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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-5-16, Page 7AN AD VE TUREr WITROUT PARAT,= k - Sixty.six hours on a `Life Buoy. Mr, A. M, Bettye, engineer of the. steamer Gulf of Trinidad, who arrived at Plymouth the other day from Berbadoes, narrates an almost unexampled adventure which betel him during the voyage of that ship.. The Gulf of Trinidad, while voyaging from Iquique for Europe, encountered heavy weather, during which, soon after 12 o'clock on a dark night, Bettye was washed over- board. The accident {was observed on board and a life buoy irnmediateiythro.wn over and the vessel stopped. Bettye sunk deeply when reaohing the water, but on rising to the surfaoe heetruok'out swimming, and reached the life buoy. T ae way ou the. steamer had parried her far beyond him, and though the boat was lowered, the pros- pect of finding him in each weather, and at night(was almost hopeless, Bettye soon ceased to see the ship, and when daylight broke he found himself alone on the life buoy a hundred miles, so far as he knew, from any help. He kept afloat throughout the next day, although the tropical heat of the sun was intense. The following night he suffered terribly from being without any- thing nything to eat or drink, and in momentary danger of being swallowed by the sharks of that region, Another day he held on with amazing endurance, his physical exhaustion and trental anxiety being intense. For the next night he ceased to feel hungry, but suffered from excessive thirst. The third day dawned to find him still in the same position. Oa the everting of that day a Norwegian bark passed close by him, the steersman of which saw an object in the water, and thought he saw Bettye move. The bark wee • immediately put about, and a boat lowered, and, after a short search, found -the buoy with Bettye still clinging to it, although when taken on board the bark he was insensible. He was treated with great care and kindness by the Norwegians, and, being transferred to a home ship, has arriv- ed in Plymouth to toll his marvellous tale. He is a doe young man about 23 years of age. The Norwegian Captain retained the life buoy as a memento of the wonderful ad- venture. An Exciting Scene. A despatch from Lisbon, T.T., gives the fol lowing account of one of the incidents of the Oklahoma rush :-At noon the bugle call is sounded. Away in the distancerings out the report of a cannon. A low cloud of dust be comes visible toward the north. Increasing in volume, one hears the steady stroke of hoofs on the springy turf of the prairie. Presently, out of the dust oloud the forms of racing horses are seen. Oa comes the mad crowd of rushing horsemen. The cloud of dust sweeps along. Several riders have alien and horses ger orally have stampeded. Nearer and nearer thunders the cavalcade until at last, straight down Chicago avenue, mead crowd of excited men, teeth sat and plying whip and spur, rushes into the new- born city of Lisbon. Half an hour ago a patch of prairie with a few tents and one wooden shanty, it is now a teeming excited camp of thousands of people. There are many disappointed men in the multitude 'Unable to control their harked, in the wild charge they were swept past the claims they had in view for weeke, and all their plans ;urge overturned. Broken bones and heads abound. Looking ii, every direction over the hills and plains, the boomers are thicker than the locusts were in Egypt. Thousands atilt rush along. The race from the line - one mile and a halt -has been made in four minutes, and behind, fast closing up the rear, comes the trailing mase. The settlers further up alone, the line are indignant be- cause they have been held back. They feel that those who have come in from the Wett have stolen a march upon them, Thore was no other way iu which it could be done. The troops have simply done the best possible. The Land Office men are being watched like hawks, and no one fears any attempt to secure by favouritism any advautage over another. Surveyors are at work with their instruments. Lines are being run, and in an hour the town will be settled, surveyed, and every one of the thousands of Iota taken. The arrangements for preserving peace have so far been a auccese. The land offices will try to keep open this afternoon. Tee towm is not half an hour old, and fifty stores and two hundred tents are already up. Possibilities of Marriage. It is said that every man is interesting to every woman, because there is no knowing whether or not in the ohangee and chances of this mortal life he may nr t become a suitor for her hand. No amount of decrepitude or youthfulneee seen.s to stand iu the way of matrimonial alliances, and there is a faint perceatage of hope, or at any rate interest- ing conjecture, in regard to every man a woman meets. A contemporary writer quotes the percentages of possibility in de. tail. It appears that betwee '20 and 25 years, 