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SEA LEAPERS.
Gigantic Jumps Taken by Mon
sters of the Deep.
The Astonishing Feat of a
ty-foot Whale,
'
“Speaking of jumping,’’ said an old
seaman, who had been watching some
boys playing leap-frog on the sands,
•‘let me tell you of the greatest jump
ever seen. It was many years ago,
when I was little more than a lad, but
I was bow oarsman on a whale boat
belonging to the ship Henry Staples.
We had hud bad luck for several
weeks, when one day we sighted a big
whale, and two boats set off in a race
to see who would get there first. It
was fairly smooth, what the sailors
call a whitecap breeze, and our boats
fairly flew over the water. Finally
the whale rose not 100 yards away,
headed directly for us. The mate,
gave orders to stop, and we sat still,
expecting that the monster would riso
near us. The harpooner stood with
his iron all ready to throw, while we
grasped our oars, nervously prepared
to jump at the word ‘stern all, that
nearly always came when a whale was
harpooned. Not a word was spoken,
and a mountain of black
appeared, it seemed to shut off the
entire horizon. Up it went until I
distinctly saw a seventy-foot whale
over twenty feet in the air hovering
over us.
“The mate was first to regain his
senses, and gave tlio command ‘stern
all.’ Just as we were ready to spring
overboard the boat shot back several
feet, and the next second the gigantic
animal dived into the ocean, just
grazing us, having completely passed
over the boat iu the biggest leap I
ever heard of. ”
Such gigantic jumps are rare. A
similar one was recorded by Dr. Hall,
who at the time wus a midshipman on
the ship Leauder. They were lying
iu tlio harbor of Bermuda, when all
hands were attracted by the appear¬
ance of a very largo whale that sud¬
denly appeared in the harbor, and
seemed very much alarmed by the
shallow water floundering about vio¬
lently. The young midshipman joined
a boat’s crew that started in pursuit,,
and just as they were about to strike
the whale disappeared out of sight,
leaving s deep whirlpool, around which
the boat shot. Before it stopped up
oame the whale, having, in all prob¬
ability, struck the bottom, and went
into the air like a roeksh “So com¬
plete wa3 this enormous leap,” says
Dr. Hull, "that for an instant we
■aw him fairly up in the air, in a hori¬
zontal position, at a distance of at
least twenty perpeudicular feet over
our heads. While in his progress up¬
ward there was in his spring some
touoh of the vivacity with which a
trout or salmon shoots out of the
water, but he fell back again in the
sea like a huge log, thrown on its
broadside,and with such a thundering
crash as made all hands stare with as¬
tonishment, and the boldest held his
breath for a time. Had the whale
taken his leap oue minute sooner, he
would have fallen plumb on the
boat. ”
Comparatively few people have seen
a large whale, but wo can immagino
what an object au animal 70 feet long
and weighing as many ton would
make flying through the air.
Within a week of the writing of the
present nrtiolo T was drifting along
the shores of Santa Catalina island,
■outhoru California, when a 60 foot
whale almost cleared the water about
1000 yards from the boat. I was about
to ask the boatman what rock it was
when the great head descended and
the tail roso into the air as the mons
ter dived.
Mr. Scorsby, the famous whaler,
chronicles a number of incidents of
jumping among whales, some leaving
the water completely and rising 20
or more feet into the nir.
Many of the inhabitants of the sea
are good jumpers, and some have be¬
come famous. Among them should be
mentioned the tarpon or silver king, a
hughe fish with scales that gleam like
silver, which constitutes the famous
game fish of Florida. The leaps of
this beautiful creature are often as
tonishiug. Several years ago a steamer
was rushing down the St. John’s river.
The captain was sitting on the fore
deck loaning against the p o
when suddenly there rose .2 ?be far
a beautiful shining fish four feet in
length. It came on like an arrow and
landed in the lap of the captain as
neatly as though it had been placed
there.
