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The morning call., 1895-02-17

with delicate threads from a special pore
which were so many bands to hold the
nest together.
When Thoroughly bound the nest Is
complete, and then the little builder goes
in search of his mate, and in few weeks
the interior of the nest is filled with minute
young, who are watched by the male with
jealous care. If they stray away he makes
after them draws them into his mouth and
shoots them into the nest again with great
force. But finally they grow too large to
be kept within bounds and many wander
off to become victims to their folly.
The mother fish rarely if ever displays
any affection for her young, the male as
Stunning all the obligations.
One of the most singular nests made by
the birds of the sea is that of the paradise
fish-a beautiful long-tinned creature COM
mon in the streams of India. l was for
tunate in observing pair OF these fishes
during the nest-building season, and saw
the beginning and completion of the nest,
which, so far as fish's nest can be, was
esthetic. | was first attracted by seeing
the fish repeatedly rush to the surface, as
If to obtain air, and this was it's object, as
sinking it elected little silvery bubble be-
meath the water, which rose and remained
at the surface, glistening with wonderful
iridescence.
This operation was continued indefi-
nitely, and finally l noticed that the
bubbles were all collecting together, form
ing q brilliant-hued raft an inch or two in,
diameter. Other bubbles were released
beneath these which soon made raft of
several layers, forming conspicuous
object upon the water fiat on top and more
or less cone-shaped below.
This was the nest of the paradise-fsh, in
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splashes, while some have a great variety
of tints and colors, vying with the most
magnificent of the parrots. The parrot
fishes also have singular beaks, calling to
mind these birds.
These resemblances might be continued
indefinitely, but are not SO remarkable as
contrast of the habits of birds and fishes.
Especially in nest-building is the resem-
blance marked, some fishes making nests
that are quite as perfect in construc-
ton as those of birds. Many of the
sea birds, as the gulls and terms,
form their nests in the sand, depositing
their eggs without any special preparation,
thus calling to mind some OF the fishes, as
the salmon and trout, that make merely a
little depression in the sand, in which their
eggs or spawn are deposited.
The nests of fishes may be divided into
two distinct classes: those which are made
by binding material together, like those
of the oriole, mocking-birds and Others
and those which are heaps of rude ma
terial, resembling the nests of the bird
megapodius. An interesting example of
the latter nests was observed by the writer
some years ago. l was polling my boat
along in one of the little bays of the st.
Lawrence River, near the Canadian shore
when l came to pile of pebbles or stones
almost cone shaped, that reached up from
the bottom at least four feet, coming
The morning call., 1895-02-17

The eggs, as IN the case of the stone
toter, were placed on the stones, and
drifted among them with the tide, where
the young were Matched and probably
lived until old enough to go to sea for
themselves.
These nests, as suggested, call to mind
the bird, megapodius, that deposits it's
eggs in a heap of sand and refuse,
allowing the heat so generated to hatch
them out. These are the laborers among
the birds of the sea, but there are other
nest-builders who are as esthetic in their
work as the pendent-nest builders among
birds-the oriole and others. One of the
most interesting is the stickleback, of
which there are several kinds. 1t is the
male who does the work; this is al
most invariably the custom. When the
season comes around the pugilistic
aren't is colored a fiery hue and is ex-
tremely savage. He now selects the place
for the nest, in one noted by the writer
the clear place beneath submerged
limb from which the framework of
the nest was suspended, and which
was bits of grass and other material that
was collected together and wound in and
out very much as bird would do until
It formed a ball. Into this the
stickleback repeatedly dyed until it
had pierced it like bobbin, then rubbing
himself over it and covering it as we found
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which no foreign matter was introduced,
the air-bubbles, with their delicate enve-
lope, alone constituting 1t. Among them
the eggs were deposited and here the young
were Matched and held together until old
enough to stray away, when the nest was
deserted. This floating nest may be com
pared to that of some of the grebes, that
floats on the surface fastened 10 some
weeds and rises and goes down with the
tide.
Another interesting and curiously con-
trlved nest is found among the marine
hshes, and the shape resembles a Dutch
cheese, being ball of seaweed wound to-
gether by the fish and held by bands bound
around 1t. The fish itself, known as the
antennarlas, is most remarkable little
creature, covered with curious colored or
tinted barbels OF flesh that resemble bits
OF seaweed. In fact, the fish itself is of
the exact color of the surrounding weed, so
that it is almost impossible to distinguish
it. | have often found it in the gulf weed
OF the Gulf of Mexico, but never without
careful search, though the fish was in
almost every instance lying directly on the
surface.
In building its nest the fish collected little
branches of sargassum, that was fioated
by the little air vesicles, and wound them
in and out, rubbing against them and
binding them together by delicate thread
of gelatinous matter which it took from a
pore, as in the case of the stickleback.
The nest varies in size from a baseball to a
football, and the eggs are attached to the
weed, the young living in the nest until
they can look out for themselves. The
antennarias is weed fish, living in the
weed at the surface and drifting about with
it, driven this way and that by current
and wind.
These animals are not usually credited
with any marked degree of intelligence,
but the instinct which causes them to-
build such structures must, in this respect,
place them in the same ranks with many
of the birds. C.. H..
The morning call., 1895-02-17
CATCHING BULLETS.
One of the Seemingly Dangerous Tricks
of Conjurers.