52 per cent. of women at large marry; between 30 and 35, only 15 out of every 100; and between 40 and 45, only 2a per cent. An aged philanthropist in England is anx- ious to give $15,000 toward a plan for im- proving the expeotation of marriage on the part of the .less hopefully placed of those who pine in single wretchedness. He pro- poses a well organized and respectably con- ducted association to help in getting people married. The Pall Moll Budget is respous• ibis for the publication of his soheme in de. tail. A Correction The editor of the "Cornoraoker" comes to the front in this week's issue as follows : "We tender our regteta to Mr. Welker Blaine, of the State Departement. By an oversight of the rffice boy, who was reading proof during the absence of the editor, put ting in a load of coal received on subscrip- tion, the types were made to say that Mr. Blaine had been appointed .Examiner of 0farna. Of oourse the majority of people know this should have been Examiner of Claims, but at Washingtonis m a sholl•fieh location and mistakes might arise, we thought it no more than justice to r, Bliane to make this public correction in our. columns, Now le the time to suboribe." -[Washington Critic.] Not a Simms. Balla--" Did you put that piece of wed- ding cake under your pillow' last night?" •Gmara-" No, I ate it." Bella -"Did you dream of your future husband 1" Emma--" For Heaven's sake, don't meg- gest it ! The person I saw would have sent cold shivers down the spine of a dime muss emu eoilection."--[Burlington Free Prue, The motto) " Live and let live," is very good in its way, but it Cines not do for the battlefield. ALR. 'AND MRS. EO rr SER, i BY MRs "What did that man wept ?" asked Mr i3oweer, as he oame up to dinner the ether day, just as a strange span left the door. 13e was a tramp, I replied. "And you turned hire away without even e crust 1' "Haven'tou often told m to ut Y et k ofor those gentry ? He looked like a hard mase." He didn't look anything of the sort! The man appeared in ill•health, and it was a mean thing to turn him off in that way. Mee, 13 maser, you've got a heart like a atone.,, "Well, he is stand ng ou the corner, and if you feel for him you .can give him some- thing." "O a, I can ! How liberal you are I Well, I'm going to hand him a gaarter, anyhow. No one knows what the poor fellow may have suffered. I'll let John wheel those ashes out of the yard and give him a dollar for the job," He beckoned the man into the alley and asked trim if he wanted a job. " What is it?" was the cautious reply. "Wheeling out those ashes. You man do in au hour, and I'll give yen a dollar." "I haven't Dome down to that yet, old man !" "But don't you want work?" "Not that sorb, I want a quarter to get a square meal," "But you ought to be willing to work for it," "Would you wheel out anybody:a aehes for any price ? Not much, you old bloke! There's a ring of you fellows who have got us poor chaps by the neck, and you want to tread us into the earth. Don't try to step on me, old. man 1" " I did feel for you at first, but now—" "Oh, yea, you felt for me the same as a tiger dons for an orphan baby. You wanted to get $5 worth of work for fifty cents. Go to grass, you old bondholder 1" " 1)o you know who you are talking to 1" demanded Mr. Bowser. "No, and I don't care ! Don't you give me any lip or I'll punch your head 1" Mr. Bowser started to pull off his coat, but the man hit him in the eye and knocked him against the tinea and then went off say- ing that ib was luoky for Mr. Bsweer it didn't happen to bo his well day. " He couldn't have bee= a hard case, o :uld he?" I queried as I went out to Mr. Bowser. He was holding hie hand to his eye, and didn't reply. " He appeared to me to be in ill -health," I softly continued. " Mr. Bowser, you have a heard of atone!" He didn't say a word until he had washed his eye in salt and water and eaten hie din- ner. Then, as he took his hat to go, lie turned on me with, " It was the way in which you treated his request that drove him to desperation, and it will be singular if he doesn't return end burn our barn 1 Mrs. Bowser, I've got to have a plain talk with you! This thing can't go much farther 1" But it did. He got half the police force after the tramp, secured his arrest, and then hart him sent up for three months. One day a woman called and asked for aid and told a pitiful story of distress. I was asking for her street and number when Mr. B 'weer came in. "Do you mean to insult tbo woman 1" he brusgaely demanded as I wrote down the inforination. "I a n going to help her if she has told me a straight story." "Straight 1 Do you think she has eat here and lied to you 1" • "Heaven forbid 1' exclaimed the woman as she rolled her eyes to the ceiling. " My good woman," said Mr. Bowser, as ho turned to her, " you have no doubt spok- en the truth. Anyone can see that you are frail and delicate and greatly worried. Ex- pect no sympathy from my wife. She'd