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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10

A correspondent Of the Western
Druggist complains that he IL cOntInu-
ally defrauded In the Ice delivered for
his soda fountain, aud weighing not be-
Ing exactly practicable. he wants to
know II he cannot lind the true weight
Of q chunk Of Ice by measurement.
ST. Louis druggists are not alone In
their complaint about short weight Oh
Ice, and the explanation for the diminu-
tive size Of 1OO-pOund chunk of Ice,
namely. that 1t Is tho cOldness of It
which has contracted 1t so. will be as
familiar to them as to their brethren
IN III luck In Chicago. As to the lues-
ton Of our correspondent. that Is en-
tirely aprOpOs, AMI We take pleasure IN
assisting him. The calculation Is quite
simple II we remember that one cubic
foot Of water weighs 62.5 pounds. One
cubic foot equals IL times IL times IL.
or 1,72S cubic inches. Dividing this by
the number of pounds of water gives
us 1,72S, divided by 62.5, equals 27.65.
Hence. one pound of water measures
27.85 cubic inches. which for 100 pounds
makes 1895 cubic inches. While Ice
blocks. as delivered, are not always of
exactly rectangular shape, yet In u ma
jOrity of cases the weight could be de-
termined approximately correct. We
would advise our readers to try this
plan. appealing to the scale when their
figures are doubted.-American Guilt
YatOr,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10

recognized from year to year. Sclcnt-
lists have estimated 1t ut four feet q
year.
Gradually the wall.likc ends OF the leo
cap are forced into the sea. and these
are called glaciers. Year after year the
enormous pressure inland sends the Ice
further into the water. but the whole
mass Ii so solid that no force seems
great enough to wrest piece from the
main body. But the all.pOwcrfui sea
performs the seeming miracle. 1t Is the
upward pressure Of the water on the
floating end Of the glacier that finally
wears down Its strength and causes It to
burst from the Ice cap with the roar of u
thousand cannon. This Is the birth Of
the iceberg.
Slowly the released mammoth moves
first ono way and then the other. Great
pieces drop or into the sea, but finally
1t finds Its equilibrium. Then 1t begins
Its long Journey to the south. moved by
tho strong Arctic current running deep
and strong hundreds of fathOms below
the waters surface. ana grasplng the
submerged ends OF the berg In q rclcnt-
less grip. Further south. where the
berg meets the nOrthward current of
the gulf stream, the underlying Arctic
current Is still strong enough to push
tho mass along. but the opposite pres
sure from above AMI beneath wears
great holes In the solid body and the
mass which centuries labOrcd to create
dies In q few short months.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10
A Little Too smart.

An 1rishmans idea of what consti.
tutes u successful stratagcm Is some.
times most amusing.
And how Is your wife afther the
wcddin' and allT inquired Mr.. Murphy
Of his friend. Mr.. DOolan. whose
daughter had been married two days
before.
"She's we'll enough. cxccptin' that
she's grievin' over a pair of ilignnt new
kid gloves that got lost on her that
cvcnin'." responded Mr.. Doolan. "Shc's
fcclin' had about thin. hut I've advcr.
tised In the paper. and I'm thinkin'
she'll get thin back again bcroor long.
They cost Mrs. Doolau two dollars and
forrty-fivc cints!'
"Ain't you afraid WHOEVER got thin
will hr slow to answer the advertise
mcntT inquired Mr.. Murphy.
"Ii's mrsilf that knew how 10 fix
that" returned Mr.. Doolan. II advcr.
tised thin ilignnt gloves as an ovid
cotton pair. burrstin' away ut the
seams. and wurrth nol,ody's kccpin'"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10
GIG Bei.0 SEASON.
Drifting Monsters from the Arctics
Alarm Sea On ntulus.

