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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Millions of Watormelons. e Thomasville is the center of the watermelon district, which covers in area about 150 miles square, including the southwestern portion of Georgia I and the northwestern portion of Florida, and when the season opens the 'reight departments of the railroads in this section move their headquarters to i Thomasville, and the telegraph t pany sends down five extra operators L to handle the increased business f casioned by the purchase and shipmenc 1 of the erop says the Chicago Record. ' The season lasts about two months, ginning with July and ending with August, and last year between 7,000 and 8 000 carloads were shipped outside the state, carrying an average of 1,200 melons to a car, which makes a total of about 9,000,000 melons contributed to the northern and western appetite. A. 1'arlor Pistol. The parlor pistol will afford much amusement and is very simple of con'itruction. For the cylinder take a goose quill five or six inches long. The piston can be made from a pen handle or a small rule rounded off except at the top, where the square part serves as a handle The projectiles should be safe, elastic and slightly moist. A potato will furnish you with very good Dnes. Cut it in slices of the thickness of a finger and press the quill through it as many times as you need projectiles. These will be of the exact caliber of your pistol and in every respect satisfactory. A target made oL pasteboard and pierced at the center with a hole through which the projectiles may pass can be set up in any convenlent place for practice. _ Dr. Price's Creara Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.

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Ann Arbor Courier