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A Northerner's View of Florida.
Here we are in the land of fraud—and
to our cost have we found that the “soft,
tropical and dreamy atmosphere” one
reads of, generally keeps you shivering
in an unwarmable room in a clap-board
ed hotel. The balmy Southern evening
is mostly wrapt in a reeking fog through
which sounds the strident wheeze of the
consumptive, the screech of the moping
owl, the shrill shriek of the Northern
belle as she picks the wriggling centi
pede from her slipper, or the wild yell of
manly escort as the playful pinching
bug proceeds to business up one of his
trowser leg. The are the “soft sounds
of the summer nights,” in “fair, flowery
Florida,” mingled as they are with harsh
cries from uncanny things - within the
dark depths of the festering swampsand
across the fetid lagoons, the shrill diap
ason of the predatory mosquito and the
hoarse bellow of the alligator from the
murky bayou. The “luxuriant tropical
vegetation” consists mainly of pine
stumps and palmetto scrub. The flow
ers are confined to the hot-houses and
private gardens; the oranges are in the
orchards, the bananas in the kitchen
gardensand the oleanders and magno
lias are mostly in your eye.
And then you can get such rare and
valuable souvenirs of the country (man
ufactured in New York) in the curiosity
shops along Bay street in Jacksonville,
or in the coquina shops in Charlotte
street, St. Augustine.
You can get a string of “Job’s Tears”
sea beans for five dollars that would cost
you fifteen cents in New York or Cin
cinnati. Or you may get a “Palmetto
wood” souvenir of the old city gate or
Fort Marion at St. Augustine, in the
shape of a tobacco-box or spectacle case,
made by the “Seminoles in the Ever
glades” (basswood, and made by Irish
men in Jersey City), for several or more
dollars—whatever the seller thinks you
are green enough to stand. You may
buy a mocking bird for seventy-five dol
lars that you could get in a Walnut
street bird store in the city for ten, and
a baby alligator lor three dollars that
would cost you a quarter in the North.
, Sick Visitor.
Taylor's Premium Cologne.
Sweet Chemistry, thy subtle powers
Impart new life to fleeting flowers;
' A simple jar of fragrant light—
And yet, methinks, there ne’r was sight
More wonderfid than this, where we
Have Eden in epitome.
Behold, condensed in one bright drop,
Ten thousand roses’ precious crop:
Gaze through the glass till it expands
And broadens out in sunny lands,
N o longer now a crystal tomb,
With flowerets gay ’tis all abloom :
Floridian forests gave their share
Os perfume to the dazzled air.
The wealth of Georgia’s blossomec land
she showered with a generous hand :
Odors from hills and sea are one
In Taylor’s Premium Cologne.
Little thinks Beauty when her brow
She moistens o’er with, fragrance, now,
Could all these martyred flowers resume
By magic weird, their welted bloom,
She scarce would need another dress
Than their recovered loviiness.
No ray by moonlight could declare
A tale of fancy half so rare
As mild in language eloquent
By this delicious jar of scent.
Cologne, fair city of the Rhine,
Thy name alone with laurel twine;
Yield now thy sceptre and thy throne,
To Taylor’s premium cologne.
Atlanta
Female
Institute
AND
COLLEGE OF MUSIC
♦
THIS school will be re-opened Sept.
1884. The Music and Art Depart
ments are respectively under the charge
of Mr. Alfredo Barili and Mr. J. H.
Moser.
For Catalogue apply to
MRS. J. W. BALLARD, Principal.
J. H. MOSER,
Studio and residence 71% Peachtree St.
Portraits in Oil, Water
Color and Crayon.
Designs for Engraving, Art Work of
every description, and lessons
NEW STUDIO, Kiser Block, Peachtree
Street, Opposite Luckie St.
Director of the Art Department Atlanta
Female Institute.
A regular exhibitor in the Annual
Academy I- xhibitions of New York,
Boston and Philadelphia.
STUDIO OPEN 'l’o VISITORS from
10 till 2 daily.
snmtsiiM
DRTOISTS,
25 Peachtree St.. Corner Decatur,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Prescriptions compounded day and
night.
Soda Waters & Natural Mineral Waters
UM II ITU VJOHW £ co..
New Silks I New Dress Goods I
TUB MOST EXQUISITE DESIGNS in the above with full line in ALL
OVER Embroideries with Edges and Inserting, all widths, imported with
White Goods to Match.
NEW 6AHPETS!
■ NEW CARPETS !
Mr. E. S. LATHROP will be with us in this department—Quality and Prices
guaranteed in Carpets.
CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON & CO.
MY GOOD, SHOES.
"IVIE"
ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHER,
401-2 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, G-A.
/W“Special Prices to the School.
McKeldin & Carlton,
I
AT THE
101 sll
Have the largest stock of
SHOES and SLIPPERS
IN ATLANTA.
IF YOU WISH THE
Best Grades at Lowestr trices
Call on them at
35 Peachtree Street.
Colleges,
Schools,
and Societies,
Can save money by having their
Gold and Silver Medals
Made by us. We guarantee promptness,
good material, and fine workmanship,
and can furnish the best assortment of
ORIGINAL DESIGNS
that can be found. Send for our esti
mates.
J. P. STEVENS &CO,-
Manufacturing Jewelers,
23 Whitehall St., ATLANTA, GA.
Estey Organ Go.
Cor. Broad and Alabama Sts.,
ATLANTA GEORGIA.
Manufacturers of
MB I IBIS
SOUTHERN AGENTS FOR
Steinway & Sons, N. Y.
Decker Bros., N. Y.
WE will be pleased to receive visitors
at our Elegant Ware-rooms, whether
purchasers or not,
Our Prices are the Lowest
At which First-Class Instruments can be
sold, and to those who wish to buy on
Time accommodating terms will be given.