One of the Seemingly Dangerous Tricks
of Conjurers.
The adage that there is nothing new I'M
der the sun has only been questioned on
the matter of tricks performed by ma
gicians, conjurers, prestidigitateurs and
others who deal in that which is mystery
to the eye. The catching of bullets by
Professor Hermann seemed to climax a
series of mysteries for which that clever
dealer in the mystic art was responsible.
Speaking of the bullet-catching trick in l.
particular, Professor +. d. Hewes,. who is
also dealer in the art mystic, said yes
terday.
"There are literally but few tricks IN
magic. The so-Called new ones presented
to the public from time to time by our
leading maglclans, cOnjurers or whatever
they call themselves, are simply the re-
vival of some old experiments clothed in g
new form. The catching of bullets is not
by any means a new trick. for it is almost
as old as magic itself. 1 remember seeing
the old 'Fakir of Ava perform the same
trick, only in a different manner, when [
was small boy. The catching of the bull
let is very easily explained. In the first
place, TO accomplish it the conjurer must
procure an old-style cap-lock, smooth-bore
musket, some powder, caps and a leaden
bullet. All these must be perfectly free
from any deception. Now we come to the
ramrod. Therein lies the whole mystery
of the trick. 1t is constructed with
small metallic tube, closed at the end and
so arranged as to become detached from the
end of the ramrod at will.
Having explained the construction of
all the appliances we will now proceed to
do the trick. The gun, bullet, powder and
caps are freely givep for examination. The
performer requests some one to put the
charge of powder into the gun. Next be
inserts small piece of paper, and rams it
down, and by twist of the r&mrod to the
left the small metal tube is dislodged from
the point and remains within the gun
barrel. Now the bullet is marked and
placed in the gun by one of the audience;
again the professor rams it down. Now,
by a contrary twist, the metal tube be-
comes fast to the ramrod, so that in with
drawing it the bullet is removed.
THE performer now palms the marked
bullet, and all that remains to do is to 90
through the motion of catching it when
the gun is discharged, and the Spectators
are thoroughly mystiied. You see, it is
all very simple when you know how.'-
Boston Post.
The morning call., 1895-02-17

To those who are familiar with the in
habltants of the ocean and have watched
fishes moving in and out among the great
forests of kelp and weeds, or swimming
along sandy banks and shoals in pursuit of
prey, the resemblance to the birds of the
land is often marked and striking. The
fishes are the birds of the deep sea and,
strangely enough, can be compared to them
not only in appearance, but in their habits.
The birds OF paradise, with their gorgeous
feathers, rich in colors, find a counterpart
IN the angel-fshes of tropical waters that
are decked in wonderful garbs. One can
not fail to be impressed with this in look
ing down into the lagoons of coral reef,
where groves of coral reach up, forming
lanes and streets. These fishes have long
attenuated fins and streamers, are round
or oval in shape, and colored in a most
striking fashion. Some have bands of
alternating colors-blue, yellow and brown;
even their eyes being tinted. Some again,
are metallic blue, looking like veritable
gems-the bluebirds of the sea.
The parrot-fshes are named after the
parrots from their resemblance in color.
They are gorgeously tinted, some being
vivid green, others purple with bright red
The morning call., 1895-02-17
FRANK C.CARpeNTep