de. mand a certificate of character from an angel. Hare aro a couple of dollarsand if you will call again Pll do something fur- ther," " Heeven bless you, sir ! You have a heart, indeed." When she had gone Mr. Bowser said to me: " You'll get your 'pay for such conduct, old lady ! No wonder you are in such mor- tal terror of thunder storms 1" " I'll bet the woman is a fraud 1" I hotly replied. " That's a poor way to sneak out of it. I haven't a doubt every word she has spoken bas been the solemn truth." That afternoon I rode over to the street and number she had given me, but mould find nothing of her. I made persistent in- quiry for blocks around, bub she was not to be heard of. I had just returned home when she came along and sat down on the front steps to wait for Mr, Bowser. I thought she acted rather singular, and when Mr. Bowser came up the suspicion was verified. "Whoop 1 Hooray 1" she shouted as he Cama near. "Shay old man, you're a daisy 1" "Wwhat's this 1" demanded Mr. Bowser as he stopped short. "Ole gal's zhrunk again- zat's all 1" she replied as she tried to throw her arms about him. "Are you the -the woman who called here this forenoon ?" he asked, "You bez I am 1" "And I gave you $2." "She, you did, ole boy, and I've come back for two more 1 I'll bez on you every. time, ole lily of the valley." "Woman, did you spend any of that money for drink ?" he demanded. ' Did I 1 Shertingly I did 1 Shay, old man, zhere ain't no flies on you! Let me kiss you for your muzzsr 1" "Go away, women!" "Who's go away, woman I Don't talk that way to me 1 I'm mtzzer of five lizzle children, I am, and they hain't got nothing to eat or wear." "I believe you are an impostor 1" "Whiz zhab 1 Don't these me, you ole reprobate or I'll make it sad for you 1 I want $2 right away 1" He got by her and got into the house pro• bably hoping I hadn't seen or heard any- thing. But I maid : " Mr. Bowser, do you want to insult the woman?" Iie didn't reply. " I called at the addrese she gave, but no one in the neighborhood ever heard of her. However, I don't want to prejudice you against--" " Her troubles have made her Iuny, I think," he interrupted. "Poor thing ? Then you will see about hav- ing her sent to an asylum ?" •2 Mrs. Bowser, will you keep still 1" he ox claimed. "But you said Iwas-" i0 Or must I leave this house to find peace and comfort ?" But next' morning when 1 referred to the matter in an incidental way he put on a very innocent look and replied t What woman do you refer to ? 'You multi bo loafing your mind, Mrs, Bowser. Perhaps it would be well for you to take a week in the country this spring. I have naked for some time past thatyour mi memory seems to be gradually getting'aay from yeti 1" A DESPERATE RISK.; , Now *he British 11ian.o;-War Calliope Got Out or Apia Harbor - Naval -Cadet George Logan, son of Thomas A, Logan, a well• known lawyer of Cincin- nati, and one of the eurvivbra of the Samoan disaster, re ched home the other night. In epeaking of the escape of the British war ship Calliope, Logan said that after the German ships Eber and Adler had been lost the Calliope was seen: to be going upon the reef. She was within a stone's throw of it, and had only one anchor left. Her only possible chance was to alip the remaining cable and try to steam out.This she did. It wee the last desperate resort, and it was only successful through the skill of her commander, and the fact that she was a modern and powerful ship. Her engines were pub at a speed that in smooth water would have driven her into fourteen knots an hour. As it was, she was driven against these terrible seas for ovnr an hour before she got outside of the first reef, which she barely escaped,'and during that hour she was only forced ahead one knot. A little mishap would have caused her deatruction. She was two days at sea and experienced a terrible time. She was washed again and again and lost all her boats, part of her spars and her upper, works, As the speed of no other, vessel in the harbor exceeded ten knots, it would have been auioidal to have attempted to drive them out. "The Calliope," said Logan, "in order to keep to the ohannel in going out, steered di- rect for the stern of my ship, the Trenton, veering only at the last moment to clear:her. It was a moment of terrible suspense as we saw the hugh ram of the Britisher towering above our deoke and making direct for us, It looked as if she was going to out us in two, and had she done eoevery one of us would have been drowned for a certainty. "As she swung off, almost within touch- ing distance, an involuntary cheer was given her by our men, followed a moment later by three cheers all together. Afterward the captain of the Calliope said those cheers saved his vessel, as they put new heart into his men, who wore almost ready to give up. As she sheered off Admiral ILimberley sig- nalled : ' I have no fires,' as the reason why he made no attempt bo get out of the way. "After