The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-10-20
OCTOBER 20.
VARIETIES.

about TRUTH" said johnson, 'sthan
from Intentional lying, that there is
SO much talsehood in the world"
S~ Nothing will please a girl so much
as the information that rival, who
is trying to rob her Of her best fell
low, has got pimple coming on her
nose,
SIS your house a warm one, land
lord ?" asked lady in search of
dwelling. 1T ought to be; the
painter has just given it two coats"
was the reply.
1t is folly TO subscribe for news
paper, and pay your money for it,
when you can borrow your next
door neighbours daily, and use it to
kindle the breakfast fire.
To do an evil action is base; to
do good one without incurring
danger is common enough; but it is
the part of good man to do great
and noble deeds, though he risks
everythIng.-PIatarch.
1t is true we never know how
mean a man is until he is nominated
tor Office, but it is also true that we
never know how pure and noble he
is until he becomes a candidate
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A cheerful temper, joined with in.
nocence, will make beauty attrac-
tive, knowledge delightful, and wit
good natured. 1t will tighten sick
ness, poverty and atiliction, convert
Ignorance into an amiable simplicity,
and render deformity itself agreeable.
addison.
"Mamma," said a little girl, sis
Christmas most here ?" "Why, no.
my dear; why do you ask p
Cause papa said he expected his
Santa Cruz tomorrow: 1 s'pose
Santa Cruz and Santa Claus are the
same, amt they, mamma ?" Oh,
these children !-Bos;on Iranscyia,t
A negro who was suspected of
surreptitiously meddling with bis
neighbours fruit, being caught in a
garden by moonlight, nonplnssed his
detectors by raisieg MS eyes, clasps
ing his hands and piously exclaim-
ing: f"Good heavensI Dis we're
u io anywhere to pray
any more Without benz 'stuTbed.
Miss Flirtington-s'Yes, / like the
place very much, Major you have
such jolly set OF men down here.n
The Major-"Yes, awful Jolly.
You'd better steel your heart, Miss
Flirtington, in case OF accidents"
Miss Flirt;ngton-"Well, while Pm
about it. Major, ia rather steal some
body else's, don't you know" -F'm.
The brilliancy Of the planet Jupi-
ter will be greater in October than
it has been for many years past. The
large red spot on his disk which
made Its appearance in 1878, and
which is a puzzle to astronomers, is
still visible, and host Of telescopes
throughout the country are directed
to this object OF interest. r3
"Bob Brown did you say that my
father had not as much sense as Billy
Smiths little yellow dog ?" "NoI
never said that your father had not
as much sense as Billy Smiths little
yellow dog. All / said was that
Billy's little yellow dog had more
sense than your father; that's all 1
ever said" swell, it's we'll. you
didn't say the other, | tell you"
They found dead man on the
pavement in front Of a newspaper
office in a Western town, with a
poem on Spring clinched in his stiff,
cold fingers, and the coroner didn't
even hold an inquest on him. He
simply looked up at the editorial
rooms on the top floor, and measur.
ing the distance to the ground with
his eye, remarked: at would kill
any man to be thrown out of that
window. Take the remains to the
undertaken" Next. Spring poets
are scarcer now than they were.
The Western. women who go to
Boston to kill the author of the fol.
loving story must 60 to the Office Of
the Commercial Bulletin us your
programme full, Miss Beetle
crusher?" asked a young man Of a
Western damsel who had just strug-
gled out OF the refreshment room
with disappointment in her eye and
an 'order OF dances" in her hand.
Programme full ?" said the daugh,
ter Of the Setting Sun, Nv al, l
guess not haiu't had nothing but