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ST
Tho United States produco annually
forty-six million tons of liny.
BioyoleB uhoiI for business pnrposos
are not taxed in France. All others
nro. Last yonr 132,270 machines were
taxed.
"If it iH true, us tho Census Bureau
alleges," neks tho Chicago Record,
"that thcro oro 100,000 moro married
mon in tho country than there are
married women, what, in tho nnmo ol
Hymen, are thoso 100,000 mon mar
ried to?"
Tho nativo Russian peasantry ol
Fsthouia and Livonia, now numbering
altogether about 1,500,000, have sent
thirteen deputation to St. Petersburg
to celobrato tho seventy-fifth anui
verHary ol their emancipation by the
Emperor Alexander I.
According to tho Chicago Herald
all the Uuited States Senators from
tho States south of tho Potomac
served in tho Confedorato armies ex
cept Irby, of South Carolina, and
Rlanchnrd, of Louisiana, who were
too young then for military service.
At tho annual meeting of tho Han
ncmanu Hospital Association in Phil
adelphia th (5 other day an interesting
explanation of the crowded condition
of tho hospital was made. Secretary
Lewis said tho institution had been
crowded beyond its snpacity, and the
number of typhoid fever cases was in
excess of all previous years. Thi
condition tho physicians ascribe to
the business depression and conse-
epiont worry of men over financial
matters. '
Tho death of David Dndley Fiold,
tho eminent New York jurist, recnlle
to tho Philadelphia Lodger the most
remarkable story of four famous
brothers, all of whom led useful lives.
Cyrus West Fields, one of thoso
brothers, who died in 1892, was tho
projector of the Atlantic cable; David
Dudley Fieid distinguished himself as
a lawyer and acquired a national repu
tation by his codification of tho laws
of New York. Other brothers are Su-
l remo Court Justice Stephen J. Field
and Dr. Heury M. Field, tho editor of
tho Evangelist. They were sons of a
poor, but distinguished Berkshire
clergyman, who managed to give three
of his sous a collegiate education, of
which they made excellent uso.
Officials of the United States Navy
Department havo found a curious
typographical error in the Bering Sea
law rcceutly passed by Congress, and
re wondering what its effect may be.
ft is ieared, states tho New Orleans
Picayune, that it may invalidate the
whole law. Tho award of the Paris
Tribunal prohibited tho capture o:
seals at all times within a zona of sixty
miles round tho Pribyloft' Islands,
"inclusive'Vof tho territorial waters.
The bill, as introduced by Mr. Mor
gan, Chairman on tho Seuato Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, con
tained tho correct phraseology, but
when it was printed tho types made tho
word "exclusive," and tho bill was so
passed. What tho legal effect of tho
error may be still remains to bo seen,
but some people think that tho Senato
will have to reconsider its work and
pass the bill again formally before it
will be properly operative. There is
a good deal of red tapo rbout legal
matters.
The rapid development of tho life
insurance business of this country is
one of the most remarkable eoouomio
facts of tho time, asserts Frank Les
lie's Weekly. "And as indicating the
growth of a provideut spirit aud habit
among our people, it is a fact of im
mense significance. Some conception
of the magnitude of this iutere t is
afforded by the returns of the thirty
two old stylo life insurance companies
now doing business in this State. The
total amount of premiums paid iuto
theso companies lust year was $192,
700,838. The death claims paid dur
ing the year amounted to $73,90:1,820.
The surplus, as regards policy holders,
held by these companies at tho begin
ning of tho present year was $116,.
C49,18G. These figures leave no room
for doubt as to the steadily increasing
popularity of life insurance as a means
of assuring reasonable protection
against the accidents and adversu
fortunes of life to those who would
otherwise be defenseless, it is uo
doubt true thut tho cost of insurance
m some oi the standard companies is
excessive, and that tho business could
be safely and profitably conducted at
much lower charges to tho policy
holder, but even at tbo extravagant
rates sometimes exacted, the life in
suranoe system offers advantages
which few persons with others de
pendent upon them can afford to dia-regard."
A Missouri nursery farm has offered
to give every boy and girl in Pike
County enough standard applo trees
to plant an acre of ground.
