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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-13
Moulting Hens.

til near the approach of cold, weather.
The maiehassometh ingto do with it
as the hens in warm climates often begin
to5moult in June and July. MoultiDg is
natures process Of giving the fowl new
''clothes'' But for the advantage Of
moulting a broken feather could never
be. renewed, and a damaged plumage
would become, more and more SO. In
fact, if the fowl did not moult it would,
in q few seasons, be not only unslghtly
but also would be unable to endure either
extreme warmth or cold. But nature
makes wise provision in the matter,
and once year Tin some cases twice.
the hens throw off their old feathers and
don themselves in bright new covering,
retaining their beauty and better pre-
pared to begin the duty of laying eggs
and Matching broods. Moulting, there
fore, means the dropping off of the old
feathers and new ones growing out to re-
place them.
AS the feathers are largely composed of
nitrogen, and also abound in mineral
matter, the hen is put to severe task
during the process of moulting. First
her feathers loosen and come out, at
times she being almost entirely naked, at
which period she is liable to disease, due
to exposure of her uncovered body to all
the vicissitudes of the weather. When
the feathers begin to appear they drain
the body of the elements essential to
their composition, and if the food given
the hen is lacking in the required elements
the hen is weakened and enfeebled When
a hen mouths in the warm. season, and
has range, she will greatly assist her
self in the choice offood, as, at that sea-
son of the year, insects and avariety of
grasses can be secured, but if she is con-
fined she requires the most nourishing
food that can be given.
1t requires about three months for a
hen to shed her feathers and come out in
q complete new garb, and during that
time she will become greatly enfeebled
and vet be in a fat condition. This is eX-
planned by the fact of he carbOnaceOus
substances being of but little, if any val
ne, so far as he production of feat hers is
concerned, and the carbon is stored III
the body of the hen, though there may
be great drain on her system for the
heterogeneous and mineral elements. To
provide the nitrogen and mineral matter
she must eat o large amount OF food, and
as the carbonaceOus materials exceed
the heterogeneous, she secures an excess OF
the former though she does not really re-
quire or desire it, and hence she will pass
over the moulting season weakened and
debilitated but fat.
A moulting hen seldom lays, as she
cannot produce eggs and feathers at the
same time, the eggs and feathers being
somewhat composed of the same Gle
ments, and she will, as stated, lose three
months time, though instances are
known in which moulting hens have layed
and done we'll After all, however, 1t is
of no advantage for them to do so, as
they will lose more or less time at some
other period. When hen is mouting
she should have warm, dry quarters, and
if she is we'll cared for she will more than
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-13
FLORIDIANA.

ty have resigned.
Leesburg's ice factory is to beincreased
to double it's present capacity.
The new Spanish minister, Senior Fran
cisso de Bagerele, has arrived at Key
West.
Six dock labOrers were padded with q
shingle last week for using profane Ian
guage.
The Florida Facts seems to be doing
good work in drawing settlers to the
State.
A large deposit of kaoline has been
found on Palatka kaha creek. 1t is pro-
nounced as being of the best quality
The people of Fernandina are circu]a-
ting petition to the city council asking
q reduction in city tax from 81 mills to
10.
A mango four and threefourths inches
in length, nine inches in circumference
and weighing thirteen ounces was picked
in Largo.
Florida papers are now about all poll
ties Better Call u hault and ChipOy) in
and say the fatted Bullock and all have
a Good Rich time.
The Star office at Titusville was light
cd with electricity as an experiment last
week. The dynamo was made by Mr.
Ender of that place.
The citizens of Lady Lake are talking
about Incorporating. If they haven't
any hogs running at large they should
go slow about Incorporating.
Waldo carries the palm for "fixing up"
horsewhipping affairs. Both parties say
they are sorry, shake hands, write q let tier
to the press, explanatory, and both sign
it.
The Crawfordville Tin es tells of a stalk
of corn brought in by Henry Watson
that had four large, well developed ears,
one of which weighed within two ounces
of three pounds. 'a'3
There is phosphate of alumina found
in Marion county which experts say is
valuable for the double purpose of pro-
ducing phcsphoric acid and mercantile
alum.-Floridian
Great pity for' persons who own rich
hammock land to be caught buying veg
etables in town instead of raising them
at home. But that is the way with q
large par OF the wOrld.-Commercial.
G.. W. Little, residing several miles
northeast Of Gainesville in the pine
woods, says the recent rains have not in
jurcd the cotton in that locality, that, on
the contrary, the crop is in tineconditiOn
and there will be large yield.
The Sanford Journal says that Gen.
Sanford has been in Washington trying
to procure from Congress all appropria-
ton for wideninga and deeping thechanels
of the st. Johns so the ocean steamships
can load at the Sanford dock. 1t Eever
will be done.
The four-year old son of C. w. Wells
was badly buried with lye last week in
Leesburg He mistOok some dissolved
I've for water and took Il mouthful before
noticing the difference. His mouth is
badly burned but is improving and will
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-13

