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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-19
HOMEMADE COOK BOOKS.
A Great Convenience in Getting Up Good
Meal.

A Great Convenience In Getting Up Good
Meal.
"Of making many books there is no
end" especially cook booksl Doubt
less each of them has merit; and yet so
elaborate are they that the inexperi-
cnced housekeeper who Is unable to
winnow the chaff from the wheat is
often hindered rather than helped by
their use.
One of the results of the agitation re-
garding woman's sphere and opportu-
mites has been to give an added appre-
citation of the art of cooking. Young
women are coming to realize that
whether they look at it from the senti-
mental or economic side, 1t is an art
which no home-maker, or she who as
spires to be one land there are few
women no matter how ambitious or in
dependent that do not) can afford to
ignore. If all such would obtain we'll
bound blank book-eight inches by ten
is n convenient size-and insert in 1t only
such receipts as have been carefully
tested, and experiments that have been
successfully made, she would soon have
an invaluable guide to the cooking
best adapted to her needs, book which
might well be priced as an heirloom in
the years to come.
Arrange the matter systematically,
and divide the book into different de-
partments. Have one for meats, an.
other for poultry, fish, shell-fish, soups,
eggs, vegetables, breads, etc Allow
ample space at the end of every section,
in both the body of the book and the
index. to make additional entries as
new receipts and information are
gained.
AS you become skilled in the art, be
careful unless you fail to write explicit
directions for compounding each dish
and SO lessen the value of the book as {
guide to the inexperienced Success il
cooking depends fully as, much upor
the proper mixing and cooking of {
dish as upon the exact proportion ot
the ingredients comprising it--Coun
try Gentleman.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-19
OWING TO INCREASED PATR0WkEp

This College has removed to the largest bnJl1kn An 49,
city, suitable for educational purposes oce1pyaER ana.
and cheaPest IN the world Send for llusirRR rssn %
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
RECEIPTS-

Per Savannah. Florida and Western Railway
Dee 5-l,95i bales cotton, 43 boxes We yetables s.
boxes vegetables, 1887 bbls vegetables bale
hides, 10 boxes tobacco. 3 hlf b6ls whisky, ht
bbls wine, p cases whisky, 264 sacks corn / box
mdse lounges, bbls boxes, l case cigars, /
sack mdse, 2 bags pots. table, key syrup,
mattresses, / bdl slots. 3 cords wood I Dbl ned
45 sacks rice, bale hides trunk, pipes, Z
boxes oranges, 70 bbls syrup. IS sacks rice, az
boxes oranges, bols syrup, sacks rice,
box shoes, biol pots, SO sacks rice bale hides,
20 boxes oranges, l box hams; 6 sacks meat
pair mattresses, sacks rice, 29 sacks potatoes.
Per Central Railroad, Dec 4-3.69S bales cot
ton, POS bales dQmestics bales hides, II bales
paper stock, ~ 900 lbs ore % $40 lbs lard 2 900
lbs bacon, 32U lbs furniture, 1919 bbls rosn, 500
bushels oats, - Dbls liquor, $50 bushels corn,
car lumber. SIS cords wood, % bbls syrup, III
pkgs mdse, 4,S25 lbs furniture. IL empty bbFs,
cars stone. % pigs hardware, 46 bbls eggs, car
coal, 1873 bbls Rrits, 1872 tons pig iron
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway Dec
81 sack rice, pkg hardware 3 cars wood,
case whisky, cases ginger, 2 pkgS cartridges,
8 bags seek, Is sacks peanuts / case crockery,
Dol glassware, l top buggy and fixture, bdi
rims. IL bbls bureps, / trunk, horse, box
notions cars empty bbls, bbls -four 81
pkgs tobacco,
Per South Bound Railway Dec 5-42 bales
cotton, $50 lbs furniture, / Dbl rosin, 90 b5ls
syrup.
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EXPORTS.

