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The evening world., 1893-07-18

Tho first OF these little frocKs is in butter
cup Bengal satin, with plated vest OF real
lace, and lace over the large epaulets
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14
Bananas For The Table.

There are as many kinds of bananas
as there are kinds of approximations
sized ones, big ones foot long, thick
ones almost like muskmelons; and liiG,9
ones only three or four inches in Length,
When you visit fruit stand you a28
likely to select the biggest and han3-
soonest bananas you see, and there is
just where you make mistake. The
smallest bananas are i'll nearly all cases
the sweetest and inciest. the "ig" ba-
mana being the best OF all.
The rind should be thin, and there
should be no ridges or corners in it.
The larger the ridges the coarser the
fruit. The plaintain, which is the very
coarsest kind of banana, has enormous
ridges. This species is not fit to eat
without being cooked, but when boiled
or baked or fried is delicious. Any
coarse banana-that is, one having a
thick rind with large ridges-is good for
cooking.
All bananas contain starch while green,
which upon ripening is changed by ma
lures wonderful chemistry into sugar.
Now if the banana is taken just after its
lind has begun to grow golden, but is
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14
Blue Eyed People.

Have you ever heard that neatly all
the great people of the world have had
blue eyes? There have been, to be sure,
a great many celebrated persons who
have had brown eyes or black. But the
majority have been blue-eyed. All the
Presidents, except President Harrison,
have had eyes as blue as the skies. And,
besides them, there have been Milton,
Lord Bacon, BeI jamin Franklin, Napo-
leon, Bismarck and Mr.. Gladstone, be-
sides hundreds of others.
There is legend about blue eyes that
is very interesting. When the world
was first made, people all had, so runs
the story, eyes as dark as the dnskiest
night. And Of all people on the face of
the earth, the fairest was maiden who
lived on the banks Of great sea, who
used to sit and watch the waves roll up
on the shore, and anXiously wait for her
father. who was a sailor, to come home
and bring the days net OF fish. But one
night the fisherman did not come home,
and his daughter sat and watched for him
until morning. And all next day she
walked up and down the sands, still gaz-
ing at the sea and praying for her faith
er's return. But, as dey after day pass
ed and al! hope Of him was given up. and
his empty boat was washed upon the
shore the girl lost heart ard cried bitter
ly. All day long she sat on the beach
looking into the blue water until, little by
little, her eyes turned from black to
blue, so the story runs, and that is how
there came to be blue eyed people in the
world.
But when her guardian angel saw the
change and noticed how the girl grieved,
she whispered to her that hencetorth
half Of all the great people of the earth
should have blue eyes, so runs the story.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14
A HELPFUL CORNER.
THE LITTLE ARMCHAIR.

Nobody sits in the little arm chair;
1t stands in corner dim;
But white-haired mother gazing there,
And yearningly thinking of him,
Sees through the dusk of long ago
The bloom of her boys sweet face,
AS he rocks so merrily to and fro,
With laugh that cheers the place.
Sometimes he holds a book in his hand,
Sometimes pencil and slate,
And the lesson is hard to understand,
And the figures hard to mate;
But she sees the nod of his fathers head,
SO proud OF the little son,
And she hears the word so often said,
''No fear for our little one"
They we're wonderful days. the dear sweet days,
When a child with sunny hair
Was hers to scold, to kiss, and to praise.
At her knee in the little chair.
She lost him back in the busy years.
When the great world caught the man,
And he strobe away past hopes and fears
TO his place in the battles van.
But now and then in a wistful DREAM
Like picture out of date,
She sees head with golden CLEAN
Bent over pencil and slate
And she lives again the happy day.
The day of her young lfes spring,
When the small armchair stood just in the way
The center of everything.
Selected.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14
Did You Ever Try

Washing grained woodwork with cold
tea?
Keeping basket of pine cones to toss
on an open fire?
Washing rusty gilt frames with spirits
of wine?
Holding lighted candle upside down
over candlestick, then setting another
candle in the hot grease and holding it
there moment, to make itstand firmly :?
Prepared chalk for cleaning jewelry?
Polishing eyeglasses with newspaper?
Ok gall for spots on the carpet?
Good Housekeeping says try the above.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14

jUln5 Sauce.

