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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-16
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Books, Catalogues and Pamphlets.

During the past week we have received
the following catalogues and pamphlets;
Catalogue from the Manly Manufact-
uring Co., of Dalton, Ga, manufacturers
of ornamental iron work, railing, build
ers iron, etc.
A beautiful catalogue for the season of
1889-9O, from the Seven Oaks Nursery,
at Bay View, Fla. Send to R. D. Hoyt
for copy.
Bulletin No. 10 of the New Hampshire
Agricultural Experimental Station, Han
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
Postal Savings Banks.

Postal savings banks are means by
which the government offers through
the postoffice a depository for savings
To every citizen of the country, no mat
ter where he may reside, provided he is
within reach of some postoffice which
is depository, the government extends
the opportunity to lay by his savings in
small sums, allows interest thereon, and
pledges its credit as security for their
repayment on demand of the depositor
or his representative.
They are not intended to interfere
with or be a substitute for existing saw
ings institutions, which for the most
part deal with much larger sums and
are found only in the larger centers of
population, and chiefly in New Eng
land and the Middle Atlantic states;
but to extend privilege similar to that
which private Institutions afford to the
very large class of small wage earners,
many of whom live entirely out of
reach of such institutions-on the prin-
ciple that if saving and place where
what is saved can be kept in safety are
good for some people they are good for
all, and that the government, being Sc
curity, if anything in the country can
be, and having already its posts" es-
tablished all over the land, should be
the agent to furnish such facilities to
its people. Youths Communion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
ABOUT HALF WAY ACROSS.

then concluded to risk the bridge. Tin
pc seemed to divine his keepers inten-
ton, and then his contrary spirit came
uppermost. He Immediately made a
rush for the river and started for the
pennsylvania shore at such a rate
That he almost drowned the keeper with
the water he splashed upon him. He
was mad all through. The bottom of
the river was rough and stony and
the uncertain footing added to Old
lips fury The river was at what thew
called rafting freshet. The elephant
had got about half way across the
stream trumpeting savagely and
deluging himself and all around him
with showers of water, when suddenly
a raft hove in sight above the ford. 1t
bore Immediately down with its unsus-
pectlng crew toward Tippo Sahib and
MS mounted escort The ugly brute
saw the strengthening object ap-
preaching and he stopped and gazed at
1t with angry surprise. Tippo had
travelled bit in his day and seen a
great many curious things, but he had
never seen raft before He was in a
fighting mood and seemed to think that
a raft of logs vas about the thing for
him to tackle just then. Waving his
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
Poor Mammal"

Not many things in the life of h,
seem more important to him thaDbs
first getting into trousers. 1t is to i
doubted, indeed, if he is likely to 6pl
much in his after life that will gives ia,
SO keen and unmixed; and when Master
Jamie, having reached the mature age Of
"most five, as he put it, was given his
first pair of knickcrbockers the whole
family were naturally called upon to re.
joice with him.
1t was after his first transports of de-
light were over, and he was able to speak
of the great event with calmness, that
Jamie came to his mother, and, after
parading up and down before her two or
three times, said in a tone of perfect sat
isfactiOn:
go mamma, pants make me feel 30
like somebody! Don't l look real grown
up, mammal"
His mother smilingly told him that be
certainly did, and that she could not feel
that he was her baby any more.
Didn't it make you feel grown up
mamma Jamie began, "when YOU
He stopped short. 1t had evident!
come to his mind that his mother had
never known this deep delight which SO
filled his soul He looked at her mo-
ment, an expression of the deepest ply
coming over his face, and then he toOi
her hand in both of his and laid it
against his cheek.
poor mammal" he said, softly. "Po0
mamma! If you'd been my little girl
I'd have let you wear pants just the same
as if you'd been a boy. "-Youth's Com.
panion,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
How 10 Mate Canaries.

