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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-15
The Ambition,

The Ambition.
This is an interesting genus of annual
or shrubbery plants, mostly OF an orna-
mental character and widely dissemin-
ated, being found in nearly every coun-
try, from the West Indies to Siberia,
while the difference in geographical
range is no less than their Individual
characters. The flowers of one species,
Aesculentum, are used as vegetable in
Brazil; some of the East Indian species
furnish fibre for the manufacture of
rope, while the ornamental species fur
nish some of the grandest objects for the
window garden, as we'll as for the open
border. For either place they have no
equals when we take into consideration
the rare beauty and great productive
ness of their flowers Their mission
seems to be to flower, and flower they
will under all circumstances-at least as
long as they live-and the beauty and
number of the flowers are in proportion
to the care they receive.
The only objection there can be to
them-if that be an obJection-is that
they grow too freely, usurping the
whole window. To obviate this diff
Guilty, the plants to start with should be
small, and kept in small pots without
shifting. A 4inch pot is sufficiently
large for plant for the window, and
this should be constantly in bloom from
the time it is six inches high until it
dies, which it never will do if frost or
famine does not consume it. The orna-
mental varieties are propagated by cut
tings, and, as the branches are all termi-
nal Towering, they not intrequently
flower on the propagating bench; con-
sequently, plan is in full flower IN pinch
pots are commonly met in the green
house. 1t is we'll to start with these for
window plants IN the fall, gradually
shifting them into larger pots when the
foliage begins to show a starved appear
ance. But the change must be gradra
at each shift using a pot but one size
larger than the plant previously occu-
pied, and they will bloom the entire
winter.
When the weather becomes warm,
turn the plants out of the pots into the
open border, and their growth will be
rampant. With plenty of water and
sunshine, and in deep, rich soil, there
will be no limit to their flowers Upon
the approach of frost the plant that a
year ago was in thumb pot will now be
strong shrub, fully four feet high, al
together too large for any practical pur-
pose. The skillful hand of the hybrid
izer has worked wonders with the abuti-
lon. The size of the flowers has been
wonderfully increased and we now have
large number of varieties, embracing
those with self-colored, varigated, or
veined, dark rose or crimson, pure yell
low of various forms and shades and pure
white flowers. A double type has much
Of merit as curiosity.
Geraniums as Bedding Plants.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-15
FLORAL DEPARTMENT.

Address all communications to Floral Depart
ment AGRICULTURIsT. DeLand, Fla.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23
ZOE TIE sToMACn,s sAKE.

What people who drink drink is
rather startlingly shown by some reve-
lations which have been made in the
wicked city OF Chicago. 1t appears
that there is a concern in that city
which makes speciality OF selling
counterfeit goods to liquor dealers 1t
offers a complete list of bogus WHISTLES,
brandies. wines, cordials, bitters, etc.
Every well-known brand of liquor on
the American market, imported or
native, is represented. The firm makes
a speciality of furnishing Skeletons;
that is, bottled goods, complete in
every detail except the liquor. The
bottles are guaranteed to be the
right size and shape; the corks
are branded; the seals and labels
are exact limitations and the packing
case is lettered like the genuine The
dishonest jobber has only to fill the
bottles with cheap liquor and sell them
to retail dealers as genuine at a hand
some profit. The firm referred to not
only sells Skeletons" but also deals
in counterfeit liquors and materials for
the manufacture of adulterated goods.
It has issued catalogue and circular
covering this branch of the business,
which gives minute instructions and
details of methods by which to make
bogus liquors from drugs. From this
it appears that cognac brandy for in
stance, is made as follows: Thirty
eight gallons of proof spirits (alcoho),
gallons of cheap California brandy,
ouAces essence of cognac brandy,
IL pints of sugar syrup and enough
caramel (burnt sugar. to color. This
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23