For lamb or mutton this sauce is nice.
A heaping de8saryspoonfal of finely
minced mini leaves which have been we'll
washed from sand anQ carefully picked
from the stalks. Two tablespoonfuls of
boiling water~pomed over the mint in
hot sauce boat-and two or three of vim
eGar. To be served with hot joints. If
the joint is to be served cold the sauce
may be set to COO, or it may be made by
first of all pouring the vinegar OH the
mint and few minutes after adding the
water cold.
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still stree @ed ei. green, it will contain
q great dee G arch, which will make
it palatable Wien cooked, while the
small amount o. sugar which has been
formed will give /. sweetness likS a
sweet potato. Strip tlo rind off, and
boil it until soft, and il ill make one of
the incest vegetables you ever ate.-Ex-
change.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14
Secret Of y0uthfulness.

Secret Nt G0UJnfulneSS.
Herein lies the secret which all desire
and which is within reach of all. I
lately saw woman vino looked twenty
years and said she was forty. She was
born and bred in poverty and had
worked hard all her life, yetshe had the
whitest of teeth, slim, pretty figure
and milk and rose complexion, with
a face as plump and smooth as that of a
girl of sixteen. Chow on earth did you
do it 2" I asked. "Well, I never worry"
she answered. eff anything troubles
me [ think first whether can remedy
it. If not, throw it away from me like
a heap of old clothes. and that is the
end"
Bearing on the same subject the
Ladies' Home Journal says in regard to
keeping the wife young that a certain
amount of social life is absolutely es-
sential to all of us-to the old as we'll
as to the young. A woman never grows
so old that she ceases to enjoy the com
pany of others, and generally the older
she grows the more she emf oys it. 1t is
ALWAYS pity to see a man fall into
state which he explains by saying: ooh,
we're getting old, and don't care for so
much variety in our lives" In the
pure unselishness of his soul he always
speaks OF "us' and" we, "as if it natural
1x1f o1l hot Ho Sc
tiquated his wife must keep pace with
him in his decline. Men all too often
make their wives too old. 1t is great
or credit to husband to keep his wife
young than to make her grow old. His
actions and his habits necessarily infu
ence those of his wife. Let him keep in
touch with the world, and both he and
his wife because she keeps young. Old
age is beautiful and has it's advantages,
but man makes great mistake when
he rushes woman unnecessarily to-
ward it. And he does it most perfectly
when he deprives her of those enjoy
ments which every man should give his
wife. No economy is so false, so hollow
and so misguided az that which seeks to
withhold one pleasure from the life of a
good woman, true wife or loving
mother. The best home man can give
a woman becomes "poky," as one woman
know expresses it, if she is asked to
live in it three hundred and sixty-fve
days ont of every year. The good Lord
knows that woman's life in this world
is hard enough. She travels path of
endurance and suffering, to which man,
be he ever 50 heavily afflicted, is an en-
tire stranger. s.. was given to man to
make that pa. - pleasant, as easy and
as brieb. rs )ssible. Every dollar
which uaa spends for the happiness
of the vosaaA of his home will come
back to him in double, yea, in four-fold
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14
Rice Fritters.

If you like rice fritters, try my recipe
it is good one: A quarter of pound
Ct rice boiled soft in milk, then mixed
with a pint of milk, two eggs, a cup OF
sugar, little salt and a little powdered
cinnamon, and as much flour as would
make a thick batter. Fry in thin cakes,
and serve with powdered sugar and but
ter.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14

ONE egg, one cupful of sugar, one cup
full OF molasses, one-half cupful lard,
one spoonful each of soda, vinegar and
cinnamon. Roll thin and bake quickly
and you have something for tea during
the heated term.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14

