OYSTEKS LN THE SUMMER

WHAT THE BIVALVES DO DURftlC THEIR VACATION.

' fhrtl Crib* far Ultlr Oom_Oj .t»rmcn af , !<arra«aa»*ll Bay Kept Ha»y let W»aM tlxmt Them — HraiiK* Ap^aaraara of Ihr Oyalara Whoa Only a Yaar Old. So m*njr Providence river and Narracanaett ba>- oyatera aa went Uiolr ga»:rlc way this past season haven’t been eaten before—anyway, for many years. It would be too much trouble to tell all the reasons for this fact, —bat It can Ih- remarked without any inconvenience that these oysters are Rood: they have made a reputation. 3 that kind of thing has a wide dr-

tertlsln* agent. hen April runs oot with the last

ly‘. everybody But It will

ts any oyst<

think that because the sea-

F and half-dotens

shell will be over on the 1st . that the oysterman will then vacation. If he baa left the

oystei

If b

i little steam re 7 o’clock

er every mo during the

all day f<

ty on I* ^

which he brings back in'deck heaps in the evening, he has other to do during the summer whl

t harder work.

?r thlm rhlch ai

ble ti

r wild it and

ierlng nor !. Now It

ready for Its departure that the market steamer comes up to the city but once in two days, and every boat in the company's fleet gives all its possl-

e time to improving the oyster beds, l few years ago oysters grew

like berries, and people

gathered them, neither wondei

caring how they came

is different. It takes an oyster four yearn to mature, and it Is good or bad pretty much according to the “way it

is treated.

Us tenp of four -years begins in July, when its mother spawns. An oyster insists upon having somethli

clean to place her

will n tom. : the o’

oyster shells which have been gro log all the—jR months until they rise to the tops ol^tbe fish hduses and coal sheds on^onth Water street, and about the 1st of July, instead^ of selling them for road dressing, "as they do. carry them down the river and shovel them over the beds where the oysters He which will begin to spawn by July 25. Before the 20th. the onceused shells are back In nearly the same place where they were growing the year before. And In a few iays

as r

r young upon.

thing

She

oyetermen take the great piles of ter shells which have been

is-a plain dot are s a common crib.'

le shell

oy«

mg each

it them. Thai is what the M- Dew-

ilng this last week. The

large

shell as

When

nearly a year

plan! Ing i

foreman.

lived with oyst«

small boy/and yet admits ' la much more he Is going

about their ways befi to retfre as emeriti

wheel In the pilothouse, steamer over the bed of the one-ycar-olds and then directs the dredgers. The dredgers are made of heavy iron bars, with a net attached, the

int them. That n ; was doing this eman. Joseph 1 i lived fltfioyst

efore he la ready

whole resembling a woman’s reticula multiplied about a 1000 times.' There is one dredfte for the port and one for

t on chains

steam. The steamer di along Inside between i the weather Is kind

mg Inside be

t net. When t

e wheels ru:

drags t! n the s

hour and five 1 minutes. Eighteen hundred bushel* la the usual day's haul

One-year-old

the usual day's

oysters are strange

things. , They are as small as half a thumbHa:!, and. iticklng by the hundred to an old ocy*ter shell, they make an Wen more peculiar appearance. When tbe.meiahaTe taken on a load, they pull out tBp star fish, which destroy hundreds of oysters every year. Then they carry the pile, over to another bed. back and forth, they shovel the. shelli -everboard. As the water is deep, the different old shells with their kindred barnacles, separate on the way tb the bottom, where they havi plenty of room to

themselves.

