HUNTING THE BtILL FROG
METHODS OP CAPTURING THIS
EPICUREAN DELICACY.
Professional Froggcrs Use a Rull's-
Kjo Lantern :wul u liag-l'rcpar
injl the Catch l'or Market.
Every evening just as Old Sol sinks
behind the hills of Virginia and tho sun
set gun booms forth the close of another
day there is a class of men who are just
beginning their day's work, or more
properly speaking, their night's work.
And it is a peculiar kind of labor. They
are frog hunters and earn quite a re
spectable livelihood by hunting frogs for
tho restaurant and hotels.
Almost every one is familiar with the
unmusical cry of the frog, but few are
they who know one when they see it.
Many people in speaking of frogs con
fouud them with toads. Now while frogs
aud toads are closely related, they have
little in common except appearance. The
frog's legs are much larger than the
toads and his voice is also superior.
There are a great many frogs eaten in
Washington.
Not many yem-s ago frogs' logs, as a j
delicacy, were unknown, but that time |
has passed away and now frogs' legs on ;
toast is considered a great delicacy all the
world over. There are lots of frogs
about Washington. The many swamps j
about the city fairly swarm with the agile
croakers, and the river, particularly the
Eastern branch, is noted not only as be
ing one of the best breeding places for
frogs but of furnishing the very finest
species. Frogs come from swamps in all
localities, but the climato and water,
coupled with tho abundance of food
which is found in the Potomac River,
greatly enhances the value of frogs which
are caught about here. There are a great
in any ways of hunting frogs.
One way is by shooting them. This is
mostly practiced by boys, who, armed
with a parlor rifle, wado cautiously
through the marshes and shoot the uu
suspocting lroggies as they sit in some
shady nook watching for flies. It takes
sharp eyes and a good marksman, how
ever, to hunt successfully in this man
ner. Another way, and by far tho one
which furnishes tho most sport, is by
fishing for them, or better still, casting
for them. A good trout fisherman armed
with a light bamboo rod ami a gaudy
colorcd fly can fiud plenty of sport by
casting among the reeds and grasses
along the edge of a marsh. On the other
side of the bridge the other day a Star
reporter was greatly amused at seeing a
small colored boy with a long switch to
which was attached a line aud a piece of
red flannel on the end with a hook con
cealed in it catching frogs as fast as he
could put in. While his attention was
diverted to a passing train a frog snapped
at his line and was in turn gobbled up by
a snapping turtle, which later, finding
himself caught, swam to the bottom and
refused to be moved by the lone fisher
man, who thought he had a sturgeon.
The modus operandi of catching frogs
in the most approved manner—that is,
with bull's eyo aud sack—seems simple
enough to uninitiated, but is quite the
reverse iu actual practice. A few nights
since a Star reporter accompanied a
couple of the most experienced frog
hunters on ono of their nightly excur
sions. Arriving at a point on the East
ern branch everything was found to be
iu readiness for tho trip. A froggers'
boat is not in itself peculiar and not un
like hundreds of other boats used for
various purposes on the river. A light
skill propelled by a broad paddle or a
pushing pole makes good progress. The
outfit is simple enough. Several bags,
a light hard-wood stick and a bull's-eye
lantern of the most approved pattern,
with the strougest possible reflector, is
all that is needed. It was nearly ten
o'clock when the boat pushed off, the
Star reporter in the bow with a lantern
and the hunter behind furnishing tbe
motive power. It was a warm, murky
evening, with plenty of malaria iu the
wind.
The trip to the bunting ground was
uueveutful. Boon the bout was moving
through tho still waters of the Eastern
branch, hugging tho shore closely, nud
the music of tho game sounded from
nearly eveiy direction. The old hunter
spoke in whispers, but his voice sounded
strangely loud on the still air. But the
frogs sang on unmindful of it all. It
was a giand concert with never a discord,
not eveu a jar. The deep bass voice of
the old patriarch and the treble of the
young female, coupled with the musical
tenor of the young and juicy male,
mingled with the quarrelsome tone of
old Mrs. Frog and the almost pathetic
tone of the very small youngster, whose
voice was not unlike the cry of an infant,
furnished a unique chorus. The boat
skirted the banks, and at the command
of the old hunter the slide of tho bull's
eye lantern was thrown and the light
flashed out.
