JULY 5. 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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up de heat if you haf to burn up de 

 office furniture." 



You see, it was frozen so bad dat 

 We could not get any coal from de city 

 out und we had but wery little coal in 

 de shet. 



Well, dings went along all right un- 

 till apoud midnight. Aber den it got 

 cold, und de wint, Moly Hoses! but it 

 dit plow. De boliceman on de beat 

 who used to come in to get warm und 

 sbleep a few hours efery hour or so 

 tried to get as far as de corner to pull 

 his box, but de wint chust picked him 

 up und carried him pack to de coal 

 .shet again. You talk apoud wint here 

 in Chicago; why, de wint here is a 

 summer zephyr gombared mit de wint 

 we hat dot night. To make madders 

 worse de law gombelled us to haf a 

 high shmoke stack, so de shmoke woult 

 not spoil de neighbor's shtone front 

 houses. 



It would not haf peen so bat but de 

 damper was ausgespielt und we could 

 not gondroll de draft. De draft was 

 so strong dot I had to lay de coal on 

 de fire und hold it dere mit de shofel 

 till it got started or it would go right 

 up de chimney. Well, sir, it got worse 

 und worse; de old shmoke stack was 

 bent like de mast on a ship from de 

 wint und I was almost sgared to deat 

 dat I would go up drough de stack mit 

 de coal, so I got de boliceman to hold 

 on to me wile I shofeled de coal on de 

 fire. He weighed apoud 300 pounds 

 und mate a bretty goot anchor. 



Well, dings went along nicely until 

 I reached for de bottle wich de bolice- 

 man handed to me und I left go off de 

 shofel. Dot seddled it. De hole 

 schwindel went up de flue, shofel, bot- 

 tle, coal und all went drough de stack 

 und de shofel landed on top off one off 

 de rose houses und knocked out dree 

 lights off glass. Dere was a bredica- 

 ment — dree lights off glass out und de 

 dermometer so low dot Qe mergury 

 was frozen shtiff in de bulb. Here 

 was a madder wich called for prompt 

 agtions, but de wit of dot Irish bo- 

 liceman was equal to de oggasion; he 

 climbed up on de top off do house und 

 sat ofer de hole in de sash until I 

 could find straw mit wich to rebair de 

 damage. 



Nefer again do I want to put in 

 such a night, und de mere thought off 

 it makes me dremble for fear dot some 

 poor defil might be in de same fix dis 

 winder if he don't watch oud und get 

 in line now on dis coal bissness. Re- 

 memper de old adage, "In time off war 

 brepare for peace." Yours, 



FRITZ BLUMENSCHNEIDER. 



PHILIP'SBURG, PA. — Miller Hess 

 has purchased the greenhouse business 

 of his father, C. C. Hess, and will con- 

 tinue it On his own account. 



MARIETTA, PA.— Joseph Windolph, 

 a nureeryman and florist for forty 

 years, died June 9, aged 81 years. 



