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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-07-10
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

G. nj. H., Orlando. The qualities
attributed to the Lamb lemon, are
that they are of a good marketable
size, thin skinned, good flavor, and
above all, tree is capable Of standing
frost better than any other variety
known.
You had better apply to A. !. Bid
we'll, Jacksonville, for bis new variety
of oranges.
1t is very easy to graft the cult
waited grape on the wild, cleft graft
ing below the surface Is the best
plan, and about Christmas is the best
time. You must keep down the sue
cors which will be continually spring
ing up from the roots. You can re-
move the wild roots before or after
grating.
NJ. ID. S, Stark, Fla.-You need
not trouble yourself to plant cocoa
nuts at your place, they will never
come to any good. They may sue
coed in the southern part of the
State. Some are growing at Jupiter
Light House on the Atlantic coast
and at Fort Myers on the Caloosa-
hatche river.
Date palms will grow in nearly
all parts OF the State, but will never
bear fruit worth eating. Pine apples
may do with-you, if protected in
winter. Read the AGRI CULTURE ST
and keep it for reference You will
profit in your attempt to grow spices
and tropical shrubs. Bread fruit
might 5e acclimated to this State but
we have never heard of any having
been introduced.
G. Nj. ", Boston, Mass.-You can
come to Florida in the summer with
safety if you keep out of the mala.
rial districts. Cattle raising is the
best paying thing here and might be
made still more profitable by i'm,
proving the breed of cattle and
planting good grasses to feed them.
DETROIT FREE PRESS: Boss
Tweed being dead, let the small
thieves be looked after. . The small
thieves always have been looked af.
ter. They are sent 40 the peniten-
tiary every day. But this can't last
much longer. They are beginning to
learn that the only royal road to
luxurious life Of virtuous ease and
indie pendence lies not through petty
thetts of few hundreds at a time.
but through the stealing of half a
million and calling it defalcation.-
Courier Journal;
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ALEX. ST. CLAIR ABRAMS.
Attorney for Brevard County

OK Morton. The Chair appointed Com
missloDers French and Wager committee
to destroy by fire, the bonds Nos "a, 48 and
40. issued February 1877, and of these bonds
issued to 4. Watson e. Son. Each of the
above bonds for 800, and also Treasurer
warrants aggregatiug S4195.2O, and that
duty was performed.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-07-10

no M MOTION 81 1t was ordered that, that
90 east lying south of Spruce creek and
sectlons IS. "a, and that portion of sect;"ne
% anu 20 lying west of TurnbulI creek i,
township and range aforesaid now inclndad
IA Ii. alstrlet No. 10, be set off and includedin
Clerk of Board Co. Commissioners
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-07-10

ON MOTION, Ordered that election dis
trict No. 10 becmposed of the FOLLOWING de.
Sc sSF toe territory in Volusia county. Ali
that portion lying west OF the Sf io ,5SS
river. Also section Nos six. seven, eiohE
teen; nineteen and thirty. in township I;
Beresford. pace III
On MOTION, Ordered that the following
taxes ;lS oe levied, and collected, on the eaual.
1Mea xaluatl3n OF the real and personal
1878, viz: ava 'ne yeal
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On MOTION, 1t was ordered the follow
Ing amounts be allowed. agRreratina. viz
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Paying for his Whistle,

Not many years ago, when a lofty
building was on the point of completion,
the mason who was finishing the highest
portion was in the habit OF whistling to
the laborer who was attending him when
ever he wanted fresh supply Of lime,
and, as the scaffold on which he wrought
was rather small, this occurred very often
during days work. A joiner who was
fitting in a window Immediately under
Death, noticing Pat answer dutifully TO
every whistle from the mason, thought of
playing trick on him by initiating the
whistle, and thus brought him up with
hodful of lime when there was no room
for 1t. The mason told Pat that he had
not whistled, so he had no other alterna-
tive than to trudge back with his load
This having occurred for the third time
during one day, Pat thought he would
watch to hear where the whistle came
from. He had not waited long with the
hod on his shoulder when he heard the
identical whistle directly underneath
where he stood, and, leaning over, he saw
the head Of the joiner protruding out of
the window Immediately below. Pat,
without more ado, emptied the hod right
over the whistler's head. The Joiner
yelled and spluttered while attempting to
clear himself from the adhesive mass
and, in the midst of his confusion, heard
Paddy above shouting at the top of his
voice, "Whistle when you want more
ElOrtarn
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Steel Shields for Soldiers.

