The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11

ton that was being held between our
guide and the rest of us concerning the
rice paddys, but upon hearing the ex-
preston rice paddy he started sudden
ly and began looking about most earn
estly- His extreme anxiety to find some
thing soon attracted attention, and in
curry as to what he was looking for
elected the reply that, although from
ireland, and presumably knowing all
about his countrymen and their habits.
he never before knew there was an Irish
colony out here, and although he had
always heard of an Irishman's fondness
for potatoes, he never before heard of a
rice paddy.
The fishing is not particularly an at
traction, as the most of 1t is done at
night from boats in which fire Is kept
burning, the light attracting the mem
oers OF the f1nny tribe and Turing them
on 10 their DOOM Just outside the reef
flying fish are numerous 1t is a smaller
species than that of the Atlantic. and
more active and elegant in it's motions
AS they skim along the surface they turn
on their sides, so as to fully display
their beautiful fms. taking flight of
about 100 yards, rising and falling in a
most graceful manner At short dis
lance they exactly resemble swallows
ana no one who sees them can doubt
that they really do fly, and not merely
descend in an oblique direction from the
height they gain by their first spring
winch Is claimed to be the case by some
authorities
One of the relics of I'VE ancient mar.
liners" is curious measure of time.
called a water clock IT is an ingenious
contrvance, which can measure time
ooth in rough weather and in calm. It Is
simply fbucket half filled with water
In which floats the half of a wel-scraped
cocoanut shell. In the bottom of this
placed TO float in the bucketa fine thread
OF water squirts up into its This gradu-
ally fills the shell, and the size of the
mole is SO adjusted to the capacity OF
the vessel that exactly at the end of an
hour plump it goes to the bottom The
man on watch used to cry out the num-
Der OF hours from sunrise and then set
the shell afloat again empty It is
good measure of time, as when tested
with watch 1t hardly varied at all. It's
great advantage is that it is easily I'M
derstood by those having used It. 1t is
quite in evidence, being rather bulky.
and attention is called to its running
down by the bubbling noise it makes
as it sinks.
Now that the United States has the
Hawaiian islands, the Philippines, Guam
and the principal islands of the West
Indies, there are otheks in the Pacific
that she could have for the asking, with
q comparatively small pecuniary consid-
GRAFTON, and which she really ought to
have, as she probably can never again
have as favorable conditions as now
obtain.
Ponape, the largest island of the Caro-
line group. and which, in spite of Spanish
rule and the influences of the Roman
Catholic church, is still controlled by
stout-hearted missionaries from New
England, could easily be induced to be-
come one of the colonial possessions.
Some forty-five years ago these islands
of the Caroline group were unclaimed
by any civilized power, and were in full
possession of the aboriginal inhabitants
At that time number Oft missionaries
from the United States went there and ..
began what turned out to be most
successful and Christianiziag work with
the natives. This continued suntil shortly
after the time when Spain. took posses
sion. Then the Spanish governors, urged