It was dazzling in its brightness, and
for a moment the frogs, squatting about
on the waunkapin leaves, ceased their
croaking nud winked helplessly at tho
light, unable even to drop into the
water. This was the hunter's chance,
anil as the boat glided past them (the
light stdl shining iu their eyes) he seized
the frogs one after another l>y the nape
of tho neck with his right hand and
transferred tyem to a bag which he held
opeu. The work was dons quickly, and
in a short time half a dozen frogs, who
by this time had thoroughly come out of
their dazed condition, were making vig
orous ellurts to escape. The hunting
continued iu the same way until three
dozen and a half large frogs were added
to the stock in trade. This, at the
wholesale price of eighty cents per dozen,
made the trip quite prolituble. A large
number of the hunters have inen to pre
pare tho frogs for market. The reporter
had an opportunity of witnessing the
modus operandi.
Au old colored man armed with a
sharp knife made a circular incision
about the frog's body at the point where
the legs join, and inserting his linger iu
the cut quickly and deftly drew tho
skin oIT. A slit was then made and the
upper portion or body of the frog was
I stripped of its beautiful green oo*<
ering.
Up to within only a few years ago
only the legs of the frogs were eaten,
but now everything except the head is
utilized. Kvery cook has his own
method of preparing frogs for the table
and, of course, tho taste varies with the
cook. The most popular way is to fry
them in butter and Berve hot with pars
ley. The use of frogs for the sick room
is recommended by physicians and a
broth made from their tender legs is ex
cellent food for weak stomachs. Their
meat tastes somewhat like chicken, al
though it is vastly superior in flavor and
tenderness.— Washington. Star.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Beaver houses are not as plentiful as
they used to be.
A Milwaukee (Wis.) grocer can sleep
ten days at a stretch.
It is estimated that 1000 trains traverse
Ohio every twenty-four hours.
A New York girl of fourteen has just
been married for the third time.
Dense smoke from the far-off Michigan
fires spread over a part of Georgia re
| ccntly.
Invitations to open air entertainments
iu England always contain the proviso
"Weather permitting."
The largest forest fires in Michigan
have occurred a decade apart—in 1871,
ISBI and IS9I.
Santa Barbara, Cal., boasts of a hotel
waiter who can take an order for dinner
in seven different languages.
Pauldiug County, Ga., has a farm horse
that drinks two gallons of buttermilk per
day, and seems to relish and thrive on it.
An Osborne County (Kan.) man with
a pack of hounds is bagging from ten to
fifteen wolf scalps a day, on which he
realizes $3 apiece.
Under the present game laws of New
York the English sparrow is not pro
tected, and it is made a misdemeanor to
give food or shelter to that bird.
In the great animal market at Ham
burg, iu Germany, giraffes sell at S7OOO
a pair, chimpanzees go at SBOO apiece,
and select lots of Sumatra monkeys at
SIOOO.
The period of "a generation" has been
lengthened; it used to bo thirty years,
and later increased to thirty-four; now a
scieutist says, the averago term of human
life has increased in the last fifty years
from thirty-four to forty-two years.
It seems that the Chinese preserved
ginger of commerce is not ginger at all.
The director of the botanical gardens at
Ilong Kong has succeeded iu obtaining
the flower of the plant u=ed and has iden
tified it as the Alpinta Galauga. Though
not ginger, it is very nice.
The greatest novelty in dolls has now
been invented at Nuremburg, tho great
German town for dolls and playthings.
A machine in the doll causes it to move its
hand and write neat little letters on a slate
or on paper. Wholo sentences can be
written, to the great amusement of chil
dren.
The street railways of Paris arc under
the Government control and the rules for
their guidance are very strict. Only four
passengers are allowed to stand on the
back platform, and they must pay the
same fare as the first-class passengers in
side, viz., six cents, while those on the
roof of the car ride at half rates.
While tearing down the walls of an
old house in the village of Deutsch-
Redingen, near tho Luxembourg bound
ary, the workmen found the corpses of a
German officer and a private, in full uni
form. Tho bodies were wonderfully well
preserved. It is supposed that the men
were murdered during tho Franco-Prus
sian war.
