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MIDNIGHT FISHERS.
Strange Scenes at a San Fran¬
cisco Street Wharf.
Men, Women and Children Fish*
ing by Electric Light.
A Chronicle reporter whom chance
took to the water front last evening
was treated in tho course of his ram¬
bles among the hole-flecked wharves
to a it' vel sight. lie had felt his way
along the front of tho Merchants’ dry
dock by the distant light from an elec¬
tric light pole, and when lie had turn¬
ed the corner of tho coal bunkers at
the foot of Beale street he heard un¬
wonted sounds of revelry and saw
groups of shadows etched as a fret¬
work on the muddy waters of the bay.
The noise and hum of voices came
from some twenty mon, women and
boys who were sitting about a square
mass of piling bordering an open sur¬
face of water, which was brilliantly
lighted by a neighboring electric light.
Notwithstanding that the hour was
comparatively late the motly assem¬
blage of people were engrossed in
fishing I The rapidity with which
they pulled up their nets—for hooks
were n >t used—each filled with from
«ix to a dozen fish, appeared marvel¬
ous to tho reporter, who has had the
common experience of musing all day
on an unfriendly pile with one dis¬
eased citfish as a solitary “take.” By
peering over tho piles fish could be
seen leaping frequently from the water
as if several schools of fish were swim¬
ming around the p.lcs.
Several women, advanced in years,
leaned patiently over the wharf wait¬
ing for a haul, while young girls
scooped in their catch like old hands
aiul stretched each shiner and flounder
lifeless by well-directed blows against
a pile.
During the daytime the place is de¬
serted by fish. At night when tho
adjacent electric light is lit the bright¬
ness attracts the finny wanderers.
They gather in such numbers that to
catch I hem with bated hooks would
be tiresome. For this reason the
crowds that gnther there nightly
fashion nets out of hoops and draw
the strings close together. No bait is
used and the fish entangle themselves
in tho nests by tho doz -n. Tho fact
that a light close to the sttrfaco of the
water will attract fi-li at night is well
known. On the Molmwk and other
Eastern rivers holes are cut in tho ice
in winter and a touch thrust over the
apertures will attract thousands of
fish to the spot.
At the Bealo-street wharf the light
shines directly on tho inclosed water
surfaec., and tisli commenced gathering
there at night, in large numbers as soon
as the light was put up. A few boys
enjoyed the sport nt first, but latterly
women, girls and men have taken a
baud at the work. In this way many
a dime is saved to the poor peoplo of
tho neighborhood. To secure a good
supper they have only to lower their
nets. Many boys have been peddling
fish along the water front lately.
One of them was seen yesterday*
and he stated that he had given up
selling papers to sell fish. He caught
them at the foot of Beale street dur¬
ing tho night. A few nights ago a
man caught 200 pounds of fish, mostly
rockcod and sardines of unusual size.
Operations are carried far into the
night, and ]hj pie tn iv bo seen fishing
as late ns 1 and 2 o’clock in tiie morn¬
ing. Even the Italian fishermen .are
beginning to frequent the place, al¬
though a tendency to boycott them i-
developing among the “first settlers.’ 1
—[San Franci-co ( hmniclc. ,
A Warm Finale.
Good old Uncle lien: y and 4-year-old
Tom, his nephew, were iu conference.
Asked how lie put in Ids timo the
small boy began with breakfast; hur¬
ried over play time to dinner, thou
through more play to supper and then
paused in doubt.
“Well, Tout, what comes after sup¬
per?” asked his uncle.
The hoy’s big eyes looked fixedly
into space, but bis lips never moved.
“Surely something c uues after sup¬
per? ’ tho elder repeated.
“Y-r-e-s,” said Tom with a reluc¬
tant effort.
“Well, what is it?”
“I get whipped mostly.”—[Pitts¬
burg Di spa tell. |
A Deaf and Dumb Rooster.
