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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-15
FLORIDIANA.


per mile.
Mrs. Lucy M. Fox, formerly of the AG-
RrCULTURIsT staff, is now editing lively
paper at Melrose, known as the Register.
j. W. McRae is publisher.
DR.. E. F. Brown, OF Shingle Creek, has
put in a pump to irrigate his vegetable
farm. He is preparing ten acres for mel
Ions. He is one of Osceola' practical far
mers.
An exchange is responsible for the fol-
lowing rather astonishing statement:
W. M. Girardeau, of Monticello, has sold
and shipped already this season 10000
pounds of watermelon seed.
Truck growers in this section of the
State are happy. The season is, and has
been good except a little dry and one
and all are receiving good returns
for truck shipped to notwithstanding
Commercial
Mr.. L. P. Westcott's pine apple garden
in this city is certainly producing some of
the finest fruit ever seen in this section:
it is not uncommon to see pines from this
garden weighing from eightto ten pounds.
Orlando Sentinel
Ex-President Cleveland and ex-Secre
tary Villas are arranging to visit Florida,
in company with a party of distinguished
gentlemen. They will visit Charlotte
Harbor and engage in the exciting sport
of taking tarpon with rod and reel.-Flor-
ida Facts.
The Tampa Journal says that Captain
Bill jackson sold all the syrup he made
up-thirry-si barrels-two or three days
after he put it on the market, and could
sell great many times as much more if
he had it. There is no better syrup than
new Florida syrup properly made.
The Lake View, of Micanopy, says that
there is no longer a doubt about the
speedy building of another railroad
through Micanopy; 100000 will build it.
Evinston has agreed to take $45, 900 in
freight certificates, Micanopy will take
100000, leaving only $15 ,OOOfor Gaines
vile to risk. RumOr says the road will
shortly be started and completed.
We should all labor to bring settlers
into Florida If we can show people that
it is to their advantage to come to our
State, we shall benefit ourselves and 9th
ers We may safely leave to individual
choice where they will locate. We should
convince them that Florida is a desirable
State to settle in and give our heartiest
aid to all efforts made to nduceimmigra-
ton to the State.-Fernandina Mirror.
At the annual election OF officers OF the
Orlando Farmers and Fruit Growers
Association, held last Saturday, the toll
lowing officers were elected for the ell
suing year: President, DR.. G. O. Myers;
presidents, A. R. Hargraves, W. IL.
Holden, L. E. Haines, S. C. Gotten and
A Haden; treasurer, Mrs. A. L. Ford;
secretary, |. NJ Auld. The meetings of
the society will be held hereafter in the
lecture room of the Y. M. G. A. These
meetings are incl easing in interest and
the public is cordially invited to attend.
Orlando Sentinel
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-15
Schedule in Effect Nov. II, 1889.
TRAINS LEAVING DeLAND.

4.55 A. M.-Daily, connecting at EBeresford with
steamers from Jacksonville.
$50 A. M For local points North, and con-
Meeting at Palatka with loridaSouthern Rv.
train for all points in South Florida and wit h
the j., st. A. & HI. r. Ry. trains for DaytOna !;
at Jacksonville for Eastern points.
1I.3O A. M.-Through train for Tampa. Con-
Meeting at Orange City Junction with A. &.
W. Ry. train for Orange City, and at Enter
prise Junction with j., T. & K. w train fol
Titusville. This train also makes connection
at Beresford with north-bound steamers daily.
1.J2 P. M.--Through train from Tampa. Connect
ing at Palatka with j., st. A. 4 H. X. Ky.
train for st. Augustine, and at Jacksonville
with $. F & W. Ry. train for all points Mort h
and West.
$50 n. M-Through train for all points IN
South Florida Ry. Connecting at Orange
City Junction with Atlantic & Western RI
train for New Smyrna and intermediate sta
tiOns at Enterprise Junction with j. L. < n :.
w. Ry, train for Titusville and intermediate"
stations at Sanford with j., T. & K. W. Ry.
train for Tavares and intermediate stations.
9.25 P. M.-Local passenger train for points
south. Connecting at Sanford with j., L. &
K. w. train for Tavares.
TRAINS ARRIVING Al DeLAND.
5.45 A. M.-Daily. Connection at Beresford with
steamers from Jacksonville.
9.1O A. M.-FrOm all points on South Florida
Ry., Sanford & Lake Eustis and Indian River
Divisions j., T. & K. W. Ry., and A. w. Ry.
12.5O +. M. - From all points NOrun, west,
Jacksonville and intermediate stations.
2.35 P. M.-Through train from Tampa and
Titusville.
4.3O P. M.-West India Fast Mail from New York.
Washington and all points East.
S.35 P. M.-From Jacksonville and local points
north.
Pullman Buffet Sleepers West India Fast
Mail. Daily steamers on Indian River connecting
with $50 p. m. train from DeLand and go train
TO DeLand.
G.. D. ACKERLY, Gen. Pass. Agt.
D. F. JACK, Gen. Manager.
L. E. SPENCER, Agent, DeLand.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
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W1Ilj Eagle
Losl pF me sun.p.

