The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-22


A MilIersviIle, Pa, farmer began
ploughing up potato feld after the tops
had been eaten up by beetles He found
the potatoes larger than IN the other
fields, and thinks he is ahead of the potato
bugs.
New York Herald The Southern
young man has frequently and unjnstly
been criticised for not having the gnmP-
tiOn of his fOrefatherS But there Il an
Augusta youth who, having but twenty
FIVE cents left after Purchasing ball tickets,
took his lady love to an ice cream saloon
and said to the waiter, " One plate; I've
had mine"
1T il rumored In New York that the
business of A. T. Stewart 4 Co, under
the same name, is TO be continued By
son of Judge Hilton and several Of the
employees, Mrs. Stewart heing unwilling
that the name and business should disap-
pear during her life II, As somebody sug-
gests, the closing of A T. Stewart & Co.
was 8 gigantic monumental free "sd," !"
Judge Hilton should be suspended from
the Brooklyn Bridge
European newspaper, says an ex-
change, are talking Of the possibility Of
American wheat being eventually driven
out offthe markets Of Europe by grain
from Tunis. Land can be bought IN
Tunis, it is said. for half the price it costs
in the Western States of the American
Union, aud it is 80 fertile that il viii
yield two crops in the year. The quality
of the grain, moreover, Is equal to that Of
the mnch-prized Hungarian wheat Eng
land and France are determined, If posi-
bic, to secure more than one source Of
foreign supply of wheat However, they
do not realize the enormous possibilities
of American soil in wheat growing.
1t is said that out Of the countless
numbers of San Francisco brokers Who
made enormous fortunes during the specu-
lative period, when Grown Point and
Belcher shares were bOnanzaa, there is
not more than ten that are nov worth
t50,0O0. Many who built large houses
are now occupants of cheap boarding
houses, and one who Is now . clerk, In
1873 sent bis family to Paris, where for
FIVE years they spent At the rate Of ss0s-
900 q year. He remained in San Fran
cisco and lost all by buying shares II the
top-notch figures and holding On I'LL they
went down to zero.
The Philadelphia Record comments
rather pOintedly on the statement Of the
Chicago Inter Ocean, that carpets which
cost from 20 70 IS cents = square yard -
the mill "are Prodnced and sold -
cheaply in America - in Engl.nd" On
these carpets the duty ranges from 70 -
90 per cent If a. the Inter Ocsan fur
ther claims, q the consumer II not taxed
. dime on them, because the duty dos
not affect the prioe," the Record asks,
why not abolish this particular dutys
That's what's the matter. The protec-
tiOnists make AL sorts 0f statementa, but
viii agree TO nothing practicable bassd
on their own 6gureA
The proprietor Of the Palmer Hoa@
It Chicago Is experimenting with The ca
tom % common In Eur0Ps Of having ~
dies in leading buzine~ positions n his
hotel One Of the most rsspoasibls of
thsss-that Of cashisr-is 6Iled By h1y;
two other ladies have good PoxiEios4s 81
less responsible; and stilI o<hss are en-
pl0yed - agssls 70 collscf billS snd look
after other monsF m&ttsrA He nzys tAey
may not Be gate n sfscisni ~ msn, !
some rsspecss bus he uE.m thzt = lsnsE
be = sure thn1 in thsir honn a lenaEs
her ars 81 = saloons nad Pi1yiaE -
|inrdR. nuenSinR thHir mnmaE. nn& uEnka-