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“Bleached oysters" is the latest and n rapidly prow in# fad. The fashionable uptown restaurants are catering to it. An oyster that does not peer forth snowy white from the depth of its'shell is considered bad form. It does not appear that the Albino-hued bivalve is improved by the blanchin# process. | In fact, it is held by all fair-minded people who have tried them that the flavor which gives our oysters their superiority over all the bivalves of the world is destroyed entirely. But they are said by self-constituted authoritites to look better, and it is the fashion to have them served that way. The course of treatment to which the luscious shellfish is subjected to brings about the pale and ghostly hue is the secret of the restaurant men. The wholesale oyster dealers know nothing about it. A reporter for the New York World went aboard a floating warehouse, on the North river, the other day, and made an inquiry as to the best method f of blanching oysters. It was apparent j that oystermen do not relish the newspaper notoriety which has been thrust | upon the innocent and inoffensive shellfish. “If I could meet the man who start- . ed all this talk about typhoid fever and : malaria in oysters,” said one old salt, | “I'd chuck him in the bay and hit him on the head with a boathook when ho came up the first time, and there wouldn't be no second time. “As if it ain't bad enough that this has been one of the worst oyster years we ever had, but on top of that some crazy fool up in Connecticut trios to fatten his oysters in a creek into which n sewer empties. What's the result? A lot of college students and professors get sick and four of them die. What follows? The newspapers publish it all over the country, typhoid fever in oysters, and the business is almost paralyzed in some places. Forty million people eating oysters and four of them get sick and die! How many people die every day from eating pork and beef, yet docs that scare anybody? No, sir. "Now, on top of all this, some fool restaurant men go to making their oysters white, which God never intended they should be, or He would have made ’em so. I don't suppose that the oysters were hurt any by it, but some fellow gets sick, after knocking about the Tenderloin all night, and remembers that he ate a dozen bleached oysters, and then he hollers that he has been poisoned. “Some one writes to a newspaper that sulphate of zinc will bleach an oyster. I don't know whether it will or not. but a chemist told me that it would not. But the oyster trade gets it in the neck all the same. Thank goodness that these stories did not get out two months ago, or the oystermen would all be in the hands of the associated charities. Our season is over for cheap oysters, in which the money is made. Nothing goes out of New York now but shell oysters. New York counts, and culls. The oyster business after the middle of November goes to Baltimore. There are no oyster canneries in New York. “This fad for white oysters I never heard of before this year. There are no pure white oysters. The oyster takes his color from ids surroundings and an old oysterman can tell at a glance which one of the beds hereabouts an oyster comes from. The Blue Point is often silvery in appearance. There is no way that I know of to make an oyster white. "When the weath(*r is not too cold oysters, after being taken up, are sunk on floats for from twelve teftwentyfour hours in brackish water,generally near the mouth of a fresh-water creek. This water the}* will drink freely and fill up so that they look fat. This has the effect of washing out the sea water and mud that may have been taken in I know every oyster bed in New York bay. Long Island sound, or the rivers of New Jersey, and I know of no oyster that is what you might call white Personally, 1 would let such alone if offered me. “Nature cannot be improved upon in the mutter of the oyster, except to give it a eh a nee tu wash dill anu'fiitten iip on some half-salt water. When the people understand that the bleached oysters are unnatural and artificial they "'ill become suspicious of them and be satisfied with the plain, unbleached variety.”

An Amvrtcnn’a Exparlrnre In That Inhospitable Country. The Coreans of the lower classes are coarse, homely, and anything but picturesque. The men, in the higher classes, are often intelligent-looking, but generally also sensual. The costume is simply hideous. I never could see, says a writer in Home and Country, the beauty or utility, or, indeed, any possible excuse of the ridiculous birdcage hat that is the pride of the highclass Corcan, except that it is a caricature of our civilized silk hat. This made me think what an absurd thing a silk hat must appear to be in the eyes of a savage. The country is said to be infested with tigers, and no one ever thinks of venturing out at night without a lantern. A gentleman who came on board our ship gave a graphic description of how a tiger had come up on his porch the night before and scratched for admission. I always regret not having asked him whether he let the poor beast in or not. It was the 1st of June when we finally arrived at Vladivostok. Already the change of temperature made heavy underwear and an overcoat very acceptable. The Russians are extremely proud of the port of Vladivostok, which they are pleased to designate with the rather flowery title of “The Golden Horn.” From a military point of view, Vladivostok is without doubt one of the best fortified ports in the world. It is practically invulnerable from the sea. and every point of access is covered by the batteries from the numerous forts on the surrounding hills. The picture before us was a strange contrail to that of the harbor at Nagasaki. The fertile islands and wooded hills were replaced by bare rocks and plateaux, surmounted with breastworks and formidable-look-ing batteries. Indeed the impression, far from being pleasing, was cold and forbidding. Chinese, Japanese, and even Corcan ports, are alive; Vladivostok seems dead.