the fate of Red Riding Hood made
companion of a young wolf, which, on
her return home after long absence,
fell down dead through excess of JOY
at his mistress return. What an eN-
traordinary menagerie was that which
Rossettl kept in the large garden of his
house in Cheyne-walk! Peacocks,
whose screaming so disturbed the
neighborhood that Lord Cadogan had
clause inserted in all new leases where
by the tenants undertook not to keep
peacockc; a falloW deer, whose princi-
pal delight it was to pull the feathers
out of the peacock's tail, by stamping
on them with Its fore feet; a couple of
kangaroos, mother and son, one of
which killed the other; two armadil-
loes, which used to burrow into the adj
joining gardens, to the great annoy
ance of the owners, and, to crown all,
raocoon, which was continually get
ting lost, and which was on one occa-
sion discovered in a cabinet, where it
had gnawed in pieces a quantity of the
poet-painter's MS. verse,-New York
Evening Post.
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TIyO S1tORI rs.

The stories told about the Bank of
Illinois by the comptroller of the cur
rency and Robert e. Jenkins, a direc
tor of the bank, do not agree very
we'll. Mr.. Jenkins says: The direc-
tors did not know the size of the loan
on the Calumet Electric. The discov-
much of q surprise to me as to the pub
lie. The same is true of the loan of
Deyer & Co. The directors were I'M
aware of the loans which appear to
have carried the bank down, or We're
unaware until the latter part of last
week l do not care to say who I be-
lieve was to blame for the directors
being kept in the dark as to the mag
nitude of these loans.
The comptroller of the currency says
that the failure of the bank is due to
injudicious, reckless and imprudent
methods followed by the officers and
not checked by the directors though
their attention had been individually
called to the same, and, over their indi-
vidual signatures they had promised to
remedy the weak points in the banks
condition. And he adds: The largest
source Of failure is the banks holding
of the Calumet Electric Street railway
stock the full amount of which, cannot
now be stated for it is discovered that
part of such holdings was concealed
in another account This and other
large and doubtful loans had been call
ed to the attention of the officers and
directors, and specified Improvements
promised year since. In June, on the
surface, there had been made an i'm
Keen, on November 30, found that the
books showed that the loan to the Cal
umet Electric company and other sim
liar loans had been increased and the
promises Of officers and directors had
not been carried out. Upon this report
l addressed letter to the president
and directors. 1t emphasized the posi-
ton taken by this office that decided
and radical change had to be at once
made, and notified the directors to take
immediate steps to put the bank in
condition.
The truth of the matter is that the
government inspection does not always
inspect and that directors do not al
ways direct-at least not right. And
that's the way the money goes.
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mixture makes forty gallons of bogus
brandy. The ingredients at current
market quotations cost about $51.5O. 1t
can be placed on the market in exact
imitation bottles as "Hennessy" or
"Martell" brandy for $Z25 per case,
The original costs SIS by wholesale.
To make port wine take eight ounces
essence of port wine, gallons sugar
syrup, IS gallons alcohol, 4 ounces tar
taric acid, gallon vinegar, ounces
tlncture of kino, % gallons water,
cherry juice 8 to 5 gallons per barrel;
color with Malva flowers or burnt
sugar and carlet red,
And so forth and so on. Touch not,
taste not, handle not the accused
stuff.
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OFFSPRING OF IGNORANCE.
Hysteria and Superstition Flourishe