Sergeant Laporte, of tho Indianapolis
(lud.) Metropolitan Police Force, owns a
rooster of a nondescrip breed that kills
rats and is as good a mouser as the aver
age cat. It will patiently lay in wait, and
when its opportunity comes it seizes the
unsuspecting rodent amidships and shakes
it as a terrier wculd. Then ho holds it
with his claws and tears it to pieces with
his beak, after which he summons his
harem to pick the morsels.
A Columbus (Ind.) musical freak is
called "Singbilly," though his proper
name is William Isintrigger. He plays
iu a peculiar manner with his lungs any
tune with a distinctness and clearness
that brings out every note as fully as It
can bo brought out on any piano or other
musical instrument by the most accom
plished performer. The effort frequently
causes his body to writhe with contor
tions and his features to pinch with ap
parent pain, but he says it dees not hurt
him.
Curiosities of Chess.
Who really iuvented tho game of chess
history does not definitely prove, but it
is known that a Chinese Mandarin 1000
years ago was able to soothe his troops,
when they were clamorous for home, by
proposing the game for their leisure hours
when in winter quarters.
Tho game differs in the various
cjjyntries of tho world. Thus, in the
Hindoo game, four distinct armies aie
employed, each with their king, each
corps counting among its fighters an
elephaut aud a knight which slay but
cannot bo slain. The Chinese game of
chess, which bonsts of the title of choke
choo-kong-ki (the play of the science
of war), has a river running through the
center of the board, which their ele
phants, equivalent to our bishops, can
not cross, and there is a fort which their
kings ennuot pass.
Under the Sanskrit name of chaturaga
a game, essentially the same as modern
chess, was played in Hindostau nearly
5000 years ago. From Hindostau the
game is said to have been carried U»
Persia aud thence to Arabia. Tho Arabs
introduced it into Spain aud the rest of
Western Europe during the eighth
century, where il became the principal
pastime at the year 1000. There is a
record of Pope Alexander 11. reproving j
a bishop for playing the game and com- j
pelling him to wash tho feet of twelve j
beggars as a punishment for his sin.—
St. JLuuit
| NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Paniers are coming in very fast.
Wash-silks are in great demand.
The newest hat is the "orchid" hat.
Finger rings arc as popular as ever.
Tennis bat brooches are very season
able.
Epaulets are lower and more nearly
square.
Gold passementerie is used on house
dresses.
Most of the new bonnets have receding
crowns.
Diamond half hoop rings continue to
find favor.
White horsehair bonnets are often
very pretty.
Belts arc an important item of toilet
this season.
The season in dress is a showy nnd
gaudy one.
Corduroy is now the fashionable ma
terial in Paris.
The mania for perfumed letter paper
is on the increase.
White undressed kid gloves arc a ca
price of the moment.
Women are to bo found in all the sta
tistical offices of Saxony.
It is a whim just now to be photo
graphed in Greek costume.
Diamond asps aro worn as brooches
and as ornaments in the hair.
There are said to be 250,000 self-sup
porting women in New York.
Snakes are much affected as orna
ments by fashionable youug women just
now.
Patti spends many hours wftn heir
feathered pets, of whom she is extremely
fond.
The latest new Idea that girls have
taken up is that of massaging their
noses.
Some of tho black net veils ara
sprinkled with disks and crescents of
green.
The favorite wife of the Sultan was
once a poor girl living in the coal mine*
of France.
Statistics show that more trainee
nurses marry than aay other class of
women workers.
It is said that 5,000,000 song birds
are killed every year to decorate tho hats
of American ladies.
Debutantes who liavo pearls to wear
are fortunate, the gems being both ap
propriate and becoming.
Spreads to use on tho white and gold
bedsteads are made of white net and
lined with old gold 6atiu.
A couple of spurs, formed of pearls
and connected by a gold crop, look well
at tho neck of a riding bodice.
Matilda Aaron, a young lady of seven
teen, completely blind, has matriculated
at Melbourne (Australia) University.
Much gold is worn on hats; gold lace,
gold pasecmeuteries and satin ribbons
with line designs in gold being equally
used.
Candlesticks festooned with roses and
tied up with satin ribbons for the wax
to spksh aro tho latest fancy iu table
decoration.
Pink pearls from Florida aud the West
Indies are prized as souvenirs by tour
ists, who have them mouuted in scarf
pins and brooches.