Per steamship City of Birmingham for New
York ,291 bales upland cotton. $50 bags Sea
island cotton, 2S5 bales domestcs and yarns III
bbls cotton ed oil. 81 b5ls rosin, 1888 ieeT
lumber 12I bbls spirits turpentine, 10 bbls fisl,
IA bales hides, ~ bbls oranges, 1889 boxes
oranges. bbls vegetables. 427 boxes vegetables,
3!i tons pig iron, 10 turtles, PAP pkgs mise.
Per stea tnship Nacoochee for New forRI
,il6 bales upland cotton $50 bags sea island
cotton, 10l bales domestics and yarns, bO Dds
rice 553 bbls rosin 35 bbls spirits turpentne ioo
bbls cotton seed OIL 60, 432 fees lumber, lOo'0VJ
shingles, 100 bbls pitch 8 bbs oranges. o,oll
boxes oranges, II obls vegetables, III tons pia
iron, Isl boxes vegetables, 200 sabks rice chaI,
220 bdls laths, 10 bbis fish, % bales hides, loo
pkgs mdse.
Per steamship City of Savannah for Boston,
9S5 bales upland cotton 49 bales paper stock, ~
bales domestics and yarns. 140 bbls rosin !,VUU
sacks cotton seed meal, 1875 bbls spirits turpen-
tine, 30 bales hides, 80 bales moss, 80 oos Or
anges, $500 boxes oranges, Is bbls vegetables,
1873 tons pig iron, 81 bols manganese, oo Pegs
mdse.
Per steamship Mount Tabor [Brl, for Liver Liver
pool, 1000 bales upland cotton, weighing LII
05S pounds; $50 bales sea island cotton, Weighing
60. 1913 pounds; 1850 sacks cotton seed welSniasS
247 tons 1886 sacks Gil cake, weighing w dtS
pounds; 1,7I7 sacks corn, weighing Z<''V0@
pounds. -.
Per steamship Romsdal [Norl, for ' 5eI oas
$3.50 bales upland cotton, weighing l'oi'''''
pounds. ,,hio
Per schr Addie B Bacon for Philadelphia
2i3 6S7 feet p p lumber-Dale, Dixon & 70
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
COTTON.


New YORK, Dec. 5, noon-Stocks opened
active and strong. Money easy at per cent
Exchange-long 50 81; short, 81 81. Govern
ment bonds neglected. State bonds dull but
steady.
Erie ............ 295A Rchm'd & w. PIT.
Chicago 4 North *115A Terminal. ..... 9
Lake Shore .... 1855 Missouri Pacific. 50
MORT. & w. pref. 503s
*EX-div.
New York Dec. 8, 500 p. mastering ex-
change closed quiet but steady at 81 500
1 IS; commercial bills, 81 S00i S3l6
Money easy no loans, closing offered at per
cent Government bonds closed dull but
steady; four per cents 11714. State bonds neg
lected
sub-Treasury Balances-Coin, 800, s54;
currency. S2599.5
The stock market to-day was quite active
after the first half hour, aud displayed a
stronger tone than it has for some time. the
res ult being material advances In some of the
leading stocks and smaller gains In almost
everything traded in. The opening was very
dull but generally higher than last night prices
and further Improvement was made from first
sales, and when it became evident that the
west was buying freely of its favorites, there
was again an endeavor 60 cover some OF the
outstanding shorts, which materially increased
the business done and kept the upward move
meat going when 1t might otherwise have been
arrested by the realzatons of the issue Of the
bank statement, which showed small loss in
surplus reserve. This, however, was due to the
heavy expansion of loans, even in the face Of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
MEMORANDA.

