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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-10-20
THE FLORIDA AGRIC ULTURIST.

or four times day to the birds in
tended tor fattening. In this coun-
try our method is different, and we
recommend the best way to fatten,
is to con6ne the fowls in limited
numbers, and about the same age, in
places especially fixed for them.
Each place may be arranged to con-
tain from dozen to twenty, and
should be warm and dry, with a
raised earth floor, covered with fine
gravel, and over all some clean
straw These places are intended
for those poulterers who make a
business of tattening for market, but
are too expensive for the ordinary
breeder who fattens for his own use.
Now for ordinary use, coops about
twenty-tour inches square and two
feet high, the front lathed, will an
swer every purpose. These will &C
immediate ten or twelve birds each,
varying, of course, according to size.
1t is useless to try to fatten fowls
that have tull liberty; they may be
in good condition, but there is no
excess of fat. Fowls are fattened
quickest and cheapest by putting
them in coops and feeding with such
food as will accomplish the purpose
best. Oatmeal, coru meal and bar
ley meal alternately cooked, and
mixed with milk and seasoned, will
be found to be the most nutritious.
and in the best form, so that their.
digestive mills shall find no difficulty
in grinding it. The troughs or feed
ing boards must be constantly kept
clean, and the food placed outside
the coops at regular intervals, and
enough at time to be picked up
clean, and when satisfied, it is bet
ter to remove the troughS, placing
little gravel within reach OF the
birds to assist digestion.
Darkening the coops after feeding
gives the needed rest the fowls re-
quire We all know a fowl that
trets and endeavors to escape from
confinement, or that sees every OBJ
ject of temptation. and excitement
about it, will not readily put on
either flesh or fat during the time
Rest and contentment insure rat
ness, and this is best accomplished
by proper food and quiet surround
ings.
1t Is not generally understood that
the food and the manner OF pre- par
ing it for fowls has a great to do
with the tenderness, flavor and Cell ]
cacy of the flesh. No hard grain is
as nutritious for fattening as it is in
a ground or cooked form conse-
quently, if it is convenient, cook it,
and be sure in any way to add all
the milk you can spare. What a
different taste a fine, nicely and
quickly tattened fowl has been served
on the table, compared to one which
has been forced to scratch for all its
living, and then consigned 20 the
spit in anything but fit condition
for food. Farmers realize the vast
Importance OF tattening quickly when
fattening beeves for the butcher;
and what holds good in that kind OF |
meat is equally true when applied to
fowls.
The chickens most likely to tatten
we'll are those first Matched in the
brood, and those with the shortest
legs. Long legged fowls, as rule,
are by far the most difficult to tatten.
1t is economy to tatten quickly, and
to dispose OF all surplus. stock as
early as they can be forced Into good
condition.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-10-20
GapeS.
From the Rome Herald.

FROM ue hOWe 11eTo'"'
We have learned to jest at gapes
by making free use OF camphor.
We give to chicken in very bad
case a pill the size OF a garden pea.
AS soonas we see symptoms of gapes
we give the birds water to drink
which is strongly impregnated with
camphor, thus giving to the chickens
that which was a favorite medicine
with our great OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
phor julep." The gapes or gaping
is caused by the presence OF small
red worms in the windpipe. No
medicine can reach them, unless in
the form of vapor. An hour after
the chicken has swallowed the pill it
smells Of champion. Camphor is
very strong vermifuge, and the worm
dies.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-10-20

The date trees of our city are full
OF fruit; scarcely a tree grows that
equals it in beauty.-Key Vest
Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
Names Of Countries.