Italy's Foreign Minister cogently
reasons that war is improbablo bo-
cause no European sovereign wonts it
and public opinion is against it.
Holland puts all boggars to work at
farming, whether they like it or not,
and there is less of that sort of thing
in that country than in any other clv
ilizod oonntry in the world.
Canon Wilberforoo, in a recent in
terview published in tho Westminster
Gazette, contends that the lower ani
mals are immortal, and uses his belief
as an argument agaiust tho establish
ment of a Pasteur institute in Eng
land. Jt is an interesting fact that out of
tho 68,403 postoflioos in tho United
States the ton largest furnished tbirty-
and two-tenths per cent, or nearly one-
third of the entire revenues of tho de
partment in the last fiscal year. Thoso
ten postoffioes are located at Now
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston,
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Brooklyn, San
Francisco, Baltimore and Pittsburg,
and they rank in tho order given.
Chicago is No. 2 in tho list and shows
tho largest increase in business, which
was eighteen and three-tenths per cent.
St. Louis comes second with ten and
four-tenths per cent., Cincinnati next
with nine and four-tenths and New
York next with eight and sovon-tonths
per oeut.
The proposal of Kaiser William to
make the peanut a liberal portion of
the German soldier's rations has an
unusual interest for American farmors,
maintains the American Farmer.
First, it is something that there is a
fair margin of profit on, which there
is not on wheat and corn sold abroad.
Seoond, we would not have, for tho
present at least, the destructive com
petition of Russia and Argentina.
But we fear that just as Boon as the
Kaiser's saldaten bogin to eat peanuts
in considerable quantities, he will or
der the German colonies in Africa to
go into peanut raising. Anyway, it
will be some years at least before thoy
can produce as good and cheap pea
nuts as we can raise in the South.
While there are no night mirages in
the far West like tho one of an in
verted Bhore, lighthouse, and vessels,
recently seen off the North Carolina
coast, the twilight or dawn upo
plains o mountains sometimes brings
aitrange magnifying of celestial bodies
near the horizon. Thus, at close of
a day, when from evaporating snow or
a recent rainfall the air is humid near
the ground, tho going down of a red
and sullen sun below the western sky
line is sometimes followed almost co-
incidentally by the rising in the east
of a full moon, as vast and fiery,
which, red and portentous, seems to
poise at tho moment of its complete
emergence over prairie, ridge or
mountain, threatening to roll, a burn
ing sphere, down tho slope toward the
beholder. Similarly, the morning
and evening stars at times take on
size and oolors so extraordinary that
even tho experienced plainsmen can
scarcely believe that new and vast con
stellations have not appeared for the
first time in the heavens.
The western part of Kansas, it is
said, has been losing its population
rapidly within tho past few years.
Twenty-two counties, which in 1888
contained a population of 102,669
souls, now have but 51,663. This ex
odus has been duo to the long aud de
structive droughts, to which tho re
gion is subject ; and the farmers who
remain are still setting up windmills
and endeavoring by their help to ir
rigate their fields. The loss of popu
lation has not been so marked, how
ever, in tho farming districts as in the
towns. All along t io railroads are
towns, which once contained a teem
ing population, and promised a great
future, but are now practically tenant
less. At Chico, for instance, the traiu
now Btops only on signal. Once its
arrival was a great event, and crowds
of ueoole swarmed to the station. In
that day Chico had the appearance, at
least, of prosperity, and boasts were
made of its growth. Kauopolis was
to be the hub of Kansas, aud eastern
capitalists, some of them men of note,
invested liberally in the future of tho
town. To-day its ambitious Capitol
square is used for a sheep pasture.and
the train rushes by as though it were
a tank station. douiu uuicuiuson
furnishes another illustration. It was
a young giant ut its zenith, with brick
hotels, churches, school-houses and a
street car line. Prairie dogs now ruu
wbout the chancel of the biggest
church, and the hotel door is hidden
by a sank bank.
IN THE HEART.
