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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-08-26
.tardiry Of the Clubs.

Following is the standing of the clubs
of the National Baseball League:
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PROrrEBIA1 pHnosopHr
As Rxemplined In tho Genial Customs or n
West virginia Hotel.


- burnt child breads tho fire; n soused
ch'lu urcndS water once burned, twice shy,
'hesc arc three proverbial ways OF saying that
" nhR'r Is enough TO lose IN learning thht n
Du"" saw may be moving, though II seems to DO
Standing still. There arc more ways than there
arc proverbs OF eNeinpltfying tho inherent truth
OF these provcrbs; amt each way Is intcrcstipg,
IL not Immediately, yctin the long run-nndt tho
run is not necessarily so long.
Down Mt Il, w. Va said the man who
knew about proverbs, there Isl hotel. This
Is not strange to you; but probably You haven't
occh IN II. have been there. BY way of
small country towns Of virginia and IFS co.
parccher states, it is astonishing how easy 1t is
to arrive and how hard IL is to depart. At
whatever hour you may have arrived, you arc
certain TO t"So the train after midnight ana
before 6 O'Clock. This arrangement effcctuolIy
epo''S inc n'Gnt Tor sleeping purposes or tor
amusement. But then, there Is no amusement.
"To resume, ] reached H at some season.
80 w ""t p", up az 'no ho'e'' oru nv !
hau 10 90 ana ns ! had been up most OF the pre-
ceding night, turned in about o o'clock. leav-
as The train left shortly before ..
an time l was called, SO l dressed quickly,
pau my CilI' sci]cu my has' ana hurried 10 tne
depot, about II block away. Half along the
that every ,.mn in ~ W. ont and The house
vsa ~ 'ai'p ~ ""' u "" - "''
was as dark as pitch:
seemed nlcascd IN - mo
=. ''"'' . u v ih''
How soon is the train duef / asked, by
way of opening a short conversation.
." ,Rout n horr ,,a . hale soid h. nleas.
.,.,r no"' -" ho"F anu d h"i' S"'a nc p'ea''
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FOUND AT A DEPTH OF $500 FEET

descent rosy on the head. with the red tints
most abundant on the forehead; blue under the
eyes, and fawn-colored on the cheeks. The
throat and under side of the head is pearly
white, with here and there n tint of lemon vel.
low. On the back there arc many spots Of
bright lemon or golden and the anal fin is pur-
plish. with iridescent tints of blue and rose.
The.margip OF this FIN Is OF a rich purpllsh blue,
pearl, and this coloration pcrvaues more OF less
the entire fin. which has large yellow spots.
The technical nomenclature by which the
decp.sea and, indeed, all other fishes are desig-
mated, is an interesting study. The names are
as a rule illustrate either their habits. habitat,
color or physical construction. For instance.
the new genus called by Goode and Bean Zero
sion to the absence Of the venIral fms, Eth
roptera is n name applied to a antern; bearing
fish with a large brilliant. luminous. gland on
the front OF its head. The name is derived
from two Greek words meaning with a fash
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shark of thirty-hvc feet. before described, the
size of which prevents its capture in the dredge.
Although the celebration of most of the deep
sea fishes is very plain, being either dark or sill
very, there are several species the brilliancy
and iridesccncc of whose color tints surpass not
only those of all other animals, but their mellow
irrndiating TRANSMISSION and independent touches
and tints arc beyond reproduction by human
art. There are two fishes that stand pre-emi-
nent in this respect. One, the beryl fish, the
name indicating its beauty, is found from 800
to 5000 feet below the surface and is thus de.
scribed by the naturalist Lowe:
AT the moment of capture. while the fish is
still alive. the whole body beneath the lateral
line is a pure, translucent silvery white; the
fins alone, and merely tho ridge Of the back
and head, the inside of the mouth. the lower
jaw and parts beneath the eye. being Of tho
brightest scarlet, contrasting strongly with the
pure silver of the whole sides and belly, which
sometimes rich, golden scarlet. The hind parts
Of the dorsal and ventral fus are Transparent;
the iris is pale scarlet. There is a watery
transparency about the scarlet Of the. back in
this state perfectly inimitable by art"
This description applies to. Bcr.yc Sptendens.
which has been taken at O depth of 424 faith
oms from the Pacific Ocean.
The tile fish. found in the Atlantic off the
New England coast, at a depth of about $50
feet, is the most beautifully cOlored fish that
inhabits the salt or fresh waters of the world,
not excepting the brilliant parrot and angel
fishes of the West Indian coral groves. 1t Is
blueish on the back, with a green iridescent
tinge changing through purplish blue and blu
ish gray to rosy white below, and milky white
toward the median line Of the belly. 1t is iri.
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amentary organs OF touch, "fceiors,'' to aid
them In seeking their food. In one species OF tho
FISHING frogs' OF sca-devils the ends Of. their
"fcelors' arc furnished with small phosphor-
cscent glands, which illuminate their feeding
grounds at n depth Of 10000 feet. In another
OF the deep-sca fishes taken from a depth Of
2'loo fathoms. II is stated by Goodc and Bean
that The eye seems to have lost its natural fune.
tlor and assumed that of producing light. An
other abnormal eye formation occurs in ono OF
the founders taken from a depth of 52s feet.
1t Is cross-cycd, one eye being situated below
and In advance of the other. Adult fouu-
ders have both eyes on one side Of the head.
The deep.soa fishes are found. as before
stated, at depths ranging from 500 TO 10000
feet, although a dredgc in which fish were in.
closed has reached a depth of l7,4OO feet, but
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FOUND IN 5000 FEET OF WATER.

