great
number of military titles, exclaimed,
What divil of battle has been
fought near here, where all the prof
Yates were kilt ~"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-11-27

A fellow in Chicago, who bit of
half of mans nose, was bound over
to keep the piece.-BuLletie.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-11-27

1t has never heen ascertained how
much old ocean measured round the
her grey and melancholy waste.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
4 River Intensely Salt.

1t was very long supposed that the
brackisbness of Salt river, Arizona, was
caused by the stream running over bed
OF salt somewhere along its course. It's
waters are pure and fresh from where it
heads in the White mountains to within
fifty miles of where it empties into the
ella. Fifty miles from its junction with
the ella there comes into it a stream of
water that is intensely salt. This stream
pours out of the side of large mountain,
and is from twenty to thirty feet deep
1t is very rapid and pours into the Salt
river a great volume of water. Here
could be easily manufactured sufficient
salt to supply the world. All that
would be necessary would be to dig
bitches and lead the brine to basins in
the nearest deserts. The heat of the sun
would make the salt. Were there a
railroad near the stream, its waters would
doubtless soon be turned and led to i'm
mense evaporating ponds. 1t is supposed
that the interior of The mountain out of
which the streams flow, is largely COM
posed of rock salt Nevada Enterprise.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
The Mexican Revolution.

Just SO soon as Diaz got raiding stopped
on the Rio Grande, the greasers of that
region bee anne restless and kicked up
revolution. If the rebels are not i'm
mediately put down by the Mexican
government, chaos and misrule will soon
reign supreme along the river, and the
old system of raiding into Texas will
again prevail. The result will inevitably
follow that the United States, to protect
the people of Texas, will be forced to
recognize Diaz, and aid him in keeping
his turbulent subjects in proper sub.
lection to law. A strong government
in the city of Mexico, with long arm
reaching to the Rio Grande, is the only
thing that will put an end to our troubles
with those people. And the government
at Washington owes it to the people of
Texas, that they may live IN security, to
see that Mexico has government that
can control its people and make them
respect the rights Of Others Diaz has
been keeping things quiet, and the ad-
ministration, instead OF recognizing his
government and strengthening his hands,
has been fddling and feoliDg over the
subject, until a revolution has broken
out. that may raise for the people of
Texas very hell along the border
San Antonio Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
Foreign Items.

A dispatch from Havana states that the
time for the surrender Of the Cuban in.
surgents having expired, active opera
tions will commence in the eastern de-
partment against Waco and few more
chiefs who are still under arms.
The photograph has carried Paris by
storm. At first the story was actually
spread abroad that the machine was
simply q mystifcation, and that the per-
son who exhibited the photograph was
merely clever ventriloquist and inita.
tor Of other peoples voices. No mind
bat that Of a Paris cockney could have
conceived of such an idea az that. As
soon az the Academy Of Science had tes-
titled to the genuineness Of the invention
the town went wild about 1t. and Edison
has had such advertising az in his Wild
est dreams he could not have expected.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
Florida Fleas.

There appear in June or July two sets
of mosquitoes grayish fellow. who
stands the day watch, and big black
devil that relieves him at shutdown.
They cut right through an ordinary
MOSQUITO bar rs if it were a piece OF
cobwcb, and chew at their helpless
victims until, as a gentleman who has
bad experience expressed it, "they swell
up like poisoned pup" Then little
later comes the boss flea, muscular and
pestiferous bug that takes q piece out,
every time he bites, as big as 1eothpick
Ben can take out of section OF custard
ME, These nuisances hunt the human
family in detachmentsofa couple of thou
sand at time, and SO thoroughly subdue
the object of their attack that six or
seven hundred will head of, seemingly
with the magnanimous reflection, " He's
got enough, we can afford to let him
alone" The tavorite watering place of
Jacksonville people in the warm"
summer months is Fort George Teach.
There is considerable ocean there and
nyriads of insects of all kinds, from the
,oss aea down to the busy little gnat.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11