If no kindly thought or word
We can give, some soul to bloss
It our hands, from hour to hour,
I)o no doods ot gentleness ;
If to lono and wonry onos
Wo no comfort will Impart-"
Tho' 'tis 8U minor In tho sky,
Yet 'tis wintor In the heart 1
If wo strlvo to lift tho gloom
From a dark and burdened Hfo ;
If we sock to lull the storm
Of our fallen brothor's strlfo j
It wo bid all hulo and scorn
From the spirit to depart
Tho' 'Us wintor In th sky,
Yet 'tis summer In the heart t
(Joorgo Coopor, In Sunday School Times.
GRANDPA PJNNEFS MOVING
M BELLE 0. GRHtfVR.
U dear, Anncr I ex
claimed Mrs. Rod-
gers to her husband
ono May morning as
she bustled about
the kitchon,"I don't
see how in this world
I'm ever going to
get through with all
my spring work
cleaning and everything 1 If I didn't
have to keep ono eye on gran'pa I
could do more. Seems as if ho grew
worse and worse. "
She paused with a sigh. Hor hus
band waited silently for more.
"When tho peddler called yesterday
lie was setting quiet as a lamb by the
stove, with tho cat in his lap, kind of
playing with her, bo I ventured to go
up garret and pick over the rags it
makes such a litter down here and
when 1 got back grau'pa was still set
ting there and fast asleep. I thought
everything was all right, but come to
make my firo for dinner a fow minutes
after, there was an awful towsing and
mowing in the oven. I opened the
door and out jumped the cat I If
there'd been a hot fire he'd douo just
tho same I suppose 1"
Abner, who was sitting by the table
looking over a lot of garden-seeds for
the spring sowing, laughod shortly and
shrngged his shoulders.
You know what I think about
gran'pa'B doings," he said ; "you know
where I thiuk folks had ought to go
when they lose thoir faculties and are
no good to themselves nor anybody
else."
Now, Abner," said his wife, re
proachfully, "don't say you'd send
gran'pa to tho poorhouse! Think
what a good man he's been, and what
a smart man. How can you be so un-
leeliugl lou woman t want ycur
children to do so by you, in your old
age.
"I sha n t probably outlive mv use
fulness, "answered Abner, coldly. - "My
father worked till the very day of his
death more'n paid his keep till the
last."
"And father Pinney has already
more than paid his keep, if he lives to
be a hundred, and you know it !" re
turned his wife, indignantly. "You
always lay out to forget that he's give
us the old place !"
"Well," said Abner, "I sha'n't hire
help at present ; we can't afford to,
not while we have such an expense
a-going on in the family."
Her father, when ho came to live
with them, had made over to Abner
the old homestead, the "Pinney
Pkce," as it was called. It was a good
farm lying adjacent to theirs, but the
house was old and of little value. So,
also, was the house they now oocupied,
and the plan was to sell the "Pinney
Placo" and with tho money build a
new house where their own now stood.
But Abner seldom chose to remem
ber the amplo provision grandpa had
inade for bis support, and on this oc
casion, instead of replying to his
wife's reminder, he picked up a pack
age of early lettuoe seed, and started
off. At the door he turned, however,
and said, perhaps with some idea of
encouraging her :
"Ain't it about time for gran'pa'B
May-moving? He won't be round un
derfoot so much when he gets up in
his tree."
"I hope he won't go. I hope he's
forgot all about it," she said, anxious
ly. "1 toll you, Abner, it isn't safe
and it isn't respectable for an old man
like father to sleep outdoors in a tree I
Seems as if I couldn't have him do it
again."
She dashed the tears away from her
eyes as her husband went out.
"I do wish I could ever learn, to
hold my tongue, complaining to Ab
ner I" she exclaimed, bitterly. "He
always blames everything off on to
gran pa, and that s all the good it
does. It's a burning shame I can t
have help through house-eleaniu' ; but
if gran pa 11 only give up his Way
moving this year I won't say another
word not if I work my fingers to tho
bone !
Two years before, when the spring
came round, Grandpa Pinney had
taken a queer freak into his head. As
Abner expressed it, "he got cranky
on air." When the weather crew
warm, and the trees leafed out and the
birds began to sing in their branches,
the old man became strangely restless
and uneasy, talked incoherently about
"stifling and "smothering, und lu
sibted on having all the doors an 1
windows in the house wide open.