Hysteria and Superstition Flourished
in Europe During the Middle Ages
Mental diseases, and especially hyste-
ria, have from the earliest times to the
present, exercised a tremendous infiu-
ence upon the current metaphysical
conception of the universe and upon
the whole mental development, and
that precisely because they not only oc
Cured sporadically, but, as we shall
soon see, attacked the masses in the
form of epidemics and so became of the
highest significance and Importance for
the life of society as a whole.
Religious enthusiasm and proneness
to the mystic and the occult formed,
even in the highest antiquity, an i'm
portant factor of those degenerate and
hystericai individuals who entertained
s the delusion that they We're in commu-
nication with good or with bad spirits,
and who by that channel influenced the
masses not little A great number of
the priestesses who delivered oracular
responses to the Greeks with strong
quaking of their bodies were psyche
pathic subjects undergoing the hysteri
cal commissions well known to us to-
day Hence epilepsy, which in those
days was not Disseminated from hys-
terical cramps, came to be called the
morbus sacer or sacred disease. Piu-
tarch, in his description of the Pythian
priestess, delineates the typical image
of a hysterical subject who in ecstatic
CONFUSION, stammered mere unintelli-
gible words, into which the priests in
H. u Al.
it's inclination to religious enthusiasm,
was not limited to separate persons
On the contrary, we meet with 1t
among all peoples and in all periods of
history. and among all peoples we meet
with 1t in the form of epidemics of va
rious kinds. But never did this disease
find better or more fertile soil in
which to thrive than in the middle ages
of northern Europe, marked as they
were by ignorance and superstition,
and, accordingly, we find that epidem-
les of hysteria then assumed dimen-
sions surprising those of any similar
outbursts in other centuries. A great
many fine books have been written
about the individual and epidemic
crazes of those ages. The French have
made particularly careful researches
into the matter,
Calmell describes a great number of
hysterical epidemics of different forms.
One of the principal eruptions in Ger
many was demonomania or teufuls-
VAIN. In the year 1919" says Calmell,
"a delusion called vaudoisie prevailed
in Artois that the devils carried many
sacratlv in thp uipht To the assemblies
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GOING.

In the Depths of the Ocean.-The
much? The Merman-Dearest! ! could
be happy with you in dime museum!
Puck.
An Unexpected Result -Brown-I
thought the Venezuelan trouble would
terminate in some such way. Jones'
Did you? 1t never occurred to me that
it would give the King of Sweden a
chance to get his name in the papers,
Truth.
Young Lawyer Con his first easel
I'd give anything to win this case, but
I don't see how it is possible to clear
you. Prisoner (modestly suggesting)-
l don't sp'ose ye'd like ter swear yer
committed the crime Serself would
yer?--Tit-B
81 desire to insert this smafl adver-
tisement in your paper tomorrow
morning." she said. This" said the
advertising clerk, looking it over, will
go among the wants. Have you no
wish column" mo, num-" "Then,
sir, said the young lady from Boston,
haughtily, you need not insert it. l
simply wish a situation as a governess.
That is all. 1t is not case of want.
Is there any newspaper printed in Eng
fish in this ce?"-Chicago Tribune
Policeman (who has arrested two
tramps)-Where do you live? First
Tramp don't live nowhere. Police
man-And where do you live? Second
Tramp-Next door to my friend here
Texas Siftings.
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One Thousand Dollars.

A well known gentleman, a resident
of New Haven, states that he would not
take one thousand dollars for what he
Seal Boefgrain, that pure health and
breakfast food for sick or well. His
children relish it and thrive upon it.
His little two-year-old, the pet of the
house, sets up a prattle for it the first
thing on coming to the table. 1t is a
delight to hear her and to see how
healthy she looks, how firm and clear
her flesh has become. 1t is a joy, too.
he says, to think that in eating this
food, which digests so easily and nour-
ishes, putting her into this healthy and
splendid physical condition, she is safe
guarded against disease and the ills
which might suddenly cut her down
and bring darkness and gloom into the
home. 1t is no less a pleasure to know
that the foundation is being laid in this
common sense way for a healthy girl
life and a strong womanhood. Even
now her white, even teeth (she has
been eating it about eight months)
show the effect of this bone-forming,
protein food.
Seal Boefgrain is sold by grocers
You can surely get it from Fullerton
Cooper, S. S. Adams. Nichols, Coe &
Field, Minor, Hurlburt Bros, the W.
e. Judd Co., Francis Bros, E. H. Clark,
l.. F. DOerschuck, Gibbons Bros, A. b.
Stevens, Caspar Kippe and BescheI
Bros.
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in the article. The former slave
States, it seems, are annually expend-
ing total of a million dollars ON negro
schools alone and ninety per cent, Of
this sum comes from white taxpayers,
There are $4,000 colored teachers in the
schools. The separate schools for whites
and blacks compel educational officials
to divide the funds at their disposal,
and invariably reduce the capacity. of
the officials to forward instruction in
some sections; but the diminished use
fulness which that implies in the whole
work of education is unfortunate alike
for both races. The whites endure the
evil without as much complaint as the
negroes, but, if the Journal is to be be-
Leved, the better class of negroes have
no fault to find.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23
hCHOOL ELNINCLERTNG.

