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PROFITS IN PUBLIC GAMING.
WORTH MORE THAN SILVER.
this country think that these
their
superstition
BIRDS WITH RARE TALENT.
AN ECCENTRIC DINER.
His
spring next to a cage in which
surgery,
may
adopted into general practice
a
of coffee.
past ten years.
facts
in the majority of cases no
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reported
roneous;
grasshopper,
the sparrow
one
were
knowledge of medicine and
using some methods which
single one more—and a cup
A bottle of the best claret
the
er-
' be
with
harm-
ars.
ish.
never
The itinerant musician steals many
a march on the composer.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND I
EVENTS.
DANGER FROM THIS SOURCE MUCH
OVERESTIMATED.
There is poison in the salad we con-
sume.
To keep it fresh and pleasing to the
taste.
The chicken in the dish is made of
vea
• That otherwise would have to go to
waste;
They embalm the pork and beans.
And adulterate the tea—-
The coffee’s doctored, and
There is sugar in the sand
That they’ sell us at the gro-cer-ree.
That they weigh out at the gro-cer-
ree-ree-ree.
The only thing they give us that is
pure
is the poison that they put in what
we eat.
And it’s certain that they'll some day
find a way
To doctor that, and make the wrong
complete.
They will find cheap substitutes
For embalming fluids yet.
And they’ll squirt them in the fruits
And the milk, as fancy suits,
They’ll adulterate the poison that we
get.
They’l! cheat us on the poison that
we get, get, get.
—S. E. Kiser.
1N THE ODD CORNER.}the armadillo of today, the giyptodon,
_________ j while the trumpet-like object, which
USN FOR ANTS’ PINCERS
From a late adventure among the
Passamaquoddy Indians, who live on
the border of New Brunswick, Dr. Rob-
ert Doud of Boston, Mass., who hunted
bears in the Maine woods for a month,
believes that the aboriginal .inhabitants
of America are possessed of a wide
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they
shall be enlarged: practice what you
know, and you shall attain to higher,
knowledge.—Thomas Arnold.
His dessert was four grapes—
DOCTORING WHAT WE EAT.
They put embalming fluid in the milk
That we have to give our little ones
’today;
They doctor up the peaches and the
grapes
With poison stuff to keep them from
decay.
They embalm the meat we eat.
And the butter ane the bread;
There is nothing it would seem,
From potatoes up to cream.
That we shouldn’t taste and look upon
with dread, ,
That we shouldn’t view with dread,
dread, dread.
How a French Millionaire Spent
was hung during
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A New Milk Adulterated.
A new milk adulterant has been dis-
covered by the dairy inspectors in use
in Minnesota. It is called viscogen.
and is composed of sugar, lime and
water. It has the effect of making
milk appear richer than it is, as the
lactic acid in the milk turns the lime
to a thick, white substance that as-
simlates with the milk and improves
its looks while it does not injure the
taste. It is not considered injurious
to health.—Philadelphia Times.
The cage containing
less insects will sew up
Much of the common
In many cases
were entirely
Fortune at the Paris Cafes.
Paris is par excellence the city of
gourmets and cranks, and many a
story concerning them has added to
the gaiety of the nations. Here is one
of the latest, told by a well-known
French head waiter. One of the reg-
ular customers of a famous Parisian
•restaurant used to be a short,thin, shy
and shabbily dressed man, whose name
no one knew, but who gave out that
he was a butter dealer, for which rea-
son he was called the butterman at the
restaurant in question. He ate next
to nothing, but his soup tureen, filled
with a soup specially prepared for him,
was always put before him. He took a
few spoonsful and had it taken away.
Next came a whole fillet of beef, from
which he cut the tiniest slice. Then
followed four quail or a large chicken,
of which he ate one mouthful together
with two lettuce leaves and one rad-
Mistress—Now, Bridget, there is
one thing I must insist upon. If you
break anything, I want you to come
and tell me at once. Bridget—Sure,
ma’am, I can’t be runnin’ to ye every
minute of the day.
WORK OF THE BUTTERFLY.
