MILLIONS OF FISH.
GREAT QUANTITIES WHICH THE
WORLD CONSUMES.
In the Greut Industry of Fishing the
United StutesTakes the Lead — Statis
tics of the Business — Hardships and
Perils of Fishermen.
An Enormous Supply.
The extent of the world's fisheries,
the number of persons to whom they
give employment, or the amount of food
they contribute to the world's supply,
is something of which few people have
any adequate Men, although everybody
eats fish, occasionally, at least. When
the subject Is suggested, every one sees
HANDLING THE CATCH.
at once that the quantity of food sup
plied by the ocean to the use of man
must be enormous, for oysters, as an
example, are found In every hamlet in
the country, at one time or another
during the year. The grocers’ shelves
are always piled high witli cans of pre
served lobsters, shrimps, salmon and
whitefish, while the store that could
not furnish a dried codfish or a smoked
herring has not yet been found. But
these commonplace facts, while signifi
cant ns indicating the universal use of
sea food as an auxiliary article of diet,
are far from furnishing an adequate
Idea of the extent to which the sea and
Its tributary rivers are relied on for a
permanent supply of food.
As a fact, fishing is one of the great
est Industries in the world, employing
more men, using more means and
bringing larger returns than many oth
ers about which there is much more
talk.
In Great Britain, according to the lat
est available statistics, 34,900 vessels,
ever, does not Include the whales nn<l
settlers. From 350 to 4< h > whales and
Slt.lMM) sealskins are an average year’s
work.
The United
CUBA'S
FIRST
CABINET
fates Leads.
Whether considered in regard to the
number of vessels or the output, the
United States is far ahead of any other
nation.
According to Mullial, there
were1 In 1880 51,400 boats of all sizes,
manned by 131,400 seamen, with an an
nual take of over $40,000,000. Great
Britain comes next, the number of
boats ami men being already given, ami
after Great Britain comes Canada ami
Norway, each having about the same
number f>f persons engaged In tills in
dustry, while France is fourth, Italy
fifth, Russia sixth, Spain ninth, Ger
many twelfth and Holland at the end
of the list.
To the man who fishes once or twice
In tile year as a recreation, no sport Is
more delightful, but to him who finds
in fishing a means of livelihood, it is as
arduous as any other way of making a
living, and far more perilous than most
callings followed by men on the land.
In the first place It Is very hard work.
In thi“ coast fisheries, such as those of
France and the British Isles, while the
fishermen generally go out before day
and return late In the afternoon it often
happens that they are out on the banks
for two or three days at a time, during
which they are exposed to all kinds of
weather, not infrequently being wet
to the skin for days at a time. It is
not surprising that, according to the
health statistics, ovei“ one-tldrd of their
number die of some form of lung or
throat trouble, nor that another third
should be eonstaut sufferers from rheu
matism.
Aside from the dangers arising from
exposure, the work of a fisherman is
exceedingly hard, lu the cod and oth
er deep-sea fisheries, when a school of
fish is located, all the crew have to do
is to bait their hooks auil let them sink
0 ARTURO /
AFIBuARcJ
Those are the men who have been seleeted to dignify portfolios in the cabinet
of Cuba, and their appointments have been announced by Capt. Gen. Blanco.
Don’t act. if she has passed her prime,
As though to please her were a crime;
If e’er you loved her, now’s tile time—
Tell her so!
Great Bell Cracked, Broken Up, Recast,
and Then Cracked Again.
Never let her heart grow cold—
Richer beauties will unfold;
She is worth her weight in gold!
Tell her so!
—Detroit Free Press.
MISS ALICE GOLDTHWAIT.
HAI LING IN A HERRING NET.
to the bottom of the sea, where the bait
Is almost Instantly taken and the line
Is at once pulleib in. Exhilarating as
tuny be tlie sensation of drawing in a
line w ith a big tlsh at the end of It. tlie
thought of sport is soon lost in the idea
of labor. Bulling In a cod is hard work.
