The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22

are sold to the different fish dealers
who, having cleaned them, ship them
in barrels of ice to all parts of the
United States, landing them as fresh
and sweet az when they SWAN over
the beds of coral in their native habi-
tatiop. Let the reader take map
and pair of dividers, place one leg of
it on Pensacola and extend the other
until Matamoras and Key West are
intersected by the segment Of the circle,
and within it you have the fish and
the fishing territory naturally tribu-
tary to Pensacola, and within which
the supply is practically unlimited.
This trade to-day is worth $500, 900 an
nually, and can easily be increased to
as many millions. We took occasion,
not long since, to note the weight Of
several of the largest fish brought in
on one of the smacks, and found five
to weigh S69 pounds, averaging about
Il pounds each. Besides the seven
different varieties of fish that we
named before, that are to be found in
Pensacola Bay, there may be named
in addition the blue fish, sheep head,
black fish, drums, Jew fish, amber fish,
jack fish, whiting, sardines, skip jack,
hog fish, rock fish, link fish, and al
most countless other varieties, all edi-
BILE. Besides these there are six kinds
of edible turtle, soft and hard shell
crabs, md two kinds of shrimp, MAX
ing an almost endless variety of salt
water food, and the quantity is certain
ly sufficient to supply thousand PEN
sacolas for ages to come.
The pleasure of boating at Pensacola
is not confined to fishing or idly rolling
about on the waves, or smoothly pillow.
ing the placid waters; but added to
these pleasures are the numerous plac-
es of interest in the vicinity. The
stranger who may visit it will not
wonder at finding first on this list
Santa Rosa Island, spoken of before in
this letter. Upon its beach, midday,
in its OVERLOOKING brilliancy, caused
the writer to feel as if, according to
Milton. another moon had risen on
mid-noon." AS the ever-moving
waves roll with permeated and ever
varying colors, upon the snow-white
sands, one feels the awful supremacy
of the Almighty, and the littleness of
man i'll ruanher conveyed by few
other sights in nature. 1t is on this
island that Fl. Pickens is located.
This grand and historic old ediflce,
though denuded of portion of the
iron dogs, that used to bay rosrs of de-
fiance, still possesses multitude of
pleasant and interesting sights and o5-
jects that make a visit there both prof
table and agreeable, more especially
to person from an inland town, lola
for instance. Last Tuesday, the 5th,
was Mardi Gras day, and was observed
to no small extent at this place. From
early in the morning until the. follow
ing day, masked figures of every de-
scription and kind paraded the streets,
and as Mardi Gras was something new
to us, we took quite an interest in it.
Liquor and money flowed without linn
it, and all sorts Of sport was INDUCED
in. Bands played, business was sus-
pended, flags of all nationality flowed
from the many house tops and flag
stafTs, and a regular good, old, Kan
sas Fourth of July celebration" was
apparent, with the addition of the gay
costumers. At night every vacant
hall in the city was utilized for dane.
ing, and far into the next day the fes-
tive walters whiled away the time in
tripping the light fantastic" We
shall not soon forget our first Mardi
Gras carnival. A telegram, of recent
date, announcesthat our pater fdmilias
accompanied by J. J. Casmire are
SOluc DldCC Vi lOWtTS, Uut
they have not, as yet, put in their APP
pearance at this point. They were at
Tampa when last heard from, and
will probably reach lola about the
time this letter appears in your col.
umns. Having taken up much more
space in your columns than was at
first intended and having presumed
that the readers of the REGISTER are
becoming quite tired of Pensacola and
Florida by this time, we will lay aside
our pencil and tablet for a time and
endeavor to share the prosperity OF
the new administration in az easy a
manner as possible, Notwithstanding
the scarcity of that article known as
republicanism, in these parts.
Au reyoir
B. w. J.
A Womans Discovery.
"Another wonderful discovery has
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