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SPONGE FISHING. Diving in Mediterranean Wat ers for this Fibrous Material A Shrewd Austrian Professor Grows Them Artificially. In the Tunisian waters of the coast of Africa the sponge fishery is carried on most actively and profitably during the months of Dacember, January and Feb ruary. The late autumnal storms have by that time cleared the sponges of the sesweeds and other plants which con cealed them. It is considered, ca'm weather and a transparent sea being ii dispensable, that not more than forty. five days can be counted upon each se- 1 son. The men employed in the Tunis Ian sponge-fishery are almost exclusively Greeks or Siciians, and the former are found the more skilful. There are sev eral modes of collecting sponges. They are plucked with the hand by help of a diving bell, they are harpooned, or they are dragged up with an instrument t which resembles the sort of drag used where there is a hard bottom, and the harpoon is the instrument mainly em ployed by sponge-fishers. The Arabs go out to parties of five, six or seven persons in a small boat. One man holds the trident and watches the bottom of the sea, striking where I he sees a sponge; but the Arabs are rarely successful in a depth of more t than eight or ten metres. The method of the Sicilians is almost the same as that of the Arabs, except that their e boats take only two men, one to row 1 and the other to strike. The Sicilians fish in deeper water than the Arabs and d secure more sponges than they, and of a better quality. The Greeks who for c the most part come from Kalimno and r Syria are the chief employers of the drag. s But the great majority of these also hold to the trident which they use with extraordinary cleverness. The island of KSlimano, on the south- C western coast of Asia Minor, between r Cos and Leros, contains a population of f about '2, 000, all the adult males being v engaged in the sponge-fihery. They b leave the Island in May, and return in I September at the latest. The islanders t of Kalimno exercise their profession of a sponge-fl.hers off the shores of the isl ands of the kingdom of Greece, of the k southern Sporades, and specially of ti Rhodes, of Crete, of the whole extent d of Syria, of the island of Ruad, and n finally of Tunis, where their vessels are ti so large and so welt manned that they k drive the Arabs and Sici:ians complete- i ly out of the fild. They take the $ ponges back to Kalimno, where they is are sold, the council of the island con- a stiuting a court which decides all T differences between fishermen, cap- be tains, proprietors, merchants and fr retail purchasers. The Kalimniotes w usually fish at a depth of from fi- ti teen to twenty feet; below this there di arJ no sponges which possess any com- ti mercial value. The divers have to be in men of adult age and of great physical hi strength; they can in no case remain so at the maxir.um depth of twenty feet tii for more than two minutes. They se select the good from among the bad be sponges by touch, tearing away those m which seem to hb the best, and place w them in a rouch fastened round the be seek. Quite recently a new method has a been adopted, the wearing of a water.- a tight diving dress, made of metal and provided with glass windows; in this dress men are able to reaai at the bot tomofthesea for two or threehours L and collec: the sponges at their ease. The Kalimniote fishermen are in the C habit of dividing the sponges which Cl they sell into three classes-those of th Lee quality, these which are large in 5 site, and those which are inferior in la qality. The island possssos 200 hi Vessels engaged in this industry. An industry in artificial sponces is in vi progress of creation. 31. Oscar Schmidt, cr professor at ths university of Gratz, in A S:yria, has. invented a method by which th pieces of living sponc nare brok:en off pa ad planted in a favorabhl, spot. From P very small cuttings of this kind Pro- T -ss-or Schmidt has obtained largo sponges in the course of three years and at a vary small expense. Oneof his cx Periments gave the result that the culti vation of 4,000 sponges had not cost ye .ore than (45, including the interest for three years on the capital expended. ro The Austro-Hungarian government has an been so much struck with the importance -f thebe experiments that it has cfficially b Suthorized the p:otection of this new do hdustry on the coast of Dalmatia.