the storm our admiral lent boats to the Calliope to coal with and then gave one to her. In return the British command- er presented Admiral Kimberley with a complete diving apparatus, and the officers of the Calliope presented to the officers of the Trenton thirteen sheep, and welcome they were, as the men were living on canned meat and cocoanuts." Curiosities of the .English Schools. The following were recently among the written answers in examinations on the Scriptures by her Majesty's Inapactors of Schools. " Who was Moses ?" " He was an Egyp- tian. He lived in a hark made of bullrushes, and he kept a golden carf and worshipt braizen snakes, and he het nothin' but gwahles and manner for forty years. Ho was kerb by the 'air of hie 'ed while ridin' under a bow of a tree, and he was killed by his son Abslon as he was hanging from the bow. His end was porta." " What do you know of the patriarch Abraham ?" "He was the father of Lot and had tew wives One .was called His - male and tether Haygur. He kap wun at home and he hurried the tether into the desert, where she became a pillow of salt !n the daytime and a pillow of fire at nite." " Write an account of the Good Samari- tan.'' " A certain man went down from Jeralem to Jeriker and he fell among thawns, 9,nd the thawns sprang up and choked him. Whereupon he gave tuppins to the boast and said take oare on him and put him on his hone haste And he passed by on the bother side,''- [London Times. How Letters go Astray. .A curious cause of letters going astray is explained by The New York Herald. There are many small towns and villages at which the fast mail train does not stop, and the postal clerks fling the mail pouch from the flying train. Sometimes the pouch is heavy or unwieldy, or a strong wind is blowing; the pouch falls short of the platform and is drawn under the wheels, which grind the let- ters into a pulp. " In such oases the mail carrier and the train hands about the depot would walk along the traok for several rods picking up fragments and putting them in the m Angled mail pouch, carry it up to the postofflee, where the Postmaster would puz- zle his brain to join together such pieces as were decipherable, and deliver to the proper persons. Some of the letters were only alightly wounded, but many were killed be- yond recognition. Those would form a char- red and blackened mass which the Postmaster would enshroud in a stout piece of brown paper and address to that morgue of many a fond hope -the Dead Letter Office." The most frequent cause of this accident is throw- ing the package backward instead of in the direction in which the train is moving. He Knew He Had a Sure Thing. " A boy is a strange machine, isn't he ?" queried the colonel as he looked out of the office window. " I don't see anything so very strange about that particular boy," replied one of the other loungers, as he sauntered up and saw a bay of tau on the opposite side of the street. • " But he's got a jug," persisted the col- onel, " Well, what of it ? Can't a boy marry a jug? Bat he's swinging it around his head 1" " Let him awing. You never saw a boy who wouldn't." " I'll bet he breaks it before he' gets to the corner 1" exclaimed the colonel. " Nonsense 1" " Bet you twenty dollars." " Done." "Half a dozen rushed up to watch further proceedings. The boy continued to awing the jug, 'apparently bent upon performing some particular feat, and jueb before he reached the corner his hand *slipped and the jug was dashed in pieces, "I knew it 1 1 knew it 1" chuckled the colonel as he danced around., "Drat him -here's your money 1" growl- ed the other. An hour later alter spending the in- terval in solemn thought, the loser mildly inquired " Colonel, did yen think you had a sure thing on me 2" Certainly. I bought the jug for the boy, and gave him fifty cents to carry -,oub the programme."- f Yankee Blade. The mortuary etatistioe for March show that the death rate in Ottawa for that month is very much higher than that of any other city or town in this Lakeville.). This, as is well known, inlargely due to the eictraor• dinary mortality in the Foundling Ilospitat In this inetitut sin a000rding to the latest Government returns, there were 130, deaths in one year among the 180 ohildren admitted. ONE BOY' nr $041 11 B SOAitBOROUGH, "Very well, Oscar, I leave it with you, Do. OS you think beet about it." I was astonished to hear myhest • give this answer to hie son of ten yeas, who ad been pleading to go to a place which did not meet the approval of his parents. My astonishment was increased, because I' knew the general results of their home discipline to be excellent, though the children were' possessed of strong individuality and were quite self-willed. " I donob see 'i oW you dare leave to a young child the settlement of such a matter," 1 remarkedib. "Did ever occur to you, my friend," said he, laying down his paper, " that argu. menti with one's guardians is not so forceful in conviction, in the main, as the final argu- ment with one's own conscience?" "Well, no," I answered, " not with child- ren. I have always considered that they needed to have all things decided for them as a matter of education and of home government. " 1 do not doubt that it would be fleece. sary in some oases, but not in nearly so many as 'most parents think. 