The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-06
THE FLORIDA METROPOLIS.

Some Hastily Conceived Impressions
of the beautiful City of Jackson
vine.
4 We arrived about breakfast time on a
Sunday morning. We were hot and dusty
dry. We raped at side-doors. and went up
several alleys. all to no purpose. We
were so extraordinarily dry that We went
to drug store, and another drug store.
and still another drug store, and called
in vain for a glass Of Vichy. The last
drug clerk remarked: My dear sirs. the
tourist season has not opened yet"
Finding it impossible to break into a
| side door, We concluded that we would
have 10 wash the dust down with water.
This is sheOl ain't it," said my compan-
ion. mighty near IT," l replied. As we
raised the glasses. 10 our lips we found
was suongly impregnated with sulphur.
We found before dinner time that il we
had been less fmpetuous there would have
been no necessity for smelling or tast-
ing the sulphur The brewed product
contains no suggestion Of the sinners
con and Milwaukee.
The prospective son-ln-law is not asked
by the girls old man who his grandfather
ana great-granGfather were. The first
"What make wheel do you ride?' Can
you do hundred miles,"
That is enough to show how badly the
town has the wheels. A popularity of the
deltTium. however. is the fact that sober
black enamel on the machines will not
and yellow, and cardinal, and magenta
and Trilby blue, and orange, and plum,
ana all Of the other colors and
can turn Aout The chromattc
procession to be seen at Main and Duval
streets almost every afternoon is enough
10 make one think his optics are suffer-
ing with the jim-jams.
Bloomers are worn by the women wheel
riders-some of them, not all. The first
boomers appeared in public a
| month or two ago. 1t is said that some
1nlhe IKE 3'OyV people witnessed the event.
The voting strength of the municipality
Is about 1000.
upon the Nile on a calm June night.
plucked some sacred lilies, and with right
eous solicitude nursed them until he had
bosom of the st. Johns. Now the lilies
grow so rank in Hogan creek that a steam
periods, and dig them out, so that they
Will not impede the progress of the wood
scows to the water works. Jimmie Brock
inridge Is responsible for this statement.
The new. marble federal building COM
pines three styles of architecture. Cor
pilot house, quite correctly heads to-
wards the st. Johns. Two turns of the
wheel to port would point her straight
for Palatka.
Seven-tenths of the residences In the
city proper. We're constructed with view
10 taxing IN boarders. great many
ooarders are taken in during the run of
year,
The fashionable residence section is
Riverside, which hugs the St JOINS,
thus oHering suggestion to the young
men men and maldens to go picnicking, up
Riverside is peculiar for two things. No
colored people live in It, and many of its
of the river Two steam dreages are
now pumping up some more building
lots. The St. Johns is fun Of them.
Ten years ago biscuit thrown into
the St Johns would be the signal for a
school Of catfish to come to the surface
scarce. 1t seems that somebody up in
Atlanta, or New York, has found out how
to'smake the most delightful snowflake
dessicated Goldfish out of the ST.. Johns
eat, Jacksonville people positively re-
fuse to eat catfish, but they are fond of
snowflake dessicated cod. Tne native
|, catfish, therefore, makes a trip to At
lanta or New York, and then returns
home to receive the welcome that is
returns q Goldfish aristocrat as it were
One must step across white stone to
get into the building in which Corbett
opened champagne for the crowd the
night he whipped Charlie Mitchell. An
other building that is pointed out with
pride is the one that John Jacob Aston
built.
Veneer brick buildings are popular. A
wooden frame is erected, and brick skin,
one brick thick, is stretched around it,
Bv this means 5000 worth of appearance
can be got for $1,000 outlay.
About all that is left of the old sub
tropical exposition is one rusty patriarch
of the alligator tribe. But he Is hum
. mer. He has record of knocking a
NANCY dog eleven feet six inches into the
air with one swipe of his tail and CATCH
ing him in his mouth as he descended.
There are two means of rapid transit
by which one may reach the union depot
can catch one of them, or take his foot
in his hand and run. Close connections
by bus or hack are out of the question.
1t Is queer why a town with so much sand
does not assert itself l.. A. b.
my wife found poker-chip in my
pocket the other morning." said the man
She asked me how much 1t cost. l told
her so cents and she said that a man
always got cheated; that the thing was
nothing but celluloid. Washington Star.
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