-- i Chambcrf a JournaL an A The cheeky man is one of metal-usu- me Sll brass. Se I Nissoari's Iromn eontal.. There have been sold from Iron mountain 3,000,000 tons of ore, says a . letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. But there is in sight today more ore than James Harrison saw when he came here forty-odd years ago and r figured out fortunes for himself and as sociates, The product exceeds 8,000,000 tons. f The more exact giures are 8,085,000 a tons. What does this mean in dollarst e It is hard to say. But there ha been times when Iron mountain ore was e worth $10.50 a ton leaded upon e the cars. It is even remembered that - once a car load made up of picked ore a brought $15 a ton. This was an extra lot wanted for some special work at Peckham's Kimmswick furnace, and it . brought an extra price. The bulk of the product has gone at $9, $8 and T7, with prices now ranping still lower. Perhaps, for a rough estimate, $8 a ton may be taken as a fair average. That means $25,000,000 for the product. Early operations were primitive. The ore was picked up from the crest of the mountain in chunks, trundled down the monutain side on tramways, and loaded on the cars ready for shipment. Pick and shovel dislodged the masses. Gray. ity furnished the power, for the loaded car going down pulled the empty one up. That was picking up dollars. One workman was good for six or eight tons a day. Ore was worth $9 and $0 aton, and 100 cars a dayleft the mountain for the furnaces. There were periods when the ship ments went over 1000 tons a day, and every ton meant a $5 bill to the stock holders. A net income of $5000 a day! A profit of $15, 003,000 from $25,000, 000 gross income. And yet here stands the mountain to day, reduced in size, scarred and fur rowed and tunneled, with more ore in sight than there was in 1844. Coney Island Prolts. I picked up some information about Caney I land beer the other dLay, says a reporter in the Brookly= Citizen, my in fornlant being the superintendent of a well-known restaurant. "I had charge," he said, "of a beer counter down at the I.land part of one summer, and really think I learned how to sell more froth and less beer for five cents than any other man in the business. For every keg of beer that was tapped I had to turn in $9 to the boss, and if I failed to do so he deducted the difference out of my wages. That very seldom happened though. The beer cost the boss $2 a keg, and I have sold as much as $13 worth of beer from one keg; that meant $4 for me, after I had settled with the boss I liked to see a party come in and commence drinking ponies of beer. The usually got about a tablespoonful of beer at the bottom of several inches of froth, and it was wonderful how the keg would hold out. Then I had charge of the lunch counter for a short time and did pretty well there. The bass bought the leanest hams he could get, averag ing about twelve pounds each, and I had to turn in $10 for every ham. We sold thesandwiches for ten cents, cut tinag the ham so thin you could almost see throuth it, but then we had the bread thick enough, and gave plenty of mutnard. I made out pretty well at that work, but the beer counter paid me the best. What profit is made on a roll and a sausaget You pay five cents for it, and one-half pf that is profit." The Saivrra:I Army. The Salvation Army was organizled in Lndon in the year 1863 by the Rev. William Booth, the present General-in. Chief. Hi was brought up in the Church of Eagland, converted among the Methodist,, and afterward became I a trave'ing preacher among them, and latboreud as such until 1801, when he gave himself up with his wife to evangelistic work. The army has divisions and di visional headquarters in Sweden, Switz. erland, Frnce,Germany, A'riea, India, Australia, Now Z aland. Twsm.nia and the Uited States. Sixteen weekly papers, each known as the War Cry,are ptilished in these dilif:rcnt cuntries. Their aggregate circulation is 26,000, C000 copies a year. A Careful Borrower. "I say, Fred, lend me a dollar, wi:ll youl' A dollar bi:l is produced. The bor rower looks at it a moment thoughtful.y, and then exc!aims: "By the way, Fred, I just remem b.red that there are counterfeit one doinr bills in circu:ation. To prevent mi-takes, suppose you take this back: an.d lend me a two instead. Thanks! A fellow can never be too careful in money matters, you know. So long! see you later."