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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30

together impossible that our native
laurel may prove good and hardy
stock to graft upon. AS far as posi-
tive experience goes, to make a sue
cess of the Aguacate, it will need
planting in deep, rich soil and Fiber
ally fortified and watered. Thirty
feet would be the minimum distance
I would suggest for planting in or
chards.
Guavas have been introduced in
southern California quite a long time
ago, the first being varieties of Psid-
ium pyriferum, commonly known as
Lemon Guava. This has never found
much favor here, very few people lik-
ing it's taste, and perhaps also ON ac-
count of it's being rather tender and
The so-called Strawberry Guava-P.
Cattleyanum-has been planted quite
extensively and the fruit is regularly
marketed, as well as the jelly that is
made from it. The yellow strawberry
guava, lucidum, was hardly known
to few people two years ago, when at
tention was called to it by my hon
ored friend, Mr.. P. j. Berckmans, the
president of the American POmOlOg-
ical Society, in an address delivered
by him in Los Angeles. 1t is through
his means that it can be said to have
been introduced to California, just as
he was instrumental in introducing
| it to Florida some years ago. 1t is
taking great favor with us and is
likely to supercede the older known
kind, being larger in size, more at
| tractive in color and of better taste.
| In general appearance P. lucidum
| does not differ much from P. Cattley-
anum, it's leaves being somewhat
larger and thicker; both of them are
remarkably free from scale and SINH
lar pests. They will stand some cold
and will thrive in any soil; large and
juicy fruit can be obtained, however,
only with proper irrigation and culti-
vation. Several other species or va
rieties of Guavas have been imported
quite lately, and I believe that, by
careful selection and crossing, new
improved varieties may be evolved
from them, perhaps totally seedless
and having better shipping requisites.
Much less spread than the guavas,
and apparently somewhat more ten
der is the so-called Surinam Cher
nv, under which name several kinds
of Eugenia have been introduced-E.
unifora, E, brasiliernsis, E. pitanga,
E. MITCHELL. Which is the right name
[ have been unable to ascertain, the
few plants [ have seen fruiting APP
pearing to be identical, save perhaps
in the size of the leaves. Putting
aside the nomenclature, this will
make very attractive shrub, with
! glossy leaves, white. dowers like the
myrtle, and exceedingly pretty fruits
of bright scarlet color, looking as if
vanished, the size of large cherry,
but four-ribbed, which gracefully
hang down from the branches by
very slender petioles. Besides their
attractiveness in color, they have also
a very pleasant taste, and I believe
this plant needs only to he more
known to become a general favorite
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gratis of superior varieties, this be-
ing the only way of obtaining truly
marketable fruit.
Several other kinds of Anona are
grown in the West Indies and else
where, some being claimed as supe-
rior to the Cherimoya; only of late
years have a few been set out ON trial
with us, and as none have yet bloom
ed or fruited that [ know of, it will
be more conservative to say nothing
of their future possibilities.
Next to the Cherimoya, and prob
ably above it for the Importance it is
going to assume on the market,
stands the Aguacate-Persea gratis
sima-known also as Alligator Pear,
Avocado Pear and Midshipman's but
ter. These fruits have ready sale in
New York and other large eastern
cities; at not less than So to 81 per
dozen; the demand for them general
ly exceeds the supply, they coming
mostly from the West Indies.
The Aguacate is native of Mexico
and has been very sparingly grown
in Southern California for twenty
years at least. The two largest and
oldest specimens are to be seen [ be-
lieve in Santa Barbara and Ell Monte
otto, the last being known to have
ripened in one season as many as 500
fruits. At the rate mentioned above,
this is an encouraging showing, for
an orchard planted with them will
make quite goodsized trees with
wide spreading and rich evergreen TO-
liage. The flowers are in terminal
clusters and greenish, very much like
those of our common laurel or bay
Umbellularia CalifOrnica-to which it
is closely related. It will begin bloom
ing in November and continue all
winter, which accounts for it's setting
fruit only in frostless locations.
Some people will eat this fruit raw,
Others will suggest elaborate season
ing, but the general concensus is that
with the addition of a little pepper
and salt it will make the most excel
lent mayonnaise to be dreamt of, and
very easily digestible, too, so it can
be specially recommended for dyspep-
tic Or convalescent persons. In size
these fruits will vary, and in shape
too, from oblong to pear shape, as
well as in color, ranging from deep
green when ripe to very dark purple.
Little information can be obtained
from books concerning the different
varieties of Aguacate in it's native
country or where it has grown for
centuries. But the fact that plants
raised from seeds received from diff
ferent localities are already showing
considerable variation in the color of
makes one believe that a wide range
will be found also in the quality of
the fruit, and probably also it's de-
gree of hardness. Meanwhile [ have
been able to ascertain that there are
localities in northern Mexico where
Advocates stand some degree of frost,
and that in Chile a small fruited vari-
etv called Paltita endures much more
cold than we have here. That this
fruit is beginning to attract attention
on this coast is shown by the fact
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
MEAT COMPETITION

