CRABSOF MANYKINDS AND THEIR
CURIOUS WAYS,
Fiddlers, Shore Crabs, Oyster Crabs,
Stone Crabs and Lady Crabs—The
Most Beautiful Crabs,
“There are ever =o many cerious kinds
of crabs in the wor'd,” said a naturalist
te a Washington Star writer the other
day. ‘Not the least interesting species
is that of the funny little fiddlers, which
ure found all along the Atlantic co mst of
the Unitel They inhabit the
marshes near the seashore and often they
ure in
even resiments,
States.
seen numerous companies
wulering over
their homes. When disturbed, they quick-
the nears st holes, and often failing to
discriminate in their cho'ce refuge.
Under such conditions you will frequent.
ly « werve.the rightful owner of a bur
row in the act of ejecting one or more in-
truders,
“The burrows which
in are nourly or quite vertical holes for
a foot or more in depth, after which
they take a horizontal turn. each
ending in a chamber where the occupant
stays most of the time when not looking
about for food. These queer crustaceans
are vegetable feeders, depending chiefly
for their diet upon small plants of a sea-
weed natare, with which the mud where
they dwell is more or less covere i on the
surface. Such growths they
with their claws and consume,
fiddler has one small claw and
big claw, the latter being presumably in-
of a
one
serape
The mule
yery
up
one
ing, inasmuch as the little claw
clusively emploved to feed itwelf with.
In the femaie both claws are small
are utilized indifferently for
food to the mouth. It very
to see these animals at work exe
their burrows. This or they
either at night or in the dav time, and
they do the digging by fetching to the
surface the mud or sand, a small pellet
at a time, depositing each such load at a
distance four or five feet from
hole.
“There are two remarkab'e species of
crabs on the P i :
ful there than
ire }
purple ‘shores crabs.
nearly square and their claw
for the size of the a al
them will often be
big stone, vspeci:
In Orackish wa
flat when the
them threaten the intruder wi
mandibles
the people
eaten by the
as a delicacy, 1
cooking them over
“Among
those which sare n
than as parasites of the
ever, only the females Ii
and
conveving
amusing
ating
vf
per A007
is
is
of
acific const, more p
any other kinds,
called respectively
or ter
thoas
tide is out
I'lhev are not
spits
shells, wh Te SHC
by Wry lover
F
dwell with the oyste
are found swimming
the water,
size of half an inch a
‘These little fellows are ¢
good to eat epicures, who
them raw together with the
ally. They are
in various fashions, and
pickled. A nearly allied species is found
in the shells of common sea mussels and
scallops. It is bigzer than the ovster
crab, and the females alone of this kind
are parasites.
One of the most highly prize
taceans is the so-called
the South Atlantic const which is
all the way from South Carolina to Key
West, and in the Galf of Mexico also. It
lives in holes in the mud along creeks
sidered
allow
by
sw
ovsters usu.
also cooked separately
are occasions
i of erus.
‘stone crab’ :
found
A heap of refuse bricks often affords it a
congenial biding place. It is
creature and grabbing him at the risk of
fn severe bite. The animal hus very
powerful claws ani its nip is something
to be dreaded a skillful
person ean make the ¢ apture without
much danger, if only he is quick enough,
The art lies in seizing the prey before it
has time to make a clutch. Where crabs
of this kind are caught they are highly
esteemed as food, the meat of the big
claws having a lobster. like flavor.
Ne ertheless,
§
They
are preferred even to the blue crabs of
the sort common in the Chesapedke and
Potomne, and command a higher price in
crabs, measuring two
the back shell.
it is apt to be very difficult to detach
them without fetch nz them out piece.
mea’,
the ‘lady erabs’ or ‘sand crabs,’ which
Cod to Florida nnd in the Gulf of
ico.
