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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-11-16, Page 3r• C .' ES AMONG THE GLACIERG Or ma UPPER ENGAI INE. tree rmmetxamurs tnwarax lMax r .arcrwpwsd a l SEAS 01? ICE. Martin, Snow thee Alpine Ucighte—Dust - Avataanehee--tearreetto* ;t' a Glacier --,A Zeorarine—Doe. onateett i, >ru" Is hemmed. ugthelcr Tat,lt:$" hest ►.tne. 4s bites my vision extended there was hethi'ng in sloth but ice and snow, and the snow was exceedingly white, I assure you. The driven snow you have in towns and plains is a decided brown compared with the dazzle gg sn:aty we saw upthere at the tops of Svelte; mountains. orever and forever this virgin own lies on all the peaks, as it also coverts the lower val- lays in wiatcr. It has the soft look of a dove t; bi eaaat, it recta an recite a thing of lee,tuty, and often it is very dangerous. It falls in soft, pure flakes, clings too ell the projection i, vovers rooks with charm - Al a sheet ofdwltite lwtin mid over the upperlike vales. ,'Fiat the touch of u, passiug eagle's wing, the light weight of a chamois, or the careful step of en export climber will de- tach it from its crest and send It down. 'then it goes sliding, rumbliug along, breaking and reforming. as it falls, ever increasing in volume and yolocity, and, pursuing its way, becomes a devastating, terrible avalanche that bends and breaks trees, gathers up earth and stones, and robes into tlio i..iagtiadiiue with au awful sound, spro J nig i:dtr notion and dismay ia its path. ',They call these sort of things staublawlnen, or dust avalanches, because they Cousist at the start of cold, dry, powdery snow only, and they are often far more powerful than a raging hurri- tcante But the avalanches usually seen t v lying iu high Alpine valleys, covered with >RS dust, earth and stouee and great trunks of trees, are known as grundlawinon or compact avalanches. It was a grand sight on which we gazed. Glaciers filled every valley and ravine, and the ice etood up in tall ramparts wherever the space was too narrow to hold its rigid waves. Glacier ice is snow that has for a considerable time been sub- jected to enormous pressure. If you squeeze a suowball in your hand until it is very hard it becomes icy. So in the .Alps, the continual fall of snow' is the pressure and the sun's heat the warmth which produces those seas of lee that are caned glaciers. There aro over 600 of them in Switzerland, and some are coeval 14,. 'with the glacial period of this continent,. 'while others aro now in process of forma- tion. Winter is their season of rest, but with the spr•ing,thcy resume thole onward motion, due to tho combined action of heat and gravitation. For in spite of their apparent immobility all Alpine glaciers do move constantly, although with different +d pgeees of speed, and, like liquid streams, they carry with them debris of all sorts, but principally the stones that fall on their surface from the mountains' sides. The glacier starting in its purity from come white unsullied peak, loses before many years its spotless character. The wintry frosts gathering into iron bonds the streams that tackle down the Moun- tainsides expand the water in freezing reeddehatter rocks with n force that the most solid 'cliffs cannot possibly resist. Thus broken fragments drop on' to the Duce unspotted bosom of the ice sea and )r . swell its burden with advancing years. ., The debris thus brought down form what nae celled moraines. *Each glacier has a enoraino on either side of it; its end is a , 'terminal moraine, and wlieu two glaciers unite their lateral moraines join and form a medial moraine. One of the largest medial moraines hereabout I saw as we name down from this excursion. It is in the center of the Morteratsch Glacier and is about fifty feet or more broad and per- haps twenty feet high In its center. We were struck by the inflnito white- ness of everything, and I have since learned that it, is owing to the presence of glacier corn. There is on glacier clad mountains a neve, or finely crystallized snow, which is never fully molted, and this le the pressure -that forms the glacier ice. Now, glacier ice is quite different to that which results from freezing water, and is found to . consist of crystals varying in size from that of a hen's egg to a pm's head; these particles are known as grannies or glacier corn, and in minute holes air is imprisoned. Whore the air bubbles aro absent the glacier has a blue- ` ish tint, and is no longer that pules white which puzzles so many persons. With the oldest guide carefully leading,the way we walked over the ioe sea of Dia- volezza. Before we had gone far an its level surface I saw bowlders supported at soma height on ice pedestals and 1 stopped to examine them. "Glacier tables," said the,guide at the tail end of our proeee- 'don, but his remark conveyed no useful information. I soon saw that they re- edited from the presence of a block of stone, It