The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-07-06
VARIETIES.

terity will regard the merit l"U'ioi
than the man.
Length OF days is wisdom's right
hand blessing, typical OF eternal lie;
but it is in her lett hand that are riches
aud honor.
The Rose was the emblem of seer
ecy with the Greeks, and is was their
custom to suspend it over the guest
table as a reminder that conversation
passing there was not to be repeated
abroad. Hence the phrase sub rosa.
He refused TO take a pill, and so
his mother put the pill into piece
of preserved pear and gave it to him.
In few moments she said Tommy,
have you eaten the pearl" "Y es
mother, all but the seedl"
Don't sit so tar away from me,
Harry, DEAR" she said to her lovef,
while they were steaming up the
river with the excursion; & don't sit
so far away and turn your back to me
in that way; people will think we are
married"
A larger proportion of white
flowers are fragrant than those OF any
other color. Yellow comes next,
then red, and lastly blue after which,
and in the same order, may be reck'
oned violet, green, orange, brown,
and black.
"Mother," said fair-haird urchin,
II don't want to go to Sunday'school.
! want to go fishin'" But the fish
won't bite on Sunday. SWELL" res.
podded the probable future president,
''I'll risk it, anyway; moy be there's
some ats like me-"
Talk about Southerners having no
illwill and enmlty towards the n North,
in the face of the fact that Georgia
and Florida are just now flooding
our markets with barrels of green Gu
cumbers!- Inter.Ocean. The enmity
is not in the fact of there being green
cucumbers, but of charging 30 cents
apiece for them.
Fond Father May we hope for
the pleasure of your company at our
soiree tomorrow, doctor? We shall
have little instrumental and vocal
music. My daughter Alice will sing.
and erwardsBeatrice will recite
her new poem. At nine. o'clock we
shall sup" Doctor :--"Many thanks;
you are very kind. l will be with
you at 9 sharp"
"You must admit, Jim Webster,
that you stole those pullets," said
Galveston judge to the culprit.
"Jedge," responded Jim, Il don't
really believe l stole dem chickens.
In de fust place, Jedge, nobody saw
J me take 'em. In de next place they
could not be found on my premises,
because had done hid dem chickens
under de floor. I can't help believ.
ing, ledge, DAT l is innocent as a
lamb"
Pea Blossom, dimlnutive African,
was up tor stealing a box OF sardines,
Don't you know" said the recorder,
shat it is wrong for you to steal as
small thing as car of sardines, and
be caught at it" "Tain't my fault,
boss-foah God it amt. and the young
culprit began to blubber. Whose
| fault is it, them" ode storekeeper, sab.
Ell he hadn't come in and cotched me
when he did, l would have got off wild
a whole dozen boxes"
The old lady kept private bottle
from which she refreshed herself from
time to time as she felt the need,
though none OF the family knew it.
One evening her daughter, in rum
maging through the pantry tor dough,
nuts for her beau, spied the bottle
and had the curiosity to draw the
cork and apply her nose to the aper-
ture, at which moment the old lady
hove in sight and angrily demanded:
"Well, are you wiser than you were?
What do you suppose it ISL" 81 don't
know what it is mamma" answered
the shrinking maiden, "but it smells
Just like Charities mustache."
The story that Miss Minnie Rail,
charming young lady of Keokuk, Ia,
was Rugged to death by her lover in
his ecstacy at her having consented
to marry him, is denied by the doc
tors, who say she died OF heart dis
ease, which was stimulated into fatal
action by the intense happiness of
the moment. The doctors are prob.
ably right, but even were it other>
wise there is no use in citing the
case as a warning to other girls.
Most of them are sound about the
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