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THE CHESAPEAKE OYSTER BEDS.

The natural oyster beds Of the Chesapeake
Bay are perhaps the largest and most pro-
life in the world. The tidal movements are
so gentle that the spat is not scattered by
the currents and the bottom is suited to
oyster growth. There are places in the
bay where oysters have accumulated one
upon the other until they form great cones,
rising to the surface in fifty or sixty feet of
water. For many years the beds have heon
worked without restriction, and the supply
was once deemed practically illimitable. The
sales alone amount to 1000, 600, 600 oysters
a year. The take in the lower waters under
Virginia jurisdiction is also very great, and
since the natural beds Of Delaware Bay,
New Jersey, and Long Island waters have
been depleted, the Chesapeake Bay is the
chief source of supply of seed oysters for the
planted beds in the neighborhood of Eastern
cities.
The State of Maryland maintains n little
navy whose business is TO enforce the laws
regulating the oyster fisheries; but these
laws are not adapted for the preservation of
the city OF BALTIMORE do not bear oysters.
but the city sends ont into the bay large
fleet of boats, which drag the oyster beds
with heavy iron SCOOPS. The oyster men
who supply the local demand along The buy
shore take the oysters by means of long
tongs worked from small boats. County iu-
terests predominant in the Legislature and the
endeavor is made to reserve to every county
the use of choice beds in waters contiguous
to it, The bay il mapped with imaginary
boundary lines, the transgression of which
is the duty of the oyster police to prevent.
As matter of fact. however. most of the
take of oyster dredeers is from grounds pro-
hibited to them. Every year several dred-
gers are killed or wounded, the iails along
the bay shore are filled with captured Offend
eis, and sometimes there are conflicts be-
tween tonpmen and dredpers approacbino
the proportions of battle. Meanwhile no
effort has been made to regulate the eharae.
ter of the dredging itself or the extent to
which beds may be worked, further than
that there is prohibition of oyster DREDGING
during the summer months which boweyer
ia not vel, enforeea
finder tbasa o;rc,,,stanoos 1, L. 40, s,.
nris;no 70 ha,r that e;ons ~ da,,,ot;o,, o,o -,
bearing Lieut Francis WinsIow IT g N
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-26
A MODEL JUDGE.

Speaking of the late Lord Justice Lush,
the London Times says: The stricking
points of such life are not many. Lord
Justice Lush's triumphs as an advocate,
golden as they may have been ut the time,
wear to lockers back much the same dress
as most forensic Victories His legal acu-
men, we need hardly shy, was penetrating,
and his style Of address perspicuous. But
what siiitors and counsel will most retain rs
the distinguishing characteristic of the de-
ceased Judge will be his homely sense.
Lord Justice Lush was not only good law
yer but he was man of the world, with the
sympatliies and sense which n man of the
world has acquired. He was settler of
disputes between man and man in the Wild
est sense of the word. He was always ready
with almost paternal advice to suitors. If
he could persuade them to compromise the
case out of Court, he was well pleased. To
discover what was best for both parties was
his guiding motive, and when the heat of
litigation had cooled down all were willing
to acknowledge his services as mediator.
Then his good nature was great, and young
counsel had often to be grateful for kind
word in their perplexities.
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HiNDoo FRANKNEss.


Frankness is a quality of which we, as a
nation, boast, and yet it may be fairly own
ed that the census returns just given in
Bombay put us to shame in one particular.
Asked to state their profession or calling,
these simple Hindoos have filed up the pa
per with an accuracy that might in vain be
sought for in this country. We cannot
point to single avowed criminal yet IN
Bombay there are, upon their own confess
ion, twenty-six gamblers and swindlers, one
dog poisoner and sixteen wizards. Our en-
gravers in wood are artists" and our
shopkeepors "merchnnts." In Bombay,
the six hundred and ninety-eight tattooers
who inhabit the land designate themselves
by no other name, but claiin the distinction
of the exact art they practice. So, too, the
forty-one idol makers are proud of the crnft
which lifts them above their fellows, while
no mere scriblers of doggerel dispute tho
palm with the single poet of the province.
These evidences of righteousness donot exist
in Western civilization, and we may sigh for
them in vain. Perhaps, on the other hand,
Bombay would have been just as well pleas
cd had her gamblers and swindlers, wizards
and dog poisoner, kept some of this infor-
nation to themselves. London Telegraph.
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"YEs, SIR, I'D SHOOT HIMm