GLOW do you mate canary birds?" re-
peated fancier, after a patrons ques-
ton yesterday. 'Why, take three or
four birds of both sexes and hang up
their cages around in the same room.
They begin to chirp. The average OBJ
server would probably note nothing par
ticular about their chirping, but if his
attention was called to it he could soon
observe that the birds select which one
they will chirp to, and that certain cou-
pies begin chipping only to themselves.
They drop their singing altogether and
only talk to each other in uninterrupted
courtship. The mating them consists in
simply putting them in the sane cage. y
Lancaster Examiner.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
Quaker Poets and Warriors.

1t is curious to note that the supposed
REFRESHING tendency of Quakerl life should
have developed two such poets, Taylor
and 7. Buchanan Read; Benjamin West
the first American painter of European
fame, and Hovenden, the American who
is doing the most important art work in
the country at the present time From
the time of Gen. Mifflin and Gen. Greene
to the surrender of Vicksburg by tie
Confederate Lieut.. Gen. John c. Penn
berton, of Philadelphia, Quaker blood
has developed some splendid fighting
qualities, and the numerous instances
with which the world is familiar would
seem to throw some doubt on our cher
ished theories as to the effect of training
and surroundings to make the human
sapling inclined the way the twig ba
been bent.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25

Eyes, sir, it is a fact, and John Crane
were sitting by lightwood fire readlDs
when l heard a noise in the corner, AID
on looking around saw an old 'Possln
on the table eating our bacon. Yes We
killed three the other night; have tocl'
EN- to keep 'em out of the house. Ihe's
must be hundreds of 'em on the island.
Thus spoke Mr.. Lewis Milan, who .
truck farming on Cranes Island, ouI =
Lake Hamilton. Georgia, in all D'
primeval glory, sinks into nothlngn's
as a 'possum state when compared
Florida. Haines City Headlight
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25

biggest and ugliest elephants ever ex-
hibited in this county. At the time
speak of this elephant was travelling
with the Van Amburgh show, which was
a celebrated one fifteen or twenty years
ago. Old Tip, as we called him, was
chronic kicker, and stood no fooling
from any one. His trainer had to be
constantly on hisguard, for the elephant
had disposed of one or two gentlemen
whose confidence in their pluck and
ability to handle Tippo had led them to
take charge of him, and he was plainly
keeping his eye out for an opportunity
to add another one to his score Old
Tip never passed a day without doing
something to keep up his record as a
pachyderm of strong individuality of
character, and the incident | am going
to relate was one sufficient in itself
alone to mark this elephant as a beast
with ideas of his own and will mighty
enough to carry them into execution, no
matter what the consequences might be
to himself or to others.
1--WE had been giving day and
nights show at Port Jervis, and the
next day were to astonish the natives
of Pike County, Pa, by pitching our
tents at Milford, the county seat, seven
miles below Port Jervis. To getto Mil
ford we had to cross the Delaware river
at Port Jervis. At that time the bridge
across the stream there was reported to
be in a decidedly shaky and dangerous
condition; in fact, it fell down two or
three days after we were in Port Jervis,
and the managers of the show concluded
not to trust ponderous Old Tip on the
structure. The river was fordable
quarter of a mile or so below the bridge.
and the elephant was taken to that spot
to wade across The time was early in
the morning, and when Tippo Sahib got
to the river bank he made the grand
kick of his life and refused to 90 any
further. He swung his trunk around
viclously and Overwhelmingly, tapped his
big ears, kinked his tail and roared and
worked himself into first-class rage.
His keeper coaXed and prodded and prod
ded and coaXed the old man killer for
more than an hour without succeeding
In inducing him to advance step, and
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
OUR GAME OF LIFE.

