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Grasses in Sponges.

A very pretty foliage decoration Tor
rooms or Conservatives can be made OF
a white sponge. Fill the sponge full OF
rice, canary, hemp, grass or other seeds.
Then place it in shallow fancy dish.
The prettier the dish is, of course, the
prettier the decoration will be. Pour
water in the dish; the sponge will absorb
this. Keep water to always keep the
sponge moist. In a short time the seeds
will sprout and make the sponge very
pretty. The dish then can be placed on a
table, or the sponge can be suspended
without the dish in some position where
it is exposed to the sunshine. Unjust be
we'll watered, so that the sponge is al
ways moist, and it will then exhibit
mass OF delicate green foilage.-Purdy's
Fruit Recorder.
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CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness Hay Fever a
New Home Treatment.

Sufferers are not generally aware that
these disease are contagious, orthat they
are due to the presence of living para
sites in the lining membrane of the nose
and eustachian tubes. Microscopic re-
search, however, has proved this to be
a fact. and the result of this discovery is
that q simple remedy has been formula
ted whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness
and hay fever are permanently cured in
from one to three simple applications
made at home by the patient once in
Wo weeks.
N. B.-This treatment is not snuf
or an ointment; both have been discard
ed by reputable physicians as injurious.
A pamphlet explaining this new treat
ment is sent on receipt of three cents in
stamps to pay postage by A. Fl. Dixon
& Son, 1877 and 800 West King Street,
Toronto, Canada.-Christian Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrh troubles should
carefully read the above.
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RuckIen'S Arnica SaIVe.

The BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and off Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by both the drugstores.
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parts. Happily, however, the Linn@an
Society heard what was going on, and
about twelve years ago moved the Secre-
tary of State for the colonies to stay the
hand of the destroyer. Fortunately, the
greater portion of the ravine is Crown
land, and measures were taken to pre-
serve the old trees and foster the growth
of the young plants. The tree above re-
ferred to is commonly called the double
cocoanut. It's botanical name is LOdOi-
cea Sechellarum. 1t is the only species OF
it's genus. The trunk is nearly cylindri-
cal, scarcely one footin diameter, and at
tains a height of nearly one hundred feet.
1t has a crown of leaves, which are fan"
shaped, some times twenty feet long and
six feet wide. The fruit, which averages
forty pounds in weight, is in the form of
a double or sometimes treble nut. They
are covered with hard and thick black
shells. AS they have a capacity of from
six to eight pints, they are used as water
vessels, and by slicing in different direc-
tions, they are converted into plates,
dishes, drinking vessels, etc. The leaf
bud is eaten like the cabbage of other
palms, and the down from the young
leaves is used for stuffing mattresses,
pads, cushions, etc. The petioles are
converted into baskets and brOoms, and
the young canes are plated to form hats.
1t has been recently introduced into Cey-
Ion and other localities, where a few
plants may be m t with as curiosities.
Under garden cultivation it's manner Of
growth from the seed is peculiar, render
ing it difficult. A ripe nut falls or is laid
upon the ground in two or three months
time it will terminate and begin TO take
root. At the end of q year or so it will
throw out spike, which grows to q
height of forty to fOrty-five inches and is
about one and One-half inches in dame
ter round and sharply pointed at the
top. This is the first future leaf. At the
end OF another year a second spike
sprouts and grows close by the side OF
the first one. This second spike does not
sprout from the first one, but comes out
of the ground close by the side OF it. AS
the second grows, the first spike gradual
ly and slowly unfolds and expands into
leaf-the shape of theleaf OF a fan palm.
During these stages they are very suscep-
tible to injury, from which they never re-
cover. SO, at the best, they will never
become common or even plentiful.
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For THE FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
Oleanders and Grape Myrtle.