Six or eight congenial spirits sat around O
stove in Grand River grocery the other
night and after several other subjects had
been exhausted some one introduced that of
panics in churches theatres, and halls. This
gave Mr.. Hopewel chance TO remark
"Gentlemen ] jus. long to be there"
"Where ~
"Why, in one Of those panics. Yes, sir,
I'd give a new twenty dollar bill to be in q
theatre one night when there was AN occa-
sion for panic"
"why?"
"Why, because one cool, level-headed
man could stop the thing as easily as you
could end up barrel of -four"
:" Well, dunno about that observed
one of the sitters. There il something
awful in the cry of fire, and hear it where
and when you may, it startles and frlghtens.
What would You do in theatre in case
there was a cry of fire and rush p
"I'd stand right up in my seat, pull n
revolver from my pocket, and shout out that
I'd shoot the first man who attempted to
crowd or rush. One cool man would check
the panic in ten seconds"
While the subject was being continued the
grocer went to the rear end of the store,
poured little powder on board and gave
three or four men the wink. Directly there
was a bright fash, yells of Fire p and
Powder" and every man sprang up and
rushed. Hopewell didn't spring up and
talk of shooting. On the contrary, he fell
over lot of baskets that was piled between
him and the door, got up TO plough his way
over a rack of brooms, and when he reached
the sidewalk he was ON all fours, white as
ghost, and SO frightened that he never look
ed back until he reached the opposite side OF
the street. - Detroit Free Press.
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A SAMPSON OF THE WEST.
How He Can Handle nm OK as Easily
Other Men Handle Kittens.


Jonas johnson, or "Big Jonas" Is the
Goliah of the region, and some of the stories
of his strength aud endurance sound fabu-
lous. In 1868 he gained national reputa-
ton by walking from Illinois to California,
pushing bis provisions in wheelbarrow.
He was living in Knox county, Illinois, when
the gold fever swept over the country, and
being in the twenties of his life was fred
with an ambition to join the Argonauts. He
was imperfectly acquainted with English,
and had but $10in cash, so he walked across
Illinois and Iowa to Omaha, making the dis
lance in two weeks. There he bought a
wheelbarrow and laid in stock ofprovisions.
With these, on the 18th day of April, he
pushed boldly out, and ninety days thereafter
he landed" safely at the diggings, some
fifty miles northeast of Sacramento the first
successful placer mines. Here he went to
work in the same independent way he made
his journey--alone-- was successful
He was able to earn $40 to 800 per day
according to the number of hours put in. A
year satisfied him, and with a bag well filed
with dust he returned, by way of Pan
anna and New York, to his former home in
Illinois
His feats of strength are no less remark
able. About twenty years ago he found
COW in no uncommon predicament in those
days-mired in a slough. A team of horses,
planted on firm ground, had proved unable
to draw her from the mire, whereupon Jonas,
laying down some boards to give good
footing, lifted her bodily out of the swamp,
and, Selling her by the horns, dragged her
to firm ground. At another time his wagon
loaded with hay became mired down and
the horses failed to extricate it. Jonas got
impatient, and going to the rear he raised
the load and pushed it forward to better
ground, making lift which is moderately
estimated OF not less than 800 pounds, and
performed under unfavorable conditions.
He is now hale, ruddy faced man of So
years, located on fine farm of 100 acres In
Boone and Hamilton counties, well stocked
and improved, besides being the fortunate
owner of two Others, 100 and 12O acres
respectively. He was born in Sweden, was
% years old when he came to America and
has been resident of this country for TWEEN
ty-three years. He stands feet inches in
his stockings and tips the beam at 245
pounds. No. IL boot accommodates his
foot and his hand is that of giant. Boone
(Losoa) Standard.
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WEAK POINTS IN HORSE.