we each take turns upon an earthly field
Stand twixt the pitcher Life and catcher Death,
Within our hands the club of Destiny
Ben cath our eager feet the diamond Hopel
High or low ball? Shall the grim catcher,
Death,
Laugh at our whizzng of the bat through space,
And Fate the umpire, call US out on strikes
Before the first base of our youth is gainedf
Or shall we touch the goal and laugh to scorn
The quick in-hurling of the well-sent oalIF
Suppose we gain the first; brother comes
And in his hand now lies our veal or woel
Should he. by lucky chance, so WELD the bat
That the good ball shall soar DER tfelders' heads
And lose itself midst mustard plant and dock
'Twere most miraculous And we are wise
If, now, we watch with COOL unblinking eyes
The nearest short-stOp, Necessity.
Home runs
But few of US may hope for; if we creep
From base to base and watch erch wary chance
We're doing pretty tolerably well
To score on singles even! Lucky we,
If liners fly not swift to tielders' hands
And send US to our durance on the grass,
Where, near by, Captain Cunning coaches meni
The odds are great against us; for the ball
In taking downward curves escapes our sweep
And falls too often in the catcher's hands;
Or spite of all our efforts, is foul,
And we're caught outl
We ever start to play
The short nine innings of our little lives
With visions of great ballot many flies
Lost in the ether blue of sunny skies,
And wake to see daisy-cutter jump
Low toward the waiting fielder Circumstance
Oftimes the bats too heavy for our hands,
Or far too light for our great Jealous strength;
And though the diamond lures us ever on
The dust we make in scrambling for each base
Fills our poor eyes and blinds US to our fate.
And when we stand erect and see again
The Grand Stand of this vast, terrestrial sphere,
Lol one fine ball is safe within the hands
OF stern REORGANIZATION at our backs,
And our grim umpire Fate calls loudly
OUT
Eva Best, in Detroit Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
The SCENE OF The AGONY.
A visit to sorrowful Gethsemane in the
Nineteenth CenturYm


Nineteenth Century~
On the very lowest slope of the
Mount of Olives, deep down and I'M
seen beyond the inclosing wall of the
temple area. lies the garden which is SO
associated with the sacred story-Geth-
semane, the scene of the agony AL
most opposite to it, on the other side
of the road which traverses the narrow
valley, is what is now called the Golden
Gate, supposed to have been the beau
tiful gate of the temple 1t would be
the natural and nearest way by which
to reach that sacred retirement BY
this gate no doubt the betrayer and
his stealUhy band would follow the
steps of the Lord to his favorite haunt,
stealing down under the twilight skies
to where the shade of the pale olives
sheltered his prayers and mysterious
anguish, and the troubled doing of
the disciples sleeping for sorrow"
confused by the strange, uncompre-
hended tide of events which was draw
ing their feet toward something they
knew not what. And by this path
again, no doubt, they led their prisoner
back, avoiding the peopled way, hurry
ing him into the stronghold of his enc
mics.
1t is said that there exists a Moslem
tradition that by this gate the Messiah
is to ride into the holy place, taking
back his kingdom, and consequently
the precautioD has been taken-a
curiously Intellectual one, considering
the greatness of the event-of building
up the gate. There is something even
in this superstition which is grateful to
the imaginative mind. And the sin
gularly touching juXtaposition of the
temple gate and the garden gate is still
more memorable Gethsemane itself,
site about which there is no manner
of doubt, is now a garden of flowers.
protected by trim palings-a modern
garden, orderly and well cared for,
which gives a certain shock to the
mind, but rather for the first moment
than permanently. Blackwood's Maya
zine
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25

The smallest and quaintest street in
New York is located on the East Side,
within One-quarter of a mile of the
city hall. 1t is named Chestnut street.
1t begins at Madison street, Just below
the junction of Madison with New
Chambers, and runs diagonally across
New Chambers and New Bowery
streets to Oak street There was a
time, before New Chambers street was
cut through, when Chestnut street de-
served the title of a thoroughfare. 1t
had some utility at that time, and
could have been found without the aid
OF a microscope. But now it has no
utility and only one lamppost.
That portion of Chestnut street be.
tween Madison and New Chambers is
just forty-tive feet long. 1t cuts off a
hatiron shaped building, the walls of
which are decorated with announce
ments of the Soup Greens society and
the Swelled Heads, Jrs.
Chestnut street starts to cross New
Chambers and New Bowery, a distance
of about 200 feet, but becomes lost in a
maze of street car tracks and Second
Avenue Elevated Railroad pillars
which traverses New Bowery street.
After crossing this wilderness of iron
diagonally Chestnut street enters into
another fifty feet of existence between
New Bowery and Oak street. Here,
also, it cuts off a fiatiron shaped build
ing used as a cigar factory. The only
possible utility that this portion OF
Chestnut street can have is to permit
short cut to the Oak Street Poles sta
ton. New York Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
Old Age at Last.

