Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-01-14
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The British government conducts a
turtle farm at Ascension Island. Janu-
ary in each year sees the commence
ment of the turtle season, which does
not as a rule last more than three
months. All turtles caught at Ascen-
sion Island are the property Of the
crown and are only sent to England and
other places for disposal as directed
by the admiralty, in whose hands the
government of the whole island prac-
tically rests. The particular species
which favors Ascension with it's visits
is the green turtle, from whose green
fat and portion of the fins that particu-
lar brand of soup is made which is pro-
verbally associated with the banQuets
of London's civic dignitaries.
Many people still smile when they
hear travellers talk of oysters that grow
on trees, just as, long ago, sailors were
laughed at when they came home with
stories of flying fish. Both are real
enough, however, and the tree oyster
is of delicious taste, if voyagers through
the tropics are to be believed. At a
conference recently held in Barbados
J. e. Duerden, of Jamaica, an economic
scientist of some note, brought forward
an interesting proposal for increasing
and improving the cultivation of tree
oysters, and as there is rich field in
nearly all the West India Islands and
along the coast of Central America
something may come of the scheme.
These oysters cling to the branches Of
the mangrove.
When the English rocks are building
their nests frequently a rookery is dis
turbed by big quarrels over the plac-
ing of those huge bundles of sticks in
the treetops. The trouble occurs most
ly with young birds wishing to place
their nests too near to an old nest. A
council of rocks is called, with the re-
suit that the disputants' nests are soon
scattered to the winds, and the claim
ant and the defendant both have to be-
gin a new foundation. Sometimes there
is disturbance on more limited scale
when a pair of birds do their very best
to pull the sticks from the nest of an
other pair, each of the contending par
ties doing all they can to prevent the
OlucI 1lOI UuIAulIIS. 1aooho al Z CuII-
ously weather wise and they scent a
coming storm and set to work to re-
pair apd strengthen their nests before
that imminant gale has been evident to
the farmer The rocks powers of sight
and hearing are remarkable.
When Baby Writes to Daddy.
When baby writes letter to her daddy
far away,
The occasions most important, for she
has so much to say.
She sits up to the table, as grown-up
folks all do,
And then pile of paper all around her
We must strew.
With grandma's golden spectacles safe
perched upon her nose,
She dips her pen into the ink, then
straight to work she goes,
And the onslaught fierce that follows
would fill you with dismay-
When baby writes a letter to her daddy
far away.
BABY sends her love to daddy, and hopes
that he is well,''
Is the sentence baby first indites-her
methods | must tell
+ or the sweet and simple message tnat
expresses baby's love
Is a dot and dash and big ink splash
below and just above, i.
She perforates the paper with many tiny
pricks,
And plays tattoo on her chair with sun
dry little kicks,
And all the floor is scattered DER with
fragments of the fray,
To tell US baby's writing to her daddy
far away.
The letter is a long one for scores of
sheets are used,
And every one bears witness to the way
it's been abused.
A page for every word she takes, she
quite ignores the lines
While each one as it's written to oblivion
she consigns;
Then proudly for an envelope Miss Baby
now will call,
And she fills it full of paper, with no
writing on at all.
The address is so illegible, much regret
to say,
It's doubtful if twill ever reach dear
daddy far away.
-Woman's Home Companion.