TOOTHSOME SHAD.
THE FINEST GRADE IS FOUND
IN THE POTOMAC.
Means Adopted for Capturing the
River Beauties--All Sorts of Nets
Used~-~-Planked Shad.
Potomae shad are regarded by epi-
cures as the finest shad sold any
market in the United States, and for
this reason there is ready sale for
them in other places. Describing
the methods employed in catching
this toothsome fish the Washington
Star says
As as the had left »
river the nets were thrown overboard.
The gill nets were planted in t
water and the haul seines were oper-
ated from shore, principally by horse
power, although some of the smaller
nets were handled by men It is
probable that the average person
who is fond of shad has only the
faintest idea of how they are caught.
It is true that the seine haulers
catch many thousands during the
season, but the largest number are
caught in gill nets.
What is known the haul seine
is nothing more nor less than a gen-
| dragging of the river, and every-
net
in
soon ice the
as
is almost sure
the shore. This is
hard and tr
quently hauls
catch w by n
wear: tear on
ent modes of catchingsh
In addition to the 1
it is said on good auth
fish will rise to =a
anglers in this sec
no effo
iblesome work, and fre-
are made
O means
when
ne nets
1
ad are
esting.
1
on steamboats fre-
y :
OzZen or more poles in
one poie to an-
e 1 cl
generally set
heavy stakes being
nets may be =
the cu
driven in
ab iit one ht
to another t
top line be
while hi
bottom
gles to
the principal nets used
omac In
ILaries weirs
some the
1 their faces,
arrival of
the lower
an oppor-
y or] up
an odd. Along the line of Water
street for ns
as on what is ki : the
‘Fishtown'® wharf, fish hucksters
have their wagons, and sometimes
there are more than a hundred
wagons there, awaiting the arrival of
a boat or the sale of a cheap lot of
fish
The owners of
have most of
wharf, where
men and
the
ICK
squares
i
well
wn
ns
the packing houses
the fish cleaned on the
the work is done by
women of both colors, who
render and the choruses of
plantation melodies When these
people get through with the fish they
are put in tubs and washed, and later
they find their way to the packing
houses, where they are put in salt in
barrels or small tubs. Many of them
are sold in.this way, while others are
put up for smoking purposes. Of late
years many families put up ther own
fish for winter use,
The question is frequently asked,
songs
winter? ’’
It is certain that they leave the
fresh water and make their way south
in the salt water for the winter
birts to spawn.
the beginning of tidewater.
by the deep salt water netters.
within the last half century.
ioned the writers seldom have a
favorable word to say about them,
and generally refer to them with (one
tempt. The northern rivers in that
period were filled with them, and
while the Indians speared them and
used them for food, the white settlers
did not do so to any considerable ex~
tent. Even in those days the fish
were smoked by the Indians and put
away for winter use.
The shad is not found in all parts
of the United States, so that in some
more of a
There are
i
i
1
i
sections it Is considered
delicacy than in others.
many ways to the fish after
they are caught, but most epicures
agree that the plunked shad beats
them all. A celebrated who
has made a study of planked shad
describes the cooking, as follows.
““Take a plank of hickory (oak will
if the other can’t be had) three
thick, eighteen inches wide
and two feet long. Then get a {resh-
caught shad, scale it, split down the
back. clean, wash and wipe dry. Sift
it carefully with salt and pepper.
Lay your plank before an open fire
until it is very hot. Then spread
vour shad upon it and nail it, skin
gide down, to the wood with abou
eight large tacks. Place before the
fire and turn till well done. Cover
over with butter, and serve
smoking hot on the plank.”
cook
cook
do
inches
1
fail
A Remarkable Social Function.
somewha social
nection took place ¢
at Washi:
' nights ago
1e celebra-
‘Uncle
ger, who
gton, 1it
ir wedding
r,'’ the colored me
been at the Executive mansion
years. Every one from the time
President Grant who has had any-
thing to do wi White House
‘nel n in-
knows ‘Uncle
aracters of Wash-
sso
Ty
e¢ Jerry,” and he is
deed one of the cl
ington, Administrations have
and gone i 3
mained a
invit
Representa-
families who have occ
House in years gi
upied
Dy
and
me
Harriet Lane J
Mrs. Stanley
For
wavered,
at the red
decorative
wheeled and
man, In anin-
a confused of
man, horse and bull upon
the ground.
From the red mantles of the chulos
and the charge of a second picador
the mighty monarch of the ring
turned in a truly regal way, and from
disemboweling the horse he chased a
chulo so hard as to compel him to
vault clear from the ring and give
tauros a moment's peace
ond more the mantle of a picador
aught his imperial eye, and again
horse and rider bit the dust. A too
reckless chulo here met his fate, for,
flaunting his rag before the quiver-
ing beast, he slipped, fell, and before
his companions could divert the av-
alanche of fleeh he was crushed like
a strawberry upon the sand, and the
bull was away again to meet his own
doom. With the sinuous grace of a
panther, Pacheco, the expada, had
sprung toward him, grasped his tail
and given it a twist of such exquisite
torture that the bull, with lowered
front, made for him, only to receive
the sword which the great espada
had, until then, concealed in a mu-
leta of blue silk. Straight in the
quivering flesh above the spine it
sunk until the spring of life was
touched, and without a sound the
splendid animal fell dead.”’
