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UNSAVORY FOOD.
What the Native Alaskans Like
to Eat.
Gamy Delicacies Which Tickle
Their Palates.
As Alaskan diet is peculiar, let us
glance over the Eskimo menu, and
while I present the dishes you—well,
you can bold your noss. We need
not mind the more simple articles of
diet such as whales and walruses, but
only the entres. The first and most
highly esteemed of these is a fragrant
dainty, justly termed tuplicherat (from
the radical tupebartok, to smell). It
is always made during the warm sea¬
son, at the time of the salmon fishery.
The preparation, which is extremely
simple, is as follows: A hole is dug
in the ground close to the entrance of
the barrabora, and this is filled up
with raw salmon heads. After ten
days of exposure to the sun tho hole
presents a lively sight, for tho fish
heads are in constant motion. A few
days longer to allow the worms their
full growth, and then the family
gather to the banquet, and not a
vestige of tbe putrified mass will re¬
main, “but the sceut of tho roses will
cliug to it still. ”
The next dish is also a favorite,
equally fragrant and equally simple in
its preparation—boiled eggs, The
eggs commonly used here are those of
the wild geese. Our natives distin¬
guish two varieties, which hitherto
have never succeeded in winging their
way to popular favor elsewhere. The
first are those collected soon after the
arrival of geeso. These “green” eggs
are then exposed for a long time to
tho genial rays of the sun, until they
become sufficiently addled to suit tho
nativo taste. Tho second variety is
somewhat more gamy, and consists of
eggs expressly selected later on, just
as the period mother goose was con¬
sidering that her sedentary labors
were almost concluded. I have watched
(of course, from the windward side) a
group of bou vivunts gathered around
a fire devouring half cooked rotten
eggs and constantly adding more to
tho pot, until they were so completely
gorged that, like drunken men,
they would fall over, one
by one, and sleep. “Kamamok”
comes next. Compared with the
others, it will appear delicious. It is
u mayonnaise, consisting of stale fish
roe mashed up with stale salmon
berries, and highly flavored with stale
seal oil. Tumutohok is the next, and
very similar in composition. In place
of roe,tho raw livers of a small specie
of codfish are mixed with tlio berries
and seal oil. We are now at the pride
of the menu—akutok, tho choicest of
Eskimo delicacies. This Arctic am¬
brosia is composed of salmon berries,
seal oil and dear tallow. These in¬
gredients are boiled together, and
when cool aro mixed with snow, a
refreshing compound worthy to rank
with soino of our ice cream. This
glance at the diet of society in the
“upper circle” will convince you that,
my account of their odoriferous pro¬
perties is not strained.
As might bo imagined, their foul
food causes much sickness among
them. Whenever any one is even
slightly indisposed, lie will come
directly to us, so wo always keep a
quantity of medicine at the mission,
Caster oil is of no use whatever, for
we cannot convince our benighted in¬
valids that it is a nauseous remedy
and not a delicious foreign cordial.
We have to limit a dose to four table¬
spoonfuls and allow only one dose at
sickness, relapses included, An old
fellow called Avunok happened to have
a slight attack of tho usual complaint
(it was about the egg season)ftiud came
to us for treatment. It was Avunok’s
first introduction to castor oil. In
the transport of delight ho unwarily
exclaimed “ashertok!” (splendid).
His complaint at once assumed a
chronic form, with no prospect of
recovery. He came twice a day, and
and then three times. Unfortunately
for him, the “ashertok’ ’betrayed
him, so we changed tho treatmemt,
and administered a tomato can of
strong epsom salts, which immediate¬
ly wrought a cure. Strange to say,
these people never use salt and have
no relish whatever for anything saline.
Pills present the same difficulty as
t oil. our patients obstinately re-
fusing “to take tliem”--for they will
persist in slowly chewing up the de¬
lightful little bon bons. I let them
chew till they finish the sixth, Aftei
that, if more medicine is needed, it is
epsom salts, in spite of all entreaties.
Missionaries here must expect a
great deal of medical practice. It is
very important and serves, moreover
to weaken the popular confidence in the
tunroks, or sorcerers, who are called
on „ to , periorm , their ,,. grotesque , antics ,.
the sick. - , T Iu vicinity .’ . ., the ,,
over our
adherents of the old school of
therapeutics have gradually disap
pcared. Invalids no longer seek re
lief from a “bal masque,” or hope
for benefit from the sedative influence
of the drum and rattle.—Portland
Oregonian.
