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,. an...”qu «Mme»... AMA, a. .. ’1' ~._“, A,“ a. hfl'PLBTUfiBSIETHBSEA. .â€" ‘rhe nuisance or Sea Cow ornoflda's Rivers and lnleu. The manatce or sea cow is an amphibian! creature of the pachydermal. family thal- once was v numerous along the shores of Florida, the West Indies, tropical Brazil: and the Gulf of Guinea, but which in our day is almost extinct. It has the body ofa whale, the hiée of a rhinoceros, and its whole carcass, from muzzle to tail, is sparsely covered with short, stiff bristles like those on the back of a bug. The animal in some ways is a curious mixture of several other amphibia, resembling many, and yet dis- tinctly none ; but on the other hand it is in a few respects totally dissimilar to any other known creature of land or water, although it glazes like a cow, lives like a hippopota- mus, and swims like a fish. It partakes, however, more of the nature and peculiarities of the hippopotamus than of any other living creature, especially in the disk-like muzzle and thick hide, as well as in the manner of its eating and style of living ; but again, unlike the hippopotamus, it is not a fighting beast, and its feeding is done entirely at night. ' It beinga timid and almost defenceless creatureâ€"perfectly harmless in every wayâ€"â€" and possessing a hide that is valuable and flesh that is well flavored, TUE NATIVE of both continents have hunted this anima until today, like the departed bison, the species is almost extinct. The coast of Florida is now about the only place in the world where the manatee can yet be found in considerable numbers. They have never been heard of outside of the limits of the Atlantic, their places in other oceans and otherclimes being taken by their first cousin, the dugong, who is a native of Ceylon and the East India lands. In Florida the manatee, there popularly known as the sea cow, subsists almost en- ' tirely on a peculiar kind of marsh herbage called manateegrass, which grows in great abundance along the swam shores of Florida's inlets and rivers. otwithstand- ing its thick hide and stiff bristles, the crea- ture is said to form n. favorite morsel of food for the hordes of savage blue sharks which are numerous along the cost of Florida. The North American manatee attains a length of from ten to twenty feet, and weighs anywhere from 500 to 2,530 pounds. The infants are about 3 feet long at birth and weigh from 75 to 100 pounds. The full-grown South American specimen rarely exceeds a length of 10 feet or a weight of 1,000 pounds. The youngsters rapidly accumulate bulk, and with increasing age and experience, ac- quire the marvellous speed which enables them generally to elude the swiftest swim- ming sharks and other enemies. Nethth- standing its great size and seeming un- wieldiness, the manatee is by far the speed- iest of all the large sea. animals, and this ap. pears all the more remarkable from its ap- parent lack of propelling power. The . in- significant flat tail is small, though thick, seemingly insufficient for the amount of weight which it must force through the water; and it. seems scarcely possible for THE BULKY CREATURE ‘to work his caudal appendage rapidly enough to give his body the wonderful im- petus which it certainly attains. Unlike other natives of the deep, the menatee’s swimming apparatus is neither sharp nor clean cut, as is the case with the shark, blue-fish, or tarpon, nor is it placed on ed câ€"that is up and downâ€"but lies flat and horizontal, totally dissimilar in every respect from the conventional lines of a good propeller. A general descri tion of the incongruous brute would be aiout as follows: Body round, bulky, and sparsely covered with short, still‘ bristles; eyes small and bead- likc ; the muzzle similar to that of a domes- tic cow; nostrils like a hippopotamus; n. mouth scarcely large enough to drink with; small and inoffensive teeth; no neck; no tusks ; fins like those of a seal, a flat tail, and a hide fully an inch thick. Its keen sense of hearing combined with speed ren- ders this defencelcss creature comparatively secure from harm unless skillfully trapped or caught afoul. The principal grazing grounds of the North American “ sea. cow ” is the St. Lucia River near Jupiter Inlet in southeastern Florida. Capt. John Zellers of Titusville makes a specialty of trapping manatecs, his outfit being merely a good strong seine of the fin~ est and strongest quality, and a knowledge acquired from long study and experience of the habits, ways, and favorite grazing grounds of the animal. Occasionally the hunter or fisherman runs across the beast when least expectin it, as happened not long since to two gent cuicn named Hepburn and Miller, who live on Indian River near the mouth of Jupiter Inlet. They were quietly paddling along