The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1908, Page 6

THE FISHERMS PARADISE. No Such Angling Sport can be Found Elsewhere in the World. | The fisherman's pa se in the United States is found at Miami, Fla. There zre other ta grounds than Biscayne bay, but anglers who have found their way to the southernmost point of Florida year after year with flattering reg ity, and some of whom have landed from five to ten! huge 150 or 200 pounders in one day, contend that no such angling sport can be found elsewhere in the world, nor so many fish, as in the waters which lap the shores of the various keys which dot the bay and the Gulf Stream. There are over six hundred kinds of fish between Miami and Key West, and 150 of these are known} as ga fish. One of the fascina-| tions of the gamy tarpon is that he is mysterious. He comes in schools, | whence no one seems to know He| is sighted sometimes as early as January, but, although he jumps and; mockingly lashes his six feet or so} of shining, silvery body in the eyes of the eager sportsman, he refuses te notice the most tempting bait. In! February he begins to take the hook, and in this month anglers begin to arrive on the scene and to engage their boats and guides for the sea- son.—Leslie’s Weekly. Reaching a Decision. A commercial traveler tells an amusing experience which happened to him in the interior of Pennsyl- vania. The traveler landed in the village and sought the only hotel in the place—a small building not much larger than the average dwell- fing. He stepped on the porch but hearing voices raised in anger, he paused at the door. Apparently there was a quarrel in progress, and as the excitement showed no indica- tion of diminishing, the traveler knocked loudly on the door. “Hello!” he cried. ‘“‘Who’s the; proprietor of this place?’ “Jest ye stay where ye are,” came in feminine tones from the house. “Ezra an’ me is decidin’ thet p’int now.” “Tuppence” the Dominating Amount. Tuppence—meaning, of course, two-pence, and equal to the sum of four cents in United States currency —is the domin:ting sum in London. It is much an institution as the war debt, beer, or the game of cricket. Wherever you go, whatever you do, what ever you sell or whenever you epen your mouth, it is tuppence or a series of that sum, that is extracted from you. Tuppence is as much as a fairly weli-to-do worker can afford for his meal at midday. In the poor- er restaurants that sum rets him two slices and a big mug, or three slices and a little mug, or a portion of cake and a drink, or a fried egg, slice and small mug or a rasher of bacon. Why Toast is Popular. The increasing popularity of toast, gays the London Lancet, is a some- what interesting fact in that it possi bly indicates that after all the pub- lic resents the insipidty of modern bread. Roller milling as now prac- ticed, is altogether different from the old method grinding wheat between stones, leads to the elimination of the germ of the wheat. The pecu- fiar nutty flavor o: the old-fashioned loaf was due perhaps to the retention ef this germ. Indian Babies Don't Cry, “Affection for children is an In- dian character,” says Dr. Charles S. Moody of Idaho. “I have neve: geen an Indian mother or father pun- ish a child, nor have I ever seen an} Indian child cry. An Indian child; never sobs when hurt. Just an extra | snap of the bright black eyes and al ht frown is all to indicate to the | observer that the little fellow js/ suffering. I have never heard eve an Indian baby c Workman's Foe. Alcohol is the foe of the working-| inastauch as it lessens his pro-! thus lowering his ef- | workman It renders and indifferent as to the welfare of his family, and re-} sults in the children drifting into the workshop and factory at a time of life when they oi ght to be gaining the knowledge to fit them for the circumstances of the future. —Co-operative } ductive powe ficiency ‘aim as 2less ca > necessary Johnsov Grass. ff Prejudice could overcome, this is one of the most valuable hay grasses we have It is at home in our climate and can be depended on to make a crop. It is akin to sor- ghum and partake: to some extent sorghum’s hardine: Cut the just the first heads | If too old it is of but little | regular: be grass appear. value. early, Novel Farm, One of the most in the country is conducted by Miss Abby Lathrop of Granby, Mass. She bas a little place up among the hills where she raises mice, fer- sets, rabbits, guinea pigs, and water rats. She has her charge all told about 2,500 animals, and her enterp rise has been a success.—Les- | ile’s Weekly. curious “farms” weasels, in What He Had Missed. “Gracious!"» exclaimed Mrs. “just listen to that m positive he’s sweari s missed his vocation.” ‘No,” replied her husband, “I think it was his train.”