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July Is Sponge Fishing Season;
Big Tropical Industry Revived
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/N MID-JU LT begins the
annual sponge take be
tween coasts of Miami,
Fla., and Nassau, of the
Bahama islands group,
from which comes most of
the sponges used in V. S.
homes, bath rooms and
gasoline stations. The
above picturesque view
shows the sponge fleet at
anchor off the British
colonial quay at Nassau.
Sponges are taken from
dinghys which put out
from the sloops when a
bed is sighted. Fishermen
carry glass-bottomed buck
ets and spears. Others
(right) pick by hand.
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When fishermen have secured a catch they return to Nassau where
sponges are dried out and placed on sale at an auction similar to a
southern tobacco auction in the United States. Actual drying process
is shown above. Sponges are buried under weeds and straw to dry out
in the sun.
Since the unique sponge can be classed neither with the “metazoa” or
the “protozoa” many zoologists place it in a special subkingdom known
as porifera. Sponges may range in size from a pin’s head to masses
several feet high, and vary in weight from a grain to more than 100
pounds.
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Sponges grow at almost any
depth of water. Above photo
shows natives picking them from
a shallow pool. Left: A fisherman
depositing part of the days catch
in a rocked-in coral pool on a
small island where the sponges
will remain soaking until the fleet
returns to Nassau. The British
colonial government is experi
menting in planting of sponge
beds. There are three varieties:
Silk sponge, wool and common
type, most generally used in North
America. When the fleet sets out
from Nassau it usually remains
away for two weeks to a month.
Each boat carries small dinghys.
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
OUR COMIC SECTION
STUMPED HIM
•'1 took a tramp down the jivei
today and really enjoyed the nov
elty of the thing.”
“But how you can associate, with
svch persons, I can’t see.”
Events in the Lives of Little Men
Experimental
A young man whose knowledge of
cards was vague was roped in to
complete a bridge four. He com
mitted his first mistake by throwing
away a king on a trick already
taken by his opponent’s ace.
His Farther (bellowing)—Good
heavens! A king doesn't beat an
ace!
Beginner (stammering)—l know,
but I thought I’d find out.—Chelsea
Record.
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“How many suits did you bring
down with you?”
“Five, but I’m taking back one
breach of promise suit beside;*.”
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POULTRY
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A BIT OF 'Z^,
FUN /XX&SI
Disadvantage
Boogy—Truth is stranger than
fiction.
Woogy—Yes, but it’s seldom so
well expressed.
Wise Fellow
Speaker—The man who gives in
when he is wrong is a wise man,
but the man who gives in when
he is right is
Voice From Audience—Married.
Notice in a doctor’s surgery:
“Ladies in the waiting room will
please not exchange symptoms.
It gets the doctor hopelessly
mixed.’’
Competent Judge
Two burglars had broken into a
tailor’s shop and were busy sort
ing out some suits when one of
them saw one marked $65.
“Bert, look at the price of that
one,” he said. “Why, it’s down
right robbery, ain’t it?”
Casus Belli
Officer—Can you describe your
assailant?
Victim—Of course I can; that’s
what he hit me for—describing
him.
Two’s company—three's a film
plot.
Difference in Inches
Little Tommy was asked the
difference between prose and poet
ry. He pondered a while and then
said: “There was a young man
named Rees, who went into the
sea up to his ankles.
“That’s prose,” he said, “but if
the water had been a few inches
higher, it would have been
poetry.”
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Two Tasks
It is one thing to show a man
that he is in error, and another to
put him in possession of truth.—
Locke.
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