Mr.. Bell, the United States consul at
Sydney, New South Wales writes the
New York Journal of Commerce that
land can be leased in Queenstown for
long terms at half a cent per acre;
and as there are no winters in Aus
tralia cattle can be raised cheaply and
at small risk of loss Cattle fatten
readily ON the wide ranges of grass
land, and are of good grade and quail
ity. At present prices of hides it pays
to raise cattle for the hides alone.
Prime dressed beef carcasses weighing
800 or 900 pounds sell in Sydney at 2
cents a pound, or at 2 IA cents for
hind quarters. Mutton of good quail
ity is still cheaper.
1t would seem inevitable, with the
use of the new devices for shipping
meat in vessels fitted with proper
refrigerating apparatus, that the Aus
tralian meat supply will in the future
come into strong competition with our
shippers to European markets. Chilled
beef has been sent from Sydney to
Liverpool in such good condition as
to sell in the markets at the prices OBJ
tanned for beef sent from Chicago
Philadelphia Record. 2
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
ACCENT is ON THE "BI."

We have demonstrated with a few
friends in private because of the long
sigh" pronunciation of the second
syllable of bicycle, but had not discov-
cred that the fad was sufficiently wide
spread to call for public reproof. But
if the offense is so general as our cor
respondent has been led to believe,
then we take this occasion to say that
the authorities all place the accent ON
the first syllable, and the whole word
is pronounced just like the word icicle
We have never heard anybody pro-
nounce this word as though it were
eye-sigh-cul, and there is no more au-
thority for bigh-sigh-cul. The accent
is on the first syllable and the second
and third are both short. This is a
vehicle that is steadily growing in
popularity, but there is no more au-
thority for calling it bi-sigh-cle than
for ve-high-cle. Let us sit steadily in
the saddle, without leaning over the
handle bars, and keep the accent ON
the bi.-Augusta Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

wrote about whist Yet this teacher
has between $50 and 100 books, some
big and some little, some useful and
some useless, all on the subject of
whist. IN recent years an average of
six books a year have been brought out
on this subject. This whist teacher
(she does not call herself professor)
found little trouble in securing pupils,
and most of them are middle-aged
women who were debarred by various
reasons in younger life from learning
the game. This teacher will not accept
more than six pupils at time, and
by giving two lessons a week she earns
a goodly income. She finds the work
very wearing, as any one who has
undertaken to teach the mysteries of
cards to an innocent can easily under
stand.
One of her recent applicants was an
energetic old lady of nearly seventy,
who was determined to learn whist be-
fore she died. The teacher said each
lesson would cost $40, for she knew the
amount of trouble in store for her.
The old lady's hearing was defective,
her eyesight was weak and her memory
was failing. By much labor and the
expenditure of $3.50, the old lady was
finally induced to remember the trump,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
ALLEGED MIRACULOUS CURES!

