The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-07-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST,

Rry contest the fishing towns were rich
and populous. In 1915. 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 hostiiities, which
soon followed, nearly destroyed the
fisheries for a time
"A curiosity of this years peach crop
on the Delaware peninsula is the fruit
of a tree in the garden of Colin Siam.
at Chestertown, Kent county, Md All
the peaches on this tree are in twins or
triplets. A twig one foot long was
found to have sixteen twin peaches.
An occasional double peach is not I'M
usual, bat 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 wear. 1t is
even sent to customers in Europe. It
is shipped in Theoretically 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 five
Thousand years ago, discovered the prin-
clple of water clock. Remarka BILE to
state. the inventors name, Hwang I'll.
has been preserved. The rude original
consisted of two copper vessels, one
above and one below, the former having
q 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 temp" When a
deer is five years old, he should have
what is called his rights that is,
says the countess of Malmesburv. 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
a
of ten" points Most of these terms
arc derived from old French hunting
terms.
The southerner at home is prone to
neglect his heal gear for the sake of
having his feet yell shod, and he will
go about in public places wearing a bat
tered and soiled slouch hat, but scrupu-
1ously neat as to his foot wear The
popularity, perhaps, arises from family
pride, besetting southern sin, coupled
with the belief that aristocra%y is
evinced by the shape and size of the
feet. 1t is worthy of note. however,
that the southern slouch hat is often a
costly article of the finest and most
dura BILE felt. Such hat for winter
and a costly and indestructible Panama
straw for summer are the proper head
gear for a 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
'linbs" or ground on which it is played
IS a 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. 1t is more
played by men than by
women, but is capital exercise for any
one and a most fascinating game. A
of the Badminton Library is
L.
the golf
Fish transported long distances in
hot weather are thus packed: They !
are laid in tight layers in boxes and !
loaded in refrigerator ears, which are |
to as low a temperature as pos |
sible The floor is covered to a depth !
Of several inches with chilled sawdust, |
Hpon which the boxes are loaded, leav- |
ing a space of some inches between the /
sides. ends and top of the car, which |
space is filled 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 1
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 1892 |
The United States fish commission. which |
3usies itself solely with the propagation |
of edible fish in the waters all over the /
country, stocking rivers with species |
new to the region, distributing eggs
and ,,ouno fish to the lakes and sea-
coasts. and working in a vast number
of WAYS to the one end, distributed
total of 500, $50, 1872 eggs, fry and year
Iings of all kinds of fish. The largest |
were in shad. OF this fish
SO. 600. 900 fry, 1000. 900 yearlings. and
3. 600. 600 eggs were distributed. Cod is
the fish most distributed next to shad,
md of white fish. lake trout. pike, perch,
salmon. 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
And Run Up Another BiIL-Hard-
amount of your bill, doctor,
has made me feel quite i'll" Doctor
it. sir? Then l sup
pose you'll want me to attend you
professionally again?"-Yankee Blade
i'm n country newspaper appears
the following announcement: "A mum
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