- [Boston Traascript, - THE PIG. -Result of Experiments on Pig Feed. Aug in Illinoss. In his experiments in pig feedin., Professor T. F. Hunt, of the Illinois College farm coneludes as follows: It required 13.80 pounds of skim-milk to produce one pound of pork when fed with ooru meal in ratio 1.17 to fatten b kim-milk eould not be economieally fed to fatten hogs unless it was a waste produot which could not be otherwise utilized, It required on an average 4.12 pounds or .074 bushels of shelled corn to pro duce one pound of pork during an aver period of four weeks, or one bushel proded 13.5 pounds. It required 4.387 pounds of corn meal to produce one pound of pork, or one bushelof corn made into meal and fed dry produced 12.8 pounds of pork. When fed dry shelled corn is more economical than corn meal to feed to fatten hogs. It required 7.35 pounds.or .23 bushels of ground oats to produce one pound of pork, when fed with equal parts, by weight, of corn meal. One bushel of corn is worth nearly three bushels of oats as food for fatten ing hogs. Corn-fed pigs gained about 4.5 pounds per week and ate about 21 pounds of corn per 100 pounds live weight. The gain for the amount of food con sumed decreased during fattening. Pork was produced during cold wea ther, with corn at 28 cents per bushel, for less than three cents per pound. An insuflicieut food supply for two weeks caused a very considerable loss in feeding thereafter. We believe Indian corn to be the most economical pork-producing material du ring winter months in regions where ex tensively grown. Artesian Wells in Socosa. A few weeks ago, socording to the Weekly Briletin, "a fine flow of excellent water was struck at a depth of ninety feet, on a lot a little to the east of the town of Sonoma, belonging to Mr. Oil bert. The next attempt was made at Mr. Winkle's vineyard, when at a depth of eighty-two feet a flow of 90,000 gal lons per day was obtained. The tools were then moved about 150 feet south to the lands of J. Gundlach, where still greater success was met with. At a depth of one hundred and ten feet a flow of 100,000 gallons per day was reached. Both these wells are located in the toot hills, considerably above the level of the valley and supposedly in a very unlikely place tofind such a result. The tools penetrated successive layers of sand, roes, and clay, the water being found below the latter. The water comes out with considerable force, and will over flow a pipe twenty feet above the sur face. The fortunate owners of these wells consider them worth not less than 110,000 apiece. The temperature of the water is constantly 72 deg. F., and what is remarkable is that it is exactly the same as that of several prings on the ither side of the valley, four or five miles away. Many of the farmers and fruit growers of the valley are arrang ing to put down wells." e-w to Overeemo the Damgere ot x. eomsre. Francis O'Reilly, the well known Ilvery mas _f No. 18 Prince street. New York, says of ALL. coca's Poaoc PL.nreas: "For the last forty-two years I have been en raged in the livery and hacking business. I m greatly aided by my four boys. We are nuch exposed to the weather, and we have toand ALtrocg's PLAsrEts of very great ser rice. We use them as chest protectors, placing mne on the chest and one on the pit of the stom Mh. They not only ward of the cold, but act is a tonic. We are frequently afected with rheums. Ism, kinks In the back, and palms in the side; mt one or twoof AuLcoca's PnAsrzasquickly ure us. My wife and daughter have been ising AuIoca's PLastmas for weak back and hink the world of them. I have now been sing them for twenty years, and always have box in the house." A better crop of cotton will be obtained rom Georgia this year than last Jark and .Jill c(ah tankt a pill tIlaI-faa.hiogacl