Mex.
red and purple on the back.
themselves commonly near low-water
mark on the beaches, covering them.
selves up to the vyes with sand and be.
ing thus perfectly concealed while watch.
together and instantly, So numerous
are they in somo localities that a dead
fish on the beach will often be found
covered with them, but if any oue ap.
proaches they scuttle off and vanish with
marvelous celerity. Presently, if all is
quiet, an immense number of eyes and
anteune are protruded from beneath the
sand, and after their owners have satis.
fied themselves that all is well, the army
of crabs reappears and continues oper-
utions. ‘I'bese ludy crabs are an impor-
tant article of food in the Now Orleans
market, but it is rarely that thoy are
seen for sale in the north,
“The most beautiful crabs in the
world are procared in the neighborhood
of the Faralloue Islands, off the Pacitie
coast. ‘Lhey are called ‘red rock erabs,’
amd specimens sometimes well in the
markets of Ban Francisco for from $0 to
$10 each, merely for curiosit'es. Their
ground color is bright vermilion and their
spines deep blue, The back shell is
claws are adorned with tufts of hair,
Curiosity is often expressed as to the
reason why blue erubs ure sometimes
found in the Potomae and cls where
enreying smaller ones beneath them.
The object of this is the protection of
the female at the time when she has
cast her shell and is consequently help.
In this manner the male
takes care of the female and defends
hor enemies by which she
otherwise be devoured.”
loss, crag
from
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES,
Newfoundland has decided
pate in the Exposition
fo partici.
and
must
The limit of time in which States
territories and foreign countries
position grounds has been fixed at June
1, 1892,
Mr. 8. J. Hunter, of Nevada, Mo., has
11,000 varioties of
The Arkansas World's Fair Board has
selected ton ueres near Little Rock which
it will have cultivated with the of
raising various sgricultural pro luets for
at ihe I'he Board
hus made arrangements to to
Chicago for the Forestry building speci-
white ounk, red oak,
gum, cypress and walnut.
The New Wales World's
view
Fx position.
send
swoel
South Fair
exhibition at the Exposition copies of
noted
northern Queensland, and also a whole
aboriginal cave iuscriptions of
The president of the Tennessee
CONYen-
tion of the representatives of the man-
ufasturing, mining, railroad,
timber aud other industrial enterprises
and i iterests of East
at Knoxville, March 24, for the
of considering and taking ae
wavs
bd
marble,
'ennessee to meot
purpose
tion ns to
g for a
us ior ding 1
"air.
men
and
cro litable exhibit at the
I'he Koellner Muaennergesang Verein,
i Asso ia-
the Lehrer-Vere
1 uensiivr
Teachers
n, the 1
and the V
tion) of Dresd
Verein of Berlin, nna Maen.
$1
nergesang-Vorein, all promis singing
fis
ioties decided visit the
h ive
sReh-
Philadelphia will
Pennsylvania exhibit o
historical relics now
Meade Post, (:. A. R
Goorge W. Childs, and the Drexel Insti.
tute: repr f
Franklin, St
time celebrated citize
Lib ry Bell,
interesting obiects
tribute
choice ©
poss #2100 of
in
esentations of fenjamin
and other old.
the
exceedingiy
ephen Girard
ns
her
i
Applications fo
£ IDs are
famous
space YErY numerons
from
“The Rebel Yell, **
espe ial! : GUT
Southern country, where peopl i i far
Life in the countrs
apart and were emploved oftentim
considerable distance fron one another,
and from the houses or homes in which
they ate and slept
with one
pr pe the tr
notes A
sounds was consta
afforded and frequently required,
The
men
tance calls,”’
tended, by exercise in
communicating another, to
strengthen and im
high and prolonged
range to the vocal
QICea
voices of women as well as of
utiiized for “long-dis.