ing light ahead" Another. Bathyluco. is also
from two Greek words, siRnifying, "a warrior
Of tho ocean depths" in allusion to its com,
fcct) at which it is found. Citomimus, also
from tho Greek, meaning "vcry like a whale" is
applied to a, small fish, scarcely Ave inches in
length, found in about 5000, feet of water, Its
head is a fair counterpart of that of the Whale.
L~dmpadcna, from the Greek; signifying having
a l%elnpiike organ on its tail is descriptive of
II deep-sea fish found $500 feet below the sur
face. 1t has a large, luminous gland. club
shaped, situated on the upper fleshy part OF the
tail pcdunclc) Immediately in front of the tail
fin, and another similar gland on the lower Dor
ton of the tail. Mdnducus,, applied to IA fc.
rociOus fish, Is from the so'called Manducus, n
grotcsque figure used in the Roman theatres
In classical days. representing. u person chew
ing. an aliu sion, doubtless, to the great and I'M
usual number of teeth possessed by this fish.
Cerrinun,, spotted like n fawn:" C.rIent Ter,
"sanguinary, ''cruel," descriptive of the habit
OF this fish of boring. into the flesh Of living
fishes. DIcctn, admired 'bcloyed," In rei-
crcuco to thc-grcat beauty Of the tSh;.Gcmni-
fer, Studded with ~gen'like studs" GrdcIe,
slender and graceful in form; Breribdrbes,
short bearded in allusion TO the short bar
bells or ''feclers" on It's under jaw; Pdriiius.
Spindle shaped" Rdnuld. like a tadpOlc;'
Siinnld, pug nosod - Unicornis, with one
horn on Its. forehead and 7orrus. gloomy
and savage in aspect
This brief list Of technical names, with their
expressive derivatives, could be multiplied nj
most indefinitely. as every fish known TO ex'
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CAUGHT At A prrru OF 1e.5oo FEET.

ist has one or more scientific names Of its own
n family, n generic, and a specific, name com
pairing, as it were, with our Christian and pat;
These family names OF fishes, like our: own.
have been handed down for ages, In some in
ily name, however. Is not used so frequently
a. the generic and specific: Az an Example;
family~SaImonidG. but 1t is referred to al
most exclusively as Salrciinus Jontindts. Dur
ing the last decade or two, American ichthyol-
slight anatomical differences between them. by
sub.specidc names; hence We find IN the salmon
GonfiiaIfs AgaSsisii, which distinguishes tho
Dublin pond trout OF New Hampshire from his
more modestly christoned brother OF the brooks
S. GOniinuIis. For tho Greek and Latin
scholar, or to the layman ignorant OF the dead
LANGUAGES, there is a peculiar charm in tie
study OF ichthyic terminology.
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A View style OF Tonsorial Torture Turned Out
by n Bnrber's school.

