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§>entiucl. — • - » IIAI'-LKM. GEORGIA PUBLISHED BVKKY THI'HhDAY. Bnllai’d **» AtMln«on< h/iIUWom n ———— -■ "■ The most extensive tunnel and river mining enterprise carried on in < difor nia for many years, i» that of the B.g Bend Tunnel <>, in Butte county, by w Rich home 11 mi lea of the l> •lof I either river will be drained *o that gold mining operation* may go on. To m ike the bed of the river ible, it was nc" »*ary to run a tunnel 12,000 feet long, which would carry the water of the river at it* low stage* The American hen ia not doing her duty. Them am 1G,000,000 dozens of foreign hen's egga brought into thia country every year free of duty. The Amt ri< an hen* must scratch around, * iy* a New England ]>aj>er, if they arc to ■K oidthe reproach of allowing the >gg Industry to !*• crushed by the competi tion of th<* cheap pauper fowl# of the effeta monarchies of the Old World. With incubator* to help them the Ameri can hena ought to make ale tter record. The Signal Service Bureau haa adopt' d a new plan in the compilation and publi cation of it* w ather prediction!. In ataad of announcing what the weather i* likely to I.C in the various geographical division of the country, a* the New England State*, the South Atlantic States, etc., the prediction! will here after bo made for each State, grouping together, from day today, such Stab * a* arc likely to have the same weather. Whenever neci- ary, predictions will bo made for dill' rent portion* of the same State. The law recently enacted in lowa not only requires that every package of but tcrine or caaeino shall bear, in letter*, an inch and a half long, an emphatic state ment that it i* an imitation article, but it require* all hotel kec|>cra and restaur ant and Iroarding house keeper* to put a placard on every plate of imitation but ter or cheese that is hroughton the table, •tating that is not the genuine article. In some unaccountable way the authors of the bill have omitted to require that all caters of bulterino or emteinc should be branded or labelled. That provision would make It perfect. The farm* of America eipial the entire territory of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary ami Portugal. Tim corn field* equal the extent of England, Scotland and Bel gium; while tlw grain field* generally would overlap Spain. The cotton fields cover an area larger than Ho hind and twice us large a* Belgium. The rice field*, sugar and tobacco plantation* would also form kingdoms of no insig nifl< ant size, an I such i* the stage of ad vancement reached by American agri culturist* that it is estimated that one fanner like Mr Dalrymple of Dakota, with a field of wheat co* ring a hundred square miles, can raise a* much grain with 400 farm servants as 0,000 peasant proprietors in France. Item I* u description of what they do with their prisoner* in the Canton of Neuehiitel, Switzerland. A good handi craft is taught to every prisoner, and all who are well l>< haveii art', after a period, placed with a master of the trade which they have severally learned, under the oversight of the police and of a member of a voluntary committee. This commit tee is composed of 1100 active member*, out of a total population of 102,000. The prisoner, when provision®!) lilierated, ha* to present himself every week to hi* patrons, who receive* the report* of hi* master and of the polio •. The patron •end* un abstract of these report* to the governor of the prison, and in this way, if hi* conduct remains good, the num'* liberty is gradually restored, and he re gains hi* position in society -with the additional advantage* of experience of discipline and knowledge of a trade. M. de Laveleyc, in describing this system, nays that a Swiss Canton is in some tiling* a century in advance of the rest of the world A small volume of statistics showing the work done by the po*t offices of the world has Iwen published at Florence, Italy. From thi* it ap|>ear* that in ISS3, the latest year for which complete re turns are available, there were in Europe 65,500 receiving offices, 41,500 telegraph offices, and 225.006 letter boxes. The total number of |*r»on» employed by the various post office* was 356,000; and in twelve month* there were transmitted 3.666.000,000 letter*, 546 000,000 post Cards, 1,046,0011,000 book* and parcels, 1,671,000,000 newsp*|ier*, and 117,000,- 000 telegrams; the gross weight of the matter sent through the post being esti mated at about KOO,OOO tons. The lowest charge for the conveyance of any letter or |«»t car I wa* one centime; the high cat was I's. The total receipts of the various office* amount to £38,150,000, and their expenditure to 131,050,000. To apprehend the import of the., figures .it should lie remembered that les. than half a century ago, the number of pack ages that |va«<wi through the post office* the world was under 100,000.000. A resident of Minnesota, who has seer several severe tornadoes, say* that