NeWS OF THE WEEN.
—Ranodyme Shedd, a wealthy pio-
peer of Tekousha, Michigan, killed
his wife with an axe, and then fa-
tally cul his. own throat. He
was 73 years of age. Domestic
irouble caused the tragedy. Charles
Dean, aged 33 years, shot and killed
his brother Leverette, aged 33, and
then committed suicide, near Elkhart,
lllinois, on the 2d. There had been
ll-feeling between them for some time,
the cause of which is unknown.
~The President on the 3d signed the
act granting the rigt of way to the
Schuylkill River East Side Railroad
Company through the Arsenal and
Nayal Asylum grounds to Philadelphia,
~The Senate has confirmed H. E.
bBlaymaker to be postmaster at Lancas-
ter, Penna., H. G. Ashmead postmaster
fd Chester, Penna.., and R. Y.
Watson postmaster at Milford, Dela
ware,
Colonel
M. 5. Quay on the
urer, at Harrisburg,
—Argument on the motion for a new
trial for Samuel Johnson, convicted of
the murder of John Sharpless, at Media
was on the 3d postponed by Judge
Clayton until the October term of
court. Argument was heard in
ristown on a motion for & new trial in
the case of John M. Wilson, convicted
of the murder of Daly.
lumber
Four
Illinois, on the 4th, and three
cars fell down an embankment.
men were killed,
-A report comes
thet the Yankton Sioux and other
American Indians are threatening
trouble and have asked Sitting Bull to
join them.
from
less by the fire in Fairview, Penna, ,
on the 3d. The insurance
$9000 in the American and 81000 in
the Franklin Company, of Philadel-
phia. The paint and car shops of the
Omaha Railroad at St. Paul were
and two
$20,000,
passenger coaches, Loss,
The Home Mill, at Staffords-
Loss, $25,000.
ad. The Elkhart Paper
Indiana, was burned on the 3d.
$20,000,
—In the county jail at Winfield,
Kansas, on the evening of the 34, when
made a dash at hith and knocked him
down,
guards, fired at the gang and killed one
of them named Bennett, imprisoned for
counterfeiting. Champlin was then
struck senseless by a blow on the head,
and four prisoners convicted of
charged with horse stealing, counter-
feiting and forgery, made their escape,
—At Harrisburg on the 4th, Harding
and Smith, the associates of Dr. But-
termore, in the scheme to defraud the
State of $12,500 for a hospital at Con-
néllsville, were called before Judge
Simonton for sentence. They said on
the 3d that they did not want a
tral. The Court sentenced them to
pay the cost of prosecution and to pay
a fine of $200 each and to be hoprisoned
for one hour.
~—Robert Harding, Assistant Post-
master at Cleveland, Ohio, committed
suicide cn the 34,
~— Further particulars of the Anarch-
ist riot in Chicago show that the num-
ber killed was less than at first reported,
although the details of the conflict do
not lessen the atrocity of its character.
Two of the wounded policemen are
dead, four mortally wounded, and
twenty-four suffering from dangerous
wounds. There was more violence on
the 5th, but on a smaller scale, a mob
of men, women and children tearing
out a drug store and a saloon, but
wherever turbulence appeared it was
quelled. The Mayor issued a proclama-
tion, warning people against collecting
in crows, and advising them to obey
riot—the two brothers Spies, Schwab
and Fielding—were arrested on the oth,
Another, Parsons, escaped the police,
The office of the _Arbeiter Ze itung was
the two Spieses were captured. The
twenty-five printers were also arrested.
In the office were found arms and dyna-
mite,
the body of Officer Deegan, killed in
the riot, and the result was that the
prisoners were committed without bail.
—The Bracket Block in Minneapolis,
a five-story structure, to which an ad-
dition was being made,
thee 5th, burying
workmen. Late in the evening eleven
dead, the others more or less injured,
with an axe, fracturing her skull, Sup-
posing her dead he laid down beside
her, and cut the arteries of his left
wri:-t with a razor,
the woman was expected to recover,
Fauth to die,
ter at Reading, Pa.
