Shopping on the Sea,
People after a long sea voyage are
naturally eager for fresh fruit. A
lady passenger on board one of the
1 aeifie mail steamships, informs us
how her desire was gratified while
th ® ves sel "as at anchor five miles
oft the little Mexican coast town of
Mazatlan. Ihe natives came on in
boats, bringing tempting supplies of
the produce of the country.
Here were huge clusters of banan
as, plucked freshly from the tall trees
which we could see (juite plainly on
the laud, of the most, exquisite fla
vor ; pineapples, such as can only be
ripened under a warm, mellow trop
ical sun; limes of pleasant acidity,
0 suggestive of cool lemonade; oranges,
too large to hold comfortably in your
hand unless it be a large one. and co
coaunts, melons and mangoes in the
greatest profusion.
That is what the merchants offered
ws. Now how did we buy them?
The distance between us was about
the same that it would be if we had
-been standing at the upper window
of an ordinary two-storied house, and
the boatman on the ground, and there
was such a clamour of voices of men
and women calling their wares and
the that it was quite deafening
at first.
Hut when the trade was fairly be
gun, it was really quite easy and
pleasant, and certainly was a novel
way of going shopping. .Suppose we
wish some bananas. We look about
until we find a man who has ripe ones,
attract his attention, as you would
that of a horse car criver, and call
out, • Banana—here; ” and be an
swers in a queer Mexican fashion :
" Ba-nan-a, yes."
“ How much ?”
11 One bunch—fifteen cent. "
’• Yon send them up. "
Then he puts his fruit in a light
wicker basket, or twine bag, to the
handle of which a long rope is attaeh
- cd. and throws one end of the rone
to us. If we are skillful enough we
catch it the first time, but probably
not, for the distance is considerable,
and it often becomes quite exciting to
watch the attempts of purchasers to
get their goods.
One young lady of our party nearly
fell overboard when reaching for the
rope. But when it is once secured,
we gently draw up the bag or basket,
take out the fruit and put in the
money, toss it down in the boat quite
carefully, lest the money be lost.
Now wo may like some of the cu
rious necklaces which the women
have to sell. If so. we’shall do well
to wait till it is nearly time for the
steamer to - leave, as prices diminish
rapidly in proportion to the time for
making sales.
A Scientific Explanation,
The cat, be it remembered, is more
addicted to electricity than any other
animal, except the electric eel, and
hence is peculiarly susceptible to the
influence of the earth currents. So
long as the cat walks over fences
running from north to south his axis
is -'coincident with the direction of
these-currents. They pass smoothly
through Ins spinal column, and be
yond stimulating his mind and tail,
they have no perceptible effect upon
him. When, however, he tries to
walk on a fence built parallel to the
equator, his private axis becomes
perpendicular to the earth-currents.
They penetrate into his vitals and
wrench him all to pieces in their ef
forts to make their way through him.
Filled with anguish, he stops, clings
fiercely to the fence, and lifts up his
voice in frenzied agony. To some
extent his legs are paralyzed, and lie
is unable to move until the unfeeling
boot-juok comes hurling through the
air and stimulates him to action. He
then springs from the fence, his pains
vanish and his voice is silent. I not
this a complete and scientific expla
nation of the question that Imjs so long
defied the ablest scientific minds.—
We thus see how beautiful are the
reasoning processes by which true
science investigates abstruse ques
tions. We also see that one of the
most common incidents of every night
life is due to the electricity of the
earth. Let us, then, be thankful that
we live in a scientific age, and that
there are more uses tor electricity
than any one lias yet dreamed of.
** The Blues ”
Do you ever have the blues?”
asks a sufferer from that malady,
“and is there a cure for them?”
Certainly ; plenty of them; just as
there are for chills and fever, but in
like manner they yviil not always
work. We know one man who
walks off an attack, another who
rows it off, another who rides it off'
in the saddle. These are all dyspep
tics. The same prescriptions, aided,
perhaps, by lemon juice or diluted
nitromuriatic acid, often prove effect
ive in the case of bilious folks.
When the cause is, as it often is,-
nervous exhaustion, a good remedy
is cessation from all work, religious
and secular, plenty of sleep, and, if
tlitf constitution can bear it, cold wa
ter bathing. Always an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure,
for it is not an easy task to fight off’
the blues. Misfortune, sorrow, indi
vidual temperament, and even the
accidents of wind and weather often
combine to weigh down the soui un
til, in extreme instances, insanity
may be the result. But there is no
rule to cure every one; each must
find out what is most effectual in his
own case, and persevere with it to
the end.
KlUtltßA
Scale Insect Exterminator!
Pimple in its application, efficacious
in its results. Composed of harmless
> egetablc ingredients. I >oes no hurt
to the tree. ODe trial will convince
the most, skeptical. A pint bottle
will suffice for from one to three hun
dred tree*. Full directions given for
use. I’rice per bottle 50 cents.