'It is my n shared opinion, by my wife, that the earlier we cultivate personal responsibility for con- sequence of action in ohildren, the better. Ae soon as our, children were capable of tieing reason, we began to amt on this prin. ciple, commencing gradually in minor mat- ters, Offenses have always received punish. ment of some kind, meted out with as much justice as we ooald command. Ib has been our aimto instill into the children's minds the idea that these bore the relation to each other of cause and effect -that we were but the insbruments, not the law." " But have they never erred ?" "Yea, bub error has decreased steadily. They have been able to see for themselves that the advice of their elders was the wiser, and they have profited by experience. We have thus given oonacience an opportunity for development, and reason has been strengthened on the moral side as well." "But has it not developed a tendency for unseemly argument whenever your wishes opposed their ?" " We have endeavored to avoid that by granting a respectful hearing to proper re• quests, and they have quickly learned to avoid going beyond their proper bounds." I had noticed that even young Oscar, In his eagerness to obtain their oonsent, had not unduly pressed his argument, but rather had simply presented his . claims. Still it seemed too much like referring to children, and I continued, "It strikes me as giving over the reins of government to the child," "And what better end can we attain than to feel safe to leave the child to govern him self?" he questioned. "Should not our government tend to that ? The child who arrives at maturity with no strongrealization of responsibility for his course, and no ability to direct himself aright, is either nat- urally deficient in mental and moral stamina, or there has been a sad lack of home training. No; I do not say one should hand over the reins to the child, but I do nay with emphasis. let him handle them as much as possible. Now Oscar may go to that ball play, but I feel very sure he will not. We have learned through this plan of discipline that we are nearly always sure what will take place. I can trust Oscar far more than most parents can trust • their boys;to settle questions involving moral obligations -questions which he has not had the oppor- tunity to consult us -and to do so in a fairly wise way. It is the emergencies of life that try our youth -when they are away from their elders -and for them they must be prepared. But mind, my friend" -as 1 sat silent -"I do not say that it is the best way for all children to be brought up, I am only giving our experience, after all. But I do feel the truth of my first statement, that the child who is aooustomed to aurging with his conscience, under a home training that stimulates its healthy action, is one who finds a more convincing force to deal with than the one who argues with hie guard",°, lane." Curious to note the outcome of this inci- dent, I asked Oscar that night if he went to the ball play. " Oh, no 1" he answered pleasantly ; then added, with a frank smile: " When my folks leave a thing for 'me' and 'myself' to settle, I know we had better settle it just right, or we'll feel ib worse than anybody else ; and, do you know," he added in a boyish burst of confidence, straightening himself up, "it's generally settled now as they want ib, and I actually grow an inch every time." Since then I have meditated much as to whether that sort of government might not be best, in the main, for more boys than this particular one.- [Congregationalist. Pioneer Fireplace. Mr, Funk, of Bloomington, Ill., lived in a log cabin about twenty-five feet square and one story high, says Dr. L. S. Major, with a loft reached by a rude ladder. Here all the family, which was (mite large, slept, as well as any wayfarers whom the hospitable host might see fit to entertain. What most attracted my attention was the immense fireplace extending across the great. er part of one aide of the house. It had in it two or three logs, perhaps twenty feet long and very large and thick, which made a fire almost large enough to roast an ox whole, No chairs were used in this house, but the hearth in front of the fireplace was very capacious, and about eighteen inches lower than the puncheon floor, and this answered all the purpose of chairs. It troubled my inquiring mind to know how Mr. Funk ever got those immense saw- logs into his fireplace ; but he explained the matter. The two doors of the house were opposite each other, and with four yoke of oxen he hauled one end of a log ae near one of these