The following countries, it is said,
were originally named by the Phenicians,
the greatest commercial people i'll the
world The names, III the Ph9nician
language signifying something char
acteristic of the places which they des-
ignate:
Europe signifies a country of white
complexion, so named because the In
habitants were lighter complexion than
those of Asia and Africa.
Asia signifies between, or in the mid
die, from the fact that the geographers
placed it between Europe and Africa.
Africa signifies the land of corn or
ears. 1t was celebrated FORTS abundance
of corn and all sorts of grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry-very
characteristic.
Spain, country of rabbits or comics.
1t was once SO infested with these animals
that it sued Augusta for an army to
destroy them.
Italy, country of pitch, from its yield
ing great quantities of black pitch.
Calabria, also, for the same reason.
Gaul, modern France, signifies yellow
haired, as yellow hair charactized its in
naDltantS.
The English of Caledonia is high
hill. This was ragged mountainous
province in Scotland.
Hibernia, is utmost, or last habitation,
forbeyond this the Westward Phnnicians
never extended their voyages.
Britain, the country of tin, great
quantities being found on it and adjacent
islands. The Greeks called it Albion,
which signifies in the Phoenician tongue
either white or high mountains, from the
Wilderness of its shores or the high rocks
on its western coast.
Corsica signifies a woody place.
Sardinia signifies the footsteps of men,
which it resembles.
Syracuse, bad favor, so called from
the mwholesome marsh on which it
stood
Rhodes, serpents or dragons, which it
produced in abundance.
Sicily, the country of grapes.
Scylla, the whirlpool of destruction.
Ktna signifies a furnace, or dark or
smoky.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
How il Feels to Drown.

When L gave up all hope in the water
I did not suffer one pang of remorse
about my past life. have always been
told that when n man is drowning all his
past life comes before him and he suffers
horrors of conscience. 1t was not so
with me. [ thought of you, my dear
father and mother, and of you all at
home, and what sorrow the news of my
death would be to you all, and then,
strange to say, thought how people do
lie. ] have always been told that death
by drowning is the easiest death, and yet
here L am suffering agonies of pain, and
/ remember wishing if L am to be
drowned let it be done quickly. Then L
thought / am about to solve the problem
about the future world, and / felt the
same feeling of shyness and dread come
over me that / felt SO often, and never
could conquer, when j was outside a
drawing-room door, and about to be ush-
cred into the presence of crowd of la
dies and gentlemen. / have been asked
if / never thought about the sharks
which infest the place. / am thankful
TO say they never entered into my head
If L had remembered them / feel sure 1
should have gone down like q stone. -
Phtladoiphid Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
Electricity i'm the Human Body.

Most people are familiar with the
"spark which may be produced under
certain conditions by stroking the fur of
a cat and travellers in Canada and other
cold, dry countries have witnessed the
still more remarkable phenomenon of
the human body being turned intoa con-
ductor of electricity, and the possibility
of lighting the gas by merely placing
ones finger-given the necessary condi-
tions of electrical excitement-near the
gas jet, without any other agency. Mr..
A. w. Mitchison, the African traveller,
who is engaged in writing a narrative of
his exploring expeditions in Western
Central Africa, gives some still more
startling facts. He states that, one even
ing, when striking an African native, in
moment of anger, with cowhide whip,
he was astonished to see sparks produced,
and still more surprised to find the ma
tives themselves were quite accustomed
to the phenomenon. He subsequently
found that very light touch, repeated
several times, under certain conditions
of bodily excitement, and in certain
states of the atmosphere, would produce
a succession of sparks from the bodies OF
native men as well as native cattle. A
lazy negro, it seems, yielded none of
these signs of electricity-a rather I'M
fortunate circumstance for his more ac-
tive brethren, who may possibly come In
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
The Origin of Champagne.

A monk of more taste than honesty,
having distracted from cask in the
monasterial cellars of his convent some
still champagne, which he bottled for
his own private drinking, was alarmed
one night by a series of explosions.
Corks had been blown into the air, and
the stolen wine which he had vainly en-
deavored to keep in confinement was
running in froth and foam over the sides
of the bottles. The terrified monk con-
cluded that the devil must have got into
the wine ; but the prior of the monastery
knew better. He tasted the wine, found
Mt once that it was good, shrewdly de-
termined to bottle some for himself, and
ended by going through series of ex-
periments which had for result the dis
covery of the true art of making cham
payne.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
DO We Eat too Much.