ktlnd--itil grr.ws: Ja'k's w**nt dowr- but with friowat JIU ailed from "'caut. unknmow." Smiles will supersede naroyr frowrt. end a• ny drltarolforts will be unkllown. when Ie. 1.rr&e' Pleasant Purgative llilets entirely tn.C.rt. a' they bald fail t(, d.,. tha large anUh as eliciel:t pill of t our furelathers. Every ,Iay ecy gain new ;Luurhla' Nat popular ,wslth et ills abuuuudl There are thirteen woumen physicians now racticing medicine in Paris. Every Farmer's Wife sees -rome her Poutry die each yeer wtlhout knwtug what the matter ra or how to etsc a remeda-y if ahe aot, sIoes ul" the nDlp. This not right. a at aan ex Sie'e of I. rents in rith erLeane" r ru-llt aPmiry t·ta'ky t t at aatelr. blt a inain wrc~rd:a fr drollr. and ,-,,' aharI p-rla'l .f' 'ec.r'. It teahes yea wlO Detelt sad ('lre il)lacates hew sie a-ed for Eggs hid al SEor Oaenit teLt Fowli o I v awe fA Sreeding T r-I ascot eveirt hiag, indeed, yeu abnido l -eW eoonthis o .'t 3t for 134 Leonard _4rYia-t, N. Y. City. COMMON SElS', SFor CATR, IA! ElLc, ·aLl diaarua thlar Jlra. Th."atl tam of na-,jrainl n-.ar ed aaad mon 'a-n. (Iti.''lOlt t-rr.mt I, t ,,zteda air tana-tratalnt . j"an f 1aa~ ·naro'lt , i It,-trm warr ah. Cues i I r. a' UaR t etn ha- a-rr.d while a-p. ET rON r.., ,ra,a.,, o,,. 30 DAYS' TRIAL ad. Thlarasud a .aailu -eIn: -mu Snse Cre C, S-ate St., Chicago, Ill ymlpeemo of Catarrk. Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of the assl Paeseddischarges tallig from the! a hed into the thhroat, m.etimes profu. wthe tery and acrid, at other,, thick. tenacious. mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes re weak. water)-. nd inflamed; there is ring. lug in the ears.deafness. hat king or coughing Stoclear he Llhron expectoration of offensive i mavter. t ether with scabs from ulcers. Ithe voice is changed and has a nasal twang: the * brath is offensivea smell and taste are ir. Spairei' there is a sensation of dizzinems, with u menital depresson. a hacking cough and gen. ral debility If you have all. or any consider Sale number of tbhes ym ptoni, you are sufr feriag from Nasal Catarrk. The more coUIpliL t ly cate y.our diseaseh bet-.e, the rter the aumber and diverlty of sfmpbnas. Thosuads I Sof cases annually, without manifesting half of Sthe eabove symptom. result in consumption,s d the nra No disease s so co. man. more deceptive and ilsalgerous, or less Ii understood, or more unsnccessfully treaste. by . physicians. Five hundred dollars reward is offered by the manufacturers of Dr. lige 's Ca- t Starrh Remedy,for a case of catarrh which they cannot cure. medy sold by draggWs, at 0ay c cent.. It bexpe-tedthat the fall trade will be ýunusuall cttve Woma 's Modesup. S Many women are prevented by feelinga of Io delicacy from consultlng a plhysi ian is those disorders arising from functional dlerangement of her peculiarly delicate organism, and the I molt sertons results are often caused by this d neglect To mich person Dr.lierm e's Favorite Prescriptioanis epecial m. as it offers a 7 sure and safe cure for all thee distresingdls orders to which women are peculiarly subject. ' while it saves a modest girl or woman from the 'embharra met of a personal consultation with s- a physic Ian. "Favorite Prre.cription" ls the only medicine for woman's ipsc lluar weak. Sneme and ailments., old by druggists. undera nsiitve guarantee from tbhe manufancturers. hat it will give satisfaction In every case, or money will , refaldedL ee gsarantee an boottl wrapper. Many an actress who thinks hersef a star objects to hearing it spelt backwards. A Great Disevery. The fact that castor-oil, as vile a medicine as was ever discovered, basso long held itsown as a lazative, is becaure,until Hamburg Figs were discovered.no mediine could take its place. Now, however. ladies and children take Ham burg Figs.and like them. f2 cents. Dose one F- Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y. C. -- - No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumn ption. Cures where other renmedies fail 25c. It Is well known, says a writer in the West minter Review., that during the several ex 1 peditions toward th3 North Pole, those men whoabstained from alcohol bore the extreme cold with kz, suffering