" - S>."o'
A barber shop in the ugliest big office building
south of Canal street has been graduating ton
serial artists - for the past two years who are
equipped to make life miserable for such unfor-
Inmates as happen to fall into their clutches.
The proprietor of the shop is an Italian who has
formulated n code of tonsorial ethics from yell
low journalism. 1t is his pride to do the proper
thing, and whenever he is in doubt as to what Is
the proper thing under given circumstances he
writes a letter to his particular yellow
journal explaining the case and asking for
advice. The papers expert on dermatology has
answered several Of his letters in the best in
polite society = don't put your knifo-in-your
mouth style. There is little loft for him to
learn. and he spends much of his time teaching
his BARRIERS. II doesn't matter which one OF his
"tonsorial artists falls to the victims lot. the
shave. sirr
Yes
Thank you. sir. Close shaver
Thank you. sir. Does the razor suit your
Thank you, sir. Your skin is a little rough"
Thank you, sir. wouldn't you like to TRY a
lit!ls Of our skin tonicr
Thank you, sir. It's only so cents a bottle"
No wcarily..
THANK, you, sir. i notice that you have q
few gray hairs"
luRIk you, SIT. "Ouiun Z you llke 10 Try D
No"
Thank you, sir. It's only 20 cents extra"
"THank you, sir. Am 1 shaving you as you
wi:bI"..
THANK you, sir. Your skin is SO tender that
it Is hard to shave you. Hot towelf y
mo-"
Thank you, sir"
Then comes n pause and the barber begins
again:
....psnaGruff in your hair, SIR"
Thank you, sir. We have a very good rem.
NO" emphatically.
THANK you; sir-fcr dandruff. and It's only
so cents n bottle"
THANK you, sir. Hair parted at side r.
NO"
Thank you. sir and so 1t goes until the tor.
tured victim slides out OF the chair and PUSHES
for the door without tipping his ,ormentor, but
not. before the latter has time to get in q final
and rcproachful thank YOU"
Several OF the downtown shops now have
graduates from this barber shop, and every one
OF them may be distinguished by the thank.yOu
habit. A man who had been badly shaved by
one of them and irritated by his constant chat
ter sat up in the chair and said:
You cOnfoundod impairment idiot. stop your
chattcring and don't say thank You to me
again, for In not going TO tip you
Thank you, SIR replied the barber. mo.
sir"
Unless the yellow journals authority on ton,
serial ethics comes to the rescue with n para,
graph ot advice, some of these thank-you bar
beers are likely 10 furnish Coroners' cases.
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VIEW YoRK,s NEW DISTINCTION.
To he the Greatest Lutheran city In the World
After Jan. Z.

In the present city OF New York the three re-
ligious denominations most largely represented
in the population are the Roman Catholic. the
Presbyterian, and the Methodist. There are
eighty-nine Catholic church" in New York city.
tfty.cight Presbyterian churches. and sixty
eight Methodist churches, The number of
churches Of n cligiOus denomination is not,
however, OF Itself II guide TO the church member.
ship. for there are c!ghty-fve Episcopal churches
in New York, though the number of ipisCo-
paIinns is materially lc's than the number Of
Prcshy' crians. The explanation of such dis
PARTIES il found IN The met that. as n general
rule. PRESBYTERIAN Cln"chcs arc larger and more
generally attended han Episcopal churches.
and tho Romlu Catholic churches are HliCd not
once or twice on sunday. hut as often as half a
dozen times in many cls"s.
There are thir' lone Lutheran churches in tho
city OF New York. but in brooklyn. with u
population hnlf Ms "rrrl, there are thirty-stx
Lutheran churches. The GCrmnn Lulhcran pOuu-
lalion in Erooklyn Is larger than it is in New
York. and moreover, Brooklyn has u very large
ScandinaTinn pOnulatlon, almost cNcll6ivcly
made IN Of Lnthcrans, After Jan. l., it IL
clrimcd, New York will he the greatest LltN-
eran city in the world. with siNty'cighl churches,
- 900 sunday S"hOO! members, ana church
property TO tho value OF ~ ,OOO.oOO exclusive Of
Staten Island. which IN, four Lutheran
churches and 40 SUNDAY school members, and
OF the Ave Lutheran churches in the portion OF
Queens county which Joins New York.
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are called stargazers. - They have been taken
from n depth of 612 feet. The phoTphorescent
glands are usually OF an iridescent pale gold
color when seen on freshly caught fish.
1t is satisfactory to the layman to know that
these phosphorescent plates and glands are given
the fish solely to aid them in searching for food
or escaping their enemies. but the scientist is
not content with 80 simple an explanation of
their presence and use, and is Investigating
their construction and functions. Some ichthy-
ologists believe that both the plates and glands
are accessory eyes; others think that only tho
plates, being lenslike in structure, are addi-
tiOnal eyes. and the organs. which are of n
glandular nature, merely emit phosphorescent
light. Tho last conclusion Is now held by the
majority Of scientists, despite tho fact that
many fishes possessing these lenslike organs
and living at great depths are furnished with
large ordinary eyes quite sufficient in their
power to sec by the aid only of phosphorescent
light furnished by the glandular spots on diff
ferent parts of their bodies. In this coInec-
tion DIR. Gunther concludes:
while we must admit those compound Or
gans uens-likel may prove to be organs of
sense. VIC maintain at the same time that their
morphological nature is not opposed to the be-
lief that they also, like the glandular organs,
are producers of light"
Supplementary to the phosphoresccnt and
lens-like organs which deep-sea fish possess.
their plane of sight is much increased. Asgreat
many of them have their mucous systems
enormously developed. and this occurs even in
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SEA DEVIL OR FISHING FROG.

