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Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-02-19
PORT ROYAL. S. c., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1874
How the Chinese Catch Fish.

The cormorant is largely employed as
an assistant to the fisherman, and is
carefully educated to its work by pro-
fessional trainers. When thoroughly
trained, pair of birds is worth forty
dollars, the high price being explained
by the cost and labor of instruction.
During the first seven months OF its
life, the cormorant is left with the flock
and is taught by its elders how to feed
itself on small fish. After that age,
however, a collar is fastened about its
neck so that it cannot swallow its prey,
and to one of its feet cord, some two
feet long, is attached, terminating in a
bamboo float.
At a signal from the fisherman, whose
sole implement is q forked stick some
ten feet long, the cormorants plunge
into the water and search for fish, each
bird, as fast as he catches one in his
beak, rising to the surface. The fisher
man then hooks the birds float with his
stick and draws it towards him, taking
the fish away flom the cormorant as
soon as it comes within reach OF his
arm. =,
When the fish is very large and
weighs seven or eight pounds, for ex-
ample, the cormorants will assist each
other, one catching the fish by tail, an
other by the head, etc. They rarely
catch anything less than quarter OF q
pound. After every capture small bit
of fish is thrown to the bird as reward,
the piece being sufficiently little for the
bird to swallow in spite of its collar.
Chinese fishermen keep their feath-
cred assistants at work as long as day
light lasts. Occasionally the birds be-
come tired and refuse to dive, O pro-
ceeding which occasions a series OF
frightful yells and beating OF the water
with stick by their msSter, which
frightcns them to such an extent that
they resume labor instantly.
This mode of fishing, which is not in
terrupted even by severe cold, is quite
lucrative, as twenty or thirty birds can
readily catch about dollar and a half
worth of fish per day. In general the
fishermen are associated, and the birds
belong to q society which marks them
with peculiar brand of it's own. Oil
of sesame is said to be the panacea for
all ills of the cormorant, which con.
tinues it's career of active work until
about ten years of age.
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Effect of African Climate,

1t is really pitiful to look at the faces
of young Europeans who have been out
here only couple of years or SO, says
n correspondent on the African gold
coast. Their color is that of pallid
yellow. They seem to bear on their
features that stamp of despair which
only those deprived of all hope of
health can have. Though the Oldest is
not twenty-three years old, 1 should
Judge, yet one of them is as gray as a
man of fifty. They all look like old
young men, with their jaundiced COM
plexions, from which every freshness
of youth has departed, their lack-lustre
eyes and languid movements. The
trade in which these Europeans, under
Mr.. Croker, are engaged, is that of pur-
chasing palm oil, gold dust and gum
copal, while the Basle Mission buys not
only palm oil, gold dust and gum copal,
but black monkey skins, cotton, India
Rubber gum, and almost everything
that can be turned into money remu-
neratively in Europe. When the mer-
chants have finished boiling the palm oil
they pour it in great puncheons con-
tanning over $50 gallons, wnitewash
both ends of the puncheons, and ship
them to Europe.
The currency of the Gold Coast is
gold dust, and, in some parts, cowry
shells are still used, though they are
being rapidly superseded by British
silver coin. An ounce of gold dust is
sold for e3 lbs. The natives frequently
exchange among themselves the weight
of even a small bead in the precious
dust, which they call pessua-a trife
as insignificant to the Accras as plea.
yune would be to as,
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Items Of Interest.

A great many children get on the
wrong track because the switch ls mis-
placed.
An old definition of salt-the stuff
that spoils potatoes if they don't have
any on.
Rhode Island is one Of the seven
States in which the postal service pays
expenses.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do
good by stealth, and to have ltfound out
by accident.
Genius is that power of man which,
by its strength and originality, gives
laws and rules others.
Out of the six million eggs a Goldfish
has been known to spawn In one year,
less than q hundred survive.
Mr.. Aston, of the U. S. Navy in the
South Pacific, says that the Indians OF
Eten, Peru, speak language under
stood by Chinese coolies.
An Indiana paper says girls should be
taught that God made them IN HIS own
image, and that no amount OF tight
lacing will improve the model.
Professor Reynolds has found that,
by means of strong discharge OF cleo
tricity, he could burst q tube. which
could stand discharge OF one inch OF
powder, retained by wire slugs three
quarters of an inch long.
A couple of fellows met MIR. Keilar
near Mount Jay, Pa, tho other night,
and requested him to give up his money
or his life. He thrust his hand into
his pocket, remarking, "Well, Ia
rather lose my money than my life,
but pulled out revolver, with whlch
he instantly killed one of the highway
men and wounded the other.
An explosion occurred at cartridge
factory at Bel Air, in France, which
caused the death Of five women and
dangerous injuries to six others. One
of the survivors states that it was
common practice with the workWomean'
to amuse themselves by igniting. small
quantities of illuminate by friction De-
tween copper plates in order to produce
q slight explosion.
The hen fever, which has prevailed
to some extent in this village, says the
Dover Observer, is abating. One man
who kept debit and credit account OF
his "hen money" finds that thirty live
hens have netted just thirty-four cents
during the year, above the cost OF keep,
ing. But calculating the number OF
miles travel which they have caused OF
four cents per mile, and he finds q
balance against each hen OF one dollar
and ninety-seven cents. He will not
cultivate hens next year.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-02-19
VOL. ". NO. 20.
If You Want a Kiss, Take 1t.