Later on, he seemed unwilling to
stay in the house at all, aud moved his
armchair out under the gseat twin
oaks across the road. There he spent
most of his time, reading his large
print Testament or watching the birds
and looking contentowy on over ine
pleasant fields.
They had hard work to get him in
doors for his meals. Tho idea of
sleeping outside, however, had not
then occurred to him.
This was two years ago; the next
year, not content with si ting under
the frees, he built a tort of rude plat
V
form around them, just below whero
the main branches joined tho trunks,
and made somo stops to lead up to it.
Then on the lost day of May, which
was unusually warm for the season,
in Bpite of his daughter's coaxing and
scolding, he insisted on dragging his
bed and bedding up there. A single
chair and his Tostamont completed
the furnishing.
From that time on, not only did ho
spend his days in tho tree chamber,
but he actually slept there at night.
Nothing but a smart shower could
drive him into the house.
What soomed strauge, no harm came
to him from tho exposure. He did
not get the torrible colds and rheu
matism that Belinda had feared ; on
the contrary, he seemed to grow
stronger and happier every day. And
Bhe found she could acoomplish twice
as much work. It was true, as Abner
hsd said, "he was out of her way;"
still, sho did not feel quite easy about
him.
It seemed a dreadful thing to have
her old father sleeping out there alono
in the darkness of the night 1 So she
anxiously hoped that he would .not
think of going this year.
But a few days after the reeorded
conversation, Belinda came home from
an errand to a neighbor's house, to
find that the "May-moving" had taken
place. Abner, who had been a wit
ness to the proceeding, only said,
carelessly :
"Let him be, he's all right ; nothing
happenod to him last year."
What finally reconciled Belinda
more than anything else was a remark
ber father made in his rambling way,
which cavo her new insight into his
feeling.
. "Belindy, darter," he said, "don't
hender me.. Everything is free out-of-doors,
free and welcome."
She knew then that he realized how
grudgingly he was housed and fed.
His withdrawal from the house seemed
but a natural instinct, the protest of
his self-respect. After that she could
not oppose him farther. She allowed
him the most perfect freedom to come
and go as he liked
"God '11 take care of him, as Ho
does of the birds and the rest of His
creatures," she said to herself, trust
fully.
One day Abner came in very much
elated.
"Belindy!" he exclaimed, "what
should vou say to an offer of four
thousand dollars for the old plaoe I
What kind of an offer is that, hey?"
and he rubbed his hands in great sat
isfaction.
"I should Bay it was a bouncing
good offer, and you'd hotter t:ike it,"
said his wife.
He went on excitedly to tell her the
particulars.
"And now, Abner," she said pres
ently, in her coaxing way, "I do hopo
von 11 try and feel a little more pa
tient with graud pa. Just tninK ol
all that money coming to us through
him 1
The best of it is," continned
Abner, who just now could think of
nothing but the money, "the best of
it is, Belindy, it's going to be paid
down I So all I've got to do is to
clap it into the bank, and let it stay
till after the crops are in. Then
we'll begin the new house right away
have it all done and ready to move
into by spring!
"And when we get Into the new
house, we're going to have Mary and
the baby come home to live with ns,
ain't we? You know you've prom
ised," reminded his wife, bent on tak
ing all possible advantage ot her un
usual opportunity.
Mary, thoir only daughter, had
married a poor man, and was now a
widow, supporting herself and child
by working in the factory in a distant
town. To have her child and grand
child at home with her had long been
the wish of the mother's heart ; but
her husband had always put her off.
"Wait till wo get into tho new
house," he had always said. "Then
there 11 be more room. Hut she had
feared that he never really meant to
consent. Now, to her astonishment
and delight, he answered good
naturedly :
"xes, yos; let em come!
His eood luck seemed to have
warmed his heart, and made him for
once fatherly and benevolent.
The next day the man who had
bought the Tinney farm paid to Abner
the price in full four thousand
dollars; more money than either
Abner or his wife had ever seen bo-
fore.
In the midst of their joyful excite
ment, they were both suddenly struck
with an anxious fear. Since Abner
could not take the money to the bank
till tho next day, nvhere should they
put it for safe-ketping through tho
night?