yoracious and destructive fishes Of the deep
sea. 1t will be seen by the illustration that its
body and the cape is enormous, but fortunately
for its fellow.fins, IL seldom grows beyond nine
ton have been taken OFF the Pacific coast at a
depth OF 1902 feet, One species of the goldfish
family has been AIKEN In the Antarctic Ocean
fomnders or fiat fishes from II $50 feet. The
common founder, 80 numerous in the estuaries
of the east Atlantic. has not been found in
water deeper than 600 feet, although there Is n
small founder or sole that has been taken
MANY curious shapes, verging upon the gro
tesuue and fantastic, appear among tho deep
sea fishes, one of the most singular being the
Tibbonfsh RcgaIccus), which grows to II length
Of twenty.four feet. is scarcely twelve inches
broad and only one to two inches thick, IT has
the character of its pony and muscular tissues,
as observed in specimens found floating, or on
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Fir sapliuE Cutters swnrmlng Through Maine
An Unprecedented Demand.

Elf bnplIuR cutters bWnrming InFOuEn Maine
An Unprecedented Demand.
ORLAND. Me-. Nov. 26.-The Christmas tree
hunters. who began about twenty years ago to
cut the most promising sapling frs from the
Maine hills for the New York and Boston holt.
day markets, are all over Maine this year loads
ing vessels on the seaboard and whole trains OF
cars inland with the greenery that will decorate
many houses. For four or five years it has
been stimated that from a half to throe-fourtha
of Il million of these trees were cut in Maine
every season. This year the dealers have con-
tracts for more than "a million. and nearly every
one will make his orders ovcrrun. 30 it is likely
that Maine will send out more than a million
and n quarter Of frs between now aud Dee. 10.
In addition to frs. which are used almost exc
clusiVcly for Christmas trees. the contractors
have large orders for the ground pine, or lyco-
podium, a species of creeping evergreen which
grows everywhere in dry, shady woods. Many
barrels Of wild raiSins, u shrlbbcry plant that
bears u prOfusion of coral red berries which
hang to tho gray limbs all winter, arc also
SHIPPED to the cities for making wreaths and
AIDING bright bits of color to the prevailing
crreuery. The ground pine is crowded into
sacks or pressed in bales like hay, but tho bcrs
rios must he more tondCrly cared for. as they are
Liable 10 drop of under hard usage.
Little labor md less chr" arc required In pro-
PAIRING the trees for market. One man cuts tho
trees IN the thiCkcts aud trims them slightly, TO
tree the uRse from limbs; another man ties
tho trees in bundles of ten TO fifteen, according TO
size. and carries them out to the nearest cart
road, and there II man with II pair oi horses at
tachcd to u hay rnck takes them ana delivers
his load nj the nearest wharf or railway station.
As rule the contraction gets from = 10 cents
u piece for The trees when brought ont, the pur-
chnscr paying tn" frcI;hi. which amounts 10
moro than Ihc oosI of ;hc trees, TAr'c mrs pass
through several hands before they reach the re-
tnilcrs, and When thcy arc finally sold II is z
~ or irtiuit viii not bring 20 cents, the price OF
| the smallest trees. \ dollar or more IL often
obtained Tor n tree thu, Is ten feet tai,
Tntil last year nobody thought of charging
siuupagc ON his growth of ,r-, most landowners
being glad to get ri1 Of ihru; but now there Is
such a brisk demand for surh goods that a rev
men are putting u price upon the product ~
their waste lanus, tho siluplgc on some hr
grow,hs realizing from $40 to 80 an acre.
Down in Lincoln comfy, where The, wood has
been mostly cut of. ia" farmers Ar" beginning
to prize their ilr- so highly thai they ar" asking
for an export duty on Tho trees. As soon US mo
uIrrivcr landowners heard OF II they invited the
cutters to go inland, where Hrs, ar" sitll growing
ON NOR" tEnn 80 million acres. The growers wanb
10 got tho,c Cut oil as SOON us possible. 80 AS 70
make room Tor more valuable tinlrer.
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HEADLIGHT 8