M. Littre of Paris, who recently in
vestigated a number of alleged miracu-
lous cures, says that they can be ac-
counted for without supposing a mir
acle. He explains that in many of
such cures there is a muscular action
of the affected part, The muscle con-
tracts energetically; it breaks down
the pathological adhesions, if they ex-
list, and restores the bones violently
to their place. In commenting on this
the New York Medical Record saws:
What the surgeon has to do with his
his hand is here done by an influence
eXerted on the muscles themselves
and in far more beneficent manner
than surgery can effect. The exciting
cause of these energetic contractions
is that which we find in all miracles
OF this sort "a strong persuasion, a
complete confidence 1t is the brain
and feeling generated by the MIND
which give siren 9Th to the person who
thinks strongly. A equity man, who
has long hObbled about on his crutch.
finds his legs and power to run with
them if pursued by a wild bull. The
feeblest invalid, under the influence of
dellrium or other strong excitement.
will astonish her nurse by the sudden
accession of strength she may exhibit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

There are scores of women in New
York who make an easy living from
one years end to another, and they are
not new women either. They have not
found it necessary to invade the field of
masculinity in the effort to follow a
profitable enterprise, but by giving a
little study to the needs and foibles of
their own sex they have originated nu-
merous little industries which afford
them a fair income in a quiet way
There is the woman, for instance, who
teaches the maids and matrons of So
ciety how to play whist scientifically.
She gets S. for lesson lasting an hour
Years ago her forefathers were we'll
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
CALIFORNIA ORANGES FROZEN.

Only meager reports of the effects of
the freezing weather in California on
the last days of the year have gone
out from that state. Conservative
business men here who have much to
lose by the failure of the California
orange crop estimate that as much as
so per cent. of the oranges in the
Riverside district are frozen on the
trees, while Redlands, Arlington
Heights, and other elevated sections
suffered little injury. The intense
cold continued during the nights Of
Dec. % and 80, the anniversary Of the
fatal freeze in Florida the year before
The thermometer is said to have reg
istered as low as II degrees Fahren-
heit at Riverside, and since the trees
were killed in Florida at Is degrees,
the groves themselves may have SUI
fered, and this would be a more seri-
Gus matter than the loss of a single
crop.-Garden and Forest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

to follow suit and to appreciate the
respective values of the thirteen cards.
but as to the fine points of the game
she said she cared nothing.
This woman has been quietly follow
ing her vocation for the last two years.
Rumors of her success have recently
inspired others to enter the field, and
one of her competitors is man who
expects to capture all the trade flying
around. He has started a whist school.
and with the aid of big stereopticon
counts upon teaching forty or more
pupils at time. Of course the rates
will be much lower and the pupils will
learn considerably less than if they
played the game themselves The ster-
cloth, and is interesting if not instruc-
tive.
The woman wine-boomer is a new
product, and is entitled to be called a
new woman. She moves in the swag-
ger set, or very close to it, and is night
Iy to be seen in the dining places fire.
quented by homeward bound theatre
goers. She has a complete knowledge
of wines, and can talk entertainingly
about them by the hour. She knows
all about the rare yintages; exactly how
many bottles there are left of them and
their owners. She usually talks loud
enough for the people at the nearby
tables to hear what she says, and, of
course, much of her talk is devoted to
the peculiarly fine qualities of the wine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

up the social ladder of old New York,
but under the pressure of the newly
rich, and failing family resources, she
found herself crowded to the wall and
under the necessity of doing something
for her own support. Being finely
reared, the average work of the new
woman had no attraction for her. She
has unique notions, and she believed
that as whist teacher she might build
up paying and pleasant clientele.
She Was naturally fine card player,
but she elaborated her knowledge by
studying the game with the same as
slduity given by the young doctor to
medicine or the young lawyer to legal
lore. She collected a fine library of
books devoted exclusively to the subject
of whist. Most people imagine that
Hoyle was the only man who ever
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

