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Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
A South African Snake Story.

There is more than one way of
fighting snake. In Natal, South
Africa, where lives the deadly mamba
serpent, party of fifty or sixty Kaffirs
were building road In the course
of their work they came to O huge
stone, under which dwelt a large hiack
mamba, well known to the neighbor-
ing inhabitants as being very fierce
aud venomous. The superintendent
anticipated trouble with the rock and
so he offered a reward to the Kaffir
that would bring him the snakes skin.
For time none of them dared make
the attack, but slim youth finally
sauntered forward, and amid the jeers
and protestations of the rest declared
himself equal to the task. He took
from his neck what looked like bit
of shriveled stick, chewed ii, swallowed
some of it, spat out the rest on his
hands, and proceeded to rub his
glistening brown body and limbs all
over. Then, taking up a stick, and
chanting a song of defiance, he adj
vanced with great confidence and
swagger to the boulder. There he
reused up the mamba, who in great
fury at being disturbed, bit him in the
lip with great venom. The boy took
no notice of the bite, but broke the
snakes back with his stick and bring
ing him to his master, asked Tor the
reward, obtaining which, he went back
to his work, and the bite of the reptile
had no effect on him whatever.
No bride, not even that OF . COW
DIETER than any gold in the eyes of
Kaffir), would induce this native to
disclose the secret of his antidote,
which, he said, had been handed down
in his family for generations. The
snake was very long one, and so old
that it had name. II is we'll
known fact that certain Of the Zolas
have antidotes for the more deadly
snake poisons, which they preserve
as a secret within their own families.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
paper Bottles.

A German papermaker recently oh.
tanned letters patent on bottles made
of paper, for use on board of ships
particularly. II has been q cause OF
much damage to steamer lines that in
bad weather "A large number Of bottles
of wine and other liquors are broken
III the storerooms in spite of every
precaution. The new bottles are ma o
of composition which, with the solu-
tion in which they are made water
tight, is still the inventors secret.
After being impregnated with this
fluid the paper bottles are slowly dried
in gas stoves, and this process of dry
ing must be watched carefully, for
otherwise the bottles would remain
porous and allow the fluids kept
therein to leak out. These bottles
can be handled roughly without the
least apprehension; neither tho pitch
ing nor rolling of great steamer dur.
ing rough weather, nor the breaking
down of truck upon which they are
loaded loosely would be apt to dam
age a single paper bottle. Hartford
Times.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS
Tn every mile Of railway there are

In every mile Of railway there are
seven feet four inches not covered by
the rails, the space left for expansion.
Gas il to be utilized in the burning
of bricks in Attica, \. Y, where gas
well has been struck ON ground near q
brick kiln.
A copper pan, said to he the largest
ever made from one piece of metal has
been turned out at Swansea, England.
Il is twelve feet four inches in diame-
ter, three feet three inches deep, and
weighs two tons.
DIR. Edwin Klcbs, the well.known
bacteriologist, formerly of the Uni
versity of Zurich, but now of Chicago.
has just returned from visit to Eu-
rope, and is going to New Orleans 70
study the epidemic of yellow fever.
The Spring Garden institute of Phil
adslphia has just received bequest
of $50, 600 from the estate of the late
Samuel Jeanes of Philadelphia. The
money will be used to strengthen the
mechanical and electrical departments
of the school.
Investigations made 10y the scien-
lists OF the agricultural department
show that the pith of the sunhower
stem is the lightest substance known,
with specific gravity of o. 02S, IA
compared with 900 older pith, which
has heretofore been considered the
highest of all Materials
Sheep shearing by electricity is sue
cessfully carried on at Great Falls,
Montana, one of the largest wool. ship
ping points in the northwest. The
shears used are much like horse-clip-
ping machines and power is trans
street railway power house.
The government of the Cape Of Good
Hope is now regretting the money
spent in securing Koch to elaborate
n protective serum for use against
the rinderpest. The undertaking has
ended in absolute failure, for the in
oculation treatment has had no effect
in preventing the cattle from dying
Of the disease.
The New York Journal of Hygiene
says that many people eat altogether
too much salt. The result is that the
skin and kidneys are excessively taxed
to get rid of the salt, and both are
injured by it. Few people have
healthy skins, and it is believed that
many cases of arrangement of the
kidneys are due to the salt habit.
A substitute for coal is now being
brought forward in the shape of masut,
a by-product in the distilation Of pet
roleum, which has for some time been
extensively used in Russia and Italy
for firing steam boilers, for marine,
locomotive, and industrial purposes.
A German inventor is also said to have
recently succeeded in extracting masut
from cheap brown coal in connection
with which new industry has sprung
mp in Saxony.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
Cannelon of beef.

