HUNTING SEA OTTERS. THEIR FUR THE MOST HIGHLY PRIZED IN THE WORLD. Found at Oniy One Point on the Pa- cific Coast--The Hunter Must Have Patience. Under the shadows of the majestic Olympic range of mountains off the coast of the State of Washington, one of the few localities on the es ern shores of the Pacific Ocean where the very valuable sean otter is caught. There hundreds of people, even in the State of Washington and Ore- not know this fact. 1 ago the main source the skins of the ire gon n- til n of SCO shores of Aleutian up north, nearly to the coast Siberin, says the Chicago Tribune. The fur the m pensive and highly prized in the com mercial The fur requires no use, lila the is ost eX world i for the wortii that tl usually le bec too | pensive, to suit tl and it is so rare that olten seen ie tn qaclke or IiNLO SACKS OI as well as too ex 1e taste of many, the fur is Huse except ! garments ol 8¢ The otter oun the ¢ interesting ( the sea ast of Washington is If it were an sea otter the y of tl senirinoe Securit manner 31. y anyone. Task Oo got a ensy would no lo in these waters hunted her white men yulls by I: dians the % otter ral ] the sarf or two he ly his Sie lies sleepin head extreine war proach and tnal alter it er long pract customed COS8 | a rude b owers ure 0 and ti iad driftwood storms biow tor sel i i down every w ly rebuilt, as there are great ties of driftwood handy and of standing thin a fe of the breakers i ers build a derric its use, These timber wi derricks and at the base are ; one of the poles are braced together by cross pieces nailed ou at different points. Upon top. or apart built a box, nearly nas high as a inan’s head, the top and partly open on the side toward the sea. The ends of the poles are sawed off and a boutd is nailed on top, making a seat for the hunter, who sits his well protected coop, ard, with his rifle resting on edge of the box in front of him, waits and watches for the game. He soon learns the habits of the sen otter, and can tell by the wind and the tide and the currents where to for the first appear ance of the stubby little head above the water, Not one sea otter in a dozen sinks when it is killed by a bullet, and the next flood tide throws the carcass on the beach. When 2 number of hunt- ers are shooting, each one marks his bullets, so that the owner may be known when the animal is found. The hunters have implicit faith in| each other, and would not think of | taking skins that did nov belong to them. The Indians going up and] down the beach are employed by some of the hunters to look out for their | expected carcasses. If they find the dead animals easily, they are allowed a small sum, enough to pay them for thetr time and labor. If, for sone reason, an animal that has been shot fails to come in when or where it is expected, and a whole day has gone by io fruitless search, then the ln- the IR 11 t open al in the look % ' t dian who finds it is given $10; two {days after the Indian gets $30 for bringing it in, and if a week elapses from the time the hunter shoots the sea otter to the the time he is found, he gives half of its value to the In dian, for he has then nearly despair ed of ever seeing it. A full grown sea otter is from four to five feet long, and perhaps a foot or more wide. When a hunter se cures one he loosens the hide from the nose and head, and without cut skin down over the body, ti being so elastic that this i difficult job It then stretched over a smooth board ix and a hall feet g inches wide at one end and ten at other end. Each end of this bourd is tapered to a point Another board exactly the same size is inserted. and tl is stretched a foot or eighteen inches longer than ginal length. A thin board tho length the others ad in and the skin Ii at the ends to hold it in any 8 is on nine the 3 ! SKIN of is acked § is then ghtly t pice. y the skin it hi lition. In adheres t and the this 31 taken urned fur side out ir market is in it is Ce i t when it f { a rich, ne silver darkest col fur with throu n and such pelt $150 ¢ nnirs or 8S Dri 1 ie brown gs from next ches is y engaged and : 1 the RISO TO import riety ¥ Vex Bana We fureo other support ff the very id of immen advantage intry to be a ship owaer The Trick of the Trade. most the people who gubject, What bothers think anvthing . said Kearney I’. Sp avout eedy a high diver who began his public career by jump- } id first fro Bridge four or five years ago, “is how 1 dive of fifty or sixty can made into a tank of thirty-six inches of water You see they confuse diving with bridge jumping-—quite a different thing Bridge jumpers are neither jumpers nor divers—they're drop pers; that is, they reach the lower rods of the bridge truss and drop feet foremost into the water. The trick is to mnsintain the perpendicu lar. They must