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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31
GENERAL GRANTS
Opinion of Florida after 4 Visit
over the State.
Extract from the Philadelphia Ledger. ]

Extract from the Philadelphia Ledger.l
ut is capable Of supplying all the oranges,
lemons. pineapples, and other semi-tropical
fruits used in the United States; 500, OG0 900 OF
sugar now imported; mater rial for rope, baggiag,
coarse mating, etc. The deposits OF fertilizer
under it and above it are sufficient for many gen
erations 1t only wants people and enterprise
both of which it ia rapidly obtaining. Florida
to-day affords the best opt ming in the vorld for
young men Of small mems and great industry
l shall probably have more to cay on this subject
when get heme. Very truly yours,
L. 5. GRANT,"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31

When the bill to legalize marriage
wltn 4 deceased wife's sister next comes
before the British House Of Lords, it is
believed that Lord Tennyson will vote
in its favor
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31
Tarpon Springs and Seville,

just opened to travel by railwa. and Steamboat
Plcr,KEsQtE portion Of Florida. Highland cryn-
tai lakes teenling with Ash: grand natnra! wood
game abound. Winged game in great var-t.
Oh land and water
The Tarpon Springs Hotel is OF the hes,
furnished and appointed houses south OF Jack
sonville. and in all respects will be kept in frs,
class style The prices per day will be $500
aud $3.50. Special rates will be made by the
month or The Tropical Hotel and III.
Fernald House are well and comfortably kept ut
3 price per day "f 80 to S2no. With special
rates by the month season. Camp he AT
TarpOn Springs and seville cost. about s. 90 pc.
week.
These lands being below the killing frn-1 'in.-
on the Gulf coast OF Fernando aud Hi!lahor"
countiea with direct steam transportation to ali
points of the L. s, make them especially ralna.
Bile for the production OF vegetables for ship
ment, from December until Mny, to Northern
markets, when the highest prices are obtained.
Tomatoes ranged the past winter from &C. to -
per crate OF three p"cks, and other vegetables
equally profitable. Tobacco, rice, sugar cane,
all vegetables, the rrrcal- and gras- produce
largely.
1t requires but six to eight weekA from plant
ing to market tomatoes and other Iryctasra.
We have cheaper lands h.t, l. from the Guf coast.
and still cheaper ltr.ts In the various counties
north Of the Goth parallel, where winter vegcta-
blea cannot be grown sucCcr-fullt, and where
the orange and other fruit occasionally are
pinchcd by the frost, but the people who have
examined onr CUR COAST HIGHLANDS, consider
them preferable from every point OF view.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31

Political distrust in England makes
traders uneasy and capitalists timid.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31

! ~ above - u corr ct map ( the
Air., LEA ROUTE,
W.T. rs - - Ihr ugh Trains daily
r. ST. PAIL :.HJ Hss''nn=hp1llS TO CHICAGO,
" :,ioNt ca:n.;>. ~ ';lr,S w!'h nj lines
t.tH7 sri f0yTHEiSE.
TIE rI'v ,'l!.' =. iu"' tar- between
AIA, +I,'i'S n.,d OsS ZONES. iowd.
TnEtus I'n'"' I:A'"n -.
rNitEAfct;S h.o ST. LOUIS,
c-,-r''.r, =" T - ~ va South and
- ,i' .til =: F., NJ N =.
t. I'D E : !a..r,...s. from and ~ ali
" o Merry \,
s:ENa:>i ;:..: :'-,'->~ r.t.AcK SLrEPlNt,
~ "; rsN rlcSp;s. and bag
= -. 1t !. fUle tA,teS rate OF
ct >'.. = - :~> ';'r tsr"t, or address
:. :. l,.>sD.
Gnn'1 49, .,''t. y rneapoliS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31