Chop finely two pounds of lower
part of round; edd grated rind Of half
lemon, level tablespoon chopped pars-
ley, half teaspoon onion juice, d few
gratings ofnutmeg, level teaspoon salt,
quarter teaspoon pepper, one egg
slightly beaten, two tablespoons melt
ed butter, Shape into u roll after
thorough mixing, wrap in buttered
paper, place on rack in baking pan,
haste with quarter cup butter melted
in cup Of hot water, Thirty minutes
in good oven should bake il well.
Make sauce of half slice onion cooked
in two level tablespoons butter until
lightly Drowned; remove onion; stir
until butter is Drowned. Mix two
and one-half tablespoons -four with
one-fourth teaspoon salt, one-eighth
teaspoon white pepper, stir; add
gradually cup brown stock. Mush.
rooms may be added.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
Marmalhdc Mnklng.

Marmalade may be made OF any ripe
fruit boiled to pulp with little
water; the best fruits to use are peach
es, ounces, apples, oranges and cram
berries. 1t is usual to crush the fruit
Use three-quarters of a pound of sugar
to pound Of the fruit, add little
water (half a cupful to q pound) and
boil until it becomes n iellied mass.
When done, put it in glass or white
earthenware.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
whole Wheat Bread,

To make whole wheat bread-the
quick process, as taught at Pratt In
stitute Cooking School in Brooklyn
add to one pint of thin oatmeal por-
ridge one pint warm milk and two
compressed yeast cakes dissolved in
a little lukewarm water. Beat well ;
add again two rounded teaspoonfuls
sugar, six level teaspoonfuls shorten
ing, one rounded teaspoonful salt, and
whole wheat houruntil you can stir it
no longer with the back OF knife.
Cover lightly and set to rise. When
twice its bulk, divide into small loaves,
and again set to rise; then bake in o
moderate oven about forty minutes.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
WHO'S Afraid in the Dark?

who's Afraid in the Dark?
30, not l." said the owl,
And he gave a great scowl,
And he wiped his eye
And fluffed his jowl, 100 WHO'D"
Said the dog ~ bark
Out loud In the dark, Boo-oo"
Said the cat: "Mi-ew!
I'll scratch any one who
Dares say that do
Feel afraid, Mi-ew!'
Afraid" said the mouse,
"Of dark in the housed
Hear me scatter
Whatevess the natter
Squeak"
Then the /ad In his hole
And the bugin the ground,
They both shook their heads -.
And passed the word around;
And the birds in the tree,
And the fish and the bee,
They declared all three,
That you never did see
One Of them afraid
In the dark!
But the little boy who had gone to bed
Just raised the bedclothes and covered his
head.
Louisville Recorder.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
Advance of Civilization.

Scotty-Yep; that's ole Howlins
Ike. Useter be the terror Of the
camp.
visitor from the East--You don't
say so! He looks quite civil and re-
spectacle, 1 am sure. Was he con-
verted?
Scotty--You betcher life he war!
We 'lected his ole woman sher'f. -
Puck.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
Dish for Tea.

Thicker one cupful Of rich milk or
cream with one tablespoonful of butter
and two tablespoonfuls Of -four rubbed
to paste cook five minutes, then add
one heaping tablespoonful Of chopped
parsley, one teaspoonful salt, one
scant teaspoonful of onion juice, one.
half teaspoonful Of paprika, one and a
half cupfuls Of inely.chopped mush-
rooms aud two tablespoonfuls of
chopped cooked tongue. When cold
shape into tiny cylinders and pin each
in very thin slice Of bacon, using for
this the round, smooth toothpicks.
Make batter, dip each into this,
drop into smoking hot fat aud fry gol-
den brown. Drain on unglazed paper
and set in the open oven until served.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
Diplomacy.