Including WyandOttes, plymouth Rocks, Leg
horns, Hamburgs, Games, Bantams, Geese and
Ducks. Being acquainted with nearly all the best
breeders in the North, can usually fill orders for
most any breed of fowls at q few weeks notice
ORDERS SOLICITED FOR FALL AND WIN
TER DELIVERY First-class stock and reason
able prices. Address,
a. e. PAINE. Federal Point, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-13

For poultry that is kept confined grass
will be better if cut up fine when fed to
them; see that they have a full supply as
long as it can be secured.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-13

To whom all correspondence in regard to this
department should be addressed 5. -,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
PROPOSALS INVITED
FOR FURNISHING
FOR FURNISHING
STATIONERY AND BLANK BOOKS,

OFFICE OF THE STATE BOARD OF En-
Sealed proposals will be received at this Office
until - o'clock NJ, on MONDAY. November IL
1890, to furnish Stationery and Flank Books in
accordance with schedules which will be furn-
ished upon application by the Secretary OF the
State Board of Examiners
Samples of each article bid on must accom-
pany eacn proposal, except where so stated in
the schedule. Where samples cannot De sent
minute description OF the article or the stand
ard, or copyrighted name must be used
When standard or copyrighted name is used
to describe an article in this schedule the genu-
inc article is meant, aud bids on no other will
be received.
The proposals must be for the delivery of the
Stationery and Blank Books bid on at the office
of the Secretary State, in such quantities more
times between the LIST day OF December 1880,
and the LIST day of December, 1892, as the SeCre-
tary of State may direct.
Each bid must be accompanied by certified
check on some bank of good standing, drawn
to the order of the Secretary of the State Board
of Examiners, for a sum equal to 20 per cent. of
the amount of the bid. which check will be
forfeited TO the State If the bid which such check
accompanies shall be accepted and the party
making such bid shall fail or refuse TO enter into
a contract and execute a satisfactory bond for
the faithful performance OF the contract
awarded to him.
The Board of Examiners reserve the right to
reject all bids ii deemed too high.
All bids must be directed to the undersigned,
Endorsed Proposals for Stationery and Blank
Books" S. P, MASLIN,
Secretary of the State Board of Examiners
sO2S-20tfSul
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
BY BALLOON TO THE NORTH POLE

NJ. Besancon and NJ. Hermite, of the
Paris College of Aerial Navigation, Sc
riously propose to attempt to reach the
North Pole in balloon. Their plan is to
construct balloon of two thicknesses of
Chinese silk covered with impenetrable
varnish. The sphere is to contain $4,000
cubic feet of hydrogen gas and to carry
weight something in excess of 5000
pounds.
They will take with them four small
pilot balloons, to be sent up from the
North Pole should they succeed IN reach
ing that much-sought-for spot, to test the
air currents there. They will have four
huge bags of hydrogen gas to replenish
the main balloon. The car is to be made
of thin steel and will carry, besides pro-
visions and scientific apparatus and means
for making the gas, eight dogs, sleigh
and a canoe. To keep the balloon at a
regular distance from the earth, it will
carry an anchor and drag rope, and
their duplicates fitted for either water or
land use.
Two vessels are to be fitted out to carry
the aeronauts as far north as they can sail,
when the balloon will be inflated and the
aerial voyage will begin. The calculation
is that ten days in the air will carry them
to the point aimed for.
The cost of the entire expedition is put
down at $4,000. The most of this sum
the adventurous aeronauts will themselves
furnish, and for the balance they will ask
for subsidies from the French and English
scientific societies. The plan is to start
northward in May, 1891. In the mean
time they will experiment to ascertain
how long balloon crew can remain in the
upper air in high northern ATTITUDES. That
the proposition is receiving serious con-
sideration in scientific circles gives it a
character that removes it from the realm
of mere fancy.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
PROPOSALS INVITED
FOR FURNISHING
Wood and Coal for The State Capitol.