It way be amusing to note
difference in intonation which was
usually exhibited by the sexes. When a
man had occasion to any one
were often
summon
the Pacific in 1886 many islands were
found seattered about in what bad been
6,000 feot of water in 1867. Falco
lund, which, by the way, still continues
to grow, was then one and four-tenths of
Is
{
the second. thus, ‘O h, Jom!" If a
fema'e calied, the prolonged tone and the
the last
Pa
Hollowing, screaming, yelling for one
the necompanying reverborations from
hilltops, vver vadeys and plains, were
familiar sounds throaehout the farming
by. It usel to be siid of my father's
old negro foreman that he could be dis
tinetly understood a mile or more away.
Hunting, which was enjoyed and in
development. Dr. J.
Harvie Dow, in Century.
How an Island Grew.
In 1867 her Majesty's ship Falcon re.
posted a shoal about thirty miles west of
Namuka, one of the islands in the Ton.
ga or Friendly group. This was consid.
ered rather odd, a deep-son sounding ex.
vedition having buat nine months previ.
ous reported 6,000 feel of water in that
vicinity, Ten yrara Inter, in 1877, H.
M. 8. Sappho reported seeing smoke
rising from what had been called the
“Falcon shoals,” and in 1885 a passing
ship's logbook noted that a voleanio
island had arisen on the site of the
“shouls.” On October 14, 1885, a sub.
marine eruption further i.creased the
size of Falcon Island, as '* has since
been called, for when the Unifed States
in the highest In 1890
nearly two miles long and a mile wid,
and had two active
place, it wns
VOLCINoes,
A MATCH FACTORY.
Little Article
Of the vast number of matches that
are used daily in our hovreholds, only a
small proportion are manufacture d in
this country. Most of them are imported
from Norway, Sweden, Holland and Ltaly
It is in London that the largest
best-equipped natch factories
world are situated.
matches are
and
tl
Lie
in
The English wooden
and
than those used in this country, and ure
shorter more slender
boxes
packed in smaller
men are emploved
Cly
in the Loadon facto.
Most of the work i= done by wamen
TIEN,
and girls. The women receive
or
432
wail,
a little more than 5 ex nis for every
boxes they fill. :
Phin seems ut first thought vers
pay, but when it
ation that a go ul, steady worker can fill
small
is taken into consider
nbout twelve times that numb r of buses
that the
wages that they receive are fully
the averaze wages of women in Europe,
: |
inn duy or ten hours, it is seen
up 1
in London
: 2
match factories say that they ean make
more money in that business than in any
thing e
N i
» ’ ha
known
Isp
of the eri
the
tidy, and although they ar.
*"
ie
is Come
Fast side.
is ns
ed hy those who know
them to be a very sickly and
set, they are, in fact, m 2
ful and happy than the ma
work in other place
usually be recognized by
ly
large plume d hats whic)
rom the i
taken into ¢
If now
fill the bos
avery sharp |
matches
This work is 20 rg
almost impossible te
eve, Not more than
cupiod by the entire .
he boxes are then wranped in
pare nt pape r by anoth
paper being folded ses
deftness and neatness
other work, The
packed into large boxes roa
to the jobber, and finally
consumer :
trans
gir.»
eral times
it
Riuom
ir sel of
oon
are then
to be so d
mnt hes
iv
3
iy
to reach
A Silent Banquet,
A couple of dozens
garrison of Madrid. Spain, had agreed to
have a banquet in celebration of 4 great
military event,
from their commander, who granted it
under the condition thet no politics of
any kind should be mentioned, more par-
ticularly not the militury reforms pro.
posed nor the opposition to these propo.
sale; neither the proposed redactions in
the military budget. In the disturbed
state of public opinion in Spain any dis-
cussion by military men in reunion, said
the oantain general, might cause un.
toward commentaries to be made both in
the press and in public conversation.
The officers had to accept the condition
and obey the order, and tho banquet was
remarkable for the fact that uot a single
speech was made nor any joint toust
drunk. For with such an injunction
hanging over them, what on earth conld
these sons of Mars have talked about?