shore on a dark but quiet night, when they heard a rustlingjust ahead of them in the rushes and tall grass thatlined the low mudd bank. Stealthin and softly they approac ied. inch by inch, when what was their sur rise to discover a baby mountee peacefully eeding among the herbage, and totally unconscious of the dun- gcr lurking so near. Mr. Hepburn is a tall, powerful, and athletic man, and for an instant was un- decided what course to pursue in order To SECURE Till“. PRIZE alive. Then nntying a large handkerchief from his neck, he made a half hitch of one end and passed the other end firmly and tightly around his right wrist. Motioning his partner, who stood at the helm, to softly advance the boat a few feet, at the right moment. Hepburn reached down and passed the noose quickly over the infant‘s rudders like tail, at the same time grasping that member with both hands. Whiin ! The young manatcc swung round as quick as a stroke of lightning and took up a mile-a-minute gait straight for open water and freedom. Although an infant only a few weeks old,scarcely weighing l50 pounds, that beat and its occupants attached to his tail were no more hindrance than a baby carriage would be behind a runaway horse. He tore through the rushes. the boat swingin and pitchin from side to side, but Mr. Icphurn be] his grip securely un. til at last the little fellow s on them out into dee water and then s a fine dash for the line of breakers that were rolling in at the mouth of the inlet five miles away. For six long niiles’he dragged those aston- ished sportsmen along at a pace they never dreamed possible, and at art struck the first breaker with a vim that nearly capsized the frail craft he was towing. “Steve‘s: the shcrc,"shouted the nearly exhausted Hepburn. that direction.” Miller site direction, an “Keep her head in ported the helm with all the force he could muster, and held it steady. The young manatce was becoming exhausted in And node of joy. he hears the boy address the his struggle to kee his course in the oppo. pretty soon the little We Know Them. I. With a glance that says “ I told you so!" and lights his wrinkled cheek world in Greek : And, smiling. turns where interest burns-all centered on the "kiddie"! fellow weakenedso much that Mr. Hepburn And mumps the floor and claps by turnsâ€"we breaching where they could secure it at their leisure. curious eyes. WRECKS AND THE DBOWSED. They All Sink to the Bottom ofthc Ocean. There is a rather common, but erroneous notion, to the effect that a human body, or waters at a great depth, remain suspended at some distance above the surface of the earth. This is an error. No other fate awaits the drOWned sailor or his ship than that which comes to the marine crea- tures who die on the bottom of the sea ; in time their dust all passes into the great storehouse of the earth even as those who receive burial on the land. However deep body of a man who finds his grave in the ocean is at rest upon the bottom; it there receives the same swrft service from the agents which, in the order of nature, are appointed to care for the dead, as comes to those who are reVerently inhumed in bless- ed ground. All save the are, in large part, appropriated by the creatures of the sea-floor, so that before the dust returns in the accumulation water to the firm set earth it may pass through an extended cycle of living forms. The fate of animal bodies on the sea-floor is well illustrated by the fact that beneath the waters of the Gulf Stream, where it passes by southern Florida, there are in some places, quantities of bones, apparent- ly those of the manatee, or sea-cows. a large herbivorous mammal, which like the seal, creatures plentifully inhabit the trap rivers which flow into the Caribbean Sea, and are, though rarely,found in the streams of southern Florida. At their death they drift out into the open water and are swept buoyed up by the gasesof decomposition which are retained by their thick, oily skins ; as these decay and break the bodies fall to the hettom.â€"â€"[Scribner’s for July. British Trade. “ Where is our Trade going to '1” is the question editorially propcunded by the Mercantile Guardian, published in London, England. It says : “ The year 1892 has so far been a disastrous one in export eircles. Each of the four months that have been completed have shown a considerable decrease in the volume of trade. The im- ports on the other hand show an increase in each month except April, when the decrease was four millions odd, the net increase being also nearly that sum. “’hether this increase in the imports is union of health or not we leave political economists to decide ; it is our duty to examine here the items of exports, although it may be of interest to glance at the totals of the import trade of the four months just passed. Living