LIFE IN GULF WEED.
All
Sort of Cartons Aiiimiiln Journey
with tbs Oalf Stream's Current.
It is surprising what curious creatures
live in gulf weed. Not the least extraor
dinary of these inhabitants of the float
ing algce which are borne on the current
of the gulf stream is a little fish that
toakes its nest in the weeds. For its
own protection from enemies, it is made
$o like the weeds themselves, being or
ange colored with white spots, that one
-cannot detect the scaly animal without
table stuff in which it seeks shelter and
scrutinizing it. The fish builds its nest
by binding together bunches of the gulf
weed with long, sticky gelatinous strings.
Its eggs are laid in a cavity. Its very fin?
are finger shaped, counterfeiting the form
of the weed fronds. They are more like
hands than fins, and are actually em
ployed for walking through the seaweed,
rather than for swimming. The fish
utilizes them also in patting together its
nests.
The great gulf currenVin its course
northward along the Atlantic coast and
around the great circuit that forms with
its eddy the famous Sargasso sea of
marine grasses, carries along with it an
endless stream of life in connection with
the gulf weed wmch floats upon it in
"windrows."" The weeds, of varied
kinds, bring with them from the tropics
creatures multifarious, conveyed by the
micrhtv river of warm water ihroushthe
midst af the colder ocean. Most of them
. die wken the cooler latitudes are reached,
and thus it happens that the larvae of
many forms are found on the shores of
Nantucket and elsewhere in places to
which the adult animals are unknown.
Tbey never live te grow np.
The floating jrulf weed is literally
crowded with life. One cannot pickup
piece that does not carry many shrimps
or prawns of different kinds as passen
gers. There -are crabs, too, email and
bigger, -which mostly -imitate the grasses
in their coloring. Of smaller Crustacea
there are numerous species, such as the
so 'called "sea fleas'" and barnacles.
Barnacles are Crustacea which nave un
dergone a 'retrograde metamorphosis,
as it ds termed, having been free swini-
xaersln the-early stage of their existence.
They, too, take passage on the seaweed
Tufts and -veyage to the land of aiowhere.
seeking. their fortune.
In the, gulf weed also is an ;infinite
number of mollusks, some with shells
-and others without any. Among the
latter arevfche "sea slugs," resembling the
garden slugs, devourers of plants, which
are true molluska also. Another mollusk
often picked up-among the gulf weeds
is the beautiful, argonaut, a cephalopod
celebrated in mythic fitory. It is only
the female argonaut that is interesting.
'The male has no shell, and ia very small
There are i lots or curious -marine
worms .among .the gulf weed, such as
the "sea centipedes," abundant in the
West Indies, which have long detach
ble bristles .that sting the hand like
mettles when 'the animal is incautiously
-.grasped. These worms hide in crevices
of -floating' driftwood. The latter floats
an til destroyed by the boringvof the ship
worms that attack it, meanwhile afford
ing aJodgntent for barnacles and little
Crustacea. Small fishes ffollow . the
pieces of driftwood, as they -are carrifsd
along by it he-current, feeding capon both
Crustacea .ana Darnacies, while many
-aeabrrds skim about depending for their
meals upon the same small animals.
There is a species of crayfish,! too, found
an the .weed.tUat makes a curious click
ing noise with. its claws.
What mostpeople call the ".fruit? or
eeedEpods" df .the gulf weed Are simply
little -air vessels designed for. the purpose
of keeping hese interesting .vegetables
Afloat. Microscopic creatures called
"brivaoa" weave around the ,a&e cham
bers .a delicate lace work, which often
xemains'in .shape after, the vegetable
matter has . decayed . away and disap
peared, thus forming exquisite filamen
tous capsules. '- However, these are only
few-of -the passengers that journey by
the path of the gulf stream on, rafts of
drifting weeds. New York Sun.
.CleaniMC. Car -Wheel. r
Very efficient work is now being klone
in -various departments by the use of the
saw! blast.' .One .of the latest applica
; turns is ,te the cleaning of ' car wheels.
. The avheeL after being carefully soaked,
. is rolled into a small chamber, where it
stands in a vertical position. The tread
of the wheel stands.on rollers, which are
moved by gearings o that the wheel Js
alowly revolved without changing its
position. A fine into whir-. -cinders are
fed by ehute leading from a bin above
leads a blast of Air against the face of, the
wheel, vrkieh is then reversed.
The cinders used vary from .the-size-of
grain ot wheat to much larger and are
m hard that they can be used several
times. The time saved .by this method
can be imagined when one man can clean
twenty wheels in three hours and s half,
including the time consumed in soiling
them to and .from the machine, and the
saving in labor is proportionately great.
