The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-01

tration of cod liver oil, and the NUMBER
of failures is legion. Weak stomachs
cannot retain it. even If obstinate
palates be overcome, but we have seen
men. women and marvellous children
able to drink it in the crude state and
thrive upon it. Once anchored in the
| stomach Il becomes a rejuvenator un-
| equaled i'm the whole pharmacopoeia
| Nearly anything can be taken in cap
sules, and this vile fish product is
easily taken in that way, but the diff
! Guilty occurs below the pharynX. or
! the moment the gelatine is di solved in
the cardia. If an anchor were taken
with every dose of cod liver oil the
world of weaklings would recover
| emazingly.
| 7 could name eighty different pre-
! parations of cod liver oil in the pro-
! prietary department of our drug bust
ness. Possibly there are hundreds more.
| Many have passed into innocuous de-
suetude. We have had it with malt,
| grape brandy, Irish moss, phosphates
and phosphites, pepsin, quinine, iodine,
/ bromine. creosote. albumen lime, choc
| olate. milk, cream, guaiacol, and I
| don't remember what else. General re-
| SUI Is are about the same. OF the goose s
liver the French make their pate de
fCigras; why not give us a pate de
foie- morue with the oil as a dressing?
1t would be no more Objectionable than
certain cheeses.
The Norwegian fishermen, discoveries
of cod liver oil, allowed the livers to
decompose before expressing the oil.
We have partly improved on their
primitive method of manufacture, but
our fresh pale oil is not SO efficacious
as their stale, darkbrown, empyreuma-
tic product. Neither are perfectly fresh
eggs as good as those a week or two
old. So say the experts, and l begin
to believe they are right. Millions have
dosed themselves with cod liver Oil,
and millions and billions of fish have
been sacrificed to supply the demand.
Off the coast of Norway alone 10000
men in 5000 boats are engaged in the
pursuit of livers, and their annual
catch is said to be over 80, 900 900 fish.
The mother Goldfish is prolific, the
roe of a large one containing as many
as 100000 eggs. Nature seems to
have provided for much larger supply
of oil than we are obtaining. But the
eggs, floating on the surface of the
water to hatch, are destroyed by mil
lions. Goldfish eat anything that comes
aiong-from Lacks to sharks teeth. In
the stomach of a large specimen two
ducks were found. The fish weigh as
much as $50 pounds and the biggest
are Az feet in length. One man has
caught 500 in a day of II hours on the
Newfoundland banks with hand line.
Eighty men take on an average 900
day on the Dogger Bank. Newfound-
land is the headquarters for dried cod.
Consul Carter, at ST. Johns, says the
quantity held there before the present
season opened was 35,S40, 900 pounds.
The stock on hand year before was
42,56o0 900 pounds.
Goldfish are provided with Sounds"
Feeding as they do in from 100 to $50
fathoms of water. they require some
ballooning to come to the surface
When Eugene Higgins and Howard
Gould, in the palatial yachts Varuna
and Niagara, spend season cruising
off the Norway coast they subsist
largely on sounds which are esteem
ed a delicacy. These swimming blad-
ders are used also in the manufacture
of isinglass and glue. Visitors along the
scandinavian shores who eat feely of
this peculiarly Norwegian diet return
to New York with a lovely olive-oily
| complexion that has the appearance of
being enameled. This is due to the cod
! oil and the bladder glue-g glaze
One of the delicacies of which Ii
Hung Chang was very fond was hum
ming birds tongues cooked with the
nests of the Chinese oriole One of
looking for novelties was "langues de
morue," a preparation of Goldfish ton
cues that helped to make the Maison
Doree the most celebrated of Partisan
| restaurants. In our own country epi-
cures refuse to eat the body and tail
OF the fresh cod, find the head a most
tempting morsel. 1t may he prepared
in variety of ways. have quoted the
remark of the late Captain BILLY"
Common, as good a liver as ever lived.
that If Goldfish were less plentiful and
cost about 81 pound it would be re-
/ garded by our wealthy folk as a deli
/ cacy God must have created the cod
! to play a great part in the economy
| of nature, because He made so many
/ Of them.
And now the Goldfish has made its
! annual pilgrimage to New York waters.
| and our Jamaica Bay friends have
| taken new lease of life. BoatIoads go
! out from Canarsie, Rockaway and the
! Trestle to enjoy the sport of catching
Monsieur Morue and making him feel
: at home. He bites at nearly anything.
and comes in with the lazy Juggling
OF one of Commissioner Nagles scows.
me only poorer sport than catching
the Goldfish is catching his first cousin.
Monsieur Ling, And a good deal of
M Ling's liver manages to find its
way into NJ. Morue's liver oil. The cod
nsh is made for commerce, not for
sport. Deliver me from creatures with
enormous barbels or barbules-whisk
ers on the Chini