In our growing apprehensions of the
liked life of the universe the flight of
the butterfly has gained a significanee
and interest far beyond the casual ap-
preciation of its radiance and grace. It
is no longer as the frivolous saunterer,
who through the sunny days flutters
his life away among perfumed petals,
that he figures. The beauty has its
function, and subserves a vital purpose
in the economy of nature. Dike the
bee, the butterfly is a workman in
God’s garden, and his mission to carry
pollen from blossom to blossom, thus
fertilizing and cross-fertilizing the
seeds. Without these winged messen-
gers of the air more than half the
flowers in the world would be exter-
minated. Not only do they add to the
color and loveliness of summer’s pa-
geantry, but assist in its creation. Does
it not ripen the interest of the spec-
tacle to realize that the swarm of
opalescent insects one sees in the
meadows, eddying in the golden sun-
light, rising and falling in lazy aban-
don, swaying drowsily on the clover
blossoms or balancing on the petals of
the new-opened violets, in an existence
apparently fetterless and fancy free,
are really seriously at work perform-
in the functions of their being?—Ev-
erybody’s Magazine.
was employed for that purpose, was the
tail. These giants have passed away.
They lived at a time when the sloths
were 30 feet in length, and hauled
down the tops of large trees with
their ponderous claws. The giyptodon
has disappeared, its extinction being
hastened by its colossal size, which
rendered it a conspicuous object in the
landscape; but it is now represented
by a race of animals equally as re-
markable—the armadillos—encased in
hard, flint-like armor, perfectly pro-
tected from their enemies. The vari-
ous kinds differ very materially in ap-
pearance, but all have the armor or
coat of mail, being literally boxed in
like a turtle, with this difference, the
shell, as a rule, is divided into zones
or bands, made up of plates tightly
joined, so that the animal can roll it-
self up like some insects, and as even
the top of the head is provided with a
plate, it is absolutely invulnerable from
attacks by birds of prey. the cougar,
ecelot and other animals. So perfect is
this protection in some forms that they
have been seen to close up suddenly
when attacked on a hillside, forming
themselve into a ball or complete oval,
which went bounding down the hill
like a cannon ball, to the amazement
of the enemy, that merely stood and
gazed at it. Two species of these crea-
tures have developed the ghoulish
habit of burrowing into the graves of
the dead and hardly a grave is safe
from their depredations. Many kinds
are considered luxuries by the natives.
The latter prefer them to other meat
at all times, especially when fat; but
the flesh has a peculiar individuality
that is unpleasant to the American
taste. The Botacudas cook them in
the shell, using the latter as a dish in
which to roast them, and a feast of
roast armadillo is only comparable to
the oppossum of the Carolina negro.-
Utica Globe.
and another of the best champaign was-
served with the repast, but he only
touched his lips with a drop of them,
and let them go. He took two of these
meals a day, and the price for each
meal was 120 francs. But this was not
all. Every time the butterman got up
from his extraordinary meal he gave
-10 francs to the head waiter, who put
his food on his plate, since the guest
did not like to handle spoons or dish-
es; 20 francs to the waiter, 10 francs to
the lady cashier and 5 francs to the
porter. Thus each meal came to 200
francs. The head waiter of the restau-
rant often did slight errands for him.
buying his cigars, etc., and took them
to the Grand Hotel, where the butter-
man lived. The little old man would
then open the drawer of a wardrobe
filled with heaps of banknotes of from
100 to 600 francs in value and with an
enormous mass of gold pieces. “Pay
yourself,” said the owner, and the
head waiter did so, putting the bills
before his patron, who never deigned
to look at them. One day the myste-
rious millionaire went away and was
never seen again.—Westminster Ga*
zette.
A Natural Phenomenon.
One of the strangest of geological
phenomena appears in the famous Nor-
wegian mountain, Torghattan, which
is celebrated in Scandinavian poetry
and myth because of the great hole
right in the middle of the rocky mass
through which daylight can be seen.
The mountainous rock is punctured,
407 feet above the sea level, with an
arched opening 50 feet hight and 36
feet in width. This curious natural
phenomenon is accounted for by geol-
ogists with a theory according to which
the rock is undergoing gradual disin-
tegration. Some day, it is said, the
top will fall over. Then Torghattan
will present two sections with a great
cleft between them. This hole in the
mountain is ages old, and the legends
of its origin, told in the literature of
Norway, would fill a volume.
Colorado’* Doelsts of Alfalfa Exceed Her
siessin Value.
Great as is: the wealth of the stite
of Colorado in silver she has a fat
more valuable product in the roya
purple alfalfa that supplies fodder fot
the innumerable herds that roam the
plains and feed in the valleys. Last
year the value of the alfalfa crop was
placed at $10,000,000, yet that does not
represent its contributory worth. In
1862 the introduction of this grass into
the state solved the problem of forage,
which up to that time had puzzled the
pioneers, who had not been able to
aise successfully any other form of
forage. Alfalfa made possible the great
stock growing industry of the state.
