The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-01
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telling the Boston Transcript how he really
misses cold weather "'Tain't the kind of air
I'm used ter he said 81 don't believe I'll ever
get what l want this side of Labrador. You
don't have to fish for cod down TO Labrador.
You Just gifts PICK and shovel and mines EN-
Just mine EN- out o the icebergs. They're
frozen in fast Some of 'em have been in
there for q million years. more or less. They
got catched up some time and just frozen ill.,
A whaling man't knows his business can tell off
hand where he'd strike a paying lead, He
lands crew a large berg and they cut
level place to stand on, and they just open gal
lerias into the ice. You find the cod in seams
like coal. l never worked in q coal pit. but We
had the thing explained to Inc. and it's about
the same The cod were swimming around,
and layer OF them got frozen. Then would
come layer of plain Ice underneath. without
any trimmings, and sfterward another layer of
cod. It's colder work than fishing, cod mining
Is but the returns are quicker"
THE WRITER has before him at this moment,
well preserved in wood alcohol three small
fishes of tropical or subtropical species SAYS
the st. Paul Pioneer Press. They are relics Of
one of the most remarkable fish showers on
on record. On June u, 1890, there VAS a cloud
burt two miles north of Sibley, Ia, which was
accompanied by fall of millions of fish of tine
kind known to piscatoral experts as axalatt.
found native only in southern waters. When
first sent to we curious editor they were all
alive and well. That was on July 4, 1850,
twenty-five days after their drop from the
clouds. From the first they refused to eat, act
ing for all the world like creatures utterly de-
void of MOUTHS. They were forthwith consigned
to the rain barrel, where they lived DR. Tan
ner life for several days, the frat and smallest
one dying ON July IS On the evening of Aug.
8, after a foOdless s2journ of nearly two
months in the Hawkeye state, the two remain
ing specimens yielded up the ghost, and were
given an alcoholic bath similar to that accorded
the little one e.even days before. Wac of the
press has ever heard of fish being carried 900
$500 miles in storm cloud?
BROOKLYN, according TO the New York Times,
is entirely bounded on the south and east by
graveyards; but few Of the residents OF that
city realize that over 100000 people are buried
SO near item. Including those who lie in the
! Washington cemetery aud the Lutheran GENE
terry, which are just beyond the city line, the
numosr aggregates about 81. 600, 600. The larg-
est of these burie. places is Greenwood lying in
the heart of what is now the populous Eighth
ward Of Brooklyn Over SC0,0 900 persons lie in
this one cemetery. There are about geo, 900 in
! the Evergreens, to the east of the city, while
| Cypress Hills and the Holy Cross cemeteries
contain close to 10000 each. The latter is con
| tToied by the Roman Catholic church. and only
| worshipers in that church permit ed to be
| buried in it. Washington csu etery II Gravesend
| Is for Hebrews only, and in 1t and the Lutheran
! cemetery, over the Quvens county line nearly
100000 persons sleep. The annual interments
! in these cemeteries average about 5000, but
| during the present year this IS expected to
| reach 5000, owing to the recent epidemic OF
| chOleraic complaints. On one Sunday last sum
mer there we're 900 funerals, and the last ons
did not get to the cemetery gates until after
| dark
YES, this cold weather Is mighty hard on nv
cricket herd, said Alton K. Wooten of Green
| field, Tenn, to st. Louis Republic writer
| You see live in the middle of Tennessee sur
| rounded by the prettisst lakes the eye ever
gazed upon. The waters are filed with trout
| and other game fish, and in the spring, summer
| and fall the fishermen flock there from all
| sections of the country. One of the most curl
GUS facts about Tennessee fish is that they will
hifa at ING h11t Cd
! yers and the like find no fish that will bite at
\ them in our waters, except suckers and small
| perch. The most serious task with the fisher
' men Is to get crlckets. organized a stock COM
| pany with few hundred capital and started to
WORK last spring had a large pasture fenced
In with boards about ten feet high, sowed era, 81
| built my hot houses and incubstors and then
began gathering in my stock. My pasture con-
. ssts Of about twelve acres and / calculated
| that could well graZe 80 900 crickets to the
| acre. They sell readily to fishermen at 81 per
| hundred, so you see what rich harvest there
| is in such an industry. They flourished during
| the summer and fall, but since the cold spell
has reached them they have been dying off at
q remarkably sad rate and ii the freeze should
| continue much longer doubt if l will be left
with seed for next spring"
| ALL the more important restaurateurs in
| Paris now employ On artist whose sole occupa-
ton is to paint beefsteak, chops and joints says
| the st. Louis Globe Democrat. A meat artist
| lust now is an important individual In the cult
nary department There was party of diners
| at one OF the big cafes, and they insisted upon
having a leg of mutton roasted on a spit The
caterer already had a fresh leg of mutton
| roasted in the pan. This he wanted to dispose
of, and called on his meat artist to make it look
! as though 'twere roasted on a spit. First the
! chef transfiXed IL with spit, which he imme-
diately withdrew, and then passed it to the
| painter The artist" had before him dozen
pots aud bowls of different sizes. Each had its
| own peculiar name. Beside these lay num-
| br of other brushes of various sizes shapes
kinds and degrees of stiffness The artist studied
the leg of mutton for a minute, much as one
would study a landscape he was about to COPY
| Then passing his hand across his
brow, to aid his thinking, probably, he thrust
his brush into bowl of paint called rissole and
J painted over the deep brown parts of the NUT
/ ton that had just come from the oven, The
| next thing he did was to take cloth and
! sprinkle over the mutton powder OF carbon
! lied meat. This is calculated to make the NOR
| sci cracEle under the teeth, and lends q crisp
brittle surface to the flesh. Then he applied a
mixture called natural blood. With this he irni-
tated the pricks from which the juice was sup
| posed to have escaped in abundance. Then the
| leg was passed TO the scullion, who poured a
| few spoonfus of consomme in the dish and
added little beet juice. Then, taking a small
| syringe he pierced three holes in the meat
| Next he vRrieEated the whoe with a Quantity
| OF boiling grease. With these finishing touches
| NJ. Garcon placed it before the diners and with
! O flourish announced that it had come 'siust
! from the spit" The guests ate It with relish
| and do not know the difference yet O. il is