theii most peculiar feature I* the singular ►u king movement. Building* are suckc! up into th ’ clou 1* entire, and imi down soon in fragment*. After the great Ilic'i' -t r tornodo, a farmci twelve miles from town found an unin jured marble top table in hi* field. An other found a very large sheep that had come from no one knew where and had I* on <b |io*it”d in hi* yard unhurt. The Minnesota man further sai l that he had seen a board into which wheat straws had bci-ndrivcn until they *tu- k through on the other side. The p"p .I-r idea that th'- poop!’’ of Great Britain consume mor: tea on an average per head of th'- population than nny other country in the world i* now shown to bo erroneous. Th'- Australian colonies and New Z- dand (according to one of the East Iridian journal) drink far more tc i per head of population than the British Island*. The Australian* come first, with 7.66 pound* per head ; the N'-w Z alanler- next, witli 7.23 po ind* p r head; while the people of Great Britain, though lipp aring thir l in the list, <■ rnsuine only 4.1)0 pound* < neb. Newfoundland an I Cwid.ida come next, while in the United St ites the consump tion i» only 1.30 pounds per head ; and in Ku -ia. which i nlw.iy* regarded n* a great t< i-drmking country, the consump tion is only 061 pound per head. Bel gium, Sw-den, Au*tria-lfungary, and Bpnin consume* he** than the other Euro pean nation*, Iml th'-re i* not one nation on tile continent, with the exception of Holland, in which the annual consutnp. tion exceed* one j»ound per head. But in certain part* of th” countries named t'-.a drinJng i* much more common than in other*. In certain Russian district* (specially tea i* <ru ik constantly and c 'piously, and it is this fact which has given rise to tin notion that Russia is the most bibulcu* of all tea-drinking Countries. Now York’* Dalian Rsstniiriiiit*. Th'- Italian restaurants are by no means the gold mines tin y once wi re here. The siicc. * iif Martinelli, who ncciimiihitcd a furluiic and went home to ive o i it, and of Moretti, who would be modestly rich if the operatic artists paid him what they owed him, led rival after rival into the field until it has b • nine quite as full as it can be to have a living in it for any one. There i* just now an epidemic of ( heap French r .taurant* in the town, too. There are half a dozen or more in one block of \\ cst 23d st. ’1 he special ties of all, French nnd Italian, are a table d'hote, with wino for a fairly inex pensive figure. If they can continue to sell wine over their regular table allow ance of cheap claret, they make a little mon* v. A* a consequence, they serve the most poisonous concoction* of chemicals nnd water with the dinner, and common ly force the diner, in self-defence, to full back on the wine card. But with tho exception of a few who occupy handsome h< u*e* and secure occasional banqueting parties to help trade along, insolvency is generally their ultimate recompense. When they open they put their best foot foremost, serve good bill* of fare, and thrive. A* soon as they have bu It up a fair patronage they commence to econo mize, some fresh rival tak s their cus tomer* from them, as they took them from a predecessor, and business falls away till the wine merchant forecloses on the furn ture, the landlord serves a notice to quit, null the luckless host goes back to the waiter's apron or the cook's cap again.— S< ie York S< ir». Gladstone's Method. The }\'hitrhall Herieir (London) has been told on good authority that this is Mr. Gladstone's method of preparing hi* speeches. He keeps a box into which he is in the habit of throwing cutting* from newspapers and other memoranda of facts bearing upon the subject in hand. On the morning of the day preceding any gaeat oration, ho goes through his box and pick* out his notes on the par ticulnr facts which he wishes to use. Tin s> he gums in their order upon a large .sheet of piqx'r, and u-es them as the post* upon which the sjxtech itself is to be hung. Then he imagines himself to be actually speaking—composes his oration, in fact, in hi* head. After he is satisfied w ith it he dismiss, * the subject from hi* mind, and occupies himself until the hour for speaking comes in— reading a novel! His memory is so great that his previously composed sentences come back to him w ithout effect. Indorsing the New Dictionary, ‘ My dear, there's a new dictionary coming out. It will have 240,000 words i in it.” "Mr, Duscnbury, 1 advise you to sub scr.lx- for a copy of it.” “Whst do I want with it, dear?” 