Well known phrases are sometimes SO
sad, so mysterious in the minds of little
people who are making their first &C.
quaintance with grief. A child whose
dear grandpa had been taken suddenly
ill was one morning asked by neighbor
if he were any worse.
Il saw the doctor hurrying over to
your house little while ago." said the
good but thoughtless woman, land l
thought your grandpa might be worse. :"
''He isn't that" said the little thing,
her lips quivering. Hes dead"
Dear, dear mer' cried the neighbor.
81 didn't know he was so sick"
Mamma said he had cold last night"
explained the little mourner, "and the
doctor said-oh, don't know just what,
but it was cold, and then old age set
in, and grandpa died"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
Awkward Left Hands.

How awkward most people are with
their left hands. There is no reason, at
least no necessity, for this, but it is true
1t is partly due to heredity, and partly
to habit and practice, but it could be
overcome. The left arm and hand might
be cultivated to the same degree of dex-
terity, which literally means right hand
edness, as the right arm and hand, but
it involves trouble, time and patience,
and therefore is neglected. The left arm
has good reason to complain of this in
justice indianapolis Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25

season when Old Tip got on his ear and
wanted to smash things, his keeper
would say:
" 1 wish we could run the old man
into river somewhere and give him
another round or two with a raft
But the proprietors of the show
didn't wish for any thing of that kind.
1t took all the profits of the show for
town or two to pay for Old Tips wreck
ing of the two RATS, and | don't know
how much for damage claimed by the
panic-stricken crew l left the show
that season, but, if | remember correct
ly, Old Tip subsequently succeeded in
killing that same keeper, and then was
killed himself But he was a great old
elephant, all the same."-N Y. Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
HATEFUL LETTER "mv
The Significance Of That Lett.
pOleon's Meteorio 70

VI mat Letter q
poleon's Meteorio Career Ne
The first one who discovered Nano,.
genius was Marbnuf in tbo PcOieon's
Militaire. The battle of Marc college
the first won by Gen. Bonanartae' 0 was
this Melas yielded his place n T., upon
him. Later, one of his best general ay 70
Mortier, whose opposite, Napoleo ,'',a was
trayer, was Moreau. Murat was ~ Oe-
victim of his political stratagv NC nrst
Louisa shared the time of HE b; aiarla
fortune; Moscow became the seem s gu,
fall and Metternich vanquished bi W ms
the battlefield of diplomacy. i %
Six of his generals (AIassena Mo.a
Marmont, Macdonald, Murat and ~
cey) and twenty-six division cenoro,- -iOa,
the initial M to their names M ''aa
Duke of Bassano, was his truest adL ee
Montalivet was his minister and b;a ME- &c
chancellor was Montesquieu. Hi. I i'
residence in France was Malmaison "a last
captains name who took him 70 g. - me
lena was Maitland, and his cornno.. ne
there were Montholon and his Suns
Marchand. AIT
The wife of Napoleon III was NJ.
TITO and his most intimate friand .Ou'
Morny. The greatest triumpb for \. A
and his army during the Crime,n n ,,'
was the taking of Malatotf and Mamo,aa
The names Monticello and MacoO..
appear in the foreground in Italian w No
Later it is MacMahon, who PLAYED o,o1,
the most important roles durin,, ;,
Franco-German war and who wao
pointed Duke of Magenta by NanoIoo@P
Then we come to the epoch when y,
poleon entered Maitland and short
after drove the Austrians out Of Ma;
ano. Ills greatest enemy was Mazzr;
After the battle of Solferino on the Mn
clio, Napoleon closed the gates of Man
tua. Then followed the sad affair !.
Mexico and Emperor Macmillan
In the year 1870 Metz was one of III,
aims of the French operations. but heinz
driven back over the Moselle the destir'
of Napoleon found fatal conclusion .,
Sedan, on the Moselle Then foIlowoI
the capitulatiOn of Metz, but all his d.
aster was brought about by the wisdom
of one of the greatest strategists of on,
times and the German fatherland. Moltk,
From the German.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
A Ne,r Ennd Prndnct.