had fallen on the sea, and had, so to speak, protected the ice directly bo - nestle it from the heat of the sun, In consequence; while the glacier all round has been dissolving and sinking, the ice under these bowiders has but slightly waited, and gradually a pillow is forming under each rock. ",Glut the boulder is not balanced avenily me the top," observed the Boston lady. It was eaplained to her that because the sun is able to roach these ico pedestals more freely on the south side than on the (north the thing naturally inclines toward the south, As we walked along we ueticed a lino of sane; covered mounds about four or five feet high and culminat- ing .in a share ridge. We scraped oil a little of the sand and earth and found that a mound was composed of ico which looked quite black when it was uncovered. Tho roasou fur the existent* of these cons was obvious. The ice protected by the sand had remained tautened, acid the wind had tluimad the drifted heap into a pointed tempo, Suddenly we heard a neinelthag settud which was accompanied, .by a noise like that of a distant explosion, 0nd the guide sold this announced the formation of another crevdvt:uo, I'.cacutly the sound of falI'ng water, which grew loader aii+i butler tie we approached, was k dueled, led, anal Donn we readied a point where K treo.= dropped downs h eet ,e.t yt+, ii e anti, was lost to sight. The guide cancel thin deep hole a nxodlin, and he gently re• masked that a false to in its etreetiou would talto a fellow down be,-'ond lilt human aid. Agaesiz and Tyndall botit tried to ascti'tain the titiointesoof glaeiors by tel ing soundings down theses wuulins. flaae former found no bottontat WO feet ori one sea end on another he estimated the tbicl neer at 1,6Q0 foot. --•Cor. New -reek 'i iuie:s. Deviation in Artillery Withal. When the great gun which hes thrown a ball eleven miles happens to be aimed north, a lateral deviation of 1.'00 feet roust be taken Lute account for the difference in rttating spend between. the spot where it is fired and the spot whore the missile will strike,—Now York Sun. Superstitions Abont Rio Will. There is a man in town who has rheu- matic gout. No has also great riches and a collection of art and curios that have been the joy and solace of a life muck broken up by the twinges of his great toe. This collection he values beyond ilio menta, but fell trees with stone axes to money, and is in great fear of it falling clear tho ground for their plantations of Intel the Bands of a relative who is his Indian corn, cotton and tobacco. Wearing nearest heir. This he is determined at shall ornaments, they use, hammers and all hazards shall not occur; at the same nails' of stone to perforate them. They time, he will not make a will, although make knives out of shells and the sharp his attacks of gout aro frequent and den- teeth of a certain fish, and with these gerous. poor tools they carve their rudely arta- As many men he fs superstitious about meuted stools and weapons. making a will. He feels that if it was Dogs and fowls are found in all parts of once done there would be nothing left but the Amazon valley that have been visited to wait for the undertaker. 'hie result by traders, but these Xingu tribes have is that when he is free from pain he feels never heard of them. Neither have they the collection to be safe, but when an at- any knowledge of the banana, sugar cane tack comes on it is intensified by the , and rice, with which natives of the man's ludicrous fear lest he will die be- tropical zone are generally familiar. They fore he has put it out of his brother's have not the slightest conception of a reach. God, but they bailee* they will live again His doctor and friends have argued after death. Their most important myth with him, but to no purpose. Every time relates to the creation of the world. he is violently seized the servants run for ; which, in their view, consists wholly of the doctor and lawyer at the same time. ; the head waters of the upper Xingu and Tables aro drawn up, and pen, ink and i Tanajos rivers, paper are in readiness as promptly as the i From the languages and pottery of all medicines. Again and again wills have but one of these tribes the explorer de - been drawn up, but no matter how low ; rived the idea that these isolated peoples be bas been ho has never yet signed ono. ' are allied to the original stock of the onoo The other day he had a violent seizure. powerful Cariba, who journeyed from the There was the usual hurry and scurry, i south to the sea. One tribe differed so He was really felt to be dying, and as the greatly from all others that he was unable and was supposed to be near he was held to trace its relation to any other people. up in bed, quill in hand, and the family These people are almoet wholly isolated hold their breaths in suspense at the even from each other, and their languages, spectacle. His breath was growing fainter though of the same derivation, are so and fainter, His hand was carried to the dissimilar that the tribes cannot under - paper, but he did not sign. Ile seemed to stand each other. Foev people exist today be calculating for just time enough to who aro so primitive in their ideas and so scratch his name, and then, in the tan- low in the social scale as these now found guage of the novelist, to let the pen drop Indians of South America.