back to the year 1900 or more. The
attainment of that depth was celebrated
at the time by the striking off of large
number of commemorative silver medals
of the value of form each. There are
other mines, however, where greater
depths have been attained than at the
Adelbert shaft, but not in perpendicular
line. One of these il in the coal mines of
Viviers Remus, in Belgium, where, by
sinking and then boring, a depth of 3,542
feet has been reached. Another is the
Rock Salt Bore hole, near Sperenberg,
not far from Berlin, Prussia, which few
years ago had reached perpendicular
depth of 4,175 feet. The deepest bore
hole in the world is probably the Artesian
spring at Pottsdam, in Missouri, which
has depth of $500 feet.-[Gold Hill
News
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
BabylOniaR Literature.
National Repository

The Babylonian and Ninevite Libraries
were pottery. Their books were plaques
of clay, on which the letters were inn
pressed, and the plaques, being bakeJ,
became such enduring pages of history
that in this nineteenth century aft. r
Christ we find them as legible as when
first printed. Innumerable Egyptian
records are found in hieroglyphic charac-
ters on the various potteries of that PEG.
pie. Greek story and history are abun-
dainty illustrated on relics of Greek &C.
ramic arts. Wherever the Roman le'
gions went t1ey carried with them the
art of making pottery, on which they
historical facts, from which
the modern historian derives information
otherwise unattainable. In short, it
NAV be affirmed that next to the art OF
writing, and in connection with it, the
ceramic art is of more Importance to the
student of history, and of men, than any
and all the other arts.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
He that knows not when to be silen,

he that knows not when to be silent,
knows not when to speak.
He that can compose himself is wiser
than he that com poses books.
Whatever may be the actual status
of an individual, he is sure to be credited
with certain degree of respectability if
his boots squeak.
Two little girls were comparing pro-
gress in catechism study. 81 have got
to original SIM said one. Chow far
have you got ?'' ooh, have got beyond
redemption" said the other.
-" George has had q good many pull
backs in life," said young wife to a
friend. And when the friend said,
"Yes, / saw him with one, yesterday"
the wife got mad.
Generosity during life is very diff
ferent thing from generosity in the hour
of death ; the one proceeds from liberality
and benevolence, and the other from
pride of tear.
IT the breath exhausted in a two
hours speech on the tariff was compressed
it would pump out forty. one gallons of
water from well twenty-nine feet deep.
--[Free Press.
The weather is hourly growing
warmer; the willows are paling;
hyacinths burden the air with their
odors; peached eggs are becoming delici-
Gus, and country sausages are flying
north
Silent, patient, continuous labor does
more than noisy talk or vain boasting.
Silent labor accompanies and makes
visible something that is enduring;
while idle talk, like the babbling of
shallow brook, evinces more noise than
strength.
The lumbermen On the Wisconsin
river have no hope of getting their logs
out the river is so low, unless the last
scheme works. They are now peeling
the logs and greasing them, and they
will try to slide them out. IF this fails
look out for bankruptcies.
Our terms for publishing original
poetry are as follows: Very good
Gratis. Medium-Ten cents per line.
Common-Twenty cents per line. Bad
Not at any price. Very bad-In adver.
Using columns at card rates. Horrible
(such as will make people laugh)--Gratis
Il New Orleans Times
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
Deep Mining Shafts.
III i 9n1
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tkfN 9J9tt4 ~ IL thkif'A !
The Cheasr sayageJE ogcrbaass sliaa ff5 ,iSas
reached aperpeadionlar depth of 2.U6O
feet, and Y aFi iaasis Doubt naas. Tic IL
deepest AAa Is Amaries.
IL still lacksjih eweveff, B4Oiest of having
reached at gsss at da IL iss depth
below the sq j e isafs Ell sa iis g On
Imperial consolidated sancainas. s IT, ddS Snris
tinued doHnWanab until theIwest Iwaila if
the conBsss HI sslt's.d ply win
have attained . depth. Qf not ,iaf from els
800 feety,aAda Will bGenlbe ono amone
the aeepegs i3tiat 4 h ssa q rerpens
d,cnlar mhaing ,shast III IL Ord Over
= year agosathsi Adas bert. sha 1. Isunk'd iil d
silver lead Till s si ssiiasiibrans Bohemia
had reachsalssa fs " Eii dasp y 90
$3.50 feel, ndqis; li,reb sly, deepest,
psrpendicuissf s a1f III Ii Il lie woridas That
!. very 'sgsi sds s'ss l
49, Is,41as.n ne9rsd5 aoa1#
3JAHsLIIIg3 II II I'D.
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St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
Miscellaneous Items.