The weak points of horse can better be
discovered while standing than while NOV
ing. II he is sound he will stand firmly and
squarely on his limbs without moving any
of them, with legs plump and naturally
poised. If one foot is thrown forward with
the toe pointing to the ground and the heel
raised, or if the foot is taken from the
ground and the weight taken from it, dis
ease may be suspected, or at least tender
ness, which is precursor of disease. If
the horse stands with his feet spread apart
or straddles with the hind legs, there is
weakness in the loins and the kidneys are
disordered Heavy pulling bends the knees.
Blush or milky cast eyes in horses indicate
moon blindness or something else. A bad
tempered horse keeps his ears thrown back.
A kicking horse is apt to have SCARED legs.
A stumbling horse has blemished knees.
When the skin is rough and hard, and does
not move easily and smoothly to the touch,
the horse is heavy eater andhis digestionis
bad. Never buy horse whose respiratory or
gans are at all impaired. Place your ear at the
side of the heart, and if wheeling sound is
heard, it is an indication of trouble-let him
go.
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FIGS.

In one fortnight lately no fower than 1876, :
600 barrels, cases, bags, boxes, drums, and
baskets of figs and raisins were shipped ct
smyrna. The fruit of the fig-tree may be
reekoned among the staple foods of man for
ages before cereals wore cultivated by sny
settled agricultural population. In the tenn
perate regions where it thriyes best, it fills
the place of the banana of tropical climes.
and yields its fruit during several months of
the year. In Asia Minor, where the tree is
found wild and where the best figs of COM
merce are chiefly grown, the fruit begins to
npen in the end of June and the summer
yield, which gives employment to large
population, comes to market in immense
quantities in September and October. The
trees often give even a third crop, which ri
pens after the leaves have fallen. The best
ngs for drying come from the valleys Of the
Meander and the Kaistros, to the south OF
smyrna, where the trees are planted regu-
iarly with care, and the ground il dug and
hoed from four to six times during tho sum-
mer. The Smyrna and Adm Railway now
the run, wnicn rofniei1y mad to BE- broueht
long distances on camels carrying about 500
pounds each. When the figs reach Smyrna
they are sorted by women and packed in the
boxes by men. They are best when newly
packed, aud as the months go by get drier
and harder in the grocers' shops. No one
who has not eaten them in the Levant at
the commencement of the season, packed in
the ornamental pasteboards drums with
glowing pictures on the top, in which they
are sold for local consumption, knows what
the best figs are like. The cardboard for
these boxes is supplied chiefly by Belgium
ana Austria; $4,000 camel-loads of four
kintais each, or nearly 1900 tons had
reached Smyrna 22d of October last year
and the production increases annually. Fif-
teen years ago not more than half that
amount was recorded for the whole season.
England and America take by far the larger
proportion of the exports France, where
the smaller and much inferior figs of tine
Mediterranean ore chiefly consumed, taking
little or none of the fine fruit of Smyrna. -
50. James Gazette.
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SOME ODD PROFESSIONS.

Among the curiosities of the Indian CEN
sus are the extraordinary professions which
some of her majesty's subjects declare they
pursue. In Allahabad, no fewer than 974
ut q former census described themselves as
"low blackguards,' calling which, how
ever, is only too common elsewhere than in
Allahabad, but the professional painters of
horses with spots" and the hereditary clerks
who 'pray to their ink-horns" are surely
peculiar to India. In Russia, however, the
progress of civilization has developed new
profession which IL would be difficult to
match even in India. It's specially is the
burning of insured premises. The st. Pc
tersburg insurance companies have Just cap
tured one of three members of this profess
sion who have carried ON this lucrative voca-
ton for several years. They were in the hab-
itof arranging forconAagrationsw the own
ers of insured promises. On being guaran-
teed 20 per cent. of the insurance money they
set fire TO the houses, which, being mostly
built of wood, burnt easily enough. They
rnIgrU fiuvv bovs. ss..-.;-ss 4i.4;n 90 per cent.
to-day but for the astuteness of tho Libau
police, who set a trap for them into which
they fell, much to the delight of the insur-
anoe companies. 1t is possible enough that
the members of this scandalous profession
are not unknown in other countries beside
India. Frauds against insurance companies
are difficult to detect even when the insured
fires his own property; but when the work
il undertaken by a professional fire-raiser 1t
becomes almost impossible Pal MaR Ga.
getLs.
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HoWTo SLEEP WELL.
The Cause of Sieep--Yolnntary and Tnv0Iun-
tnry Muscular Exercise.