doors as it could be got; then going with his oxen to the other side of the house, he pass- ed a log chain in at one door clean through the house and out at the other door, where ib was attached to the end of the log. Then the oxen pulled the log into the house end foremost, after which it was an easy matter to roll it into, the fireplace. A fire made of these logs -would laat from five to seven days. Blight Yet Powerful, " Oh looks, George, they are hanging out an ice cream sign across the street 11 The words were few and softly spoken, and yet they took all the brightness out of the spring sunshine; all the music from the song -bads' notes; all the melody from the zephyr, and all the change out of George's pocket. -- Twenty Baltimoreg irls, who have plenty of money and are good German and French scholars, propose to travel through Nurope this summer) and to write a book of their adventures. There will be twenty chapters, one by' emit girl. The Duke of Edinburgh has arrived at Portsmouth. - His health improved.. ,`HOME OF THE ORAIVGB.. Once upon; a time a man arosen Coy } °rant meeting and said : ".I thank Go I I have been a Christian 30 years -off and on." • So the orange . has been oultivated in Florida for 360 years "off and. on," When St. Augustine was occupied by the Spaniards, the orange was probably %titivated to Borne extent. •0meiderable tracts of land are still found, in some cases in the think forest, where the wild orange grows, sour enough to lead you to ask the question while you are eating ib, "Am'I laughing or crying." But it was left to the age of steam' to de- velop the finer kinds of the orange, for until. then there was no inducement to raise them in any greater quantity than was necessary for home consumption, as they could, not be transported any distance on account of the slow means of conveyance, the fruit spoiling before it could reach its destination. Bat as it became possible to ship them by rail- way and steamships, the last fifteen or twenty years the amount of land devo.ed to the cultivation of what Milton ealls the fairest fruit" has steadily increased until now ; and 3;000000 boxes were sent out of the State during the winter now olosing, If all the land under orange culture were producing trees in full bearing that output would be increased to twelve or fifteen mil- lion boxes, Why has this great change come over the country? Simply because their is at pre- sent MORE MONEY WITH LESS LABOR in orange -raising than any other line cf business, •An acre of wheat will return say twenty dollars, but an acre of orange grove in full bearing will return from two to three hundred dollars net cash. The fruit from an acre will fill a railway car, while it would take twenty acres of cotton or fifty acres of wheat to do the same. No wonder, then, that the per pie have pushed the eulti• vation of the or nge, and are looking to it for their cash returns, jest as the old-time Canadian farmer used to regard his field of fall wheat. Think of 40,000 oranges to the time, and that is about the average. There are prob- ably some single acres that will produce 100,000 oranges in a good year. Imagine those fine symmetrical trees, about 30 feet high and 25 feet zeroes the limbs. loaded, on the outside only, with 2 000 or 3,000 bright yellow oranges -a veritable "pyramid of gold." Looked at from a distance, you would certainly think you had struck the fabled lana of gold. To our eyes there was no more beauteous sight than the orange -tree laden with its gorgeous fruit. You ask what will be done when all the land now set out with young groves comes into full bearing, and the production exceeds ten million boxes. Well, they can then be produced cheaper, the coat of transportation will be reduced greatly, the consumption will be increased, and the inoreased output will enable the grower to make as much as he does now, even at a less price. - The Ocala Semi -Tropical Exposition pre- sented the grandest and most perfect EXHIBITION OF ORANGES ever shown in the State. The Pomological Society held their annual gathering in Ocala and the members expressed their' great satisfaction at the extraordinary varieties of the oranges there presented. At a little distance the tables looked as if they were loaded with the gold of Ophir instead of a most .luscious fruit. A stranger to the culture of the orange could obtain a very large amount of information in every short time. Every visitor could not help but receive the strongest impression regarding the value of the cultivation of the orange and other citrus fruits. The gentlemanly oonduct and attention of the manager, secre- tary and eore-taryand abtendents added not a little to the interest of the Exposition, and every visitor must have felt (as the writer certainly did) that he was well repaid for the time spent in making a careful examination of the var i ,us products of the central portion of the State shown to this Exhibition -which has