UleanQerS anu Grape MyTC1e.
The oleander belongs to the natural Or
der Apo Cynace@, which furnishes some
of our most beautiful green house shrubs
and most active vegetable poisons. This
splendid shrub is common in Palestine,
growing by rivulets, and is supposed to
be the plant to which the Psalmist al
ludes. 1t also grows in the south Of
Europe, the Levant and the East Indies,
and is comparatively tender, but can
stand unhurt the lowest temperature that
prevails here.
To those, who have only seen it grown
in tubs, the tree-like specimens of South
Florida are a wonder. tits Of the easiest
culture; small plants soon come into
bloom and in a few years make striking
object in landscape. One variety has
rose-colored flowers, another variegated
rose and white; the latter at distance
resembles an apple tree when in full
bloom. Being an evergreen and almost
ever-blooming it deserves a place onevery
homestead, but should not be planted
near the residence, as it is said to contain
a subtle poison that is very unwhole-
some.
The Grape myrtle is q native OF the
East Indies, but survives the winters in
the open ground as far north as $50 30"
where in time it grows to be rather a
large shrub; but it is not easily prOpa-
gated as it is in South Florida, where it
makes asmall tree and spreads with great
rapidity. The young plants bloom when
quite small.
There are three varieties in cultivation
in this sectiOn-the white, the purple and
the crimson. The latter is the shOwiest,
and appeals to more senses than one
The great clusters of delicate crape-iike
flowers remind one of the heart Of a ripe
red meated watermelon.
The Grape myrtle is deciduous and
blooms in the summer months, but
stays in bloom long time, and q well
grown specimen is the prettiest, to my
taste, OF all of our Towering trees.
1t should not be planted in cOnjunction
with oleanders, as they make the latter
appear very coarse in contrast. / recent
~ saw two long rows Of Oleanders and
Grape myrtles standing together. Worse
taste could scarcely have been exhibited.
The Grape myrtles were exquisite in their
beauty and a delight to the eye. They
belong to the natural order Lythace@
Loose strifes, their generic name is
Lagentr@mia.
Mrs. JENNIE S. PERKINS.
Crown Point, Florida.
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Coco-de-Mer.

of the worlds wonders" as follows.
In o secluded ravine Or glen, in a small
island that lies in theIndian Ocean, away
from the highway of commerce, OF travel
and OF pleasure, and therefore rarely Wis
tied, there grows, and has; grown these
many ages a wondrous palm tree that
may be fittingly ranked among the few
wonders of the world. 1t is difficult to
fix the time when the fruit of the Coco-de
Mer palm first began to attract the at
tention of travellers. Mention appears
to have been first made of it by the Por-
tuguese voyagers round the Cape OfGoOd
Hope toward India.
At comparatively rare intervals the
CocO-de-Mer nut was washed ashore upon
the east coast of Madagascar, the east
coast of Africa and occasionally as far
still, it was found floating at sea. All
searches for the tree that bore the strange
looking thing having proved unavailing,
and as it had never been seen in any
other part of the world, it is no wonder
that in those ages some queer legends be-
came attached to it and were believed in.
The cOmmonest and, perhaps, the most
natural one, assigned the habitation of
the CocO-de- Mer to the bottom OF the sea.
1t was believed to be the product of a
submarine plant, forests of which were
thought to be growing at the bottom OF
the Indian Ocean, somewhere in the re-
gion of the equator. The Coco-de-Mer
had never been seen growing on the land,
it had always come from, or been met
natural to conclude that it was native
of some part of Father Neptunes do
minions. 1t bore q curious resemblance
to an overgrown hybrid cocoanut; hence
it was called in French, COco-de-Mer-
Anglice, setA cOcOanut.
The mystery Of ages was solved, how
ever, when Maize de la Bourdonnias, the
Governor of the French Possessions and
those parts, discovered the Seychelles
Archipelago; but the solution of that
mystery only gave rise to another. Here
was group of upWard of twenty islands,
eleven of which bore dense vegetation,
and yet the Coco-de-Mer grew only upon
two of these islands, and those not by
any means the largest of the number.
Other islands there were within dis
lance of dozen miles and several more
within twenty miles, and yet this strange
plant had elected Isle Prasln and Isle
Cureuse as it's dOmicile and Obstinately
refused to bulge therefrom, leaving out
of the question those places beyond the
seas in which attempts have been made
to naturalize it.
The COco-de-Mer does not take kindly
to the soil of any other island in it's ma
tive archipelago except those OF Praslin
and Cureuse, and even respecting those
two islands word of explanation is nee
essary. They are merely divided by an
arm of the sea about 500 yards wide,
and the lay of the land and other indica-
tiOns go to prove that at one time the
two islands were one The French in de
la Bourdonnais' time are said to have
found Praslin and Cureuse nearly covered
with Coco-de-Mer forests, but the trees
now left standing would not cover one
square mile; and even those, UNIQUE
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plays considerable tenacity OF life and re-
sists to remarkable degree the whitening
effects of both heat and drouth. j. M.
Cardington, Ohio.
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FLORAL DEPARTMENT.