The Sargasso Sea.
The surface of it seems, says a
writer, in Chambers’s Journal, like a
perfect meadow of seaweed, It is
supposed that this enormous mass of
gulf weed may have been partly grown
at the bottom of the shallow parts of
the sea and partly torn from the
shores of Florida and the Bahama
Islands by the force of the Gulf
Stream. It is then swept around by
the same agency into the Sargasso
sea. Where it lives and propagates,
floating freely in midocean. And the
store is ever increasing, both by addi¬
tion and propagation, so that the
meadow grows more and more com¬
pact, and no doubt at the inner parts'
extends to a considerable depth below
the surface. Nor is this all, for at
least two-thirds of all the infinite flot¬
sam which the Gulf Stream carries,
along with it in its course sooner or
later finds a resting place in Sargasso
Sea. Here may be seen large trunks
of trees torn from the forests of Brazil
by the waters of the Amazon and
floated down far out to sea until they
were caught and swept along by the
current; logwood from Honduras,
orange trees from Florida, canoes and
boats from the islands, staved in,
broken and bottom upward; wrecks
and remains of all sorts reaped from
the rich harvest of the Atlantic; whole
keels or skeletons of ruined ships, so
covered with barnacles, shells n.nd
weeds that the original outline is en¬
tirely lost to view; and here and there
a derelict ship, transformed from a
floating terror of the deep into a mys¬
tery put out of reach of man in a mu¬
seum of unexplained enigmas.
Origin of Perfumes,
Perfumes are of three distinct classes
when derived from plants, and there
is a fourth class which is of animal
origin. Tho first class consists of the
various odoriferous gums and resins,
which exude naturally, or when pro¬
duced by wounding the trees which
yiohl them, such as camphor, myrrh,
benzoin, etc. This is the simplest and
most ancient class of perfumes, and
often employed in incense. The sec¬
ond class includes those perfumes
which are procured from distillation.
This art was known to the ancient
Greeks and'Rom a ns, and is still resorted
to. An essential oil thus obtaiued,
(formerly called a quintessence) is not
soluble in water though it is iu alco¬
hol. The best and most expensive is
the attar, otto of roses, Tho third
class of perfumes is obtained by mac¬
eration, or as it is termed by the flow¬
er farmers of the Yar, in the south of
France, enfleurage. Tho fourth class
of perfumes consists of those of an¬
imal origin, such as mask, ambergris,
etc. Musk is taken from tho musk
deer, a native of India. It is highly'
prized as a perfume and is much used
to mix with vegetable perfumes.—
New York Telegram.
Windmills and Tornadoes.
The recent tornado which passed
across tho State of'New Jersey and
swept a part of Long Island demol¬
ished many of tho wiudmills erected
to pump water for domestic and other
uses. The destruction of these ex¬
posed structures has prompted their
owners to look about for something
more secure and less exposed to
storms. Hot air or steam power may
not be quite as cheap as wind power,
but the engines are readily protected,
require but a small space, aud are al¬
ways ready for * use when wanted,
which is more than can be said ot
windmills in this part of the country,
where sometimes for days and weeks
there is not wind enough to do any
pumping.—New York Sun'..
LOST LETTERS
Many Misdirected Missives Get
Into Postoffices.
Useful Hints About the Sending
of Mail Matter.
Every day about 9,000 letters are
received at the New York postoffice
addressed result .
incorrectly. J As a
Postmaster _ Da Y toQ wiU distribute
cartls telhu « pe0ple how to 8end mal1
ma Her.
Here are some of the suggestions on
the card:
Don’t mail any letter until yon are
sure that it is completely and properly
addressed. Don’t place the address
so that there will be no room for the
postmark.
Don’t, in tho hurry of business, in
addressing a letter, write the name of
your own state upon it instead of that
of the person addressed—a very com¬
mon error.
Don’t fail to make certain that your
manner of writing the name of an of¬
fice or state may not cause it to be
mistaken for one similar in appear¬
ance. It is often better to write the
name in full.
Don’t faii, if you are in, doubt as to
the right name of the office for which
your letter is intended, to consult the
postal guide, which any postmaster
will be pleased to show you.
Don’t fail to give the street and
house number of the person for whom
mail matter is intended in addressing
it to a city or large town.
Don’t mail any letter until you are
sure that it is properly stamped.
Don’t fail to place the stamp on the
tipper right hand corner.