come to stay and will be in all its glory again another season if all goes well. We believe we are correct in saying no country can produce so fine and perfect an orange as Florida, and produce them in such great abundance and within say a 1,000 miles of the great Norttern markets of this Continent. This ought to place them in our Northern homes in the shortest time and at the cheapest rates. But at present it only coats 25 cents to land a box of oranges in New Yerk from the Mediterranean, while from 50 to 70 Dents are paid from Florida to New York or Chicago ; but time and com- petition will remedy this. The possibilities of Florida in orange growing are prodigious. The "hummock" or hardwood land is gener- ally considered the best; but the " high pine " lands, that is, the lands where the pine grows most luxuriantly and reaches its highest and largest size. divides this honor with some. The level pine country, ly- ing from four to six feet above high water mark, will, with care and a good amount of fertiliser, produce a fair crop year after year. The trees bloom in February and March, the bloom appearing in many cases before the fruit of the previous season has been entirely gathered. These flowers on as mount of their charming fragrance and pure whiteness, are considered exquisitely appro• priate in the bridal wreath. It is said the bloom from the b tter sweet is preferred because it is more perfect and fragrant. But it may have A FURTHER SIGNIFICANCE, as there is a good deal of bitter sweet in married life to sbme people. Although mar- riage may not be a failure, and the orange may not be the fruit Eve gathered in Edon, it may have been this golden orange which caused a little unpleasantness in aucient times known and deoleimed upon by youth- ful collegians as the Trojan war, a fruit that grew upon. The fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, that needs the guard Of dragon's watch with unenebanted eyes To save the blossoms and defend the fruit From the Yeah hand • of bold incontinence. Gathering begins in November and lasts till April. There are generally from 120 to 200 oranges to a box. The box contains two pubic feet with a division in the centre, making each part exactly a foot each way. The large thick skinned oranges are gener- ally the poorest, and sell for the smallest price, But the strolling vendor always makes the most out of this glass of fruit. es. peoially with ohildren, and those moat imam quainted with the orange. A mistake is often made by those who ought to know better, for very often the plumpest, most juicy and delicious orange is hidden under a rusty or russet skin. There are three methods it vogue of es- tablishing a grove. The first is to clear up a wild grove, cutting out all unneceeeary trace and bedding those that remain with sweet fruit. The second is to clear up the ground thoroughly and plant budded trees, say three, years eld. The third pion is to plant the seeds and when the trees are large. enough, to transplant .in rows, These are c died eeecilings and by many nativeFloridi"-c a as this pinna ie moldered best, as they say fruit of this ciaeil will reproduce itself,. ,ILO* O EAT AN nnA r#E, ,Sums outdo R thx)u h the shin► and pea � g u P�, it orf in quarters and then (Wide the orangpl', by lbs sections, but thin cannot be done with the best kind when fully rip! without losing; it large proportion ortion ofbhe d which he e eoiallrich and think.; or you may tonin the eavskin off, leaving the inner rind on say half the orange, then out a :hole in the end and sunk out the subatanoe • or you. may make the hole larger, and eat it with a• spoon, which is the favorite way with the, ladies, especially at the table, Bat I con- fess I like the plan of the average boy;- Peet the orange about half ay down aneat t& ae you would an apple as far aa peeled, then. jam your teeth and lips into the balance and - s000 it out. Of course ithas the disadvan- tage e des van- ta a that your mouth and perhaps the end ofg our noe will ,be about as alio e o It" S ky a oar tacit with a molasses jug could make theme but you get all the sweebness,of this choicest. of fruit and you are satisfied that the orange has been placed where ib will do most good, Joni N, LAzr$. Transforming a Dunce. The teacher who can extract an answer' from a dullard and draw a dolt from the- dunce's blook into the schoolar's seat lute the rarest gift for his vooation. Mr.J.T.Trow- bridge, in an essay on "The American boy," published in the "North American Review," tells the story of a schoolmistress's success in- drawing n -drawing out the genius of an intractable pupil. Nobody had been able to do anything with::; him. Punishment had no effect; appeals to his pride and notes to his mother were un- avairinl. The teacher studiedthe boy, watch:- ing him closely that she might find the key to his character. , One day she saw him catch a fly. His dull countenauce lighted up, while with the keenest