When Baby was sick, we gave her CAS-
TORIA.
When she was Child. she cried for CAS-
TORIA-
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31
SEVILLE

il we'll located, nine miles north OF IArpnn
Spriugs on the Gulf Of Mexico having water
from, on the ocean. The land adjoining and in the
rear liz high and rolling, having An elevation OF
about fifty feet above the ocean within one and
one-Ea!f miller A vessel !. owned and used a1-
preSS)y for the trade of this ~ ttcmc". Ar
runpr,ntnt- are being nladr for Tho erection OF
bote. in Ocean Park, whar>cs AID other We
; riou. improve montr in Seville. The new rteam-
or finished in Pt,-burg, Pa, September Is, 1885,
by the Cult Steamship Co., exprct-ly for the line
| a few me- ponth and north from Tarpon
Springs, will connect with boat- at Tarpon
Springs 70, all points.
The soil varies from sandy loan to humus
muck and mu1l, and is OF dururle fertility, a.
will be reen from the large r7~ OF the trecs aud
| the rank growth OF grass in the Timber.
Water soft. pure aud abundant.
Gov RloAham gay. that Florida has DOUBLED
its resources in Fot X YEARS.
40 O0n scttjrrr have located perma-
lfZ.OOV ncntly in Florida The past TWO
years.
900 ",, az" s , ~ Fo,d n'h hots:
the part winter, and Invested In the state over
$c,OOO, OiO in four months.
Great induceInent. in derirabl. town lots and
five and ten acre plats; also any sizc tract up to
10000 acrer, adapted to colonization; 16 MILES
NEARLY SOLID OCEAN FRONT
Sevcra! charming town sites and Thousands 81
OF dcsirahlc land adjoining.
Special Inducements to men Of mcAbs
and tact. to organize coonies.
N0n nnn Acres well waite red stock 1ands
~, 900 acrep best sugar lands IN America
10 acres In Fnri'!a prnlnctionr yield more net
cash than 100 a"rc- in III" north. sown in grain
Free transportation by our rebate ls1d t'ckets.
Offices, Tarpnn Springs und Jacksonville, Fla;
Philadelphia New York and other po:nr.
We are the xclnsiv, acents and managers, not
only in Florida. hat everywhere. OF the Gull
| Coart Reserve. the Lake Butler Villa Co., the
Cootic Land and Improvement Co.: alto agents
for the Florida Land and Improvement Co., and
Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and keechobee
Land Co. The stock OF the latter company IL
one OF the best and most secure Investments in
America secured by broad acres. Information
regarding this stock furnished on application.
Send for map and new prospcctur; also state
exactly what you want. and whether yru can in
huence capital or emigration.
Address:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31
RAILWAY COMPANY

vTrFor notices in reference to Special Ex-
rnt.irna, change OF time, and other items OF
!1' t'-t 10 connection with the CHICAGO, MIL
HAr'HrE & ST. PAU. RAILWAY, please refer to
the '-ul cniu'uns OF this paper.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31
TheCulf C0aSt0f Florida

the Worlds Sanitarium, with its ocean, high
lands. salt and fresh water lakes, sponge. oyster
and other fisheries, mineral springs and
UNEQuALLED CLIMATE,
balmy breezes, charming scenery, tropical fruits,
and flowers in bloom every month Of the year.
winter vegetables and tropical truts Of all kinds,
paying $500 to 5000 per acre. No k,Ltu~a
FROsrs OR MALARIA.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-31

"a , -. Rev. SIDNEY c. DAVIS Ga1isn Michigan writes
fAkiE HUN letter. gratitude fox
l Mrs. Davis and myself for the great good which
RfEEEjTc as been accomplished in her by the Of
eLHkllC y. Eyor proprietary medicines. When she began
to take them, in January last. she could
our the least lar ;d walk but few at time and
cod stay up only about thirty minutes time. Now not
only sits almost the entire day around
n t1ghbOrs two and three blocks ai? feel
Injurious effects at all When consider had kept
led the of
/ Rrn rsor teen months, and would repeatedly the
EEE"ffiNl she had made,
Ear Ezauruc We hid a'nsst lost eonhdence
~ :s ,o DHt hSs "a in pr rcres.
properties needed, and which believe will bring
complete and final recovery"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24
Tell Your Wife.

If you are In any trouble or quandary,
tell your wife, that is, if you have one,
all about it at once. Ten to one her in
vention will solve your difficulty sooner
than all your logic. The wit of woman
has been praised, but her instincts are
quicker and keener than her reason.
Counsel with your wife, or your mother,
or sister, and be assured that light will
flash upon your darkness. Women are
too commonly adjudged as verdant in all
but purely womanish affairs. No philo
sophical student of the sex thus ad judges
them. Their intuition or insight, is the
more subtle, and if they cannot see the
cat in the meal there is no cat there. In
connseling one to tell his trouble to his
wife, we would go further, and advise
him to keep none of his affairs secret
from her. Many home has been hap
PLY saved, and many fortune relieved,
by mans full confidence in his better
half. Woman is far more a seer and a
prophet than man, if she be given a
chance. AS a general rule, wives con-
fide the minutest of their plans and
thoughts to their husbands, having no
involvements to screen from him. Why
not reciprocate, if but for the pleasure of
meeting confidence with confidence? We
are certain that no man succeeds so well
in the world as he who, taking partner
for life, makes her the partner Of all his
purposes and hopes. What is wrong in
his impulses or judgment, she will check
and set right with her almost universally
right instincts. "Helpmeet" was no in
significant title, as applied to mans COM
panion. She is meet help to him In
every darkness, difficulty and sorrow of
life; and what she most Graves and de-
sires is confidence, without which love
is never free from adow.-Arkansaw
| Irareler,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24
Conversation,

