The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-03
MARCH 3
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several successful instances tor fer
stilizing aapeachs .house. This is an in.
teresting scientific discovery.
"You never saw my hands as dirty
as that" said a petulant mother to
her little girl. mo, but. your ma
did," was the reply Ia 4 sYot
What bang up creature girl is
anyhow. She bangs her hair; bangs
the piano; bangles her arms, and
bangs the door and her little brother
when she is mad.-PhiJoc7elohia SIN.
day Item.
Landlord Ito prospective tenant)-
"Lonely? Yer wife feel kinder lone
some here so far from neighbors ?
Why, man, this is right on the road
to the cemetery There's funerals
passln' here every day of yer life"
Harvard Lanepoom.
A farmer writes II saw in pa
per that a western farmer planted
flax with potatoes, and it kept the
bugs off: I planted flax with pota-
toes and the flax came up first and
the bugs roasted on it, waiting for
the potatoes to come up"
When you pick up paper and Pc.
ruse sublimely sentimental or
deeply philosophical essay, the last
line of which reads, "Sold by all
Druggists you are forcibly struck
with the truth OF that conclusive re-
mark.
This being leap year, a Main street
young lady thought she would make
a proposal, and she did. She pro-
posed to a young man who had been
keeping her up nights that he clear
out and give some one else a chance,
and he took the hint and cleared.
Il gentleman observing servant
girl, who was left handed, placing
the knives ana forks ON the dinner
table in the same awkward manner,
remarked 20 her that she was laying
them handed. "Oh! indade |"
said she, so l have Be pleased, sir,
to help me turn the table round
"Well, girls" said the mother,
s'you are big enough now to be of
some use. 1t may make you mad to
tell you of it. | am going to dis.
charge the washerwoman. Wiring
out, wild bellies is to be the motto
of this house." And visions of par
boiled hands running the scales on a
-wsshhb5oard instead OF a piano lifted.
before the minds of those sad daugh-
ters.
sis this the place." she asked, as
she wandered down to the barren
sands, where young lady-a beau
tiful young lady-fell in the water
last season, and was rescued by a
gallant young man, whom she after
wards married ?" He looked at her
carefully, estimated her at square
At, with false teeth and said: Eyes,
madame, but l do not know how to
swim. "-In0id'eapolis Neacs.
A very simple remedy is made
known by DIR. Steven, in a St. Peters.
burg journal, for preventing the de-
veiopment of boils. He states that
if the skin be specifically scraped
with a small knife, SO that drop or
two Of blood may be pressed through
the epidermis as soon as the peculiar
stabbing or prlcking sensation and a
slight induration announce the com.
mencement Of the boil, it will not be
further developed.
Anybody can soil the reputation of
an individual, however pure and
chaste, by uttering a suspicion that
his enemies will believe and his
friends never hear OF. A puff of the
idle wind can take a million Of the
seeds Of thistle and do work of
mischie; which the husbandman must
labor long to undo, the floating parti-
Giles being too fine to be seen and too
light to be stopped. Such are the
seeds of SANDER so easily sown, so
difficult to be gathered up, and yet so
pernicious in their fruits.
The general cannot sleep unless
there is plenty of fresh air. One
night after he had retired to rest he
thought the atmosphere was unbear-
able. "Poof" he painted, 81 can't
stand this" He got up to open the
window, but finding it fast, broke
two of the panes and then retired to
his couch and enjoyed good nights
rest. On arising next morning he
found to his amazement that he had
merely smashed the glass in front of