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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. pa
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOO..ISBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1908.
qi i;i;i: ni:inu i nsir.
IMMIunt 1fu. unci tVrulliir Slindct
Aiikiiik TIMr t'linrni'(TlKlici.
Tim hq lailuni, which l ono of
tht mot Inti rci-.tiiiK pljicos In In Dor
mudn, occupies tho old Imperial
Eiap.izlne on Agar's Island, opposite
p S:mry hills, writes T.ucy Elliot
Kcnlcr In tho Indianapolis News.
Th underground chambers nntt
vcaltcd passages afford excellent
ojt'ort unity for the nrrimgement of
'H. all tanks, whore one may observe
tin' fih comfortably on a level with
ciio'h eyes. The fish nre all from
Bermudinn Winers, and tlioui;h the
numbers ure tar loss than those In
the New York armarium the collrr
tion Is the most brilllntly colored oT
any it tins been my fortune to see.
Indeed, many of the colors are of
the kinds called ImpoKKlb. Noth
ing bat the rainbow Itself can rival
the angel fish, with Its flashing
blues And preens and yellows, as It
ewm lazily, Its slow motions In
stinct with grace. It Is broad, often
weighs up to four pounds, and sur
passes . 11 other local fish In the
flavor of Its flesh as well as In its
love'y hues.
The tour eyed fish, small and Ie
HrlitltiH; in sheltered coves, has
ltc true eyes hidden In a long black
ttr!re, slanting ; cress Its body,
while two black Rpots in its tall
are sufficiently realistic to rie
Cflve any casual enemy into mis
takes the fish's tall for its head.
The hog flan is very common here.
Its popular name being derived
from Its swlnellke profile and denti
tion. The long streamer like exten
sion of its fins gives it a singularly
graceful appearance. Specimens
often weigh twenty pounds. The
Spanish hog fish has a coat of much
splendor about half blue and .half
yellow.
Hamlets and groupers ere the
same thing, tho young fish called by
tlve first name, and those longer
than twenty inches by the second.
"Hamlet" suggests a dual person
ality, the fish changing color rap
Wily, representing when dark, tun
gloomy Prince of Denmark; tnd
when pale and gloomy, the Prince's
father's ghost. We went to tho
Devil's Cave one day, a naturr.l c;;vo
open above, where the nV.i;rn:en of
ten T;eep their catcher, and over
which ;Rn ancient Neptune looking
native, with his trldint, ; resides.
At feeding time -the grojpc many
of them four feet long, rushed up
savagely for thp'r food, making a
tremendous splashlnrr; and the ar
ray of their greRt open mouths was
almost terrifying. These fish pos
sess the protective device of chang
ing their color rapidly.
Sergeant majors, with five black
iross bands upon their yellow sides,
like tire chevrons of that non-com-mlssloned
officer, the doctor fish,
with lancellke processes on the side
of Its candal peduncle, and with pro
fessional instinct keeping its noso
jlojie to the pipe down which fresh
water was brought to the tank; the
jquirrel fishes, brighter than the
jold fishes of our fresh water aqua
ria; and the bonlto and amber (Isn,
io highly prized for table use; the
se-acat, less than six inches long, old
?old in color, -elevnting at will a de
cided coronet, and tumbling gently
Jrom ledge to ledge as it worked its
way down the tank; and the soap
Osh, which makes a lather, when at
tacked, to conceal Itself from Its
enemy how different all the cro
tures are from the fish of our north
ern waters.
Among the other forms of fish
were black eels and morays; some
striped morays weaving themselves
in and out of a drain pipe and about
ach other until it seemed as if they
:ould never get untied. The green
morays were solid moss color, b'x
inches thick and possibly seven feet
long. I was told that these crea
'.ures coil themselves and strike like
cobra, up from a depth of thirty
feet of water but I cannot' vouch for
'.he truth of the statement..
One tank was devoted to small
actopl, sticking like Inert masses
galnst the sides of the tank fasten
ed to Its glass wall by hundreds of
juttonllke suckers. As the keeper
poked them w lth a stick they chang
ed color, unwinding their vicious
srms, recalling to the spectator the
monsters in Victor Hugo's novel,
'Tollers of the Sea." A dead octo
pus, uncurled on a neighboring
beach, measured fourteen feet
spread. No less fantastic, though,
rar less hendlh, were the crayfish
tuch as we eat for Sunday suppers,
i delicious white flesh with gor
seJnus colored shellB, which once a
ear split down the back and are
mmediately crawled out of by their
rstwhlle Inhabitants. Bermuda
rhll&ren have a debonair fashion of
.Ishlng for crayfish with a bit of
'od flannel tied to a stout string,
nly the fisher must be patient and
Uow time for digestion to begin
idfore jerking the victim lout of the
abater. These creatures have more
egs than I could count, very long
vhlps pointed almost to a hair; and
hey propel themiwdvea with their
tils moving throutft the water v ltli
tartling rapidity.