ran through the door of the house by
throwing a slip-noose about his neck. The
dog was a rather nice animal of about the
size of an Irish setter, and his fur was as
gray as that of wolf. He seemed to be
aware of his danger, and he tugged at the
rope, which soon frightened on his throat
And then the bare-armed butcher swung
him off his feet and whirled him about
in the street at the end of the string till
life was extinct. He next laid the dog
down on the ground and stabbed him, as
we stick pig. He then hung him on the
wall of his hut and cut him up into dog
steaks, soup meats and roasts. He asked
me if did not want to try tenderloin,
and dished up a bowl from pot of dog
soup which was cooking outside his hut,
and asked me to taste it. 1t did not look
at all appetizing and L thanked him and
left.
Among many queer Korean customs
there is none stranger than that of iron
ing. There are no better dressed people in
the world than the Koreans. They wear
immaculate gowns and the prevailing cos
tune is white. The common dress of the
men is made up of a long, full cotton
gown, full white pantaloons and wadded
white stockings. These are as clean as the
best work of Chinese laundry, and they
are washed in cold water and ironed with
cold club. The women do all the wash
ing and ironing of the land. They wrap
the garments around a stick, which is laid
on the floor, and then one or two women
squat down beside it and pound on the
The morning call., 1895-02-17

cloth with round, smooth wooden clubs
till every fiber has the polish and gloss of
our best laundries. This does not seem to
hurt the cloth, and the clothes have Won
derful whiteness. 1t takes long time to
iron garment, and the rat-tat-tat of these
clubs is to be heard all over Korea. You
hear it morning, noon and evening and at
nearly all the hours of the night, and it
may be called 1.-THE National Song of
Korea" or, the "Korean Song of the
Shirt" The women tap out tune as they
play, and the most of their time is taken
up in washing, ironing and sewing.
All things in Korea are strange to foreign
ers. The thimbles used are of cloth and
paper beautifully embroidered There are
no buttons nor pins, and the garments are
tied on with ribbons. Soap is sold in the
form OF powder, and the only matches
are shavings tipped with sulphur. These
have to be put in the fire to light them.
and the flint is used to strike light. The
markets of Korea are full of strange
Things. There are regular market days
over the country, and the different towns
OF district have markets in rotation, and
the people for miles around come to buy
and sell. The markets of Seoul are very
good and all kinds of fish, vegetables and
meats are peddled out by these queer peo-
pie. Game is plenty, and both the beef
and the venison are good. The people are
early risers, and the best time to market
in Seoul is between and 6 A. NJ. Two
hours later the stands are all cleared away
and you have to rely on the retail stores
or little shops scattered all over the city.
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see pompous swells in long gowns and high
hats, poor women by hundreds with green
cloaks over their heads, and boys by scores
carrying all kinds of vegetables and wares.
There are servants in livery and coolies
with hats as big as umbrellas. There are
bullock-carts and porters, merchants and
slaves-all pushing and fighting over the
things they are buying. The market is
near the big south gate of the city, and
there are thousands here every market
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the beam sank down, the water rushed out
and the mallet, which had been raised high
IN the air, fell on the grain. This is the
patent roller process" mill of Korea. /
saw other mills and those in Seoul were
like the ones of the Scripture and were
turned by hand. l saw some millstones,
one on the top of another, which were
turned by mules, which went about like a
horse in tannery The most of the mill
ers in the capital were Cinnamon, and
they were by no means polite. The brass
works which make the cooking utensils for
these II. GOO Koreans are of the rudest
nature. The furnaces are rude ovens of
clay, and little crucibles about the size of a
tin cup are used. The brass is first cast,
and then polished by means of lathe,
which the workman manipulates with his
feet, sitting in the end of a trench as he
does SO. The brass shines like gold, and it
takes on beautiful polish. I bought a
dinner set, and it cost me S.. 1t consisted
of about dozen brass bowls, from the
size of wash basin down to that of an egg
cup. The silversmiths work the same
way and some of their work is very arts
tic. In the past the Koreans were, in fact,
the greatest. artists of the Far East, and
Japanese art is said to have had its birth
in Korea. Within the past half dozen CEN
turtles, however, the Koreans have been 60
ing backward, and the Japanese have
greatly improved in every way over their
Korean instructors.
The indications now are that Korea will
steadily improve, and fortunes will GER
tainly be made by some of the foreigners
who ppt in at the riUht time and who bava
the proper influence. The Asiatic market
is one of the biggest in the world, and
Korea has many natural resources which
will command ready sale all over the
East. The matter of coal is most import
ant one The Chinese have plenty, but the
most of their mines are in the interior, and
they are undeveloped. The temper of the
Chinese is such that foreigners cannot get
at them, and to-day the chief coal mer-
chants of the Western Pacific are the
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morning. Among the curious articles
which | noted found a ready sale was
Korean ginseng, the root of which is good
for all kinds of diseases; red pepper, which
was sold in paper parcels about the size of
a cigarette Tor about 1 cent apiece, and
tobacco, which was dried and peddled ont
by the leaf. The grain market was equally
queer, and the chicken and bird markets
were full of interest.
Here and there over the country l saw
rude machinery of one kind and another.
There were water-mills for the pounding
oHt of rice and the crushing of grain along
many of the streams. The mills were all
on the principle of the old seesaw or teeter
board. A long beam of wood was swung
on pivot and on one end of this was
heavy hammer or mallet This fell into
mortar, in which the rice or grain was
placed. At the other end of the beam was
& square box, holding, perhaps, barrel of
water, and this box hung right under a
pipe, which was fed by the stream. AS
soon as the beam was full the water end of
The morning call., 1895-02-17
THE JUDGES OPINION.
He Thought 1T Unlikely That the Patent,
Would Ever Be Renewed.