have plenty of water under them, too. The high diver as you have seen, makes a clear dive, head first, just as a boy does from a springboard in swimming, “I do it in very shallow water. | weigh, stripped, 180 pounds, and never do any training. [ have been diving from the %op of a circus tent all summer into a tink but seven feet wide and into water but three feet deep. “The shallow water dive is possi- ble from the same principle that a cunnon or rifle shot meets the most resistance the more powerful the impact, You see, 1 give my body and head a slight inclination upward the instant I strike the water which causes mo to pop out as a board would do or as an oar on the I lenrned this trick in the St. Louis natatorium when a boy, m the St. Louis fect be from a greater height, Then there Is a certain elasticity in the water known to the high diver, but the trick is in the strike and turn, for water will break bones and crush chests, as many a man knows, ”’ a A An Indiana call, now two months old, has hoofs like a horse. What Electricity is Doing, The Mining and Scientific Press thus sums up the uses to which elec- tricity is applied. It enters into the preparation of what we eat, drink and wear, and there are many articles of utility now produced by its aid. The residents of many in the United States have their houses pro tected, lightea and heated by elec tricity. They go to their places of business in run by electricity the elevator by which they reach their office in high buildings, or machinery in their factory, is run by the bell them to church is rung by ty and the church organ is played by electricity, Flectricity brings the news to them from all parts of the earth : p getters, automati iy citizens Curs ne electricity, which summons aglectrict iy { { K tiie 1004. viilie eating it Wher dentist their teeth i : 8 of it we can ids HOO or 14000 £3 as the disease diseases cy to te th } TR the observan ne Unseen Gold Supply. led yortant {eq cludes a i Its way eventa- of ired arti It may be as a keep it has sur the nKeen ler of {iN % meiting pots ti No mania Ww cle of goll lasts forever preserved for some tin sake or an alter vived the period of its usefulness. but some day inevitably, K i not it will be sold for old gold. The mints will buy sueh old gold, but not less than $100 worth of it. Scattered over the thousands of dealers metals, who will est quantities--even brooeh that is for nothing but to be melted. They are chiefly in strumental in collecting the ‘unseen supply,’ which they dispose of to the mints, Nevertheless. the loss of gold to the world through its use in the arts, for gilding and otherwise, is enormous. Practically all of the watcheases reach Unele Sam's melt. ing pots sooner or later. Millions of dollars worth of gold are used annu- ally for filling teeth. All of this is lost except what is taken from ex- tracted teeth by dentists. Dental surgeons do not permit this gold to g0 LO waste. 0 heirloom lost, country are of precious purchase the smail a ring or a good vs As to Fingers. There ia a wonderful amount of character in the fingers and thumbs. quite the equal of the four fingers The shape of the thumb tells all we want to know of a man’s character. occupation in life. third finger is the most sensitive of all, and is generzlly used when deli ency of touch is necessary. The y { little finger is simply a rest for the { hand, a sort of spring upon whieh it may fall at any time without a jar or shock. We could plong v well without our little finge: Woinen like them because they use them to show off a pretty h Fis get ry 1d They are really worthless to wim except for ornament. They up in the air when t Ways the hand ia i . yr LUE Nang is in service ure he rest Lofty Mountaing in the Sea. in the g There exist tween 8 OCH reat Australia and New Caledon of mighty = wh SOU fat ranve tain within I'he discos itbhmari: & i Some taint amid Lhat ol ner to b SF IDOUrning edire IOs ston wit Be past 3 i te ¢ Brofession ia { treatment four Deer come giris, who serving wiiere tO pro select Imnesiics tention food . t than the b alt he palate being pleased rat r fed. The teeth £ women were read IWaY And why? 1: country bread the vear Hh eac ese Youn y Crud their Swedish is baked during 1 and to dry and harden, the had their proper exercise girls became subject te American civilization, and were obliged to eat the pap and pastry in homes where more time levotes to catering to the tastes than to find ing out the needs and requirements of the body. the mastieating of foon was no lenger a necessity and the teeth, finding they were of no more service, decided to take themselves out of the way. bing native where at intervals teeth har But whe! hese is A Belated Success. Samuel Appleton, the wenlthy manu. facturer of Bristol, (Penn. ) who died