20 FRUITS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 



the market grows as fast as the production, and through 

 increased facilities for transportation every hamlet in the 

 country teems with such lusciousness as half a century 

 ago it would be impossible for an e-nperor to command. 



JFVuit growing in Morida also shows an immense yearly 

 increase. During the season of 1888-9, according to the 

 Florida Fruit Fjxchange, 600,000 boxes of oranges were 

 shipped to New York City alone. Of this fruit the first to 

 arrive comes from Havana, followed by that from Jamai- 

 ca and Porto Rico, afterward the productions of Florida 

 and California. Then comes the Mediterranean oranges 

 including those from Valencia, Messina, Palermo, Catania, 

 Joppa, or the Holy Land, and Naples. The Sicilian 

 oranges, from Palermo and Messina, are stored for summer 

 use, thus not coming in competition with the fruit of our 

 own country. 



As an evidence of the quantity of fruit now used it may 

 be stated that the value of Green and Dried Fruit Impor- 

 tations, including nuts, as reported at the Custom 

 House at the end of the third week ( f June 1889, amount- 

 ed in round figures, to the sum of $217,000. 



PEI7IT AND TEMPEBANCE. 



Many persons recognize only one kind of Intemperance, 

 oamely, indulgence in alcoholic stimulants. In fact, in- 

 temperance in the use of food, more often than otherwise, 

 precedes indulgence in the use of liquor. Whip the di- 

 gestive organs into excessive activity by eating rich viands, 

 condiments and spices, and after awhile they refuse to act 

 except wh'en spurred by stimulants. A morbid appetite 

 is thus formed and in the struggle between appetite and 

 principle, the weak will yields the struggle. 