Tlie line soaked with sea water soon
makes tlie fingers sore, and tlie slight
est scratch sometimes becomes a pain
ful ulcer. Laborious days are follow- -
ed by sleepless, anxious nights, for a
watch must lie kept, and at tlie first
signs of bad weather all must make for
tlie nearest port of refuge. They are
lucky If they reach It Iti time, too, for
every year great numbers of those who
MISS EMMA o’NF.TL.
t.elphla society men, but on her moth
er's ileatli a year ago she decided to de
vote herself to ministering to the sick.
GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE ANOTHER
Young Man Drowns After Rescuing a
Companion front Death,
A Photographic Improvement.
(’apt. Colson, an English army of
ficer, has deviat'd a promising means
of diminishing the time of expoeure.of
photographic plates in order to get a
gissl image. He finds that some of the
light gets through the geliitlno-bnxnlde
plate, and reflects it back Into tlie fllru
by a smrevn of white paper, or card
board, close to the Ilin». He proposes
to get even better results by making
the platt>s with a thin, white opaque
layer on the glass and flowing the emul
sion over them.
Y’our love for her is no mistake—
You feel it, dreaming, or awake—
Don’t conceal it! For her sake.
Tell her so!
that lie had disappeared. Frantic with
excitement, lie ran as fast as ids condi
Miss Goldthwait, Typewriter — John
tion would permit to some fishermen
Adams* Descendent a Nurse,
who were working some distance along
Miss Alice Goldthwait is said to be the beach; but although they lost no
the most rapid operator on the type time in making search for tlie lad no
writer, under test conditions, in tlie
trace of him could be found. He had
world. At an exhibit of expert type givenail his strength to save Ids friend,
writing given in St. Louis, Mo., a few and tlie cruel sea Lad sucked him back
days ago, Miss Goldthwait, in tlie test
to his death.—London Mail.
made, wrote 80 words per minute from
dictation. Iu tlie second test of three
TWO WORTHY WOMEN.
“BIG BEN.’’
follow this perilous calling make the
fatal mistake of not starting iti time,
and the result is they are never heard
of again.
The mortality arising from the wreck
ing of vessels of the world's fishing
fleets Is something appalling. The lat
est statistics show that the nnnual loss
of life In this calling from drowning
exceeds 2.." smi , and, this being the ease,
no wonder can be felt that the wives
of the fishermen watch their dally de
parture with dismal forebodings, well
knowing that the small sail that dis-'
appears on the horizon may have gone
forever from human eyes.
The contest was between Newark and
Day's Hill. By a construction glveu^
to tlie State constitution, tlie women
were then suffered to vote, and they
seem to have been so delighted with
TELL HER SO.
tills privilege of exercising tlielr wills
that they were univilling to circum
Amid the cares of married life.
scribe it within the legal limit, many
In spite of toil and business strife,
ladies voting, we are told, seven or
If you value your sweet wife.
Tell her so! eight times under various disguises.”
New Footwear.
Prove to her you don’t forget
These shoes are the latest novelties.
The bond to which your seal is sot:
She’s, of life's sweets, the sweetest yet
Tlie high shoe in tlie center is for
Tell her so! those who feel uncomfortable in a low
shoe. It is cut out in scallops on either
When days are dark nnd deeply blue,
side, tlie lacing thereby revealing the
She hns her troubles, same ns you;
stocking. Tlie shoe at the top is an en
Show her that your love is true—
Tell her so! tirely novel cut, but is becoming to the
foot, especially when worn with a col
There was time you thought it bliss
ored stocking to match the dress. A
To get the favor of one kiss;
A dozen now won't couie amiss—
Tell her so!
minutes and ten seconds she wrote 302
words, an average of 95% words i>er
minute.
The dictation was from a
sermon and other unfamiliar matter.
Another interesting test was in writing
a familiar sentence, in which Miss
Goldthwait wrote 155 words in one
miuute.
In a hospital in Philadelphia, learn
ing to be a nurse, Is a great-great-grand
daughter of John Adams, second Presi
dent of the United States and one of
tlie founders of tlie government. Her
name is Miss Emma O'Neill, and, de
spite the fact that she is scarcely more
than 20 years old. she possesses In not
a small degree some of the character
istics of tlie distinguished family of
which she is a proud descendent. She
is beautiful and mtiqli courted by Pliila-
having 112<loo men as crews, were em
ployed In tlie fisheries, and during the
year 1888 tiny captured 317,000 tons
of fish, valued nt $25,(MH>,otH».