'This is compensating world" says
the optimist, and the following anecdote
illustrates the fact. Bernal Osborne, for
many years the humorlst of the House of
Commons, was noted, when young man,
for his saucy tongue and his propensity for
ridiculing his friends. One of them,
Mr.. Stanley, was massive but slowly
speaking man, who at last lost his tenn
per, and said to Osbornes banter:
'Tll tell you what it is Osborne, the
Almighty has been very equal in the dis
tribution of His gifts. lie has given you
a tongue, and He has given me leg.
Now the next time you use the tongue,
I'll use the leg"
Osborne was an officer of the 21st reg
iment. One day, when his colonel, his
wife, and the officers were lunching at
Lord C-'s beautiful place, it fell to
Osborne's lot to carve pigeon-pie. He
had grudge against the colonel, whose
name was Pigeon. Turning to Mrs.
Pigeon, and offering to help her, he i'm
pudently said:
'Do you like Pigeon7 Idon't."
The audacious subatern shortly after
found it convenient to exchange into an
other regiment. Later in life he enter
ed the House of Commons, and became
its "free lance" the terror of all and the
trusted of none. He failed, because
Englishmen thought that man of so
much humor, and with such a saucy
tongue could not be good legisla-
tor.
80 s." said he one day, to an in
innate friend, eff you only knew how
much my jokes cost meW
They cost him his reelection to parlia-
ment, and illustrated the compensating
nature of the world. Mr. Rolfe, who
became Lord Chancellor Cramworth, was
in court one day when the leader of the
circuit was keeping his audience in roar
of laughter.
GLOW glad am" said Mr.. Rolfe,
''that l am not as clever as that"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24
Electric Alarms in VINEYARDS.

Mention was made some time since in
these columns of the use of an electric
alarm in vineyards, by which warning of
the approach of low degree of temper
ature at night was at once communicat-
ed, in time to permit of the lighting of
prepared bonfires, in order to ward off
all danger of damage from frost. By the
method described it was necessary to
keep number of men under engage
ment, so that when the alarm was given
no time might be lost in getting the fires
started. This has proved the most ex-
pensive part of the plan, but Glen Ell
len v.ticulturist has, by an ingenious in
vention, entirely obviated this difficulty.
Attached to the frost bell of the ther-
mometer are wires leading to the heaps
of combustible matter kept in constant
preparation. A little gun cotton is put
in each bonfire, and when the tempera-
ture reaches thirty three degrees spark
is at once communicated to the cotton,
and the bonfire is lighted without the
Intervention of human agency. The in
vention is a valuable one, as thereby
great saving is effected. San Francisco
CTonirls
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24

A few years ago friend loaned me a
book containing the "reminiscences of Mr..
Wise. In it he says that he was riding
out one evening with President Tyler,
who informed him that he was going to
marry Miss Gardner.
'Why," said Wise, "she is too young
for YOU"
mot at ALL" replied the President,
'I'm still in my prime"
''That reminds me-" continued Wise
"of an old colored man down in Vir-
ginia, who was generally consulted by his
old master on any affairs of Importance,
to both. The old master was widower,
and when he got the consent of a young
lady to marry him he communicated the
fact to the old man. My sakes,' said
Sambo, she is too young for you;' Not
a bit of it, answered the master, Pm
still in my prime Yes responded
Sambo, you are in your prime now, but
wait till she gets in her prime, then
where will your prime be. ~ Courier
Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24