OABTOHIA.
IIm, a -jf Kind Yaa lly Always Bought
tit
Ql'KKIt ArSTKAMAN OAMK.
Xntfvp riicitMiiit and (.hiuIN The
liHtrl Soup of Kangaroo Tall.
It Is on the blllabongs and creeks
of thp back country that the beBt
sport Is to be obtained. In wet sea
sons ducks and teal are to be shot,
and in the rnngps betwpen the Mur
ray and the Murrumbldgee Rivers
The "native pheasant," or mallee
hen Is to be found. This Is a fine
table bird, quite equal In my opin
ion, to any English pheasant. It is
very shy and not easy to obtain. I
knew a man who kept a fpw blood
hounds for hunting dingoes. He
used to go Into the scrub where
there were malee hens, put the dogs
on tholr tracks and canter after
them. , The birds would sometimes
rise In an open spnee in tho scrub,
and I have known him to bring down
a brace of them when shooting from
the saddle.
Good duck shoottng might be had
at the large water holes If it were
possible to get near without being
seen, and In the summer evenings
excellent sport Is obtainable by
waiting for the bronzpwlnged plg
pons, which at sunset fly to water.
Ther 1b also a small quail, like the
Kgyptlan, to be shot in New South
AVales after harvest. There they
strip the wheat, I. o., take merely
the heads off with a stripping ma
chine, leaving the straw. I have
known half a dozen guns make a
capital bag without dogs.
The Australian game bird, how
ever. Is the native bustard, or "wild
turkey," as It is there culled, al
though it is now very scarce except
In the extreme back country. At
one time It was common enough in
V'.-toria, though now rare In that
State, but on the back blocks of New
South Wales It was plentiful a few
years ago.
They were, nevertheless, difficult
to stalk on foot, but, curiously
enough will allow one to drive quite
within range, and I have seen many
shot from a buggy toward the Dar
ling River. They are capital table
birds, often larger than the biggest
turkey one could buy at an English
Christmas market. The flesh of tho
breast is brown and tastes like wild
duck. Properly cooked the Austra
lia bustard has hardly Its equal.
It prefers arid plains and I have shot
them on the goldfields of Western
Australia, where there Is little or
no .water. They must be able to
fly great distances, for one never
sees them about the desert country
of West Australia In the hot weath
er. Imported hares are very numer
ous In certain parts, and the rabbit
Is ubiquitous. I remember an Aus
tralian squatter, who was ruined by
rabbits, saying he had not much left,
but he would be glad to subscribe
a pound toward a monument to the
Idiot who Introduced rabbits and
foxes into Australia! Rabbit
shooting is to be had almost any
where, and as they are trapped and
poisoned by the hundred thousand,
perhaps they too may become ex
tinct In time. No one who has not
seen the rabbit warrens in the sandy
b;yjk country of the Darling would
credit the enormous number which
exist taere. I have passed miles of
sandhills nt dusk which seemed ab
solutely alive with vermin, as Aus
tralians call them. This reminds
me of an Englishman engaged to
cook for the shearers on a back sta
tioia, who by way of a treat, made a
rabbit pie for the men He was
nearly murdered for his pains! Aus
trian shearers had not come, they
said, to eat vermin.
Twenty or thirty years ago the
back country squatters, In order to
destroy kangaroos, used to dig huge
pits at the corners of their pad
docks, running yards of calico along
their wire fences and -then drive the
kangaroos into the pits, clubbing and
shooting them. In those days kan
garoo skins were of no value; now
that they are almost extinct, there Is
a great demand for tlem. The flesh
of a young kangaroo Is oy no means
to be despised, and the kangaroo tall
soup is u delicacy now hardly to be
obtained. London Field.
Mted 3,000,000 TVm'S Au.
A feathered giant of tbe past.
Extinct b'rd call- 1 th. jt'in.voi'liu'Jja.
it lived about 3,000.000 yearn ago
THB PHOXORHAOO.
and had Its home In Patagonia.
Its height"" was eltfht fent and Its
bead tu large us that of a 'horse. H
could not fly but was a sulft runner.
It lived on living jTey.
fld you ever hear of a coroner's
Jury returning a verdict of "killed br
l.ntinrtii7"
mi
WtftmW
Baby Bait for Crocodiles. 1
"Wot do ye think." said the sailor,
"of usln" live babies lu;' bait? We
done It in Ceylon."