When Chicago and Eastern Illinois
suburban train was driving along through
Eggleston, a suburb eight miles from the
court house, at rate of nearly mile a
minute, man was seen to spring from the
rear platform. The engineer of passing
train saw the act and signaled stop. Out
piled the conductor, brakemen, engineer,
fireman and a hundred or two passengers,
all fully expecting to see the ground scat
tered for yards around with bones and
msngled human flesh. Instead they saw
a tall German, who stood ruefully rubbing
the back Of his head with his left hand,
while in the other hand he held new hat
which he was brushing against his trous-
ers to rid it of dust.
"Why did you jump Off" Indignantly
asked the conductor.
Ter hat, mine new hat him blow off
unit yoomp after him"
''You f1abbergasted idiot, don't you know
that it might have killed you?" the con-
ductor said as be pushed the German for
ward toward the train.
''Aine hat him cost Elm tollar: him blow
off unit I yoomp Him vas a new hat"
This last sentence was said for the en-
lightenment OF the indignant passengers,
VINO were applying anything but compli-
mentary remarks to the man with the
broken head The following morning the
fellow was again passenger on the same
train, and when he saw the conductor he
at once apoloGlzed Tor having jumped from
cannon BALI train.
"Glad to know you've learned some
sense; you'll not try that game any MORE"
said the conductor.
''Ysw, vas so sorry. Him knocks a
holes IN mine het, unit der doctor sharges
Elm tollar und a haluf. Dot vas pad. Der
new hat him cost but Elm tollar, unit der
doctor him shargcs Elm tollar unit haluf.
I VIII not yoomp no more, so hellup me- 1
lose yoost one haiuf tOilar. l vas sorry"
And the German shook his head lugu-
brioUsiy.-Chicago Herald.
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xEvADA's BALD HEADED SENATOR'S

gTess has just voted 4 large sum of money
to establish in the beautiful Rock creek
suburbs OF the capital If we wanted 10
fill these pairs on the bald end we
could do so by shutting our eyes and reach
ing out quite indiscriminately in the sen
ate cham Ter.
Senator Pierce, of North Dakota-one OF
the few men in the chamber whose friends
habiSpEliy call them by such familiar
names IS 'Gil''-has a good deal of hair.
quite enough for an ordinary head: but
the Pierce head Is so long that the black,
curly hair does no5 cover 1t by good ways,
though the thin locks are skillfuliy ad-
justeG. Senator FoSvs hair Is SIS white as
Irish linen paper and fine and silky as a
maidens. The senator would De very bald
but for ittie inf OF silk Just back Of the
brow. which DE folds down neatly and
MAKES the most Of Mr.. Hoar's capillary
sdornments are OF such light texture that
when he sits under the electric fans they
wave about Ike thistle down in sDrinc
zephyrs.
Senator HaSyley is not very bald, and all
the badness there is appears on the back
of his head. 50 that his fine looks are not
much Ge1rGcted from by the absence O.
hair. The senator is stall one of the hand
soonest men IN the senate, though since his
recent marriage hcdoas not dress with that
scrupuioJls neatness which was formerly
oGo q ms characteristics Senator Davis.
OF Minnesota, is another member OF the
bald headed row, and one of the most Jolly
Gne popular, Hs spends great deal OF
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
Senator Pal,aer,s Contribution.