No healthful sleep comes except that
which follows voluntary or involuntary action
of the muscles of the body. Pedestrians fall
into sound, deep sleep as soon as put to bed
at the appointed time for rest. That is the
sleep from voluntary muscular exercise. A
person in good health sits around the house
all day; an invalid may all day sit and
lounge and lie down from morning until
night without sleeping, and both the healthy
man and the invalid in the course of the
evening will become sleepy and fall into
sound repose, the result of the WEAKNESS
which invs.untary motion brings about; for
the various organs of the body, the heart,
the liver, the stomach, the eyelids, work
steadily every day The intestines are
as ceaseless in their motion as the waves Of
the ocean as these latter are always DASH
ing toward the shore, so is the great visceral
machinery working, working, working, push
ing the wastes of the body downward and
outward from the first breath of existence to.
ment of the system, voluntary or involuntary,
external or internal, which does not require
power to carse it. When that power is to a
certain extent exhausted instinct brings on
the sensation of sleepiness, which is the re-
suit of exhausted power, intended by nature
TO secure that cessation from activity which
gives time for reeuperation very much as a
man who runs for while stops and rests so
as to get stronger to run again. We get up
in the morning with a certain amount of
reserved or accumulated strength in the
course of the day that -trength becomes ex-
pended to the point necessary for the COM
mencement of a new supply, which comes
from rest the rest from sleep. Opium mar
cotics, oil forms of anodynes, cause sleep
artificially by compelling rest, A horse may
be tied SO that he cannot move; he is COM
PEELED to be at rest it is not the rest of
tiredness, hence it is unnatural Ano1ynes,
in sense, tie q man down; they take away
his power of motion they compel rest, but
il is not the rest which is the result of used
up strength, hence it is an artificial rest
causing an artificial sleep, not natural; and
sleep which is not natural cannot be health
full hence the truth of the first utterance
of this chapter sleep comes from
the expenditure of the strength of the body
in various forms of exercise. Journal of
HedlM
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MEN WHO GO SOLDERING.
Some who Wanf To nnd Can't-The First
Impulse Of Many Immigrants.

Nearly all of the applications for enlist
ment in the army are now made by men who
have been sorely disappointed in looking for
other work. said Capt Poole in the re-
cruiting rendezvous. ''Snce we began re-
cruiting in October we have accepted only
IA out of 912 applications. Ninety eight
applicants We're men who could not leave
liquor alone, and ll3 were married men
with families More clerks and aborers
than any other classes were accepted. Sol
diers discharged from our army or from
European armies were tine next highest on
she list. We enlisted two students from
German universities, and one French teach
er. Though every enlisted man must swear
that he is not married. many married men
take false oath. You've no idea of the
number of wives who come here looking for
lost husbands. We afford them every as
sistance. Boys have to get permission OF
their guardians before we can treat with
them. We make trnnpeters of the boys
when they are under the standard height.
We have many applications from newly
arrived immigrants. They are refused be-
cause they have little knowledge of the Eng
Gsh language. Sometimes the tradeslnsn
we enlist do better than they would out of
the army, and after five years time come
out with from $500 to 4 300 saved. Tail
ors and shoe-maker, blacksIniths and sad
dlers make the most. There is room for
few of all kinds"
AT the Chatham street rendezvous bak-
ers have outnumbered the other recruits.
This is partly accounted, for by the lack of
work caused by the strike last spring One
printer and one doctor were enlisted iii De-
cenber. One man said he was "fnanGer."
His operations it appeared on inquiry, had
been pitching pennies for drinks. r.
Sun.
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THE suEz CANAL.
What May be Seen BY ,he Traveller over Il.