After much deliberation thoy de
cided to hide it in a little cupboard
over the mantel in tho parlor, and
accordingly, whilo Belinda tiptoed to
the window aud made sure no one was
nigh to see, Abner wrapped the money
carefully in a large bandanna handker
chief, und ii ut it in a dark oornor of
the cupboard.
Several times Abner left his work
and stole iuto the parlor to make sure
that the money was sate, and as often
ii
iiestioned nervously as to whether
they had chosou the best hidiug
plaoe ; but finally he concluded to let
it retuaiu.
"J shouldn't suppose anybody would
bo likely to look there for money ;
they'd bo more apt to thiuk I had it
under my pillow," he said that night.
"At any rate, we've got to run tho
risk of losing ou it wherever we put
it."
Thus philosophizing they went to
bed, and uotwithstandiugtheiranxiety,
slept soundly, as hard working people
are wont to do.
Well along toward morning thoy
both awoke with a terrible ffeling of
suffocation, TUe room was lull of
smoke I They sprang out of bed, t 1
see tho flames already bursting throng)
the door opening into tho parlor.
"Tho money ! tho money 1" sereamoj
Abner, frantically, and malted inW
flames, only to bo driven quickly book
Ho ilew outdoors and round to tin
parlor windows, hoping to gain en
franco there ; but ho was too late. 1 hi
whole honso seemed to bo in flames J
it burned like tinder.
Before any of tho neighbors wen
aroused, before Abner and his wif
thought of anything but tho money,
tho wholo house and all it contained
was gono money, furniture, clothing
everything gone in a night I
At first the thought of his loss drov
Abner almost wild. Ho raved like i
madman, and his wife lookod into hit
face in speechless agony.
What could she say? How was she
to comfort a man like him for the lost
of his property ? She did not think
of herself for a moment ; she only felt
for him.
13ut all sho could do was to praj
silently that God would merciful!
holp him to bear his grief. And as l
in answer to her humble prayer, i
miracle began then and there to In
worked in Aimer's sordid soul. Whilt
he sat on the great chopping-block it
the dooryard, in the midst of the ruir
of his hopes, gradually his miser
seemod to abate.
The sun had risen, the birds wen
twittering in tho trees, and by and bi
the cows came up tho lano one by on
of their own accord to tho milking
The old horse and tho colt in the field,
put their heads over tho fenco and
whinnied, and finally the great roostci
strutted up quite close to Abner and
crowed encouragingly. Abner, lookinj
up into his wife s face, almost smiled
"1 forgot the creatures, he said,
slowly. "They're left to ns an J
there s the land. If we only had thi
money to build tho new house with 1
wouldn't care."
"Never mind ; we shall get along
somehow. I reckon the Lord'U pro
vide," she answered cheerfully.
"Belindy," said Abner, tremulously,
"the worst of it is I deserve it all. And
see here," hesitating and speaking
with evident effort, "I I'm afraid I've
got nobody but myself to blame foi
the fire. Belindy I suppose it wa(
my own hand that set that fire. You
see I went into the parlor just at dusk
to make sure the money was safe be
fore going to bed, and not contented
with feeling it, I lit a match to see. J
expect that match done the mischief;
it must be ! And I believe it's a judg
ment upon mo, too.
"Yes," ho sobbed, breaking down
entirely now, "yes, I've been a grasp
ing, wicked man, aud now granpa's
money-"
At the mention of grandpa Belinda
sprang up with a cry, and hastened to
the chamber in the tree, closely fol
lowed by her husband. In their Bel
fish griof they had quite forgotten
grandpa ! Was he safe?
They clambered quickly up the steps
and reached the landing. There on
the bod lay the old man, still sleeping.
He was a very sound sleeper always,
and evidently the fire had not wakened
him.
As they looked npon him, the thought
of what would probably have been his
fate had he been Bleeping in the house,
made their blood run cold.
"We should have forgot him and
wo couldn't have saved him, anyway !'
thoy said.
While thoy stood thero ho awoke.
Seeing his unusual visitors, he sat
up in bod and rubbed his eyes, a little
bewildered ; then suddenly a wonder
fully bright expression illumined his
dim old face, and he laughed aloud.