In Pacific waters the tuna, an ally
of the horse mackerel, is noted for its
leaps. Sometimes a school sweeps up
the coast and the power ful fish, often
weighing 800 pounds, are seen in the
air jn every direction . They are like
an arrow, turn five or six
foet in the air, and come down, keepi
ing the water for acres in a foam, and
if not the greatest jumpers they are
certainly the most graceful of the
leapers of the sou. —Philadelphia
Times.
The Sea Cow Looks Human.
The coming attraction for the small
boys of Gotham, at the New York
Aquarium, in Battery Park which is
to be opened next November, will be
a manatee or sea cow. Dr. T. H. Bean
who is now in charge of the Aquarium
is in correspondence with certain par¬
ties, and expects to secure a fine speci¬
men in time for the opening. Being
a native of tropical seas, and more
; e8 p e cially inhabiting the hot waters
of thfl bay8 and estuaries of Florida,
appliances will have to be made for
heating an enormous tank in which
the monster may disport itself. Dr.
Bean is an expert in the building of
aquariums and keeping of fish, and
this novel feature will doubtless bo
found very attractive.
The manatee, which is an aquatic
mammal and not strictly a fish, has
an elongated body, like that of a
whale, the anterior limbs being flat¬
tened into fins and the posterior limbs
wanting externally and only being
represented by rudimentary bones.
The bead is conical,without a distinct
line of separation from the body; the
fleshy nose much resembles that of a
cow, and the full upper lip has on
each side a few bristly tufts of hair.
The swimming paws may be used for
climbing up the muddy banks of
rivers. Separate bones may be felt
through the skin nud the fingers are
provided with small nails. The skin
is a grayish black color, with a few
scattered bristles. They inhabit the
sea shores, especially about tlio
mouths of rivers, and feed upon aquat¬
ic plants. They do not feed ashore,
although they sometimes quit the
water, and not unfrequently support
themselves in a Bemi-erect position.
Under these circumstances they pre¬
sent at a distance a somewhat human
appearance.—New York Advertiser,
The Tree Killer.
One of the curious forest growths of
the Isthmus of Panama and lower
Central America is the vine which the
Spaniards called matapalo, or “tree
killer.” This vine first starts in life
as a climber upon the trunks of the
largest trees, and owing to its marvel
lously rapid growth, soon reaches the
lower branches. At this point it first
begins to put out its “feelers,”—ten¬
der, harmless looking root shoots,
which soon reach the ground and be¬
come as firmly fixed as the parent
stem. These hundreds of additional
sap tubes give the whole vine a re¬
newed lease of life, and it
begins to send out its aerial
tendrils in all directions. These
entwine themselves tightly around
every limb of the tree, even creeping
to the very fathermost tips and squeez¬
ing the life out of both bark and leaf.
Things go on at this rate but a short
while before the forest giant is com¬
pelled to succumb to the gigautio
parasite which is sapping its life’s
blood. Within a very few years the
tree rots and falls away, leaving the
matapalo standing erect and hollow,
like a monster vegetable devilfish lying
ou its back with its horrid tentacles
clasped together high in the air.
Morgan in “Central America Afoot,”
says, “Corelike arbors of metapole
are to be seen in all directions, each
testifying to the lingering death of
some sylvan giant that formerly sup¬
ported it”—St. Louis Bepublia
Her Last Chance.
Miss Elder—I will bet you anything
you like that I will never marry.
Mr. Easy—I’ll take you.
Miss Elder (rapturously)—Will you.
really? Then I won’t bet, after all,
—Puck.
CANDY SECRETS.
A Successful Crusade Against
Confectionery Adulteration,
Output of tlie Country’s Largest
Factories.
There has been great reform in¬
augurated lately in the candy business,
and a leading New York confectioner
said recently that now there is very
little adulteration in candy. Ten years
ago things were very different. The
result or the crusade began by Dr.
Cyrus Edson, the members of the
National Confectioners’ Association,
and the editors of the Confectioners’
Gazette and other lights of the trade,
brought about this difference. The
candies made a few years ago by the
prominent manufacturers were copied
on a cheap scale by smaller dealers,
and the material used was inferior,
and generally so adulterated that the
manufactured article was positively
injurious to health.