brilliant headlight, which covers the anterior
part Of the head, overlapping the front margin
of the eye and extending Town to the upper
jaw and along its side nearly to the eye. An
other OF the same genus has a lantern on its
tail. and in some forms there exist two veri-
table sidelights located on tho gill covers. thus
presenting in the depths tho appearance of a
steamship at night under the requirements of
the law. These fishes have been taken from
depths varying from $500 to nearly 5000
feet, and both species have been found off the
coasts of the United States; one with the dredge
from the Pacific Ocean, the other from the
stomach of a Goldfish, captured on the Banks of
Newfoundland.
Other species have their bellies densely
covered with these phosphorescent organs or
spots, by which the water below them is H.
Illuminated. In another species there is a long.
glandular phosphorescent spot just below the
eye, which organ can be protruded at will.
Others have their eyes on top of the head and
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fishing frog. frog fish, angler. or sea.devil. as
fishermen In the estuaries Of the Atlantic coast,
has been taken in the ocean at n depth Of
2.l9O feet; mn allied form CNeIdnOcrtus,, only
four inches long, contained a fish which was
seven and a half inches long and one inch
deep. 1t was rolled up spirnlly into u ball and
lay In the capacious stomach of its captor, which
was found in water 1000 feet deep.
Another allied genus thancdiids> which DR..
Gunthcr calls a sea devil" u degraded form
of the fishing frog, was found by the Albatross
in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of lO,ll6 feet.
Some forms of the eel family have been taken
from a depth of Il, 500 feet. They range from
four inches TO eleven feet in length, and one Of
them, doubtless, can be classed among the most
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specimens obtained at this depth belong to q
species which is.nbundant in the upper strata,
hence were probably captured MS tho dredge
was being raised. The difference in anatomi-
cal structure Is, however, sufficient to distin-
guish the ~deep-sea from surface fishes. In the
former, when taken from the water. the bony
and muscular systems are found to DO fecbly
developed. The bones are light and fibrous,
with very little calcnreous matter in them, and
are loosely connected. Tho muscles. as CO M.
pared with those Of surface fishes, are very thin
and easily separated from each other. The
withdrawal Of tho fish from tho enormous pres
sure of many fathoms produces these anatomi-
cal conditions.
Many fishes. such as the groupers, founders,
red snappers. jew fish. sea perch. barracu-
das, cells, pompanos, rock cod. and other forms
that are captured by the angler in compare
lively shallow water, are also found in the
ocean, and are classed by ichthyologists as
deep sea fishes, or those that dwell in salt
water OF soc feet or u greater depth.
Four species very similar in form to the salm-
on and classed by Gunther as salmonoids,
have been taken from depths ranging from T..
1876 to i2,2i0 feet. All of them have the adipose
family. Sharks have been taken from n depth
of 1895 feet on the Pacific coast. Few Of
them, however. are found deeper than 900 to
1.2Oo feet. One about twenty-fOur feet in length,
seen at Pemaquid, Me-, in 1880. and mis-
taken for a sea serpent because Of its slender,
long body and snake-liko appearance. is doubt
less a dcep.sea rover, as only n few of them
have been seen. Another form, the largest of
the sharks and growing to a length of thirty
five feet. is also believed to visit very deep wa
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ter and breed there, as the young have never
been caught or seen.
used In fishing great depths is not adapted for
the capture OF large fish or those that move
very swiftly. Goode and Bean in their. "Oce.
anic Ichthyology" in reference to this matter
aptly say:
1T seems probable that there are many in
habitants Of the depths which are too swift,
too wary. and cunning, or too large thus to be
taken. 1t cannot be doubted, for example,
that somewhere in the sea, at an unknown dis
lance below the surface, there are living GER
tain flsh-like animals, unknown to science and
of great size, which come occasionally to the
surface and give n foundation to such stories
as those of the sea serpent"
One form, allied to the cattishes, is found in
water l4,35s feet deep, and: in strange contrast
the streams of the Andes at an elevation of
1900 feet. Some of the ray fishes have been
1900 feet; barracuda from B,34S feet; pompa-
nos from $50 feet; red snappers from 1,5OO feet:
rock cod and groupers from 1890 feet. The
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DEEP-sEA RIBBON FISH.

the shore, It certainly. when alive, resorts to
ably Ssai depths. From its great length aud
shape several writers have supposed it to be,
hut its physical construction renders H. impos.
sible for it to live on or near the surface. One
snecimen seventeen feet long was washed
ashors Mt Bermuda In 1860, and those present
Described II as having a head like that OF an
Immense horse with II flaming red name. 1t
are brought TO the surface only by great COM
motions OF the ocean.
Another of the sen serpent forms Derich-
fbusl is believed to grow 10 an enormous size
and live at great depth. although only one has
been taken by the dredge ana II was only eight
inches in length. Its neck Is much contracted