interest he for fifteen minutes ex- amined the insect. The teacher had found: one road to the boy's mind. "Boys," said she not long after, "what can you tell me about files?" The brightest boys could tell very little. The she turned to the dolt, and saw that, for the first time, his enthusiasm was kind- led by something going on in sohool. He for- got his indifference, and became eloquent in describing the wings, feet, eyes, head and habits of the fly. Both teacher and scholars - were astonished. The teacher saw the bent of his genius anti, pub books of natural history into hie hands. Then she led him by degrees to see the neces- sity of preparing himself for his favorite pur- suit by learning something of grammar, geo- graphy and mathematice. The dunce of the school beoanee one o' the best scholars, and in later years an eminent naturalist. Five Brothers. The world is indebted to the brothers Siemens for many important electrical and. metallurgical inventions. These five engin- eers and inventors were not born of inven- tive parents. They were eons of a German farmer, whose ancestors or three centuries before had been cultivators of the land. This exception to the law of heredity was: associated with another curious fact. Sir William Siemens became one of the best mechanics in England, yet as a boy he showed no fondness for mechanics. He made. no windmills, sailed no boats,' did no dam - ago to the furniture by baba -carpentering, and did not pull the clock to pieces to see. how "the wheels went round." The Siemens brothers worked so harmon- iously together that it is difficult to define the personal share of each in their many great inventions. A strong mutual feeling of affection and respect existed throughout the family. A"Siemens Stifc"(establishment),. was formed for the promotion of good feel- ing in the family, and for the benefit of its poorer members. Once every five years all the members of the Siemens family. rich and poor, met at a pleasant place in the Hartz Mountains to pass a day or two in social intercourse. At this gathering the affairs of applicants for help were inquired into, and the deserving relieved out of a fund kept up by the sub- eeriptions of the more wealthy relatives. That was surely a much better way for a family to equalize Its possessions than beg- ging, or borrowing, or breaking wills would. be. "Insulting the King's Majesty," A Berlin letter to the Manchester Guar- dian says :-Dr. Oldenburg, editor of the ' Volks Zeitung,' and who is responsible for its contents, is to be arraigned before the court for insulting the King's majesty be- cause of the notorious leading article on the anniversary of the death of the Emperor William I. Counsel will endeavour to es- tablish the charge by showing that the present Emperor has openly declared that he was at one with the thoughts and aots of his illustrious grandfather, anybody insult- ing the memory of his late majesty was guilty of the same offence agaisb the reign- ing monarch. The Cologne Gazette affirms that this is not law, and regrets that such. a proceeding has been decided upon, al- though it naturally condeme the infamous nature of the article in question. As the law now stands, attaoks of this kind cannot: be punished under existing circumstances. Good Marrying Weather. A verdant looking young couple appeared one day at the parsonage of an Eastern min ister, and the young man awkwardly explain- ed that they wanted to be married. Ib was raining in torrents, as ib had been doing all. day. The candidates for matrimony had come in an open buggy, sheltered by a single um- brella, and were so thoroughly drenched that it was necessary for them to dry their gar- ments by the kitchen fire before the minister could proceed with the ceremony. When they appeared he said : "It's too bad you have such a rainy day," "Wall," said the bridegroom with the well -marked nasal twang of a rural Yankee, „ that a lush exactly why we come. You see it's pourin' so hard we couldn't do nothing else, so we jest thought it was a good time to gitmarried. Wouldn't have Dome if it'd been good plough&' weather.'' Chicago's Modesty, We understand that a Chicago man is writing a revised history of this country, based on important documents recently dug, up on the lake front, in which he will prove that Colutnbus sailed iuto the Gulf of St. Lawrenoa, up the, river of the game name;, through the lakes, making, a portage around Niagara Valle, and finally rliseovered Ameri- ca at the mouth of the Chicago river. Our historical friend wi!1.aiao show that subse- quently Washing ton was bo rn where the Union stock garde now stand, that the battle of Bunker lith was fought in the township of Lake, the declaration of Inde endene signed somewhere on .Blue p g l Island. avenue, and the first inaugural held on the site of the Palmer hotted, Chicago might ,have been a large town before, this if it., had nob been for her modesty. -[.N.. Tribune.