OFFICE OF THE STATE BOARD OF En-
~ aminers Sacramento, october II, $780,
Sealed proposals will be received at this office
until u ocloek NJ, on MONDAY, November II,
1890, TO furnish more or less wood and coal, as
follows:
One hundred ton 1900 pounds to the toni
coarse screened sydney or Wellington Coal;
price of each to be specified.
Four hundred cords (i-foot Seasoned Noun
tain Live Oak Body Wood.
Four hundred cords "a FOOT Seasoned Noun
tain Body White Oak Wood.
Twenty cords "A FOOT Dry Pitch Pine Body
Wood.
Said Wood and Coal to be delivered at the rear
OF the State Capitol, at Sacramento, at such
times and in such quantities, more or less than
the amount above stated, as the Secretary OF
State may direct. between the first day of Deem
Der, 1890. and the first day of December, 1892.
Wood to be measured and Coal to be weighed at
the place and time of delivery.
Proposals to furnish Wood and Coal must be
made on separate bids.
Each bid must be accompanied by a certified
check on some bank of good standing drawn TO
the order of the Secretary of the State Board of
Examiners, for a sum equal to 20 per cent. of
the amount of the bid, which check will be for
feited to the State If the bid which such check
accompanies is accepted and the party making
the bid shall refuse to enter into contract and
execute satisfactory bond for.the faithful per-
Torrance of the contract awarded to him.
The Board reserves the right to reject any or
all bids If deemed to high.
Blank forms upon which to make bids will be
furnished by the Secretary upon application.
All bids must be directed to the undersigned
at Sacramento, Endorsed Proposals for Wood,
or Proposals for Coal,'' as the case may be.
S. P. MASLIN,
Secretary of the State Board of Examiners.
o2S-20t(Spl
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
THE r1M1D G1RL-wHERE IS sHE7

Teresa II. Dean, in the Chicago Herald,
asks: What has become of the shrinking,
timid young girl? You will find her,
Teresa, CRYING out "cash" in the store (;
clicking typewriter in the dingy business
office; scrawling photography in offices /;
checking off samples in commercial base
ments; shouting "Hellof' from the Cen
trail office;' serving at the soda fountain
and lunch bar; measuring goods behind
the counter; chinking silver and gold In
the cashiers chair-in fact, you will find
her, fair author of that charming column
"Snap Shots" on our contemporaries edi-
torial page, in all the walks of business,
touching elbow with all manner Of men,
and rubbing off the bloom of young
womanhood and shedding that charming
''timidity" you lament, in the rough and
tumble of trade and shop, and the push
and iangle of the stock market, and amidst
the smell of hams and Goldfish and whisky.
In truth, Teresa, the shrinking" girl
is becoming the business girl, and just to
that extent she is no longer the domestic
girl, the home-loving, home-trained and
home-qualifed girl. She is becoming I'm,
fitted for wifehood, and motherhood, and
housekeeping, and lovableness.
That's the matter, Teresa. Do not tell
us that it is necessity" and "independ-
ence" that drives her into these walks,
from many of which she unjustly displaces
men, and for most of which she is by ma
ture, temperament, physical powers, taste
and the design of humanity untitled
When it comes to that branch of the ques-
ton, we will indicate the fine arts, and
score of vocations where her delicacy and
shrinking" and modesty will fit in, and
for which her bodily capacity and feminine
tastes qualify her especially. But the chief
and overshadowing vocation for the timid
girl is housewifery, which she is deserving
for the greasy floors Of commerce and the
dust and vulgarity of the market, where
she is no longer timid or shrinking.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
A WELCOME DECREE OF FASHION