Wiggles-Whose picture is it on
the $40 silver certificate? Garfeld's,
isn't il?
Waggles--No, Hendricks.
Wiggles-I'm pretty sure it's Gar
field.
Observation-Disclosures, ! tell you,
and I've got a bill right here in my
pocket that will prove II. Do you
see that? Shows bill.
Wiggles-That settles it. / don't
know how / came 10 be 80 sure that
it was Garfield. Fifteen minutes
later.) BY the way, old man, lend me
$40, will you?-Boston Courier.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CIouded Chocolate Cake,

One cup of sugar, half cup of but
ter, two eggs, half cup of milk, two
cups of flour, half teaspoon of soda,
one teaspoon of cream tartar, sifted
with the flour. Flavor with vanilla.
Take almost half Of this mixture and
make as dark as required with grated
chocolate. Put in the tin the same as
COR marble cake.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03
Making Tin Soldiere.

"Toy soldiers made Of tin or lead
are Just as great favorites with chill
dren now as they were in the days of
our grandfathers," said a Wholesale
New York dealer in toys to Washing
ton Star reporter recently. The
soldiers are made almost exclusively
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03

A complete electric plowing plant
has been installed on French estais.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-11
Tact.

Tact II born with some men ana
women. like the supple, delicate fingers
Of the artists hand: and those who
have It use their gift instinctivcly. II
IL not measured alike to those who
have II. Men possess 1t In different de-
grccs. while others again are wanting
In Il altogether. 1t Is the outcome of
Intellectual AMI tempcrn mental quail.
dcntiOns. ana implies the possession OF
clear perceptions. quick Imagination
and delicate senslbilities. II IL these
that give the tactful person his subtle
intuition Of anothcr's mental processes
and modes OF feeling. and In the same
amount exactly In the right method Of
dealing with these.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-11
Ant Pie.

Saynges. we know, indulge In such
luxurles as grubs and locusts, but for q
civilized white man 10 finish up his din
ner with n dish OF raw ants seems too
nasty TO be credible. Yet In Mexico
Il Is the custom-and n custom adopted
By plenty Of colonists and visitors.
The ant eaten is called the honey ant,
and IL perhaps as curious an insect as
lives. With a tiny head and legs, 1t has
q huge body as big as large pea, and
this Is yellow and swollen with excel
lent honey.
In each nest there are 300 or 400 OF
these honey ants, which are attended
by thousands Of others. The honey ants
hang on to the roof OF the cells In the
nest while the others feed them. They
are. In fact, living stOrehouses Of win
ter food. An observer says that II one
81 the honey ants falls from his perch
worker will 90 and pick him up and
rep!ace him. This Is as II man were
10 walk up the face Of cliff carrying
n large buffalo or cart horse on his
back.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-11

Thick Spider Webs In Japan.
In the forests OF Java II species of
spider has ben discovered which pro.
duces webs Of such extraordinary
strength that knife IL required 10
sever them.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-11
Sewl yess NAME les Sosysels
q ta6 Works % eoesae Fleld,
FIELDAeFLOWERS
GhA ennnnA 4lalA llAAusasaannA lAsanAslp

The most beautiful Ar Production Of the cen.
su s., ss:ss q =: .sss 4 s::
1sro d lsve." Contains selection Of the most
beautiful Of the poems Of Eugene Field. Hand.
Ssesses. artists ss ,s,r conisS~,on 10 ire Mon.
Sment Fund. Bet lsr the sebls eeatsbutlsss q The
6sst artists thls lese eesd aet have bsss ossuse.
:ssS iss See: For seis at box stores; Or sent
he child's Poet Laureate. published by the Com.
nittee 10 create q fund TO build the Monument
End TO care for the family the beloved poet.
Eugene Field Monument Souvenir Fund.
10 Messee Street. chieses. ~
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-11

No man ever amounted to anything
who could answer all the fool ques-
Hons asked AT a school or civil service
exa minatlon.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-11

When a woman finally gets a good
hired girl, she Is always sure to say Of
her that she is ''awfully slow"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
A Procession Of Worms.