ter to secure a we'll paying position
in any of the large stores. If she can
Wear fine clothes gracefully and can
carry herself well, and moreover has
pretty face, she is certain to make
success of it.
Girls of this kind are employed to
exhibit fine gowns, wraps and hats in
the large shops. A woman purchaser
does not care to go to the trouble of
trying on a variety of clothes, and she
is better able to judge of their effect by
seeing them on some one else. This
is where the finely proportioned girl
comes in. She puts on the dress, or
wrap, and nine times out of ten the
clothes show off better on her than on
the prospective purchaser. Such a girl
is of immense value to the firm employ
ing her, and is worth many times the
$40 or s25 week paid her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
CHAPTER XVII.
A Loyal Heart.

Meanwhile, a soberer scene, yet al
most as exciting to the persons con-
cerned, was enacted elsewhere.
Lady Frances had been dancing with
a schoolboy cousin, little younger
than herself, and very much devoted
to her. All the time she was conscious
of the presence of a dark, somber figure
that lounged with folded arms against
the wall of the room and that reused
itself presently to wander away into
the conservatory, where oriental lamps
cleaned softly among the spreading
palms.
Gus" said Lady Frances, abruptly,
will you take me into the conserva-
tory?"
Delighted" said the boy, who was
an Etonian, and had, as everybody said,
quite charming manners. THE very
thing I was longing for, but l thought
you might not care about it,
81 am going to do a very rude thing, y
said Frances, with a most bewitching
smile. 81 am going to ask you to take
me there and to leave me for little
while. l want to speak to Col. Van
brugh, if I can manage it."
"Ohr' The Etonian was evidently at
a loss. "Of course I'll do anything you
wish, but can't l save you the trouble?
I know Lancelot very we'll and if you
want to know about him"
81 don't want to hear about him
ever again. Then she remembered
her promise to her mother and pulled
herself up. 'I want to speak to Col.
Vanbrugh himself, that is all. If you
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

she is booming. She asserts that it is
the only proper brand of champagne
for woman to drink, and gives count
less reasons, which, to the women who
know nothing at all about the subject,
seem absolutely convincing. If she is
invited out to a late supper by some
OF her men friends, they, of course,
ask her what brand of wine she pre-
fers. She makes a selection, plea sing,
OF course, to her employer, about whose
existence, however, the luckless escort
knows nothing. When she is not in
vited out she goes anyway, accompanied
by some friend or relative, who knows
the secret of her wine connection. Her
favorite brand is ordered, and is
/ charged to the account of the makers,
for like the fashionable men who are
employed by the wine houses, she has
a liberal allowance for expenses. She
dinner parties by wealthy friends, and
she never neglects an opportunity to
say something, always in a well-b1 ed
aristocratic way, about the brand she
: is booming. None of her many friends
suspect the imposition. Yet this clever
woman earns anywhere from 500 to
$500 week, according to the influence
she yields.
There are fully half a dozen women
/ who mingle with the smart set, and
who are employed by the leading cham
gagne houses. Most of them are the
daughters or wives, of men who are
entitled by family connections to a
place in the charmed circle, but whose
pocketbooks are not robust enough to
stand the pace. One of New York's
famous beauties of a few years ago, a
woman with a magnificent figure and
the reputation of dressing better than
almost any one else, earns two fine
winter gowns and three summer dresses
in unique way. In the heydey of
her beauty she could have married al
most any one in town, but she fell in
love with a poor man, who was just
able to pay his club dues, and married
him, to the disgust of her relatives.
To gown his wife in the magnificent
fnery to which she had been accus-
toned was financial burden too heavy
to support. She solved the problem,
however, by having a little chat with
the modiste who had been delighted
with her patronage in former times. To
be known as the dressmaker of such
woman was an advertisement of in
estimable value, and to have her as a
customer was always a thorn in the
sides of rival firms. A simple arrange /.
ment was made which settled every
thing. For the five gowns yearly, !
worth between 1,200 and $1,000, the
society woman agreed to praise the .
wares of the dressmaker and do every
thing possible to boom the business.
This was easily done. A pretty debut
ante was always seized upon to help
pay for the gowns. The clever woman
says.
MY dear, your gown does not do you
justice You are too pretty to be dressed
that way. If you wish 1 will take you
to nv dressmaker She is really an
artist. and makes the most of ones
best points. I don't know what would
do but for her"
This, coming from a woman with
such a reputation for beauty and fine
gowns, is sure to have the desired
effect, and one more rich patron is add
ed to the list at the dressmaker's.
The athletic girl who does not mind
open employment finds it an easy mat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
AVOID PURPLE INK.