~-Brigadter General Gabriel
U. 8. A, retired, died on the 5th
in Washington, in the 75th year of his
age.
~An official statement of the condi.
tion of the broken City National Bank
of Williamsport, Penna., shows that
the total liabilities are $285,651, in-
cluding eposiia of $140,500, besides
the capital stock of $100,000. The
assets include over $150,000 of bills
discounted, £33,000 of bonds and
precaiums and $22,000 in real estate
The liabilities exceed the assets by
$61,000. It 1s believed that depositors
will receive 25 per cent. of the amount
due them in a short time.
~The Situation at Oicaj 0 was im:
proved on the , there ng greater
fonhaence in the abiley of the autor
bios preserve peace, e
Switchmen’s Unlon has adopted a
resolution and the Knights of Labor
have issued a circular denouncing
the doivgs of the Anarchists, The
ee —
search for rioters is being kept up,
and fresh seizures of arms and powder
are made. In one house an alleged
maker of bombs, Gustav Stenge, was
arrested. Discoveries were made on
the 6th of attempts to start fires in
the lumber district, and at five min-
utes before 12 o'clock on the evening
of the same day two alarms of fire
were struck simultaneously, one from
the lumber district, the other from
‘the eentre of the city’s lowest quar-
ter,”” The fires were quickly subdued,
—The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs on the 6th, considered the reso-
lution introduced by Representative
O’Neill, of Missouri, thanking Mr.
Giladstone for his efforts to secure Home
Rule for Ireland. No action was taken,
and the discussion indicated a disposi- |
tion on the part of the committee to
allow the resolution to lie on the table
in the committee room.
~The labor troubles were discussed
on the 6th, in Cabinet meeting, and
*‘the riots in Chicago and Milwaukee,
and elsewhere, were referred to, with a
may ve found necessary.’
—3Senator Fair, of Nevada, has sent
to the Secretary of tae Interior a pam-
pulet advocating the settlement of the |
Apache question by the placing of the |
the Pacific Ocean, about 25 miles south-
The
island can be bought from its owner |
for a consideration. Mr. Fair says the |
adds: **Should this island be purchased |
forever put an end to the annual sam-
~The Senate has confirmed Frank
Jaltimore,
~The President on the 6th nomi- |
nat-d James H. McLeary, of ‘Texas, to
be Associate Justice for Montana.
Ex-Senator David Davis, of Illi.
nois, is reported to be dangerously ill
-0, B. Ficklin, ex-Congressman
from Illinois, died on the 5ili, aged 78
Lieutenant H. J. Hunt, of the
Drum, died at the Soldiers’ Home,
Washington, on the 5th.
—The rigging of the Thayer Oil Well
at Washington, Peana., was fired by
The well is one
of the largest in the district, having an
average dally flow of 60 barrels. Coop's
Hamilton, Ontario, was
tent of $40,000,
—Three fires were started simultan-
eously among wooden buildings in
Shenandoah, Penna., on the 5th. but
the flames were soon extinguished.
“> - nn
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
SENATE
In the U. 8, Senate on the 3d, Mr.
Hoar, from the ( omuittee on Prive
lieges and Elections, reperted favorably
the joint resolution, providing for a con-
stitutional amendment extending the
present Presidential term till the 30th of
April instead of the 4th of March,
1880, and providing that the term of
the Fiftieth Congress be also extended
to that date, It was placed on the cal-
endar. Mr. Dolph, from the Commit
tee on Pabliec Lauds, reported an g
inal bill to repeal all laws providing
the pre-emption of public la
allowing entries for timber
and other purposes. He
was designed to be offered as a sul
tule for the bill on the sam: subject,
already reported fiom the committee,
The Post-ofice Appropriation bill was
considered, pending which the Senate
went into executive and
afterwards adjourned.