EDITED BY WALTER N. PIKE,
JEssAMINE, PAsCO CO., FLA
To whom all correspondence relating to this de
partment should be addressed.
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Sufferers from Catarrh troubles should
carefully read the above.
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WOeful Wants.

ume ew issue q com
with the papers o.
a book of referenc &C
farmer and fruit
only q little abov
Stiff board flexible
Cloth embossed wi.
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DIR. KocH's sruBBoRNNEss.

OF course DIR. Koch has the personal
right to retain the secret of the prepara-
ton of his lymph. But since the motive
for secresy is usually gam, he must not
complain if the world charges him with
prostituting science to greed in refusing to
make public how he prepares the liquid
For it appears that there are human be-
ings SO utterly heartless, so callous to
every sentiment of manliness, and so reck-
less OF human life, as to put out spurious
lymph. By some device of deyilish inge-
nuity they have managed to get the coun-
terfeit into the hands of many physicians,
while covering their tracks SO efectually
that these Illicit manufacturers can not be
known.
In th juncture Dr. Koch is appealed
to compass the defeat of the rascals by
making public the formula for preparation
of the lymph, and he refuses to do so. If
he maintains this refusal he will strip
from his name whatever of honor and
testimonials of gratitude that may have
been showered upon it because of his great
discovery. There are some personal rights
that men do wrong in advancing, and DR..
Koch's case is an example of such error.
Heis an agency of the age, through whom a
wonderful revelation has been made, and
the duty incumbent upon him to commune
icate it to mankind rises superior to his
personal right.
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IGNATTus DoNNELLY is determined
that the world shall not lose sight of his
claim that Bacon wrote the Shakespeare
plays. In the North american Recieu for
December he has another chapter sort
of supplement to "The Great Cryptogram. !"
He shows by the key number 81
that the words "Francis bacon, Nicholas
Bacon's son." occur on three consecutive
pages of the play, "The First Part of
Henry w." folio edition. They are
found from the key number, which is the
number of the page multiplied by the
number of italic words on the page, with
unerring regularity, turning up precisely
where they should upon the theory of a
concealed cipher in the text. 1t must be
confessed that he makes so strong case
that to say the words are chance results
seems little short of preposterous. Never
theless, if all is admitted that he claims,
it does not establish the authorship of
Bacon, though giving color to the sugges-
ton that he had something to do with the
plays. Shakespeare will remain, in the
estimate of the world, the author of the
plays bearing his name, until stronger proof
than discovery of supposed cipher in the
text is made.
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YANKEE sCHooLMARMs.
They are Somewhat Detected at Being
Called to Order,