A gentleman living on the outskirts
of the city, near Black Rock, owns a
curiosity the liko of which Burjium
never dreamed of. It is a deaf-and-
dumb rooster—a full-grown, brilliant¬
ly plumed, brown Leghorn chanti¬
cleer—that has lost his voice, can
ucither crow nor cluck, uor make any
other audible sound with his vocal ap¬
paratus; does not wako up the neigh¬
borhood at 5 o’clock iu the morning
with an everlasting cock-a-doodle-doo;
does not give an alarm of hawks every
time a black cloud crosses the sun,
but is still as much the lord of the
chicken park as ever.
lie has not always been thus. Up
to the time lie was eight months old
he was as noisy as any young rooster
need be. Then he got his head caught
in a barbed-wire fence in such a way
as to mangle his ueck and probably
tear out the vocal cords. Losing the
power to make sounds, lie evidently
forgot how to hear them. At least
now, at the age of three years, ho
gives no evidence of hearing. But ho
makes his eyes answer for cars and
voice, too. If anyone wanted proof
that he was really deaf and dumb,
those eyes would be convincing.
There is nothing ho does not see.
When the first glow of sunrise ap¬
pears lie begins tiie duties of the day
by rousing all the rest of the fowls ill
the hennery in his own original way.
Ilo walks around to each one and kicks
it ofT its perch. There is no resisting
sucli an invitation to get up. It’s
much more effective than crowing.
When he gets a challenge to fight ho
does not stop to announce what lie can
do. lie goes and does it. And his
battles are all victories.
The most remarkable thing about
ibis intelligent bird, however, is tire
fact that though deaf, he can distin¬
guish between the admonition to
“shoo” and t» request to come to din¬
ner. IIow ho does it is a mystery,but
it is believed that he tells by motion
of the lips and general attitude of the
person who addresses him.—[Buffalo
Express.
The New Bell Buoy.
At tho lightliouso station at Staple-
ton, S. 1., there are half a dozen of
Capt. Roger’s new bell buoys, which
are interesting from many points of
vi*uv. The old-style bell buoy consist¬
ed ^>f a big can, shaped like a siutcor,
perhaps 10 feet in diameter and 3 feet
deep. From this arose a three-cor¬
nered derrick, which supported a bell
in its apex.
Across the mouth of this bell there
was a (able, and on the table iusido
the bell was a solid iron ball five inches
in diameter. The table was higher in
(lie middle than at the edges, and tho
edges were east in convolutions to pre¬
vent rapid wearing away from the
motion of (ho ball. As tho waves
rocked the big can, the ball rolled and
tumbled about iii its cage, and every
time it moved it struek the bell. Thus
were the mariners guided by its tolling.
Capt. Roger’s invention lias a can
and a triangular derrick. In tlieso
respects it closely resembles the old
bouy. But instead of having one ball
to do (ho ringing there are three.
These balls are placed in three tubes,
twelve inches long, at equal distances
around tho outer edge of the be.l.
Each tube points toward the surfaeo
of tho boll, and when the ball drops to
the bell-end of its tube it just strikes
the bell itself. Therefore, as Cite
bouy rocks, the balls roll to and fro in
their inelosures, striking the bell with
every movement.—[New York Times.
Locomotives Hare Moods.
A locomotive engineer lias a keen
affection for his iron steed. But if
one may believe a Maine Central en¬
gineer, locomotives are extremely
fickle. lie declares that his engine
will take a train over a steep grado
with a rush on one day, while perhaps
on the very next day, with the same
train and the same grade, tho artful
enqueue will pretend to be sliv, will
draw back in feigned timid tv, fenco,
flirt, and finally do what it is asked to
do with a pout. “It’s hard,” he says,
“to realize that your engine isn’t alive.
Sho acts like a horse. She will shy
and balk at a grade when she feels
like it, and, again, will take the bit in
hcr teeth and jerk tho load clean over
the hill. You can’t help calling such
an engine ‘her.’ Sometimes 1 feel liko
speaking to her when she is sulking.
May he I do without realizing it”—
[Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
At Frankfort, Germany, 500 horse¬
power is transmitted by electricity to
a distance of 140 miles.
An electrical gyroscope has been de¬
vised in Paris and has been applied to
show the rotation of the earth and to
correct ship’s compasses.
An Indianapolis (Iud.) man has
constructed a bicycle of steel tubing
and aluminum, which, though excep¬
tionally light, is claimed to be practi¬
cally unbreakable.
The Royal Academy of Medicine at
Spain, has given the opinion that the
addition of saccharin to food and
drinks should be regarded as an adul¬
teration, and that articles of food or
drink so treated starnld be refused.
Photographs for determining the mo¬
tions of moving animals and flying
birds are now taken on a traveling
band of sensitized paper by means of
intermittent flashes of light, and the
movement of tfawp^per in the focus
of the camera is controlled by au elec’
tro magnet.