There IS q good story told about Senator
Palmer when he was living in Washington.
Il was his custom to 90 to church every
Sunday morning, and also his custom to
put a single dollar on the plate As he
passed into church one Sunday morning,
accompanied by his private secretary, he
began to search through his pockets with a
dismayed look on his face Turning to his
companion be asked for the loan of a dollar,
explaining that he had nothing but 81
bill. The secretary could not accommodate
the senator, but bright thought suddenly
seemed to strike the latter, and he ex-
claimed:
ooh, well, can fix it."
"YoU wouldn't make change off the plate,
would you:' asked the secretary, Mortified
at the thought.
Never mind how I will do it" replied
the senator; you viii see it done"
When the plate came around the senator
gravely took out his 81 bill, tore it in two
pieces in the middle, and laid one piece On
the plate. After the services were over he
walked forward 10 where the stewards
were counting the collection money. and
asked the one who had come down his
aisle il a mutiiated 8 bill had been found
on the plate.
eyes, and we don't know what to do
with it, was the mans reply.
well" said the senator, there's the
other half, and you can have it for 81.
That VIII make your half worth 81 to you,
and 81 is all l ever give"
He got the dollar.-New York Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
Trying to Find Out.

One Of the very literal little boys who
doesn't live many miles from Bangor was
left at home the other day in charge of a
neighbor while his mother made trip to
Boston. Every day he would ask if his
mother would be st home that day, and
finally the girl, with desire to say some
thing TO please him, told him that she
thought his mother would come that night.
What makes you think SOP" was the
boys next question, and whensfold that
she felt il in her bones" the little fellow
thought it the queefest thing he had ever
heard Of. His mother didn't come, how
ever, and the next day he went around
feeling Of his arms from the shoulder to
the hand until some one asked him what
he was doing, when he replied: Trying TO
find out If mamma IS coming home To-
night. Bangor Wing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
Poets Arc Not Like Binds

The late George L. Boxer wrote to his
friend, r. Fl. Stoddard: Read used to tell
a story OF some Yankee poet who resolved
TO wait for Sn impulse from the Muse. He
waited thirty years, and at the end of that
time concluded himself 10 poet, although
his youthful poe-sls gave promise of great
things. That men Eserhaps wanted but in
dustry to make him Immortal hold that
there is a labor cOnItected with all great
literary achievements sufficient to drive
any but man OF genius stark mad. This
the world VIII nevSG believe 1t has an
idea that poets write as birds sing. and it
is this very false ,do2 which robs us of half
our honOrs. Were poetry forged upon the
anvil. cut out with 0iae ak or spun in the
mill, my heaven! how men would wonder
at the process WHAT power, what toll,
what inSenuityI'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08

Who ever heard of a man lifting himself
by his boot straps? Only small children
believe in the performance of 1.-The Seven
League Boots" Well, the patent Office
has granted papers to Russian upon a de-
vice which is a combination of the hitherto
deemed impossible boot strap act, with a
little of tbs seven league business added
The Russian lives in St. Petersburg. He
calls his invention an apparatus for walk
ing, running and jumping" The appara-
tus consists of bows and springs fastened
TO the feet, the legs, the waist and shout
deTs- AS the knees are bent either to walk
or run or jump the tension of the bows
and springs is Increased, and the man
shoots upward and forward. AT least that
is what the drawings and specifications of
the invention say viii happen. The Rus
sian did not send over any actual samples
of his contrivance, and the patent office
people have TO act upon the theory only
Cor. st. Louis Glabe-Democrat.
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gals, has luxurious steel gray hair which
bristles backward Ike the Quills on a por-
cupine that is not fretfuI I have heard it
said Mr.. ingalls, capillary crop ran away
from his face as hard as it could go and
no wonder, with such a face; but however
this may be, the hair of the eloquent presi-
dent pro tempore is characteristic of one Of
the most original and picturesque men in
public life.
One of the noteworthy heads of hair in
the senate is that Of Senator Dixon, Of
Rhode Island. Flies have no terror for this
statesman for his top knot is as thick as
grass in June and as black and glossy as
the skin of a genuine Ethiopian. This, the
blacklist crop of hair in the senate, is al
ways kept neatly cOmbed, the parting fur
row being as straight and white as the
lime line that runs from 1rst base down to
the foul flag on baseball field
The hair of Senator Clllom used to be
as black as ink. Of late it has been trying
to get gray, but has made failure of it.
John Sherman has long, stringy hair, all
the shoots lying in parallel with the 9TH
ers, no two crossing and the whole almost
describing an arch from near the left ear
to the right He is only approaching the
gray age. though he has been in public life
for more than third ola century Evarts
is another man whose age could not be
guessed by his hair, which is that of a man
of 50-lopg and ample and only tinged
with hOar frost. Senator Pasco, of Flor
ida, looks an Indian with hair and beard
of jet black Zeb Vance has a fine crop Of
iron gray hair, thick, massive and always
neatly laid over from car to ear. The hair
of the patriarch Colquitt, who fought in
the war with Mexico as well as the rebell-
ion, is still plentiful and gray only as
black field is gray after moments snow
fall
Senator Stanford's nearly black hair
comes down in front on his wide forehead
like an iron pier projecting. into a bay Don
Cameron has a bare spot about as large as
a poker chip in a mass that is otherwise
dun colored. Wilson, of Iowa, has a
stumpy shock Of white hair that bristles
straight up toward the ceiling, as if the
man were either much frightened or very
angry. Senator Teller's black crop, combed
straight back from the forehead, makes
him look little like an Indian chieftain.
His colleague, Senator Wolcott, is not at
all bald, and beside being the youngest
man in the senate is the only one who
parts his hair in the middle. Handsome
Senator Henderson has curly hair all over
his head, while Senator Harris never combs
nis hair, because he hasn't any to comb.
ROBERT GRAVES
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08