Called to Order.
WAsBNGToN. December 30th.-Without
any warning 900 Yankee schoolmarms
swooped down on the Capital tonight and
to-day. The hotels and streets are full of
all kinds of schoolmarms, big and little,
ugly and fair, 80 and sweet Is, all eager to
see the sights and ask sixty questions per
minute about everything in town. Early
this incoming, before the stars had paled,
they were poking and prying into all the
corners of the city. At 10 o'clock they
swarme1 into the Senate GALLERIES like
locusts. The grave Senators were waiting
for QUORUM, and the schoolmarms mani
festef their impotence of the delay By
breakinginto clapping of delicate hands
and staraping of more or less delicate feet
after the manner of gallery gods at the
theater
Chaplain Butler had finished prayer but
ten minutes, and the sedate body was as
grave and still as death. Captain Bassett,
the venerable doorkeeper. who has served
in that capacity since the days OF Daniel
Webster, was just in the act of taking
snuff, when the Yankee marms broke into
a clapping of hands. The old man was
utterly amazed. Never before in all his
three-score years of service had he wit
messed such audacity in the United States
Senate Chamber. The Senators, too, were
astonished. Vice President Morton, clean
shaved and clean cut, arose deliberately
and brought his gavel down with whack,
paused and then proceeded to lecture the
marms on Senatorial etiquette. The ladies
really intendad no harm, and were quite
crestfallen at the Vice Presidents rebuke.
1t is rumored tonight that they have Sc
lected one of their number, Miss Prudence
Atwater, to tender an abject apology to
the Vice President.
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RAW AS BEEFSTEAK.
Baby's Fearful Suffering From skin
Disease Covering Entire Body
Cured by Cu.icura

My baby was taken very sick when he was
three months old. and in few days began
breaking out. We employed both of the home
doctors, and they could do nothing for him.
Then we sent for the best doctor in Eaton Ran
IDS, Mich, and he doctored him for two weeks,
and ne got worse all the time; and then I took
MIN to jackson, to a doctor who attends es-
pecial,y to skin diseases, and then he got worse
than ever. He got poor so fast and soon got so
weak that he could not mold his head up nor
open his eyes, and then we stopped doctorine
MIN entirely For about a month we got 50 aw-
fully discouraged we thought every day he
would not live until the next. Then told nv
husband we had better try the CurIcURA REiiE-
DIES any way; did not have any idea they ySuld
do any good, but in less than two months from
the time we begsn giving them to him he was
entirely wei, and not spot on him His hair
began growing right off, and we thought he
would always be bald-hesded. Everybody that
saw him said that it was the worst cas-; they
ever saw. There was not a spot on his whole
body, face and head, only his nose and eyes,
but what was as raw as beefsteak So poor
there was not anything but bones and so weak
he could raise neither hand nor head.
MRS. FRANK BARRETT.
Winfield Mich
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The Silver Men Growing Very In
patient.

The Silver Men Growing Very Inn
WAsHINGToN, December 30th.-The silver
men are growing more and more impatient
al the delay in reaching financial legisls-
ton, but the leaders are not yet confident
of being able to hold together all those of
the silver faith in any radical movement.
Intimation has come from the East thai if
too radical legislation is insisted upon
some Western bankers brokers and specu-
lators will find it very hard to get money
without paying an extraordinary interest
and furnishing unquestionable security.
This is suggested as The very natural result
of free coinage.
Matters are getting into such shape, how
ever, that the leading silver men see that
they must take some action promptly, or
else await another Congress to pass free
coinage bill. They find no promise of
speedy legislation On finance in the adop-
ton of the cloture rule. This rule might
insure voc on the election bill at such
time as the managers should determine,
but if it is not applied promptly the cleo
ton bill may stand in the way Of silver
legislation for some time yet. without
being itself endangered by the delay.
The managers thus tar have given no
assurance that if the cloture rule is adopted
the election bill will be disposed OF at
once. The silver men, therefore, feel that
they will have gained nothing by the adop-
ton of the cloture, but still have put
themselves in the power of the anti-silver
| men if they assist in clearing the way for
action on the election bill without any
assurance that action will be had at once
They will have abandoned about the only
weapon they have. Therefore, some OF
| the leaders feel that there should be prompt
| action on their part, and that they should
force the fighting.
What they can accomplish depend:
| upon their success in holding their OWE
men together. They feel that every mo-
ment ia Ken up in the consideration of the
election bill will put additional difficulty il
the way of free coinage, and they believe
that if the passage of the election bill were
assured there would still be Senators who
would sndeavor to keep the question be
fore the Senate as long as possible to pre-
vent or delay financial legislation.
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Worth Knowing,

That ALLCooK's Porous PLAsTERs are the
highest result of medical science and skill,
and in ingredients and method have never
been equalled.
That they are the original and genuine
porous plasters upon whose reputation imi-
tators trade.
fail TO perform their remedial work quickly
and effectually.
That for weak back, rheumatism, colds,
lung trouble, kidney difficulties, strains,
and all local pains, they are invaluable.
That when you buy ALLcocK's Porous
PLasTERs you obtain the best plasters made.
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF MR.. MORSE.

