The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-12-08
DECEMBER 8.
VARIETIES.

,,;,h;n nc =. the rest is either natural
~ acc;dental.-Sm Philip Sidney.
"They fred two shots .,, at him. i'm"
wrote an Irish reporter. line nrse
killed him, but the second was NOT
fatal"
Gracie's first experience in eating
a neach. give eaten it cloth and sll
mamma now what shall do with
the bone ?"
A dull old lady being told that a
certain lawyer was lying at the point
Of death exclaimed My gracious
won't even death stop that mans ~
ing?"
aWho was it that said it is not
GOOD for man to be alone ?" asked
Sunday school teacher OF his class
A bright boy answ cred, "Danlei'
sir, when he was in the lions den'
TO spend too much time In studies
is sloth; to use them too much tor
ornament is affectation; to make
judgement wholly by their rules Is
the humor OF a scholar They per-
feet nature, and are perfected by ex-
perience.-Bdc01a.@
An Arab, when one day. the ques'
ton was put. How do you know
there is God ?" turned with appar-
emit indignation upon the questloner
and replied, How do know
whether a man or a camel passed my
tent last night ?" His own foot
prints are the best evidence OF the
existence and character OF Jehovah
A Cincinnati youth, in a two
column account of wedding, says
that the bride wore gown with
"surplus neck" that the trademarks
had gowns that were surplus III
neck" and that the brides mother
| wore lavender satin "cut surplus in
the neck" In fact, he seems TO have
thought that too many clothes were
worn.
Here, you have only
been married tour weeks, aud al
most every day you come to me
with complaints about your husband.
| You ought TO be ashamed Of your
self" Daughter-"Bu he fights ine
all the lime" 'Foolish child
Haven't your mother and me been
lighting every day for thirty years,
aud don't we get along peaceably
and quietly with each other?"
4 Not long ago All freshman applied
! p n " n ~ n I I \ y slllpg ~. -
be put on a job. He was informed
that his request could not be COM
Piled with but as Pat continued to
gaze at an anchor which was lying i'll
the vicinity the foreman repeated
his reply that there was no work for
him and advised him to go away,
'.Divil bit will I stir, sorr, till see
the man that's going to use that
pick p
can inquirer" asks: us the
Great Eastern the largest vessel ever
built p An impression has got
abroad that she is, but such is not
the case. The Mayfower, in which
the Pilgrim Fathers came to this
country, was the largest ship that
ever plowed the waters. The old
furniture scattered over this country
brought over by the Mayfower
would fill the Great Eastern dozen
times or more.-Norristoeo'o Herald.
"Wen, Father Brown, how did
you like my sermon yesterday =
asked young preacher. "Ye see,
parson," was the reply, 81 haven't
fair chance at them sermons of yourn.
I'm an old man, now, and have to
set pretty we'll back by the stove;
and there's old Miss Smith, Wider
Taff'n, Mrs. Rylan's darters'n Nabby
Birth all the rest, setting in front of
me with their mouths wide open,
swallerin down all the best OF the
sermon; n what gets down TO me is
pretty poor stuff, parson, pretty poor
stuff"
Among the patents recently taken
ont is one which claims to be "new
and useful mode of producing rain,
or precipitating rain-falls from rain
clouds" as a protection against
drought. The invention consists IN
sending balloons into the cloud re-
oions, carrying torpedoes and car.
tridees charged with explosives, and
to explode them there by electric
force. 1t is also claimed by the III
veutor that not only can rain be pre-
c;,;tatad when it is needed, but that
too great quantity can be cneckeu
in any given locality by causing Inc ne
rain clouds to be discharged before
thew have reached that place. Tar
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