AS regards the Suez Canal itself one NAV
say with the tourist who spent a day in the
town of Hanover, There was nothing TO
see, and ! saw it thoroughly Two intern.
Unable banks of grayish yellow sand, at first
only few feet above water, but growing
gradually higher and sleeper as they trend
southwG little ribbon of light-preen
water, aboat 20 feet broad by somewhat
over 20 deep in The centre, lying between
them; a huge ''dredgera rising from the
smooth surface like castle every here and
there, with clamorous garrison of blue
shirted men and red-capped. dark-faced lads,
who send volley of shrill cries after
every passing steamer; en- occasional steam
launch, contemptuously apostrophized by
our sailors as g Putting Billy" snorting past
with crew composed of three men and
flag, and all around, as far as the eye can
reach the dim, dreary immensely of the
great Libyan desert We're the leading
features of the famous Oriental thoronghfare
when first trayersed it oa..,s,A. WAY te...Ar-
5aasn.
But dwarfed though il mag be, like the
amy railway connecting the Volga with the
Don, by the mighty desolation of its sur
roundings, the Suez Canal has nevertheless,
touch of life every here and there, the ar
tistlc value OF which is augmented tenfold
py It's DISMAL background patch of green
foliage, encirclng two or three small wood
on nuts, shows itself suddenly upon the hot
GRASSY yellow OF the never-endmg sand-hllls,
proving that the unfortunate men whom
their iii-iuck has made station-keepers
IN TINS hideous region have done their best
TO make such an existence endurable. AT
one OF these hermltages civilization has
advanced 80 far as to develop long one
stored building with " Billiard painted on
Its front, for your true Frenchman, were he
on desert island or in the depths of the
sahara, must have his cafe and his billiard
table In deep hollow, between two high
lamps, half dozen eamels lie crouched on
the earth, with their long necks outstretched
IN lazy enjoyment, while three or four more,
ridden by swarthy, keen-eyed, white-tur-
baned Arabs, come slouehing along the crest
of the ridge with slow, noiseless stride. A
flock of native sheep, brown and shaggy as
their own shepherds, trot over the brow of
the further bank and disappear behind it.
A little further on a swarm of blue froeked
natives, black and shriveled as over-fried
sausages, are picking and shovelng away
huge lump of the bank which has suddenly
rolled down into the water while others are
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The Ex-CoNGREssMAs IN WASHINGTON.
The editor of the Providence Press, who
has been in Washington many years, in
dorses Major Ben Perley Poore's melancholy
description of the average ex-senator or
Representative as he is seen about the CAPT
tal-poor, disappointed, yet forever hoping,
neglected, forgotten. OF all the pitiful crea-
lures outside of the almshouse, there is not
more sorry lot than those played-out pro-
fessionals in politics, who have been spoiled
for earth and rendered unfit for heaven by
tarying too long at the trough of public de-
pendence. Our State capitals and our chief
towns, as well as the National capital, are
infested with swarms of these loaferish bum
mers; they settle down around the edges Of
the official machine as barnacles do around
the bottom of an old ship.
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PLUCK REWARDED.


On the first day of the new year, says the
Pittsburg Ledder, II young man resident on
the South Side, and whose name is Good.
went to the house of his own true love, and
thence they went to the house of some one
having authority in such matters, and were
wed.
The parents of the Young lady were not
apprised of this decisive and important step
taken by their daughter until after il had
been taken and then they were in no wise
pleased. So positive WAS their disapproyal
OF the net that they refused TO allow the
young Indy SO lately wife to accompany
her husband or TO see him at all. OF course
this was highly unsatisfactory decision to
the young compile, but it was laid down as
of the Modes and Persians, from wlieh
there was no appeal. The husband fretted
under It day or two, and called at the
house and endeavored to have the young
lady renounce her allegiance to the paren-
tai roof, but il seemed TO be too painful
proceeding and she couldn't do it,
Finally, however, the husbands indigna-
ton mastered him, and he determined to re-
main passive no longer, and so he engaged
the services of two stout, well-proportoued
police officers, and engaged them TO escort
him to the house of his parents-in-law,
which, by the way, is on Jane, near Twenty
first street, South Side and with the pro-
lection of these he entered, and made for
NAL demand upon his parents-in-law that
they release his wife and upon his wife that
she accompany him. This was such an I'M
expected and, withal, business-like step that
after some slight parley, the house capitu-
lated. The young wife packed up some of her
personal effects, babe farewell to the house
hold, and departed to enter upon the new
experience The friends of the young couple
hope that their married life thus inauspi-
ciously begun will flow more smoothly az
time goes on. &t8f