New York, Dec 2-Arrived, schr P t Barnpr,
Blake, Charleston. Huu
Sd-Cleared, schrs Maynard, Sumner. Dvar
Jacksonville; Charlotte I Sibley, Bartlett a.
Glasgow, Dec 2-The reported sailing ~ H.
bark Helios LNorl for Savannah on Nov IN we S,s
erroneous. " was
Liverpool Dec 3-Arrived, steamship Hs-ro
gate Brl, Geddes Savannah
Aslepoo, s Q, Dec 3-Arrived. schr Wr,
Marourg, Pillsburg, Port Royal, O.
Boston, Dec 3-Arrived, brig Jennie Hplba-,
Handy, Charleston. v
Baltimore, Dec 3-Arrived, schr Blanche Hon.
hns, Davis Charleston. AAOP-
Cleared -Schrs S Marts, Norburv por,
Tampa, Fla; Edward G Hight, Richards Char.
lesion, latter sailed.
Brunswick, Dec 3-Arrived, schrs Eta A
Simpson, Bunker, New York; Lizzie Chadwick
Clark, do; Sarah Potter, Farnham, Providence,
VIM Green & Son, Barter, Boston.
Charleston, Dec S-Arrived. steam launcb
Roc llade, New York for Jacksonville
Cleared-Schr Angie l. Green. McFIwao
Brunswick, TO load for Philadelphia.
Georgetown, S @, Dec 3-Arriyec schr Marion
lBr |, Anderson, Guadeloupe.
Cleared-Schr John S Davis, Barrett Pbila-
delpha. Ing
Pensacola, Dec S-Arrived. bark sif. rNorl
Leth. l-'O'b
Cleared-Ships Indus TItall, schiaffino Ca.
noa; Emmanuel Dutch, Pell, Greenock: harry
Don Quixote lNorl, JoEapnsen, Queenstown.
Nov 30-Arrived, bark Alabama IItal. Pei.
lerano, Genoa.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
BUSINESS HAS IMPROVED.
Enterprise Gets Its Reward.

IsbW OF.
GIVING AWAY cool three hundred and
fifty dollars in these times requires nerve.
Sternberg's announced last week that this
month they would present somebody with O
$3.50 TRUNK OF SOLID SILVER.
Business since has shown a marked i'm
provement The trunk Of silver displayed
in their window is the magnet. EVERY
BODY wants it. SOMEBODY will get it. No
humbug or clap-trap scheme. Entirely in
keeping with the high reputation of STERN
BERG's big jeweIry establishment. Call and
get full explanation.
Do you WANT IT
Perhaps you'll get it'd.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
MARITIME MISCELLANY

London, Dec 3-Steamer State Of Alabama
lBrl, Fairweather, from Savannah via Newport
News for Bremen, put into st Michaels Nov 2i
order -
Bark Own Donkin [Brl. Simmons. from ss.
vannah for Hamburg before reported abaD.
donedl, lost her rudder and was otherwise dam.
aged in hurricane which she encountered on
Nov u. The vessel began to leak, and tina
water gained so fast that she was ia a sinking
condition when sighted by British brig John on
Nov Is, lat % N Ion II w. The John rescued
the crew and then set fire to the damaged
vessel,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
UP IRON TYREE YEsrrnn.

Bark Karnak LNOrl, Froyland Hambur,
WITH Eanit 10 order vessel to A Minis Sons. 81
Bark Esmeralda Rus, WOyer, Hambur, ,,,.,
KANT 10 order, vessel 10 4 Minis Sons e''i-a
Bark ropdal lNorl, Andersen, HAMBURG ,,f.,.
KANT to order, vessel TO A Minis Sons. - VIII
Bark Katie Stuart LBrl, Edwards, TO for Fr.
rope-A Minis Sons AZ Eu'
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Ribhon ln a Clotnine store.

Kohler bought 1000 pieces of fine rloOOn
at bankrupt sale aud will place same ~
sale Monday. Come get your RIBBON 10 10
your fancy work before the lot is gone iO'
Broughton street.-Ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
PASSENGERS.