"I know, Belindy. Ihaint forgot 1"
he chuokled, and slipping his hand
under the pillow, he drew out the
bundle done up in the bandanna that
they had hidden iu the parlor cup
board, and delivered it over to Be
linda. "I knew it would be safest here with
me," he explained simply. "Thieves
don't never look up in tho trees for
monoy."
They built the new house, and
grandpa's room was the largest and
best room in it. Mary and tUe baby
came homo to live, and mother and
daughter did tho housework together
eusily.
Tho next year grandpa forgot all
about his May-moving. Ho was con
tented aud happy in tho new house,
where ho now found everything "free
and welcome." But he still likes his
chamber in the tree, and sits thero
often of a summer ufteruoon, poring
reverently over his Testament or gaz
ing up through tho trees, dreaming
perhaps of heaven. Youth s Compan
ion. Bicycles for Horses.
Why couldn't wo have horso bi
cycles? It wouldn't be much expense.
The poor horses shouldn't be asked to
walk iu this day of universal wrig
gling ou whoels. TUiuk of tUofitu!
Iu crossing a Btreet it is so divortiug
now, after long pluuuing, to succeed
iu dodging five or six wagons, and
ditto electric ears, only to bo run
down by a sueakiug bicyclo that was
not in sight when you started. But
how fast aud furious tho fuu would
grow if we could only put all horses
o t wheels, too o sort of swift-travel-iug
tread-mill arrangement. This
needed reform should proceed at ouc
Bostou Transcript.
A Thirsty Stone.
A new kind of whito hydrophane
has been found iu Colorado, which is
remarkablo for its power of absorbing
liquids. When water is dropped
slowly upon it, it becomes chalky aud
then, by degrees, perfectly transpar
ent. It has been named tho "magio
stone," und is coming iuto use by jew
elers for lockets, to couceal photo
graphs or other objects which the
wearer may wish only to reveal at
J pleasure. Now York Pre.
AMERICAN ORANGE TRADE.
PHENOMENAL GROWTH OF
A DO-
ME8TIO INDUSTBT.
Driving the For1;n Kriitt From Our
Market- Immense Yields of Klor-
kib anti
THE,
ora
rtor
of i
1a and California Trade.
growth of tho American
orange trade nas ueeu puo
homena1,and itshistory is full
interest. Thirty years ago
the oranges consumod in this country
were obtained mainly from tho Medi
terranean countries, tho tart Sicilian
orange, however, boiug supplemented
by the "sweet Havanas," which latter
have tinoe been so completely sur
passed by the even moro luscious
Floridas, the finest oranges in tho
world, that they now practically exist
only in memory. Only throe decades
ago the entire orango trade of this
country was controlled by a few ex
tensive importers. Business was then
done entirely on orders, the importers
sendtnir their orders abroad every Ian,
at which season Bailing vessels, which
have since been entirely supplanted by
steamships, were chartered to trans
port tho fruit from Sicilian and other
Mediterranean ports to this country ;
iu fact, September was tho month in
whinh hnniness arrangements were an
nually made six months in advanoe of
thoir fulfillment
This method of conducting business
existed for many years, but in 1865,
the growers of Sicilian oranges, who
had previously sold thoir crops en
tirely on orders, began to ship thera
to this country on consignment. The
old importers then gradually aban
doned thoir original methods anil bo
can to receive fruit as consignees, in
stead of importing it. Now firms en
tered the fiold and strong competition
Rnranir up in the business, which was
then profitable, as may be seen by the
fact that a single New York firm, in
one season, realized a clear profit of
over $30,000 on its Sicihau consign
mcnts alone.
About fifteen years later tho Amer
imin frnit firms wcro largely super
seded by Italians, tho frnit growers of
Sioily and the native snippers oi i ai
ermo and other Mediterranean ports
aendincr their sons aud relatives to
this country to establish firms, till now
only three or four distinctly Ameri-
ican firms of prominence remain in
the business. Durum the last ten
years, however, tho importation of
orarfges front tho Mediterranean has
steadily decreased, and, whilo largo
quantities continue to come from Sic
ilv. the imports from Spain have
dwindled into utter inHiguiiioatiee. Tho
decline of importation was brought
nliniit, by the rapid growth of the do-
industry, which has
been most remarkably developed. For
eign growers at first ridiculed tho
idea that they could ever bo deprived
of the American market, iu which they
had long been aocustontod to reap
ltnuntifiil harvests annually, but their
riilinnlo was SOOn turned to regret.