Drifting Monsters from the Arctics
Alarm sea Captains.
II the sharps Of the sea are to be be-
licved, 1897 will go down In history as
one Of the greatest years for icebergs
In modern times. Many dangerous
bcrgs have been reported.
The winter of $50 was famous sea.
son for bergs. rs one vessel passed fifty
within radius Of 200 miles. The bergs
Of that year. however. were not dan.
gerous, being soft and badly cut up
by the action Of the sea. The year Of
1855 was the most famous Of them all
for the floating mountains. and scores
Of vessels were sent to the bottom by
running into them during the heavy
fogs which make navigation of tho
Banks so dangerous ut all times.
Few shippers. who have seen scores
and scores Of bergs. know that these
monsters are hundreds, and, perhaps,
thousands of years old. The inception.
birth and growth Of an iceberg Is one
Of the most curious freaks Of nature.
and much about them Is still an uncx-
planned science.
|, Greenland Is the home Of nearly all
the lcebergs which terrorize the officers
Of transatlantic vessels. as those form.
cd further north rarely break loose from
their Icy moorings. Nearly the whole
island Of Greenland Is covered with an
immense sea Of ice many thousands Of
feet thick. commonly called an ice cap.
The SHOWS of each year. falling on this
great field Of ice. are slowly absorbed.
adding to the thickness and solidity Of
the Ice cap and cxcrtlng a tremendous
pressure on the solid mass. Whcrcvc,
the country slopes toward the coast
there Is an imperccptiblc movement Of
the mass, SO slow that It can hardly be
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10
E,cpbou,,ue Nurses in siam.

The women of Siam trust their chill.
drcn to the care of elephant nurses. and
1t Is said the trust Is never betrayed.
The elephant. not being susceptible to
the charms of the sauntering police.
man. nor the social claims of its friends
and relatives. is consequently able to
devote Its entire attention to its charge.
The babies play about the huge feet of
the elephants. who are very careful
never to hurt the little creatures. And
IL danger threatens the sagaciOus ami.
mai curls the child gently up in It's
trunk and swings 1t up and out of
harms way upon its own back.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10
Fair EuOuQh.

His fiancee-Are you sure you would
love me Just AZ tenderly II our condi-
lions were reversed-if you were rich
and were poor?
He-Reverse our conditions and try
me.-Harlem Life.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10

II have a nickel which the McKin-
ley train ran over" said one boy to
another. "rhats nothing" replied tho
latter. II have a headache which
got because the whistles woke me up
when the train went through. aud
couldn't 60 to sleep again. Pittsburs
Chronicle.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10

II man has kin. 1t Is equivalent to
having troubles,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10

"Gcntlcmcn." said the orator, "this
crisis will soon he at an end"
THANK heaven" murmurpd an audit
or: 'he's going to stop talking. "---Gold.
en- Penny.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-04-10
JUDICIARY OF COOK COUNTY.
Superior Court Judges.

S0o. Z GARY. Chief Justios.
HENRY n. SHEPARD.
THEODORE BRENTANO.
HENRY Y. FREEMAN.
ARTHUR Il. CHETLA1N.
JOHN B. PAYNE. :.
JOHN A.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
Decision Reversed.
An Associated Press telegram Of a
late date is as follows:

An Associated Press telegram of a
late date is as follows:
Among the decisions handed down by
the Spreme Court at Washington last
Monday was the following that will be of
interest in Florida:
Cease No. 141.-The Savannah, Florida
& Western Railway Company, appellant,
VS.. the Florida Fruit Exchanges; appeal
from the United States Circuit of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit; decree of said Unit
ed States Circuit Court of Appeals re-
versed with costs, and cause remanded to
the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Northern District of Florida, with
directions to enter a decree for the de-
PENDANT, dismssing the bill without pre-
JUDGE. Opinion by Mr.. Justice Brewer
Dissenting, Mr.. Justice Harlan
This is doubtless the old case Of the
Florida Fruit Exchange that was talk
en- before the Interstate Commerce
Commission by our now defunct State
Railroad Commission. In this case
an overcharge on oranges slipped out
of the state was claimed land the con-
tention was maintained by the Inter-
state Commission. Of course the
case was appealed, but the lower
courts sustained the ruling of the
commission. The case was then taken
up to the supreme court and the re-
suit is given in the te.esrA' p.i,te d
above.
Had the ruling of the Interstate
Commerce Commission been sustain
ed, it would have meant the refund
ing of several thousand dollars to the
people of Florida, which would have
been a great assistance at this time.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
Usual June Weather.