A momen great beast
then ¢ obliquely
mantl an especially
chulo, and
made for a mounted
stant there was
like a flash,
MASS
writhing
AAA
The Longest Words.
Below are the nine longest words in
the English language at the preset
writing :
Subconstitutionalist,
Incomprehensibility,
Philoprogenitiveness,
Honorificibilitudinity,
Anthropophagenoharian,
Disproportionableness,
Velocipedestrianistical,
Transsubstantiationableness.
Proantitransubstantiatic niet.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Eminent New York Divine's Sun ~
day Sermon.
Subject: “Easter Jubilee."
Text: vie-
tory.”
About 1861 Easter mornings have wakened
the earth, In France for three ce. turies the
almannos made the year begin sat Easter un-
til Charles IX made the year begin at Jan, 1.
In the Tower of London there is a royal pay
roll of Edward I, on which there is an entry
of eighteen pence for 400 colored and pie-
tured Euster with which the people
gported. In Rutine’'avrq were fed and alms
were distributad on Easter,
Ecclesiastleal councils met at Pontus, at
Gaul, at Rome, at Achaia, to decide the par-
ticular day, and after a controversy }
animated than gracious decided it, and no
through all Christendom in s way the
first Sunday after the full moon which hag
pens upon or next after March 21 is filled
with Easter rejoicing. Thea royal court of
the Babbaths is made up of fifty-two
one are princes in the royal household,
Easter is queen. She wears a richer diaden
and sways a more jeweled scepter: and hr
her smile gations are irradiated. We
come this queenly day, holding high up in
her right hand the wrenched off bolt
Christ's sepulcher and he
her loft hand the ey to
Christendom,
My text
“Death {8 swallowed up in
I Corinthians xv., 54,
row
€ ART
ne
ding
all the cemeteries 1
It is spun ou
of hallelu right on in
nt wtion and
all the % 0 ie it whet
wri
An
“Death is
dreadful t
sight to se
fiving., They scatter
1 track, Unwheele
on breast of vounde
You have read of the
from Napole
snowbhanks of 1
Hi » %
HOR ON
ryvthing
artillery,
back Bedan, or
of the five
Bethora
#MOormns «
hosts struck them
But in m)
seems that ¢
quer the earth,
the aches and
:
5
Kil
with
BOK gisut |
Heo gathere
pains and
len
marched them 1 i
northeast wind, amid the slush
He threw up barricades of grave m
pitched tent of
troops n
by consu {
commanded by
EF
are
besleger
str
With bony hs
hospitals and
tories iu al
OH
nis
five
jueror
yal
and kings at
Ome
given
ar
cent
oad just
the eastern mausoleum to
‘death was swallows
procisim the ab
antag # is driven
with all the lore about
Charon with oar and boat, ‘e shall hb
no more to do with death that
back
Ave
ave with
AKroom at a g
We stop at su
in charge of the
ITernd
vhs
£'s or president's
and |
servant ir over
levee,
at
el that we may
und
%, when
not be imp of th
we
£0 out o
e wrappings with which we
meet the storms of the world, At the close
of our earthly reception, under the brush and
of flesh
better than when we resigned
ak of humanity will finally be
nnd
and I do not
returned to ua as they are
We want to get rid of all their woak-
fa
now,
They will be put through a chemistry of soil
and heat and cold and changing seasons out
better than they are now as the body of the
rosiest and healthiest child that bounds over
the lawn is better than the sickest patient in
the hospital,
But a= to our soul, we will eross right over,
not waiting for obsequies, fndependent of
with wider room and velocities beyond com.
putation; the dullest of us into companion.
ship with the very best spirits in their very
best moods, in the very best room of the uni.
verse, the four walls furnished and paneled
and pictured and glorified with all thesplen-
dors that the infinite God in all ages has been
able to invent, Victory!
This view of course makes it of but litle
importance whether we are cremated or
sepultured,
former is ashes to ashes, If any prefer in-
ture. The world may become so crowded
by law ns well as’ by general consent,
through this process,
bula bridge; John Rogers cremated by perse.
cution, Latimer and Ridley eremated at Ox-
ford, Pothinus and Blondina, a slave, and
Alexander, a physician, and their comrades,
cremated at the order of Marcus Aureline.