“Don’t write on the envelope, “In
haste.” “Iu care of the postmaster,”
etc. It does no good, and tends Ao
confusion in the rapid handling of
mail matter.
Don’t fail to bear in mind that it is
unlawful to inclose matter of a high
class in one that is lower—e. g., mer¬
chandise in newspapers.
Don’t mail auy letter unless your
address, with a request to return, is
upon the face or the envelope, so that
in case of non-delivery it will be re¬
turned directly to you.
Don’t fail to give your correspond¬
ents your full address, so that a new
postman cannot fail to find you.
Don’t fail to inform your postmas¬
ter of any change in your address.
Don’t trust to the fact that you are
an “old resident,” “well-known citi¬
zen, etc., but have your letters ad¬
dressed in full.
Don’t fail if you intend to be away
from home for any length of time to
inform your postmaster what disposi¬
tion shall be made of your mail.
Don’t delay the delivery of any
mail matter that you may take out for
another.
Don’t fail to sign your letters in
full, so that if they reach the dead
letter office they may be promptly re¬
turned.
Don’t when you fail to receive an
expected letter, charge the postal ser¬
vice with the loss until you have
learned from your correspondent all
the facts in regard to the mailing, con¬
tents, etc.—New York Press.
Uncle gain’s Pensioners.
The United States have two pen¬
sioners in Algiers, three in tho Argen¬
tine Republic, in South America!
twenty-five iu Australia, twenty-one
in Austria-Hungary, one in the Azores
Islands, thirteen in Belgium, four in
Bermuda, one has wandered to
Brazil, seventeen have found refuge
in British Columbia, two are at pres¬
ent located in Bulgaria, four live in
Central America, six in Chili, eight
have found homes in China, three are
living in Costa Rica, five are
in Cuba, Denmark has more than
her share, there being twenty-four of
our old soldiers now resident there;
one has straggled to Egypt and one
to the Fiji Islands. France is well
provided, having fifty-six of our Civil
War veterans; Gautemala has one,
sixteen are at present engaged in up¬
holding the Republic at Hawaii, three
are braving the yellow fever in Hon¬
duras, one is on Greenland’s icy moun¬
tains, three are pacing India’s coral
strand. Italy has twenty-five, nine
are living in the dominion of the
Mikado, Corea has one, Liberia has
two, two are living in Malta, two in
Mauritius, fifty-eight in Mexico, ten in
the Netherlands, four in New .Zea¬
land, three in Nicaragua, thirty-six
close by the glaciers of Norway, six
have found homes in Peru, one live3
in Portugal, five are residents of the
Republic of Colombia, one*has somehow
or other got to Roumania, three are
living in the land of the , Czar, two in
Siam, one in the island where Napo
Teon breathed his last, and one in the
island where he was born; one in the
Society Islands, one iu the South Afri¬
can Republic, seven in Spain, thirty
four in Sweden, seventy-seven iu the
Republic of Switzerland, four in the
land of the Turk, one in Uruguay
and nine in the West Indies, this rec¬
ord forming a most remarkable testi¬
mony to the ability of the Americans
to scatter themselves all over the face
of the earth.—New York Telegram.
Lightest on Record.
A crowd of cyclers were awaiting at
the ferry for the next Oakland boat,
and were discussing different wheels
and their weights.
“I’ll bet I ride the lightest wheel in
the crowd,” remarked a fat man, who
weighed 200 pounds.
All looked incredulous and one re¬
marked :
“I don’t think you can ride a ma¬
chine much lighter than mine, I
have a sixteen-pounder, and made to
order.”
“I’ll bet the W’heel I ride isn’t one
third as heavy as any in the crowd,”
offered the fat man, without appear¬
ing to have heard what the other had
said.
“I’ll take you,” said the man with
the sixteen-pounder.
The fat man went to the parcel de¬
pository and got his wheel. It was a
remarkably fragile-looking piece of
machinery.
“One of those new eight-pounders,
declared one the men.
4 ( He will lose anyway,’’said another
“if it weighs over five and one-third
pounds.
The fat man mounted it and rode it
ro und the walk. Then the wheel was
placed on the candy man’s scales and
weighed exactly five pounds. The
wheelmen could not understand it,and
all insisted upon lifting it, but it cer¬
tainly weighed no more than five
pounds.