{Chicago Herald,
A live manatee or sea cow was
caught in Biscayne Bay a few days
ago, reports the Eustis Lake, Fla.,
Region. It gave its captors a lively
time and some hard work to get it
ucross the bay. Sometimes it came
exhausted by its efforts to escape.
Then, when somewhat rested, it
would break away, and, to prevent
swamping their little boat, they
would have togive it hope and et it
run awhile, Bh Asa ad
A SAILORS STORY.
THE STARTLING ADVENTURES
OF A MAROONED WOMAN.
Put A hore on an
Island Brave Mrs,
Male Attire
Months ~Her
pericnees,
Welles
dons
Remarkable Ex.
There is a sailor emploved by 1p
in South Street, New York,
who atiracts attention by his kK on the
giroet.
tuched to his body for walking sideways
instead of the manner At
first glance 3 ould call it a nctural
deformity, but i hi
hundred feet you id feel quit
that some aceident had happened to him,
and that he owed his condition to the i 7-
those w
practised a broken leg. 1
will eall his name Lee, and I will
reel off his story as he told it to me
a fortnight ago
In 3 1863,
ment of the Japanese
chandler
His right leg seems to be at.
usual
You Ww
f
y ve
if vou tollowe
Wot
norance or carelessness of Ho
BUrgery on
John
the year after the Govern
down the rebellion which had been in ex.
istence for two vears, many hoends werd
lopped off and many # banished from
the ¢
2OOTE OF
ree)
he
adventurers
muntry. Among t latter were a
mora of we
wiho re
Europe (ns Rome had
for the suke of
natives
not
1 i the rebes }
ure and plunder, and
been forced to join by gir
The fear of being involved w
Governments de d
thorities 1
foreigners an 1e ti
gone |i
advent others hud
nstances
ith other
Japanese au
these
the
AS 10)
the
the lives of
ne rid
I'h re w
the time
Rober: May
isintids of th
the pm } ama ot
Australian
al
He was t
igh some of the ers
ie hirst rush
moment, a
he met with
I he muti
il attent
igh of Jap
1 of turning pirate in
n-of.war was to be met
eek
the southwest
bited island above Formosa
i i
ore Rn
w three times a» Thov deeid
{to run to and iand on
we unin
d ¢n oy
To that the crew of
1. some ple ith the
such a tife and others realizing
for 8 sen.
the
Prose .
that
4 & vied %
a iree and easy life
brig
Seed
Op pos fion would be of
Mrs Welles was about th r'y years of
f Her
i.
age, full of
more
fie Lise
and resolution
i
energy
by the did
than anything else to win the crew aver
to their side. he fellows led by
Frniolist wmmed Tom Jones, who
ax, no doubt, a thoroughly bad man,
but in he shoald have due
praise morning after the eap-
t Welles was inter.
viewed in the cabin. She was told that
the men had possession and that it was
proposed to get her out of the brig and
out of harm's way while they had con.
They did not dare to speak a ship,
nor land her at any port, but would set
hor ashore on some island and provide
her with means to take care of herself,
She agreed with them that this was the
best they could be expected to do, and
for the next two davs and nights she was
left entirely undisturbed in the cabin
There was plenty of rum aboard, but be.
tween the mate, who was acting as Cap-
tain, sud Ton Jones, who was the leader, |
nothing like dromkenness had oecurre 1.
The ‘good times” were being put off un.
til they could find a safe haven some.
where. John Lee was lying in his berth
with a broken leg. but was kept posted
us to what was going on forward and aft.