The cheapest candy sold today is
made of sugar and glucose, prepared
with as pure extracts, if not as strong,
as those used in finer confectionery
and colored with vegetable colorings.
The secrets of a candy factory have
always been very jealously guarded,
and the cause is found in the fact that
manufacturers of confectionery largely
invent special machinery, which they
never patent nor make to bo used by
other manufacturers. Sweepings of
the floor are commonly supposed to
be used in making gumdrops' and
caramels. Old shoes, hides and horns
are supposed to be converted by the
boiling kettles into cheap jujube pat¬
ties. This is all wrong, at least as
far as applies to any respectable fac¬
tory. Candies are usually divided in¬
to hard, soft, and clear candies, and
subdivided into machine-made and
hand made goods. The penny goods
candies cut an important figure in the
trade.
Many of the cities and States in the
the Union are now prominent in the
trade for certain kinds of candies.
Nearly 75 per cent of all the caramels
made come from Pennsylvania. There
are three factories, capable of turning
out 50,000 pounds of caramels a day
and employing 4,000 persons. Just why
Pennsylvania should be selected as
the best place for this line is prob¬
lematic, unless because of large dairy
farms there and plouty of nice milk.
Milwaukee, Wis., and Elgin, III.,
boast of large caramel factories. Bos¬
ton is the center of wafers and lozenges.
Three Boston candy houses produce
two-thirds of the lozenges made in this
country. New York city and Phila¬
delphia turn out most of the marsli
meliows. Cream bonbons and choco¬
lates for the trade are largely made in
New York. Every fine confectionery
retailer in the large cities nowadays
makes his own bonbons and counter
goods. .The hard candies like fruit
drops, imperials, Jordans almonds,
robin egga, eta, all bearing a smooth
polish, are made by hand.
Brooklyn and Philadelphia turn out
all the licorice, and the Quaker City
is noted for popcorn novelties, al¬
though nearly every city now has
factories that make this line of. goods.
Prize-package candies largely come
from Chicago and St. Louis. Balti¬
more has a deservedly good name for
purest stick and clear candies. One
half the clear toys, roosters,, animals
and figures, red and white, and clear
as glass, so familiar to children at
Christmas time, are manufactured in
Beading and York, Penn. The most
peculiar conditions exist in New
York. On Wooster street there are
factories, all located within two
blocks, with a Frenchman making
bonbons, a Greek makiug Oriental
candies, a Hebrew making popcorn
novelties, au Italian selling marsh¬
mallows, an Englishman manufactur¬
ing butterscotches and wafers, an
American dealing in fancy candies,
several Turks iu the business, and
Bussian and Chinese dealers handling
Canton preserved ginger. Bussian
and Chinese confections and preserves.
There is one block with every store
but one a candy store. This is called
the “Sugar Bow,” and is known all
over the country.—New York Adver¬
tiser.
The State of Vermont is worth $86,
*06,775.
The Old Frigate UoBslilutiom
The venerable old frigate Constitn*
t-ion, of glorious memory, now lies
stark and gaunt, at the dock in the al
most deserted navy yard at Kittery,
Ale. She is housed in with her old
fashioned lines, her sides tumbling
home, as it is said, when they incline
inward, her stern gallery in which her
cajitains were wont to take the air,and
their pipes and arrack in pleasant
weather, she presents a quaint sight. -
Of the original ship only a small
section of the deck and a few iron
stanchions remain. But she was re¬
built much upon her original lines in
1848 and 1876, first by the son, and
again by the grandson of Hart, her
original builder, so that she is practi¬
cally the same ship which outsailed
Admiral Broke’s squadron, and out¬
fought everything at which she backed
her topsails. The Portsmouth people
regard her as their own individual
property, and raise an awful howl
every time it is proposed to take her
away.