Six points, out of many, where DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are better than
other pills:
1. They're the smallest, and easiest
to takc-little sugar coated granules
that every child takes readily.
2. They're perfectly easy in their ac-
tion--no gripping, no disturbance.
3. Their effects last. There's no re-
action afterward. They regulate or
cleanse the system, according to size OF
dose.
4. They're the cheapest, for they're
guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your
money is returned. You pay only for the
good you get.
5. Put up in glass are always fresh.
G. They cure Constipation, Indigestion
Bilious Attacks, Sick or Bilious headache
nda der angements ftheliver, stomach
nd b Owels.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14

RITA RnEA, in an exchange says, if in
cooking, you spill eggs, milk, grease, ETC.,
upon your hot stove, cover the spots inn
mediately with salt. 1t not only makes
your stove clean easily, when the time
comes, but it almost does away with
the disagreeable nauseating smoke too.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14

OUR common soda has various charms
within itself that half our women know
not of. In washing milk cans, buckets.
strainers, pans, etc., in hot weather
nothing will be found so helpful as a
handful of soda. Place it in the water,
says an experienced housekeeper, in
which you intend to scald the articles
and you will find they will smell sweet
and nice, and the milk will remain sweet
much longer next time.
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02

pass the gigantic comet hunter with
ont paying nm exclamatory tribute to
its size. For month or more the
huge iron column or pier which bases
the telescope stood in state of digni-
fed incompleteness. but expert work
men from the shops of Warner 4
Swasey, in Cleveland. O.. where the
telescope was built, put the big tube
into position few days ago. This is
the gift that Charles T. Yerkes made
to the University of Chicago. After
the Fair it will be taken to Geneva
Lake, Wis, and there permanently
mounted to do its share in advancing
the fascinating science of astronomy.
The telescope has a clear aperture
Of 40 inches. That is, the object glass,
the great round eye OF the telescope,
is that many inches in diameter. This
dimension places the Yerkes telescope
Mt the head of the refracting telescopes.
Next to il comes the Lick telescope on
Mount Hamilton. California, that was
built in 1887 by the same firm. Its
object glass, made by Alvin Clark, of
Boston, who is making the object glass
for the Yerkes telescope, is 36 inches
in diameter. The next largest instru-
ments are the ones at Pulkowa and
Nice, each having 30-inch object
glass 4 2Sinch telescope in the
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02
A Boat For I.ani and Water.

A correspondent OF the Marine Re-
view. writing from Kingston, Canada,
gives the following description of n
boat constructed for use in towing
Canadian lumber RATS, that will also
travel on land:
A peculiar kind of tug passed
through here recently for the lakes al
iaccnt to the Bonne Chene River. i'll
the back country. it is called an al
ligator tug, because ii is able to travel
upon land as well as in the water
The boat was turned out OF the shops
of West h Peachey, Simcoe, and is pat.
ented by the firm in Canada and i'll
the United States. Ii has proved II
great success III the numbering bust
ness The firm has completed six OF
them. They are thirty-seven feet long
and ten feet beam and decked all over.
They are built shaped, with steel
shod runners for working portages.
In water the boat is propelled ut the
rate Of six miles an hour, either for
ward or backward. by an engine Of
twenty-five horse power. On land it
is propelled by having cable drum
on which is coilel iive-eighths OF
mile of steel wire cable, which is
fastened to pulleys on trees in front.
the boat moving as the wire is coiled
up. The roller is hung ON an axle,
and can be kept level in going up or
down hill AicLachen Brothers. of
Eganville. have secured two for i'm.
mediate use, the one just decribed be-
ing the first to turn up here.
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02