CURIOUS FISHES.

The Soko Ape. Letters from the African traveler, Oscar Neumann, at Bukoba, says the London News, contains many interesting tilings that Neumann learnt from the Manyemas. One is that the Soko ape is very counnoa and much feared in Manyamaland, between Nyangwe and the northern shore of the Tanganyika. Some time ago an Arab wanted to take a Soko which he had captured to the coast. He succeeded in reaching Ugogo with his prize. There he died, and his sons, who attributed the deatli of their father to the enchantments of the wicked wood demon, hastened to re transport the supposed origin of their misfortune <o its native place, and the interesting specimen was thus lost to science.

Some That Were Seen by an American Traveler In Singaport. In one of the ponds were some “shooting fish,” which have the remarkable faculty of securing their prey by knocking it down with a drop of water ejected from the mouth. The attendant fed them by placing ants on a tree growing in the middle of the pond. A tish at once rose to the surface, sent a drop of water at one of the insects with unerring aim, and darting forward caught it in its mouth almost ns soon as the ant touched the water. The performance was repeated many times, but I never saw a fish miss its mark. Another curiosity, of which the M'angna had several specimens, was the fighting fish, a species of so combative a disposition that, like fighting cocks, it is only necessary to place two of them near each other, and perhaps irritate them a little, to bring on a lively conflict. They at once charge at each other, with fins erect, at the same time changing color, in their excitement, from the dullest of gr:;<,-greens to the most brilliant of reds and blues. Indeed, confinement in close quarters is not needed to arouse their combative propensities. Place two glass jars close together with one of these fighting tish in each, and they will at once swim round and endeavor to charge each other through the interposed glass. Even a single fish, seeing h imself reflected in a mirror, will dart at his own image, and, irritated all the more by his failure to reach his supposed enemy, will assume the most brilliant hues, and seeing his shadowy antagonist doing the same, will redouble his efforts to reach him.

A STRONG NATION.

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Man Is Adjusting Himself. In an old volume of “The Transaclions” is found the following by Dr. J. I*. IVilson: “Where, let me ask, are the great and wasting epidemics that once devastated the whole inhabitated globe? ‘They are gone,’ says the sani-tL-.rii* - ' •}•< ■ T ’ V*•••:”"! r ” out.’ No, Indeed. They do not appear, simply or largely because they have become innocuous to the human race. Habit has rendered them more and more harmless. Man is rapidly adjusting himself to his environments.”

Japan of the Present In Pnited and Progrcsslve. The tone of the Japanese people is artistic, but the man of action in Japan possesses strength, intellectual and moraL A land where strong men too much abound may be torn by faction; this has not happened in new Japan, though in olden days the history was made up of the quarrels of rival shoguns. Since 1854 her course has been molded by few men, but able ones. Japan, says the Chicago News, proudly dates her autonomy back beyond the Christian era Tenshi-Sama, God of Heaven, whom wc call mikado. Is the fountain of all authority, but centuries ago ho was compelled to delegate this to a “ring” of his powerful subjects, known us shoguns. The last family of shoguns, the Tokugawas, reigned two hundred and fifty years, and up to 18G3 the mikado was a sort of pope, infallible, but confined to a species of vulicau. In 18(18 the Satsuma and Choshu clans rose against the Tokugawas and wrested their power from them, since when the "Sat-Chos” have been absolute rulers, and it is they who have built up the new Japan. Count Ito, who represents the progressive idea, but who does not wish the power to pass from the Sat-Cho ring; Count Itagald, the head of the radicals; Count Okuma, leader of the liberal party, which wouhl make the government responsible to parliament, and many others, are truly able men, and they will lay aside their political disputes to work success out of the present complications.

DOWN IN A CRATER.

Wondera Witnosaed by a Mountain Explorer.

Indian I-rgentU of a Fnmou* I'.itlnrt Volratio In the Weet - Strange Animal! Found In the Subterranean Cavern*.