The Ladies Home Journal assures US that
the deliberately dressed woman on the
street is to be rarity very soon; that
fashion, the tyrannical queen, is preparing
decree that will make simplicity of cos
tune the standard. The quoted authority
says:
Flashy styles will be given over to the market
women who seek for attention-attention SO far
as the criticism of their own sex and the sneers
of the men are concerned. That the time is
ripe for material change in the fashion is con-
coded in all women OF taste and intelligence.
Styles have run 10 the extreme, until only lit
| tie distance remained to the point of the ex-
eeeding ridcu Gus. The strain on the purse has
been severely felt. Changes and of a radical
nature, became 50 frequent that even the
wealthiest found difficulty in keeping pace with
them. The reaction which has set in is both
timely and healthy. Women on every hand are
welcoming the dawn of the simple in dress,
while man viii have extended to him the
honor he has always esteemed the greatest could
! be conferred upon him-to walk the street with
woman in neat but simple attire.
As matter of fact the change set in
some time ago, and only in the streets of
large cities are many deliberately costumed
women to be seen. These, we are now told,
will soon disappear, and the costume that
Is so brilliant as to cause people to pause
and to turn in their walk, will be left only
for the few, the class that is nameless.
That this change must have an influence
for great good upon communities cannot
be doubted, for simplicity of attire in
public must tend to fashion other tastes
and to mold the sensibilities and refine the
heart
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
IN A BEAUTY SHOP.
How a Fashionable Girls Hair and Ely,
lashes are Trimmed in New York.

lashes are Trimmed in New York.
Enter a girl in gray ulster, toque ant
gloves. Approach girl in tlack, with
paint on her cheeks and diamond under
her chin. The customer has a pair of those
thin lips with which it is dangerous tc
tamper, and the clerk has pair of those
coal-black eyes that snap fire with the
slightest friction. The moment they NEE
there is clash.
whats wanted ~ the clerk asks, dis
dainfully.
Nothing from you" is the tart reply.
"Why ?" in mellihuous tone.
you're too pert for utility" and giving
her head an Ada Rehan tilt, she sails
across the room and tells demure little
blonde with manufactured eyebrows that
she wants her hair combed.
Certainly; won't you be seated 2
al don't want shampoo, | don't want a
couture, and kdon't want any pomade.'
Certainly. Shall | assist you with your
coat ~
"No. Haven't time to take it off. Just
pin couple of towels about me-"
aCertainly."
The customer removes her gloves and
hat. dives into her pocket and hauls out an
ounce of brandy, a rack comb. fine
tooth comb and wooden-back brush.
81 want this poured in my hair, and
nothing else; / want you to use the combs,
and want you to brush my hair thirty
minutes by the clock to get it clean and
get the smell of brandy out of it."
"Ce1taiuly."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
She Thought She Might Walk 1t.

II never been on the cars BEFORE" said
the little old lady, settling herself in the
seat and arranging her skirts. my son
got married fifteen years ago and went to
live to Bridgeport. He kept urgin' me
to come to Bridgeport, but | says to him,
4 amt never been on the cars, and | don't
think | would like it.
"'Now, mother says he, you won't
have no trouble at all. You jest git on
the cars, and you have nice cushioned
seats, and you see lots of strangers.
Mother says he, you would like it, |
know
"'Well, john 1 says, it don't seem
right to me, an old woman, to so gaddin'
about in tangled cars
"But every time he come to our house
he kept urgin' me.
"John,' says, 4 might go if | could do
some knittin' on the cars. But amt
willin' to set idle with my hands crossed,
and dc nothin'.'
"Why, MOTHER says he, Il amt never
see any women do much SEWN on the
cars, but, bless you, lots of EN- knits. You
kin lest sit there and knit till you get to
Bridgeport
"'John,' says l, T'll go to please you,
but | don't think it's right
"'Now, mother says he, Pll come up
and git you, or you kin have Henry come
down.
"'No,' says /, Henry must stay at home
and look after the farm, and guess kin
git to Bridgeport if the ears will take me
there
"'They will take you right there, and 1
will meet you, says he.
"'How will l know says /, when we are
at Bridgeport?
"Why, mother says he, the brakeman
will put his head in the door and say
what station it is
$50 here l am, on the cars for the first
time. 1t amt much use for me to be
wastin' my time, and guess I'll do some
knittin'
The little woman put on her glasses,
and, feeling around in her cloth bag with
trembling hand, drew forth her knitting.
'Do you know" she said, turning around
her work and looking at it closely, 'the
cars run quite smooth. | don't seem TO
mind EN- at all, but it don't seem right
for an old woman like me to be goin about
on cars"
Sne plcheu up TWO vi three stllcHes ana
was on the point of starting her slender
needles on their way when the brakeman
opened the door and cried, Bridgeport,
Bridgeport
aWhat did he say?" asked the little
woman, with surprised look in her eyes.
bridgeport We are coming to it now"
bridgeport ?n she said folding her
knitting. "Now amt that aggrayatin' !?
always thought Bridgeport was forty
miles from us. If | had known that it
was so near l would have walked it. Why,
| amt been on the cars an hour yet"
Nobody laughed at the little woman.
'sWhy, John,'' she said to big, strong,
honest-faced man, whom came in to meet
her, 'swhy did you fool me about Bridge
port? ! could have walked it in couple
Of hours"
"Its forty miles, mother" he said, kiss
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16