Lieutenant Sayce, retired officer of the
British army, has patented steel shield
tor soldiers. 1t is carried, when required,
by the men, suspended in front of the
chest, and in this position protects the
vital parts of the body; but the particu-
lar feature in these shields, and which the
inventor claims as the special novelty, is
their use, when several are set up in
line upon the ground, in protecting the
men while lying down or kneeling and
firing from behind them. The shields,
being slipped eff the hooks, are set up by
themselves, hinged double rest at the
back supporting them, this rest requiring
to be fitted in 2 particular manner, to en-
able the shield, when standing by itself,
to resist the shock of bullet striking it,
without being overturned. This arrange
ment proves to be considerable difficulty
In pertecting the invention The princf-
pal objection is the weight, but more than
this would have to be carried extra, were
it once proved there was an advantage in
doing so, heavier weights having been
formerly submitted to in ancient times,
when physical activity was as necessary
as it is at the present. One cart would
carry a supply for two companies of a
regiment, as the shields need not be issued
to the men until they are in proximity to
an enemy
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Giving the Cheese q Chance.

The man staggered into tidy lunch
house over the Rhine, says the Cincinnati
Breakfast Table, Topped into a chair,
slapped his feet upon the table, showed
his hat on the back Of his head and called
for bread and Limberger. The proprie-
tor hustled around and filed the order
himself.
The man picked up bit of cheese on
q fork and smelled of it derisively
''Take that away" he said, " and bring
me some decent cheese. It's Limberger
want. This is no good"
whats de matter mid dot cheese,
mine frinde? Vas it doc sdrong? l haff
zoom dot vas vresher," said the German,
anxious to please.
"Strongl No That's what I want.
This cheese is no count at ALL l want
something that l can smell clear across
the room. Trot it out and be lively.
This don't stink bit-fetch in the rank
est you've got. I've got Dutch stom-
ach, and the man smelled at the cheese
again, and threw it down in disgust.
The proprietor bowed over the table
and also shifted few times. He turned
an injured look on the captious customer,
and persuasively said:
"Dot was not fair, mine frindc; dook
down dem foots off der dable, und gif dot
cheese far chancew
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Interviews with English NoYeiists.

Rose Eytinge, the actress, thus gossips
about some noted English writers:
was delighted with Mr. Reade. | met
HIM often at his house at Kni@htbiidge,
where he entertained me. He is man
whose life is given to the broadest, open
handed charity. He lives to do good.
Why, the people come to him for every
thing, and out he goes to right their
wrongs, visiting this man, demonstrating
with that, into Offices and counting rooms.
70 see that justice is done some poor
body, who has been wronged in the mat
ter of some Shopkeeper's overcharge, he
will run all day Just now he is busily
engaged in forcing the introduction of
safety lamp into the mines. His study,
or writing room,-he calls it the garden
Toom,-loolS out over Hyde Park. The
ceiling is low, the walls are covered with
family portraits and in inches stand the
entire series of Rogers statuettes in plas-
ter. On his table, flanking an elegant
Louis QuatoTse clock, stand two unsightly
coal oil lamps, Of the kind he is trying to
introduce into the mines. His house is
| museum Of bric-a-brac and curiosities. /
have four grand plays by him which l
"AiA N'Sl >O4i4C tit v rs sat III Ills lOUlu
and looked into his face, framed in white
Nnair from the chin all around, l was as
deeply impressed as when l read his
''Cloister and Hearth" Indeed, more so.
HIS apparently intuitive perception of the
| workings OF a woman's mind are so deli
cate and exact. Well, he is bachelor
and lives al home, but dimes at the club
a great deal. He is man OF large frame,
and photograph he gave ME had writ
ten upon it: This is picture Of great
man, now, thank heaven, much reduced" !"
referring 10 the time when it was taken
when he was much stouter. l cannot
sufficiently express my admiration of the
man.
Wili,ie Collins l saw, also, and fourd
him delightful. He is almost an invalid
and suffers great deal with rheumatic
gout. He speaks of the gout with stern
disapprobation, but despite the pain it
almost continually infiicts upon him, he
talks admirably upon nearly ali topics.
Edmund Yates l saw frequently, too He
spoke in glowing terms of his visit to
America, where he received magnificent
hospitality. But l suppose if 1 speak in
this strain of everything and everybody l
met you will imagine that saw nothing
that was not delightful.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Saving Seed Corn.