'S • that you van have the last word. You don't seem to want to let me have it. CM Not Distingalshed. A couple of visitors from the rural dis trict in the House gallery were trying t< pick out their congressman on the floor. “1 can't distinguish him,” said one, after a hopeless visual observation. "Os couiws not,” was the honest reply, "he can t even distinguish himself.” Crit<e. A QUEER SECT. Tlio Faithlats of Shalam And What They Believe. A Eiliriout Colony inNew Mexico Which Aim* to .Reconstruct Society. A recent letter to the St. Louis Gh '.c ]>■ morrat, dated La* Cruces, New .M< x i*o. says: On the eastern bank of the Rio Grande River, and about six mile* from this place is a colony of people who '• customs, history nnd religion are th” most pr-culiar to be found in this country. Tiiey cull themselves "Fnith i-t-," have a n -w Bible written by one of themselves; have a new calendar, in which the days, Sabbaths and holiday*, are changed, and the month* are called signs; ent only two meals a day, while fish ami flesh are forever forbidden as un article of food. The ‘‘Fnithists,” as the members of the Shalatn colony call themselves, claim to be a religious sect. They discard all religions save their own, the essential dogma of which is faith in Jehovib, a* lie i* < ail' d in their Bible, and to become a covenant member a person must abjure all oHu r god*, lord* or saviors. Accord ing to their Bible, Jehovih is the spirit that created all things, is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent, and has hi* kingdom on earth, of which the Faithist* arc the sole members up to date. Dr. J. B. Newbrough, a dentist of New York City, is the originator of this sect. lie claims to have been wrestling with the spirit for ten years; he declare* that he wrote the new Bible under the influence of the spirit, and he is now the head or chief of Shahun col ony which has been established us Jeho. vili’s kingdom on earth, according to plan* laid down in the Faithist Bible. This new bible is called “Oahspe,” meaning that it contains all that is worth knowing about light, earth and sky, or the sum of all knowledge; and in it Je hovih says: ‘‘lt is not for the past but for the present era.” It was written at New York, m 1881. The book contains 000 pages, and is written in the most aacient style, doubtless to give it a musty smell. It is sold at $5 a volume, and ha* been circulated quite extensive ly. The work of establishing Jehovih kingdom on earth was first attempted on what is known as the Thompson farm in New Jersey, but that failed in a month's time, on account of a disagreement with Mr. Thompson in the year 1882. Head quarters wi re kept up in New York City, until in December, of 1883, the Faith ists began to assemble at Pearl River, Rockland County, New Y’ork. In No vember, 1883, tin y held a convention in New Y ork, at which a committee was appointed to search for Shalam, and in pursuance of this appointment Messrs- Newbrough and Grill left Pearl River in August, 1884. Shalam was discovered by these gentlemen in September,lßß4, when a dei’d was made by John D. Bancastle of Dona Ana, N. M., conveying about 400 acres of level land in the Rio Grande Valley to Wm. Howland, of Boston, Mass., and in October, 1884, two dele gations of Faithists arrived in Shalam, one of whom was the veritable Dr. Henry Samuel Tanner, who fasted forty-two •lays several years ago. The colony claim that they have begun i new race of people which will finally people the whole earth. They’ propose to begin with children, orphans, waifs and castaway*. Indians, Mexicans and Americans. They have a calendar called Kosman, which culls the months ‘‘signs,” nnd in which the days are numbered 1, 2,3, 4,5, 6,7. Each seventh day is their Sabbath, and they have religious services in the Temple on that day. They have a prayer-meeting on the fourth night of each week, and they have en tertainments and dancing. The Faithists have 1,500 acres of fine land, and are planting vineyard, orchard and agricultural crops, and each member is required to work as the c-chics directs, without any compensation xvhatever. It has recently become known to the mem bers of the colony that the title to all the lands, buildings, etc., is vested in Wil liam Howland, of Boston, who has fur nished all the money up to this time, about (40,000,and this discovery has led to a rupture of no small proportions. Curiosities of Light. Bishop Clark, writing on the curiosi ties of light, says: It seems to be a very commonplace thing to say that the light makes objects visible by reflexion; but have you ever thought just what this im plies? If it were possible to make a per fectly smooth surface, it would be in visible. But, as a matter of fact, noth ing is ix'rfectly smooth, audit is the little roughnesses on the surface which break np the rays of light, and thus render the object visible to our senses. Wonderful deception are produced by the use of highly-polished mirrors, with the most startling and magical effects. A Demand for Hand*. ‘‘Say, Jones, there's no need for you to be idle. There's ten thousand hands wanted in a store on Chestnut street,” "Sakes alive, man; to manufacture what t" "Nothing.” "Why do they want so many handsF' “To wear the gloves the firm is offer ing for sale.