THE world Of people is becoming more
and more of kin. Home nationality does not
now as once, form the exacting standard
in the choice of representatives. Time
was when scarcely any nation sent abroad
any representative who was not native
born. The United States, while not the
first to make innovations upon the rule,
yet has more than any other nation con-
tributed to setting up the new custom
Thus it is found that fully half Of our
Representatives abroad are not native
born. The present Chancellor of Russia Is
not a Russian, but a Swede; the Embassa-
dor Persia not long ago sent the court OF
ST. James was a Scotchman; Spain has
thrice put in power as Prime Ministers an
Irishman, and President of France was
\ native of the Green Isle. The present
Minister of the Gar at Paris is a German
born, while Italy has selected as her Rep
resentatiye at Berlin Frenchman. The
nresent Chief Consulting Admiral Of the
Turkish navy is an Englishman, and SO
was his predecessor. These examples
might be greatly extended in recitation
II is certain that nations are not by any
means welded to the native born in select
ING men for high trusts.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16

The customer seats herself in front of a
toilet table, the clerk fastens long white
towel fore and aft, takes a dozen or fifteen
big and little pins from her head, and lets
down wig of chestnut brown hair, coarse
enough to make good scrubbing brush
The tresses are shook out, the clerk runs
her pretty white fingers over and through
the hair to loosen it at thesacslp, and aftel
the operation the conter Is of the little
bottle are poured out and rubbed into the
pores of the skin.
1t is a good brand of spirits, for the
fumes fill the shop with "reminiscences o.
Christmas pudding. Following this sea
soning the comb is applied, the operator
beginning at the end of the hair and comb
ing down. Then the tresses are divided
into four parts and the scalp cleaned il
sections. 1t takes forty minutes to com
plete this, and then the brushing com
| mences. The hair is brushed backward
and then down in masses and in u;
until it is as clean and dry as straw. III,
task finished, the customer proceeds to dc
it up in the English fashio1, braiding it il
four tight strands and PIN ing ii in pan
cake form at the center of her head, mid
way between crown and collar, while The
small clerk at the opposite side of thu
room is going through d course OF E-h
calisthenics to timber out ner elbows. +
81 want my lasheS trimmed is tn,
next request from the girl in gray.
Certainly" is again u he cheerful re
Spouse.
She seats her with her oack to the win
dow, runs pair of long, slender scissors
through the gas flame to take the chill of
and makes the necessary clippings, care
fully tanning, instead of Blowing, the par
Tides off her cheek.
Sixty cents is transferred from pretty
suede leather purse to the pretty out
stretched palm of the clesls,-aaa- the cir
in gray walks out, every eye in the beaut,
shop following her. She hasn't colo
about her, nor single feature that coulC
be called pretty, but she stands we'll, walk
and looks we'll she is well groomed, sever
and serene, three elements that go to max
up the Observation-Disclosures World.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16

THE New York Sun thinks it a marvel
that between 1880 and 1890 the census
returns should show an amazing decline
in the percentage OF births over deaths
Our contemporary is solicitous to know il
the falling off is due to infanticide of lives
born into the world and never reported, or
if child-bearing is going out of fashion
If the Sun would look sharply into the
social problem involved in the rush OF
young women into business it might find a
reasonable solution of the matter.