Not many newspaper readers will be
prepared to believe that among the great
est landowners in the United States are
the Duke of Sutherland, Duke of Hamil-
ton, Earl Dunraven and Marquis of
Tweeddale, the last of whom is said to
own tract exceeding 1900 square
miles. The largest landowner in Great
Britain does not own so much as that
one man, whose English holdings are
only sixty-seven square mile, in extent.
The four are reported to own in excess of
$4,000 square miles of our territory,
equal to the area Of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and
Deleware, nearly half of the original
thirteen colonies. This is an almost in
credible story, but it is declared to be
strictly true. The immense tracts lie
west of the Mississippi, and are mainly
wild lands; but their vast extent stag
gers belief, and may alarm some of our
Anglophobic inhabitants. The invest
ment will doubtless prove profitable to
the noblemen, whose sole object in buy.
ing was presumably speculative.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24

Two patents have been issued to Alex
ander G. Bell, c. A. Bell and S: Tainter
for reproducing sounds from phonograph
records and transmitting and recording
sounds by radiant energy. The invention
is an improvement of the phonograph,
and the new instrument is called q
"graphophone." The vocal sounds are
received by means of transmitter similar
to that of the telephone and are recorded
upon cylinder of wax, whence they are
reproduced with complete accuracy. No
electricity is employed, the means being
mechanical throughout. The invention
is attracting a great deal of attention on
account of remarkable power of rcproduc-
ing human speech.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24
Blackening Their Faces,

Writing from Darjeering to Nature, the
Hon. Ralph Abercrombie says: "Three
cases have come under my personal OBJ
servation in which brown-skinned ma
tives, in very different parts of the
world, blacken their faces to protect
them from intense light and heat" The
examples he gives are those of the inhabi-
tants of Morocco, as well as of others
along the north of Africa, who blacken
themselves around the eyes to avert
ophthalmia from the glare of hot sand.
The natives of FIJI do the same, and so
do the natives of the Skim hills, and it
is only reasonable to suppose that prac-
tice of such wide diffusion, and such
striking similarity, is found useful, j. e.,
protective in the places and under the
conditions contemplated.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24

In the city of Pesth, Hungary, practi.
cal scientists arc engaged on an expert
ment which should be regarded with the
utmost interest in this country. It is to
supply the city with warm water derived
from subterranean sources. An artesian
well, the deepest in the world, has been
bored to depth of about one thousand
yards. The work was undertaken by
two Hungarians, the city of Pesth con-
tributing 5000, 900 toward expenses. Al
ready there is supply of 175, 900 gal
Ions a day at temperature of 161 de-
'grees, rising to height of thirty-fve
feet above the surface, and the work is
to y. continued until the temperature,
which progresses regularly as the borings
descend, rises to 17s degrees, and then
no doubt is felt that there will be bub-
bling perennial stream sufficient to meet
all the wants of the city and to convert
the surrounding region into a tropical
garden.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24

The judges of the United States Su-
preme Court are thought to be among
the sleekest, most contented, most ur-
bane and most esteemed citizens of
Washington. Their glaces are for life,
and they receive $4,000, having the
privilege of retiring at 70 with continu-
alton of the same salary. This freedom
from an uncertainty about the future and
removal from any temptation to dabble
in politics doubtless have much to do
with their amiableness and serenity.
Judge Bradley is 49,; Judge Miller is 20 /;
Chief Justice Waite and Judge Field will
be 70 in November, so that President
Cleveland will have it in his power to
appoint their successors, provided they
retire. This fact causes the Supreme
Court to be source of unusual interest
Just now to many lawyers all over the
land. The judges enjoy excellent health
they average 200 pounds each, Bradley
being the only thin man among them
and have, as whole, been remarkable
for longevity. There have been but
forty-three occupants in all of the Su-
preme Bench, and but seven Supreme
justices. The government has already
paid them more than 1 900, 900 in sal
aries, one-third of the entire number hav-
ing served beyond thirty years. For
ease, comfort and dignity, no political
position in the republic equals that of q
Judge of the Supreme Court.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24
Ill M0ROUS.
Hoops are in fashion on flour barrels.

