The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-08-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ary contest the fishing towns were rich
and populous. In 1775, in the hope Of
starving New England into submission,
the British parliament PASSED the act
to deprive the colonies of the right of
fishing on the banks of Newfoundland.
The breaking-out of hostilities, which
soon followed, nearly destroyed the
fisheries for time.
"A curiosity Of this years peach crop
on the Delaware peninsula is the fruit
OF tree in the garden of Colin Siam,
at Chestertown, Kent county, Nd. All
the peaches on this tree are in twins or
trlplets. A twig one foot long was
found to have sixteen twin peaches
An occasional double peach is not un-
usual, but such fruit seldom reaches
healthy maturity.
-Sterilized milk is very modern de-
vice for infants and invalids 1t sells
as high as fifty cents a quart, and is
bought sometimes in quantities to last
the individual consumer year. 1t is
even semitic customers in Europe. It
| is shipped in hermetically sealed yes
sells, and may be kept like any other
preserve. Specimens have been found
sweet and wholesome two years after
leaving the COW.
| 1t was a Chinaman who, nearly Ave
thousand years ago, discovered the prin-
| clple of a water clock Remarkable to
state, thsssinventors name, Hwang Tt,
has been preserved. The rude original
| consisted of two copper vessels, one
| above and one below, the former having
a hole in the bottom through which the
| water percolated into the latter, where
there was float, the gradual rise of
which indicated periods of time.-In-
ventive Age.
What did the poet mean when he
| sang of 1.-The stag of ten?" When a
| deer is five years old, he should have
| what is called his rights" that is.
| says the countess of Malmesbury, the
| brow antler, which is nearest the base
of the horn or burr; the bez or bay, an
inch or two higher up; the beam or up
right (main shaft of the horn); the tray
or tres above that and finally, two on
top, or two points on one of his antlers.
This constitutes stag of eight points.
that will, in another year, have two on
| top on both sides and so become "a stag
of ten" points. Most of these terms
are derived from old French hunting
| terms.
| The southerner at home is prone to
neglect his head gear for the sake of
having his feet well shod, and he will
| so about in public places wearing bat
| tered and sOiled slouch hat but scrupu-
lously neat as to his foot wear. The
popularity, perhaps, arises from family
pride, a besetting southern sin, coupled
/ with the belief that aristocracy is
evinced by the shape and size of tho
feet 1t is worthy of note, however,
that the southern slouch hat is often a
costly article of the finest and most
durable felt. Such hat for winter
and a costly and indestructible Panama
straw for SUNNI er are the proper head
gear for southern country gentleman.
One of the very best out-of-door
games for the country is golf, which is
the national game of Scotland. The
''links" or ground on which it is played
is large area and may include hills
and hollows to make the game interest
ing. 1t is played with small balls Of
rubber and peculiar driving sticks by
means of which the ball is sent over
long distances from one hole to another
A skillful player may send ball two
hundred yards at a time. It is more
generally played by men than by
women, but is capital exercise for any
one and most fascinating game. A
volume of the Badminton Library is
devoted to a history and description Of
the golf
| Fish transported long distances in
hot weather are thus packed: They
are laid in tight layers in boxes and
loaded in refrigerator cars, which are
reduced to as low tempera ture as pos
sible. The floor is covered to depth
of several inches with chilled sawdust,
upon which the boxes are loaded, leav-
Ing a space of some inches between the
sides, ends and top of the car, which
space is filed with cold sawdust Then
the car is closed and the door sealed.
No ice is placed in the tanks of the re-
frigerator car, as it has been found un-
necessary, if the packing is thorough.
A saving is made in the first cost of the
ice dispensed with, in the freight on
such ice and also in the amount of fish
taking the space of such ice.
During the fishing season of 1899
the United States fish commission, which
busies itself solely with the propagation
of edible fish in the waters all over the
country, stocking rivers with species
Z new to the region, distributing eggs
and young fish to the lakes and sea-
coasts, and working in vast number
of ways to the one end, distributed a
total of 800, $50, 432 eggs, fry and year
lings of all kinds of fish, The largest
operations were in shad. Of this fish
$4,000, 600 fry, 100000 yearlings, and
100000 eggs were distributed. Cod is
the fish most distributed next to shad,
and OF white fish, lake trout, pike, perch,
salmop, fiatfish, and lobster the distri-
button Of eggs, fry, and yearlings was
away up in the millions of each, every
state and territory getting share.