Per steamship City of Birmingham for rd New
York-G Cammack, DR. w Garside, A ,f Le'0 y
Weston, w q Cheeseborough. b G Chadln ", "
Wilcox aud wife, Miss Susie Miller, oscar NJ n
neman, Miss H L Bailey, II Madison
Pierce, II Wright and wife, u Watsoh' "N-
9 stp
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Notices to mariners, pilot charts and all nau-
tical Information will be furaished masters Of
vessels free of charge in the United States Nv.
tains are requested to call at the Office.
LIEUT. + II SHERMAN,
In Charge photographic Station.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06

Steamship Wan Lawrence. Kirwan, Baltimo-,
j Carolan. Agt. 'e'
Steamship Romsdal LNorl, Hirsch, GeDo.-
Strachan & Go. D'2-
Steamship Mount Tabor [Brl, Munro. Iiva.
pool-Riohardson & Barnard -'er-
Scnr Lulu, Nickerson. Bull River, in ballas. -
load for Ricnmond, Va-Jos A Roberts q % "
Geo Harriss & Co -PAia-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
Ribbon in a Clothing Store

Kohler bought 1000 pieces Of hne ripDD,
at bankrupt sale and will place same
sale Monday. Come get your riopoH "a
your fancy work before the lot is gone ~
Broughton street.-Ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06

We bought the Brager stock at bali pi'''
and are selling at same proportion.
KoHLER.
nd 1853 Broughton
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SAILED YESTERDAY

Steamship City of Birmingham, New York
Steamship VIM Lawrence. Baltimore ~
Ship Ringleader, Samarang.
Bark Noe [Itall, Trieste. =
Schr La Marinnucia [Itall, Trieste. -
Schr Lulu. Bull River.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06

We bought the Brager stock ct halt PRIV
and are selling at same proportion.
KoHLER,
I'D 1873 Broughton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06

Clothing Clothing ! Clothingl
Attend Kohler's bankrupt sale. Tuesday
positively last day. 15S Broughton street.
qd
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Stripping INrELLrGENcr

80 80. ----------' -'s''------.....7:0l
Hos WArER AT SAvAsSAa- 1883 n. II:sspx
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06

We bought the Brager stock at half price
and are selling at same proportion.
KonLER,
Id. 1853 Broughton.
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POULTRY Market overstocked; demand
light
EGas-Market strong and in fair supply;
demand active
PEANUrs-Ample stock, demand light, prices
steady.
SUGAR-Georgia and Florida nominal; none in
market
HoNEY-Demand nominal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
ARRTVED AT TYREE YFsTFRnA

Bark Brilliant lNOrl, Lootz Para, in ballas, >,
ma stsT. '' ~
Bark Marie [Norl, Hansen, Dublin, in bsus..
20 Minis Sons. '1ss
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pentine was quiet and firm at unchang ed prices
The sales during the day were 773 casks of
regulars at 30lfc. At the Board of Trade on
the opening call, the market was reported
firm at 301sc for regulars At the
second call it closed firm at 3OL6c
for regulars Rosin-The market was firm at
the decline IN the lower grade'. There was
pretty steady demand aud fair business do.
ing. The total sales for the day were 2, CAB bar
res. At the Board Of Trade. on the first call,
the market was reported firm. with sales of
1888 barrels at the following quotations: A. B.
q, D and z, 81 2216; F, 81 27I6
6, 81 321b; H, 81 S71f; /, Sl60; K, 81 IS; NJ
white, s3 80. At the last call it closed
unchanged, with further sales of $40 barrels.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
SUNDAY. Dec G. 1891

ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Schr Walter W Rasln, Steelman, Br,insvi.,.
IN ballast TO Geo Harriss & Co "@Ai
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ARRIvEDUP FROM QUARANTINE VESTED
CLEARED YESTERDAY.

Bark Nalon [Spl, Gracia, 70 load for son,.
America-Esteve g. Co. '04'l
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the heavy increase in deposits. Among the
usually active list the Grangers and Wander
bits were most prominent for strength, ani
New York Central. after touching IL, react4i
q fraction. and still closed I per cent higher
than last evening. The only other material ad-
vance vas in sugar. but all the lea1ing stocks
Raln-d large fractions. The feature OF to-day
was a squirt IN Milwaukee. Lake Shore and
Western stocks, common rising 5 per cent. 10
g, and preferred. after selling up 70 .23t6
closed 5$4 higher az 1914 An old story that
negotiations had been Concluded By which the
road was 70 become q part OF the Northwestern
system was clrrent. aud u some minds &C.
counted for the advance The market closed
active aud strong at or about the highest prices
Of the day. The sales OF listed stocks we're
l.s.0O0 shares; unlisted :, 900
The following were the closing quotations Of
the New York Stock EYchaDUa.
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COMMERCIAL.
6AVANNAa MARKETS.
OFFICE MORNING NEws.