A lawyer who makes speciality of
patent business, no matter Just where his
office is located, was called to the farther
West in a case involving a mortgage on a
farm. The preliminary hearing was be-
fore an old-fashioned Justice of the Peace,
who had no high regard for the ways of
men from the city. AT some point in the
case the magistrate put in few remarks
and the visiting lawyer collided with him.
The discussion grew warm, and at last the
magistrate forgetting his dignity and his
position, became personal.
who are you, anyway" he blurted
out.
WELL, replied the lawyer, "Im an
attorney"
"P'raps you are, but L never heard one
talk like you do. What kind of one are
your"
''I'm patent attorney"
The magistrate rubbed his chin for
thought.
"Well, all I've got to say is" he said.
slowly, that when the patent expires |
don't believe you can ever get it renewed
| again. Detroit Free Press.
The morning call., 1895-02-17
ON A LOVE LETTER.

Dear heart when your sweet letter came to me
My heart sad and lonely but I said:
There is one gentle heart that loveth me
She loves me living she would love me dead"
heard the music of the mocking-birds
Singing, wind-blown, in all the blossoms here,
But what could be sweet thy soft words
The honeyed sweetness OF thy lips, my dear:
You said so many gentle tender things:
''And how is my remembered love to-day"
heard the white doves fiutter their sweet wings,
And they said all that could sing or say.
roamed with you in the far fields of old;
! kissed you in the Valleys the hills
My lips were red upon your curls of gold
held your hand while sang the whppoorwillsi
Oh. the great memories of one little line
From your dear hand, sweetheart, sweetheart,
sweetheart
Having once kissed you, you are always mine
Until dim death our lips our lives shall part!
EXCHANGE.
The morning call., 1895-02-17