The purple ink fad seems to be
spreading. It is, of all correspondence
fads, the most disagreeable. To read
many pages written in this glittering,
shining color is enough to give the
reader an attack of mental prostra-
ton as well as to precipitate blindness.
The faculty which purple ink possesses
of growing positively alive and of
making all the curves of letters seem
like wriggling snakes is something re-
markable and something which should
Danish purple ink from polite CORE
spondence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
FUNNY THINGS WE SEE.

The woman who thinks she is a
beauty when she meets woman who
is beauty.
The young person who thinks she is
a cynic confronted by the prospect Of
new party dress.
The progressive young matron listen
ing to the ideas of her mother-in-law
on the care of children.
The engaged girl who claims she is
not sentimental when she fails to re-
ceive her daily letter from him"
The professor at a dinner party ex-
planning the nebular hypothesis TO the
girl who is in love with the college
half-back at the other end of the
table
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
THE ONLY THING LEFT.

A lady went into an uptown grocery
in quest of some extra delicacies fer
stag supper her husband had on hand,
and asked the clerk if he knew Of any
thing very good and new, that she
might surprise the palates with. After
suggesting a number of things which
he thought suitable, and learning that
she had them all, even to the requisite
brands of wine in despair he gave up
and said: 81 don't know of anything
else you can possibly provide unless
you lay in stock of bromo-seltzer. -
Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
INSISTED UPON OBEDIENCE.

An old Highland sergeant in one of
the Scottish regiments was going his
rounds one night to see that all the
lights were out in the barrack-rooms.
Coming to a room where he thought
he saw a light shining, he roared out,
Put cot that light therer'
One of the men shouted back, Its
the mune, sergeantp'
Not hearing very well, the sergeant
cried in return, Il dinna care a Jacket
what it isl Put it ootr'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

A couple in Richmond, Ky, on mar
riage bent went hunting for justice
of the peace the other day. The JUS
tice is also an auctioneer, and, not find
ing him at his Office the couple went
to his auction rooms. They found
him auctioning lot of cradles from a
bankrupt sale. He was notified of the
presence of the couple and their err
rand. He stopped the auction, and
married them on the spot. Then, to
reciprocate his kindness probably, the
newly welded pair bought one of the
finest cradles in the stock. And the
crowd of customers cheered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

1t is said that the state of Kansas
has nearly 100000 less population than
it had in 1890.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05

Lady Frances was also leaving
school, but with great regret on her
part and on that of her friends at West
bourne house. She had always been
popular with pupils and teachers alike;
and had constituted herself as much a
power for good as Constance Esler had
been a power for evil. To Madeline
her going was an unmitigated evil.
Poor little thing" Lady Frances had
said pitifully to her one day. Never
mind, / will persuade mother to invite
you to Okeley some day and then we
shall have fine times together and You
will see Lancelot Vanbrugh again if
you care to see him.
Don't you care to see him." said
Madeline, struck by some aloofness OF
Lady Frances tone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05
BOOMERS FOR HIRE
FASHIONABLE WOMEN WHO ADD
TO THEIR INCOMES.
The BRlGhT WHIST TEACHER

For Five Dollars a Sitting-Cham-
payne Houses Employ the Swagger
Girl-A Modiste's Tout-The New
Woman.