—Philadel- ghia Press. Good- | clergyman! ; Evident-| } more than ; dead birds on the spires | much considered in this here Lenten | hundred | Strand. NOT A HORSELESS AGE. Facts Seem to Indicate That It Is Farther Away Than Ever. The horseless age that has been so persistently slow in coming; the facts seem to in- dicate that it is ever and perhaps may never come. People must be riding a great deal they ever rode before. The automobile industry in this country has quadrupled in value in the last three years and has devel- oped at even a greater rate in the number’ of machines manufactured. But the statistics of horseflesh keep on expanding. There were more than fourteen million horses in this | country in 1897, but according to the figures for the year just closed there are 19,746,000 horses in the} United States at the present time. | This is a gain of nearly 40 percent. in a decade, a much larger one than | the human element can show in spite of our large and continuous importa- tions. As mechanical rivals multi- | ply he rises in the scale of dignified personality. The last horse will probably take his leave at about the same time as the last man.—Boston Transcript. Squeaky Shoes in Demand, . Small automatic pumps, very in- geniously contrived, spirited air ia between the layers of the soles of each finished pair of shoes. “That beats me,” said the visitor. “] never saw air put in shoe soles before. Pneumatic like that, are they very springy?” “No, they’re noisy,” answered the foreman of the Lynn factory. “These shoes are for the export trade. They goto Africa. A native African judges the white mans shoes by their squeak. The louder the squeak, the finer the article. In fact, the native won’t wear a non- squeaking, silent shoe. It is wind between the soles that make shoes squeak. Pvt in enough and your footgear will pigs under a fence.” A Fireless House. To demonstrate his faith in the Fracticability of electricity for all domesti, purposes, an offici:l of an Iilinois electrical company has re- cently built a house at Carrollton, Ill., without a chimney or any other means of making use.of fire. The house is heated by steam and the cooking done by electricity, both supplied by the heat, light and pow- er company with which the gentle- man is connected. This construc- tion marks the beginning of an ef- fort to obtain customers for current to be used in the kitchen, and a special rate has been fixed for that kind of service, A Bit of Forestry. “Do you know how to tell a hard wood tree from a soft wood tree?” said a forester. “‘I’ll tell you how to do it, and the rule holds good not only here among our familiar pines and walnuts, but in the Antipodes, among the strangest banyans, bao- babs and what-nots. Soft wood trees have needle leaves, slim, narrow, al- most uniform in breadth. If you don’t believe me, consult the pine, the spruce or the fir. Hard wood trees pave broad leaves of various shape—the oak, the ebony, the wal- not, the mahogany and so on.” Every Bird a Weathercock. “Where’s the wind?” scoffed the sailor. ‘‘Why, look at the birds— they’ll tell you. Don’t you know that every bird’s a weathercock? Stop moistenin’ your finger and holdin’ it up,’’ he went on, in a tone of disgust. “The practice ain’t hardly cleanly. Look at the birds is all you got to do, for every bird sets with its head alw wind. Every live bird in a tree is as reliable a weathercock as them season.’ Why Go to Bed? It seems to me we make a mistake in prescribing special hours for go- ing to bed and getting up. Why should we thus gorge ourselves with slumber? Why should we not fol- low the example of the dug and take an occasional nap when we havenoth- ing better to do? Why should we predicted is not merely} farther away than) be as noisy as two} straight at the | what is so | } 1 i | | Destroys | tists | ket in China. jin their present form. BURNT SUGAR AN ANTISEPTIC. Microbes of Disease—Ef- fect Upon Disagreeable Odors. The custom of burning sugar in a sickroom is very current among all: classes in France, but up to the present has been regarded by scien- one of those harmless and which are as useless ‘practices tolerated than insisted upon by medical profession. of the Pasteur Institute now assures us that formic aldehyde is given off by burning sugar and is one of the most antisey gases known. Five grains of sugar having been burned under a ten liter bell glass, the vap- or was allowed to cool. Vials con- taining the baccilli of typhoid, tuber- culosis, carbon, &c., were then in- troduced. Within half an hour every microbe