Hoops are in fashion on flour barrels.
A pawnbroker's warning Threa
bawls.
The fishery question: Honestly, now
did you get single bitel
1t is not patriotism which leads doc.
tors to go to war. It's pillage.
The dogs that went naked all winte,
have put on their summer pants.
Age appears to increase the value
of everything except women and but.
ter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes calls a kiss
lisping consonant. He should have added
also that it usually follows a-vowel.
We never speak as we pass by;
Although tear bcdims his eye;
know he thinks of when he wrote
His name across my three months note.
Adore, meeting Douglass, said: "Well,
what's going on to-daya" II am" ex.
claimed Jerrold, darting past the
intruder.
A new song is entitled, "Take your
girl some candy when you visit her at
night" The writer is probably con.
fcctioner.
A somewhat weather-beaten tramp,
being asked what was the matter with
his coat, replied: Insomnia; it hasn't
had nap in ten years."
There are few disappointments in life,
equal to that experienced by a man, who
expects that he is going to sneeze and
suddenly discovers that he can't.
Employer Ito collecto.) - "sce Mr..
Smith 2" Collector-"Was he annoyed
at your calling upon him 2" Collector
''Not bit. He asked me to call again. :"
This life would indeed be blank, this
world dreary and desolate waste if, af-
ter a misfortune has befallen us, we had
no friend to call in and say, II told you
So"
An exchange says that folded news.
paper placed under the coat in the small
of the back is an excellent substitute for
an overcoat. Now is the time to sub.
scribe.
A big advertiser was overheard the
other day as he made the following judi
cious remark: "You cannot eat enough
in week to last year, and you cannot
advertise on that plan either.
If they indulge in many more terrific
tornadoes in the brisk and breezy West,
Horace Greeley's famous admonition will
have to be modified to go West, young
man, and blow up with the country"
care we going to have picnic this
year ~ inquired a youngstcr of his Sun
day-school teacher. "Why, what do you
want of a picnic p "Nothing much;
but l can get six new scholars in hurry
if you are going to have one."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24

The climate of New Zealand is about
as different from ours as an April shower
from an October breeze, and yet the colo
nists are having an experience which in
North America was unhesitatingly as
cribcd to climatic influences. In nine
out of ten cases their boys outgrow their
fathers, A squat little emigrant takes to
farming, succeeds, gets married, and is
soon surrounded by 9 bevy of six-footers.
Several recent travellers agree that the
agricultural fairs of Dunedin assemble an
astonishing number of unprofessional
giants, corduroy sons of Anak,
whom any British Snowman would be
glad to engage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24
PRICE THREE CENTS.
Chocolate,

Chocolate is kind of hard paste, the
principle part of which is the pulp of the
cocoa or chocolate nuts. The cocoa,
from which it comes, is a tree that has
been brought into great prominence only
in comparatively recent years, although
for many generations it has been exer-
cising beneficient influences upon mil
lions of the human race. The Spanish
word is coco, signifying nut. The cocoa
nut palm growsin warm climates, and at
tains the height of from GO to 90 feet.
The stem is similar to an apothecary's
mortar, being of equal diameter at each
end, but tapering somewhat in the mid
die. The bark is smooth, Of pale
brown, and the tree generally inclines on
one side. The fruit is shaped like
cucumber, green while growing, then
changing to blush red color with pink
veins, and contains from 20 to 80 nuts.
The calyx of the cocoa nut palm is COM
posed of five sepals; the petals are five,
heightened into a strap like form at the
apex. The stamens are five each with
double anthers, and horn
like appendage between each fila
ment; the style is filiform with five part
ed stigma, the fruit five celled capsule
without valves, the seeds embedded in
soft pulp, and thick, oily, wrinkled
cotyledons. The species chiefly used in
the manufacture of cocoa and chocolate
are cacao, and the fruits are collected
from both wild and cultivated plants,
the size and form of which vary with the
species. The cacao tree is carefully cul-
tivated in many of the settlements of
Spanish America, and particularly in
Mexico, where, we learn from Humboldt,
it was extensively reared so long ago as
the time of Montezuma, and, whence,
indeed, it was transplanted into other de-
Tendencies of the Spanish Monarchy.
The names by which the plant and the
food prepared from its seed are recog-
nized in the present time are derived
from the Mexican language. The Mexi-
can word chocolate is derived from the
sound of the stones as they crash to-
gether in the primitive method adopted
by them for brulsing the bean and in
cooperating the sugar and vanilla, and
from this comes the English word choco-
late. The seeds of the cacao were made
use of as money in Mexico in the time of
the Aztec kings, and this use of them is
still partially continued. But the Cacao
tree is not confined to Mexico. 1t is cx-
tensively grown in Central America, Bra
zil, Peru, Venezuela, Caracas, Ecuador
Demerara, Guayaquil and Surinam; it
is also extensively cultivated in Trinidad,
Grenada, and is found in some of the
other West Indian Islands, but that
coming from Caracas being considered
the best.