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Key West prices: putting coal aboard $2 a ton—in

N. Y. 25c. Pilotage #108. Making a bolt $50. They say

it was the first Cal. steamer that has touched there in
2 years, so they scorched us.

Oliver tried to get the captain, for £100, to contract not
to bury him at sea in case he died—Capt. refused, so
Oliver went ashore Key West at 9 P.M.—the last man.

Sewing society for the monkey.

18 invalids yesterday and 13 today—only 2 really dan-
gerous—one of them was getting along handsomely, but
got drunk and took a relapse.

The noblest cigars in the world at Key West for $6 per
hundred—smuggled from Havana.

The sewing society have dressed the monkey up in
black pants and vest and a roundabout and cuffs of bright
red and yellow, curtain-calico pattern, and paper collar—
and he looks gay scampering around among the rigging.

Oliver had 380 cholera articles cut out.

Kingman found his long girl sitting by the taffrail alone.
He is in love with her.

Belmayne died Jan. 8 and was buried at sea abreast
of Florida.

The temperature of the Gulf Stream here (they try it
every 2 hrs. for information for Navy Dept.) is 76—
atmosphere 72. We are comfortable enough now while we
are in this fluid stove, but when we leave it at Cape Hat-
teras, Lord, it will be cold.