had succumbed. Again, if sugar be burned in a closed ves- sel containing rotten eggs or putrid meat, the disagreeable smell disap- pears. M. Trillat affirms that the formic aldehyde combines with the gases given off by the putrid animal Matter and renders them inodorous. —Practical Druggist. Market for Old Horse Shoes, Old horseshoes find a ready mar- One steamer alone brought 300 tons of this iron from Hamburg. Chinese iron dealers buy the horseshoes and sell them to knife and tool manufacturers all over the province of Shantung. It is claim- ed by the Chinese that the temper of this class of iron makes it the best obtainable for knives and cutlery and also good for other tools. The rea- son ascribed for this is that the con- stant beating the shoes have received under the feet of Lorses has given them a peculiar temper absolutely unobtainable in any other way, and that tools made from them are su- perior to all others. Petroleum Butter. One of the very late by-products of petroleum is butter. It is far | Superior to most of the cheap so-call- ed butter that is sold in corner groc- eries, and a good deal better than oleomargarine. I had the experience of eating some the other day it was excelient. I assume it is vaseline prepared in a buttery Nothing simpler or easier. What next? Will wonders never cease? If olive oil were made into solid cakes and served as butter it world be in great demand as food. People in general believe it is made cnly for salads. A few cook vith it. —N. Y. Pre: Inventor of Envelopes. It is somewlat curious that such a simple contrivance as the envelope should be a comparatively modern invention. As a matter of fact, it is just a hundred years since a paper manufacturer of Brighton named Brewes invented envelopes for letters Even then it was some considerable time before their use became at all genera}, not, in fact, until somwhere in the year 1850. Before this date, (as many who are living now will remember) a letter, written only on one side, was folded in two, then in three, sealed with a wafer or sealing wax, and addressed on one of the blank , Sides.—The Gaulois. A Town Without Taxes. Orson, in Sweden, has no taxes. During the last thirty years the au- thorities of this place have sold over one million pounds’ worth of trees, and by means of judicious replanting | have provided for a similar income every thirty or forty years. In con- sequence of this source of commer- cia] wealth there are no taxes, and local railways and telephones sare free, as are education and many other things.—Tit-Bits. A Diving Sponge Boat, A submarine 5 been built by a tompany at Bizer France, for sponge fishing. When sunk it can } travel on a short of wheel along the | It collects sponges by means of | chanical | The go to bed when we don’t feel sleepy? | Why should we not take forty winks It strikes method and inclined thereto? too much when me there is rangements. Lonuon Graphic, Noiseless Europe. Railway whistles infiict torture on that the efforts plague have won people. s0 many people abroad to check th approval from the | has introduced a system of dumb sig- naling to start and stop the trains. jum is trying compressed air whistles instead of steam, and Ger- | many experiments with horns. Statues to Ministers, Considering how great a part the/| Ministers of all our denominations | have played in the national life for at least ten centuries, it is simply | astounding to find how few are the statues that have been raised to them | in public places during the past five years or so.—Sunday Hardest to Fight. Gossips are almost great liars, “but,” Courant with umnexpcted candor, “did you ever hear a story about yourself that wasn’t partly true?” invariably y about our somni.erous ar- | | the Austria | —I don’t know asks the Howard | | | | | | | | | } | York has jidea to staht out | Tent.” bottom of the sea, being worked by two submarine oars from the inside. a me gripper, and hi searchlights, a telephone, and a speaking tube by which it can com- municate with a boi: cn the surface submarine bas alrendy down to a depth of 330 feet. At the Dry Inn. “No use to a: landlord. “I'd like to oblige you, but you know as well asI do that Georgi: is dry. Howsomever, if you step upstairs while I put cut the light you may stumble over some- thin’—but even if you fall down- k& me, | stairs and break your leg—mind now —At- | what done it! | lanta Constitution. Military Schools in U. S. Of strictly military schools there are 175 throughout the land. New 32, New Jersey 9, Pennsyl- vania 11, North Carolina 7, Texas 9, Wisconsin 4, California 9 and Illinois 5. A Reasonable * recaution. “In order to be a regular optim- ist,” said Uncle Eben, “it’s a good wif you arrange- ments all made foh, three square meals a day an’ de payment of de —Washington Star. The Paying Teller Admonished. The Farmer— here, young man, none o’ your monkey business. Them ain't the same bills I deposited here last month.