—Cad. Nensatloasof Hanging. Theodore Baker, a New Mexico man who was recently hanged by a mob, but was rescued and cut down before life was extinct, gives this account of his experi ence to a newspaper correspondent: ‘‘A little further on we came to a tele graph pole. From the crossbar swung a new rope. On one end wa* a big slip noose. They led me under the rope. I tried to stoop down and pull my boot, off, as I had promised my folks I would not die with my boots on, but before I could do it the doom wa* thrown over my head, and I was jerked off my feet. My senses left me a moment, and then I waked up in what seemed to lx - another world. A* I recolDct now, the sensation was that everything about me had multi plied a great many times. It seemed that my five executioners had grown in number until there where thousands of them. I saw what seemed to be a multi tude of animals of all shapes and sizes. Then things changed and I wa, in great pain. I became conscious that I was hanging by the neck, and that tlie knot of the rope had slipped around under my chin. My hands were loosely tied, and I jerked them loose and tried to catcli the rope above me. Somebody caught me by the feet just then and gave me a jerk. It seemed like a bright flash of lightning passed in front of my eyes. It was fol lowed by a terrible pain up and down and across my back, and I could feel my legs jerk and draw up. Then there was a blank, and I knew nothing more until 11 o’clock next day. “My first recollection was being in the court room, and saying: “Who cut me down?’ There was a terrible ringing in my ears, like the beating of gongs. I recognized no one. The pain in my back continued. Moments of unconsciousness followed during several days, and I have very little recollection of the journey here. Even after I had been locked up in this prison for safe keeping for a long time I saw double. Dr. Symington, the prison physician, looked like two persons. I was stili troubled with spells of total forgetfulness. Sometimes it seemed 1 didn’t know who I was.” The Luscious Banana. The banana p'ant is bulbous. The sprout starts up from the ground and grows somewhat after the manner of the sugar cane. Generally in one year after it begins to grow its fruit is ready to cut. Each tree bears one bunch of fruit which grows at the top. Tiie stalk is really composed of successive layers of leaves, formed by the top leaf coming off and those around it also, which die and dry up around the tree, thus making the stalk. There arc generally four or five leaves always at the top, new ones spring ing forth as the old ones die. The leaves are of a red color. The end of the stalk blossoms in a manner somewhat similar to that of the calla lilly. This blossom i s inclosed in a pad almost the size of a cocoanut which is composed of a succes sion of leaves. As the pod expands the leaves drop off and under each of the leaves is a “hand” of bananas, or what we recognize as one of the clusters on a bunch of bananas. The developing of these successive “hands” or layers of ba nanas constitutes the bunch. As these successive layers arc developed, the bunch increases in weight and bends over. When the bananas are fit to be taken off, the tree is cut partly in two about half way down the stalk, and the tree bent over and the fruit gathered. The tree is then bent back again into its regular position. The tree is not com pletely cut off, but is thus bent back into its former position for the purpose of preventing the water in the rainy sea son from going down into the roots and decaying them. After the rainy season sprouts begin to shoot up from around the bottom of the old stalk, and then the latter is cut off close to the butt. These shoots grow into new trees. Some times there will be four or five shoots, but ordinary only one or two are left to grow.— Providence Journal. YVhere Papa Comes In. A Boston minister has a bright little four-year-old daughter whose sayings are often worth re[)eating. One morning at breakfast he asked across the table, “Edie, whom do you love best?” “Mamma,” answered the little one. “Whom next?” “Aunt Helen." “Whom next?” “Bridget.” And the disappointed father continued his ques tions until the young maiden had de clared her affection for most of the neighborhood without mentioning any love for her father. Finally the clergy man said: “But, Edie, where does papa come in?” The little maid paused a moment, looked up, and then replied demurely, “Ju the front door.” An Ignorant Stranger. “You are fishing with pcrsistance,” said a gentleman to an urchin who had thrashed a stream without apparent re ward a whole afternoon. “Oh, no, sir: on’y jest angle-worms,’» replied the youth, pleasantly. “I mean you have a good deal of per severance,’’ explained the other. “No. them's suckers; guess ye ain't never lived in these parts, hev ye?" The boy was not a little disgusted by the stranger’s ignorance.