In the U. 8, Senate on the 4th, a
number of private claim bills were con-
sidered. The Post-office Appropriation
bill was resumed, and the section ap-
proprating $500,000 for the carriage of
South Amer.
ica, China, Japan, etc., were adopted
~—yeas 30, nays 18, The bill was then
passed finally and goes back to the
Sess.on S000
Mr. Morgan offered resolutions, which
were ordered to be printed and to lie on
the table, declaring *‘that it is the duty
of Congress to extend necessary mail
wtich the United States has any con- |
profitably developed; that the duty of |
Congress to provide that the American
abroad and import them at reasonable
rates of daty, and that the laws pro- |
hibiting the importation of foreign |
laws would be that would prohibit the
importation of all other articles of |
foreign manufacture,” The Senate |
then adjourned. :
In the U. S, Senate on the 5th, Mr, |
Morgan, from the Committee on For- |
eign Relations, reported a resolution
declaring it to be the gense of the Sen- |
ate that some arrangement should be |
made with the Government of Mexico
the suppression of the
cattle over the border line between the |
United States and Mexico; also a copy
ident. The Inter State Commerce bill |
was considered. The Chair presented |
an order proposed by the Cdmmitiee on
Foreign Relations, making the Anti
Chinese Immigration bill and the Chi- i
nese Indemnity bill special orders for |
Monday, May 17th. After an exec- |
utive session the Senate adjourned, :
Inthe U. S. Senate on the Gth, the |
Inter-State Commerce bill was consid-
ered, and various amendments were |
submitted. It was unanimously agreed |
that a vote should be taken on the bill i
on the 11th. Mr, Miller, from the Com- |
mittee on Education and Labor re. |
ported favorably a bill applying to let-
ter carriers the provisions of the Eight-
hour law. After an executive session
the Senate adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE
In the House on the 30th ult., a reso-
lution was adopted apart May
15th, for the consideration of the Oleo-
margarine bill, The bill creat a
Depaptment of Agriculture in, To
Sp
cussed. The River and Harbor bill was
considered in Committee of the Whole,
pending which the House adjourned.
In the U. 8, Gouse of Representa-
tives on the 1st Mr, Findlay, of Mary-
land, from the Civil Service Committee,
submitted a report on a recent resolu.
ton offered by Mr. Taulbee, of Ken.
tucky, directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to inform the House by what
employes in his department to appoint
substitutes is allowed, . The commitiee,
In its réport, says that it can see
no reason for questioning the good
faith of the statement made by the
acting Secretary of the Treasury, that
of sickness,
of substitutes, the committee asks
to be discharged from
cousideration of the subject. After a
law, Mr.
resolution
was
the Civil Service
moved to lay the
table. The motion
yeas 114, nays 113
on the
subjects for losses sustained within
the jurisdiction of the United States,
a bill authorizing the construction of
dry docks at certain navy vards,
Oklahoma bill was considered.
journed.
Ad-
In the House on the 34, conference
the Indian Appropriation
bill and the “Fourth of July Claims’
Lill were agreed to, A re-olution was
adopted providing that on and after the
10th inst., the sessions of the House
shall be from 11 A, M., until 5 P. M.
A bill was mtroduced by Mr. Findlay
of Maryland, repealing all taxes
tobacco and the manufacture and sale
thereof, und by Mr, Adams, of New
York, to amend the tariff law by strik-
lng out the words “woolen and worsted”
from the clause which imposes a duly
On
on
J5 per cent. ad valorem to 35 cents per
pound and 40 per cent. ad valorem (ac-
cording to the value of the article} on
flannels, blankets, licods of wool, knit
goods made on knitting frames, balmo-
rals, woolen and worsed yarns, ete, Ad-
journed,
In the House on the 4th, the resigna-
tion of Congressman Pulitzer, of New
York, was received and laid the
table, The Campbell-Weaver contested
election cuse was considered, and the
majority resolution declaring Mr.
