The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-16
VARIETIES.
JULY 16

Some men cling to their opinions
more tenaciously than they ever will
to selfrespect.
Embark in no enterprise which you
cannot submit to the test of PRAYER
Hosea B0Uou.
Death to the Christian is the fun
eral of all his sorrows and evils, and
the resurrection of all his joys
Mason.
l believe that the want of our age
is not more ''free" handling of the
Bible, but more "reverent" handling,
more humanity, more patient study,
and more prayer.-Reo. j. G. Ryle.
els the bowling of a dog always
followed by death ?" asked little
girl, of her father. "Not always my
dear; sometimes the man that shoots
at the dog misses him." was the pa
rents reply.
kissing the baby may result in
reforming its nose, and bringing
on nearsightedness. The best plan
is not to kiss baby of the feminine
persuasion until it attains the age OF
sixteen years. The cartilage of the
nose is then much stronger.
An honest Hibernian in recon.
mending a cow, said she would give
milk year after year without having
calves. Because" said he, sit runs
in the brade; for she came of COW
that never had a calf"
A pickpocket taken with his hand
in some one else's pocket, endeavored
to invent all manner OF impossible
explanations of the phenomenon.
"What's the use of your trying to lie
about it so clumsily ?" said the mag.
istrate, benevolently "haven't you a
lawyer"
A rapid and emphatic recital of the
following simple narrative is an infal-
hble cure for lisping: Hobbs meets
Snobbs and Nobbs Hobbs hobs with
Snobbs and hobbs; Hobbs nobs to
Snobbs and robs Nob6s' fobs. 'This
u.s." says hobbs, "the worst of Hobbs
jobs )" and Snobbs sobs.
An Irishwoman called at her gro
GERS the other day and asked for a
quart of vinegar 1t was measured
ont. and she ,pnt it In a gallon jug.
She then asked for another quart to
be put in the same vessel. "And why
not ask for hail gallon, and have
done wlthit?' inpatiently asked the
grocer. 'Och !! bless yer little soul,
isn't it for two that / want it ?"
Sin my airly day." remarked the
old man, as he shoveled coal into the
school,house bin, "they didn't use
coal to keep US school young 'uns
warm, l can tell you" What did
they use p asked boy near by. A
sad, tar-away look seemed to pass
over the old mans face as he quietly
responded Birch, my boy-birch."
Chicago Jowanal
Il gave my seat in the car to-day
to nice lady from abroad" remarked
an ungentlemanly wretch at the tea
table last night. GLOW do you know
she was from abroad" inquired one
OF the fair tea drinkers, ''did YOU ask
her ?" "No, / did not address her at
ALL" replied the first speaker, "but
when | got up to give her seat she
said: 'Thonk you, sirr and then I
knew she must be foreigner" Here
the conversation dropped again.
He was Chinaman slightly over
the bay, and he rushed into a Blake.
street saloon excitedly, rushed up to
the bar and cried out excitedly
"W hiskee cockee tailee for me. alice
samee Mclean man" The barkeeper
arranged the mixture, handed it ont.
and the Chinaman, pouring it down,
started for the door, shouting put,
tee down on slatee, alice samee Mel
lean man." And long before the bar
keeper could get hold of a club the
Celestial was seen no more Of men
De1eUer Tribune.
Hudson futile well says: "The
body must be pure When intlamed
with an improper diet, or saturated
with stimulants and narcotics the
mind, reciprocating the physical con.
ditlons thus created, is seethino
mass OF passions, magazine which
a spark may explode, and not will. /
llngly do the pure spirits approach. |
and the undeveloped a,e ever ready
to to seize the opportunity afforded.
The prophets of old tasted and al.
eted, that they might gain immortal
inspiration; they ordered their lives
IN purity, that they might allow the
invisible world the closer 70 o,,,.,..>.1n