The
English are great fish eaters. There is
not a point in England loo miles distant
from the sea. and it is not surprising
that fish should form so Important an
article of diet. The English eat loo
pounds per annum to each Inhabitant,
a fact Indicating that in one form or
another sea food must be found on ev
ery British table at almost every meal.
The principal fish, so far as Great Brit
ain Is concerned, is the hertaig, of
Which, in 1888, 2,635,000 barrels were
taken. Nor do the herrings much ex
ceed lit number or In value the oysters
and lobsters, for of the former. In the
same year, there were taken 29,(»<»,000,
and of the latter, 5.7 h »,000 tons, a total
so large as to defy understanding.
The French, too, have an Industrious
fishing marine, though their deep sea
fishing is not progressing like that of
other nations. Yet the number in Isith
the deep sen and the coast fishing Is re
spectable, the latest returns showing
there are 13.000 men engaged In the for
mer, wlm took 34,000 tons of tlsh, while
on the coast witters 72.000 found em
ployment In taking 96,000 tons. In oys
ters and sardines France takes the
lead. During the year 1885 the French
oyster men captured 127.otMi.ooo, while
those who turned their attention to sar
dines took 494.0MMN». The French also
do a large fishing business on the New
foundland banks, taking home and ex
porting about 111,000 tons of dried eoil-
tisli every year.
The Dutch fisheries are but a shadow
of their former greatness. Three hun
dred years ago the Dutch had 1.51» fish
ing Isiats engaged in the Shetland her
ring fisheries alone, while 200 large
ships scoured the |H»lar seas for whales.
No less than 14,01X1 men composed the
crews In the Dutch fishing fleet nt that
time. But nt the present time there are
but 410 vessels, mostly of small size,
that take nununlly about 270,000 tons
of tlsh.
The Russian fisheries are mostly In
the Baltics nnd along the northern
coast, which is closed to navigation nine
months of the year. The nnnunl catch
of the Russian fleet Is valued at $10,-
000,000.
Sweden hns 29,0»» fishermen and the
annual entch exceeds tfo.txsi tons. Nor
way each year sends out 1 11,000 fisher-
nien and they take 475,000.000 tlsh.
with a value of $10,000,000. Thia, how
OFFICERS.
A story of splendid heroism In a
youth who gave his lite to save that of
his friend comes from Fraserburgh,
In Scotland. The hero of tlie story is
St. John Dick Cunyngham. son of
Lieutenant Colonel Dick Cunyngham,
V. C., of the Second Battalion Gordon
Highlanders, stationed at Aidershot.
Young Cunyngham and the master of
Saltoun (son of Lord Saltoun) left
Phllorth together, anti wept to the sea
to bathe. Evidently the lads were unac
quainted with the treacherous nature
of the sands at the point nt which they
entered the water, for they walked out
at once to easy swimming depth. Sud
denly both found themselves in deep
water, a strong undercurrent having
drawn them into one of the many
••pots” or pools which constitute the
chief danger of the place.
To the lad Cunyngham the situation
was not desis'rnte, but the young mas
ter of Saltoun was quickly exhausted
nnd was on the point of giving up the
struggle when his companion, forget
ful of his own danger and eager only
♦o stive his friend, devoted all his re
maining strength to the work of res
cue. After a desperate struggle Cun-
yngham succeeded in getting his friend
Into shallow water, through which the
latter dragged himself In a terribly ex
hausted condition to the bench.
Turning to thank his renctier. the
n-e, r of Saltoun was horrified to find
“Big Beu,” so called after Sir Benja
min Hall, who was the first commis
sioner of works, when the order for the
clock was given, was cast in 1856 at
Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees.
From tlie North of England this
enormous bell, weighing sixteen tons,
was conveyed to London by sea, w here
it had, ou a small scale, almost as ad
venturous a passage as the Egyptian
obelisk w hich now graces the Thames
embankment. Once or twice during the
voyage, indeed, it was feared that it
would send the vessel bearing it to the
bottom of tlie ocean. Not very long
after tlie clock had been placed in a
tenqiorary position at Westminster—
on Oct. 24. 1857—-and while it was be
ing rung, as was customary for a short
time at 1 o'clock on Saturdays, It was
noticed that it had a cracked, uncer
tain sound.