— New York from his nerveless grasp and expire. The Sim alarm of the family finally gave way to an unruly curiosity as to which would An rxooutlon in slam. win, tho sick man or death. But the old , In the center of the field two short man won. He breethod better and at stakes had been driven into the ground, length he spoke out with an air • ee den; and to these when the executioners had cion: "I guess I won't sign it today." finished their meal the prisoners walked They knew then ho was safe for another slowly out,without any ono to guard them. attack.—New York Evening Sun. On arriving at the stakes they again prayed; they at down with their backs toward the stakes, to which their arms 'were tied, after which an official walked out, blindfolded them with strips of linen, filled their ears with elay, and then re- tired with his assistants, leaving the con- demned men alone in tho middle of the field. About two minutes after the exe- cutioners walked out arnied with Japanese swords and sat down some thirty paces beyond the prisoners. They sat thus for perhaps a minute • then rose and ad- vanced toward the doomed men, execut- ing fantastic dance like figures, almost as if cautiously approaching an enemy, till they came within striking distance, when they raised their swords as if to strike, but instead of doing so turned round and retired to whore they started from. After a short pause they advanced again in the same manner, but, on coming Giese, stooped down and looked fixedly for about ten seconds into the faces of the prison- ers, who sat perfectly motionless, and then again retired. The third time they advanced, and, as in the first instate°, raised their swords as if to strike, but in- stead of doing so they turned round and again retired. Then they knelt down, and, bowing toward the commissioner, called out, in Siamese, that they awaited his order. On receiving the word they advanced toward the prisoners more quiekly than before, and when within roach, after standing for a few seconds with their swords poised La the air, proceeded to cut their heads ofd The head of the maul who had begged for his life was taken off at three blows, but seven or eight were struck before the head of the other—an immensely powerful looking man, with a thick, muscular neck --fell. Tho momeut the first maid's head fell his executioner ran off to a temple close by to perform certain rites, the other executioner fol- lowing as soon as his victim's head was off+ —Chicano Rerma.lck leome their Found 12441sal tri»atw A TERRIBLE, EXPEflIEUlGE. The great table laud of Matta entreeM, in the western part of 1draell, Is stili one of the least known, portions of South Amore*. When Dr. Clause and Dr. von den liteinen penetrated it several years ago, and followed thst large a ingu river from its head waters to the .4.mazon, they floated down about 1,GOOmiles before they reached the known portion of the river. They did not have time to adequately study the strange and unheard of Indian tribes they met amid those dense forests and barren uplands, and for the purpose of maldn further researches among them Dr. von don Steiner returned to thoupper Xingu last year, Ile visited the villages of nine of these tribes, and in a. recent lecture in Ilio de Janeiro he gave the in- teresting results of his studies. There is hardly a cortex of the earth whose people have not had some inkling of the great world beyond them. But these primitive natives of the upper Xingu had, apparently, never seeu a scrap of trade goods or heard that human beings existed outside their little circle of observation. They use no metal imple- Scenes in a Spanish City. The antiquities of Toledo are not the only interesting things. The sights from day to day on the streets and in the family circle are peculiar. The very children have queer sports. One of thou favorite pastimes is to parade in a dark hall with slow step and drone a chant in imitation ' of it church festival service. Boys are also fond of playing bull fights, "the ball" part being taken by sono lad not distressed by rough handling. Owing to the narrow streets, everything seems , mixed up together—wine '•hops, yoga - tables, children, citizens, cadets, loafers and beggars mingling in one mass. The people generally are simple and good natured. The chief street is shaded by awnings, and every public doorway is screened by astriped curtain. Foreigners visiting thee town are dubbed the "Strangers," and so referred to on every Occasion when desiguatiou is necessary, The leading place of amusement is called the "Grand Summer theatre." It is with- in the ragged wails of a once grand build- ing, now half torn down. It is quite e common thing it the eveninto hear guitar duets in the narrow, dark streets, being given as serenades to ladies m the house before which the playing is done. The skill '*displayed by some of the players is marvelous, and the music is de- lightful. The treble is carried on a small instrument called a "mandtua" that snakes a most pleasing combination with the guitar. Often professional players aro hired to go and play before a house, and will thrum out native airs for several hours, smoking cigarettes assiduously all the while.