The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-03-12

AWAKE included. Leaving the journals
tic for the commercial field, he ceased
writing even stories until about year ago,
when, persuaded by his friends, he re-
sumed his pen, writing "The Sign of the
Prophet Jonah" for his young daughter,
Theodore Unfortunately he was denied
the pleasure of presenting it to her in print,
for he was stricken suddenly i'll last spring,
and fatal termination came in October
The story is exceptionally bright and at.
tractive.
In order to encourage the study of the
Bible, and at the same time call attention
10 the oldest and best agricultural journal
in the South, the Southern Cultivator,
Atlanta, Ga, offers three splendid awards
for the first three correct answers sent in
to the following question: "Where does
the word college appear in the Bible??"
An exceedingly interesting article on
"Southen Industrial Development"
from The pen of Gen. E. P. Alexander,
president Of the Georgia Central railroad,
appears in the March number Of the
Forum. It is we'll worth read ing.
The March Century is particularly in
| teresting to the many thousands who
have constituted the audiences of the
famous Polish pianist, Paderewski, in
different parts of the United States.
These papers on Paderewski are parts of
the musical series which the Century is
publishing this year. The frontispiece is
an engraving Of Paderewski from photo
graph, and in addition drawing by
Irving R. Wiles is given, showing the
great virtuoso at the piano. Accompany
ing these pictures are ga Critical Study"
| by the distinguished American pianist
and composer, William Mason; GA Bio
graphical Sketch" by Miss Fanny Morris
Smith, and poem by r. w. Glider, en-
titled GLOW Paderewski Plays The
biographical sketch, brief as it is, con-
tains, We understand, the fullest particu-
lars ever yet given of the life of it's
| famous subject.
THE Gatewars OF New York, a dcscrip-
| ton Of tn means of access to the metropo-
lis and of the proposed new tunnels ard
| bridges, will be the subject Of valuable
article by Jno. elmer Speed in the next
number of Harper's Weekly. 1t will
be accompanied by map and will
be fully illustrated. Anct" er article in
the same number will be a de-
scription, with illustrations, OF the Club
houses of Currituck Sound, written by
Alexander Hunter.
An article on Woman's Work at the
Columbian Exposition, by Mrs. A. B. h.
Wakeman, will be one of the attractive
features of The forthcoming number of
HARPERs' BAZAAR, published March 18th
1t will be accompanied by portraits OF
several Of the lady managers OF the Expo
sition. The fiction of the number will in
clude bright story by lisa Cabell Caring
ton, entitled The Buried Silver"
A new Saints Tragedy, story by
Thomas A. Pinkerton, will be published
shortly in "Harpers Franklin Square
Library
The American Girl is not slow 10 grasp
chance. Some time ago The Ladies
Home Journal organized free education
| system for girls, and the magazine is now
educating some forty odd girls at Vassar and
WELLESLEY Colleges. and at the Boston Con-
servatory of Music, all the expenses of th e
girls being paid by The Journal.
| The number of March begins the seventh
year of The Forum. and for its seventh
year several new enterprises in periodical
work are anncunced: First and foremost,
the Silver question. The discussion OF the
silver question has reached its acute stage
in congress and is, in consequence, before
public attention in more serious form
than ever before The March number con
tains two papers on tone by Mr.. BLAND
who makes his best argument for silver.
and the other by Mr.. Leech, Director of the
Mint, who writes to show that in case
OF :: rec coinage, Europe would dump lis
silve. on us. In the following months The
Forum will publish the most thorough dis
cussion of this subject that has been made,
by the foremost writer's of both continents.
These articles will be special feature o.
forthcoming numbers.
Statistics are terrible things, so that
when we learn that the total amount OF
| ,ra;p horvested in the Tinted States durinu