The wings of a fly are used with
great quickness, and probably 600
strokes are made per second. This
would carry the fly about twenty-five
feet, but a seven-fold velocity can
easily bo attained, making 175 feet
per second, so that under certain cir¬
cumstances it can outstrip a racehorse.
It has been determined that under
no conditions can the deaf learn to
speak by association and without
effort, as normal children do, but that
in every case speecliffi an acquisition
only possible with great and sustained
effort on the part of the pupil, assisted
by the skill, patience, and persever¬
ance of competent teachers.
If a tuning fork, when vibrating, is
made to touch any part of a spider’s
web or the twigs or'lcaves by which
the web is supported, the trembling of
the web completely d:ceives the spider,
so tlmt, after rapidly finding which
radial line is most disturbed, she runs
along this one and attempts to ‘ secure
Hie tuning fork, and struggles in vain
to find a soft spot iu the unnor of her
prey.
A general meeting of the directors
of the eighteen chief observatories in
the world will meet i iyjfa ris in March
tic
before beginning the gicat photo¬
graphic atlas of tho heavens divided
into numerous zones. The atlas will
consist of from 1S00 to 2000 leaves,
representing 42,080 largo squares,
comprehending the superficies of the
celestial sphere.
Red the Color for Danger.
“Has it ever struck you,” said a
Pittsburger, who p tints not signs but
pictures, “that red is a very danger¬
ous color, that it stands for danger in
ail sorts of ways? On the railroads,
of course you know, red is the danger
signal in flags by day, in lamps by
night. Everybody is accustomed to
tho idea of red as g/’.varning on the
railroads, and at sea the red light
serves the same purpose. Then red
stands for anarchy. Tho Anarchists
are often called tho Reds, and the
flag which waved over some of the
bloodiest scones in tho world’s history
is a sanguirary rod. To wave a red
flag before a bull is about as danger¬
ous a thing as you can do.
“The uniform of tho firemen ha9
been rod since timo immemorial, al¬
though sinco organized fire depart¬
ments have been organized the color
has been sensibly changed, for tho cle¬
ment the firemen fight is red, and the
danger of the confusion of men ami
flames is apparent. Tho l.ue of the
poppy in the fields suggests the
dangerous side of the narcotic it har¬
bors. Some one aware of the dargers
of the debauches lias coined the phrase
we know so well, ‘Painting tho town
red.’ Red iu art is a ri.-ky color to use
unless the painter knows thoroughly
how to use it, as Sir Edwin Landseer
did in Ills pictures, which invariably
contained a touch of red somewhere,
“Turner employed red lavishly, and
although he succeeded in producing
marvellous effects, his followei'3 hav*
made countless millions mourn over
fiery coruscations on canvas. Wherc-
ever you turn you fiud red as a mark
of peril.”
“lu literature is it so?”
“Yes, even in literature, for are not
bad books most harmful when they
are read?”—[Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Chance at Guessing.
Do you know how many one-dollar
bil's it takes to weigh as much as a twen¬
ty dollar gold piece? Driving out to
White Bear reccn ly one of those walk¬
ing compendiums of useful information
sprung the above qinstion, and remarkable the opin¬
ions that it elicited shows a
range. One member of the p irty, whose
business it is to handle money in large
sums, after profound tnought, sug¬
gested that the number would be from
1,000 to 1,200. Others guessed down
the line to 500, but do one less than that
number. After all had placed th mselves
on record the compendium stated that
the number of bills was thirty or thirty-
one, according to their condition as to
dirtiness and age.— St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
What a Hen Can Do.
Hens can talk. We saw one the other
■ lay distinctly ask another to pick some¬
thing off its bill. The request was
granted, too.— Rural New Yorker.
It shows, too, that hens have business
alent, for they know how to present a
nil!. They are good auricultui ists, for
they look well alt r their crops. They
are poets—witness their spring lays.
They are poli icisns, for they know how
to feather their nests, and they are like
the poor editor—they have to scratch for
their grub.___
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frightened me very much. My health was
poor and the doctors gave me medicine for
ueart disease, but I crew weaker. My cousin
recommended Ur. Bull's Sarsaparilla, which
certain y has benefltted me greatly,for I feel m
splendid health .—Samuel T. Phe'an.Ddylun , O.
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