—Globe-Democrat. The "Town Site Company." The "Town Site Company," 1 ought to explain, for the benefit of some eastern readers, is an association of men who make up their minds that a town should, would or could grow up at a certain point it a wild region whither civilizationis:tendin, or whither a rush is expected, contingent upon a certain event, like the discovery of r e eons r.::+tc1s or the come 1inotion of t1 rah e.g. tinder laws of the Uufted States theee men "take up" a certain arca upon which to build their town, and proceed to put It into as presentable .!a shape as cir- cumstances will admit, '`by surveying streets, indicating ' parka end reser- vations for public buildings—hospitals, churches, city ' hall, libraries and so on; by bringing water front the Bilis, planting shade trees and perhaps budding a big hotel. In many mums -the railway is a 'teatime and helps by concentrating operations at that point; indeed, the cm - gentles of railway construction and opor- atlo i are morally the meet potent factors im deciding the locality. The place plotted and the "company" on the ground, lively advertising begins. The geeing frontier crowd rushes to the crew spot end a wild speculation in town lots et once begins, niece being* pall that hove r.o relation to elle intriusfc velem of tate grope tpv acquired, which, as yet, is worth nest to nothing, but, like tho wild- cat l:torka of Wall lariat, amply repro - want the a.unurt a meet is willed•; w .,take en that particular card, or the rea'•tl the e in ui..ord for immediate use anal teepe:- t, nidus. t meet Ingtei oil Ln eme Coe+ r. ara:c'L'tatx. Wal Story Told et Two Can:141 sn Trapt cna, A T.arrow toeap0' Once or twit* he showed a curious re- 1nttance about ailowin a emu to approach him suddenly from behind. Altogether his actions were so odd that 1 felt some enriosity to learn his History. It turned out tlutt ho had been throng h a ratberun- canny experi:nee the winter before. Ile and. another man had gone into it remote basil, or inelosed valley, in the Heart of the mountains, where game was very plentiful; indeed, it was so abundant that they decided to pees the winter there. Accordingly they put ups log cabin, work- ing hard, and merely killing enough meat for their tulmeddfate use. Just as it was fmishod winter set in with tremendous snow storms. Golug out to hunt, in the first lull, they found, to their consterna- tion, that every Leila of game had loft the valley. Not an animalwasto be found therein; they had abandoned it for their winter haunte. The outlook for the two adventurora was appalling. They were afraid of trying to break out through the deep snow drifts, and starvation etared them in the face if they staid. The men that I mot had his dot; with him. They put themselves on very short commons,. se as to nee up their hour as slowly as possible, and hunted unwevriedly, but saw nothing;, Soon a violent quarrel broke out be- tween them. Tho other mean, a tierce, sullen fellow, insisted that the dog should be killed, but the owner was exceedingly attached to it, and refused. For a couple of weeks they spoke no words to each other, though cooped in the little narrow pen of logs. Then one night the owner of the dog was wakened by tho animal crying out; the other man had tried to kill it with his knife, but failed. Tho provisions were now almost exhausted, and the two men were glaring at each other with the rage of maddened, raven- ing hunger. Neither dared to eleop, for fear that tho other would kill him. Thon the one who owned the dog at last spoke, and proposed that, to give oaeh a chance for his life, they should separate. Ho would take half of the handful of flour that was left and start off to try to get bonne; the other should stay where he was, and if he tried to follow the first he was warned that he would bo shot with- out mercy. A like fate was to be the portion of the wanderer if driven to re- turn to the hut. Tho arrangement was agreed to and the two men separated, neither daring to turn his back while they were within rico shot of each other. For two days the ono who wont off toiled on with weary weakness through the snow drifts. Late on the second afternoon, as ho looked back from a high ridge, he saw in the far distance a black speck against the snow, coming along on his trail. His companion was dogging