It was, however, a mere accident
that she happened to go out of com¬
mission at Kittery Navy Yard about
fifteen years ago, and the navy being
then in the chaotic state which pre¬
ceded the creation of the new navy,
she simply was allowed to remain
there. Her guns were of no use and
of no historic value, as those with
which she hod walloped the Guerriere
the Java, the C.yane and the Levant
had long gone the way cf destruction.
So her armament was removed and
everything else of value, She was
housed in and left to her fate, Her
planking is decaying, but as long as
her stout timbers stay in the water
Jfchey will keep as hard as iron.
It is thought that some time in the
next few years the Constitution will be
refitted like the Constellation, and
made into a training ship for boys also.
Like the Constellation, she has never
had steam in her, but when she has
been rigged with great square sails,
and given a spread of canvas worthy
of her, she has been known to leg it
at a fourteen-knot gait during the best
part of a cruise.
These two frigates are the solo sur¬
vival of the great frigates of the
“poetic age” of the navy, and not all
the steel battleships going can alto¬
gether deprive them of their useful¬
ness. The Kittery Navy Yard is as
dead as Hector, for the present. The
people grumble at it and complain
because the modern steel ships are not
built or even repaired here.—Lewis¬
ton (Me). Journal.
To Show How Fast Shells (Jo.
The results of experiments made by
Professor A. C. Crehore of Dartmouth
and Lieutenant G. O. Squier, Third
Artillery, with a new polarizing photo¬
chronograph, are described by them
in the Journal of the United States
Artillery. The experiments were
made at Fort Monroe last winter. The
object was to employ an instrument
that would accurately measure a vari¬
able electric current for determining
the velocity of projectiles. A single
switch fires the gun and obtains the
record, the latter, which is made by a
break in the current, due to the pas¬
sage of the projectile, being sharp and
well defined, so that - the accuracy in
reading it is “even beyond that at¬
tainable in measuring the interval be¬
tween screens on the proving ground.”
The instrument might also be made
as simple in operation as any of the
chronographs now in use.
Walking on the Water,
Frederick J. Vogt of No. 100 North
Bond street, has invented a pair of
shoes for walking on the water. They
are shaped like beats, and are about
four feet long. On the bottom is a
sort of paddle, which folds when the
foot is moved forward and projects
when the foot is planted on the water,
so as to secure a grip. Mr. Vogt gives
an exhibition of walking in his queer
shoes each evening at Chase’s wharf,
and a large crowd of people are at¬
tracted thereby. Mr. Vogt has also
constructed a suit iu which it is pos¬
sible to float on the water and propel
one’s self by the arms.—Baltimore
American.
A Scratch Substitute.
Mamma—I don’t know what to do
with baby; he’s inconsolable since his
kitten died.
Aunt Jane—Never mind. I’ll give
him my cactus plant to play with.—
Puqk.
A NEW LEASE OF LTFP
XX GOOD health - at
three YEAR 5 of age. SKVKXr*.
WU« Cornwall’s Wonderful
Health —Became WeU Recovery of
Months Alter T ffo
Six ai1 Illness of
Years.
From the Register, 2Vew Haven
In tnis rapid age of ours Conn,
men and when so many
women are old at one who
has lived three-quarters of a
then, after debility and suffering, century, aa<j
health and vigor, must be regain*
feeling akin to wonder. regarded with «
A New England
lady , . , has . been found who
markable has Ltd this re.
experience.
family of Clarence Williams a n.
shire farmer on the Meriden Cornwall's road f’w
Ct., lives Miss Cornelia
5S™ MH.“rS-. C LSh
of result which that she is procured best told in at her once, and^riftth woTfe ^ 8
“About six own Cornwafi
“my health years ago,” Miss ! W
gan commenced to fail .3"
ferent ered from parts loss of of my appetite body. and My pains kS f*
gradually grew worse until limbs conditi™ wl™
apparently unable to bear my ZJy
cpuld longer my weight ’S
no go up stairs whhom
Bistunce ot some one. mu as
effect. limbs seemed The sense to be leaving ot feeling in mv be3 lowJ
to fear that it hopeless me, and T
I still suffering was to look for a cam
through was body, when terribly from the naj n »
my I chanced to read
the story of a cure that had been effected
with the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
Pale People. I discovered that the town
druggist here had none on sale so I sent
tady, immediately N. Y., and to the headquarters in’ Scheaec
secured two of the boxes of
the pills.
