New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-21

like the commodore OF canoe club. VIII you poi.
nit me now to put peg in and say sqnarey 'pA'
40 far as have seen other part OF Fiorioa cum
pares with tins for residential purposes. dsveIan
mani IA for Agriculture and all that. I'll not ven
ture on ground with which my feet are not iah s
Yon would soon recognize the uncertainty VI iny
tread The good Herr Doctor, who IS FOND OIL hoe-
ing and all else that goes to make pineappl,ns
pleasant has been at the pains severa ZINES nJ lave
me fulI statistics Five minutes after couiu htso
told Won how many apples he expects to get 10 tne
acre from his pines. and Just how many GRAVES VI
oranges his groves ought to give MN new That for
But I've forgotten il now. l only know tiaS iOa
seventeen years he has had beautiful piaGe, on
which he has worked hard all the while, anu srnO
he still smokes pipe on week ,S that he is
any richer True have no beautiful place mere -,
anywhere else but neither have been hoeng b on
one for the past seventeen y rassd 600 beautiful
cabbages which netted hin 10 on less tnah nun it
ing True he hal the fun OF raising .ne egstabies
land rising to find compensation III that. w ha n
people seldom take into consideration - oho ,on
year. And there are OIL years ID every n an one
In politics and fishing This year was not an Vi, oro
for oranges They were few, and what theIo moi9 9
didn't bring much. A man on the other srI hoc,i
the Banana alter shipping ten crates Tm ocstage
stamn 7 believe A woman at Titusyile DID not
get even that-as sequel to shpp'ng enu s.,,n0
number of crates she had 10 senu nealy "n Herr
dollars to balance accounts. 10 save our iie ,a
Doctor from any mishap of this kind we ave 1ramiHS
early and late and many as possioie 0
giving few away Had ne ralSe 1 49, sJ have
seen him suffer- Nevertheless. he had lew cra.es
left over which be had to ship. If tho result ruin
him we shall feel bad, but not responsiDi'e1;, 10
Now / do not wish to discourage, Still less 40 -.
wish tu deceive Beyond doubt there are orange
groves that pay handsomely Bht n ap nuo OH.
any, And | never like to put forth as persoh' oo f
seryaton what only hear. To avoid the dungcI VI
misleading Others / steer clear OF statistics anu
very often do not write oil that see OF peiicNc.
Dealing only in glittering generalites am
il is only when beguied into iacts, OF soei'iIhs
that tr0nble comes upon mo Instance III pon.;
lately thought I'd say something nice t NV
mangroves ON tho st. Johns had scarcey soe lnS
pay for what said about them before so n t but
wrote me that there were no mangroVes On sn.t
river Just as though i were 10 plane ior 'naV
There are plenty of them on both the banana anu
the Indian And is writer to bt taken 10 acconnS
for the agricultural ., ot ~" hat ~
NAV one fact stick to This is delightful climate.
And if could only homestead little, pre-onlp. say
n hundred and sixty acres of the ar and sulsnlnI.
| wouldn't care even II mad 10 take consiu0i"0'
A NEW BONANZA.
Orange groves may be well enough in their way
but for paying investment let me suggest an ALL
gator farm-rasing these reptiles for tourists 10
kill They-aligators not tourists-are becoming
60 scarce that to grounds where they formerly
abounded the guides even now lead the tourist
forth and let him in blssful ignorance DiaZe away
at a stuffed skin. 1t was my luck the other day.
thouph 10 kill two. 1t wasn't q good day TOT alIl-
gators either nor was l looking for aligat0rs
WadinU ont in some water for "a Johnny-ny-up the,
creek which | had shot and which had tlnoled
ioto 1.-THE brutes came smelling about my ieet IKE
puppiss Before they got through examining my
boots had PAIR of gators Just their
above the mud, but an ounce OF symposium "Pi '9.
did the business for them. / made right ana leit
of it and got both; lovely IN their lives 10 aeath
they were not divided JOHN rAOL