About that time, only a single decade
ago. the Florida orango industry
snrancr into prominence as if by magiu,
and the product of tho Florida groves
has since swiftly and steadily in
creased, till now tho annual crop is
estimated at fully 6,000,000 boxes, auj
it is yearly augmented,
California has since come into great
prominence as on orange-producing
Htnt. and last year supplied i.oliu,
000 boxes, which were distributed
mainly through tho West and North
west, only ft limited quantity reaching
the Atlantic seaboard, ou acjouut of
tho high rates of freight, it costing
87 cents a box to transport oranges
frnm tho Paeitio Slope to Now York
bv rail, whilo thoso from Florida,
coming by steamship, aro transporioa
. . . .ii
for fifty cents a box, giving mo i ior-
Ida growers an ailvantago oi oi j ceuw
a box.
Ten years aero thoro wero probably
no loss than 150 firms receiving tho
delicious Florida oranges directly from
the fragrant groves, and, iu fact, it
waB said that a well wordod circular
and a brass stencil-plate were tho only
prerequisites for procuring abuitdant
consignments from the confiding grow
ers. The number of receivers in this
city, however, has rapidly decreased,
aud thero nro now not more than teu
or twelve firms of noteworthy prom
inence in the trade here. When thera
was Bitch a largo number of firms in
the trade there were many whoso busi
ness methods were open to criticism,
and who duped tho oraugo-growers an I
tho public, but they have happily been
driven out of the trade, which is now
conducted by reputable firms and ou
strictly busiuess priueiples.
The rapid growth of the Florida
orauge trade has seriously interfered
with the importers, as is strikiunly
shown by the fact tliut, whilo thoro
were 1 , 708,000 boxes of Sicilian oranges
imported in 1886-87, there were only
68J.000 boxes imported iu 18111-92.
Despite the difficulties with which
tho growers have to contend almost
every season, the crop coutiuues stead
ily to increase. Most of the trees iu
tho orango groves of Florida ara now
over four years old and will soon be in
full bearing, w hen, it is estimated, the
crop will bo at least 10,00i,0ik) boxes.
There were over 900,000 boxes of
Florida orauges received iu this city
alono last year, whilo less than 5000
boxes were received from California,
whose last crop was 2,500,00 I boxes.
Tho California crop is also rapidly
increasing, thera haviug been 2,500,
000 boxes grown last year ugainst
000,000 the previous year. Orauges
are also being successfully growu iu
Arizona aud Louisiana. 'I'uo crops
hero aro yet small, but aro lucre-isiug,
ami with tho iminuiinu and growing
yields iu Florida and California, the
day is not far distant w hen only Amer
ican oranges will be found iu Autcricau
markets. New York Tribune.
Boals cannot live iu fresh water.
TO-MORROW.
Advancing swiftly Just a span '.
Before tho coming mom,
Phantom To-morrow flee away -
As eaoh To-day Is born j
Thnn halting on the path of life1.
Teasing and mute sho stands,
And, as mon gaze with hopo or foar,
Sho beckons with hor hands.
Thus, tompeslress-llko, sbo leads men Oil
But will not suffer thom
To touen tho veil that masks her faoo
Or e'en her garment's hem,
And as they follow wistfully
Along the valo of years,
Vaiulythcy strive to seo If sho
Is smiling or In tears. T
C. H. Williams, la Philadelphia Life. '
HUMOK OF TIIE DAY.
What is life but a great coke-walk.--''
Galveston News.
When a man is the slave of gold, he
is serving a pretty hard master.
When genius attains to a dress-suit
It has become oelobrity. Puok.
Somo clocks striko ten when it is
only six. It is the same way with
many men. i
"Business" covers a mnltitnde of
transactions just out of reach of the
law. Puck.