Weaver, the sitting member, entitled
to his seat, was adopted. An evenir 2
was held for the disposal of
business from the Military Committee,
Adjourned.
on
session
In the House, on the 5th, Mr. Dock-
fr i {Committee on Post
bill to extend the
free delivery Mr. Gregory,
lowa, from on Alco
holic Liquor Traffic, reported adversely
the Senate ill for a Commission on
the Traffic in Aleoholie Liquors, Mr,
Morrison, from the Ways and Means
Committee, reported a repealing
the law allowing internal revenue col-
actors commissions on taxes collected
on distilled spirits, A bill “for the re-
lief of certain officers of tne volunteer
Commtes of
of Maine,
extending the
ery,
flirpa
oliices,
on
reported a
EeIVice,
the (
of
committee
bili
the Whole,
offered an amendment
provisic of the bill to enli men
in the navy and marine corps, Agreed
to—yeas, 127; nays, 72. Pending
the Committee rose ane
was taken until evening, ‘I'he
eration of the bill was resumed
evening session. Adiourned,
Mr.
L 31]
joutelle,
gieg
Mis
tion
. i
Con
of the
Virginia, from Commitiee on
the Judiciary, reported adversely a
joint resolution proposing a constitu-
tioval amendment providing for female
suffrage. It was placed on the calen-
der. The same gentleman, from the
Judictary Committee, reported ad-
versely a bill **to equalize the right of
fishing in the navigable waters of the
United States,” and it was laid on the
table. The bill to create a Depart-
ment of Agneculture and Labor was
consulered in the morning hour. The
bill was resumed, and Mr. Holman, of
Indiana, moved to recommit the bill,
with instructions to the Committees on
divers and Hurbors to report back a
measure appropriating eight million
War, sub-
President.
Rejected—yeas 85, nays 157. The bill
was then passed-—yeas 143, nays 102.
After an unsuccessful attempt to have
direction of the Séeretary of
House adjourned,
EE —— AAs
American Agriculture.
A grand sight 8a field of Corn on a
hot day. I remember being upon a
train in Southern Illinois which, on ac.
count of obstructions on the line, had to
lie upon a siding for several hours,
great level plain, I wandered among
the immense stalks, some at least four-
teen feet high: a heavy dew had fallen
during the night, and the hot morning
sun was now well up in the heavens,
Crack after crack resounded like pistol
shots, It was the corn bursting its cov-
erings. I imagined I could actually see
it grow; I know I felt it do so. What
would America do without its maize
and cotton, the two pillars upon which
its agricultural supremacy so largely de-
pends, She is pretty sure of the future,
however, for upon no other portion of
the globe can these be grown to such
advantage.
"MA, what Is meant by ‘little pitch-
ers have long ears’? “It is simply an
expression, my dear, used by grown
people sometimes when children are
about, Where did you hear it?” oJ
heard pa say it to the nurse.’
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow and tomorrow, O falr and far
away,
What treasures lie when hope is high, along
your shining way!
What promises all unfulfilled, what better
deeds to ao
Than ever yet, are softly set beneath your
skies of blue,
Tomorrow and tomorrow, O sweet and far
Away,
Btill evermore lead on before, along your
shining way!
Bull evermore lift up your eyes above what
we have won,
To higher needs and finer deeds that we
have left undone.
““1t is my opinion that that will be a
Mrs. Slimborn’s voice expressed gen-
uine satisfaction. Her daughter, Mim
waltz in the hotel parlor, and James
Nicklespoon, Esq., engaged in turning
“Oh!
gentleman,
you know."’