At least a hundred thousand of Christ's dis.
ciples cremated, and there ean be no doubt
about the resurrection of their bodies, Ifthe
world lasts as much longer as it hae already
for the large acreage set apart (or the resting
places, but that time has not come, Plenty
of room yet, and the race need not pass that
bridge of fire until it comes to it,
of us prefer the old way.
transcendont, magnificent, inexplicable struo
| ture called the resurrecetion body you will
huve ®, I wiil have it, 1say to you to-day
| ae Paul said to Agrippa, “Why should it ba
thought a thing incredible with you that God
| should raise the dead 7"
| That far up cloud, higher than the hawk
| flies, higher than the eagle flies, what is it
made of? Drops of water from the Hudson,
other drops from the East River, other drops
| from a stagnant pool out on Newark flats,
{ Up yonder there, embodied in a cloud, and
| the sun kindles it, If God ean make such a
{ lustrous cloud out of water drope, many of
them soiled and impure and Jotoned from
miles away, ean He not transport the
ments of a human body from the earth and
out of them build a radiant body? Cannot
{ God, who owns all the material out of which
| bones and muscle and flesh are made, set
| them up again if they have fallen? If a
| manufacturer of telescopes drops a telescops
i on the floor, and it breaks, can he not mend
| it again 80 you can ses through it? And if
{ God drops the human eye into the dust, the
{ eye which He originally fashioned, ean He
pot restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer of
{ the telescope, by a change of the glass and a
shang of focus, can make a better glass thay
| that which was originally constructed and
actually improve it, do you not think the
| fashioner of the human vye may improve its
sight and multiply the natural eye by the
usandfold additional forees of the resur-
ave?
frag.
rection
“Why should it be thought with you an in
{ eredible thing that God should raise the
| dead?” Things all around us suggest it.
{| of what grew all these flowers? Out
Id snd earth. Resurrected, Resure
» radiant butterfly, where did it }
from? The loathsome caterpillar. That al
batross that smites the tempest with its wing
| where did it ne from? A nseless shel
| Near Bergerac, Fran in a Celtic to
) block, wero f« yd ff
buried 2000
sd and pin
in blue
PEASE AZO
Yours,
uried there
un out, and «
and in t}
iried 3000 ves ot resurrected,
“Why should it be though
lible with ycu that God should
Where did all this si )
that
In
sdorns
tha ho
brought Europe
that now
Nation
and the
riun
rogunitors
the silk n
pageantry of
arious article nercial
azing out from the silk worms! An
111, out of this {nsignifie
s surprised if, «
i184
iii
¢
ta
amp
3
the
fell what
the
next stale
have had a hint
they anid t
a small bone wi
tion body. That may have
But this thing is certain, tl
day {
GLE Pre
deingion,
bave
sre are two or three saferfiuitios
the body that are something gloriously sug
of another state, :
I called at my friend's h
day. [I found the yard all piled up with rut
bish of carpenter's and mason’s work, The
I WAR ( The plumbers had torn up the
The roof waa | lifted in ¢
mn pictures were and the paper
hangers doing their w All the modern
improvements wero introduced into
that dwelling. There was not a room in the
house fit to live in at that time, although a
month before, when [ visited that house,
everything wat 20 beautiful I conld not have
sugested an improvement, My friend had
gone with his ily to the Holy Land, ex-
pecting to come back at the end of six mouths
when the building was to be done,
And, oh, what was his joy when at the
end of six months he returned and the old
house was enlarged and improved and glo-
rifled! That is your body! It loooks well
now. All the rooms filled with health, and
we could hardly make a suggestion. But
after awhile your soul will go to the Holy
Land, and while you are gone the old house
of your tabernacle will be entirely recon
structed from cellar to attic, every nerve,
muscle and bone and tissue and artery
must be hauled over, and the old
structure will burnished and adorned
and raised and coupolasd and enlarged,
and all the improvements of heaven intro.
| duced, and you will move into it on resurrec-
{ Hon day. “For we know that, if oar earthiy
| house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we
| have a building of God, a house not made
| with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Ob,
| what a day when body and sonl meet again!
They are very fond of each other, Did
i your body ever have a pain and your
soul not re-scho 7 Or, changing the
| question, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathize
with It, growing wan and weak under
the depressing influence? Or did your
soul ever have a gladness but your Pod
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and
elastio step, Surely God never intended two
such good friends to be very long separated,
And =o when the world's last Easter morning
shall come the soul will descend, orying,
“Where Is my body?’ And the body will
ascend, saying, “Where is my soul?’ And
| the Lord of the resurrection will bring them
together, and it will be a perfeot soul in a
[en body, introduced by a perfect Christ
nto a perfect heaven, Victory! .
Beef and Potrolenm Denver,
Beef is higher than in Hn and
| Pennsylvania petroloum higher t in seven
teen,
tian scientists of our
that the
und
postive
usa one immer
ing
gone,
upola,
rs
wing
bis
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and bottles (even
baby's)—or any-
thing that you want
particularly clean,
ought to be washed
in doing®it, and it's a
Dairies and dealers use
with Pearline.
» You'll save work
ust
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isn’t the most satisfactory way
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