Professor w. Rehnstrom, dairy instruc-
tor and agricultural engineer of Sweden,
has invented new food product which
he calls lactoserin. Skim milk is curdled
in the same way as commonly used in
cheese making, only that larger guam
tity of rennet is used and at higher
temperature, so as to make the precipita-
ton complete. To the whey thus OBJ
tanned is added an equal quantity Of
skim milk, and the bulk, through sim
pie process of evaporation, is transformed
into solid cakes, which are afterwards
cut or ground and more or less roasted
to suit whatever purpose intended.-New
Orleans Picayune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
The Patent Bed Snrinr.

Our patent spring bed has been remodeled
The one for two in bed is so arranged that
the part the wife lies on can be set by the
husband unknown to the former, and it
springs her out of bed and stands her I'D on
the floor at any hour for which it is set. It
then remains turned up on one edge so she
can't get back again, at least on her side of
the bed, and she won't come back on his side.
for she's too alfred mad to come near him,
Sc the result is that she is compelled to dress
and go down stairs to see to breakfast. and
the old man will get rest. Oh, it's daisyj
Hyde Park Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
THE LOST ARTS.

In ancient times the workers in metals
and other substances handed their secrets
down from generation to generation, and
in time some of them were lost. These
are the 'lost arts so often mentioned,
which are simply lost family secrets
From the Fifth to the Sixteenth century
was the age of fabulous pretensions in
alchemy, when every discovery was kept
a profound secret, thus making the time
one of almost total ignorance.
The old alchemists sometimes used
good logic in their arguments as to the
existence of the philosophers stone, and
all alchemy was not the fraud that mod
ern people would think. There were
some good, honest workers in the ranks.
searchers after the truth, as well as the
knaves that are to be found in every
trade and every branch of life.
There was one monk living in the Mid
die Ages who made a speciality of anti
mony. Thinking it to be the great cure
all he first tried some of it on his hogs
and the beasts fattened so that he thought
that it must be good for human beings.
So he gave it to his brethren with fatal
results. This is supposed to be the reason
why the metal is called "antimony,'
from its bad effect on monks.
There are alchemists of today just as
dishonest as those Of old, men who swim
die and cheat others with tricks that are
almost as primitive as those used by their
predecessors in the crooked art. They
have only changed their forms of delu-
sion and have struck for higher wages
Washington Star,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25

One has only to glance at Howells tc
see that he is just the man who would
give us "Silas Lapham," or that girl
in another of his stories who tries to
face the most serious problem of life
gaining ones livelihood-unaided and
alone. He looks the book he writes!-
Max Eliot in Boston Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
Eject of Sucking a Lemon.

A boy sucking a lemon will break Y
q whole brass band with the excePtoH =
the drummer and the man who oPeia'@
the cymbals. There may be few o'D'.
exceptions, but very seldom will there 4
found man who can so resist the inVr
nation of his lips and tongue to SMITH, i
vince and quicker when the tas@
lemon juice is brought wildly mo- .ro
imagination that he can then cOn+d
these organs sufficiently to play a W.
instrument.-Ne Haven Palladium
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
The Pressure of Water.

The water at very great depths is, in
most parts of the world, near the freez-
ing point. Further, the pressure upon
every square inch of the surface of a
body under three miles of sea water, in
stead of being about fifteen pounds, as
in atmospheric air, is three tons, or, in
other words, 6,720 pounds.-Edinburgh
Review,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25

Be wary in the way you handle your
cigar stumps in the street. One of the
members of the Women's Health Pro
tective association said yesterday that
she was going to command the next man
she saw throwing a cigar stump in the
street to pick it up at once under penalty
of arrest, and her sentiments We're APP
plauded.- York Evening Sun.