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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.