Manufactured and sold bv
1.. JACOBS.
4-8 Mount Koval Postoffice. Fla.
pHEI). .1, LaPENOTIERE,
ATTORNEY AT LA IF,
. KSTKKI’KSK,
Volusia County, Florida.
Dll AS. B. BUCKNOR,
ATTORNEY AT LA U
United State* Commi-mwny,
Post-office, Enterprise, Fla.
Special attention given to the exwimua
tion of Titles nod conveyancing,
y K. WOOD.
K Building, No. i Bay Street, over
Harkins Hro.’s, flooniM A v 6.
JACKSONVILLE,
PLAIN V <>V VAIENTtI.
PLASTERER.
Country Orders attended to. deO-tf
Alvoni A
Wholesale and Retail
STATIONERS
find
PRINTERS!
The largest an i best stork of
liltl/ik Jiouks.
KtdoL Plain and k awAj J\(^ers y
kJ/tL'clo/t*s \(ml I'it out/ IJoods.
In rite stale.
Ora Hi /£ W-ra/nt u Specialty.
tlx* 5. 10x13, -liv 12,
ALWAYS IV S'l'Ofh.
A\ c invite dealers to send to us lor terms
Jacksonville Flu. .lan. !. IS7S. JanlO'iiT
HERE.
Have your Orange Trees Minified ami get
fruit from three to five year^sootier.
i\Dici:.n i:\ts.
Extensiveexperience. cheap rates ; work
warranted for a small bon us.
-Address, \Y\ A. COOK.
auV Keresford. Volusia co.. Fla
DeYanmiii’s Hotel.
ORANGE CITY, - - Fiorida.
oPEX THE YSAK BOO'D.
5-56 K. H. DeYARMAN. Proprietor.
the FLOBOA A GK I cut TUB I ST.
The Only Direct Line
nto..t Tin;
St. Johns River to New
York and Boston!
• SMiiiiiiK>r Sclirdule,
Taking ed’eel April 1,
THE LAEGE AND COMFORTABLE
Steamer Carrie,
< (iptniri ,i < i; SMITH.
Leaves Lake Monroe every TUESDAY
lnoriimgai., a. m.. am] Lake Beresford
at a. At., tor
FERNANDINA. Fla.,
i ouebing at all i utermediute points on the
riVt I ' arriving at Jacksonville
™tSrSRi a L- ~,or . n . I, ‘? 1,1 li,no connect
with the last Mail Tiain leaving at 7
V.. 4 ;* : having Jacksonville to
'‘V/; *9® ‘"‘e. making close connection
With the first-class Steamships of the
Netc Yoi Ji t& ndimt Line ,
"FOK
NEW YORK AND BOSTON.
Also, with the
Steamer “ Reliance,”
for savannah.
Cabin fare, beresford to New York.... #27
“ Boston 30
Tickets and Hills of Lading
issued at Low est Hates, and staterooms
secured by } urftcr of Str. Carrie or on ap
plication to 1
t *• ** c 9. UAln > Jacksonville.
John A. Mcß.uc, Gen*l Tralg Act. <ieo-l y
Also, a tract of ltKlacres. three miles from
Knfertilise, on lake Me.tliel. This truet has
u|K>n it -f.fdo budded, arnl 29 orange trees,
now bearing, and 5 beat inn lemon tn.es.
about 70 acres of line hammock land, with
a large spring of excellent water upon it.
y>/i particulars ’in full, apply to me in
iters on iff Orange Mlutf, Volusia countv.
■ la., or address, bv mail at Volusia po*t
otliee. Fla. (’. F. J.ANInNH.
February, ISIS feb<;-tf
llllLDIiRvllli\l)illl\l.llll,L
Mcksonvii.i.k, FI. V
PENNIMAN w CO..
• Xhuiufacturers and Healers in
Mouldings, It racket's.
■Sc -rool and Turin • l Work,
llough and ih’extcd Lumber
So-erd and Hired ' ‘g/nx-si ShittgU s,
Lath, Fruit and
Vegetable Crate*, tfv.
SEASONED LUMBER
Constantly eat hanu.
s .-.".A1l orders promptly lilies I.
je’ARTIJEN AM. STONE WARE
Ihe Ripley Manufacturing Company
have their Eurtlien), 1 train Tile. < lummy
Thimbles, Flower Pots. Chiuiucv Tops,et c.
for sale at their factory in Ha Villa, or at
tl css by & Ellis’ store, Feed's New Mock.
Jacksonville. decld-Sm
[I USBEY & 1-21-1-I S.
U liulcxitle it ml ICetuU
GROCERS
V.M)
Commission Mm'lmms
Ala. 1U Huy Street.
ChS; M Ua Effm l Jacksonville, Fla j
N. M.—peciul attention to consignments
ot country proiluee and promitt rendu antes
made. deeiS-fcm
Change of Schedule!