The whip bracelet, as the name indi
cates, represents a flexible whip held iu
circular form by the leash which is wound
around it several times.
At present 229 woman students aro
Studying at universities iu Switzerland,
of whom six are studying law, 10G medi
cine and sixty-seven philosophy.
Twenty-three States now admit women
to practice at the liar. The pioneet
woman lawyer of America, Arabella A.
Manstield, was admitted to the Bar in
18G9.
Snakes, pom-pons, wings, birds'heads,
lace and tinsel butterflies, fruits, loaves,
flowers, nuts, cones, acorns aud thistles
are some of the things usod iu decora
tive millinery.
The new pcplum coats take the placo
of dress waists and are vaudyked on the
sides iti very deep points, but aro short
er, front and back, than any of the
♦'Louis" coats now worn.
The pure and sweet-scented lily of
the valley has a warm friend in tho
Prince of Wales, who devotes acres of
grouud to the cultivation of the flower at
Sandringliam, his country seat.
llow'fl Thin T
Wo offer One Hundred Dollars rewnr<l for
any case of catarrh that caiuioi bo cured 1 y
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F. J. CHENEY *V Co., Props., Toledo, O.
«e, tho undersigned, have known K. ,r.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable In all liusinesK transac
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The favorable impression produced on the
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remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago lias been
more than confirmed by the pleasant experi
ence of all who have used it,and the success of
the proprietors and manufacturers, the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup ('ompany.
I lew n Tourist 3111 ken Motley*
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The C-onveiiieuce ol Niliti Trains,
The Erie is the only railway running solid
trains over its own tracks between New York
ami Chicago. No change of cars for any clasi
of passengers. Hates lower than via. any otiiei
first-class line.
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"German
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Here is something from Mr. Frank
A. Hale, proprietor of Jhe De Witt
Ilojise, Lew is ton, and the Tontine
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and things up for what they are
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father and several brothers and sis
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with colds, and he
Hereditary often coughs enough
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rw£4U ICO l)ongola. very stylish; equals French
linported shoes costing from s4.oi» to $6.00.
liadien' 4..10, S'i.OO nnd *1.75 shoe for
Mlsf»»s are the best fine Dongola. Stylish aud durable.
i'nutlon.—See that W. L. Douglas* name und
price are stamped ou the bottom of each shoe.
W. L. DOUOLAB. Bro<«kton, Mass.
m I EWIS' 98 % m
I Powdered and Perfumed.
!■ (I'ATENTKD.)
Strongest an<t purest Lye made.
A Makes the best perfumed Hard
jgRS§ *£3oap in'JO miuuteK without boil-
It is the liostfor softening
water, cleaiiMng waste pipes,
disinfecting sinks, closets,wash-
Wl ing bottles, paints, trees, etc.
|JL_ PENNA. SALT MFG. CO.,
Gen. Agents, i'hila.. P».
JRUPTURE CURED I
Positively Holds Rupture.
• HORR HHIIIT ART DAT.
L L A 5 X A U llakan Adjn»lal>lr I'bil which rnn
TRU S S JK| lif mulf Iwfcror willfr (o mil
rhunvlne rontllllon < 'ru|»tnrt>.
G.V House Mrc. Co
(PATKNT ALLOWbi>.) 744 SNOAOWAV, N. Y-C«TY
KANSAS FARMSkS;
t,«'iHl j.rices, t arms for sale at Oargalna List free.
C H VS. IC. WOO 1.1.l V, tlnborne, Kun.
.* - Iff Mcavous, VN IUCTCUBD mortals
well ana keep well. Health Helper
tells now. iocu a year, sample
free. nr. .1. ti. IJ YE, Editor. Buffalo, N.
TV T KVKK before in the history of live stock has such success attended
I\l l^e e "" rts °f breeders tn perfecting an animal possessing the power |
1 N to resist disease, and containing the elements of rapid growth and
X* i great size as the OHIO IMPROVED Chester hogs, two having# JjP
weighed 2,800 lbs. These facts, together with our enormous sales
the States and foreign countries, have excited the envy of competitors,
call in question the facts claimed. We therefore have decided to convince '
every one of the superiority of this breed by offering to sell a pairl '
ON TIME to the first applicant from each locality with references.! 1
J Foreign countrieshavingtaken stepsto re-open their ports for the reception® 1
of American pork, also the fact that farmers have sent all sizestothe butcher, a n
has already caused a lively demand for brood sows and pigs for breeders.