Chicago News. ;r , . - '
v . . Ignorance Abeut Ostrlebea.. ; f .
Americans in general must be in pos
session of a vast fund of varied, accu
rate and well authenticated ignorance
about ostriches. This is the -conclusion
reached by a reporter after an hour's
"conversation with a professional ostrich
farmer. The gentleman is Mr. EL CI.
Beid,-who paid $13,000 and gave, five
years' hard work to acquire what; be
knows. He is a Scotchman of education
and intelligence, and has a rare faculty
, of making people take an interest in
what interests him. - He has spent sev
eral months in teaching Calif prolans
how to get a little profit out of ostrich
farming. St. Louis Globe-DemocratV .
. Alum Water for a Shiny Skin.
Alum water-in the proportion of half
an ounce of .alum to a pint of - water is
recommended as a cure and prevention
to "shiny" skin.' It should be applied
gently with a soft cloth, and after A mo
ment the face should be wiped over with
a dry, soft cloth. New York Times. '.
How Snakes Climb.
How do snakes climb? is a ' question
which has been frequently asked. Many
have thought that they accomplish; the
feat bv wrapmnz themselves about the
tree and following a spiral course -dp-ward.
Several years ago a story went
the rounds of the papers to the effect
that two woodchoppers, having felled a
large oak tree several feet m diameter
and very tall, found in its top two com
mon blacksnakes.
After pondering for some- time the
men arrived at the conclusion that, one
enake nad taken hold of the other's tail,
and thus by co-operation they had been
enabled to clasp the trunk, and by cir
cling about it had ascended to the top.
Whatever probability may have at
tached to this conclusion . has been dis
pelled by the observation of two young
naturalists while hauling firewood from
the forest.
A black -snake, measuring perhaps a
trifle over six feet, was found clinging
to the side of a small tree, around which
it could have wrapped itself nearly twice
had it wished to do so. Instead of this
the snake passed right and left : at short
distances, catching the folds along its
under parts over and behind the slightly
projecting roughnesses of bark.
As the snake rested only nve or six
feet off the ground one of the young
men grasped its tail to test its climbing
qualities, but so great was the force with
which it pulled upward that it proved a
difficult task to hold it. Finally, becom
ing annoyed at this ill treatment, tne
snake reached down threateningly at the
offending hands, and losing its hold fell
to the ground. It was borne home in
triumph but was afterward returned
uninjured to the- forest. Youth's Com
panion. The X.ad y Factotum.
The "lady factotum" is what oar Eng
lish neighbors call those engaged in the
vocation of "visiting housekeeper." This
is an employment which has been highly
recommended, and which a number of
ladies in this country as well as in Eng
land have adopted. Such a person visits
ladies who from ill health or some other
reason are nnabla to perform - their do
mestic duties. She oversees the servants,
inspects the stores and possibly under
takes shopping, marketing and the writ
ing of notes, ana she performs other
offices which are of too confidential and
responsible a nature for the ordinary
servant to undertake.
If she is a woman of energy, tact and
health she can accomplish a great deal
by visiting a number of families for
about an-hour a day. She may go'so
far as to employ assistants in marketing
and shopping, whose work she is able to
oversee with intelligence. She is paid
for this work on even a better scale than
a visiting governness, and if she is an
able, efficient woman in the items of in
specting stores and furnishing food at
down town prices, she can'asily save a
family half her liberal remuneration.-
The institution of such a vocation is
a great relief to many overburdened or
ill or incapable -housewives, and presents
an excellent and lucrative field to women
of efficiency and refinement. It is a
place such as an elder sister might take,
and such indeed as many elder and' un
married sisters do take for no remunera
tion beyond "love and affection." New
York Tribune.
"Tower of the Tongues."
Onr story of the Tower of Babel is
known in Chaldean and Armenian tra
dition as "The Story of, the Tower of
Tongues." It is one of the earliest recol
lections of the Tigro-Euphrates basin,
and is related by Berosus in the follow
ing manner: ". " ' "
. "The first inhabitants of . the earth,
glorying in their own strength and size,
and despising, the gods, undertook to
raise a tower whose top should reach the
skies. '. This tower they erected in the
place where, Babylon's ruins now lay
thickly strewn over the ground. In
erecting this monster roadway to heaven
they: , toiled incessantly. But when it
had approached . near unto heaven -the
wind-assisted the gods and overthrew
the work, npon-its contrivers; and its
ruins are said to be still at Babylon.
And at about the same- time the gads
introduced a diversity of tongues among
men; who till that time had 11 - spoken
the one language. The place in which
they attempted to build the tower is now
called Babylon, on account of the con
fusion of tongues, for confusion is by the
Hebrews called bable." St. Louis Re
public - : . - . :'. .!