An Indian, brother of Little Grow, a
Sioux chief, says that at the Spotted
Tail Agency he met three Indians who
lett Sitting Bull in the British posses.
sions and returned to their old hunting
grounds because they were determined
not to take up arms again under Sitting
Bpll against their white brethren. They
say that sitting Bulls people are treated
very badly by the English, and that
Sitting Bull has expressed determine
tion to return to his own land and there
die rather than submit to such treat
ment,
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
THE VALLEY MILL.

The running stream, and the busy rill,1
In fancy I think hear them still;
And the cid gray walls seem now IN view,
Beyond the bridge that so well knew;
But sweeter the charm that brings them near
For the friends who met by the green bank here
The wheels and the burrs go humming round.
And fill the vale with pleasant sound,
While clear and strong oa the breeze without
I catch the tones of joyous shout,
AS loving hand gives welcome there,
And my boys bright face is balm for care.
The mill goes on. and the wagons wait,
But strangers hand is on the gate;
The waters fall as they did of yore,
And the grist still stands on the oaken floor;
But the traders now who come and 60,
Are none of the people we used to know.
The quaint old mill is to me thrice fair,
And my spirit loves to linger there;
But the vision oft is dimm'd by tears,
For heavy shade on the scene appears,
For the sweet young form see no more
With the miller's dress at the open door.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11

was near sc mana. hSr WuIVo HILLS WoIc
barred to the shoulder; her hair fell
wildly around her face, like the name
of lioness about to leap upon its prey ;
the distended orbits of her eyes glared
down upon the SPOT where the question
of life and death was to be so soon de-
cided. Time seemed immeasurably
heightened out-every second assumed
the proportions OF an hour. But at last,
just as all lines and forms began to float
before her sight through distinct
medium of blended light and darkness,
black mass interposed between her
eyes and the floor. Suspense being over,
the time of action having arrived, every.
thing seemed to pass with magical
rapidity. The robber thrust his head
cautiously forward. Mrs. Martin bent
down. There was a half.choked cry
the sound of knife falling on the floor
"a convulsive struggle. Pull! pull I!
pull Mrs. Martin heard nothing-saw
nothing but the scarf passing over the
head of the bed between her two feet.
She had thrown herself back, and, hold
ing her scarf with both hands, pulled
with desperate energy for her life. The
conflict had begun and one or the other
must perish The robber was powerful
man, and made furious effort to get
loose but in vain, Not sound escaped
| from his jips-not sound from hers.
The dreadful tragedy was enacted in 81
! lence.
"WelI, Mother Guerard," cried a
young man, leaping out of carriage that
stopped before the door of the ouberge
next morning, "wbat news have you for
me? Has mother arrived?'
as it your mother?' replied the land
lady, who seemed quite good natured
after her nights rest. "There is lady
up stairs waiting for some friends; but
she does not speak French easily, and
seemed unwilling to talk. We could
scarcely persuade her to 60 to bed.''
"Show me the room /" cried Arthur,
running into the house.
They soon arrived at the door.
"Mother! mother!" cried he, but re-
ceived no answer.
The door is only latched, for we have
no robbers in this part of the country"
said the landlaly.
But a formidable obstacle opposed
their entrance. They became alarmed,
especially when they heard the shrieks
of the little girl, and burst open the
door.
The first object that presented itself
was the face of the robber, violently
upturned from beneath the bed, and
with pretruding tongue and eyeballs;
the next was the form of Mrs. Martin
in the position we left her. She was
still pulling with both hands at the
scarf, and glazing wildly towards the
head of the bed. The child had thrown
its arms around her neck, and was
crying; but she paid no attention. The
terror of that terrible night had driven
her mad.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
BEWARE OF A COLD.
" Heat is Lfe-..CoId is Death.