<€< They see their mistake, and that the raising of a superior breed of hogs that 1
have a vigorous and strong constitution, with consequent ability to resist the j
attacks of disease, will in the near future take rank with the most profitable I
Gr.> | industries. First come first served on a pair on time and an Agency, jk
sra:'! 1 "* The L.B.SILVER {
Strange indeed -
like SAF*OUO should
A bhing so bright*, but
"A needle clothes others,&nd is itself
risked'.Try it in you r next house-cle&ning
What folly it would be to out grass with a pair of scissors! Yet peo
ple do equally siUy things every day. Modern progress has grown up
from the hooked sickle to the swinging scythe and thence to the lawn
mower. So don't use scissors! , , ~ ,
But do you use SAPOLIO ? If you don t you are as much behind tbo
a-e as if you cut grass with a dinner knife. Once there were no soaps.
Then one soap served all purposes. Now the sennble folks use one, soan
in the toilet, another in the tub, one soap in the stables, and SAI OLIO
for all scouring and house-cleaning.
K~l Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to tho IfTjJ
Ed taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. |^|j
UNEXCELLED!
API'LIKD EXTERN A J.l. V
FOB
Rheumatism, Neuralgia; Pains in the
Limbs, Back or Chest, Mumps, Son
Throat, Colds, Sprains, Bruises,
Stings oi Insects, Mosquito Bites'.
TAKEN INTERNA MiV
If nctM like n charm lor Cholera Morbus
I lHarrbcpu, I>yneuters'. (Jolle, C rump*, Nan*
sea* hick Headache, Ac,
[ Warranted perfectly harm lew*. (Heeonth
; urcwmpniiylng each bottle, alno direction*
lor use.) Its SOOTHING nnd I'KKKTKA
TINI4 qualities arc lelt Immediately. Trjr
It and he convinced.
Price and «>U centn. Hold by all druz*
pl*ts.
DEPOT, 40 Ml* Kit A V ST.. NEW YOWK
NY N U—»£!>
ABSOLUTELY SAFE
INVESTMENT.
ANNUAL DIVIDENDS,
e-| % Payable
112? TRADERS'
S Hation'l Bank,
BOSTON.
Northern Investment Company.
This Company purcba*es strictly ceutral buslnes*
Henl Ksinto In lnrge titles, the rentals of which pay
Its dividends. An Is universally known by buslneat
men, this kind of Ileal Kstat© coutlnually iuereaswf
m value. Hence the large estates like the . w ears Es
tate o( Boston, 1 he Kitty Associates, tlie Astor Kstato
of New York, and hundreds of other estates which
could bo mentioned, lu ull the great commercial
ill its of the world.
Tne stock of this Company is selling to-day at
H 2 HO per share, suoject to a tvaaoe after Air?u?« i,
IS»M. Par value, $lo& Paid up capital. Juue Ist.
lMll, {34«,00a
J*end or call for full particulars at tho office of
the C.mipanv, *£<l(l VVuHhiuu f»n St.. Ktionii
:j-l I. IftOSI'ON. .U ASS., where photographs oi
■ bulidliiKS cau be seen.
GE LEONARD, Pres't. A. A. HOWE, Tret»
fTHE NEW METHOD
for AI, Lchronic dk-Mw, drape a, debility,
catarrh. 4c. No patent medicine. Hrp<l for
iNOnpUlet, free. Hundreds of testimonials.
■•The Sew Method la worth Us weight In (told.
Long live Dr. K. n»t "-J. B. BIIVBTfI, l »»<or
Firt l'rrxb'n Chdrrh, N.V Infinitely
better than the Hull System. Agents wanted.
111 UIII HI ITLV CO., JlO BUOiUWAT, *. I.
LEAV CCIICD CURED TO STAY CURED.
11A 1 itWCill Wc want the name and ad
aressof every sufferer in the
&M OTtl Ml A U. S. and Canada. Adores*.
AO I IHTIM F. Hirold Hijm.H.D., illilo,H.l.
FRAZER G A R^S |
iIJfcST IN THU WORLD U ilkHVb
PT Oct tne Genuine. Sola £very wberet