“So I have heard,” sald the plain lit-
tle woman in black silk
lace, who was evidently watching the
proceedings at the piano with consid.
very much |
and enormously wealthy,
and
erable interest; “and I have also heard,”
she added, *‘that Mr, Nicklespoon was
somewhat dissipated,”
“Not to speak of, 1 think,"
Simborn responded, a smiling
turned to the young couple at
piano, **Mr, Nicklespoon may be a
little gay,” she went on lightly, “but,
my dear Mrs. Beaufort, you wouldn't
recommend a minister for a son-in-law,
would you ?”
“If the minister were a good mau,
Mrs.
face
the
most certainly I'’ the little lady replied
“If Mr. Nicklespoon were to lose his
money, has he anything to depend
upon, Mrs. Slimborn ?’ ghe inquired.
“Mercy on us!” the maneuvering
woman exclaimed. “You don’t know
what you are talking about, Mrs.
Beaufort! Why, Mr. Nicklespoon’s
place on the Hudson is worth
Mr. Nicklespoon
half a
million at least,
his money !
This was so comical and prepos
that Mrs,
,
a suggestion
obliged 0 ask
ceedingly impolite as to !
companion’s face,
“Your
Mrs,
neighbor's
a3 sr 13 a fine
daughter {5 a fin
Deaufort remarked, after
merriment had subside
“she ought to be,”
“We have
of dollars on her mu
ig and went
mamma,
ical education.
left everythis abroad with
sake
perfected, you know,” Mrs,
“Dear me, I did
s wilh tKTIe88
her for two years, just for the
having her
Slimborn
think I
ennui. dirdie's
ome back for two «
» you think; but
was all nonsense,
“In whal way was it
Mrs, Beaufort inquired,
“Don’t you think she can
enoughas it is? if had
ucating her for a public performer, that
would have been different.’
homes]
and teacher didn't
want wr three
her to
more, d
+
play well
we been ed-
'
“1 suppose she could teach music.”
This plain lady dressed in black silk
and thread lace s
disagreeable; but as she happened to be
ectned determined to be
the distinguished wifeof a very wealthy
and distinguished man, Mrs, Siimbomn
felt constrained to put up with her ec-
centricities,
“Birdie teach music!’ Mrs. Slim-
born was again very much amused,
“Why, she is the most nervous crea-
ture in the world, and cxtremely del-
You wouldn't think to look
but Birdie cries the leas
thing. This used to annoy the profes.
sors 50 much when we were abroad,
but she is so sensitive, poor child.”
“I suppose your daughter's study of
Mrs, Beaufort
is
ik
icate,
at her, at
remarked,
“Well, in a way,” Mrs. Slimborn
“I had her skip harmony and
“That's about it!” Mrs, Slimborn re-
“We mothers have a
fearful responsibility, for so much de.
pends on the way we begin with eur
daughters. If they are not well settled,
to blame us.’
“So much depends on what you
mean by well settled,” “Mrs. Slim-
born’s neighbor remarked. “If par.
ents educate their daughters, as they
do their sons, to be self-supportiog—*'
“Self-supporting ?*' Mrs, Slimborn
interrupted with a frightened expres.
sion of countenance. *'You don't mean
to work and take care of themselves 7%
“That is precisely what I mean," the
lady responded, “If, for instance, you
bad seen to it that your daughter had
studied music so thoroughly as to be
then you would have secured her
against the future,”
“Excuse me,” said Mrs. Slimborn,
with some coolness; “but if you will
allow me make a personal matter of it,
I should like to ask If you have educa-
ted your daughters on this plan 7”
The little lady in black silk smiled
pleasantly,
“My oldest daughter, Mure.
born,” she answered, *“is now perfect
ing herself 1 dressmaking. To use a
more plebiean expression, she has learned
a trade. Bhe made the dress, Mrs.