— Be frublican. Coke, and How It is Made. Coke is the solid product left when all the moisture and gaseous mattershave been expelled from bituminous coal. There are two kinds: gas coke, which is j obtained from the retorts of gas-work*, after the gasses have been sejierated; and oven coke, which is made by burning the coal in a kiln, with little exposure to the air. Gas coke produces but a feeble heat, and though it is used to a consid. , erable extent as fuel in cities, being a cheap sort, it is regarded by manufact urer* as mere cinders. Oven coke, on the (th r hand, is capable of producing intense heat, and is valued for use in furnaces or smelting metals, and also in locomotives of underground railways, where the smoke of bituminous coal is very underirable. At mines of bitu minous coal, coke is made in large quantities, as in its manufacture all the fine refuse coal, screenings and coal dust, that would otherwise be ' thrown away, can be utilized. Two methods of cooking are in use. One is, by burning the coal in ovens of fire brick made for the purpose, these being usu ally about twelve feet square and ten feet in height. A door is made near the top through which the coal is put in, space being left for it to swell, while holes in the coverings of the oven allow the es cape of the gases. The coal is then ig nited from below, and a trench under the oven admits the air necessary sot combustion. About forty-eight hours are necessary to complete the cooking process. The other method of making coke is by burning it in the open heap. It is piled in long ranges, often contain ing many hundred tons over a shallow trench or air passage extending their en tire length. The heap is then fired, and when it is once thoroughly afire coke dust or ashes is heaped upon it,and when thoroughly covered in this way the fire is left for several days to smother and cool. This is a wasteful process, as much of I the heap becomes ashes before the rest i has been thoroughly coked. In some parts of Virginia and other southern states beds of natural coke is found.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. Social Free Lunching. ” A Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune says: I know of a woman in Washington who occupied a small, dark, inside room on the fifth floor of a tolerably fashionable hotel. She, to use a theatrical expression, faked out her meals. That is, she arose at 10 or 12, bought a second-hand newspaper for a > cent, and wended her way’ to a small sa loon on Pennsylvanla-ave., whose pro prietor has grown rich by making a spe cialty of delicious coffee and Vienna rolls and fine butter. He charge* ten cents ' for this little lunch. This Madame Iten erant would breakfast on her cup of coffee and roll. Then she went up to Congress, invariably riding in the three cent car. There is a bob-tail car run ning upto the Capito , the fare in which is only three cents, and some folks are so aristocratic they arc ashamed to be caught riding in it. Madame would visit a few of the mem- i bers, 101 l for awhile in the gallery of the » House, and sit just long enough in the ‘ Senate gallery to secure recognition by a smile or bow from such of her Senatorial friends as happened to be on the floor, and after picking up a few choice items of gossipy news, the conversational coin with which she paves and pays her social way, my Madame Itinerant gets back by 2 o’clock to her dingy inside room. At 3 she comes out resplendent in a nonpa reil velvet dress, and, card case in hand, I starts on the round of calls. She goes i from house to house, and daintily and deliberately eats her lunch at each place. In the course of ten visits madame has more than satisfied the cravings of her stomach, and has dined and supped for the day. Do you wondet that I call this , “faking out one’s meals?” The Shops of Havana. The shops and cases of Havana are surely more bright and interesting than those of any other city. Among the shops you will find no great establish ments covering a half-acre of ground, half a dozen stories high, and giving one the feeling of despair to enter; but they are all on one floor, high, cool, pretty, and many ladies hove a habit of shop ping from their carriages. In America it is the effort of merchants to get goods of every earthly description under one roof. Here the shops are more characteristic and individualized, as a rule. One will deal in silks and trimmings; another only in velvet* and velveteens; another may show superb lines of linen; gloves, fans, parasols, and umbrellas may be found at another; again a shop will sell woolens exclusively; another prints and cottons; and rarely will you find the notion store. So, too, outside of the textile fabrics these divisions in trade are rigorously ob served. A photographer is not an ar tist; bronze goods do not include pottery; the jeweler sells jewelry, not clocksand watches; the woodenware, ironware, and basket-ware merchants are not each all the others; and wine-merchants do not sell soap. In all these shops there is a richness and taste, but not obtrusiveness, in display; and from one end of the city to another the neatness, brightness, light ness, and ainness of the shop form much 1 of Havana's attractiveness.