The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-11-12

nave Ou'-DOWCHGOTe 1C6Iy .>OCuf-
day.
A young man in Nebraska sent an
offer Of marriage to girl whom he
fancied, and in reply received.a tele-
gram: 4" Come on with your minis.
ter"
The Fon du Lac (Cal.) Reporter
says: The button on the back of
mans shirt collar probably needs
talking to as much as any other IMAM
innate thing in this world.
"Cufy, why don't you kick that
dog ?" ''What am de use oh kickin'
every cur that snarls at you? Don't
you know dat am de way he wants
you tn bring him into notice ?"
"To the poor all things are poor"
said the grocer, as he weighed out a
half pound Of his most robust butter
for a ragged little fellow with ten
cent piece.-Neao Haven Register.
An old Scotch woman was scolded
by the minister for letting her son
swear. 'It's vera wrong meenister,''
said she, "but you maun alloo' that it
sets off the conversation NIGHTLY"
When little Washington remarked
to his pa, II cannot tell lie" the
old man turned pale with astonish-
ment and grief. "Why, you young
rascal p he exclaimed, chats the big.
gest one yet. "-Rutitlo E&press.
-. Men plant the grain and timber of
everyday life with their strong hands,
which God made for that purpose.
Women fill in the hollows and GREY.
ices and swelling banks with flowers,
fearns and delicate shade trees, which
makes the vigorous work Of the
strong hands beautiful.
A New York artifcer, CRUDE, has
constructed what purports to be the
largest globe of the earth now in ex-
istence, showing all the prominent
features of its surface. Its diameter
is four feet and enc inch, the scale be-
ing one TO 100000. The globe is
made Of wood ; the relief is formed
by wax.
The French newspapers say that in
a certain Irish catheet4aAf there--uSed
to be shown three skulls, one little
one and two big ones, which the
guide described to visitors as the
skull of St. Patrick when child, the
skull OF st. Patrick when he was
grown up, and the skull of St. Pat
rick as an OLD man.
The gallery OF the Louvre seems to
be a school of morals as well as art.
A mother in showing her little boy
the Venus of Milo, was asked by him,
"What did they cut her arms off for?"
because she would put her fingers
in the sugar bowl" was the reply.
Little Jacky secretely resolved to be
no longer liable to such terrible in
Fiction.
One Niagara is enough for the
world, while the same world requires
thousands Of silver fountains gently
flowing streams and rivulets, that wa
ter every farm and meadow and
every garden, and that shall flow on
every night with their gentle. quiet
beauty. So with The acts of our lives.
1t is not by great deeds like those of
the martyrs that good is to be done
it is by the daily and quiet virtues
of life, the christian temper, the
good qualities ofrelatives and friends,
and all, that is to be done
At Leadville an inventor claims to
have made an important discovery
in the concentration Of artificial elec-
tricity, by which he can reduce i'm
mense boulders to fine powder al
most within the twinkle of an eye.
He further claims that his concen-
trated electricity will rend rock as
readily as the darts of Tightening de.
scending from the heavens, and that
he has gotten the subtle fluid as COM
pletely under his control as an engi-
neer has his steam in WELDON
structed and thoroughly-tested boiler.
A Western traveller came up to a
log cabin and asked for drink, which
was supplied by a good-looking
young woman. AS she was the first
woman he had seen for several days,
he offered her a dollar for kiss. 1t
was duly taken and paid for, and the
young hostess, who had never seen
dollar before, looked at it moment
with some curiosits, then asked what
she should do with it. lie replied what
she chooses, as il was hers. III