Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-08
ENGLISH OYSTER IN DANGER
American Limpet Said to Be De.
pleting the Supply.
TO EXPLORE A CANN1BAL ISLAND
dnthrODOIOgicRl Investigators start
ON an Expedition 60 Get Close
to Man Eaters in the
Southern seas,


LONDON, Oct. 7.-Anothcr American
invasion is now stirring England. The
Kent and Essex Sea Fisheries commits
sion reports that the American limpet
is threatening the oyster industry.
An expert OF the Board OF Agrlcul-
ture states that on tho southeast coast
n lmpet OF a species hitherto unknown
TO British waters has appeared, and
he declares that the invader must have
boon imported from America, where II
flourishes in and near oyster beds.
As American oyster growers have no
dread of the limpet the expert was
asked why 1t was feared here. lie eX-
planned that for tho short time 1t has
been here the limpet has spread with
extraordinary rapidity, and there has
been a slight decrease in oysters. 1t
has therefore been suggested that in
its new environment the llmpet uses
the same food as the oyster and so
starves that bivaivo. The possibility
OF tho limpet smothering young oys-
ters by its clinglng habits is also sug-
gosted.
1t is believed that the llmpet was
brought hero as spawn by the oyster
proprietors, who imported new variues
of American oysters, and concern is now
felt that the least valuable will survive
the struggle for existence, The agitation
against the limpet may result in re-
strictions on the importation of Ameri-
can oysters for planting.
To Explore CannibaI Island,
An expedition has set out from Ok
ford University with its objective can
nibal isle in the South seass, where 1t
expects to spend a year in studying the
habits Of the natives.
The party of scientists Is headed by
David Jenness, the anthropological eX-
pert of Ballot college. The explorers
will locate on Goodenough island,
which is situated in the extreme SOUTH
casterly corner OF British New Guinea.
Little is known OF the interior Of this
island, but 1t has been asserted that
cannlbalism is practiced there on an ex-
tensive SCALE
Occasionally a government official
pays visit to the isle, but, being I'M
willing to provide the natives with
banquet, wisely confirms his investiga-
tons to the coast line. For this rea-
son the interior remains uneXplored.
one or two attempts have been made
to map the interior, but the explorers
have never returned.
Goodenough island, which Is of vol
canic formation, is believed to be the
highest island of its size in the world.
1t is forty miles long and thirty miles
across, and its highest mountain ex-
tends 5000 feet above sea level.
Exhibit of Costumes.
Among the exhibits for the new Lon
don museum classified last month were
the historical costume collection which
almost fell into the hands of the Metro
politan Museum of New York. This
magnificent exhibit has for it's nucleus
the splendid Seymour Lucas collection
for which the authorities of the Amer
lean institution had been negotiating
The series comprises three or four
hundred costumes dating from the four
tenth century to the present day.
Among the costumes are the corona
ton robes of five soverelgns: Queen
Victoria, Queen Alexander, Queen Mary,
King Edward VII, and George V. The
Elizabethan and Jacobean periods are
marked by some exquisite costumes and
tho commonwealth is recalled by num-
Der of beautiful slver-embroidered
leather coats.
The classifying is being done by
Guy Laking, the Kings Armourer OF
Kensngton palace in the room in which
Queen Anne died. 1t is said that the
Queen died of smallpox, and the classi-
fiers are hoping that all the germs have
died of old age. The center piece OF
the new museum, which was the idea
of King George and for which he has
granted the use of Kensington palace,
is part of Roman galley, the only re-
mains OF these ancient ships known to
exist The remains were found under
several feet of Thames mud, when exca-
vations were made for the new County
Council hall. The timbers are of oak
which had swollen immensely from cen
turtles of immersion in the mud, but
which shrunk when exposed to the air.
1t is expected that the King will open
the museum in october.
Kick on American Missions.
The Nationalist press in Cairo is again
raising a cry against the American Mis-
sion in Egypt, and is calling upon the
government to repTess by force the
Outstanding of Moslem lads on the
ground that Egypt is a Mohammedan
country.
III Alan, the official organ Of the
nationalist party, accuses the mission
aries OF Outstanding Moslem lads
and then concealing them from their
parents. The journal describes the
American mission as "ejecting venom
wherever it goes and committing hor-
rible crimes, separating sons from
father, brother from brother, and kid
mapping little children"
The Egyptian Gazette points out that
81 tho missionaries had really been guilty
OF kidnapping children, they could be
brought to book very easily through the
courts, but no serious attempt has been
made to prove the charge.
1t will be recollected that last year the
mission suppressed its review "El Muir
shid" on account Of the feeling that had
unwittiugly been provoked among Mos
lem circles by the publication Of certain
articles on Islam culled from the book
called "Cross and Crescent"
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