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SONG.
m a: -
1 know not where, *
My lady I rive#, fair, late,
n «r
Bat The Ide of Peace may be;
here, at morn, at noon, at
With thee, my very sonlVs delight,
Is peace for me.
I know' where, it
not
My By lady mountain, fair, plain, lea,
tf
The Vale of Rest may be:
But here, beneath the sunny skies
That bmiie upon me from thine eye%
Is rest for am.
I know not where,
My lady Beyond fair, what purple
But The home called Heaven divine may be|
here to drink the strain*
That I* sing thy soul's response to miae^
Heaven for me.
ORANGE CULTURE IN FLORIDA
Coming into Bearing—“So tu- Stumps”
Grafting-Other Products.
(Cincinnati Enquirer Interview.]
“Ilow long befoi © the erangt tree
bears fruit.”
“The sma’1 trees wi l begin to blossom
and have a few oraug-s ou them at four
or five years, but growing from the seed
it is ten years before :he tree is mature
and bears the full srop. Some have
been known to bear nicely at
•even years. A good plan would
be to buy the sweet seed
lings* raised from tho seed for $40
pci lOo, or from 25 to 50 cents apiece,
according to the age. You oau buy
them at the nurseries ranging in ago
from a year to ten years. Some prefer
to buy the sour stumps, which aro
grafted with the sweet orange buds,
You can pay $8 or $4 apiece for sour
rumps and raise good fruit in four
y f5 *u® ’
“What are sour stumps?”
“Tho original wild orange tree cut off
and grafted.” command
“Vv hat do the groves an
acre;”
‘‘An average bearing grove sells at
$1,000 per acre—some more, and some
less. An orange commands U cents on
the tree. There would be money in it at
A cent, and the price is bound to come
down. Northern and capital is its boosting the
••ountry up developing resources.
ll is northern men who aro making the
orange business pay. Tho beauties of
grafting aro wonderfully illustrated in
rlorida. 1 have seen lemons, oranges
and grape lruit growing ©n one tree as
nicely as could be. I have seen grape
fruit weighing two pounds, fruit and lemons *ooks
big as your head. Grape
something like an overgrown orange, is
quite sour, but very palatable.
mostly?” “Where do tb planters ship to
*\New York gets the IS,*. Railroad
rates io Cincinnati are against us. capital As
an illustration what northern
and push has land done, it is only purchased necessary
\q point out that was
for $5 and $10 per acre, selling for $100
per acre now. A mature orange tree is
considered to be worth $10 per year. In
Ocala they are very felicitous in naming
their streets; for instance, the two most.
prominent streets are Lemon avenue and
Orange avenue. Nearly every fruit
known—bananas, pomegranates, figs,
peaches, etc.—is grown in Florida, and,
besides that, there are now great oppor
tunities in cotton, corn, rice and coffee
and cane planting The southerners all
prefer to raise e&*on and cane. The
sea island cotton, the finest in the
world, grows in Florida. ”
“How about wild game?” abundance. We
“There is game in
have plenty of bear, wild cat, deer,
wild turkeys, ducks, rabbits, squirrels,
etc. Then there is a great industry
springing up in alligators. killing them A great
many make a living There and
selline their hides and teeth. is
about $10 profit in a good sized alligator,
The hunters catch them sunning them
selves and shoot them behind the shoui
deror in the eye. Good big teeth
bring $2 apiece, and are made up into
pins, and there is always ready sale for
the hide.”
Fastidious English Servants.
jLady Gaskell in Longman's.]
Even the delicate satire of Du
Maurier and the broader humor of
Leech have failed to exaggerate the
follies if modern servants and the
foolish and fanciful causes given by
them !or quitting the service of their
employers. “To leave in order to get a
change” is become between masters and
servants a regular, recognized reason,
“j have no fauit to find against you and
y orcl G--a housemaid said o a
friend of mine a short time ago, “but I
waut a change, and I don't like
u - s hire scenery or air.” Another
friend of mine had a footman who left
her “because,” he said, “he could no
longer stay, as he regretted to find that
his emplover did not keen the company
he had been accustomed to.”