"Hables for bait? 1- Ir.hhi;; for
shark?''
"No; crocodile. l;-')v.- bvit lr the
only thing for cro:oU!e. u.i.l evcr.v.
body tires It. Ye rent a l iiliy" now n
there for half a dollar a day."
"Of course," the sailor went on,
"til e tliln; ain't ns cruel a It sounds.
No harm ever comes to the banks,
or else, o' course, their mother
wouldn't rent 'em. The kids Is simp,
ly sot on the soft mud bank of a cro
codile i-trcam and the hunter lays hid
near them, a sure perfection.
"The crocodile is lasy. He basks
in the sun in midstream. Nothln' will
draw him In to shore where we can
pot him. Dut set a little fat naked
baby on the bank and the crocodile
soon rouses up. In he comes, a,
greedy look in his dull eyes, ana then
je open fire.
"I have got as many as four cro
codile with one baby in a morning's
flshin". Some Cingalese woman wot
lives near good crocodile streams
make as much as two dollars a week
rrg'lar out o' rentln' their babies for
crocodile bait."
There was so much ceremony con
nected with a church cornerstone lay.
Ing in New York City a few weeks
ago that the moving picture machine
man felt warranted to take a cou
ple of miles of photographs.
These pictures proved to be very
good, und large crowds were delight,
cd with the exnet reproduction of t:e
dedicatory exercises.
"I like the moving pictures better
than I did the original service," con.
fppsed a prominent member of the
congregation.
"You do?" gasped a devout ehler,
"I'm surely pained to hear yoti say
ho. Why should you prefer the pic.
turer?"
"lierause the picture man," answer,
ed the prominent member, pleasantly,
"cut out all the sermons."
In a Texas -tourt not many months
ago the clerk asked:
"(ient'.enu n of the jury, have you
agreed upon a verdict?"
"We have," said the foreman.
"What say you do you find the
prisoner at the bar guilty or not gull,
ty?"
"We do," replied the foreman.
I'You do? Do what?" usked the
clerk.
"We find the prisoner nt tho bar
guilty or not guilty," said the fore
man. "But, gentlemen, you must explr.lr.,''
said the clerk.
"Of course," responded the fore,
man. "You see, six of us find him
guilty and six of us find him mil guil
ty, and we're agreed to let it stand
at that."
A small brain that works is of more
use that a massive intellect that
balks.
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IfO.MH COOKING.
I'iirmlp IVKitm.
Boll In salted water until very
tender, then mash, seasoning with a
little butter, pepper end salt, add a
little flour and 1 or 2 egri well
beaten; make into small balls or
cakes, and fry In hot lard.
Splcel Innil).
Boll a leg of lamb, adding to the
water a handful of cloves and two
or three sticks of cinnamon broken
up, 2 tablespoonfuls of salt; boil
slowly 3 to 4 hours.
Fried Cucumbers.
Cut off the skin and then cut In
strips lengthwise very thin. Rub
the slices In meal and salt. Fry a
long time until tender, and then put
on butter and serve very hot.
Sham KMngp Cake.
Put two eggs In a coffee cup, beat
until light, then fill cup with sweet
cream; 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1
heaping spoon baking powder, 1-2
spoon salt, flavor with lemon and
bake in moderate oven.
Cocoimut Ile.
Procure a medium sized cocoanut
and grate It. Add to this one cup
of sugar, 2-3 cup of milk and the
milk of the cocoanut. Separate two
eggs, add the yolks then the whites
beaten stiff; line a deep plate with a
rich crust; pour the mixture in and
bake.
Gray Celluloid.
So well are the needs of elderly
women met that it is possible now to
get all kinds of pretty combs and
hair ornaments In gray celluloid. At
one time gray haired women were
confined to the choice of steel only
if they wished decorations to match
the hair, and such accessories are
decidedly expensive. There 1b, how
ever, no reason why every shade of
gray hair may not be matched for
the celluloid comes In a variety of
tones, plain or steel mounted, and
costs no more than the usual line of
combs or ornaments..
Money Mutters.
In all money matters a fair start
Is essential, and there should be a
clear understanding about it from
the first.
Begging for money is undignified
to say the least. A girl's parents
should arrange ths matter for her
before she Is married, and slso that
of her own personal expenses, that
she may not have to go to 'her huB
bnnd every time she wants money.
Phoebe Wardell.
Not In.
"Is the lady of the 'house In?" ask
ed the man at the door.
"Say!" replied the kid on the
stoop; "yer don't happen t' hear no
woman talkln', does yer?" Yonkers
Statesman.
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