—Brooklyn Life. rather | the j But M. Trillat | with- \ cut knowing what it was and thought | ‘way. | electrical | been | Colonel,” said | ! CAST UP BY THE SEA. | since Return of the Lost Cap- | tain’s Picture After Many Years, They that go down to the sea in, ships learn much of the mysteries of life. From the cos of Africa, there traveled to Scarboro, Me., the Painting of an old-time sea captain of that town, who long years ago was lost with all on board his ship in the China seas. The ship ated) from the home port with every pros- | pect of a successful voyage, but she | never returned to the hb land Years went by and she was given ap as lost; Her name was taken from | the shipping list, and no news came back to the waiting ones at home. | Long afterwards a passing vessel picked up off the African coast the portrait of an American sea captain such as the Chinese artists paint, and on the back of the picture was | the captain’s name and that of the port from which he sailed. The painting was forwarded to the little American town, and it was found to be a picture of the Scarboro sea cap- tain, master of the lost vessel that had left the harbor so many years ago.—Kennebec Journa!, The Eyeball and Vision. Dr. Alexander Schaefer has been investigating the vision of many an- imal species and has found that the size of the eyeball is the principal factor of the acuteness of vision, The bovine species has the sharpest sight. The second place is occupied by man and the horse, which have nearly equal visual powers; the third by the sheep. Small, and especially small- eyed animals, whether mammals, birds , amphibia or reptiles, have very poor sight. Owls and birds are the only birds that possess great acuteness of vision. It has long been known that dogs have such indistinct vision that as a rule u dog is not able to recognize his master by sight alone. An Animal Census. According to an official of the Smithsonian Institution at Washing- ton, the latest enumeration of the animals known to science includes no less than three hundred and nine- ty species. The real number is be- lieved to be much larger. It has been estimated that of in- sects alone the earth harbors two million species; but the late Pro- fessor Riley, a recognized authority on the subject, held even that esti- mate as far too low. According to his opinion, ten! million would be a moderate estimate of the number of insect species. The number of indi- viduals is, of course, incalculable. Paper Famine. There can be no doubt that with- in « very few years the shortage of paper will work some very curious changes in certain familiar aspects of life. Paper is made ‘rom grasses and wood pulp, but so far as news- Ff. pers are concerned, almost entire- ly from the laiter. The rise in pa- per is already causing alarm in Eu- rope. When morning newspapers are no more the nations will prob- ably relapse into barbarism until the forests have grown themselves again.—Indian Daily News, Calcut- ta. A Mild Remonstrance. He was a kindly old clergyman, and he hated to have to suspect the honesty of any one. But at last it was impossible to ignore the quality | of the milk, and he approached the milkman very nervously. “I merely wish to remark,” said the good man in his kindliest, mild- est manner, “that I require milk for dietary purposes, and not for use at christenings.’-—Detroit News-Trib- une. Doctored Tea. The tea importers are asking that the inspection of tea be transferred from the Treasury to the Agricultur- al Department—on the grc nd, ap- parently, that the scientific experts of the latter will be better able to de- tect and stop fraudulent purposes. | Cheap teas, they say, are frequently, adulterated with indigo and tale to make them resemble better grades, | and these adulterauts are said to be unwholesome. They Had the Habit. “You reporters make me tired,” said the cartoonist, who had strolled | in to borrow tobacco. “Why for in- stance, do you always say a subject is to be ‘probed’ when you mean in-} vestigated?” “Perhaps for the same reason that | you fellows always represent a work- ing man as wearing a square paper cap,’ replied one of the traduced— Philadelphia Le Solitude in Chunks, Here is an extract from the pros- pectus of a hotel in Switzerland: | “Welssbach’ is the favorite place of: resort for those who are fond of solitude. 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