On a minute examination with a
lighted candle a crack was discovered
to extend from tlie rim about half way
up the side. The catastrophe to an in
strument which cost £3,343 raised the
question as to who was to pay for re
casting it. Tlie founders repudiated
responsibility, declaring that too heavy
a clapper (it weighing 12 cwt.) had been
used. The authorities, however, placed
on record that it was “porous, unhoino-
geueous, unsound, and a defective cast
ing.”
Be that as it may, “Big Ben” was
broken up and recast at a cost of £700.
Its weight was 13 tons 10 cwt. 3 qr. 15
lbs., its diameter 9 feet, and its height
outside 7 feet (> inches. It was rung for
the first time on Nov. 18. 1858.
Alas! In less than a year after this
the new bell ceased to strike the hours,
having become more seriously cracked
than its predecessor. The crack, which
was inside, was three inches ill extent.
For alxiut three years afterward the
hours were struck on tlie largest of the
quarter bells. The exix'riment was
then tried of turning the great lx>ll
round so as to present a fresh place for
tlie hammer, or clapper, to strike on.
With a light hammer this experiment
proved so far satisfactory that during
tlie tlilrty-eiglit years that have elapsed
the fissure does not seem to have In
creased; anti It is ]s»ssible when the
wind is favorable to distinctly hear it
in most of the suburbs booming out tlie
midnight hour.—London Mall.
Tiny Tandem Riders.
This amusing picture shows the
smallest tandem and the tiniest tandem
riders in the world. England is the
proud owner of the twain. Their names
are Doris anil Bert Cooke, and they
recently rode a mile in live minutes on
their diminutive machine. They are
never so happy as when bicycling, and
ALL ABOARD.
can pedal away in tlie most business
like fashion Imaginable.
A New Swindling Scheme.
The new villain poses as an author.
He writes to the typewriter. saying
that he lias a great deal of manuscript
to be copied, but It is of incalculable
value, and he reqntres a deposit of $5
security for Its safety before It can lie
forwarded. Once tlie trusting young
woman has forwarded the dejiosit. the
corrtwpondenee with th«' author euds.
The man lu th« honey moon is not a
myth.
She’ll return, for each caress,
An hundredfold of tenderness!
Hearts like hers were made to bless!
Tell her so!
You nro hers, nnd hers alone;
Well you know she’s all your own;
Don’t wait to “carve it ou a atone”—
Tell her so!
Dreyfus' Wife.
Madame Dreyfus, wife of the exiled
French army officer ,is convinced of
her husband’s innocence, and said in
a recent interview: "As husband, fatli-
NOVEI.TIKS IX SHOES.
glittering embroidery of jet outlines
all tlie openwork strappings of tlie
glace kid, which radiate from a narrow
central strap, also wrought with jet.
Tli» model at tin' left laces from the
toe right up to tlie ankle in such a
way that tlie charms of a pretty open-
work stocking are displayed to excep
tional advantage. At the left of tlie
circle is a dainty shoe in glace kid em
broidered witli jet. Note the pretty
arrangement of tlie strap at the side.
Cost of a Wife ill Fifty Years.
On tlie occasion of his golden wed
ding a methodical English husband fig
ured up from his carefully kept ac
counts wliat ills wife had cost him. He
had an assured income of $2,500 a year
throughout liis life. Winning liis wife,
what with presents, engagement ring,
and extra expenditure on liis own per
sonal adornment, cost him $500; her
share of the household expenses was
$625 a year; her clothing and linen cost
$250 yearly; presents, medical attend
ance, amusements and summer excur
sions amounted lor her share to $450
i annually. He therefore spent for her in
fifty years $66,750.—New York Sun.
Petticoats,
MADAME DREYFUS.
er, soldier, friend, lie 1ms always been
aliove reproach. Honorable, gentle,
kind; his life moral, his conduct up
right. I cannot, cannot understand It.
