Year: 1873

oysters except the small coon oysters
within thirty miles. 1t would be in
teresting to know why these shells were
brought from an oyster region far away,
and so carefully deposited at this spot.
Some think that the mound builders of
Florida were contemporary with the
mound builders of the West They be-
lieve that the whole State was once un-
der their control, and that thousands of
years ago they were accustomed to visit
Turtle Mound once a year, fill them
selves with fat oysters which might at
that time have been found in the vicini-
ty, and pile the shells in layers as they
now appear in the mound. This may
have been religious observation. No
body knows anything about it, and there
is no probability that any one will ever
discover the secret.


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DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE.


A Daabury man and has aOite hare an


Encounter a05M the Family Store and


Piping-7He .Store comes eff Victori-


OuS.


Putting up a stove is not so difficult
in itself. 1t is the pipe that raises
four-ffths of the mischief and all the
dust. You may take down stove with
all the care in the world, and have your
wife put away the pipe in a secure place,
and yet that pipe won't come together
again as it was before. You find this
out when you are standing on chair
with your arms full of pipe and your
mouth full of SCOT. Your wife is stand
ing on the floor in position that ena-
bles her to see you, the pipe, and the
chair, and here she gives utterance to
those remarks that are calculated to
hasten man into the extremes of insan-
ity. Her dress is pinned over her
waist, and her hands rest on her hips.
She has got one Of your hats on her
head, and your linen coat on her back,
and pair of your rubbers on her feet.
There is about five cents worth Of pot
black on her nose, and lot of -four on
her chin, and altogether she is specta
Gle that would inspire dead man with
distrust. And while you are up there
trying to circumvent the awful contrari
ness of the pipe, and telling that yor
know some fool has been mixing it, she
stands safely on the floor, and bombard'
you with such domestic notices as =
whats the use of swearing SOP" ''Yol
know no one has touched that pipe


"You amt got any more patience thai
child" ..Do be careful of that chair.
And then she goes off, and re-appear
with an armful of more pipe, and befor


YOU are aware of it. she has got tha


pipe so horribly mixed up that it doe


seem no two pieces are alike.


You join the ends, and work them t


and fro again, and then you take then


apart and look at them. Then yo1
spread one out and jam the other tc
gether, and mount them once more. Blu
it IS no go. You begin to think th


pieces are inspired with life and ach


to kick them through the window. Blu


she doesn't lose her patience. She goe
around with that awfully exasperatin
rigging on, with a length of pipe unde
each arm, and long handled broom i


her hand, and says she don't see how


IS some people never have any troubl
putting up stove. Then you miss tn
4 hammer. You don't see it anywher,
You stare into the pipe along the MAJ
t tie, and down on the stove. and off
t the floor. Your wife watches you, an





r is finally thoughtful enough to inquil
e what you are looking after, and on lear
ing. pulls the article from her pocke
0 Then you feel as if you could go OF
: doors and swear a hole twelve fe
n square through block of brick bull
t ings, but she merely observes: "Why {
earth don't you speak when you wa
: anything, and not stare around like
a dummy" When that part of the phi
: which goes through the wall is up, 81
l keeps it up with her broom, while "
L are making the connection, and stares
|. it with an intensity that is entirely u
called for. All the while your positi
e IS becoming more and more interestin
n The pipe don't 60 together of cours


The SCOT shakes down into your eyes al