OFFICE MORNING NEWS.
SAvASSAH. Ga. Dec. 5 1871
CoTToy-There was not much inquiry, owing
TO its being Saturday. and the market ruled
quiet. Values. however. have hardened some
what. and holders were asking full figures on
all offerings. The total sales for the day
were SIS bales. On Change at the opening call.
at 10 a m. the market was bulle-
tined dull aud unchanged, with sales Of is7
bales. At the second call. at p. m. il was
quiet and firm. the sales being III bales.
At the third and last cal. at p. m, il closed
quiet, firm and unchanged, with fur
Their sales Of 81 bales. The following are the
official closing spct quotations Of the Cotton
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
RIrE

New YORK, Dec. 5.-Rice fairly active, firm,
domestic, extra to fair, 51a07c; Japan $50
SIC.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 5.-Rice quiet; ordinary
to prime 3S4O434c.
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-Ad.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
PITTSBURG FXPECTORATION,
Thoughts Apropos of a Reported Organiza-
ton of Women in This City.

Thoughts Apropos of a Reported Orsanlza-
ton of Women in This City.
New York Times.l
The women OF Pittsburg had health as
sociation recently formed. One of their first
efforts in a radical move in their work has
been to petition the proper authorities to
prohibit promiscuous expectoration. The
floors Of the street cars and public places
are not to contain, if they can help it, Gus
pldors for general use. Ii this can be ac-
complished. even with an approximate de-
gree OF success, the gain to the city's health
will be large. One grows giddy almost at
the thought of New York and Brooklyn so
restricted. If merely the elevated stairs
and platforms were prohibited ground, the
women OF the two cities would experience
deep gratitude.
In this connection the recent words of a
physician are suggestive. "The time must
come" said he, "when consumptives will be
subjected to certain quarantine. 1t is well
known that the sputa from patient suffer-
ing with tuberoular consumption is harm
less while moist. When. however, this
sputa dries and is disseminated in the air in
fine dust, it is fatal to any one breathing
it. Yet our public conveyances are daily
frequented by persons in almost the last
stages OF this disease, who cough and raise
without restraint. Not halt OF them realize
the danger to which they expose others by
SO doug, and the few who may are doubt
less Indifferent, in the face of their own ac-
cepted doom. The iuture, however, must
show change"
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unnaturally saddled with this responsible
the light that chases spectres might we'll be
thought to sickeD fish. BY all accounts be-
sides, the perodicity is, for each island, reg
ular. The difficulty is that it should vary
and be even reversed from isle to isle.
Touched with a sense of this, NJ. Wilmot,
Conseillier General-the author of an able
pamphlet on the archipelago-made num-
Der Of well considered experiments. Catch
ing wholesome fish on the outside, he had
them sunk in vivaria to different depths and
over different bottoms in the lagoon. Over
pearl shell it appears they remained innocu-
Gus; but the proximity of certain sorts of
coral, above all in the season of its flower
ing, poisoned them in an exposure of twelve
days. NJ. Wilmot found, moreover, that
the time of Towering varied IN the different
kinds of coral, and that all appeared to fol-
low the phases of the moon. Here, then,
are the elements of theory agreeing well
with native observation. But the author
must have been damped to find an excep-
tion in his own archipelago-the lagoon Of
Takaroa, where the fish is at all seasons
equally wholesome. And I will give him
another. At the Isle of Funafuti, the most
singular and to me the most odious of atolls,
the fish in the lagoon is always good, the
fish in the sea always poisonous.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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hues and infected with the scarlet spot like
disease. My own double collection Of
shells, long carefully held apart, was at
last ruthlessly commingled, and my igpor-