The following data, covering pc
riod of twenty-five years, have been
compiled from the weather bureau
records at the Jacksonville station for
the month of June for twenty-five
years:
Temperature-Mean or normal tempera-
ture, 80 degrees. The warmest month was
that of 1884, with an average of SO de-
grees. The coolest month was that of
1884, with an average of " degrees. The
highest temperature was 101 degrees, on
June 9, 1872. The lowest temperature was
81 degrees, on June 1, 1889. Average date
autumn, December 4. Average date on
which first killing frost occurred in
spring, February 16.
ecipitation-Average for the month,
5.61inches. Average number of days with
.01 of an inch or more, H. The greatest
monthly precipitation was 1888 inches in
1887. The least monthly precipitation was
1.25 inches in 1879. The greatest amount of
precipitation recorded in any "a consecu-
tive hours was 5.12 inches on June 10 and
H. 1885.
Clouds and weather-Average number
of cloudy days, Z; partly cloudy days, Is;
cloudy days, 8.
Wind-The prevailing winds have been
from the southwest. The highest velocity
of the wind was so miles, from the south
east, on June 5, 1895.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
Grapes.

In late number of the Practical
Farmer grape culture was the special
topic for discussion. We reproduce
the following frow Professor Massey's
concluding remarks:
Of late years it has been of little
use to grow Concords Or any other
black grape for the northern market.
Delaware and Niagara are the sorts
now mainly grown for shipping, and
the Delaware is the most profitable
here. In our best grape region, the
Long Leaf Pine belt, the rot has not
as yet appeared to any extent, and we
have never sprayed there.
About Raleigh it is impossible to
grow grapes without spraying or bag
cling The most successful grower
here, who usually averages Is cents
per pound for his Delawares, bags all
his grapes. We have seen the Cali
fornia Mission grape grown by him
here in bags as fine as any from the
Pacific coast, and Black Hamburgs
were very fair, but not so fine as those
grown under glass. The only one of
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1897.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

FARM, GROVE AND GARDEN-Pos-
sibilities of Tea Culture in Florida; 337
The Water Hyacinth..... .......... 33o
Grape Manuring; The Orchard; Mo-
lasses as Stock Food; Care of HOr-
Corn Raising-Hills or Drills; The
Home Vegetable Garden and it's
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT About
Tobacco; Tobacco Farm in East
Tampa; Tobacco Culture Now; To-
bacco Publication; Insects and
Other Friends Description of
Sumatra Plant.... :. :. :. :. ........ 342
FLORAL DEPARTMENT. Gu
rious Plants; Nasturtiums; A Few
MiStakeS.... 345
EDITORIAL Chat; Usual June
Weather; A Critical Test; Decision
Reversed; Pear Blight The Florida
Pineapple; Grapes. :. :. 80. 344
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT - Our
Purpose; Novel Dishes of Nuts;
Shirt Waists; What to Eat.......... 346
POULTRY DEPARTMENT. & BEES
Exceptions to General Rule in
Swarming; Raising Turkeys; Use
full and Ornamental. :. :. 347
LITERARY-"Verdi Not Pretty 34S
THE PUZZLER. :. 49,. ...... go. $50
FLORID1ANA..... ...... ooI
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
Pear Blight.

What has been learned of pear
blight through extensive investiga-
ton, was recently stated by Professor
III. E. Van Deman as follows: By
united effort, the pear blight, apple
and ounce twig blight, which are all
caused by the same germ, can be held
in check to large degree. The
source of infection every spring lies
in the more tender and later growing
branches, in which the disease was ar
rested by the approach of winter the
fall before. Here it remains dormant
until warm weather of spring starts it
into action again. The poisoned juice
ed part again, and the insects carry it
on their feet to the tender floral or
gans, which soon become diseased and
furnish additional means of infection,
until they die.
Whole trees are in this way some
times prevented from bearing. Usu-
ally the disease does not become thor
oughly active until the warmer days
of June, when temperature and moist
ure are just right for it's propagation;
then it attacks the tender shoots, and
we say: ''The blight has struck our
trees"
The only means of fighting it, so far
as we know, is to cut out and burn all
affected parts. When winter comes,
there are very few places in the tree
where the germs are alive-nature
having healed or kept back the dis
ease from any advance beyond where
the tissues are dead. There are no
live germs in the dead wood or bark.
But it is safe and wise to cut back to
clear and sound wood, and moisten
the top of the stump with carbolic
acid, to prevent any germs from re-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02

naming or being left on it from the
saw or knife. The inner bark and
wood are of brownish color where
affected. 1t is well to cut below
where there are any signs of disease,
to make sure of having it all. Then
burn all brush, although there can be
no lurking contagion after the dis
eased branches are really dead and
dry.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02

