The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ANGLERS who propose to visit Florida during
the coming winter will find superior black bass
fishing in Lake Monroe. The fsh-the large
mouth sort-there are OF exceptional size and
In great abundance. The late Mr. Benson the
owner Of Montauk Point, was annual visitor
to Lake Monroe. He considered it the most de-
slraele fishing water, from all points of view, in
Florida. Mr. Benson always expressed the wish
that he might die rod in hand while engaged in
his fayorite sport. He attained to his desires on
Lake Monroe. 1t was while fishing there and
in the act Of killing a 6-pound bass that he ex-
PRED of disease of the heart.
ONE OF the New York swell tailors who has
just received advices from the fashionable
Paris houses, said Saturday that it was prob
able that the "wide-at-the- knee and tight at
the bottom" style of trousers would come into
FASHION again very soon. 1T will be revival
OF the style in vogue in the late SOS and early
| 7Os, he said, when, with the trousers of the
wide cut, the silk hat was stovepipe, with a
nat brlm, and the coat q long -waisted garment
with full skirts. New Workers we're never bet
ter pleased than In those days. The tailors
made money. When the style changed there
was general regret. Ask any old-timer and he
Will tell you he was never so well dressed, and
never so pleased with himself as in the DAY fol
lowing the war" Not few New Workers who
refuse to follow the dictates of fashion still
cling to the old style, in the belief that it is all
that heart could desire in the way of clothing,
The ST. Louis Globe DEM crat states that
5000 quail all of which it is presumed will be
SHARED or Melted, will be sent from that market
TO London during the present season. 1t says
that these birds are highly priced by the En-
gllsh and bring fancy prices. To meet this for
elgn demand for our game, in addition to our
own requirements, is a severe strain upon our
resources. AGlance at our cold storage ware
houses Will reveal the proportions which our
foreign trade in game have assumed. Il is to
meet this demand that the warehouses are
stored full during our open seasons, not as it
is supposed to be sold here during the close
season; but to supply foreign consumers who
do not come under the influence of our game
laws. Canvasback ducks and other of our sorts
may be procured in London in july Cold
storage, while beneticent thing in a great
number of ways, il a mortal enemy of the
Sportsman.
WHILE the quail shooting In the northern
counties Of Virginia is poor this season on ac-
count of the heavy snow storms last winter and
the depredatious of foxes, that Of the southern
counties is reported to be more promising The
cover in the last named locality is now in excel
lent condition, and the recent rains have made
shooting possibility. During the drought
which WAS only broken o few days since it was
impossible to do anything with the birds More
over, the water courses were so dry that the
dogs suffered greatly from thirst. The same
conditions have prevailed in North Carolina al
though the shooting there is more reliable than
10 Virginia. The deterioration of the sports of
the field in all of the southern sta is due to
tie fact that the negroes are frst-rate shots
have supplied themselves with breech leaders
and have no scruples as to seasons or methods
1t is surprising that In a section where whit.
SpOrJSInen IN DrOpOrLlOn are more numerous
than In any other they should be so lax in re-
straining the negroes from killing game, when
they know how to control them so effectively
politically.
SOME interesting statistics have been COM
piled by Frenchman respecting the different
LANGUAGES spoken in various parts Of the world
He states that the language in which Shake
speare and Milton wrote was then
that Of less than 100000 human be-
ings. French was the mother tongue
~ INT asst ma AZ rha,,
glsh was spoken by less than 5000, 600 and
6O,0 900 OF French speaking people were liv-
ing when the revolution broke out In 1889. Be-
tween forty and fifty years the English language
equaled the German In the number of those
who spoke It, and now the latter 10 left far be-
hind. German is now spoken by 10000, 900
&c, 600, 900 in the German empire, by 1000 900
in Belgium and by about 1900, 900 In
Switzerland. German is also spoken by about
100000 persons in the United States and
use the German language French is spoken
by the SO. 100000 inhabitants of France by
$500 900 people in Belgium by 200, 900 lin Alsace-
Lorraine, by 800 900 in Switzerland by 800 900
in the United States and Canada. by 900 900 in
Hayti and by 100000 in Algiers India the
West Indies and African all about Il, OOO,O o.
English is spoken by 100000 persons in the
British Isles, by probably 1900, 900 of the CO.
, 100000 Inhabitants Of the United States, by
100000 persons in Canada, by 100000 in
1000, 900 in India and other British colonies.
IN the recent printed transactions OF the
American Fisheries Society for 1892 Fred Mather
read a paper ON THE planting of trout as fry
or yearlings" 1t has been the fad for the past
two or three years to recommend the planting
of yearling trout rather than the fry. He says:
let us plant fry in sufficient numbers to allow
for all losses, and not waste our means on
planting yearings. a new notion, which has
been loudly heralded, but which cannot be
proven to be So" Mr.. Mather gives facts and
figures in favor of his contention. In other
words, he is DECIDED fry rather than a
''yearling" advocate. The best system, the one
the most productive Of practical results, is that
employed by the South Side Club Of Long
Island. 1t is one, however. only possible of ac-
complishment by an equally wealthy and power
full organization. At the South Side Climb the
eggs OF the trout are Matched. and the fry "a
they grow are transferred, as they increase in
size. from one artificial pool to another, until
the final stage is reached, when the last pool
contains fish of three pounds weight each
Every spring, before the opening of the season,
about 5000 trout, varying in weight from one
hals pound to three pounds esch-those of
smaller size observation-disclosures taken from the
pools and liberated in the fishing ponds. When
the season opens the members of the club are
for time at least assured Of trout fishing
This, however, is a costly process, but it is the
only one which is a certain guarantee that fry
Matched and planted will ever survive and grow
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