The amount of nourishment which q
person needs greatly depends ON his con-
stitution, state of health, habits, and
work. A sedentary man requires less
than one whose duties demand the
exercise of his muscles, and n brain
worker needs more than an idler. But
unquestionably the majority of us take
more than we need. Indeed, food and
work are distributed most unequally.
The man of leisure is also the man of
means, and, accordingly fares sumptu-
ously every day; while the laborer tolls
fvr eight hours, and finds it difficult to
get enough to repair the waste of his
tissues. Yet Chinaman or q Bengalee
will toll under tropical sun, and find a
few pice worth of rice or jowrah sufficient
to sustain his strength. A Frenchman
will not eat half what an Englishman
engaged in the same work will demand,
and Spanish laborer, content i'll ordinary
times with watermelon and bit of
black bread, will toll in the vineyards
and grow fat on q dietary of onion por-
ridge and grapes. 1t is true that Mr..
Brassey, when building the continental
railways, found that one English navy
was worth couple of spare-fed foreigners.
But, on the other hand, the British Co
lumbar and California gold-diggers,
than whom more magnificent set of
athletes does not exist, hive in the remote
mountains of the far west mainly on
beans favored with q few cubes of pork.
But they also obtain the best of water
and the purest of air, and their outdoor
life and active exercise enable them to
digest every ounce of their frugal fare.
The English soldiers, though better fed
than those OF any army except the
American, do not get one-half the amount
of solid nutriment which the idlest of
club-loungers considers indispensable for
his sustenance An athlete in training is
allowed even less food; yet he prospers
on the limited fare, and prolongs his life
by the regiment to which he has been
subjected. King Victor Emmanuel was
n monarch. of the most robust physique;
yet he only ate one meal per day, and it
is manifestly absurd for any man to
require three more or less weighty meals,
and an afternoon cup of tea, to support
the exertion of walking to the club, riding
an hour in the park, writing a note or
two, and dancing a couple of miles
around ballroom. The ancients had
their "amethustoi, or ''sober stones" by
which they regulated their indulgence at
table The moderns have not even this.
But they have their govt and their hvers
to warn them, when it is too late, that
nature has been overtasked. London
Standard.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

A pleasant story is told of the old King
Frederick the Great of Prussia. Once
when he rang his bell for his page to
come and wait on him, there was no an
swer. SO he went out into the ante
chamber, and there he found his page
fast asleep The step of the King does
not waken him, so soundly is he asleep.
A letter sticking ont of the boys pocket
catches the Kings eye, and he is curious
enough TO take it ont and read it. Not
any more honorable that, for King than
for any one else.
But the boy had no reason to be afraid
or ashamed of the Kings curiosity: for it
was letter from his poor mother, thank
ing him for sending her his wages and
praying God to reward his kindness and
attention After reading it the King
went softly back to his chamber, took o
bag of money, and with the letter slipped
it into the pocket of the boy
Again going to his chamber he rang
the bell loud enough to arouse the sleep
er, who Immediately answered its sum-
mons.
"You have been fast asleep" said the
King.
Frightened and confused, the poor
boy put his hand into his pocket, and
what to find but bag of money. He
took it out and, looking up to the King,
burst into tears.
"What is the matter, asked the King.
"Ah, sir" cried the poor fellow, throw
ing himself on his knees before Frederick,
somebody is trying to ruin me. know
nothing about this money which | have
inst found i'm nv pocket
"My young friend, said the King,
"God takes different ways of helping us.
Send the money to your mother. Salute
her for me and tell her l will take good
care of both her and you. "-ChriStian
WeeEilJ
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
An Owl on the Ocean.

Birds get lost in the air sometimes, as
really as boys get lost in the woods.
Far northern species are often storm
driven out of their native latitude, and
no doubt may sink in the sea. One day
a steamer which arrived at New York
from Liverpool brought strange pas
senger who had boarded that vessel in
mid-ocean. A large, white owl dropped
on one of the forward spars in an ex-
hausted condition one evening when the
vessel was about 800 miles off the coast
of Newfoundland. When brought to
the deck by sailor the owl was found
to be nearly dead from cold and hunger,
and almost too weak to eat. 1t had be-
come greatly emaciated, and trembled
violently in endeavoring to swallow the
first morsel of meat which was placed
in its beak. The owl slowly recovered,
and is now perfectly well. 1t is q land
bird, and is supposed to have been blown
off the coast of Newfoundland by the
westerly gales which had for some days
previous prevailed there. Finding it
self once out at sea, it had probably
ceased making efforts to reach the land,
and had drifted before the gale, its only
efforts being to keep above water. The
bird must have possessed remarkable
powers of endurance to have kept up SO
long
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