A BC ullerymaid that had been en
gaged for me begged to leave, as she de
dined to take anv orders from me, de
daring that she could only take orders
from the person who had engaged her.
A foreman in the employment of one of
mv friends allowed a great quantity of
c f“his master’s greenhouse glass to be
broken during a storm, “because,”
he said, ; ‘ii was not his place
to close the windows, and that
h 0 wasn’t engaged to tell the
second man his business.” A maid
t o whom 1 onco offered a situation de¬
clined it on the ground that sho had
onco lived in a duke's family, and could
not possibly sink lower than a vis
count’s, or else, to use her own words,
“ 8 h e WO uld lose all self-respect,” she while de¬
a housemaid left me because
clared that she considered the men serv
0 f the establishment too deficient
good looks to keep company vjith.
B^ofath the Varnished Surfaee.
(The Current.]
Professor Goldwin Smith, in The
Week, of Toronto, commenting upon a
fatal accident that recently occurred to
a trapeze performer in a bpanish thea¬
tre, says: “Barbarism still lurks be¬
neath the varnished surface of civiliza¬
tion, and there is still in us an element
of baseness and cowardice which makes
us take pleasure in the sight of another
man's
A F*ry Strabse statement.
[Fannie B. Ward’s Mexico Letter.}
They tell us that here, and all along
the southern habit of coasts inoculating of Mexico, themselves people
have a rattlesnake
with the virus of the or
adder, which renders them forever
afterwards absolutely safe the
bite or sting of any reptile, the however
poisonous. The truth of statement
I cannot vouch for, but “will tell the
tale as ’twas told to me. ” The person
to be thus vaccinated is pricked with
the fang of the serpent, on the tongue,
in both arms, and ou various parts of
the body, and the venom is thoroughly
introduced into the wounds. Imme
diately an erruption comes out, whL-h
continues a few days, accompanied off by
fever, after which the skin flakes in
scales, something as in unbelievable leprosy,
But now comes the part
of the story. Not only can an inoc
ulated person handle the most poisonous them
serpents with impunity—making fondling and caressing
come at will,
them—but the bite of these persons
themselves is considered as fatal as that
of a rattlesnake! The reader is scarcely
expected to swallow this; but, never¬
theless, we have the testimony of several
gentlemen, both Mexican and American,
whose word is unimpeachable—on other
subjects. well-known merchant of Tampico
A
(English) endeavoring tells me that make he has his mind been
vainly to up
to submit to the operation, as he i»
obliged to be traveling up and down
the coast a great deal, and is, therefore,
in constant danger. He is always ac¬ his
companied on these expeditions and by when
servant, an inoculated negro,
he receives a bite or sting, the servant
immediately cures him by sucking the
wound. He says that this negro, not
long since, cur id a white boy who had
been bitten by an inoculated young In¬
dian, with whom he had been fighting,
and who exhibited every symptom of
having-been bitten by an adder, and
would undoubtedly havo died without
this timely assistance.
Nanu That Mislead.
[Providence Journal.]
Black lead is not lead at all, but a
compound of carbon and a small quan¬
tity of iron. Brazilian grass never grew
in Brazil, and is not grass; it is nothing
but strips of palm leaf. Burgundy pitch
is not pitch, and does not come from
Burgundy; the greater part of it is resin
and palm-oil. Catgut is made from the
entrails of sheep. Cuttle-bone is not
bone, but a kind of chalk once enclosed
in the fossil remains of extinct speci¬
mens of cuttle-fish. German silver was not
invented in Germany, and does not con¬
tain a particle of silver. Cleopatra’s
Needle was not erected by the Egyptian
queen, nor in her Honor. Pompey’s
pillar had no historical connection with
Pompey in any way. Sealing-wax does
not contain a particle of wax, but it is
composed of Venice turpentine, shellac
and cinnabar. The tu®berose is no rose,
but a species of Polianthes. Turkish
baths did not originate in Turkey, and
are not baths, but heated chambers.
Whalebone is not bone, and is said not
to possess a single property of bone.