We call the attention OF our readers
to the article by Walter Allen printed
in another part of this paper. 1t deals
with the important matter of school
finances, and deals with it in a way
that will furnish good basis for
thought and discussion. Mr.. Allen not
only criticises but offers plan that Is
practical and sensible. He shows us
how we can save a great deal of money
and still accomplish all that can be ac-
con1plished by the plan adopted at the
school meeting, and he also shows that
if we don't care to save money we can
have more by his plan than by that
plan. 1t is certain that we ought to
save money or spend it to the best adj
vantage. Mr. Allen makes it plain that
the plan adopted at the school meeting
is not economical or advantageous in
other ways.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23
CURIOUS PETS.

The Favorites of Lady Burton, the
Poet Rossetti, and Others, Ancient
and Modern.
Nothing in human nature is perhaps
more peculiar than the practice of
adopting some representative of the
animal world as an intimate. 1t may
be conjectured that the first pets Were
those animals which had already prov
ed themselves useful in the service of
man, such as horses and dogs. By
and by, as other animals became do
mesticated, says the London Stand
ard, they were admitted to a degree of
intimacy which, while not, perhaps,
exactly that of the modern pet, was a
step in that direction. The ancients
as well as ourselves are known to have
lavished no small amount of affection
upon their favorites. Did not Alex
ander grieve for the loss of Bucepha-
lus. and endeavor to console himself
with Peritas, the lion-fighting dog,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23

Now and then a woman is met who
insists that the best hat for her who is
to have but little headgear Is one that
will be suitable for a tailor rig But
these ARE too severe for most of us,
though they do now and then allow
elaboration or ribbon loops, quilts or
even plumes. The English tourist
shape holds it's own, as it probably al
ways will A stunning new notion is a
stiff felt, like a derby in texture but
not in shape. The brim is wider than
that of a derby, and the crown either
square or rounded. but higher than a
derby. This sort of thing is handsome
in brown, and is finished with stiff
looping or ribbon to match exactly, The
same idea IS carried out In a shiny felt
that looks like the beaver men wear,
and a few grotesqueries are shown in
white silk with beaver finish These
are trimmed with white velvet and
rhinestone buckles. They are stylish.
but perhaps little too pronounced for
most of us. The tailor-made hat should
carry an effect of severity~even though
it may be trimmed, and it must al
ways be remembered that a hat a little
elaborated is less trying than one alb
solutely plain, except to a young face
Hatters are selling many kinds of tour
list hats and something of the sort
every well dressed woman should have.
FLORETTE.
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About twenty dangerous trades"
each with its special risk, are enumer-
ated in a British official report. An
ever-present source Of harm in the
manufacture of India-rubber is the
use of naphtha, which is not known
TO produce any special form of disease,
but whose fumes tend gradually to I'M
dermine the constitution. More active
1y poisonous is the bisulphide of car
bon used in one process of vulcanizing
rubber, insanity being sometimes a re-
suit. Among other dangerous trades
are ''dry cleaning" with risk from
fire and the inhalation of volatile spir-
its; working in bronze, which induces
skin disease and slow poisoning Of the
system; mica-dusting, at which few
boys can work more than six weeks;
and the manufacture and use of in
tiammable paints.
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FASHION NOTES.
A Hat of Moderate FRESHNESS.