We have sometimes had no little diff
Guilty procuring seed corn that would ger
inmate. Some seasons the corn is not
sufficiently ripened before the frost. On
this subject the Cincinnati Grange Bui-
letin tells why these failures occur, and
adds few seasonable hints on the saving
of tomato seeds.
The perfecting Of seed is the whole end
and ain of all annual plants; the whole
energies of the plant, from termination
Of the seed down to the frost that kills
the plant and stops the flow Of sap. are
absolutely required to make perfect seed.
The Immature sap of young plant
never could produce mature seed; it re-
qulres all the whole volume from infancy
to maturity, the weak and the strong life
blood or the plant, to give the seed its
full power of transmission. Especially is
it necessary that the last remaining flow
Of sap from the stalk, matured by age,
the season and the approach Of winter,
should enter the seed. Hence to deprive
seed of this final act is to weaken it; it
may have vitality enough without it to
grow and produce other seed, but it is
itself immature, and must produce imma-
ture seed.
To gather corn in the glazed state, and
hang it up in the shade, is to deprive it of
all the mature sap of the plant, and also
Of the ripening influence of the sun.
Nature never ripens seed in that man
ner. She gives it every chance, every in
fuence, every particle of nourishment
from the suns rays, the nights dews, and
the perfecting influence of the waning
season. This much for corn especially,
but also for all others.
Tomato seeds require different man
agement, because they are more tender
In this case leave the earliest, finest.
smoothest, largest fruit on the vines till
slight frost admonishes us of winters ap-
proach. Then gather them, lay them on
a board in the sun during the day, but in
the house at night, for three or four days
then cut the tomato in half across the
stem way, scoop out the core, seeds and
all, throw them into bucket till they
sour and ferment, wash out the seeds, dry
perfectly In the sun, not in the oven, and
put away in "a dry place
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Scientific Notes.

Scientists tell US that the hazy ans,
smoky appearance of the atmosphere dur
ing the autumn DAYS is occasiOned by the
consumption and decay of the foliage Of
trees and shrubbery, and that the gaudy
hues that make hillside and dell beauti-
full and lovely to the sight are but indica-
tons of the process of disintergration
slowly but surely progressing.
In an experiment recently made il
Bombay, India, to determine the power of
solar heat for governing steam, nine gal
Ions Of water were put in small boiler,
and boiled by the rays Of the sun in eA-
actly thirty minutes. After boiling one
hour the focus was turned off, when it
was found that 34 gallons had been
evaporated. In the experiment 1913 glass
mirrors, each Is inches by 81, were used.
NJ. Terquem, a French artisan, has
originated method of writing on glass
with common or India ink. The glass is
heated over spirit lamp, or gas, until
steam ceases to be deposited on it, that is
to say, so dg, to 60 dg, Cent; and a var
nish, composed of eighty grammes of
alcoho. at 95 dg., four grammes of mastic
in drops, and gramme Of gum sandarac
heated together in flask, is then applied
to the glass, after the tiltering of the var
nish; the latter is very hard, and becomes
brilliant and completely transparent, but,
if applied cold TO the surface of glass, il
remains opaque and absorbs ink. A
sheet Of glass thus prepared may be writ
ten upon with ink, but afterward must be
dipped in very thin gum water.
The great feature of the laboratory.
however, at the present time is Mr. Edi-
sons new invention for subdividing the
electric light. His experiments on it thus
far have proved it to be en- entire success.
The scientists who have seen it pronounce
it wonderful, and predict that it will dis
place to large extent the use Of gas
The Professors invention reduces the
electric light to the brightness of single
gas jet and transmits it through wires
from central magneto-electric machine
all over the city at an expense much less
than that of gas. Mr. Edison, ordinarily
very calm about his great inventions, is
on this unusually enthusiastic. He be-
ieves that the problem of electricity for
the purpose of light has at last been
solved.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Anecdotes Of Nisers.

