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' A BIG STITBGEOH. _â€" An Excin ".5 With a run sari: u ex As a. Ian. Reoentlyh. as put in anafternoon at Petaluma Creek, fishing or salmon trout or anything else. It is a tide-water stream, emptying into San Pablo Bay, and during a good portion of the year it is frequented by a variety of salt water fishes. The sturgeon is a sly biter, and somtimea “mouths:I the bait ten or fifteen minutes before taking hold. On this occasion I had baited with a small smelt and thrown into deep water from a small wharf. The wind was blowing a gale, so It was hard to tell when one had a. ite Tue poles were scattered along the wharf tak- ing care of themselves, when one of them be- gan to act queer. The line would slacken slowly several inches, then grow taut. the tip of the pole bending, then the line would _slack~ en again. It di this for several minutes without change, and I could not make up my mind whether to pull or not. Thep suddenly the line slackened several feet. This is almost a sure indication of a sturgeon. Quick.“ possible I struck and felt the hook stick in- to something distressineg like a snag,it scorn- ed so heavy and sluggish ; but you “cant most always sometimes tell." Slowly something below seemed_to wake up, for all the world like a locomotive mov- ing a heavy train. Tuen, as it gained head~ way, it at madder and madder, and the reel humme louder and louder, until it scream- ed like a little fiend. Two hundred feet of line ran out in a few seconds, and then, with a splash as if a horse had fallen into the water, three feet of bio, drab-colored fish plunged into the air. He was evidently too big to jump out all at once, Then he start- ed back up stream, and, in spite of all the train I dared back up on him, ran out nearly every foot of the line from the reel. My heart was in my mouth for fear of an. ac- cident. but he stopped just at the right time. This fish fought like a demon for one hour and a half actual time. and seemed determm- ed not to come to gaff. A Frenchman-hep. pened along just then, and I begged him to use the gaff. He stepped on a rock near the water edge, but the fish came up, and, seemingly with malice aforethonght,With one flip of his tail was the kind helper from head to feet. He stepped up and out as gracefully as possible. The fish was finally landed and found to weigh expctly. forty pounds and to measure fifty~eight inches in length. While makin v a slower fight than the trout, the sturgeon a mad rushes are thrilling and exciting, and I believe the most fastidious angler will vote him a game fish after he has once landed a big fellow With light tackle. . Frequently I have taken them in on an eight-ounce split bamboo fly rod, With smal- lest gut book baited with worm. Then their fight is particularly pleasing, but.I would not care to try one above four feet in length on that kind cf tackle, as half a day is too long to take in landing one fish. Wearing the Slipper. Mowry. one of the early writers on _ the habits and customs of the African tribes, tells an amusing story of a lady’s slipper which by some chance was carried into the country back of Cape Colony, and handed about with delight and admiration among the Hottentots. It was a ball-slipper of embroidered white satin. When Captain Mowry travelled among the tribes a year later, he found that every woman of distinction possessed a rude imit- I ation of this slipper, made usually of bark. She wore it only on occasions of great im. portance, tied to a string arid hung about her neck, and showed it With complacent smiles to the stranger. to prove that she kept up with the fashions as well as her white sisters. This seems absurd enough to us, but have we not, also, customs that are quite as ridi- culous f ‘ . The head of a seminary for girls, in one of the Middle States, said, a few months ago, “ Five~el hths of my pupils take lessons in music. f these, probably, five in a hundred become musicians ; they love the art and give to it the large amount of time, labor and atience it demands. . “ Of the others, a few girls, after leaving school, keep up thr.ngh life their practice I enough to sing simple songs and hymns, and i to play the sweet, familiar melodies of which . their parents or children are fond: They are not scientific performers, but their music gives pleasure in their