The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-11-01
NHE DAILY HISTORIAN, ASTORIA, FRIDAY MORNING NOVEMBER / 1881

"LF
lopods. and IL Is believed this family
have provided the foundation fora grfat
many of the sea serpent stories dfiat
have occupied 80 much attention In times
MATT. Anytime more horrible that tho
s1uid, with rs huge eyes, hofny-fireh
ccccued beak and irresistible tentacies,
can Saardiy be conceived. 1t has, too,
a habit of swimming backward with a
potion of its tail sticking out of Tire
lwater, and tails Jocks not urfgke a SER
pent's head. There Is not much differ
enee in general appearance between the
squid ani the octopus. Both belong TO
the same family. and. both have very
much the same habits. They secure
their prey by attaching themselves by
byo or three Of their arms to "a rock or
other Stationary object, and then reach
out with the others for anything that
comes In their way. The suckers with
which they hold their prey are Ike
miniature pumps, piston and all. A bony
rim surrounds the sucking organ, while
THE interior Is a soft putpy mass of
flesh When the rim Is aUplied to an
object THE cephalopod draws back by
a muscular action the soft flesh inside
the rim, Thus leaving a vacuum. The
squid represented in the museum Is of
uAiC 6VhhuJ UNAlANCAhNAANAos ANS vi
wals caught after considerable difficulty
at Catalina, Trinity bay. Newfoundland,
by some fishermen. The octopus was
captured on the Pacific coast. It Is "a
very large one of its kind, and belongs
to the genus octopus punctatus.
A late New York dispatch says: Load
ed up to her decks with cans Of green
turtle soup, pompanoe and guava jelly,
the little two-masted 109-ton American
schooner Oracle T. anchored in the upper
bay last night after a cruise of six
in West Indian waters. A curl
feature of this very curious cargo
Is that 1t was all manufactured on board
the schooner, and therefore is not sup
posed to be subject to duty. Therein
lies the secret of the original expedition.
It was planned by BENJAMIN Wood and
his associates. They expect to under
sell the Importers. When the Oracle T.
left New York on April 10 last she was
up ais a floating cannery. "A chef
was taken along to overlook operations,
and the rest of the party consisted of
six expert anner and the regular crew
Of the vessel. The vessel was fitted
at an East river pier. First a light
power boiler was put on board,
and then three copper cauidrons of 25
each. Machini5ts set the boiler
up a little forward Of amidships, : and
pipes were run from this boiler to.a big
process kettle. The big
rested on the lower deck and IL
projected half its length through a hole
the deck above. where the boiler was
.Afber all these preparations
were made truck loads of empty cans,
$4,000 in all, were put aboard, and the
little vessel was started. Besides the
soup, guava jelly and pcmpano.
The captain expected TO ecure and pre-
serve several kinds of fish and game.
leaving port. little was heard of
the vessel until she returned to New
York last night. She had been cruising
along the coast of Costa Rica, and her
for months had been engaged in
capturing green tlHSles and converting
hem into soup and canning 1t. The
meats, after being boiled down in the
copper cauldrons, were also canned
then covered in the big process
1ettle and subjected to a high boiling
pressure to make them keep. The chef
cooked after this and also superintendent
The manufacture of guava jellles."