On the afternoon of the third day the
brig reached the island of Shangwen,
one of the Loochoo groun, and a boat
was lowered and pulled ashore to inves. |
tigate. It was only a sinall island, nearly |
clroular and about three miles across, |
and was uninhabited. John Lee says he
begged the Captain's wife to take him |
along, but she, probably, either foaured
that he would prove a serious case on
her hands or become a menace to her
safety if he got well, and she decided
that she would rather go alone. The
boat which set her ashore carried all her |
clothes and the personal effects of her |
husband, with beef, pork, bread, wine,
a musket and I, some books,
and in fact whatever else she asked to be
allowed to take. Jones uni threo men
wont ashore with her, and they not only |
found an good spot for a camp, bu! eon.
structed a shelter for her and put all her
under cover. No woman could
treatinent mut. neers
were
man
this cas
(tn the
he brig Mrs
’
ure of §
rol,
i
i
have fallen into the ands of more don
perate men, and vet no woman could
have been treated more tenderly, The
brig sailed away just at sundown, and
she was left to begin her C
The island had scarcely
the
Crouse,
rusoc {ife
i
Deen be.
on oon the br g began
eid
before
Pwo day # later they
¢
beached their « IR COve on oO
i
ER FTEE
One
the Boro ling £ 1 [inl
many months peace ui
From
(iRsensions
turns, the
§
fore the ¢
i
ved apart in fe
accor iing
plundered at will, and as provisions be
» wink more drink
The first
bout i
after landing. His death
by that of a sed
afterward the es
gan to grow scarce
ing and less eatine,
killed was the mat
vas followed
man, and
the living
At length, tired
gas’ ed with thei FieR
party attempted
und
ond
¥
IRB IONK 0}
speedily
were not
and dis the Jones
tr nfiont
g Alout
bri
leave the islan! $Y were dis
took place,
The
set on fire and destroved, snl
the British g
at the sian
overed, and a terrible figh
were Killed brig was
from that
and five men
time on until inboat Fox
hound tou hod
the four suryi
other to the de
Th
inarooned lies off the «
Mrs, W
wr coast of China,
island on which elles was
still if
had
a smoke signal on
and is thabited On day
after she been
to ultract
stood
ana an
No soo
ne
» must '
the CU
find to do to
building her hous
yior to
ticated half a
i ApPeries o
it a cote nn
ired of them abo
ate ns
SRE
lomes
suit her. »
Cre Was
GOs
i
she bui
Then she trans
jowers to make home.
and when time hung
vily on her hanisx she cut away at
] rath red firewood.
of cold
a mile from her
With the
she cut dong nnd hollowed
out small eonting-
ous line of troughs from the spring to a
with a supply of
Ties ana
Surroundings
There was a i sutital
§
water about n quarter of
spring
house and on higher ground
axe left her
trees until she had a
point near the hous
walter almost great enoagh to ran a mill
wheel,
Une more befell
the woman In
fair we uther, w hen shi had nothing Oo do
about the house, she was in the habit of
taking a musket and making the circuit
of the island, which was a journey of
half a day. She had returned from one
of the excursions when she saw three
Chinese sailors from a junk lying off the
shore, They had come ashore with an
empty water cask in search of water,
and having caught sight of her house
were plundering it. One of the trio had
his arms full of goods and was on his
way to the boat when she came up. Her
sudden appearance, coupled with the
discharge of her musket, tumbled the
fellows into their boat empty handed and
left her the water cask nx a trophy. The
Junk hung about the island for a day or
two, evidently anxious to land, but mys.
tified and afraid, and ‘inally sailed away
and left her in peace.
It was just thirteen months and a day
from her landing before Mrs. Welles
was rescued. It might have been far
adventure
before she was rescued.
slartliine
irtiing
ions, When they were taken cboard the
Foxhound they told of the woman having
been marooned, and after some time
spent in locating the island she was
found and taken off. Four men were
feft to be tried and punished by British
law for what had happened. When]
asked the old sailor about that he refused
to explain. When | pressed him he bo.
enme sullen and morose and would talk
no moro. He wasn't hanged, of course,
srisonment wouldn't be very soothing te
im.~~[Now York Sun.
- .
Tur oldest pensioner of the war of
1812 is supposed to be lsane Richards of
East Machios, Me, who is ninety.nine
years of age and lives in the same house
with his children, grandchildren, an!