his footsteps. Immediately he followed his own trail back a little and laid in am- bush. At dusk his companion came stealthily up, rifle in hand, peering cau- tiously ahead, his drawn face showing the starved, eager ferocity of the wild beast, and the man he was bunting shot him down exactly as if he had been one. Leaving the body where it fell, tho wan- derer continued his •ourney,,tho dog stag- gering painfully behind him, The next ovenins ho baked his last cake and divided it with the dog., In the morning, with his belt drawn still tighter round his slrei- eton body, ho once mora set out, with ap- parently only a few hours of dull misery between him and death. At noon he crossed the track of a huge timber wolf; instantly the dog gavo tongue, and, rally- ing its ;strength, ran along the trail. Tito man struggled after At last his strength gave out end he sat down to die, but while sitting still, slowly, stiffening with the cold, he heard the clog baying in the woods. Shaking off his mortal numbness, he crawled towards the sound, and found the wolf • over the body of a deer ho had just killed, and keeping the don from it. At the approach of the new assailant the wolf sullenly drew off, and the man and dog torn the raw deer flesh with hideous eagerness. It made them very sick for the nett twouty-four hours; but, lying by the carcass for two or three days, they recovered strength.— Theodore Roosevelt in The Century. Contagiousness of Leprosy. The contagiousness of leprosy still eon - tines to bo a mooted question. Dr, Rake, superintendent of the Trinidad Leper hospital, has made a report to the Brinell Medical association whieh embodies the results of his experiments in the cultiva- tion of the germ of leprosy, the bacillus lepra, which leave been under way for the past four years. Ise says that (1) at a tropical temperature and on the ordinary nutrient media lie has failed to grow the bs cilias leprae; (2) in all animals yot ex- amined he has failed to find any local browth or general dissemination of tho acillus after inoculation, whether bu- neath the slain, in the abdominal cavity, or iu the anterior chamber; feeding with leprous tissues has also given negative reaults; (s) he has found no gaiowth of the bacillus loproe when placed In putrid fluids or buried in the earth. He further save that an inge.iry of this kind is praeticelIy endless, so varied are the conditr ons of teiupe:.tture, time, nutiiiont media, living mamaI tissues, or putrescent substance, and CO many are tine ob•.servutio.is neeos- ei uy to avoid or bee= the fink of anuria of eepetineet. alt seance. Vetere l:adopla+, lei's tat , art:,.. alk. snu ei,^'r- a teii, It i:, i 'id, wi'a ;wool. Fig; ax' :.. I:.:1 by yellow 1. ver. it d. mei d:;i .i't ..1..- ,,.• i.. r 1 Pl _ 11way Dial„ it( tietileteent.„ 'ew of the outside public can have any idea of the mon:noes e: nt of getting 1' railway - 1411 through parliament. 'I e parliamentary, surveying and engineering costs of the Kendal and 4`r indern`.; ret er iripany aa'ounted to a trifle ever t; per et:it- on the whole expenditure on Ul.e line: Of parliarneutary ewer. the Brig:Vote railway cwt i•s i 1.44,610 per mile; lal:tti- ehostor. slut t iriningham, 45,100; Bito k - wall, 414,41d. The,* figures aye almoet beyond belie' when we consider that. some English l,nee in favorable positirue cost altogget.her only 410,000 per •mile, The Brighten lino for two sessions fought a desperate battle against several otter coripanics, and when its bill came bolero the committee tae eapervess of eouneel and wilier:am amounted. to over 41,000 a. day, and tee diseus.iona of the measure lasted fifty days. The voile -hoe's bill of the Southeastern, railway contained 10,000 folios, occupy- ing twelve months in taxations owl, amounted to 4240,000. One compauy found suck difficulty in getting their bill through its preliminary stages that at last, when they had reached the long de- sired last stage, they had already spent nearly it million of money. and tills simply for obtaiuing the privilege of making the railway. Of the terrible costs which have been incurred only to lead to ultimate failure, ono instance will be sufkeieut. The discussion upon the Stone and Itui by bill lastodl sixty-six sitting days, front February till August 1Kee; and to. the year 1840 the measure was defeated, after having resulted in a loss of 12140,.000 to its unhappy promoters. It is medicos to say that such enormous oapenditure cripples many a railway, and: prevents its shareholders from ever earn- ing good dividends. Tho ceaseless energy, untiring perseverance and neat diplomacy which have to bo shown in pushing a railway bill to a successful is- sue are almost beyond belief; but it is much to ba desired that some means should bo discovered of keeping down the expenses which so often go far to ruin a lino even before it has begun working.