When Sir William Smith, a wealthy
English miser, was, at seventy years of
age, deprived of his sight, he felt it to be
a terrible aff1iction. He was persuaded
by Taylor, the celebrated oculist, TO be
couched; who was, by agreement, TO have
sixty guineas if he restored his patient to
any degree of sight. Taylor succeeded
IN his operation, and Sir William was en-
abled to read and write without the aid
of spectacles during the rest of his life
But no sooner was his sight restored, thar
the baronet began TO regret that his agree
ment had been for so large a sum; he
felt no joy as others would have felt, but
grieved and sighed over the loss of his
sixty guineas. His thoughts were now
how TO cheat the ocuIist; he pretended
that he had only a glimmering, and could
see nothing distinctly; for which reason
the bandage on his eyes was continued a
month longer than the usual time Tay-
Ior was deceived by these misrepresenta-
tons, and agreed TO compound the bar
gain, and accept twenty guineas instead
Of sixty. Yet Sir William was an old
bachelor, and had no one to care or pro-
vide for. At the time Taylor attended
him, he had large estate, an immense
sum Of money in stocks, and thirty thou
sand dollars in the house.
When the government desired to bor-
row large sum of money from the i'm
mensely wealthy miser, Foscue, he re-
fused the loan on the plea of poverty.
Fearing, however, that some Of his neigh
bors, among whom he was very unpopu-
lar, would report his immense wealth to
the government, he applied his ingenuity
to discover some effectual way of hiding
his gold, should they institute a search to
ascertain the truth or falsehood of his
plea. With great care and secrecy he
dug deep cave in his cellar; to this re-
ceptacle for his treasure, he descended by
d ladder, and to the trap-door he attached
spring lock, so that on shutting it would
fasten of itself. BY and by the miser dis
appeared; inquiries were made; the house
searched; woods explored. and the ponds
were dragged, but no Foscue could they
find; and gossips began to conclude that
the miser had fled with his gold to some
part where, by living incognito, he could
be free from the hands of the government.
Some time passed on; the house in which
he had lived was sold, and workmen were
busily engaged in its repair. In the pro-
gress OF their work they met with the
door of the secret cave, with the key in
the lock outside. They drew back the
door and descended with light The
first object upon which the lamp reflected
was the ghastly body of Foscue, the mi
ser, and scattered about him were heavy
bags Of gold and ponderous chests of un-
told treasure; a oandlestick lay beside
him on the floor. The worshipper of
mammon had gone into his cave to pay
his devoirs to his golden god, and became
4 sacrifice to his devotion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Charles O'COnOr.