Slimborn, that you admired so much
to-day at dinner. Her taste ran in this
direction, and my alm has been to have
her learn everything that can be lecrned
If any-
Slim-
future which made it necessary for her
to support herself, she could do it. My
college, and will return this fall to take
up astronomy with the professor of that
institution. Toadd a little to this person-
al narative, Mrs. Slimborn,” and now
the little lady laughed heartily, **it is my
desire that both my daughters shail live
“Mercy on me! old maids!”
aimed,
“Old unless their
are their equals in the qualities that in
life,” said
“To bury
Siimborn.” i
maids husbands
Mrs, Beaufort,
'
my daughters,
eur
nestly,
Mrs :
added, “would be a light trouble com
pared with giving them to unprincipled
| dissolute men. Wealth my daught-
and
without if need be, bat
€rs can hve but
honor is indispensable,’
and Miss Bir-
die had walked away with her admirer.
Mrs, Slimborn, a and
she had heard,
aa } ses 1d
43 8he Could,
The music had ceased,
good deal dazed,
more shocked by what
excused herself, as soon
and went in search of the young couple,
The next day the formal announce-
engagement be-
tween James Nicklespoon, Esq., and
Miss Birdie Slimborn.
That morning Mr. Nicklespoon
ebrated his
drunk.
“Boys must be
engagement by
boys!" Mrs. Siin
born remarked when the news came t
and boih her
commented jokingly on the
her, she and daughter
young
ext
figuinat ad
£3 ipaLeq
»
Mr.
Hudson, Mr, Nicklespoon’s town house,
man’s
appearnce the n
day, Nicklesp on's place on
and means fully comp
in the eyes of both mother ¢
{ any and
daughter for
3 «4 sient ¥
which Mr. Nicklespoon
very
cretion”
fail
dessa
Mr.
*
and Miss Shmborn were married. Mrs,
Beaufort, roti
whicl
Nicklespoon
cnness
Aware eon
upon
Lticed with absorbing
¢
#3
of this young couple.
just took four years for Mr. Nickle
s
t
spoon to get through with his property,
fre A!
and at the } 1A Lime irs,
Nicklespoon was obli; e¢ to her
parents not only fi ut for
protection against the dissipated wretch
had been in such
Mr, Slimborn, who
to whom her mother
te to marry her,
speculated on the expectation of
from his wealthy
failed in business,
died. Mrs, Slimbor,
and grandehild,
harity, neither woman having
{est
icial assistance
} finally
after
are ob-
4 1E vd
the siigh
the ality to contribute in
own
of pity for t
tune, found a few music scholars for
Mrs. Nicklespoon, but that
education, notwithstanding
Tak At
support. Sal,
misfor-
manner to Ler
Lei
lady’s su-
ble for her to give satisfaction.
“1 told you Birdie couldnt teach I”
*1 dudn’t educate her
for a teacher; and then her sensibilities
are much too fine for such drudgery.”
“It wasn’t any use to say anything to
her,” Mrs. Beaufort remarked after-
seems to me the story of
Perhaps some mother who reads it will
think less of her daughter's marriage
and more of her education. If mothers
would only fiad out what their girls are
Mar.
tery,”’ she continued; “and the proper
The success of the incandescent elec.
is pronounced complete.
regular side-lights are included in this
plan, but the interior of the vehicle 1s
illuminated by a lamp sufficiently pow-
erful to read by, and in some instances
a similar lamp is placed for hovelty on
the head of the horse. The lamps are
connected by wires with small acenmn-
lators placed under the driver's seat,
They are small in size, being only about
eight inches square and four inches
high, each of such accumulators being
able to supply a lamp of five candle
power for the space of some six hours,
During the day they are removed and
charged with electricity from a dynamo
machine or otherwise, and at night they
are ready for use,
— — si —
Walk as if you were conscious that
your body has a soul in it,
BE tr eotesiapaatimsrmes
AUTOGRAPHS AND STAMPS.