CHICAGO women beat the world. One
of them mt least contrived to beat the
Central Pacific Railroad Company. Like
Schneider, she wanted to buy dog, and
she bought it in San Francisco and had
it sent by express to Chicago When
the dog arrived the hair was all off, and
she sued the company for $75 for allow
ing a locomotive to scald all the hair off
her dog. She obtained Judgment, and,
what is more remarkable, the money.
Afterword the company found out that
the animal was japanese dog and never
had any hair. The company tried to
catch the woman who played this bald
trick on them, but she escaped-prob-
ably had hairbreadth escape.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
Mammoth Trees i'm California.

A correspondent who has been visiting
the grove of big trees in Calaveras
County, Cal, writes as follows:
1t has always been SO difficult for me
to form any conception of the size of the
mammoth trees from given figures, but
when L went into the grove and saw them
standing, and climbed twenty-six steep
steps to reach the upper side of fallen
sequoya and became dizzy on looking
down to the ground L realized their i'm
mense proportions one of the gentle
men of the party reached his arms at
full length and it took eight measures to
span one of the smaller trees
Visitors have the privilege of naming
any of the big trees, and placing mar
BILE slab with the inscription thereon.
One noble great tree was called the
Mother" another the Father" the
"Three Graces," Henry Ward
Beecher," General Grant," ETC., etc.
In this grove there are ninety-nine
trees within eighty acres. We took
horses and rode six miles to the "Son"
where we saw the largest tree in the
world, "Old Goliah." In this grove
there are thirteen hundred and eighty
trees, none measuring less than six feet
III diameter.
We rode our eight horses into the side
of one tree that had been burned out;
the guide said there was room for ten
more, and we could well believe it, for
we did not take up one-third of the
room; and yet the fire had not affected
the life of the tree there was enough
vitality to grow on unconcerned In
this grove many of the big trees were
named for States, which seemed more
appropriate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

in San Francisco, and two more of them
are making shoes in the Illinois peniten-
tiary; that another one of them is prac-
ticing law in New York, and my only
sister ran away from home with the
clown of circus that as far as you can
learn there is not IL member of the family
that has not done something disgrace
full"
"Why, what do you want all that in
the paper for?"
Because / am sick of reading in the
papers that every fellow who has a little
shooting scrape belongs to one of the
most respectable families in the country.
Just put it down, for once, that one of
the parties to the unfortunate affair be-
longs to highly disreputable family. If
you don't putt that way you will wish
You had"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

DIR. SCHLIEMANN, the archaeological
explorer, was asked recently when he
thought of returning to the United
States, and replied eff that depended
upon me L would 60 over Immediately
and never leave the great country. But
my days are numbered and my minutes
are precious. Beside, in america can
not be of any use to science, whereas L
may still be of great use to it by con-
tinuing my explorations in the Orient,
where Sardis in Asia Minor, Lycosura
in Arcadia, and Orchomenos in B@otia
impatiently await their delivery by my
pickax and spade. Sardis alone covers
as much space as the widespread city of
Berlin. Ny fellow-citizens are by far
too intelligent not to understand all this,
and l feel sure that they would applaud
and hail with far greater enthusiasm any
new archaeological discovery / might
make than any lecture 1 could deliver
before them personally on my old dis
cOyeries "
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
Uncle Gabe's Logic.