In some of the Hungarian forests and
IN the pine woods of Norway there ex-
lists tiny, wormlike insect called the
sciara, Of the genus tipula. During the
month of July or early in August they
gather together in large numbers, pre-
pafatory to migrating in search Of food
or for change of condition. When set
ting out on this journey, they stick
themselves together by means Of some
giutinous matter and form a huge SER
pent-liEe mass, often reaching length
of between 40 and 90 feet and several
inches i'll thickness. AS the sciara is
only on an average about three thirty
seconds of an inch in length, with no
appreciable breadth whatever, the num-
Der required to compose a continuous
line of the size above mentioned is al
most incalculable. Their pace is, OF
course, very SLOW, and upon meeting
an obstacle, such as stick or stone,
they will either writhe over or around
it, sometimes breaking into two bodies
for this purpose.
M. Guerln Meneville, celebrated
French naturalist, says that if the rear
portion of this wonderful snakelike
procession be brought into contact with
the front part and sort of circle formed
the insects will keep moving round in
that circle for hours without apparently
noticing that they are getting no "for-
raider" on their journey. If the process
sion be broken in two, the portions will
reunite in short time. The Norwegian
peasants, when they meet one of these
trains, will lay some article Of their
clothing, such as belt or handker-
chief, on the ground in front of it, If
the procession passes over it, it is re-
garded as a good sign, but if it makes
way round the reverse is believed. In
the Moravian districts a similar expert
ment is supposed to foretell good or
bad harvest. Popular Science.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29

The last charge put in Tuesday at the
Six Mile Hill exploration consisted OF five
holes and Captain Dunn estimated that
the rock brought down amounted to
about seven tons and OF this. the captain
declares, about ton is copper. 1t has
been declared that the lode at the Six
Mile Hill ia strange one not before To-
Gated and il the claim OF the captain De
anywhere near right, this is certainly 80.
Rock as rich as that would pay Tor team
ing as in the old days, when copper was
worth 20 cents, and the holders oil the
option need have no worry over the ex-
pense OF exploring. The strike at the Six
Mile must certainly be good one, for
everyone who has examined it reports
the same, a very rich prospect, with only
the doubt OF continuity between the own
ers and bonanza. The first reports
might have be taken with grain oil sait'
but the unanlmity OF them is quite con-
vincing. This latest estimate oil Captain
Dunn eclipses them all, however.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
POintA For POacherA.

The West Indian negro is a born
poacher. He catches the quail by the
cruel expedient of strewing finely pow
dered cayenne or bird pepper in the lit
tie dust pits where the birds wash. "
The burning powder gets into the eyes
of the birds, which, confused and help
less, are then easily caught.
When he wants wholesale supply of
fish, he explodes piece of dynamite,
which was probably intended for the
making of new government roads, over
a hole in a mountain stream, and the
fish are killed by the conclusion.
But his favorite resource is the bark
of the dogwood tree. This he drops in
to river hole, and the mullet, intoxi-
Gated, comes to the surface of the water
This singular property of the dogwood
has caused it to be employed as mar
cotic. 1t is particularly useful as To-
cal anesthetic, and it has been recent
ly proposed to apply it in dentistry. -
Pearson 8 Weekly
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
Getting Rid Of Mormons.

A band Of Mormon elders has been
In Taylor county, Fla. for over six
months working quietly in remote Sec
tons. A party of IS men, well armed
recently visited their camp, and, after
stripping the preachers, gave them a
dose of "birch bark" and one OF them
a partial coat of tar and feathers. They
then escorted them to the limits OF the
county and assured them that II they
were heard from again lead would be
given them instead of this milder pun
ishment. The elders re-establisbed their
camp across the county lines, and eight
women left their homes and went with
them, all intending to move to Utah
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29

Tom Harris, one OF Lake Linden's
crack riders, is training hard and his adj
mirers Say he has regained all OF his old
time speed and can give any OF the bicy-
Gle riders hard race. Duncan has also
purchased new racing wheel and is
doing some training. There is consider
able speculation as to which OF these two
riders will win in the five mile race on
the occasion of the Sons OF st. George
alteration and as to how the riders
from the iron country will compare with
the local men. Leary will not enter ex-
cept IN amateur races. Tom Harris in
tends going to lshpeming Saturday with
the Calumet riders and he will also take
part IN the races at that place a week
from Saturday, II there are to be any
professional events.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
Teaching Children.