Greenwich observatory comes next,
and then the 27-inch instruments in
Paris and Vienna and the 26-inch
glasses in the University of Virginia
and at Washington, ID. C.
In the matter of mere size even the
Yerkes instrument is little compared
to the huge rejecting telescopes in
various observatories. Lord Rosse, mt
Birr Castle. Ireland, has reflector
~ inches across; the Bessemer rehec
tor in London is "a. inches in diane
ter: the Herschel and Melbourne re-
fiectors measure As inches across, and
the one at Paris A inches. But a re-
fracting telescope is SO much superior
to rejecting instrument in power
and general adaptability that the
Yerkes telescope in the Manufactures
Building is called the largest telescope
in the world.
Its tube of hard steel is "a feet long,s
and without any accessories or glasses
weighs four tons The steel has
varying thickness of from tiye-siX
teenths to one-eighth of an inch, the
thickest steel being in the center.
where the tube is hung. The tube is
somewhat cigar shaped. for it is -
inches in diameter III the center and
gradually tapers to ~ inches at the
object glass and 3S inches Mt the eve
end With all the rods. arms, finders
and other accessories the tube weighs
seven tons. The column or pier upon
which the telescope is poised is made
of cast-iron in five sections. hav
ing an aggregate weight of forty-two
tons The lower section or base
proper flares ont to Is by Is feet and
weighs Is tons. At the floor level the
pier is 6! by ii feet and gradually
tapers to the '.head' casting, which
rests on top of the column AMI which
weighs six tons. In that casting is
the main spindle which carries the
tube. The spindle is n beautiful
specimen Of steel forging II inches in
diameter and l3 feet long II is re-
sponsiblc for three and half of tn
seventv-live tons. This spindle is
called the polar axis, and is always
set M SO rs to he parallel to the axis
of the earth. Upon the polar axis is
the "leclination sleeve. within which
is the 'declination axis, steel forS
ing - inches in diameter. . feet long.
weighing tons, upon which the tube
proper is holted. Thus the telescope
can be pointed in any direction, either
in declination. that is north to south.
or up and down. and in right ascen-
sion. east to west.
The ''declination circle" the large
wheel near the counterpoise weight. is
eight feet in diameter and is made of
cast-iron. 1t fits on the sleeve that is
on the polar axis, and, as tho point
er" is carried by the spindle. the circle
stands still, and the pointer travels
arorni and reads the degrees which
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02

for accurate reading is placed just in
side the coarse hour circle, and is read
through microscopes by an assistant
ON the balcony. which is reached by
spiral stairs. All the bearings for
moving parts are of Babbit metal, with
means for accurate adjustment. and
self-oiling devices. So we'll balanced
is every part, and so evenly poised is
the whole thing, child can move the
instrument with the greatest ease.
The object glass will not be ready
before the last of the year. for the
delicate work of polishing and correct
ing the glasses requires time as wellas
patience. The glass is in two pieces.
one of crown and the other of flint
glass. This is to correct chromatic
alteration or color.
When the instrument is mounted in
its observatory the column will stand
north and south. The details for the
observatory have not been completed,
but work on preliminary plans has be-
gun. With an object glass % per
cent greater in area than any other
refractor. that much more light will
be admitted, and astronomers predict
great results from the telescope. 1t
will be used chiefly in spectrum analy-
sis. and the spectroscope and spectre
graph are made and on exhibition in
the gallery just northeast of the tele-
scope Without the glasses. the tele-
scope rs it stands. towering in the
main aisle seventyive feet in the air,
costs about $780, .. i remarkable
feature of it is that practically it was
designed and built since last Decem-
hpr
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02

dress are on the envelope will receive
the letter. Few of them, however, APP
preciate the fact that the stamp places
the United States Government under
cast-iron contract to place that letter
III right hands at the earliest possible
moment, even though the hands are
telling trees in the almost inaccessible
depths of an upper Michigan pine for
est, or working in the tangles of n
Florida everglade. To do this the
Government uses human legs, wagons.
bicycles, railroads, steamboats,, dog
sleds, horses, ponies, ocean vessels,
river boats and anything else that will
carry the letter over land or water,
mountains or plains, swamps or snow
drifts, in summer or in winter, ut all
times and any time.
Lives have been sacrificed that let
ter might go forward, millions of dol
lars have been spent preparing the
way for other letters and yet people
place the two-cent stamps on their en-
velopes and drop the letters into the
red boxes on the street corners with no
appreciation of what they are doing
A visit to the Postoilice exhibit in the
Government Building is apt to increase
ones respect for the little postage
stamp. There are displayed all the
means used for transporting mail, ms
well as Thousand other interesting
things which might keep a visitor busy
half day.
General Hazen. who was Third As
sistant Postmaster General under Pres
idents Hayes and Harrison. took u
great deal of interest in assembling the
exhibits, and is on the ground daily
for he is n member of the Government
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02