A woman is never so likely to be
mistaken as when sho is perfectly sure
she is right.
Tho angler is so absorbed in his
hobby that he generally fishes with
baited breath.
Good cooks can make pio of every-
thing, from beefsteak to vinegar.
Atchison Globe.
Hannibal succeeded in crossing the
Alps; but he didn't havo any hotel
bills to pay. ruck.
A good resolution is supposed to be
ono that will stretch a little when
noccssary. Galveston News.
"You say be is a bad egg. How did
you find it out?" "He showed it the
moment ho was broke." Fnn.
It is is easy for a man to paddlo his
own canoo when his parents buy the
canoe and paddlo for him. Pack.
When hoarts are broken, as we find t
Thoy are by wooers rash,
To heal them over, neatly bind
la poltices ot cash.
Washington Btar.
When tho pot calls the kettle black,'
the kcttlo fearlessly demands an in
vestigation of the color of tho pot.
Puck.
It is better to walk and catch the
next ferry-boat than to run for dear
life and miss the ono that is just start- -ing.
Puck.
Hardun is a pretty decent sort of
chap, but he never sticks to anything."
"Did you ever lend him any money
Philadelphia Record.
The star of hopo may shino over
head, but we feel more socurity when
we can get her anchor planted safely
in the mud below. Puck.
"Johnny," said tho teacher, "is a
jackass a biped or a quadruped?"
"Please, sir," said Johnny, ' that de
pends on tho jackass." Life.
Lena "Sho would be better off
without her husband, wouldn't she?"
Laura "I should suy so. His life is
insured for $40,000." Truth.
When a man begins to remark how
different children are now from what
they were when ho was a boy, he may
look for gray hairs iu his head. Puck.
Little drops of water,
Little grains of so ip
SIuWu the aclivo Airirehlst.
IM right up and tlope.
Washington Star.
Hotel Proprietor "Wo don't allow
any games of ehanco hero." Gamb-
game ol cuance. My
frjcmi hero has no chance." Brook
it-i
,vn Lifo
CTara--"What, aro you reading,
now?" Dora--"lIistorieal novels.'
"Do you like them?" "Vos, indeed.
There is so much I can skip." Now
York Weekly.
"Whero is tho bearded lady," asked
the niauager. "It is timo for the show
to begin." "Ho went out to vote,"
explained tho ossitiod man. Indiana
polis Journal.
The Spectacled Girl "Have you
read 'Ships That Pass iu th Night?'"
Tho Auburn-haired Girl "No. What
kiiid are they courtships?" Indian
apolis Journal.
First Lady "Aud the last tbiujr
that lleury did was to give me a kiss."
Second Lady "Indeed ; I should
think that is about the last thing bo
would do." Till-Hits.
".Miss Tn ilkius has nouo to T.iropo
to cultivate her voice." "Dear mo!
I didn't know sho ci-uld afford it. '
"Tho neighbors subscribed the
inouoy. " Washington Star.
Patient -"I am troubled with in
soitiuia. What would you roconiiue.td?"
Doctor "A good, refreshing sleep
seven nights iu the week. Five dol
lars, please." Boston Traus.'ript.
"Haven't you made Mr. Bulger's
portrait a good deal more than life
size?' said ono artist t another.
"Perhaps. You sec, that's as big as
ho thinks he is " Washington Star.
"Did you tell the hired girl that you
wouldn't put up with lu-r work?" aske I
Mr. Simiuins ut the diuucr table.
"Yes." "What did ho say?" "Sha
said that there was nothing keeping
me here if 1 didn't like tl-o place.''
Washington Star.
F.lderly Maiden "This is s. unex
pected, Mr. Wcllaloug, 'hat that
you must give ine time." F.lderly
Lover "Time, Misj Rebecca? L'J
vou thiuk there i.-i uuv to spare?"
Tit-Hit!-.
Affable Swell --"Well, tho fact ;.
my name is not Smithsou. You i-ee,
1 am traveling incog. There's ui
card." Follow Posaeuger -"Cilad to
hr it. I'm traveling iu pickles.
Hero's mine, "Brooklyn Lilo,