There is no greater fallacy than the
opinion held by many, particularly the
young and strong and vigorous, that
winter--especially sharp, frosty one,
with plenty Of snow-is the most healthy
season of the year. Very few persons
seem to realize the fact that cold is the
condition of death, and that, in both
warm and cold climates, it is our uncon-
scious effort to maintain our bodily heat
at a temperature of SO deg. that wears
us out. To this temperature, called
blood heat, every cubic inch Of oxygen
that serves to vitalize our blood must
be raised by our own bodily heat, or life
ceases Since in cold weather the MAIN
tenance OF sufficiently elevated bodily
temperature becomes very often diff.
Guilty too great for our strength, the
advent of severe winter is really more
to be dreaded than that of pestilence.
The saying, Heat is life-cold is
DEATH" has striking illustration and
confirmation in the reports now regu-
larly submitted by DR.. Russell to the
Glasgow sanitary committee. The death
rate rises and fallo with the regularity of
the thermometer. So many degrees less
heat, SO many more deaths, and vice
versa. In recent fortDightly report
DR.. Russell says: "The death rate in
the first week OF the fortnight was
twenty -one, and in the second week
twenty-five. The mean temperature in
the former week was 408 deg. Fahren-
heit, and in the latter 1915 deg" He
attributes the low rate of the first week
to the high mean temperature of the
preceding fortnight, which was 27.3 deg,
and adds: "This is good illustration
of law which we frequently observe in
these reports of temperatures and death
rates-that week of low temperature
produces rise in mortality tbs week
following"
In our climate it would probably be
difficult to find more frequent cause
of serious ailments than taking cold.
Whatever weak place we have, whatever
constitutional disorder we be subject to,
cold will surely discover. We take cold
because our vitality is too low to ward
off the effects Of the reduced tempera-
ture around us. As matter of the first
Importance, then, to resist cold and the
Varions arrangements of the system con-
sequent, it is necessary by proper
nutrition to maintain our natural ami.
NAL heat; second, to retain this heat
by sufficient quantity of clothing;
third, to regulate with care the temper
AZURE of the air we breathe. Contrary to
the opinion current among levers of cold
weather, fire in bedroom in the winter
is cheaper and better than doctors bill;
for, owing to our inactive condition DUR
ing Sleep the circulation of the vitalizing
blood is both slow and i'm perfect, and
hence the danger Of taking cold by
breathing cold air j. greatly increased.
A cold is the beginning of everything
that is bad. If anyone conscious ofhaving
caught one feels cold chills creeping up
the back, let him apply mustard plaster
to the bottom of the spine and lower part
of the back at once; and by 80 doing he
may avert a dangerous illness before it is
too late and medical advice can be pro.
cured. In should never be forgotten that
"heat is life--coid is death"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-11
WAITS AND WHIMSs
Tho Lovers Choice.

Tho Lovers Choice
"Here are roses, ed and white'-
Thanks, dear-no.
Nature paints them all too bright"
SIS II soP
"Well, then, take this liIy's face"
"Chill 1t seems.
From Its calm and stately grace
Goodness CLEANS"
'look-bIue violets. you said
They we're sweet"
"Best their sw eetness seemeth shed
At our feet"
Heliotrope, the dearest flower
On the earthv'
NAY, it fades before an hour,
Little worthl"SS
"Heart's-ease-thaty you'll surely keep
If you might
Lay it on my spirit deep
Out of sight!'
$50 cannot please your sense;
You implOre
One fair gift to carry hence,
One no more.
''Yet each choicest bud bring,
You refuse!'
"Sweet, from out their blossoming
Let me choose.
"Kneeling-like loves humb!est slave,
Do not startl
Can you guess which flower I crave
Now, sweetheart7'
-IMary Aipge De We're.