Better beef and better hogs is what
the profit almost certain to be derived
from them, the fact that the people could
live more comfortably is a matter that
should stimulate efforts in this line.
The annual commencement of the
State Agricultural College at Lake City
will begin on Friday, June IL, extending
to Thursday evening the 18th inst
Those who have goods to sell to the
soil tilling population of Florida should
bear in mind that the Agriculturist goes
into more homes of farmers and fruit
growers of Florida than any other publi-
cation. A word to the wise should be suf-
ficient.
The awakening of the people of the
state to the advantages of better roads
and higher education is a most hopeful
sign. They both tend to a higher civiliza-
ton and hence a more prosperous, happy
and contented people.
\
The impeachment trial of State
Treasurer Collins before the State Senate
begins this week. There are numerous
charges against Mr.. Collins, nearly all of
them tending to show Mr.. Collins was too
good a friend to his friends for his own
good.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
The Florida Pineapple.

That valuable East Coast journal,
the Indian River Advocate, contains
the following on the Florida pineap-
pie and the pineapple industry:
The Florida grower and the Florida
pineapple differ from all other growers
and pines. The grower has learned that
to secure the best results he must shed
his fields and wrap his fruit The she'd
ding protects from wind and cold in win
ter and from sun in summer, and the
wrapper protects the fruit from it's neigh
Dor in the same crate. We are told that
an experiment will be made by some
growers this year in packing, where each
pine will be put in separate case, after
the manner of beer bottles in a barrel.
The impression prevails that this will be
a most satisfactory way Of handling the
fruit.
The Florida pineapple has established
the standard of excellence. Nowhere else
in the world is better fruit produced, and
nowhere else do influences combine to
produce more excellent fruit. The eli
mate, soil and methods are all perfectly
adapted Add to this puck transit which
will permit the fruit to nearly ripen per-
fectly in the sunshine before shipment,
and one can begin to account for the lack
of core, the tender pulp, the delightful
bouquet and the delicious flavor of the
Florida pine, grown in territory less
than 200 miles long by not more than rs
miles wide.
The Lake Worth and lower Indian river
pineapple fields are said, by men who
ought to know to be the largest and fin
est in the world, and in some of them are
grown the rarest varieties. The growers
have secured plants from India, Ceylon,
the hothouses of England, and the fields
of the far south and Orient, and they
grow here in the open air, feeding on
Florida dew and sunshine Every facility
for successful and profitable culture are
found here.
AS time advances the industry grows,
and daily the fruit or the plant are put
to some new use, thus paving the way for
still more extensive culture of the pine
apple. The medicinal or curative proper
covered, and it is now used as a digestor
and remedy for diptheria; and as a
wine, champagne or syrup, it will soon be
manufactured extensively in this state.
The finest fiber in the world is also
stated as being made from the pineapple
plant.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
A Crucial Test.