— Chicagc Seat. TOWERS OF SILEXCE. The Parsee Method of Di Spos ing of the Dead. The Bodies Plaoel on a Gra'ing : a s Tower and Givon up to Vulture. Colonel Floyd-Jones writing fr ls j n dia to the Military Service Journal, . an interesting description of the “T> v ri of Silence” near Bombay, nn l the P ur „ e mode of disposing of the dead. T he Parsce is a devoted fire worshipper and most of tho prayers are offered mornlm. and evening, facing the sun. It j s j.,.’ haps in consequence of this belief tl at he is so careful in preventing the p ii a . tion of the other elements, and that after death his body is placed in au open tow. er, usually on some eminence, where it is devoured by vult ires. These ope a sepulchres have been appropriately named the “Towers of Silence.” In every P ar . see dwelling house there is an aperture in the upper or sleeping story, which is usually covered by a grating; but when a member of the household dies, his body is placed on a bier and lowered throu ’h the aperture to the ground floor, where it is cared for by a set of priests called Neor-ser-sala, or death, men, who pre pare the body and clothe it entirely in white. Before the body is removed from the house, however, the forehead is smeared with a species of clarified butter or “ghee,” and the dog of the house is admitted. Should the animal lick the butter, it regarded as a good onrn of the departed’s future happiness, but its refus al would signify perdition. The death men have no contact with the world at large, and on no account arc they ad mitted to the house, as their presence would pollute it. Hence it is that the body is lowered to them, in order to make their entrance unnecessary. A pro. cession is then formed, the friends of the dead following the priests to the Towers of Silence, on Malabar hill. Arriving at the entrance of the grounds, the body is taken in charge by another set of priests, with long beards, who carry it ! to whichever of the five towers may be ! selected by the lasi set of priests. The body is taken through an aperture in the wall of the tower and deposited on a grating. There are three sets of these, one for men, signifying good deeds, one for women, representing good words, and one for children, indicating good thoughts. The clothing is then removed and torn into pieces, after which it is is thrown into another tower and the bodies exposed to the vultures. In a few minutes the birds have stripped all the flesh from the bones. Everything about the grounds is kept as neat as pos sible, and flowers grow in pretty gardens near the entrance. It is very curious that a religion which otherwise contains much that js elevating should counten ance amode of burial at once so unnatu ral and repulsive. Entertaining the Governor. Governor Pierce and the other territo rial officers are making a trip in southern Dakota. Yesterday morning they were in Watertown. They are staying at the leading hotel when a citizen of that place called to see the Governor. He was shown in and said: “Governor, I see you are making a visit to this part of the territory.” “Yes, sir.” “I s’pose you’re having a pretty good time.” “Yes, I have enjoyed myself so far.” “I calculate they try to entertain you ’ at all the different cities you visit. ‘ ‘Oh, yes, each place has made it very pleasant for us.” “Os course, and Watertown ain't going to be outdone.” “I suppose not, it is a very enterprising town.” “You bet it is, Governor. And I'm going to do my share, too. Now, 11l tell you my scheme; I’ve got a horse tied down at the door that's deceived lots of good judges on his age and to make it interesting for you and seen’s your th° guest of the city, I’ll bet you $2 that yon can’t tell how old he is the first time you look in his mouth! Here's my money, we’ll put it up with the auditor, I know him. Come on down, Governor, and blamed if I don’t hold old Jack’s mouth open for you while you look at his teeth!”— Estelline (Dak.) Bell. Fishing With Dynamite. A correspondent writing from Key West, Fla., tells of a fishing excursion down there with dynamite. “The ob jective point was found to be a hole about twenty-five feet deep, where fish congregate in large numbers. Arriving at the -pot, a cartridge about six inches long, charged with dynamite, to which had been attached a heavy piece of iron in order to make it go to the bottom, was thrown in the water. A suspense of a few seconds ensued, and then a faint re port, like the discharge of a small pistol was heard; the water became agitated and was raised about two feet, and im mediately therea'ter, within a radius of about sixty feet, the fish were strewn in all directions. A scene of the wildest ex citement followed. Scoop nets were brought into speedy use, and over 1,000 fish of different varieties, from the large gray snapper, over three feet in length, to the small but succulent sailor's choice, were secured.