The woman whose outfit includes a
half dozen hats will have at least one
that outdoes this pictured one for
elaborateness, but when the list is but
half or a third as large a hat like
this is wisely the showiest of the lot.
1t is quite dressy enough for any oc-
casion that most of us will participate
in, and so too, it is rich enough to
accompany the best gown of the aver
age woman. In the original Of this IL
lustration 1t was black velvet, and
had tam oshanter crown. In front
there was a big buckle and at the
back were a bunch of ostrich tips, an
aigrette and velvet roses in pink and
green. Mink fur edged the brim.
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District of New Haven, IS. Probate Court

District Of New Haven, SIS. Probate Court
December 81, 1896
ESTATE, OF CHARLES S. REDFIELD
late Of Orange, in said district, de-
ceased
The Court of Probate for the District OF
New Haven hath limited and allowed six
months from the date hereof for the cred
itors of said estate to exhibit their claims
for settlement Those who neglect to pre-
sent their accounts properly attested within
said time will be debarred recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate are request
ed to make immediate payment to
MARY e. REDFIELD.
do 81 Administrative
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
Advertisements. One Cent Word each IN
sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
tSeven timesl.
Display Advertisements-Pe inch, one mem IN
scrtion, $1.20; each subsequent insertaloan,
40 cents; one week, $500; one moneh' paw
one year. $40. az
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse 10
cents per line, Notices of Births, Marr1ase si
notices Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to thelr own WI
Immediate business (all matter to pc gn
obJectionable), and their contracts DO not III
clude Wants To Let, For Sale, etc.
Discounts-On two inches or more, one
month and over, 10 per cent; on four lntneS
or more, one month and over, Is per cent
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The part played by the Bank of
Spain in floating the new loan destined
to provide resources for the contin-
uance of the war in Cuba has placed
that institution in a very awkward po-
sition. For, in addition to the immense
sums which it has furnished to the gov
eminent itself, it has advanced one
way and another nearly S40,000,0O0 to
people who subscribed for the loan
The bank may therefore be said to have
found the major portion of the money
subscribed. Besides this, the bank is
creditor to the government under vari-
Gus heads to the extent of more than
$3.50, 10000 Inasmuch as the capital
fully paid up Of the bank, together
with its reserve fund, only amounts to
$50 900, 900, it will readily be seen that
the strain to which this, the leading
financial institution in Spain, is being
subjected is tremendous and cannot be
continued much longer before disaster
ensues.
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The interesting suggestion is made
by the Topeka Capital that Kansas
send a trainload of provisions to the
destitute of Chicago, Boston and New
York
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23

1t has been discovered that three Of
the figures in a stained glass window of
rural English church-the subject rep
resenting King Saul and his COUNSEL
lors-are life-like portraits of Lord Sal
isbury, Mr.. Gladstone and the late
is Thomas Carlyle, while the David has
the head and shoulders of Adelina
Patti.
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The people of Orlando, Florida, are
preparing to make the meeting of the
National Good Roads Congress in that
city next February a great success.
The mayor and the president of the
Board of Trade are at the head of the
committee of arrangements which is
made up of leading citizens. THE
movement in favor of improved coun-
try highways has become national"
says the Savannah News land the
southern States are as much interested
in it as the richer and more populous
States OF the North. Much progress in
good road building has been made in
the South within the last few years,
but it is safe to say that within the
next ten years more will be done in
that line than has been accomplished
in fifty years.
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The Atlanta Journal makes careful
review of the efforts which have been
made, and will continue to be made,
to educate the negro. Some surprising
and agreeable information is contained
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The response to the request for toys of former Xmas for
children Of the poor is very gratifying The gifts al
ready here may be at Room A. Insurance building
Don't hesitate bring toy you have it to spare as the
City Missionaries alone make use of thousand.
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