That,” explained the owner, “is a
five-pound wheel manufactured ex¬
pressly for my use by the firm I rep¬
resent. The tires, however, are
filled with the very lightest gas that
can be manufactured. You will ob¬
serve that the tires are inflated all
they will stand. Well, if they were
much larger the gas in the tires would
carry that machine off, and it would
lack about a pound of weighing any¬
thing.— San Francisco Post.
Foghorn Experiments.
A series of experiments with fog*
horns, which will probably result in
systematic investigation, have recently
been made. In one of these a boat
steamed directly toward a lightship
from a distance of 4 1-2 miles. At
2 3-4 miles the sound of the horn be¬
came audible, and at 2 1-2 suddenly
increased in loudness, and held the
same intensity until the boat was
within two miles of it. From 1 3-4
to 1 1-2 the sound could scarcely be
heard, but after that it at once in¬
creased and became so loud that it
seemed to be quite close to the vessel.
Here the steamboat reversed its
course, and the fluctuation was found
to be the same. Again reversing, the
sound disappeared and reappeared
after 1 1-2 miles, became entirely in¬
audible at half a mile, reappearing
again at a quarter of a mile, after
which it steadily increased until the
lightship was reached.—New York
Sun.
Appreciated a Good Horse.
“I’m keeping the old horse, Charlie
just for the good he has done me; not
that he is now any account. ” This
was said to a “Herald” man the other
day by the owner of an old and worn
out horse—just such a looking animal
as we often see along the country
road-side—turned out to die. “That
old horse has earned me a wagon load
of twenty-dollar gold pieces, and he
shall have a good home and plenty to
eat as long as he lives.” If all the
owners of live stock would be as con
siderate as this man there would be no
need for humane societies.—Colusa,
(Cal.,) Herald.
Information Thrown In.
“I would like a copy of Vidor Hu¬
go b masterpiece,” said the ladv who
Qfld entered the bookstore.
‘‘ I doa,t think we have any book of
that name, responded the boy behind
me counter.
“That is not the name of the work
it merely describes it,” rejoined the
iustomer.
“Published lately, ma’am?”
“It was published maa Y years ago.
,, surely , , have Victor Hugo’s
you great¬
est -work?”
“I don’t know whether we have or
not. What’s the name of it?”
<< « Lay Mee Say Rabbi, > ?*
the lady, desperately. replied
“Oh, you mean 'Less Mizzerbles.’
Yes’m, bune. we’ve got it.”—Chicago Tri¬
Like a Venomous Serpent
Hidden in the grass, malaria hut waits our
approach, to spring at and fasten its fangs
upon us. There is, however, a certain anti¬
dote to Its venom which renders it powerless
ior evil. Hostetter’a Stomach Bitters is this
acknowledged and world-famed specific, and
it is, besides this, a thorough curative for
strpation, rheumatism, la dyspepsia, liver complaint, con
valeseence and grippe and nervousness. In con
age it is very serviceable.
Tnemusk deer and the civet cat are never
found in company.
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root cures
ali Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet Laboratory and Binghamton. Consultation free.
N. Y.
demands. Friendship is always delicate in making its
_
State op Lucas Ohio, City County. op Toledo, I ?s
Frank J. Cheney oath f -
makes that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that.said firm
will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL¬
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot bo cured by the use of H all’s Catarrh
Cure. Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886.
} \ A. W. Gleason,
SEAL
■ Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur¬
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
free. F. •(. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
S^“Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Money Spent in Parker’s Ginger Tonic
i* well invested. It subdues pain, and brings
better digestion, better strength and health.
I could notget along without Piso’sCure for
Consumption. It. always cures.—Mrs. E. C.
Moulton, Needham, Mass., Oct. 22, ’94.
Health
Built on the solid foundation of pure,
healthy blood is real and lasting. With rich
red blood you will have no sickness.
When you allow your blood to becom*
thin, depleted, robbed of the little red cor¬
puscles which indicate its quality, you will
become tired, worn out, lose your appetite
and strength, and disease will soon have you
in its grasp.
Purify, vitalize and enrich your blood, and
keep it pure by taking
HoocPs
Sarsaparilla
The One True Blood Purifier prominently its
the public eye. $1. All druggists.
flwwli S ISiSiw cure tion. habitual Price 25c. constipa- box.
r 1119 per
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r<g3o wife
WHR'»9
4 Jf over= worked,
Do all you can to lighten
her household cares.
Begin to-morrow ky of
sending heme a package
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Buckwheat.
It means for her a half hour more
sleep in the morning. A buckwheat
breakfast can bo prepared in a
moment you know.
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