| MS time in the clo2E room smoking cigars
and telling stories. Mr. Davis is inordi-
nately fond of threethings in this world
One is his remarkably fine wife, the second
good story, and the third an imported
cigar. The cigars he always buys at the
rate of threeWor dollar Senator Coke
OF Texas, who is one of the most grim look
ing men in the senate and one of the best
humored, has an old fashioned bald head,
ample and honest, without any combing
crossWise or spreading ont Of scant tufts in
an effort to disguise.
Senator Payne, the Oldest man in the
body, is not so very bald, though he sits in
the row. Senator CockreIl's thatch is
somewhat thin, but judicious combing
makes littlezhair go g long way. Uncle
George" Hearst, of California, has frowsy
pate of white heir TIhi6h. covers the whole
OF his head excepting a spot exactly as
large as silver dollar. I am precise about
this, for the senator's bald spot has been
measured. 1t was at Chamberlin's where
number of congenial spirits had gath
cred, that a discussion rose on badness.
The discussion resulted in a wager as to
the size Of the white spots on the respective
heads Of Hearst and Quay A half dollar
piece covered the white spot in the black
head OF the Pennsylvania, while silver
dollar was required to hide the clearing in
the CaHfornian's forest, and the latter or
dered another bottle.
Ransom, Of North Carolina, still one of
the handsomest men in the senate, with a
fine figure and soldieriy bearing which the
ladies in the gallery much admire-but
never without the senator's knowledge as
he IS very alert in such matters-is. to his
great sorrow, quite bald. l am told he
meditates trying the efficacy of a wig,
which has been found to work so admira-
bly, IL the case of Vice President Morton.
Mention of Mr. Morton reminds me that
one dull day a number Of roguish news
paper men sat up in the gallery talking of
how they could best produce a sensation
in the senate chamber. 1t was finally
agreed that Mr.. Fergus Ferris, of Balti-
more, had suggested the most original and
startling plan. Ferris is the champion
fisherman of the press gallery, and his
proposition was to bring his rod up to the
Capitol and throw the line down and make
catch OF the presiding officers wig as
he would of a trout's gills when engaged
in his favorite sport. That would indeed
create a sensation.
Plumb, the stalwart and independent
man from Kansas, hasn't the sign of q bald
spot. His big head, next to Georges in i'm
mensity, is matched all over with a thick
crop of hair of color which cannot be
easily described. His colleague, Mr.. In
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08

The best. quickest and most direct line
pal eastern, southeastern and northern
cities
The Frisco lire runs fvo daily cypress
trains from Wichita % - Louis without
change, equipped with Pullman palace
5lespers and fire reclining chair cars 10
other line does =. Close connections IN -
Louis union deD0t With solid vestibuie *
press trains, without change. 20 Chicago
Louisville, Cincinnati Cleveland. Pitts
burg. Philadelphia. New ! oTk and Boston
The popularity # this line being uni
versaIly Acknowledged by al competitors,
al pz--~Dger trains u other railway lines
entering WIrhItz from the north. sDuth
and vest arrive IN time 20 connect zIth
the Frisco line last express trains - tie
east
II you cannot purchase through tickets
reading VIA Frisco line from YOUR starting
po.nt, i slll pay you 20 purchase % Wicb-
ia N order tc secure tie advantages and
comforts of this line
Fer further information regarding ratss.
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O. sleeping cGE acCDrnL citations cal upon
Or address " D. MUrdock ticket agent
- North MAN street. orDCEz.as avenue
union CspOI D. WTsEAET.
Gen pa.s. Agent
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Blank charters aad al Kind C; legal
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THE W.cHrTA EAGLE.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
Pugnaeity of the Fox Terrier.

