Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27
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house table he does not blame his wife.
but the landlady. She cares nothing
for the growing of the animals at
feeding time. provided they don't die
In the house and will he buried from
the undertaker's melancholy parlors.
This new plan for peace forcsladows
also the permanent disarmng of the
domestic forces. since young ladies'
about to assume the task of marrying
one of the brutes will he impellcd to
acquire knowledge of the mysteries
of cooking In order TO live happy ever
after. When this art Is generally at.
tanned the boarding house landladics
will he overtakcn by lack of trade and
will be punished for their many trans.
grcssions. So n beautiful vista opens
In front of the American home and
the dove Is likely TO build her nest in
the stomach of that brute. the Ameri.
can husband.
Rio dc Janeiro, the capital and chief
city of Brazil. already possesses one of
the finest harbors In the world. but the
government Is not satisfied with It rs
II exists. The port Is more than twice
us large as the New York lower bay
and IL 6S square miles larger than the
lower and upper bays together. and
over onc-third of IL Is deep enough for
the largest vessels. But still many
millions of dollars must be spent on it
TO make 1t n iirst-class port.
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the shores of the bay IL shallow and
the bottom IL sitting up more aud
more. so that some of the old moorage
places have had to be abandoned. Few
vessels are of sufficiently light drtught
to tie up ut Il dock In Rio.
All the merchant marine dropanchor
on the north side of the city and light.
crs carry freight between them ana
the shores. This antiquatcd and OK.
pcnsivc method Is to be changed. for
the government intends to have u first
class commercial port, with every IA
cility for handling traffic. ana the port
Is to he made In this manner:
| Along the entire northern front of
the city n wide sea wall or quay two
miles In length Is to be built. This
quay. constructed of solid masonry.
will be so wide that railroad trains
and wagons can move along IL, dis
charging or taking on freight.
Along the outside of the quay n
channel will be dredgcd to Il depth of
20 to 80 feet, so that the largest ship.
ping can be accommodated. Tho chan.
mel will be $50 feet wide, so that the
largest vessels may safely pass one
another.
Vessels will tie up along the front
of this sea wall and cars and wagons
will carry the freight away or bring
freight to them. The inner side of the
wall will. In most places, be some dis.
lance from the shore, as the quay will
not follow the indentations of the
shore line. Masonry rail and rOadways
will connect with the shore ut Il mum.
Der of points.
When these improvements are com.
pIeted Latin America will have three
ports that In the commercial facili-
ties they offer will rank with the
greatest ports Of the world. The har.
Dor OF BuenOs Ayres and the road.
} stead of Vera Cruz have already been
converted ut enormous expense into
first.class harbOrs.
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Few fishes IRE nest-builders. The
majority Of them make their homes
wherever chance and the waves land
them. There IL one member Of the
tlnny tribe, however that eXempliiies
the protective provisions OF nature
the marbled angler of the SurgassO
Sea. Owing to its peculiar structure
1t Is n poor swimmer and 1t. therefore.
spends most of Its life moving slowly
about on the bottom among cOrals, sea-
weeds, etc, which these fishes closely
resemble In color and in outline. They
cling, too, to the floating masses of
sargassum weed with their peculiar
fins, and the color and the marking of
the fish closely resemble the weed it.
self Not only does the weed thus fur
nish home for this species, but the
fish actually constructs Il nest from it
ana therein deposits its eggs.
One of these nests. found in con.
| h'NNiou WIN NNpNuitlon III
1871, was described as consisting of n
round mass of sargassum. about the
size of two fists rolled up together. TO
all appearances it was made of moth
ing but this gulf weed, the branches
and leaves of which were., however.
evidently knit together andinot mere
ly tangled into a rOundish mass; for,
though some of the leaves and branch
es hung loose from the nest. 1t became
ut once visible that the bulk of the
ball was held together by threads
trending in every direction among the
! seaweed. BY close observation it be-
came apparent that this mass of sea-
weed was a nest, the central part of
which was bound up in the form of Il
ball. with several loose branches en-
tending In various directions. On still
closer examination the nest above de.
scribed was found to be full of eggs,
which Were scattered throughout the
mass.
Nature has thus afforded safe asy.
lum for these somewhat helpless