Satleldes In English Aristocracy.
.: Suicides among the aristocracy in Eng
land are . rather numerous. Lord Congle
ton, who was Mr. ParnelFs -great-uncle,
hanged himself in 1842. .. In the same
year the Earl of Monster, one of the il
legitimate sons of King William IV,
shot himself in the head. In 1869 Lord
Cloncarry, the last of his house, jumped
cfrom a window and broke his neck. ' '
In 1873 the last Earl of De la Warr
firowned himself, and in 1876 Lord
Lyttleton, the -insane brother-in-law of
Gladstone, escaped from his keepers,
threw himself off the staircase of his
Own house and was killed; g v ". '' ' ?
'.' .A story of smcide in which sentiment
is mingled is that of Prince
heir 7 to ' the throne of ' Belgium.
The
youthful prince loved beneath his sta
tion, And finding that love could never
be realized sought peace- in the eternal
(silence, pf .. the. grave. Cincinnati : En
quirer. . -
Two Classes ot .Gypsies.
The gypsies of .today -;are divided np
into the full blooded or tent gypsies, and
the Kairengroes or house dwellers, who
keep their, gypsy blood a secret. This
division of the race shows that they are
gradually , yielding to the : pressure of
outside influences, and the complete ex
tinction of their national identity will
simply be -a matter of time. George
Ethelbert Walsh in New York Epoch.
. Can You Say This? -Try Jt. .. V
' iHow much pleasanter it is to aifc in a
cab and think how mnch pleasanter it is
to sit in a cab than it is to be walking,
than it is to be walking And, think, how
much pleasanter it-is to sit in a -cab than
it is to be walking. Stoughton Sentinel.
PHA YEft WORK AND PLAY
THE ARDUOUS DAILY ROUTINE IN
. CATHOLIC COLLEGES. I
A Course of Study ' and Training That
Weeds Out frojn the Priesthood Many
Men AVho Are Not Possessed of an Un
flagging Zeal -Plain Food and Prayers.
What kind of a life is it in our col
leges? Well, I suppose it is much, the
same as the life in colleges'.which are
not ecclesiastical. Of course, church
students have many more prayers to. say,
and are expected to observe the rules
with -more fidelity than other students.
They rise early in foreign colleges at
5 in winter and 6 'in summer in most
English colleges at 6 all the year round.
Half an . hour is allowed for dressing.
after" which all go down in silence to the
church, where morning prayers are said,
and a meditation is held for half an hour
on some spiritual subject. Meditation .
is followed immediately by the celebra
tion of mass, and altogether - about an
hour is spent every morning in spiritual
exercises. Then follows study till break
fast time, at 8. - -
Breakfast consists of a bowl of coffee
or tea, with bread and butter at discre
tion in the home colleges, while abroad
one has a choice between coffee, milk
and chocolate, but. the bread must be
eaten dry. It is wonderful what a sub
stantial meal, can be made of coffee and
dry bread when there, is nothing else to
be had, A few minutes for recreation
are allowed after breakfast then work
goes on till dinner time, broken only by
half an hour's recreation at 11 o'clock.
' PLAIN FARE.
Dinner, ' which is eaten at 1, is al
. ways a good, substantial meal, and
ample justice is done to it after the
rather thin' breakfast. No study is al
lowed during the hour and a half fol
lowing dinner. All who are well enough
must join in the public games," which
for the most part are played with great
spirit and keenly enjoyed.
At 3" o clock the studies commence
again, and class and' lecture or prepara
tion for them, with half an hour's rest
at 5, go on until 7 or half past, when
thirty minutes are given to prayer and
the reading of the life of some saint.
After- the prayers all go to the refectory
for supper, which, like dinner, is eaten
in silence, broken only by the voice of
the reader, who . reads aloud some bio
graphical or historical work.
After supper there -is recreation, and
at foreign colleges . this is always the
favorite hour of the day. And very
pleasant it is to hear the fresh young
voices and merry hearted laughter echo
ing along the college cloisters:
At 9 the big bell rings out again for
the last time that day, and at its first
peal the talk and laugh are hushed, the
groups break up, all professors and
church students alike make their way
to the church for night prayers. ' Prayers
over the points for the next 'morning's
meditations are read out, and after the
singing of a hymn all retire to a well
earned rest, which in most 'cases is . only
too soon disturbed by the noisy clanging
of the great bell in the early morning."