the other day, bad a remarkable career He was sixty-six vears old at the time his death, and every one of his ven tures was a failure until about ten years ago. The last time he failed he became #0 discouraged that he declared that he Ind no courage, no character, no cash and no credit. He started again in a small way and inseribed on his business cards: “No C.. NoC., NoC., No C." People inquired the meaning of the mysterions | inscription, and Appleton became well ad. i vertised. His business increased and in ten years he was a rich man. It is probably the only instance on record where a man made fame and for. tune by advertising the fact that be bad | no courage, character, cash, or credit of | But his success is, of course, due to the | unwillingness of people to accept his | estimate of himself. They determined to | how him that he was mistaken, and they succeeded. Up to date women do not go on any kind of a joukne without the tiny traveling cloak in Russian leathe: cnse. And it adds to interest in It if is ‘mn uresent from a friend.” TAMEDIA TIGRESS Orute Taught to Ride a Horse and Jump Hoops. -y i James McElroy, u young man who wus born with his family 0 six in Galveston and lived there Years ado has gained fam he only man who and train train GVer succeeodd taming ga tigress linve failed to subject j thelr with wild in animal re 4 tigresses will f+ nearly beast Flroy traine however “ &i obtained io a few | mace of the old The most remarkable kinds extant are in hats and fans Same of these hints are and soft can be rolled folded like a handkerchief that they up or and put into OF even a pox kethook, when unrolled, t make summer hat as the most fastidious might desire. The Lat is woven as a whole, and in the finer no thread ployed, the ends thie threads being turned back and worked into the edge of the brim, =o as to give it the appearance of a hemmed «d outline The tans ard marvels of beauty which and vel, ey fs excellent a qualities Sin. of 1% of beads I have the which resembled which looked been carved out of Some. seen some of them suggested finest lace work, macrame, and still as though they bal gome rich gravish, vellow times the artist will weave the thread into leaves and flowers, which seem to be Iaid loosely upon the fan proper and about to fall off. The few natives who indulge in this kind of work are very proud of their | sccomplishment, others othicrs wood Hughes r made a contribution Hered was neither the spirit. | me. to be. ignguare wh from i £X- Ok DON Be His ty long. ba it rich aa had been scurried them they back to shelter Useful Roadside Trees We notice with pleasure that some of the correspondents of our Western contemporaries are advocating the planting of both fruit and nut trees along the highways in place of those kinds that bear nothing in the way of food for either man or beast. One writer admits that the nut trees are just as handsome and yield just as much shade as maples and ¢ims while they bear something of economic valne in addition. The idea that the boys and others passing along the roads would tuke all the nuts is only true where there is only a tree or two of such kinds in many miles, for it is rarity and scarcity which excites our curiosity and acquisitiveness. If at first a man should fail to reap much of economic value from the frail or or - Stirring Time in a Show. There was a performance in the ostrich department of the Syndicate shows recently which had not been advertised. | It took the place of the strong man feature | which was advertised but didn’t come off, | Sammie Hughes was standing near the ostrich conservatory, making a scientific | study of the birds and smoking a freshly | lighted ten-cent cigar. An ostrich sud. | denly lengthened his neck about a foot | and removed the cigar from Mr. Hughes's | mouth and awallowed it, fire and all, The length of an ostricl’s neck furolshes | a wonderful opportunity for a lighted | cigar, and it burned every inch of the | way as 1t went down. The ostrich acted as if he regretted BAVing given way to the | prompting of his indiscriminate appetite. A gentleman connected with the show in toe capmeity of chambermaid for the than if the these he does not expect anything but shade and a little sentiment in the way of fine appearance. An Old Convict Ship. At the East India Docks, on the Thames, the old convict ship Success is now on exhibition, It was used by the British Government as lately ns 1851, and was nicknamed the “Ocean Hell” on account of the bar barities inflicted on the prisomers. It has just returned from an trip through the colonies, where it was shown asa relic of the old penal sys- tem. One leg of a pair of trowsers was found in the stomach of a big shark enught near Annapolis, Md.
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