or inconvenience 7 taan was experienced by those who took it I- The British Temperanee League, the old t est National temperance orgaisation in the h country, has just been celebrating its ffty fourth annual meeting at Leeds SLoo Ct.arn are fast go ing out of style as fashion able residences. Log Cabins will, however, always have a place in American history, as they were the most prominent feature of our T country's early social life. T ie pionee-: were strong, rugged, I, hlthy. Warner's Log Cabin tough 1and Consumption lemedy is a reproduc Sti n of one o; the best of the old time rot to and h rbs remedies, which kept them well. r:verybody prases "Tippe ecanoe" as a stomach tonic. Ye WVill save Meery. Time, Palm. Tremble And Will Care 'f CATARRH ELY'S CBEAM BALE. , pplybalm into each nostril :LY Rr., M Warns 51. N.Y. DISMOOVERY. Mild wasdei an ured. tam.lsg wltot si .Wb lly llll a t Paleyem. pi'rac e emmea I uy ;maL stratd se res tom snde ca Pveue-etuu. with otastoAs o . Ws HNa Bmm. i tse worldsLd i t di . e J.st ýso idses. a ';4td e tases se w Ea Jidc.. Veelkl , r eeor the cientistr , a's Aotaees.utleetre Y . PnF.L wOItE. s1 fth ·a ew a r t sam lere e . E RIFLE IK seae. me. trma wel a. - UA LLARD I SutAM , U mtUainin. AI I S as w mr aut . £ Inwa . 8 t. BICYCLES.i l: m ** 1.0. 14Is. - . "4 " MS. O A IsoIt nd-a hels t ellr linoar 1-n,;its and Lmoul,. ED' -celtric Friction ---I IErlRethFRIGCHT A U;ENrI wastei. Si an l',;lr. Snw+ aIni rlea. Ft s'.t.ge and samplefre. C.. larahall,..c .tor't. New Yr A. IS I BICU?' F£Tcr Ke. ~D· gn'n. .. n ýý"" r(n" tn·l.." i, `t ·rn+ýe~lhnr,+ºm!".onar ·l~lrr b en,'I· (-FI fl ADLLUICKZ t&AIu l I A·L rottthi )Ii.U YltMº"I t~lur·· f.1 &klnneriber. if Tcri~ur~erpt a re t!··,C "r1 ) . i,["F , ` n t.Ae Pf t r"1, e"t n d.TrWrP la.""ýýýF. n" SCOTTS EMULSION of Pure Cod Liver Oil, with Hypophosphites, is a .. combination of two of the most valua ." ble remedies in existence for the cure of Consumption and all Wasting Con ditions; is more generally recosmend i ed and used by Physicians than any T known remedy; it gives most satisac . tory results, and tones up the system; and when the Consumptive has wasted away and loses hope, the Emulsion , will speedily check the ravages of this M terrible disease, and restore the sufferer to good health and happiness. This t is equally true in regard to Rickets in Children, or Marasmus.and Anemia in Adults,andall impoverished conditions of the blood; and especially desirable , for Colds and Chronic Coughs, as it will cure them more quickly than ordi M ny Specifics used. Palatable as milk. a Sold by all Druggists. 't DR. SCHENCK'S MANDRAKE PILLS 'r Are the safest, surest and speediest " vegetable remedy in the world for all Diseases of the Stomach and Liver, BECAUSE They clean the linings ofStomach and bower Reduce congestion in all the organs. 5 Heal irritated and excited parts, Promote healthy action and sweet secretioms, » Correct the bile and cure biliousness. n Make pure blood and give it free flow. se Thus send nutriment to every part. Do not fail to send for Dr. Schenck's new and admirable treatise on the Lungs, the Liver. and the Stomach, with their diseases and cure. It abounds in excellent informa tion, and will give you ideas about these vital organs and the laws of health you never ad before Senot free. DR.SCHENCK'S MEDICINES PUuL.ONIO SYRUP, .:. AWEEsu TOrao , a. . ýAMUAkE PILLS. PURELY VEGETASLf. mre for sale by all Druggists. Full printed ) directions with each package. Address all t- communications tu r. J. 1i. Shenk t& So., as Philadelphia, l' Ps re it I believe Pleo's Cre t ibr Consumption nved my life,-A. I. Dowar., Eitor Enquirer, Eden ton, N. C., April 23, 1867. PISO I CoIarr. e -. Childre B I all dlr Ia S i. w-sa w eans a swins a uses? Uwa*Pilekotosat e.d ..e t a.we m amre..e Elaaet a m MOe whan eame pmnble k TeU 7se age by a. m7sew Whaseeitoe uas.uto Pa. se tae Ao l Paw toashoe a ese Perly dAll Wa BOO PUB. HOUSE, 334 L. . ard St.. w York I. ony sMU 31tr UU "'"r I rTbT ill ma .... U71. m FLIE8IS! A 'm |ls r ". 84a k eme. e 4 L.A. * ..nrthtansatl.r.. th.r.a bly taub by MAIL. C'. *,.llr, fre-. Urynan's Ceolle.., 43S7 UIa 51. Muffakl. ,. 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