“Last December I commenced using the
pills regularly, and a month after I had been
taking them, I felt greatly benefited by their
use. The feeling in my limbs came back
again, and in two months I was able to go
about the house as I had been accustomed to
a year before. Now, as you can see. I am
enjoying good health. The pallor in my
face was removed by the pills. A number of
my friends in the neighborhood were com¬
plaining of symptoms somewhat similar to
my own, and I recommended that they taka
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. They did so, and
they tell me that they have been very much
benefited by their use. I still continue to
necessity take the pills, them though there is not so much
for at present. As a purifier
of the blood, I consider the Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills a wonderful medicine.”
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or wifi be
sent post paid on receipt $2.50—they of price, (50 cents a
box or six boxes for are never
sold in bulk, or by the 100) by addressing Dr.
Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N, X,
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL,
Atlanta, Ga.
It contains all the news of the world with &
bright of collection travel, of miscellaneous stories,
notes etc., etc., and will he sent to
any address for fifty cents a year. The Juve¬
nile Journal, a bright children’s raper. is in¬
cluded with each copy ot the Weekly without
extra charge. Send lor specimen copy. Ad¬
dress The Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
How U it with Yon?—Do yon Masticat*
Yonr Food Thoroughly?
A little attention to tnis matter is well re¬
warded. Eating, just for the sake of it, will
cut life short by many a year. Eat to live.
Look well to digestion. If your stomach 1*
weak and unable to properly care for the food
eaten, the use of Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy
will work wonders. It benefits from the first
do e. A p<T-i ive cure for every form of indi¬
gestion. Price 50 cents per bottle. For sale
by aii druggists.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by lo^al appl cations, as they cannot reach tha
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
wav to cure Deafness, and that is by consti¬
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an
i< flamed condition of the mucous lining of
iho Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets
inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im
P'Tfect hearing, and when it is entirely c'o-ed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam¬
mation can be taken out and this tube re¬
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are
caused by citarrli, which is nothing hut an in¬
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can¬
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, if end
lor circulars, free. Co., Toledo, , 0. _
F. J. Cheney &
t35“\Sold by. Druggists, 75c.
At The Office
you may have a sudden bilious attack or
headache work. when If it is have impossible box of for Ripans you to leay* Tab
your iiles desk you tabula a taken the first
in your a at
symptom will relieve you.
There Is Pleasure and Profit
and satisfaction in abating trouble -onto and
painful ills by using Parker’s Ginger Tonic.
FITS stopped free by Da. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. Treatise No tits after and first $2.OOtrialbot¬ day’s use.
Marvelous cures. Phila.. Fa
tle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St.,
I believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved
my boy’s life last summer.—Mrs. ALU*
Douglass, LeRoy, Mich., Oct. 20, ’94.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
Do Fishes Talk?
A naturalist has been making some
investigations in the fish ponds at
Guilford, with regard to the much de¬
bated question as to whether fish can
communicate a notion of their expe¬
riences to other fishes. The experi¬
menter, when he had caught a trout,
threw it back alive into the pond. hook,
Then he put in a freshly baited
and only two or three trout came after
it. By experimenting in another
pond, equally well stocked, and not
throwing back any fish, Mr. Field
found that he could catch trout with¬
out any trouble. This seems to show
that captured fishes, when released,
may communicate their sufferings to
their neighbors in the pond.
Safety on Railways.
It is stated that Peter Stvers, an en¬
gineer on the Lehigh Valley railroad,
who died recently at Bethlehem, f ’ a -»
aged seventy-three years, has traveie
during his forty-6ix years of service »s
engineer, at least 1,000,000 mnes.
During that time be has never hat; an
accident.