Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 March 1896 — Page 8

ONE SERIOUS EFFECT. Of the Recent Republican Victory in tb CooimoDwrilih of Kentucky. It was somewhat early in the morning when the Washington Star reporter dropped into the wet-goods department of a popular down-town hotel, where there is always to be found a southern contingent in the hotel, not the W. i. department and standing at the ccunter there he saw a -well-known Kentuckian of the older school. It was about ten days after the election news had been received from Kentucky, and the Kentuckian's brow was not crowned with sunlight or laurels. On the contrary, it was swathed in heavy gray clouds. It may be explained here that the reporter was not in that locality after a drink, but after a man who was after a drink. As he stood talking to him, his attention was attracted by the Kentuckian's talk to the barkeeper, who had shoved a well-wora black bottle out in front of his customer. "Take it away," said the Kentuckian, gloomily, with a funereal wave of his hand. "What's the matter with it?" asked the surprised barkeeper. "It's the same Kentucky brand you've been using for years." "I know it," he said, regretfully, "but ever since Kentucky went republican it doesn't srem to taste natural, and I've got to try something else. Suppose you give me a little of that Maryland rye." "Certainly, sk" said the barkeeper, deferentially, and turned to get it, but stopped half way. "Excuse me, sir," he ventured, "but didn't Maryland go that "way, too?" The Kentuckian thrummed on the counter with his knuckles nervously. "That so, that's so," he mused; then he broke out fiercely: "I wonder if I've got to drink water," and walked out of the place indignantly.

INDIA'S FATHER DAM I EN.

Work Among the I -e peri That Hat Already Produced Good Retail. Valuable work is being done by deToted Catholic priests among the lepers of Burmah, says the London Times. The annexation of Upper Burmah in 188S revealed a terrible need for succor to this unhappy class. Bishop Simon, R. C, addressed the officials on the subject within two years after the country passed under British rule, but it was not until 1891 that Father Johann Wehinger was able to found the St. John's Leper asylum on a grant of six acres near Mandalay. In Burmah lepers are not forbidden to frequent public places and are not separated from their families, as in India. They lie at the gates of the temples, in the food bazars and on the sides of the bridges, where they expose their hideously mutilated limbs to excite compassion and obtain alms. An asylum for these miserable objects -was hailed with gratitude. In two days after it was opened the wards were crowded and new buildings had to be commeoced. Father Wehinger has made the institution a model for all leper asylums with a perfect system of hygiene and measures for th alleviation or even curative treatment of the disease, separate -wards for the unaffected children of leprous parents and a vernacular school for their education. During last year 600 lepers were on the rolls and the demand for fresh wards grew urgent. Father Wehinger came to the end of his resources. All that selfdenial and devotion could achieve he has accomplished. He Is now, we believe. In England, ecking aid to enable him to go on with hiß work. It is a work which can most effectively be done by celibate brethren, without the responsibility of wife or possible children to whom the disease might be communicated. Johann Wehinger Is the Father Da mien of India.

Pt Wouldn't Be Cheated. A well-known scientist, walking along a London street, came across an Itinerant astronomer, and applying his eye to the Instrument was astonished to see a beautiful full moon, although at the time tho moon was only in her second quarter. The instrument was not a telescope at alL but simply a tube, with a hole where the eye-piece should be and a transparent photograph of a full moon with a light behind it at the other end. On the scientist asking the exhibitor how he could so cheat the public the man simply remarked: "It's all right, sir. I used to have a proper 'scope once, but I turned tt up for this after an Irishman pitched into me for showing him only 'arf a moon. This way pays better and gives more satisfaction.

Aeeelmtee of the Shark. A small fish called the pilot is nearly always found with the man-eating shark. Each shark is accompanied by from five to seven (always an cxld number, it is claimed) of these, little vassals, and while his sharkship seems to be incessantly looking for something wherewith to satisfy his voracious appetite he never eats these little pilots, though they keep very close to him. Another frequeat associate of the shark is the remora, or sucker fish. Nature has provided it wrth a large, circular disk on the top of its head. By means of this "sucker" it attaches itself to tha unde surface of the shark and Is carried by it wherever it goes.

Children Sheald flare Single Iledt, She is a wise mother who allots to each of her children a single bed. From the time the baby occupies the crib alone on through childhood he shooH have a bed to himself. Such pretty little affairs of white iron and brass coma for the nursery that it La hard to rtsiä them, even apart from ayctanlo nv araiiona.

ABSURD BELIEFS ABOUT EELS.

Cariout Theories of Their Origin Welt as Their Characteristic. In the midst of much dry-as-dust information and many drier-than-dust figures relating to the larval or postlarval development of the brain of the lesser sand eel, to hermaphroditism in the cod, to the spawning period of the armed bullhead and the vitality of its eggs, and to other topics of a similarly hair-raising character, the third part, recently issued, of the thirteenth annual report of the fishery board for Scotland contains papers on two or three points of interest to others besides biologists. In a paper on the hatching and rearing of food fishes it is stated that during 1894 and down to July of last year the total number of fry distributed from the Dunbar hatchery for sea fish was 72,785,000, of which 64,675,000 were plaice. The number of cod hatched was 2,760,000 and of turbot 3,800,000, this being the first time (to the knowledge of the board) that the eggs of the last named have been hatched at any hatchery. The papers on the influence of marine currents in transporting floating eggs and larvae from off-shore spawning areas on the life histories and development of the food fishes and on the long and valuable series of physical investigations ought to appeal to all who are concerned with the maintenance of our supply of sea fish. More valuable as tending to the elucidation of a subject wrapped very much in mystery is H. C. Williamson's elaborate paper on the reproduction of the common eel. Mr. Williamson gives a very full account of the reproductive organs, both as described by other naturalists and as observed by himself in a number of specimens examined at St. Andrew's, and the paper includes a description of the migrations of the eel and all that has been asscertained about its spawning. It is a remarkable fact that the ripe egg of the ee! has never yet been discovered. Some funny beliefs have been held at different times as to the genesis of this very slippery creature. Aristotle said it sprang from what he called the "entrails of the earth." Pliny the elder said: "They rub themselves against the rocks and their scrapings come to life." Gesner thought the opinion as to their generation in the putrid carcasses of dead horses was quite a rational one. A German sage forty years ago stated seriously that they owed their existence to electrical phenomena. People are still in England who believe they are "evoiuted" horse hairs; and not long ago one pretentious gentleman gave this recipe for their manufacture: "Cut up two turfs covered with May dew and lay one upon the other, the grassy sides inward, and in this way expose them to the heat of the sun; in a few hours there will spring from them an infinite quantity of eels." In Sardinia the fishermen cling to the belief that the so-called water beetle is tho progenitor of the eel, and an Englishman has written a small book to prove the same hypothesis. There can be no reasonable doubt, however, that this fish is oviparous and spawns just as other fish do. Plentiful though oar lack of knowledge is regarding in this much we have learned, the notion appears to be very widespread that the eel, like the lamprey, only spawns once and then dies. Pall Mall Gazette.

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