. THROUGH BOAT FOR
Jacksonville, Palafßa,
And Intermediate Landings.
The New at3 Elegant Steamer
GEO. M. BIRD,
i' A. SHAW. Master.
Will leaveEnterprise.Mellon villeandSan-
ford hvery Wednesday and Saturday at
oa. Mi. ami Lake Beresford at S v. >j.
Making close connection with Charleston
and Savannah Steamship Line and with
\V arren Kay s line of schooners from New
York. Also connecting with all railroad
trains for the North and West.
Returning will leave Jacksonville every
Monday and Thursday, after the arrival
of trains.
EYeigatittcway landings must he prepaid
Tickets can be had of Col cord Y Kelt.
Lake Beresford. ie2B-J\
TO EMIGRANTS!
I AND Adjoining Orange Blitp,
* ‘ Volusia county, Florida.
1 have for sale u large quantity of v.-rv
desirable agricultural land*, which will lie
sold, to actual settlers, on very reasonable
terms, and in lots of 10 acres and upwards.
GARDEN SEEDS! FIELD SEEDS!
°°' v ~KAS' —*• * - -. ~a
' cmMi ?' *• '* vHte. „„,1 JiX*lw2fl tog***
* hik
>•.?/,„ ,;,tah m ,. HAST, BENHAM & CO.
, Sl-KKSMEX, Jackson VII.e, Flu.
WKtHTMAN & CHRISTOPHER.
WHOLESALE GROCERS
A TV I>
Gwi.wal Commission Merchants,
74 West Bat, Street, - - Jacksonviluv Fla.
quotations freight* added. * rnmiiK ’n-liubl,'. 1 V'*,° -N,iV - ul York
other House in the Stan-. Country nrodmt of*- L il i }}u to9 ° P e, 1 (;, ' ,il - lower tl.yo
commission and vr,-: return- Jnado. W U^Z
s. R. HUH BA RD & CO..
•JACKSONVILLE, IT.v,,
Iniriortois and Wlio!e>ri[o ami Retail Dealers in
Hardware, Stoves, Crocket
OLASS ANJ> TIN WAXK
IKkiis, Sash. Blinds, Nails, Iron and Stol,
Table and Po-fcet ('„//, r;/ , JMged Tools, <tc.
?'* *' i V ,ls ' Kerosene iauiips. Chandeliers. anil Oils of all kinds
" tllU Uud ‘ 1 im,u : iV d ;:± VK 4 lu ,t tv ;,, id Class, wagon and eart material*. '
l Limes*, Saddles, ami till kinds of
Agricultural Implements, Mill and Steamboat Supplies.
upouVppiieation. I! ' o,nler t 0,,,,,a " v - r,,fs <>f stoves furnished
Q L. KKEXK,
MILLINERY,
Fanrvaml l>n*ss(oo<ls,
f<7 W*.**f Ba> Si., cor, ft.aiira,
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,
lias now instock a lint* ami complete line
of Millinerv Roods, cntisistinj; of
I ’attorn Buts •uni Bonnots,
Flowers. l-Yuttiers. Rihhotis. anil
the Latest Novelties in Milline.rv.
Dress finods.
[in Imlin v a tine line, of Mack dues silks,
cashmeres. drop il’eto. Henrietta, rloth ami
fnrjev gnHinjrs. with cnloons and frames
to match.
ARLINGTON NURSERIES!
OUANCLE TREKS,
Lemon*, Lime.-. Citron, Figs, Bananas, tJuava. Pine Apple, Sappodilla.
Mango. Paw Paw, Japan Plum, Ac., Ac.
• Irate; Vines, Quinces, Blackberries, and small fruits in variety.
Almond, Pecan, Spanish and American Chestnuts, Ac.
EUCALYPTUS TREES.
o
J Coses, Evergreens. and Deciduous Shrubs, and Flowering Plants, Ac.
jSgT' Seed for Descriptive Catalogue.
ALBERT 1. BID WELL,
ujlStt' Jacksonvirus, Florida.
j Ltitfies" 1 , (/tods' one/ Children's
j : ne\ Ineder.v. silk lies, scarfs.mil hand-
E iKhifl.s; Ladies :iml cliildifus merino
tfMiiZM vests, cliildiPii’s socks, mittens,
w;uk?s;iii<J worsted .SflP(ju<\s.
Silk ( tubreUds and /Vov/soAv,
\ line line ol kid. undressed kidiinillislo
irl.,v ,■>, enmeis, ineliiiliiiit the celelirated
“Cork Corset." 'l'iihle Linen — Napkin*
| tow "Is, tidies. Inee curtains.
.1 bine Lute of 'While floods.
t
lienj litiif switches anil antis. (icimtinuc
A Co.'s zephyr worsteds, wotsteil jiiil terns.
; zephyr ami Shetland shawls; I lie Wencks*
j perfumery and toilet soaps. dee-.'S-Om
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