homes, and often soothes and quiets their own strained nerves. “ But the great majority of girls _who learn music only do it because it is consider- ed the proper thing for a girl in good society to do. Their parents, however small their means, are heavily taxed for years to pay for their lessons and a piano is purchased at a large outlay. When the girl comes home from school, she has learned, perhaps, by the sacrifice of an hour's labor a day for years, to strum three or four marches and waltzes. She pla s them until everybody is tired of them ; but she never opens the piano to give pleasure to herself or others. “ The same thing is true, in a less degree, of girls who learn to paint without any love for the art." . Nothing can widen or beautify the horizon of awoman’s life more surely than one of these arts, if faithfully loved and used. But to waste money, time and labor on them aim ly to “be in the fashion," is as foolish in t e white woman as it is for the black to hang for show aball-slipper about her neck which she never can wear upon her feet. ._â€"â€"-.â€" Where English Beer Is Sent. A very lnterestin list is that of the coun- tries to which Engl sh beer is sent. While Rcumania showed its bad taste by only tak- ing three barrels all told, Cnina imported S, 1‘27 barrels during 1333, and even France, 9 631. The fact that the small community at Aden dual: 4 “274 barrels of British beer dur- ing 1888 only confirms the popular notion as to the ver arid and thirsty nature of that sunburn rock. In Egypt the consumption in 1858 of so large a quantity as 92.7 bar- rels was doubtless due in great measure to the British occupation, while the 37 barrels sent to Persia durin the last year were doubtless intended either for the Shah's palace orthe British embassy. Whoshallaay, though, where British bear will not etrate next, when five barrels were sent theway to Muscat, and no less than ill (in spite of the French President's partiality for the wines of his country) to Madagascar! We shall probably find ,Thlbet in the list next year.â€" [London Figaro. -â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€".â€"-â€"-â€"-â€"-â€"‘ Once more the House of Lords has rejected the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill. W.m. chronicled that an extraordinarily ugl - HOW AB ACTRESS GOT A GOWIT. Acting the Role of the Goddess of Liberty with a Paterson Chariot for a hinge. “ Before I made a hit," said an actress, who now need give no thought to the future, “I used to see some rainy days. At one time, a few years ago, I was without an en- gagement, and also without money, except a small board that I religiously parcelled out into weekly amounts that should pay my board for six weeks. After that, the deluge, I thought, and in the mean time I needed a dress desperately. I was not pro- sentable to go and see are in my old clothes, but where the dress was comin from I could not guess. One morning started out, feeling that something must be done, and wandered around among the dramatic agencies and theatrical intelligence tfiices all day without hearing of anything. I was about to go back to my boarding place, discouraged. when I thought of one I had not visited. I went there, found the manager in and alone, twirling a telegram in his hand. ' “ ‘ Anything for me 2" I asked as gayly as I could. “ ‘ Nothing I'm afraidâ€"unless.’ he added . suddenly, ‘ you’d do this,’ and be indicated the telegram. " ‘ What is it 2" " ‘ Some German festival out in Paterson. a procession, and they want a Goddess if Libertv for the dome of the chariot.’ “ I flushed with anger to have it ofi'ered me. “ ‘ Better take it. Kate.’ went on the manager. I think he had seen the despair in my face when I went in. It’ll give you a bit of pocket money. Twenty-five dollars for one day’s work isn‘t bad.’ “ It tempted me. I hesitated. “ ‘ When?’ I faltered. “ ‘ To-morrow. They have been disap- pointed, and despatched to me just now. I was on the point of sending to a party who’ll be only too glad to go as you came in. You’d suit better, though, than she ; you're a large. majestic figure, and your long hair will add to the imposing effect. Better go, Kate,’ he finished, persuasively : ‘ no one will know.’ “‘I’ll go,’ I said defiantly. and I did. Took an early train, peering furtively every- where for any chance acquaintance of whose presence I stood in mortal dread. Found the committee, got a long white dress drap- ed vith a dig, let dowr. my hair, put on a gold crown, set my face luw an ugly scowl and mounted the dome. All day it seemed to me that old chariot rumbled around the streets, I was in an agon lest some one should recognize me, but don’t believe my own brother, if I had one, would have known me. “Two old German women followed me for some blocks. ‘Oh, vat a cross lady 1' said one, referring to me. “ ‘Yah,’ said the other, ‘she veel not lafl‘,’ and then, as they walked along, ‘she veel not efen smile.’ “The day came to an end at last. I got my money and hurried back to New York. The next day I read an account of the festi' val in the papers, in which the fact was woman personated the Goddess of Liberty.’ For once, though, my vanity was not wound- ed. I got the dress, and whether it was that or not, the very first week I wore it I got an engagement which turned out to be a very successful one-the beginning. indeed of may prosperity. But 1 have never I forgotten that dreadful day." Fire Protection. The success of the Waterous Engine 09., of Brantford. in the manufacture of fire on- gines has been quite unique in the history of machinery in Uanada. With their usual sentences and far-seeing ability they saw that hundreds of the smaller towns and vii- lages in the country were without any kind of fire protection, simply because heretofore the hand fire engines had proved useless, and the larger steamers were too expensive for an ordinary town. The company determin- ed to remedy this deplorable state of affairs, and have produced an engine which has already attained a more than provincial re- putation for its perfect adaptability for the work it is intended to do. This engine com- bines all the qualities of the large fire engines, and is yet so light that it can be drawn by a few men. Already a number of villages have purchased this engine, and in every case it has given the utmost satisfaction, some municipalities actually stating their preference for it over the large engine. even if it cost the same money. The Messrs. Water-cue will be glad to furnish any par- ticulars which villages needing an engine require. â€"â€"â€".â€".â€"â€"_ Against Tobacco. The Anti-Tobacco Association of St J obn, N. B., have published the priza essays on tobacco written by Rev. Mr. Wilson and Miss Bigney. Mr. Wilson mentions that, at the lowest estimate, the money consumed yearly on tobacco would construct ten rail- roads around the globe at a cost of $25 000 per mile, and leave a surplus of $162,500.- 000. It would, we think, he a desirable thing to have ten railroads round the globe. pro. vided the locomotives could be prevented from smoking. out we are afraid that Mr. Wilson has left out of account the engine- ering difficulties in the way of bridging the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans :the cost of which would use up the surpulus of 8182 560,000. Miss Bigney says that a few drops of the essential oil of toabcco would kill a man. The comparatively small number of men who have met death in this manner shows the difiieulty of extracting the essen- tial oil. Miss Bigney quotes another writer who says that if his dog were to acquire the tobacco habit he would shoot him. Most men. We Think, would do the same. What could be more annoying than to come home and find your dog sitting on the front steps and camly puffing away at the Havanas for which you ay ten dollars a box 2 A man is not bouud’to finda dog in tobacco, and if the dog's life is miserable without the weed, it is the part of humanity as well as cfeeonomy to shoot him. _.____.._.â€"â€"â€"â€"- What Oharlie Was Doing. Mrs. Younghusbaudâ€"" For mercy's sake, Charlie, what are you doing with your thumb in baby's mouth 2" Charlie (com- placently looking at the deluded infant sucking itself cross-eyed and red inthe face) -"Weanin it, my dear." Mrs. Young- husbandâ€"“ 'or horrid thing. that isn’t the wa to wean it." Charlieâ€"(plaintively)â€" “ 'ell, didn't the nurse say it must be fed on pap 2 ' WHY YOU "SHOULD USE V‘ out (TRIM iru Bantam. atom lowrateorlnterestntzk sco'r'r’s 3m“ Engines. _ m... ....... E MUL S IO N "‘0" “D STE“ mm“ “"3115 Bumcunwsuucxsmcranu. OF GOD LIVER on “"3 mmm mam gaix% AND IFBONT s'rs. fifium HYP°PH°SP“'TES- J. 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