A correspondent of the Detroit Free
Press says the man who is honored above
all others In legal circles in New York is
Charles O'Conor. He looks quite as well
as before his wonderful battle with death,
when the doctors gave him up, and he
took the fight entirely into his own hands.
Alr. O'Conor was always delicate in ap-
pearance, and is so still, but, as the issue
of his contest with death proved, he has a
constitution of wonderful elasticity and
recuperatlve power. He is now entirely
out OF active practice, but he occasionally
acts as counsel in important cases, confin
ing himself exclusively to an examination
OF the law, and never appearing in court.
All his professional brethren, from the
highest to the lowest, willingly concede
his profound knowledge and clear acu-
men, but all are ready to declare that his
high reputation is due quite as much TO
his lofty personal character as to his legal
learning. There are other lawyers who
can scarcely be called inferior to him as
Jurlsts, but there is no other who has
won SO high place In the confidence
that rests on pure and strict integrity.
de has seen nearly all those who were
near to him pass away, and now is lone
ly old manAbut his Life does not change.
Most OF his time is spent In seclusinn, anG
1t Is but rarely that he seeks social enjoy
ment OF any kind. The few friends who
are sufficiently intimate to visit him he is
always glad to see, but his relation to So
eiety at large is very much hike that Of an
snchorite,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Take Care of the Orchard.

Whatever on the farm does not rise to a
certain dignity in the estimation of the
farmer, is usually sadly neglected, if not
otherwise abused. While every farm has
Its Orchard, on great many 1t is consid
cred OF very little account, being used
only for supplying the home wants. We
have heard farmers go SO far as to say
that it was cheaper to buy fruit than tc
raise it. This opinion, however, does not
find general favor, we are happy to say;
but while it is usually thought desirable
to have an orchard, it is frequently the
last 1hing cared for, if ii is ever cared for.
We have seen trees in cultivated orchards
shamefully abused, and that it was per-
mltted by the owner could not be ac-
counea for, for if tree is worth plant
ing, It would seem that the owner would
realize that it was worth preserving. Not
only does the owner himself sometimes
show an astonishing disregard OF the in
terests OF the apple trees by plowing
through the roots, and breaking the trees
with the whifiitrees, but he looks COM
placently on while the hired man does
the same thing. Sometimes man will
be careless of his own, so far as his own
does what he does, he is aroused to see
the nature of his own misdemeanor, as
well as the one who is doing likewise, and
demonstrate. But some farmers appear to
be utterly indifferent as to who abuses the
trees OF the orchard, or how it is done.
They will suffer the pruning to be done
not c1one in slovenly way, but in an in
jurlous way. The man is sent into the
tree with rough, heavy boots, and he rubs
Oft the bark at every step, and does more
damage than any respectable pruning
would compensate for; but the pruning is
often not respectable. 1t is simply butch
ering. If the limbs get of, however, the
owner seems satisfied.
Then, perhaps, some beautiful looking
apple. attracts his eye, or the eye Of some
one else, and he hurls club among the
branches or suffers some one else to do it.
One would be led to suppose that he
thought the tree the rock of Gibraltar.
1t is no wonder that tree treated in any
such manner fails to give its owner salts
faction.
4 tree is endowed with life, and the
machinery of life. 1t has a circulation,
lungs and skin, and these are susceptible
Of injury, and when injured must decrease
the vitality of the tree, as the vitality Of
the human body is decreased by disease.
While the farmer in many instances no
doubt thinks that our pomologists are ex-
travag4nt in their ideas of needs of the
orchard in the time they devote to it, it is
not true, and very much benefit might be
derived by all of us if we would strive to
initiate them. There are difficulties in
growing an orchard which are often dis
couraging. The varieties selected are
often unfit for the locality, and other
things come up to dishearten, but it will
pay 10 deal with them all, and by pa
tience and perseverance to have good
orchard on the farm and to take good care
Of it when it is grown as well as while it
is growing.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-26
Blindness in Horses.

An English writer thinks one cause of
the greater frequence of blindness in
horses than in other domesticated animals
is the inconvenient position of the hay
racks from which many of them have to
feed. Placed, as these frequently are,
high up On the stable wall, the horse must
seek his fodder with raised head and out
stretched neck, and its removal is accom-
panied by shower of dust and small,
sharp-pointed particles Of chaf and seed
which naturally fall into his eyes Fur
ther causes Of this very common affiiction
may be found In the pungent ammonia
gases so freely diffused in ill-ventilated
stalls, in the trying eross-lights common
in stabling, and in the indiscriminate en-
ployment Of ''b!inders," which divert the
line of vision from the natural direction.