ance is too complete for reasoning. The fact
Of this opposition, at 200 yards OF distance,
is, however, sure; and it seems the more
strange, since the hermit crabs pass and re-
pass the island, and have met them by the
resldency well. which is about central. jour
neying either way. Without doubt many
of the shells in the lagoon are dead. But
why are they dead2 Without doubt the
living shells have q very different back
ground set for imitation. But why are these
so different? We are only on the threshold
of the mysteries.
Either beach, have said, abounds with
life. On the sea side and in certain atolls
this profusion of vitality is even shocking;
the rock under foot is mined with it. l
have broken off-notably in Funafuti and
Arorai-great Jumps of ancient, westhered
rock, that rang under my blows like iron,
and the fracture has been full of pendant
worms as long as my hand, as thick as
child's finger, of slightly pinkish white,
and set as close as three or even four to the
square inch. Even in the lagoon, where
certain shel1fish seem TO sicken, others lit
is notorious) prOsper'exceedingly and make
sno iCHCs "a tuese iSlanos. FlSn, TOO,
abound; the lagoon is closed fish pond,
such as might rejoice the fancy of an abbot;
sharks swarm there, and chiefly round the
passages, to feast upon this plenty, and you
would suppose that man had only to pre-
pare his angle. Alas, it is not so.
Risky Fish for Table Use.
Of those painted fish that came in hordes
about the entering Casco, some bore poison
Gus spines and others were poisonous if
eaten. The stranger must refrain, or take
his chance of painful and dangerous sick
ness. The native, on his own isle, Is a safe
guide; transplant him to the next, and he is
helpless as yourself For it is question of
both time and place. A fish caught in a
lagoon may be deadly; the same fish
caught the same day at sea, and only a
lew hundred yards without the pas
sage, will be wholesome eating; in
neighboring isle perhaps the case
will be reversed; and perhaps a
fortnight later you shall be able to eat of
them indiferentlv from within and from
without According to the natives these
bewildering vicissitudes are ruled by the
movement of the heavenly bodies. The
beautiful planet Venus plays great part in
all island tales and customs; and amoug
other functions, some of them more awful,
she regulates the season of good fish. With
Venus In one phase, as We had her, certain
hsh were poisonous in the lagoon; with
Venus in another, the same fish was harm
less and valued article of diet.
Venus being the Paumotuan star of Hades
and timekeeper of the dead, was perhaps not
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when struck. Here and there you come
upon bank of sand, exceeding fine and
white, and these parts are the least produc-
tive. The plants (such as they are) spring
from and love the broken coral, whence
they grow with that wonderful verdancy
that makes the beauty of the atoll from the
sea. The cocoa palm in particular luxuri-
ates in that stern solum; striking down his
roots to the brackish, perool&ted water, and
bearing bis green head in the wind with
every evidence of health and pleasure. And
yet even the cocoa palm must be helped in
infancy with some extraneous nutriment;
and through muchsof stbe Low Archipelago
there is planted with each nut piece of
ships biscuit and a rusty nail. The PAN
danus comes next in Importance, being also
q food tree; and he, too, does brayely. A
green bush called miki runs everywhere; oc-
cssionally pWao is seen, and there are
several useless weeds.
Only a Score of Plants.
According to M. Cuxent, the whole num-
ber of plants on an atoll such as FakaravR
will scarce exceed, even if it reaches to one
score. Not blade of grass appears; not
grain of humus, save when a sack or two
has been imported to make the semblance of
q garden; such gardens as bloom in cities on
the window sill.
Insect life Is sometimes dense; q cloud of
mosquitoes, and, what is far worse, plague
OF flies blackening our food, has sometimes
driven US from a meal on Apemama; and
even in Fakarava the mosquitoes were a
pest. The land crab may be seen scuttling
to his hole, and at night the rats besiege the