A walk wltha fox terrier as a companion
can never be wholly without incident.
There VIII DC, unless = great amount of
care is exercised, a. least one fight. and if
the owner likes he can without violent ey-
ertion promote several. Whether the dogs
antagonist be a mastlff or a tiny toy ter
rier 1t Is all the same to him, his dispo-
sition being much Ike that of the Irish
man who. hearing a noise IN tho street. sent
his little girl To inquire its meaning and to
say that If thare was going 20 be a row,
father wanted TO be in it Severe lessons
and laoeratiOns seem 10 be entirely without
effect, and the terrier assure 20 go a second
time at the bulldog who has all but con-
Terted him into corpSc.-New York Tri-
bur e
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
The Girl Who Knows EVERYTHING.

Naturally 1t isn't you or your friend, but
you certainly know her, and Just as GER
tainly you dislike her. When you dislike
peoplethere is Onething you should always
do, and thAt is, look well at their faults
and make up your mind that you are not
going 10 fall into them. This girl, who Is
quite TOO general TO be pleasant, is the girl
who, having learned something yesterday,
knows everything. She makes herself OBJ
noxious by Haunting recently acquired
knowledge, concluding always that the
people who are quiet are ignorant; she has
no hesltancy in oontrzAicting anybody: she
makes an entire luncheon disaSreeable BIZ
giving her opinion OF the last pronuncis-
tons, forgetting that custom makes many
things correct, Of which the dictionary has
no meEtion--L4sdies' Home Journal
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Scrip Books.

1 find that very cheap scrap book can
be made out OF OLD government reports;
they are just wide enough for two columns
o. the ordinary newspaper. Cut out about
twenty pages after each fifty Then the
book will be flied to its proper size again
when the clippings are pasted IN. Be sure
TO use only orc side OF the page in making
the scrap book. Label your book when it
Is finished. An index can be easily at
tached in each book.-Cor. Author and
Writer.
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Lconerv in Necktiea.

Some small co5blers make business Of
vamping patent lesJRer shoes for 3. Nine
hundred and ninety-ffTe men out OF q thou
sand throw swsytheir patent leat5ers a.
soon as they crack The same properrS -.
CT nan discard il ght colo7e5 Decktes WIG
they become soiled- Various establish
rlents clean then FOR faeen oerts each, or
to practice more economy can Of ether
for sixty cents VIII clean TWO dozen and a
half q t1eTn--Nev York Star
Prince De Chimay, who IS s2eco. 900 rsch-
er Or his marriage with Miss Ward, Of De-
troit. = a good musician and plays the vio-
In specially well
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
A Strrn~e Eacf.

When Jay Gould was a struggling young
surveyor. with hardly one cent TO rub
against another, he stamped his initials
and the date on q copper cent and put 1t in
circulation. Yesterday Mr. Gould received
some pennies IN change at the Twenty
third street ferry boat, and on looking over
them lie found The coin ne had stamped
was not among theIn.-NeJy York World.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
Only Five Left.

There are only five states in the Crion
in which a schoolmastsr can now legally
fog apupil. In all other states a pupil
menaced with corporal punishment can
arm himself with any sort OF weapon and
use it as best he can. Massachusetts teach
ers hog an average OF two boys per day per
els,ira. Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
FLIES IN THE SENATE.
THEY ARE SCARCE, BUT WHEN
THERE MAKE LOTS OF TROUBLE.
Contemplation Thereof Incites Robert
Graves to the Preparation of an In
teresting EPistIe About Senatorial Bald
Heads and Hair.
Heads and Hair.
Especial Correspondence

WASHINGTON, June 23.-It is fly time in
the Capitol, and the bald headed row in the
senate is restless and irritable Not many
flies get into the senate chamber-there is
rule against their entrance-but when
one does get in he raises a disturbance
akin to that caused by the advent of a
mouse IN roomful Of ladies. Pages are
sent in pursuit of the offender while the
baldheaded senators. retire to those con-
venient cloak rooms, in which electric fans
tiltillate the sultry atmosphere and def
erential body servants serve the apol-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
4 IirEt Hon.

The following characteristic invitation
to a dance was picked up on the street the
other evening:
Mss ELIZA: Your honor is cordially
called 70 attend q light hop 70 DC given a
AIRS. Mary Parsons abode 81 $50 P. n.
sharp, 70 the solicitation Of your o5e5ieut
servant. WI JcaESoS.
w asningtoB Star.