~ " - - -_ on
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
EPITOME OF NEWS GILEANED ¥ROM
VARIOUS PARTS OY THE STATE.
Mux. ( of
died the result
uiched by a setting hen.
iiiiam F. Keck,
i
ATHARINE JOoxER near |
of blood poisoning
sr
se of
Nibsehs iron.
the near
10 tiie Bupreme Court on a
Westminster
was drowned in the creck «
THE Berks County Prison
surcharged by the a
and Iguaors cons ped st Lhe
the mat
Fi
Lum
snd
Bis
mur
ter in the couris,
boiler of the sawmill of “reel
wer Company, near Ohio Pyle, sploded
ustantly killed Peter Free BAWYer,
ered
Hochstetter, in the
not
MILLER and Bill Prius, the »
ol od
mosashine district, near
rer man
Somerset, have
et Sherill’s posse Las lor
abandoned the search,
Kin N
and Perry counties held conve
orthumberiand
lugton,
AYTER being separated nearly forty
Williaa
Yiiiing
father
n Ferguson, California, fo
"
living near iit
BE o Fring
: 3
erouscn’s afte
Ferguson after
parents paried soon
born
ber,
THERE was a wordy war between the
and the mother ook the child
dent of Wilkesbarre City Cou
Mayor over the swearing in of policemer
Hesuy |
v halted by masks
robbed of $250
\ y
West Bethleher
Myges, of
d sien near Hellertown
AN epidemic of small
1 ' t of
nesiera part of
© Were panics
of the
Charles
Lue sireets, Iwo of the m
orkings extend
SHAW was arrested
the
on
aarge
caused recent $3,000 Lre at
his Tame as Tes
is in Easton jail
a woman's pocket at
AXTHALL, who shot a fellc
Mine Ran,
on his way to Hungary
NTHOXY SHAMINISK] shot himself fatally
stomach st Mahanoy city.
Schuyikill cou
» children of Amos Abert near Rovers.
he effect of wearing scarlet
nfected garmen
EB. MOGIxLEY, of Pittsburg, deniss the
statement of F. EF. Saward before the New
York Senatorial tittee to the effect that
mixed with
and gives reasons why it is impossible
GropGE WiLLiaxs, of Chester. is
artificial gas is being nature. gas
under
arrest charged with picking s young woman's
pocket.
Ted”
operator
(VNEnL, old-time
has been arrested
an telegraph
for robbing the
railroad station at Finleyville, During the
robbery one of the burglars answered a train
order. From this it was supposed that one of
the men was an operator, and O'Neill's arrest
followed,
GOVERNOR PaTrisox has sot 7T
Jane Dh, as the day for the execution of Chas,
bursday,
Cleary, who murdered a policeman in Renovo,
Clinton County.
A coMMITTER of the Burks County Bar
Association will investigate the charges
against Lawyer James of misconduct
Cora Vuxora, aged 13, of Allegheny, fell
with an infant in ber arms and the latter was
killed. Her companion told her that she
would be hanged and the child is now fatnlly
ill with brain fever.
Coxean R. Smaasax, of Pottsville, was
stabbed by his uncle, John Metz, receiving
wounds from which he may die
omission IIIs.
Seed,
Timothy seed Is very small, and it
is easily destroyed in the ground if
too deeply covered. Early in the
be hare
rowed fine. and the seed broadcasted
in. It is better to broadcast the seed
if the fleld is expected to have an
evenly covered appearance, as drill
ing not only covers the seed too
much but causes it to come up too
thickly in some places and too spar-
ingly in wthers.
A —. .. catuu———t
Street Cleaning.
Analysis of the street cleanings in
one of the large cMies shows that
while they contain less water than
horse manure, they contain also less
potash, nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
The insoluble matter, sand, ete., in
the sweepings are fifty times more
than in the horse manure, whieh
leaves but little value in the sweep.
ings compared with horse manure.
cc
Tre more the girls pine fyr some
young mun the more spruce they be
CH Sas