Uncle "Gabe" Jackson came up from
Mississippi a few days ago and proceed
ed to make the acquaintance of his col
ored fellow-citizens who haunt the levee.
He has been eminently successful.
A number of them pooled their wealth
and purchased a watermelon. Uncle
Gabe was invited to partake of the feast.
He assented and was made master Of
ceremonies. His mouth watered as he
drew out a jack-knife and balanced the
watermelon in his brawny hand. GLOW
many is dere here, chillun, to partake o.
dis yer watermelon ?" he asked, and
then he counted heads. There were
five. "BS de good Lo'd, honey, dis yer
is whoopin' million, an no mistake" he
said, as he caught Schuyler Colfax
Washington's wistful gaze. at am de
boss TO fact" Then he plunged the
knife into the luscious fruit, and, with a
dexterous twist, cut out fifth of the
whole. "Don' you mokes be in a hur-
ry! De ole man wants to kind o. tes-
terry on dis fore he puts your lives in
de deep peril. You amt none o yo'
prepaid TO death, and L don't want yo'
to git pisoned." He finished the piea,
In two bites and cut second piece.
rs mighty 'ticular in my ole age. L
saw whole family pisoned by water
million in Bayou Teche bout foty years
ago, an you niggers don't want to git
pisoned, does yo'? rs old, is, an it
don't make any difference if L die"
And the second piece disappeared.
"Look heah, Uncle Gabe, whar does
we come in on de million ?" asked a
who had been one of the con-
tributors to the feast.
"Chile, you's trifin' with me. DON
you trife wild de ole man Use old
enough to be yo' granfoder. Didn't
you ak me to come down an eat water
million with you, and amt dom it? I
didn't hear muffin bout you goin' to eat.
You said, Uncle Gabe, come down and
eat watermelon with us. Amt 1 with
you? Shoe! Seems to me desc yer
young bucks nowadays don't understan'
muffin bout de elements O. logic. Chill
lun, go an study de phrasumology O. de
meanin' O langwidge." Then the old
man got up almost broken-hearted. He
said "he felt dey done lose all confidence
in him-that's what hurt him." And he
bowed his head, and finished the water
melon. The roustabouts were paralyzed.
st. Paul Pioneer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
Wanted All the Facts Printed.

There was little shooting scrape at a
little town in the interior of Texas, and
it was not long before reporter was ON
the spot interviewing one of the princi-
pals.
$50 you are going to write it up" said
the survivor.
eyes, want all the facts"
81 don't care cent what you say
about the shooting, but have one little
favor to ask"
The reporter said he would grant it
cheerfully if he could.
"Well," said the shootist, CT want
You to put down that my grandfather
was one Of Lafitte's pirates, and the
worst cut-throat of the gang"
The reporter stared little, but the
shootist went on TO say:
"Please put in that one of my uncles
was hung by the Vigilance Committee
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

In the leading journal of Geneva a
well-known Alpine tourist publishes an
account of the proceedings of raven
tribunal in the Swiss mountains. De-
scending from the region of glaciers, he
came upon small, secluded glen, sur
rounded by thick cover. From sixty to
seventy ravens had formed a circle
round one of their fellows, obviously n
culprit, whose case they were discussing
with much croaking and wing Tapping.
Now and then they interrupted their de-
bates to listen to the energetic repre-
sensations of the prisoner, who conduct
ed his own defense with amazing fervor,
the Judges breaking out into deafen-
ing chorus of comments and refutations
after his every statement. Presently,
having arrived at the unanimous conclu-
sion that the arraigned bird had failed
to exculpate itself, they flew upon him
from all sides, and tore him to pieces
with their beaks.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17

Two swINDLERs made more than $1O,
600 ina week, in San Francisco, by plan
of which the following case is an Illus
tration Gone of them made the ac-
quaintance of a observation-disclosures, and
talked about buying his establishment.
They met again in the street, and the
second swindler introduced himself as a
stranger who was about to return to his
home in Europe. He said he had his
fortune in the bag which he was carry
ing, and wanted their advice as to what
to do with it. He broke open one of
the rolls which the bag contained, show
ing $50 gold pieces. The first swindler
proposed to the restaurant man that
they should steal this money. To do
this, he said, it would be necessary to
induce the foreigner to intrust the bag
to him. This could be brought about,
he thought, if the restaurant man would
set an example by putting $1,000 into
his hands, ostensibly for safe keeping.
This was done, and of course he disap-
peared with it.