The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-11-11
oF GENERAL. INTEREST.


AT Belfast the Alexandria craving
| or dry dock, completed in 1889, has =
floor length OF eight hundred feet
while from outer sail TO back OF wall
the distance is eight hundred and fifty
feet The inside width at the top Ii
ninety-two feet and the bottom fifty
feet This dock can be divided into
three separate docks or used as one
large dock.
An old rural custom still prevails IL
the western part OF France during the
harvest season. On the edge OF field
bordering the highway sheaf OF giaiu
is left standing, 10 which all the peas.
ants of the village contribute, and
which is called 'thc strangers sheaf,r
as it is the property of the first homo.
less wayfarer who may choose TO carry
1t away and profit by its price.
1t is said that female cod fish will
lay 45, 600 600 eggs during single sea-
son, Piscatorinl authorities say that
were IL not for the work of the natural
enemies of fish they would FIJI all the
available space in the seas, rivers and
oceans. During the spawning season
the eggs are sometimes so thick on the
banks that they form hugo masses and
are frequently seen by passing vessels
at u great distance from the shore.
The rarest American coin Is the dol.
lar Of 1904 There are believed TO be
not more than ten in existence. As
much as sl, 800 has cen offered and re.
fused for an 1904 dollar. Many expla-
nations have been given of the scarcity
OF this coinage. Ono is that In the year
1903 n China-bound vessel was lost con.
tanning almost the entire mintage OF
1904. AS curio the dollar OF 1904
stands first among United States coins.
The customary morning salutation
at all seasons In old Marblehead is,
"IIow is the fsh2a In the past rainy
summer the answer, after look down
the street, has generally been, "Oh her
tail is going round and round" This
is the towns way of speaking OF the
weather vane on the Congregational
church, the infallible oracle which de-
termncs whether boats shall put out
to sea and leisurcly landsmen go
a-riding.
An average waltz takes dancer
over about three-quarters of mile a
square dance makes him cover half
mile. A girl with wcll-filIcd pro-
Rrammc travels thus In one evening:
Twelve waltzcs, nine miles; four other
dances at half-milc apiece. which laf
hardly fairly big eetimate, two niils.a
more the u sI, intsrHhifsSiffia sSfia onchaif niles
The Welsh in the United States
claim that they are in number as many
as their countrymen In Wales, and they
also claim that one Of their ancestors
forcstalled Columbus in the discovery
Of America by two hundred and seven
ty-two years. They base their asser-
tons on historical traditions, md the
of old Welsh s,ssss -.ss -. :.
one hand, and on the prevalence of
Welsh in many OF the languages Of the
Indians, both of South and North
America on the other
The red and falIow deer which
formerly roamed through the English
forests had n habit Of scraping up the
earth with their fore feet to the depth
OF several inches, sometimes even OF
half yard. The stranger passing
through these woods was frequently
exposed to the danger OF tumbiing into
one of the hollows, when lie might be
said truly 10 be sin a scrapc.n The
college students of Cambridge, in their
little perplexities, picked up and APP
piled the phrase to other pergiSxing
matters which had brought sman NOR
ally into fix.
Our double eagle Of $40 is equal 10
20 patakas Of Abyssinia, 30 kwans of
Anam, "a forms OF Arabia, 20 pesos az
a. A n. - =.
about 1903 francs OF France, rs milries
Of Brazil, 2 condors of Chile, GO rigs
dalers of Denmark, 400 piHters Of
Egypt, "a Of Great Britain, 10s draeh-
rrls Of Greece, "a marks of Germany, as
rupees OF India, 1903 lire OF Italy, 20
ycns OF Japan, 80 scudi of Malta, 1903 lei
OF Roumania, so guilders of the Neither
lands, ~ rubles of Russia, 8 tomnms OF
Persia, 25l piastcrs OF Scrvia, SO ticols
OF Siam, i08 pesetas Of Spain, 200
gwush Of Tripoli, tilias Of TurAcstau,
81 patacons of Uruguay and rs pesos OF
| Venezuela.
Frogs, whether blind or not, be-
come dark green or black IL they are
kept in dark vessel in a spariuglys
| lighted room; Int when larger
| DEdHttl WIN EFtCti IEstNtS ~ lUbfOuuteft.
into the vessel, they all recover their
bright green color, whether blind or
not In some way unknown the re-
fccted green light acts either upon the
nerves of the skin, or--what seems
more probable II Steinach's expert
ments are taken into account directly
upon the pigment cells Moreover, the
sensations derived from the toes have
also an influence upon the changes OF
color When the bottom Of the vessel
is covered with y felt or with thin
wire net, the frogr also become black,
recovering th64 green color when 4
green branch Is introduced into the
vessel.
An old New York bachelor Who
lives in boarding house ia Tsxentv-
first street, near broadway, likes eggs,
likes them fresh, and wants them
cooked Just right Therefore rs buvs
them Of fancier at 81. 70 per dozen and
keeps them locked In drawer 81 Iris
dressing case. He takes out two each
morning, puts private Ink marks On
them, and hands them. together with
his watch and Thermometer. Ia Uhe
cook. Then he seats himself al the
breakfast table aud reads until the
eggs are served. nor broken. but ii The
shell, SO that he may identity them q
the same he brought apwn stairs. Il
all is to his liking he ii bright and
CHEEKY both II bfsineaS and social ~ fof
| the rest OF the dn4 E,st la fha s,rf,.