Noah Webster of dictionary fame
would not have been in favor of the
kindergarten, so people who sometimes
revert to the beginning of the un-
abridged edition find by his memoirs
there. "He felt, the writer says, that
children should learn to acquire knowl-
edge by severe effort; that the prevail
ing effort to make every thing easy is I'M
philosophical and wrong; that the great
effort of early training is to form the
mind into a capacity of surmounting
intellectual difficulties of any and ev-
cry kind He wished at an early
period Of ready memory and limited
comprehension to store the mind with
many things which would afterward
be found of indispensable use, things
which are learned with the utmost re-
luctance, or rather in most cases are not
learned at all, in the more advanced
stages Of intellectual progress. He felt
there must necessarily be much of
drudgery in the formation Of thor
oughly educated mind. New York
Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
The Actor and the Man.

Great painters sculptors, musicians
and actors are carei al not to lose their
heads in the tumult of their emotions.
Edwin Booth, so far as is known, never
threw himself into his character but on
one occasion, and then he was playing
Bertuccio in 1.-THE Kings Fool" 1t is
related that he came off the stage at
the conclusion of the performance con-
WINGED that he had surpassed all of his
previous efforts, and that he was ex-
cited, thrilled. tingling with the emo
tions of the character into which he
had blindly cast himself, but his daugh-
ter, Edwina Booth, who had been sit
ting in a stage box, told him she had
never seen him act so badly. For that
one performance Booth deliberately had
chosen to be the man and not the art
st.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29

The Lake Superior General Hospital
in the city has been decided success
from the beginning and it's promoters
efforts to ill long felt want have been
more than appreciated. The hospital,
although large and spacious, has proven
inadequate on several occasions and
in order to remedy this an addition is
being built. Contractor Fault COM
menced work last week. The add ion
will be 24x30 and will increase the size
of the hospital considerably. giving six
more wards and another room for The
nurses training department. DR.. George
W. Orr, the proprietor has gone to the
10 " er part OF the State on short visit
with relatives. DR.. Fisher is attending
to his practice during his Absence.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
warw,okshire,s puckinr stools.

Warwickshire boasts the possession Of
a larger number of ducking stools than
any other English county, and two Of
the oldest have just been brought into
public notice. The Warwick town coun-
Gil have carefully repaired the curious
instrument of punishment which visit
ors to the crypt of the famous Beau.
champ church there are familiar with.
Kenilworth also possesses a well pre-
served ducking stool which is said to
have been in use as means Of bringing
scolds to reasonable frame of mind so
long ago as the period when Elizabeth
graced Earl Leicester's castle with her
presence and before the Amy Robsart
legend became in any way associated
with the building. Westminster Ga
zette.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
OUTRAGE ON A HERMIT.
Men Attempt to Rob the LiGhtkeeper on
Browns Island.

BrOWn's Island.
Meager details of a fiendish outrage
and robbery on Samuel Burnell, the
hermit, and for years the government
lightkeeper at Browns island, have
been received. Burnell lives alone in a
cabin on the West Virginia shore op-
posite the foot of the island, and it has
been reported for years that he had a
large amount of money secreted there.
The other morning at daylight, after
Burnell had returned from tending his
lamps, he found his cabin in possession
of three men who had ransacked every
thing and found nothing, and in their
rage they pounced on the venerable
lightkeeper and beat him almost uncon-
scious. They tied Burnell to tree and
threatened to burn him if he did t
disclose where his money was. Burnc II
offered them SO cents, which he said
was all he had, and showed them where
his handbook was, in evidence that his
money was not secreted there. The men
tied sheet over his head and body and
after pouring oil on the sheet threaten
ed to set fire TO it, but for some reason
they did not carry out their purpose,
leaving with a threat that they would
be back in an hour. Burnell managed
to work loose and get to farmhouse
some distance away in an exhausted
condition.-Cleveland Plain Dealer