— Hallway Press. Row Italian Laborers 'Work. As I stand gazing from my study win- dow I see a deep trench i30 feet in length, 0 foot deep, (3 feet wide. In it stand be- tween forty and fifty Italians, shaggy haired, bright eyed. bronzed skinned, fur- rowed with dirt, their hands, knuckles, their clothes tho commonest and cheapest obtainable, _ They're working. The first thought which occurs is, where afro the Irish who, ten years ago, did this work? I don't know where they are. They cer- tainly aro not doing this class of work to- day. There aro probably fifty miles of various kinds of trenching going on in this city today, and in allthose fifty =dee 1 dotebt if you can and fifty Irishmen, but I will find you at least 2,500 Itallaus. The seemed thought is, why, may them men for this kind of work? 'What kind of wort:? Lazy work. Why, tbore's a group standing immediately to front of me now, three of thele leaning on picks, two of them on shovels, while another lazily tosses a half shovelful of art from the bottom of the trench on to the v vitd- . row by its side. They don't begin to earn the traditional eater a day, yet there they aro, told it is s very eerie= problem, first, what has become of the lash, to whom tldis great work was formerly intrusted alone? and, scheme, by what process of reamming do cotttractcru find it to be to their adventage to hire each lazy workers as thes° fellows tam t emetivcs to ba;—Joe Howard is Chicago 11 the corncob tepee in the world ere zeheitifactured at \;' motet,' r> , vlba.ie ono teat cad t.CJ l . hoar. Arr Eritelich physitean Oakes a new way to benefit coir amptiv'es by giving thea let cly of tine and wheezy. y. „n? ten t ei 1d t - eh rather 'Le a foil thea Lee; i...e urn. 0..,x a he. Degeneration of the Narcan Teeth. The law of retardation exhibits itself in the teeth of tho higher races of menhind in a highly ineouvonient manner. The greatly developed brain requires all the available room in the skull; there is no space loft for the attaaliment of muscles for a powerful jaw. Cooked food also causes a degeneracy in the development of the jaw. There ia constantly no room left for either the wisdom teeth or the second upper incisors; the wisdom teeth are retarded, often enus3 great pain, and decay early. Tho second incisors appear in startling and unexpected- plaeas, and often (in r_merica especially) do not cut the gum at all. Professor Cope says that "American dentists have observed that the third molar teeth (wisdom teeth) are in natives of the United States very liable to imperfect growth or suppression, and to a degree entirely unknown among sav- age or oven many civilized races." Tho same suppreesionhas beeuobserved in the outer pair of superior* incieors. This is owing not only to a reduction in the size of the arches of the jaws, but to successively prolonged delay in the ap- pearance of the teeth. In. the samo way men, and the roan like apes, have fewer teeth than the lower monkeys, and these again fewer than the insectivorous mam- mals to which they aro most nearly allied. When this difference ia dentition hes been eetabiiished, civilized mau may elan to place liinieelf in a new *cedes, wort from low savages as well es from 'teen apes.—Mrs. Alice Dodington in l'opaiar Science Monthly. Cocoanut Culture in Florida. It is probable that tho cultivation of the cocoanut for profit will always, in Florida bo confine& to the region on the Keys and mainland south of the Celoosa- Latchio river, though the palm will con- tinuo to be grown for its great beauty, or a chalice crop of nuts, in protected spots, even as far north as the latitude of Tampa and Cape Canaveral. The cocoanuts ere- duced in Florida ere a trifle smaller than those of the tropics, and are not con- sidered so valuable for seed, hens* next of those used for planting are p. ai ured from Central America, more especially from the Bay Islands (nine, Doneeo and Iluatan) and mainland of honduras. The nuts that have not sprouted On the voyage aro sometira:es planted in. nursery beds and transplanted when a year or eighteen mouths old. Only annual per cent, fails to germinate, though some- times the sprouts are a year or more in appearing. The distance apart at ti `r,„,ielt they are planted varies tram fifteen to twenty-five feet; twenty feet is the usual distance, The only cultivation given on the Keys is the occasional cutting of the weeds am' undergrowth itt seting a:id falL There is a papular saying teat a bearing eacca palm will produce one net for cath day throughout the year, bat this is a little overdrawn, the best trees producing about 200 nuts per yeese--- Araeriean Agiiaulturist. Subscribe for the TLuee. Nehen 1 say Curt I do not ma'nnr 'PVC tly CO ;top titian Son r, tine, end then have ;urn attain, I attar A RAT LOAL 1 have LIMO 110 4180 11,50 o2 lrf° lotT stardy, 1 AntA '' d , _-. lttt'rn il.a tt'ft u e f 4. IiettnSo fa1e+411sx:ei'e >11to • ,wr4a • 5 ,1 ?' a.:'.e ,t• GCT :iV anutu i, 1t :tern', i 4+R1;'esst;i,e V,eert yciu. Att:1116:•eowon, .Ad,', i3.a a t`a ,Y .1012A 87 11 ,,,° :Cy T-