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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.___ I had a s ight stroke of paralysis which 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. J. E. Murdoch, the great, actor und elocu- tion.st was born January 25 th, 1811 . Madauia cured and eradiett d from the system by Brown's Iron Bitters, w lich en¬ riches the blood, tones the nerves, aid a diges¬ tion. Act, like a charm on persons strong.h. in general ill h. alt.i, giving new en rgy and Michigan was admitted into the Union Jan¬ uary 28 t,ii. 1837 . ' mm i OIVE> ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup and refreshing of Figs is taken; the it is and pleasant to taste, acts gently Liver and yet promptly Bowels, cleanses on the Kidneys, the head¬ sys¬ tem aches effectually, and dispc-ls and colds, habitual fevers, cures only constipation. remedy of Syrup its kind of Figs is the duced, pleasing the ever and pro¬ to taste ac¬ ceptable to ttie stomach, prompt in its action and truly Iteneficiai h. its effects, healthy prepared only from me mo?t its and agreeable substances, many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular Syrup remedy of Figs known. is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug¬ gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro¬ cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. 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It is likewise a WAWMrrraocsMWE corroborative, or and strengthen¬ ing Medicine, may be taken with great benefit in all cases of Debility. For Sale by all Druggists. Price, 91.00 per bottle. Dr. Schenck’# New Book on Lungs Liver and Stomach mailed free, Redress. Dr. J. H. SCHZNCK 6 SON. Philadelphia. U0MEpc ni V.“^^5SSiuf’t^“nSid?S5 ■ ■ thorougmy taught by MAIL. Circulars ireifc Bryuoi's t'ol.etre, 45/ jiatu at*, Buiiuio, N.I, rtKSSSg& w "^^43 R$ dorse I prescribe Big G and the felly only us curb HrOurwin ^&aa specific for the certain rj to 6 DAYS.'B 0 f this disease. ScErantwd not ■ G. H.INGRAHAM,M. D-* asBiestricture* Amsterdam, N. Y. Vrdonly by th, We have sold und Big it Gr bae for IvuiCkozlcalO,. many years, the best of s&tie* CifMjinn&tl.BKR — ■ given t kv jk faction. DYCHE St CO.. Ohio. D. It. LJ, Chicago, Trade n»rk St. 00. Sold by Druggist*. A. N. U Six. 1891 .