Crater mountain is one of the I'matilla Indians’ great spook depots from ancient time, says the Baker City Democrat. Bucks that are now white with the hoary frosts of many winters recollect hanging in the trees tightly strapped to their nursing boards, while their mothers roamed the forests in search of game for the lords of creation or wood for the tepee, and from infancy love to relate how the great spirit spoke to them with the awful voice of terrific thunder in the bowels of the earth. Many are the stories and legends of Indian lore told of Crater mountain. One of the favorite ones is told of a great war between the Shoshones and Umatillas. When the Umatillas had conquered their foes they proceeded to slaughter old and young, regardless of sex. One beautiful Shoshone maiden, seeing that death was inevitable from her pursuing foes, plunged headlong into the burning crater, and instantly the volcanic eruption ceased, much to the consternation of her pursuers, who on the following day found, on looking down the chasm of inky darkness, a resplendent light with the form of the Shoshone maiden in the midst of the apparition. They told it to their dusky warriors—and to this day Crater mountain is looked upon with reverence from an Indian point of view. The following is from the diary of J. A. Wright: “Crater mountinn is located some eleven miles from the Camp of Cornucopia, on the south side of the range whose caps are tipped with eternal snow. Many chasms and fissures have in .the misty past cleft the mountains and left them in thq most fantastic shapes. Vegetation ceases to grow after a certain height is reached, and close under the base of one of the great peaks is the famous extinct volcano. Ashes and lava are found in great profusion and in such indescribable masses that it makes the ascent one of peril and great diflieulty. However. onee at the top, a peek down into the blank, fathomless abyss supplies the most morbid minds with all the sensationalism necessary for a lifetime. A favorite amusement was to throw rocks down and listen to the sounds as they struck on the projecting sides of the dark chimney until the sounds died away, leaving nothing but for the mystified explorer to guess it had reached the bottom.” Many have been the stories circulated of the wonderful cavern that extended from the sides of the great chimney. A stout cable was provided and a basket swung from a pulley. Hon. Joseph, with camera and notebook, was carefully lowered some three hundred and seventy-eight feet, when he noticed an aperture in the side of the chimney, and, by signals agreed upon, a halt was called in his downward career, ami he crawled through a cleft in the great chimney, and the work of exploration began. The first sight that met his astonished gaze was a most stupendous chamber, from whose mighty dome hung stalactites of great beauty, \yhich were enhanced by the light of the candle, and fairly struck terror to his heart, us the flickering candle seemed to possess the power of some unseen hand that made millions of the brilliant stalactites dance in resplendent beauty. A great snowy owl blinked at the astonished Joseph. The explorer groped his way to the far end of the chamber, where he thought he heard the sounds of falling water—nor was he mistaken, for squeezing himself through an opening lie found himself in another chamber of great beauty, with a stream of hot sulphur water running into the earth. The incrustation from the sulphur water had transformed the cavern into a coral-like substance and left it in such fantastic shapes. He found in the water some lively little lizards and some frogs that change color on the slightest provocation and two large rats, who eyed the explorer with a curiosity that seemed to bode no good, and lie longed for his little gun.

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New Terror for French Convict*. Life in the French penal "coldhy at New Caledonia has been pictured as so agreeable, both by reason of the clivoafp ns well rn the leniency with which convicts have been treated, that transportation seems to have lost most of its terrors. Criminals do not conceal their preference for a long sentence in the beautiful Pacific island to a much shorter term with hard labor in one of the penitentiaries at home, and when perpetrating a misdeed have c-oaj-ht as a iuk to reader their . Sense as serious as possible, so as to entail transportation if captured. It is with a view of putting an end to this sentiment that the French government has now decided to stop sending convicts to New Caledonia, and is making arrangements to deport them instead to Gaboon, the fever-stricken and most pestilential of all districts of French Congoland in Africa.

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ThtiicrN Learned In the Morgue. The old keeper of the morgue in this city, who has seen hundreds of unknown bodies exhibited for identification, has arrived at some interesting conclusions, says the Philadelphia Record. If the face of thq dead person is perfectly composed and natural, of course, intimate friends or relatives recognize them immediately. But, he says, if the face is distorted through pain or disfigured by injuries, a casual acquaintance can identify the body much easier than the closest relation. He explains this by saying that people who here known a perse a wok fer a long time lose sight of the fea tures and see rather the personality reflected in the liner, of the face. A casual acquaintance notes the leaturcs, ami can recognize them when seen again, even if consideably distorted.

Chronic Dyspepsia Vanishes. Mrs. Sarah A. Maudlin, sixty-eight yenrs old, and livingat Thori'town, Ind., says: ” I suflered from chronic dyspepsia for more than thirty years, with severe pains in the stomach and head. For years 1 did not dare to eat vegetables of any kind. Since taking LYON'S SEVEN WONDERS 1 have a good appetite, my health is almost restored and 1 am fleshier than 1 have been before for many years."

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