I cannot understand why he, of all
men, should have been made a mark
for this frightful, odious charge.”
Lives by Tuning Pianos.
Traveling around the country tuning
pianos is the unique occupation fol-
■loweil by Miss Nellie Jay Hatch, a
pretty and attractive young woman of
Seneca, Kan. On graduation from the
New England Conservatory of Music
in Boston Miss Hatch received a di
ploma in plauo tuning, and tlie course
she took in order to secure it was both
thorough and comprehensive. She was
graduated in 1889, and since them she
1ms traveled throughout the State of
Kansas, actively engaged in her cho
sen profession.
The petticoat next the gown is fre
quently as elaborate as the gown it
self. It is made of taffeta silk, and
trimim'd with plaited flounces or ruf
fles of the same. It is cut with an um
brella flounce, which is faced and
bound like the dress skirt. The small
er flounces are sewed to this. To be
fashionable, It must match the lining of
the gown, though the all-black silk pet
ticoats are always in good style. Less
expensive skirts are of watered mo
reen, and fine brilliant mohair lined.
The latter will give far more service
than the silk skirts, and may be made
very dressy with silk ruffles.
Eye Cosmetic.
Spanish women use a simple cosmetic
for tlielr eyes which Lola Montez tells
of lu her lxxik on beauty. They squeeze
the essential oil from the skin of an or
ange into their eyes. The operation 13
a little painful but very successful,
only it must not be repeated too often.
If rouge is put on the top of the cheek
bone It heightens the brilliancy of the
eye just as certain colors lend a glow
Barred Because She Married,
Because she eloped and was mar to the complexion.
ried, Mrs. Sam Frazier of Crescent, a
suburb of St. Louis, lias been barred
from attendance at
the high school.
JL
Mrs. Frazier was
Miss Gertrude W.
«3^’56%
Lewis. She is 17
'5/'’'
3 m
years old and would
r
have soon graduat-
- A
cd *la<'s'”' been al-
lowed to finish. As
•.
V
it Is she will only lie
The cutting of children's toe-nails 13
'x allowed to continue
Hz
at school by special but little understood by num's; and
mrs . fuazif . b .
permission of the even mothers give but scant attention
school board. The next day after mar to this most Important point. Never
riage tlie bride went to school as us should a toe-nail be rounded like a fin
ual. Her secret was too big for her to ger-nail. The nails must from earliest
keep, nnd tlie new Mrs. Frazier told infancy be trained to grow square, and
several of her schoolmates, under never on any account be cut out at the
pledge of secrecy, of course, of her sides.
changed estate. Young schoolgirls are
Do not give a child too many play
not expert secret keepers ami the ro things at one time. Such a practice
manee soon became the gossip of the tends to develop restlessness. Rather
school. It carne to the ears of Princi let her have but one, nnd when signs of
pal Bryan. He calk'd the blushing tUseontent appear, show her some new
bride Into ids office «nd plumped the way of playing with it. Her Ingenuity
question fairly at her. She blushed ami steadiness will thus be encouraged. I
nnd stammered. but she confessed that A child should not, of course, be kept
too monotonously with one plaything,
it was true she was married.
if she has a number (variety Is good for
She Proved a Repeater.
all, at times), but rather that error than
It Is not a generally known fact that
the other; and. by all means, guard
the first place in this country where
ngainst her having a number at the
women were permitted to rote was at
same time. Rather let her play with
Newark. N. J. This occurred in 1807,
one as long as she will. Then, beforo
nnd Is the facts chronicled In Gordon's the second one Is taken up, put the first '
“History nnd Chronicles of New Jer
one entirely out of sight, in order that /
sey” tie true, that experiment would not
It may come forth at some future day
lead a pessimist to believe In woman's masquerading as a new toy.
efficacy as an agent to purify the bal
lot. Here is what he says about that
Sarah an Abstainer.
famous event:
Sarah Bernhardt is a total abstainer
"An election In 1807 for determining from all alcoholic drinks, and to thia
the location of the courthouse is still i she attributes much of her wonderful
remembered by the inhabitants as the energy and mental power. Her fa-
most exciting recorded In their auuals. | vorite beverages are milk and water.