How tariffs and selishness become in
volves, and how manufacturing clioues
and rings look ont for number one, was
wildly illustrated in the passage of the
Mckinley bill by the voting and speaking
of truly pious Mr.. Morse of Massachu-
sets. Mr.. Representative Morse was op-
posed to any free list, practically. ''Why,"
said he, ''if We are to have free coal. and
free wool, We must have free cordage, free
carpet tacks, free boots and Shoes And,
he added, that no one could ride protec-
ton and free trade at the same time, "no
one could ride two horses at the same time
going in opposite directions"
But when it came to voting and self
interest got the upper hand of doctrine,
Mr.. Morse voted to keep plumbago on the
free list. Mr.. Morse is the largest manu-
facturer Of stove polish in the land. and
plumbago is its chief ingredient-and this,
though there is plenty of plumbago min
ing at home to protect, if need be. But
that was not all. Mr.. Morse desired not
only to get his raw material free, but to
protect his manufactured article-he voted
to put tax Of 25 per cent. ad valorem on
backing of all kinds, which effectually
shuts out foreign stove polish.
But this was not all. Mr.. Morse puts
his stove polish-and he makes twelve
tons day-into paper cases, while many
OF his competitors use tin. So Mr.. Morse
voted to tax tin and thus third time
an interest was protected for the benefit Of
the owners pocket. But he did not stop
there. When it came to fixing the rates
upon paper Mr.. Morse voted against in
creasing the tariff on the grade of paper he
uses in making wrappers. Some of Mr.
Morse's rivals put up their polish in glass
bottles. Mr.. Morse voted to increase the
tariff tax fifty per cent. upon bottles.
To remove all question about the knowl-
edge Mr. Morse had of the effect of such
voting, he has been advertising his polish
since the passage of the bill with these
words in its favor: "The consumer pays
for no expensive tin or glass with every
purchase" OF course, if Deacon Morse
can accommodate himself to that sort Of
legislation, cheapening goods to yourself
and putting them away up to your neigh.
Dor, it is Morse and his conscience for it
He did only what other great interest:
with axes to grind did, and at the doing
of which party and Congress got down
upon its knees before rings and trusts and
combines. 1t is the old story of class in
terest and of looking out for number one
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text is made

The Albany On. Y journal is not at
all considerable of its Republican friends
who are for free silver when it declares
that the Republican majority in the SEN
ate has been sadly demoralized since last
summer on the question of silver, and that
it will not do to consent for an instant to
the thought of the passage of the free
silver devil.n 1t holds that its party
went just as far as it dare when it passed
the silver bill of last July, and that the
granger and Rocky mountain Republicans
have no right to expect any further action
in that direction. This is independent
stalk and from party journal of pfomi-
nence is significant.
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hence is signihcan

WHEN Puck the other day declared
that "a Christmas gift is something you
do not want, returned by something you
cannot Afford" it was dyspeptic. 1t was
neither witty nor wise. 1t deserved the
rebuke given it by whoever suggested that
Mr.. Scrooge is editing Puck.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
Twenty Thousand Stamped Envelopes
stolen by Psstoffics Employe.

Stolen by Psstoffics Employe.
WAsHINeToE, December 30Lh.-Oyer &C, :.
600 stamped envelopes have been stolen
from the Government agency at Hartford
Conn.,, and sold by former employee. The
contractors will make good the loss.
There was considerable discussion among
the members Of the House to-day regarding
the election bill. One prominent Republic
can says he does not think it will pass the
Senate, but if it should, it cannot get
through the House unless there is a Re-
publican quorum, which is almost impossi-
BILE to secure at the present session.