THE WORK IS IIAKD. '
Of course, every day is not a. study
day. Sunday is always, more or less, a
day of rest, and at least one afternoon
every week is devoted to outdoor recre
ation. Yet,' in 6pite of occasional play days,
as they are-called, and the holidays twice
a year, the life is hard enough. It must
necessarily goon for some dozen years
before the student is called np for ordi
nation. The life of a Catholic priest is
indeed one to which many are called,
but few are chosen. A great number of
those who go to college, at the age of
fourteen or fifteen, with the intention of
becoming priests, de not reach the goal
of ordination. : ,
In some cases health breaks down,
many grow weary -of the routine, and
strict, discipline of the life, others dis
cover that they have no calling for the
ecclesiastical state, -and go out into the
world to begin life afresh. . So, from
one cause or another, the student finds
that by the time he is ready for ordi
nation he has lost the company of many
who stood by his side when he entered
college.
- or . six who went to college some
seventeen years- ago with the" present
writer, one is dead, one is practicing as
a doctor in the United States, a third is
manager of a bank in the north of Eng
land, another is serving as a mounted
policeman in South Africa, and .only two
are priests A Catholic Priest in Lon
don Tit-Bits. - -
No Animals In tne Dry Iarts ot Caves.
No animals whatever are found in the
dry parts of caves. Dampness', or a cer
tain degree of moisture, seems to be es
sential to their existence. Under the
stones one finds White, eyeless worms.
and in the damp soil around about are to-
be discovered blind beetles in little holes
.which-they? excavate : and bugs of the
thousand-leg. sort- These thousand-leg
bugs, which in the upper world devour
fragments of dead leaves and other veg
etable debris, sustain life in the caverns
by feeding upon decayed wood, fungus
growths an'd bats dung.; Kneeling in a
Joeaten path one can see numbers of them
gathered about hardened drips of tallow
from tourists' candles. There are plenty
or enckets also. Washington Star. -
Quaer Religious Sects-in Russia, 7
M- Tsakni, a Russian writer, has pub
lished an interesting work npon the curi
ous religions sects of Russia, from which
it appears that there: are not .less than
15,000,008 followers of insane and cranky
notions in that empire. - These ' com-"
munities of devout and ..deluded- Chris
tians are constantly springing np in spite
of all the efforts' - of Russian despots to
keep them down. St. Louis Republic.
. The Krlght Side. ' - '
Younghusband You've made a fool
of me. , .
Mrs. Younghusband That will be
handy for you now, my dear, You can
do silly things to keep the baby amused.
New York Epoch.
Bad Blbbd.
Impure or vitiated blood is nln6
times oat of ten caused by some
form of constipation or indiges
tion that clo np the system,
when the blood naturally . be
comes impregnated with the ef
fetcmattcr. TheoldSarsaparillas
attempt to reach this condition
by attacking the blood with the
drastic mineral " potash.." The potash theory is
old and obsolete. Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is
I
modem. It goes to tUo scat of the trouble.
arouses the liver, kidue;. s and bowels to health
ful action, and invigorates the circulation, and
the impurities are quickly carried off through
the natural channels.
Try it and note its delightful
action. Chas. Lee, at Bcamisu's
Third and Market Streets, R F.,
writes: " I took it for vitiated
blood and while on tho first bot
tle became convinced of its mer
its, lor i could feci it was work- '-mfSmiS
tog a change. It r-leansutl, ptiri- $ffifffi$iij
iiedand braced mo. upgeucrally, - I
and everything is now working full and regular."
'L Vegetable
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BLAEELET & HOUGHTON,
Prescription Druggists,
175 Second St, . . . The Dalles. Or.
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- " ' PEOPLE
Say the S. B. Cough Care is the best
thing they ever saw. We are not
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A Revelation.
Few people know that tha;
bright .bluish-green color of
the ordinary toss exposed, in
the windows U not the., sat.
aral color. Unpleasant aa the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial: mineral coloring
matter being . used - tot. this
purpose. The effect Is two
fold. ' It not only makes the
.. tea a bright, shiny green, hut also permits the
' nae of M off-color " and worthless teas, which, '
once nnder the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea. .
An eminent authority writes pa this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a"finer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced , to meet the
- demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
: glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo. This method it to urn-
eraX that very Utile genuine uncolored green tea
is offered for taie." . .... -:-.
It was the- knowledge ef this condition of -affairs
that prompted the placing of Beeeh's
Tea before the public It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever se any
genuine uncolored. Japan tea? Ask your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon
will see it, and probably for the very first
. time. It will be found in color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have'
been accustomed to and the black teas. .
. It draws a delightful canary color, and Is so
fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea-
drinkers. Its purity makes It also more
economical than the artificial teas, for lest
of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark:
BEEC
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. BI.AKELKY & HOUGHTON,
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