ani- mals(for food), articles of food and drink, chemicals, oils, raw materials for sundry in~ dustries, and manufactured articles, all help to make up the increase that we have men- tioned, while a fall is noticeable in tobacco, metals, and raw materials for textile manu- factures, the last item alone representing over three~quarters of a million, and for April alone a million and a halt ster- ling. Nearly everything decreased in April, a fact which seems to show that our purchasing power is less. . . . In the first four months of 1890 the value of the trade was 133,082,369, in 1891 we drop- ped by £194,989, to £82,887,380, and this year We have bad a further fall to £76,006,- 715, which is £7,075,654: less than in 1890, and £6,880,665 less than in 1891. \Ve fear that we have not the consolation of hoping that the later months of 1892 will be suffi- ciently prosperous to blot out this adverse balance and place it on the right side. It is of course possible that trade may revive, but we cannot see the boom yet. Whether the reduction means a loss in the world‘s purchasing owor or a loss only to ourselves we have stil to find out, but 'in any case, and the latter especially, it believes our merchants to push, and our manufacturers to advertise, as there is no doubt that a happy combination of these two most ex~ cellcnt methods will do more to bring about prosperity than anything else. ” ~â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-‘-â€"-â€". The Smallest British Quadrnpcd. The harvest mouse which from nose to tail is just 2:} inches, and the tail 2 iucheslong,is the smallestBritish quadruped. Two of them, if put into a scale, only weigh down a half-penny, so that the weight of one is not more than a sixth of an ounce avoir- dupois. A full-grown ordinary domestic mouse weighs as much as six harvest mice. The harvest mouse breeds eight at a litter in a little round nest composed of blades of grass or wheat. It hangs its nestpfor breed- ing amidst the straws of the standing corn above the ground, and sometimes in thistles; while in winter it burrows deep in the FAMOUS RENNET EXTRACT, earth, and makes a warm bed of s. The food of this diminutive quadrupc con- sists of corn and grass seeds, insects and worms. The colour of its for is a delicate P was enabled to strengthen his grasp upon its tail. All eflort was then directed to the boat, and a few minutes later the captors landed their prize high and dry Taking their captive into the boat they paddled back across the river, and the next morning placed the young creature in a tank on board a river steamer and carried it to Titusville, where it became at once the wonder and admiration of a thousand even a ship, will not sink to the bottom of the profounder abysses of the oceans, but will. on account of the density of the the sea, it is but a few hours before the hardest parts of the skeleton are quickly taken again into the realm of the living, and even those more resisting portions of the body, in time has become adapted to aquntlc me; trig?“ that use St. Leon \Vater.â€"-\Vorld, Feb. away to the north ward by the ocean current. voice. For some weeks, perhaps, the carcasses are the breath strong. know him: That‘s his daddy! I]. With a glance that never wavers, and with lips that never 5 oak. _ A woman hears e rousmg cheers that greet the boy in Greek: But from the glad depths of her heartâ€"unseen by any other, The warm tears to the eyelids startâ€"we know her: That‘s his mother! The cable daily brings tidings of further ravages of Asiatic cholera, which seem like- ly “to spread like wildfire” in Central Asia. It may also invade Europe, especially Rus- sia and other regions where primitive meth- ods of sanitation still prevail. 1t cer~ tainly should gain no foothold in any high- ly civilized county, and for it to cross the Atlantic and enter any part of America ought to be an impossibility. Yet the least carelessness, the least laxrty in quarantine restriction, might give room for the out- break even here of a devastating epidemic, The health officers of every port of entry on the continent, should exercise, during the coming summer the utmost vigilance, especially with respect to the immigrants who are fleeing hither from beneath the knout of the Great White Czar. No Disappointment. Disappointments of one kind and another crop up all along life’s pathway, for un- fortunately it is the unexpected that always happens. There is at least one article of acknowledged merit that never disappoints. Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor is sure to remove the worst come in a few days, and as no claim is made that it will cure anything else, it cannot disappoint. It you have hard or soft come just try it. Beware of the article “ just as good.” N. C. 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