—————
The Demands Made Upon Public
Officials,
There are two kinds of hunters in ad.
dition to the ever present office hunters
that public officials cannot escape—the
autograph seeker and the postage stamp
collector, A change of administration
brings to the front the entire army of
the former and they continue their ats
tacks until the close of the administra
tion, when the eignatures of ex-officials
are not so much in demand, The desk
of the President's door-keeper, which
stands at the door of the cabinet room,
is never free from autograph albums,
Sometimes there are several piles of
them. Charles Loeffner, the door
keeper, has his hands full in complving
with the many requests that are made
of him to secure autographs, The
President's signature is first obtained on
the proper page, a certain place being
marked in the book for each autograph
desired, Afterwards the cabinet officers
are caught as they come from the Pres.
ident’s office, and find that the easiest
way out of the scrape is to sit down and
scratch off their names, © The signa-
tures of other men of prominence are
thie way, when
they are all in the albums are ret urned
| secured in Bane and
owners, Requests for auto-
18 by mail are received every day
At the
Department of Justice the requests for
1 the different departments,
the autograph of the Attorney General
| range from one to six daily. Only on
writer in about ten thinks of
The majority of the letter
J CLE,
a stamp.
therefore, find their way into the waste
basket, although some are answered
something of the following manner: “1
i f
am directed to mform you that th
no money available by the Depart
ere
nent
for auto-
the auto-
of Justice for paying postage
graphs.” ‘Those who want
| graph very much take the hint. and
send back a stamp. One person sent
back an answer the other day in whieh
he §1 i
remark that he was glad to see that the
Attorney General took such a broad and
business-like view of his official duties,
Most
iclosed a postage stamp, with
writers object to paying six cents
virszhas . bind
postage, for that
is what it will cost
to inciose the
A request wa
r them some
from the foreign mai
$3
the co
make
sapers off
Departm
cials ¢
$f a 1 4
ment appeared in
ing $51
ng $v
of Justice =
rub
Fac
wt unde: :
he department with suc
creased force, until one
to see the advertisement 3
King of stamps, always refer to
of the ox niry
belong. A little
fellow called ief clerk of the
Department of Justice the other day,
and said: “Please sir, give me a De-
partment of He couldn’t
understand for some time the reply that
the ¢ ¥ possessed but one such de-
partment, and that was daily ue.
He finally explained it was a depart-
ment stamp he wanted, and not the de-
partment itself,
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It is estimated by the California- fish
commissioners that §3.000.000 worth of
fish 1s annually exported from the wa-
‘ers of that State to China by Chinese
fishermen.
Two lakesat Lynn, Conn., contained
a bountiful supply of perch and pickerel
three years ago hey were stocked
with black bass. Now the pickerel
| have disappeared, bul black bass are
| plentiful,
A fish caught near Gloucester, Mass,
was about eight inches long, and looked
somewhat like a miniature sperm whale,
with a head resembling an animal’s and
| a true whale's tail. It is a mystery to
| the tishermen.
A fisherman says he has frequently
| caught two [ish on one hook in the wa-
| ters of Long Island Sound, one of the
| fish having seized hold of the other's
j tail. He thinks that certain fish have
| a habit of steering each other through
| strong currents in this manner. When
{taken out of the water exhaustion
| causes them to tighten their hold, and
| thus the angler is enabled to land them.
| The Greenland shark is hunted prin-
cipally for its liver, it Is caught on a
hook baited with seal fat or half-decay-
ed horseflesh, The flesh of the shark
when fresh is indigestible and unwhole-
some; when dried it has a flavor like
that of old cheese. It is usually pre.
pared for food by a process of fermen
tation, the flesh being buried in the
ground. When fermented the meat is
slimy and jelly-like,
. Mackerel are frequently found under
the swimming-bells of medude, and it
has been cstablished that they eat off
the points of the latter's tentacles. It
is remarkable that the mackerel can
live unharmed close to the meduswm,
and even prey u them, when much
Iarger fish are uently found dead
from contact with them. The macker-
el gains food and also
these poisonous