Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-25

judgment was reversed on the ground that
 the phrase was so divided that evidently the inconsistency was not to be reckoned as bear ing on the rates of fare. Fortunately $26, ,OOO
 semicoions are rare. If semicolons were not
 usually much cheaper than that, people could
 not afford to use them as recklessly as they do.
 Richard Whiteing writes from Paris that
 New York is to have at least one fine monu-
 ment, when St. Gaudens' statue of Farragut
 is set up in Union Square. It is now ready to
 be sent to the modeller and caster, and Mr.
 Whiteing says of it:
 The figure is of colossal proportions about
 nine feet high. The Admiral stands upright,
 in uniform, and wearing his service cap. He
 holds in one hand large double-barrelled
 sea- glass. The attitude is perfectly easy and
 graceful; the feet are somewhat apart; the
 old sailor, in fact, stands in sailor fashion on
 his sea legs. The face is striking. It is at
 once portrait and good typical study. The
 whole figure is simply and massively treated i;
 it is on the colossal scale in technique as well
 as In actual proportion. This is not all it
 looks well from every point of view. MT.
 Story, I remember, once told me that the
 great test for work of this kind is it's silhouette
 against the background of sky. This one
 makes clean, pure outline from every point
 of view, and If were not afraid of seeming
 to equivocate In compliment, I should say that it looks just as well from the back as from the front. The modelling of the torso. even beneath its uniform coat, is very fine.
 The figure dips nicely in the back from the line of the broad shoulders, and has what the tailors call a fall there without being in the least tailor's model of man. It IS not easy to make the stiff draperies of uniform coat subservient to the purposes of the sculptor. MT. St. Gaudens has contrived to do this by raising breeze which gently lifts one of the lappets and losses it back in clean, crisp folds The statue is admirably naturalistic in the best sense. It does not seem like a man of clay, but like man of flesh and blood
 The pedestal is to be at least as broad as 1t is high, and at the base there will be room for two figures of Courage and Loyalty, which the sculptor has not yet begun.
 Some very interesting information about or anges is given by MT. Seth French, of Jack sonville, Florida, an old and experienced or ange grower, and the stories he tells give or ange growing truly golden color. The total cost of getting ten acres Of land ready for an orange grove he makes from $920 to $1 $40. In addition to this the young trees cost ready for setting out, from thirty-fve to fifty cents each, and there are fifty or sixty trees to an acre. At the age of nine or ten years from the seed the tree begins to produce, the aver age being about 500 oranges to the tree. For the next two years the increase in produc- ton is rapid, being about 1000 oranges per tree each year. There are quite lot of trees in Florida that produce 10000 oranges, but these are aged, having been planted before the war. Oranges, like apples, have their ''of' years, but at fifteen years from the seed it is safe to say that ths trees will produce on an average 5000 oranges each. Five hundred trees with 3, 900 oranges on each would give ], 500, ,000 oranges as the yield for ten acres. These at one and half cents apiece as they hang on the tree, theaverage price this season, would give $22, 500 of the ten acres. This esti- mate, let it be borne in mind, is low one, for some Floridians are this year realizing 1925, ,OO0 from six acres. The Florida orange crop this year is much larger than ever before. From such counties as are easily accessible the fig ures point to crop of about 40, 900 boxes. In Putnam county alone the 1879 yield was nearly 5, 5,5o0, 900 oranges, and next year with the large number of blooming trees that will come into bearing the crop will amount to 25, ,0Oo, ,OoO oranges. It will require train of ten cars once day for ninety days to transport the crop of this county. Another vast business which, within a few years, has been rapidly developed in Florida is the ship ment of vegetables to the North in the winter peas, beans and cucumbers being the leading articles sent. This business was started in 1875, when 5000 boxes were shipped, and last win ter the grand total was 2,ooo, 900 boxes. The vegetables are put into a car attached to passenger train, the cost of shipment beings 30 cents to New York and Boston and 75 celts to Chicago. With better facilities for transpor- tation, which it is expected will be soon pro vidsd, this business is likely to grow greater and more profitable.