The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-06

Senator's home in Minnesota, and al
though the good.spinsser lady was rich,
still. she insisted on the girls earning
her own living. Mrs. Davis had an ex-
traordinary talent for music, and added
to that was the power of being able to
impart her kno wledge to others so she
went TO work as a music tescher.
There Wer no street-cars in rhoee days,
and the brave young girl often had to
make her way through heavy SNOW
drifts OF sticky mud in order that
she might give her pupils the lessons
at their homes. a few years ago. Mrs.
Davis andfather-William X DICK
son-a wealthy resident of ot. Paul,
diei and left her $4,000, and not very
long afterwerd, she became the wife Of
he now Senator. she is srll musical
enthusiast, aud there IS no concert o
any pre,ens ons, either here or Ill Ralsi-
more that she does not attend. Q1Ite
recently she set to music one oil her
poems. pub ished some years sincs, en-
titled words Spoken Long AGO" and
few DAYS since she did similar work
for Mrs. Bcowning's verses, The Years
Spinning"
Probably the handsomtst iuhles in
the country belong to Mrs Dav s, she
having inherited them from her great
aunt, Anna Malcolm, from whom she
was named, and VINO, up the time Of
her death. resided on the old e3tate
near E Edinburgh. Scotland. The stones
are of a startlingly vivid blood red
color, and they fash and scintillste as
but few other rubies can; consequently,
the lovers of such articles of jeWelry
are always a little envious when t.2ey
are worn in public.
GOVERNMENT FISH PONDS.
Objects of interest are by no means
scarce in Washington, but many of the
most interesting are almost. if not en-
tirely, unknown to visitors. Among
The more secluded delights of the CAPT
tai city, none will more fully repay the
tourist than the extensive carp ponds
of the United States fish commission.
Where these ponds now are, the region
mas been much improved within the
past coupe of years, and in the place
of rank swamp lands inclosing slug
gish pond Of fetid water, used for
skating upon by the festive small boy
tadpoIes. water snipes and mud turtles
in summer, there are now q
succession of beautifully clear lakes. ly-
ing like string OF glis,ening ems in the
midst of closely NOVA lawns, presided
over by the stately white shaft of the
great white monument. Here it is that
the young carp are Matched and reared
until large enough for transportation to
some carpless region. These mimic
| lakes are connected By artistic rustic
| bridges, and their entrances in the sum-
! mer bloom with a perfect wilderness of
| sweets, with variety of rich, old
fashioned flowers, gorgeous dahlias,
marigoldS ard princess feathers, en-
twined with the clingng wild rose and
the Haunting blossoms of the trumpet
| flower. In this finny paradise, the
young fish are cared for. and flourish
unmoiested until of proper Sis and
condition for use or transportation,
when they are caught in nets and placed
in tanks in which they are carried tn
| distant narkets tor sale, or are used
for stocking some stree where carp
have never before been seen.
| The extent of the carp breeding in
dustry and the territory covered by the
J commission in its distribution ara prob
! ably unknown to the majority of dwell
lers on this mundane sphere. Last
year, every State and Territory in the
Union received nearly all the carp any
of them called for, and, in addition to
this, large numbers of fish were sent
abroad. Some found home in Set
land, and hundreds of them are now in
the waters Of Ecuador, after expert
encipg considerable inconvenience
from the vsc' ssitudes of travel to that
country. Canadian rivers also received
many thousands of this food fish, anG
will, during this summer, secure many
thousands more, while the streams that
make Mexico blossom are in numerous
instances teeming with the young fish
whose ancestors were sent there by the
Fish Commission.
| The present process of breeding in
| these ponds is most successful. The
| spawn is deposited in certain pools,
denseIy Swallowed by the tall, broad
| leaYed lily-plants, which bloom in rank
luxurlence, thus protecting the tender
eggs during their early stages of transit
| ton from the intense heat of the sun
and furnishing a cool retreat for the
millions of young that grow and fatten
in its depths. AS soon as they are
large enough for removal they are
transferred to larger ponds, around the
edges of which they feed. At this
period of their existance they are odd
looking things, resembling nothing,
perhaps, so much as the common tad
pole.
While greater attention is given to
the caro-, still there are in the ponds
various other specimens of the 6nny
tribe and notably among them are ths
beautiful Japanese geld fish, remark
able tor its bright parti-colored scales
and its double, fan-like tau, which in
repose looks like an open fan, bit
when in motion resembles two distinct
fins acting as propellers. Another
species, which attracts considerable at
tention from both the scientist and the
casual observer is the Golden Eye, "
very like an immense sun6sh; it is one
of the most delicate of all food fishes,
and no truly fashionable dinner in the
east is comp'ete without its quota of
Golden Eye"
SOIREB HYPEoTIQUE.
One of the latest and most serious of
society "fads" is the "soiree hypno-
tique," and as the disease spreads it
davaIoY,a tho maepoeric powora of q