was three cents Tor every hnif-ounce
In October, 1888. the rate was reduced
to two cents. The total receipts for
the last year of three-cent postage
were s45, 1874, $50. Tho first year of
the two-cent rate dropped receipts to
S42, $50, Sif, but the figures crawled
up Sc rapidly that last year they
amounted to $40, $50, 475. General
Hazen was firm advocate of cheaper
postage. He believed that the slight
decrease in receipts would be made up
rapidly and he also predicted that the
sale of postal cards would suffer The
figures bear him out. Postal cards
were first issued in 1874. and the first
full year 81 ,07?, 900 were issued. In
the last year of three-ccnt postage
379, 576. 750 cards were sold. but the first
year of two-cent postage dropped the
total to 339. 4l6, 500. 1t took five years
for the postal cards to regain their
original figures. The magnitude OF
the postal service of the United States
as compared with that of three other
leading administrations of the inter
nal postal union is placarded i'll way
to delight the enthusiastic young Ameri
cans. The figures are taken from the
reports of the fiscal year ending June
30. 1892. They read MS follows:
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02

The driving clock is in the top sec.
tioa of the hollow column. 1t is
weight clock and the mechanism is such
that when the telescope is properly set
upon any particular star it is kept in
the field automatically. The clock u
sclf-winding, for Mt the proper time it
switches on n small electric-motor, and
is wound mp again.
Electricity is used rs power for NOV
ing the telescope, and the observer or
his assistant can turn il by touching
button. In the clock room are three
motors; one for winding the clock, one
to give quick motion in Geclination,
and one to give quick motion in right
ascension. The motor can be thrown
in or ont from the balcony on the coll
umn or from the floor. On the tube
and on the declination sleeve are mo-
tors for giving slow motion III declina-
tion and right ascension, which can be
switched in and out from the eye end.
The application of power is made
through a worm gear. of which the
wheel is Z! feet in diameter. weighing
1. tons. The wheel is of cast iron,
with phospher bronze rim having the
teeth cut in the bronze. The worm is
of hard steel. The telescope can also
be moved by hand, for on the north
side of the head are two hand wheels
by which the assistant astronomer can
set the telescope. Time is read on the
coarse hour circle. which is on the
4 s..4s
twenty-four hours, with five-minute
divisions, and is intended for approx
innate reading. The fine hour circle
Democratic messenger., 1893-09-02
MOUNT OF POSTAL REVENUE.
"Biy.iailed" Sheep Of Persia.

Mr.. John w. Northrup, of the State
Agricultural Board of California. i
making arrangements to secure con
signment of the famous big tailed"
sheep of Persia. This lot OF sheep
will he imported by the State OF Cali
fornia, at great expense. n previous
effort to import and breed them made
ly the United States Government; when
Jerry Rusl was Secretary OF Agricul-
ture having failed, as ont OF the fifteen
biS-tails' imported only four nre
now alive
"These sheep imported hy Secretary
Rusk came from Bushirc, Persia. sai |
Mr.. Norhrup ut the Gilsey House.
They Were shipped by Mr.. Truxtoa
Beale. the United States Minister. an
were treated in royal manner From
the time that they were selected from
til. great hocks of 'nig-taiIs' in the
Persian agricultural districts until
they arrived ut their final destination
in the balmy climate of California
they received attention similar to that
accorded n 500. 900 race-horsc. Only
the handsomest and strongest animals
were selected.
I'm England the 'big-tails' wcrc
plnced aboard the Helvetia in padded
compartments kept at an even temper.
ature while on the ocean. They
reached this country in safety, but in
II much weakened condition.
"When they arrived in Lower Cali
fornia they were so weak it was imp6s-
sible for them to stand. They were
fed carefully ON prepared fodder aud
nursed along, but they dropped oil
one by one.
"But California is bound to have