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The Commoner.
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 45
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HOW OYSTERS ARE FATTENED
At Lynnhaven, Va., the United
States bureau of fisheries has been
working for several years on a plan
to establish an artificial fattening bed
. for oysters. The oyster lives chiefly
on diatoms and other microscopic ma
rine plants. These plants require for
.their growth a large supply of in
' organic salts in. the water. The nec
essary plant food is supplied by put
(tlng commercial fertilizers into the
! water. The fattening bed must be
in shallow water, so as to have a rela
tively high temperature.
A wall is maintained around the fat
tening ground so as to retain the fer
tilizer and diatoms. Even after the
diatoms have multiplied enormously
the oysters receive no benefit from
tbem unless a current is maintained
in the water to carry the food to the
oysters. Salt water is pumped in to
prevent the fattening beds from be
coming, too fresh, and a little lime s
added to the water to prevent the
growth of algae and other plants
which give a disagreeable flavor to
the oysters. Too much lime, on the
other hand, will destroy the food
plants of the oyster. The process
seems somewhat complicated, but It
has been demonstrated to be feasible
and to yield fine results in the number
and quality of oysters. Country Life
in .America. .
ANIMALS THAT WEEP
Travelers through the Syrian des
: ert have seen horses weep from thirst,
a mule has been seen to cry from the
pain of an Injured foot, and camels,
it is said, shed tears in streams. A
cow sold by its niistressv who had
tended it from calfhood, w'ept bitterly.
A young sxko ape used to cry from
vexation if Livingstone didn't nurse
: it in bis arms -when it hSKed liim to.
; Wounded apes have died crying, and
I apes have wept over their young ones
slain by hunters. A chimpanzee
1 trained to carry water-jugs broke one,
.and fell a-crylng, which-proved sor
row, though it, wouldn't mend the jug.
Rats, discovering-their young drowned,
navG teen moved to tears of grief. A
giraffe which a huntsman's rifle had
Injured began to cry when approacbed.
Sea lions often weep over the loss
of their young. Gordon Cumming ob
served tears trickling down the face
of a dying elephant. And even an
orang-outang when deprived of 'its
mango was so vexed that it took to
-weeping. There is little doubt, there
fore, that animals do cry from grief
or weep, from pain or annoyance.-
Harper's Weekly.
or half of the plains) -were, according
to the census of 1900, carrying 24,
000,000 head of cattle and horses and
about 6,000,000 head of sheep. This
means that when fully stocked they
might sustain a number of buffalo at
least equal to the number of cattle
and horses. The buffalo had to divide
their heritage with numerous herds of
mustangs, antelope and wapiti; on the
other hand, a buffalo could find a
living where a range animal would
starve, many of tne richest bottom
lands are now fenced in, and we have
taken no account of the 6,000,000
sheep. Therefore, we are safe in
placing at 40,000,000 the buffalo for
merly living on the entire plains
area. Scribner's Magazine.
COTTAGE PUDDING
Simeon Ford tells of a woman in a
Chicago hotel who was known as the
most inveterate "kicker" the hostelry
had ever known.
One evening at dessert the lady who
was always complaining asked the
waiter why the dish served her was
called "Ice cream pudding."
"If you don't like it, ma'am, I'll
bring you something else," suggested
the polite negro.
"Oh, it's very nice," responded the
lady. "What I object to is that it
should be called ice cream pudding.
It's wrongly named. There sbould be
ice cream served with it."
"Yes, ma'am," replied the waiter,
"but that's jest our name for it. Lots
o' dishes that way. Dey- dont bring
you a cottage with a cottage -pudding,
you know." Success. "
FORCING THE MILLENNIUM -'
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Thomas A. Edison, celebrating his
fifty-ninth birthday, prophesied that
the world would soon have flying ma
chines, cheap automobiles and a dozen
other marvelous things.
"Do you think, sir," said a young
lady reporter, "that the world will
ever be Christianized?"
Mr. Edison smiled.
"Not only do I think so," he said,
"but I think we shall both live to see
it. . Just look at the way tbese big
improved machine . guns are wiping
out the heathen." Baltimore American.
THE BUFFALO
The total area inhabited by the buf
falo was about 3,000,000 square miles.
Of this the open plains were one
half. According to figures supplied
me by A. F. Potter of the Forest Ser
vice, the ranges of the Dakotas, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas,
Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma (a
total of about 750,000 square miles,
THE BUSY ANGLER
An angler in the Hiver Meuse, in
Belgium, while fishing recently, felt
a light bite as he was pulling in his
line. Then there was a second pull,
and just as the fish was appearing on
the water an enormous pike made a
spring at it, and went off with his
prey and 100 feet of line. After much
trouble it was wound in, and the as
tonished angler found that he had
caught first a perch of about one
pound weight and well on the hook,
then a pike of four pounds, which
had half swallowed the perch, then a
pike of thirteen pounds weight, who
had seized on the smaller pike, in
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his endeavor to wrest the perch from
him. -London Daily Mail. .
AS A LAST EXTREME
Once a number of legal lights in
Washington were gathered in the
smoking room of a lawyers' club when
the talk turned to a discussion of the
veracity of lawyers.
"The average man," remarked one
disciple of Blackstone, "seems onlv
too ready to assume we Rre all liars
a very unjust position, it seems to
me. Do we not sometimes tell tho
truth?" he asked of his neighbor a
well known criminal lawyer.
"Certainly," promptly responded tho
latter. "We will do anything some
times to win a case." Washington
Post.
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