There's jolly Saxon proverb
That is pretty much,like this,
That man is half in Heaven
When he has a womans kiss;
But there's danger in delaying
And the sweetness may forsake it;
So tell you, bashful lover,
II you want kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow
Steel q march on you in this;
Never let laughing maiden
See you spelling for kiss;
There's a royal way to kissing,
And the jolly ones who make it
Have motto that is winning
If you want kiss, why take it.
ANY fool may face cannon
Anybody wear crown,
But a man must win woman,
If he'd have her for his own;
Would you have the golden apple,
You must find the tree and shake it !;
If the thing is worth the having,
Aud you want kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon desert,
With forest smiling byi
Who would give his sunny summer
For bleak and wintry sky?
Oh! / tell you there is magic.
And you cannet, cannot break it;
For the sweetest part of loving
Is to want kiss, and take it.
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ANGRY CAMEL.-The camel is gener-
ally supposed to be meek and harm
less animal; but recently one OF the
camels in the menagerie Of the Central
Park violently attacked Mr.. Conklin,
superintendent OF the Animal Depart.
ment, and would probably have killed
him but for the intervention OF the
keeper. Mr.. Conklin was engaged in
feeding the camels, when one Of them
without any warning, seized HIM with
its teeth, lifted him up, and then dashed
him on the ground and trampled on
him. This unprovoked attack is thought
to be a case OF jealousy, the offending
animal having recently manifested in.
tense dissatisfaction in consequence OF
Mr.. Conklin's kind treatment OF It's
mate when tho latter was in sick COM
dition.
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A Very Tall Tower.

The proposed centennial tower is to
be 1000 feet high. st. Paul's is 365
feet above the crowded streets of the
great city at its base, overtopping, by
comparison, the dome Of our own Capt.
tol at Washington fully IS feet. Trinity
steeple, in New York city, is 2S6 feet
from foundation to apex, and Bunker
Hill monument 221 feet high.
The Cathedral of Strasbourg towers
46S feet from earth to pinnacle, Michael
Angeles grandest work, the dome of
st. Peters, has a height of 457 feet,
while a pyramid, that of Cephren,
brother and successor to Cheops, is 454
feet in heighth.
The material for the tower is Ameri-
can wrought iron, made in the form Of
Phoenix columns, united by diagonal
tie bars and horizontal struts. The Sec
tion is circular, and is $50 feet in diane
ter at the base, diminishing to 30 feet
at the top. A central tube, 30 feet
in diameter, extends through the entire
length, and carries the four elevators.
The latter are to ascend in three and
descend in five minutes, so as to be
capable of transporting about 500 per-
sons per hour. There are also spiral
staircases winding around the central
tube.
The site will probably be in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, in proximity
to the buildings of the Centennial Ex-
POSITION. By calcium and electric lights
from the tower, it is suggested that the
latter, with their adjoining grounds,
might be illuminated at night. The
summit of the spire will also form a
magnificent observatory, while the view
of the surrounding country would be
unparalleled.
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WOMEN IN THE GRANaEs.-One Of the
features of the Oranges is that not Ia
single one can be organized without the
companionship of women. No charter
will be issued to organize Grange,
even il a hundred of the best farmers
want it and ask for it, unless certain
number of women Join.
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A man writes to the editor for 81,
4" because he is 80 Internally short, and
he gets in reply the heartless response,
{" Do as 7 do, stand up on chair"
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Dobson says his friends seem de-
termined to give him the title of DR..
His butcher, baker, and all the rest do
so, but they put DR.. after his name, in.
stead OF before it.
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THOUSANDS OF LIVES AND MILLIONS
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