It Is by transplanting that the oyster gets Its most marketable shape. Vlt would be long and flat If It were n>v<r touched from the time It began

round and flat. ^ for an aero 350 bushels are used in the transplanting. When the oysters are two years old they are transplanted again, this time 500 bushels to the acre; once more when three years of age they are taken up and put in another bed, and finally, when four year* old. they are placed on the market grounds to fatten. The market beds are In shoal water, where the tide

e tide is

always oa t ilea on a be

its way the shell flab will grow by the hour. Oysters won't do any growing 1^ the winter; the water’ Is too cold. About the 1st o( Hsj\ bowerfr. they start Is to add to their slae. When, in Ottafear.. they stop sending out thair .shells. , they grow their suat out to the thill and ta a month they

All up the spare room.

them, for they die when covered up. Not long ago a company with beds near Rocky Point lost 15.000 bushels of oysters In two hours. Down by Nayatt Point, where Mr. Dewing and other dealers have their gronnda. there la no danger from high winds because of the cove there-, but still there is risk in unpleasant plenty. An Important part of the oystei business is watching and keeping away thieve*.. Some firms have a pa trtol boat on the beds the year round, but In many places the river frecsea over thc'grounds. and It Is.useleas to keep a man and a craft there li months In a year. One man does all

six

that during

lorn takes me >r sleep, and

the day. so as to be awake and lant during the night

oyatern o 10 ye

ing the night

Thieve* do not trouble oystermen now the way they used to 10 years ago. because so many precautions have been taken of late against any marauding. Still, the growers do not stop watching.—Providence Journal.

BIGNESS AND BRAINS.

From investigations

Igatic

diers, and from the literature of the subject, there is no doubt in my own

mind that if a man’s development [e so unstable that he has psychical stigmata, he is invariably of bad physical development also and baa numerous physical stigmata. As far as I know, there are few if any case* of abnormal minds In average bodies devoid of stigmata- It is a fair inference. then, that if a man’s body Is nearly an average In all resepets, height. weight, proportions, etc, there must also be an average brain and therefore a normal mind—excluJing, of coarse, normal men who have

Beyond thi* '

go, for there 1* a

relation between intelligence

turc. Men of genius may bo big like Bismarck or lltllejlke Napoleon or Da Costa, and the same may be salJ of

the feeble-mlnrfed as well i average Intelligence. George ington’s physical meaxuremi

said to have been identical with those of Jeffries, the glsnt pUglHst. Other Illustrations might be given'indefinite

fr-

it Is true that the human brain weight depends upon the body weight, for many muscles require many brain cells. In like manner the sparrow

needs but i

acquired insanity,

dare not go, for there ig absolutely no

i and

s those of ge Wasb-

menta with •

Ins of brain, while shale and ele|

more than man. Y

able and immeasurable variable called

grail

hale and elephant must havo than man. Yet that Indeacrib-

Intelllgence depends upon other things In addition to weight of brain, and the Increase of brain weight due to Increased stature consist* of tls-

bearieg upon :

A big physique with immense re-

wax a serve power and endurance la a declJ-

clng

lurance la a declJ

ed element in forcing men to the front in the struggle of fife. This Is In *c■rdance with recent investigations

cordi

among Chicago school children, which are said to show that the beet scholars in any class arc appreciably big-

other

the rest. Hence, c

ger thAn things being equal, the big men.«baving an advantage, should have a larg-

sue-

t stap. tor Genius," page 6) but 26 stature, while short, some of them being even dwarfish or less than five feet In height. Aa the anomalies of height are equally distributed on each aide of the mean, there moat be some tremendously active cause to make the little men more than twice as brilliant aa the big The two classes, being equally removed from the average, should be equally abnormal mentally.—Dr. Charles B- Woodruff, in Medical Review.

AbsMtasad ^b« Ylllacn. The traveler frequently meets in the open plains of Sudan what appears to be giant mushrooms, relates Lieutenant A. BaCot in La Nature. On closer ' examination, however, it is seen at once that these mushrooms are abandoned and weather-beaten structures of white ants. These structures or abodes were originally cone-shaped. It is familiar to many that these convivial Insects make their nests tfct of organic material which they grind between tbelr Jawa. TheseV materials . consist of wood, leaves, also partly of clay, and by the use of their saliva the ants make them suit more plastic and durable against all sort* of weather. The covering layer is prepared with a sort of varnish whl Impenetrable as rain cannot go" through the root- the aides of the abode are made porous so

abandoned. The side surtaeje

weather beaten, while the middle pil-

intact owing to the protecimpenetrable roof and is

lar remains Oon of' the thBk'able tc

Chesapeake Bay s Whea they cow, ^ from the test laad i* the river hero “• they aro supremely teBrtnaa. bat oafr lril

M to*

roethird <rf the g

*5* flRfc •* -tea MB

in Its thin form. This Is the simple explanation given bv Lieutenant Bacot aa to the form of the mushroom. Many of the nests are. however, made from the very first with overhanging

MMte mea sdttearmy ee saroi y.