japanese. They have mines of vast extent,
and IN the western parts of Japan there
are great mines which have fifty miles of
tunnels running right out into and under
the sea. These are at Nagasaki and the
mining must be very expensive. The
mines about Pinyang, Korea, lie right on
the surface and the coal can be dug out
with pick. The river is at hand for
carrying the coal to the sea and great in
uustry ought to spring up here The gold
mines are, am told, fabulously rich. L
was told there were great mines on the
east coast and gold is to be found all over
horea. These mines will be opened with
the settlement of this war The railroad
concessions will be extremely valuable and
thls country will surely form the outlet
Tor the trans-Siberian road. This is al
ready begun at Vladivostok and is being
Quilt at different points between that
point and Europe A branch line running
oown through Korea will bring it within
days sail of Japan.
In addition to these things, there are
ot1fr valuable concessions and enterprises
winch Will spring up. The situation is such
that the King has to have money, and he
can get 1t only by borrowing from out
slders. He owes both China and Japan
large sums of money, and foreign loan is
an immediate and an absolute necessity.
his Majesty has no available assets outside
OF ms mines and concessions, and Japan
Will insist upon an immediate settlement
OF ms Chinese obligations, or that he be
freed IN some way entirely from China.
Inc result IS that the country will be ex-
plored, and it will probably have boom.
A most interesting scientific expedition
could now be organized to go through it,
and It's geology, its flora and its other
natural resources will pay investigation.
The King would undoubtedly permit it,
and the explorer would have some exciting
tiger hunts, and at the same time might
get some valuable concessions.
The morning call., 1895-02-17
HUNTING WITH A CAMERA.

Great Skill Required to Get Within
snapshot Distance of Game.
There are great many hunters armed
with magazine cameras instead of guns
out in the Maine woods now, says the
American Journal of Photography
watching and working for chance to get
snapshot at deer, moose or any other
wild game. The photographers return
with, some wonderfully interesting results
TO show in pictures of wild animals in
their natural surroundings. And they
claim there is as much glory in taking
deers picture as in taking its life. 1t re-
cures Just as much skill to get within
photographing distance as within shoot
ing range, and often more. Anyway it is
an interesting new field for the irrepres-
slble amateur photographer.
The morning call., 1895-02-17
REMEMBER OR FORGET.

When am dead, my dearest,
Sing DO sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head
Nor shady cypress tree;
Better green grass above me,
With showers and dewdrops wet;
AND II thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
snail not see the shadows,
shall not feel the rain;
shall not hear the nightingale
sing ON, as if in pain;
ana dreaming through the twilight
mat doth not rise nor set.
Haply may remember,
And haply / may forget.
Christina Rosetti
The morning call., 1895-02-17

Through increased postal facilities let
ter posted in Paris at midday can be de-
llvered In London at P. NJ, by means of
an express messengers arrangement.
The Dickinson press., 1895-09-14

IT has come to be a recognized
fact that our state board Of rail-
road commissioners, from presi-
dent to secretary, are conducting
their office in the interests of the
people. They do not disregard
the rights of railroad companies.
They are business men, and when
a matter of difference arises be-
tween the people and the railroad
companies a personal investiga-
tion is made and the matter in
question is treated as a business
proposition between the people
and the company involved. The
present board of commissioners
is such an one as the state has long
needed. The press of the state
is fully aware of this fact and
has given many paragraphs o.
commentator.
The Dickinson press., 1895-09-14

MERCHANTS would do we'll to
consider the following recently
heard from country district nat
urally tributary to Dickinson
Dickinson merchants complain
that people send away for goods
and they would complain more
perhaps if they knew to what an
extent this is done. But they do
not realize that the fault is large
~ their own. We do not often
go to town. We have Twin City
and other city papers wherein
special values are mentioned.
The Dickinson press., 1895-09-14
A Timely Reminder.

Each season forces upor our consid.
GRAFTON its own peculiar perils to
health. The advent of fall finds many
reduced i'll strength AMI vigor, poorly
prepared to continue the business of
life. The stomach and bowels, the
great highway of animal economy,
arc especially liable to disorder in the
fall. The nervous ays:c,n has also
suffered in the struggle. Typhoid
fever and malaria i'll particular find
in the fall that combination of earth,
air and water that mark this season
as especially dangerous. The falling
leaves, the decaying vegetables con.
tribute their share of contamination.
Hoods Sarsaparilia furnishes most
valuable safeguard at these important
points, and should he used in the fall
before serious sickness has laid you
low.