"Adversity," says an old adage,
proves the man." During sunny days
and days of plenty and prosperity,
man has no occasion to use his latent
strength. AS a rule he is a philo-
sophical fellow and is content to let
well-enough alone He makes no spec
ial effort to benefit his condition for
the sufficient reason that he is we'll
satisfied with that condition. But let
stormy weather cOme-let the clouds
of adversely gather and, if he has the
true metal, he will buckle on his ar
NOR and throw himself into the midst
of lifes battle, and, if possible wrest
victory from defeat.
What is true of man is true of a
country, and Florida exhibits herself
today as country that has been
tested by adversely and proven her.
self worthy of the name, ''bravest of
the brave"
Before the calamitous freeze of
1895, Florida was we'll satisfied with
her condition. Her people were pros
porous and happy, and the outlook
for the future was all that could be
desired. The people logged along
happily in the even tenor of their
respective ways. They cultivated the
orange, were satisfied with the pres
ent and hopeful for the future. The
freeze, however, gave a different as
pect to things. Their present was any
thing but satisfactory and the future
of their pet industry was clouded. 1t
became necessary for them, not only
to improve their existing condition
but to fortify themselves against a
possible recurrence of a similar dis
astrous event.
1t was then that they proved them
selves. No county, possibly, suffered
a greater loss than did the people of
Florida, but there were no appeals for
aid-no relief committees in the cities
of the north collecting money and
supplies for the sufferers. Our people
asked only fair field and no favors.
They have practically won the battle.
Their attention was turned to the de-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02

We devote considerable space this
week to the reproduction of the report of
United States Agent Weber on the wa
ter hyacinth. This peculiar plant, once
looked upon as a curiosity and a desira-
BILE aquatic plant, has become a menace
to navigation on the st. Johns river.
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velopment of other resources, and,
while their finacial condition is prob
ably not as good as few years ago,
they can see the rift in the clouds of
adversely and the future looks more
hopeful.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
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sented nightly.

Mr.. Shaw is the lead of the troupe,
and is commended as one Of the best
al-roUnd stock men in the business.
The heavy man is AL Hallett, a great
favorite in Sacramento, where he has
played many long engagements. NJ. ].
Hooley. the well-known comedian, is
of the company, as also Marie Howe. a
leading woman Of fine capacity. Bir
die DeFaul, Alice Saunders, ". H. Gill
bert. Pearl Allen. Vim. DeVaull. Clar-
ence Roberts. and others, TO the num-
Der of twenty-one. The company car
ries its own orchestra and brass band
and large amount of special scenery.
The lroupe's management claims for it
the iiTst notch Of superiority over any
road company in the country. and pre-
sents this claim with the challenge to
the public to be the judge and govern
its patronage accordingly.
Fred and Emma Hewitt have been
The record-union., 1897-09-05

The performance oe so-caHed cony-
right productions cfvari u pays t flu
I'll the requirements Of the Eng ish Jaw
has given rise "a 17.eh comment re-
Gently. It is seriously questioned whe-
ther the sort of renditions that are Gus
tomarily given come within the purpose
of the Copyright Act, and il is possible
that a test may some time be made to
secure judicial opinion on the question
These performances have come to con-
sist of a rather farcical reading of the
lines by the author or dramatizer and
those friends whom he may be able TO
The record-union., 1897-09-05

The modern school of Italian operatic
composers. of which Mascagni. Leon
cavallo, Puocini and the author of An
drea Chenier" are exponents is again
attracting the attention of musical cir
cles in Europe through the great sue
cess of La Boheme." in Italy and
Germany. Sorrentino. the leader of
the Banda Rosa, which will give five
concerts at the Metropolitan OPERA
house, beginning October 18th. writes
that his frst concert here will include
selections from La Boheme.' . and that
he will make the selections from Ital-
ian works strong features of his pro
grammeS.
The record-union., 1897-09-05

Continued on Eighth Page.)
The record-union., 1897-09-05

Fred and Emma Hewitt have been
The record-union., 1897-09-05

There has been friction between Lon
don managers over the services of Loie
Fuller and her company. The Shaftes-
bury Theater recently announced that the
dancer had been engaged for season.
but the announcement is now declared
to have been a mistake, and another
theater is said to have secured the COM
pany.
The record-union., 1897-09-05

Ofenbach's La Perichole" was re-
vived at the Garrick on September 4th
on a magnificent scale, under the di-
rection of Richard Barker. The book
has been rewritten by Alfred Murray
and contains several new numbers by
Ofenbach which have never been sung
before.
The record-union., 1897-09-05

Nicolini. who has been suffering from
cancer of the liver for a long time, is
somewhat better. He has been removed
to Brighton from the estate of his Wife,
Adelina Patti, at Craig-y-Nos, Wales,
and she hopes much from the change or
air and scenery.