HU Shsv*.

He was one pf thrse smooth-faced

ii who chi

- Mark Twslu ( M.J

rsp“br“;rr.r/^ n s,

sndcr-thst way.

."Hair cut?" asked the barber, as he threw his head back on the rest. "Naw. course not,” indignantly replied the customer. “Can’t you see I

want a shave?"

The barber heaved a weary *ifch as he lathered the face. whicK looked like an advertisement for somebody's complexion balm. Then he picked up a neck rarer, whipped it over the strop once and scraped the lather off with the

back of the instrument.

"By JovS, a shave makes a man feel better!" ejaculated the smooth-faced one, rubbing his hand gently over his

skin.

"That's the fourth one o' them things to-day," growled the barber. •

Servant Clr

(The servant girl have organized.^

Begorra, it's a sorra bit iv a l Is bein’ a servant gir-r-nil; It's stir up an' season, an' qt

scrap.

An' it’s niwer a lager we're findin' on Shure we've no time (or operay, no time

for a nap, Bcgorra!

Wirra, Thursday's is out when th' mis-

sus is in—

We’d go on a dizzy whir-r-rul;

But th' thought iv returnin' is shar-r-per

than sin

Where'Sye lave off we're thinkin' we’ve

got t’ begin.

We want shorter bourse 9.30 t' tin—

Bcgorra! Alt Alik*.

"I see that’of the nineteen aldermen in Stratford at Shakespeare's time, only

six could write their names.”

"But

,id*u.

! The president of the Chicago Press Club went to New York for the purJ pose of inducing Mark Twain to come 1 there to deliver a lecture for Ac .benefit of the C P. C Mr. Clemens was up In the mountains of New York when the Chicago man anived. Tbc fatter patiently awaited the return of the humorand’ suceerdcd in meeting Mr

snap,

quarrel and

y for an alio ugh if he

write theii

ut what’s Ac nccci

derman's writing. It's enouL

can add -and divide, and keep quiet

about it.” - •.

Thirty xnlnnUu i. sdl tbc tin* required V. n»e wilh PtrrxiJt Fadeum Dtaa. SoU by

nil Jraggi«t»-

Holland has nine miles of canjl far every 100 square miles of surface. 2700 miles in

i»t and' succeeded in meeting Mr. Clemens it> his study at a gather late hour. According to the Chicagoan. Mr. Clemens was not favorably inclined. Indeed, he was not in one of his

happy moods.

T can|t go to Chicago; I won't go." he said in an underscored voice. The Chicago man intimated that Ac Press Club would be willing to pay any sum which Mr. Clements saw fit to name. "That has nothing to do with it.” Mr. Clemens replied. T wouldn't go to Chicago for $10,000. nnr anywhere else. Now. that settles it 1 am going to

have some rest. - "

At that, the voice of a young person, •the Chicago‘man says it was a girl's voice, war heard from the top of a stairway. "Don’t get excited," said the

voice.

Mr. Oemens turned his face in the direction of the stairway and scowled. "You go’tb bed.” he Aundcred. Then turning to the Chicagoan he said in a voice almost musical: "Perhaps I may come some other time—not now.” Then he turned his face in the direction of the stairway again and listened. There was a subdued giggle at the top. And the face of the grizzled humorist became radiant.

A w(al Kctcoe*.

Clarence—Billy, if you were disappointed in some great love or high ambition. would yon get evfli with Ais bitter world by becoming a hermit? Biljy—No, sir-ce; I’d buy a 'cheaj

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