Last year the aggregate number of
horses, catttle, hogs and sheep, accord-
ing to the assessors’ returns, was 4.003 -
000, valued at $15,000,000. Excepting
the range sheep and cattle and some
horses in the cities alfalfa formed the
greater part of the food of all these
animals. Thus dairying, a new but
rapidly developing industry, depends
on the alfalfa. The great grain farms
and potato ranches need this product
as well. Alfalfa is peerless as a soil
renovator ond enricher. Its long roots,
penetrating to a depth below the sur-
face that other plants cannot reach,
gather the needed elements and. decay-
ing, liberate them for the benefit of
future crops. The Colorado farmer has
learned that rotating crops of wheat
and alfalfa make the average yield of
whest in Colorado 25 bushels to the
acre, while the average for the whole
country is less than 14 bushels. The
same rotation has produced the famous
Greeley potato, as inimitable in its way
as<the Rocky Ford melon. The Colo-
rado stock raiser has discovered that
cattle । may be fattened at home with-
out sending them to corn states, and
that alfalfa produced beef, not tallow.
He has discovered that pigs turned into
the alfalfa patch during the summer
are ready for market in the fall, and
that "alfalfa mutton” brings the top
price in the east. The small rancher
. knows that his chickens, geese, ducks
and Belgian hares are finer for the
, alfalfa that forms part of their daily
, food, and that his alfalfa honey equals,
if it does not excel, the delicious white
sage honey of California.
spider was seen to inflict the bite;
there were almost no cases in which
the spider was seen to bite and was
saved for examination.
Discontented Cinderella.
Cinder’s Fairy Godmother—Why,
What’s this? You crying. Cinderella?
And after all I've done for you, you
discontented girl! Didn't I give you
rich clothes and a coach and six? Cin-
derella—That’s just ir. When yon gave
me the coach and six, you led me to
believe I’d be the biggest thing at the
ball, and when I got there I found four
of the others had automobiles!--Har-
Per’s Bazar.
Causes of Alpine Accidents.
Many alpine accidents are due to
the eagerness of tourists, as well as
natives, to get specimens of edel-
weiss and other rare flowers that grow
in dangerous places. Prof. Karl Odoer-
fer, of Pressburg, is one of the latest
victims of' this folly. With dne
friends he was making the ascent,
from Veldes, of a peak 4,500 feet high,
when he saw some edelweiss flowers
at the edge of precipice. He stooped
to pick them. He slipped, exclaimed
jocularly, “Hopla!” and tried to sieze
a bush. He missed it, however, and
fell down 1,500 feet into an abyss.
procession of all the presidents of
the United States issues, followed by
figures which symbolize the growth of
the republic. The inventor has kept
his work a secret all these years, and
even now refuses to sell it or allow it
to be exhibited.
No respectable cat will look at a
king if there is a mouse in sight. -
An interesting article on insect poi-
sons is contributed to the New York
Sun by Dr. L. O. Howard, chief ento-
mologist of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Dr. Howard
points out that the danger from this
source is very generally over-estimat-
ed in the popular mind. Everywhere
among civilized people, as well as
among uncivilized races, there exists
superstitions regarding perfectly harm-
less insects. For example, the com-
mon dragon fly or devil’s darning
needles, are feared very generally by
English-speaking races and children in
Sg Rush to Get Positions as Croupier*
at Monto Carlo.
The other day the casino at Monte
Jarlo found itself in need of ten new
croupiers. Six of the vacancies were
saused by dismissals—some for fraud
—others for excessive frivolity in con-
nection with the fair sex. For ten va-
cancies no fewer than 1,500 persons
applied. Of these 228 were selected for
examination, 102 of whom failed to
-atisfy the doctors. The remaining
126 were then put to an examination
as regards education, chiefly arithmet-
ical. Of the ten ultimately successful
five were Corsicans, the rest French
and other nationalities. The success-
ful applicants will attend "school” for
six months before they will be al-
lowed to work at the public tables—
a "professor” teaching the whole art
and mystery* of crouping. While at
school they receive 150 francs per
month, which is increased to 200
francs on promotion to the tables.
After that the annual increases are
considerable, to say nothing of various
additional advantages, such as free
medical attendance and respectable
pensions. A croupier, in fact, not oaly
starts very well, but with a capital
vista of promotion and prosperity.
Many of the most prosperous trades-
men and business people at Monte
Carlo are, or have been, croupiers—
starting in business with the savings
from their salaries. Lord Salisbury’s
agent at Beaulieu, for instance, is an
inspector at the Casino and one of the
ablest and most courteous business
men on the whole Riviera.—Paris
Messenger.
Many of Them Eearn to Talk as Well
as Imitate Others’ Peculiar Notes.
The parrot, the magpie and the ra-
ven are not the only birds capable of
learning human speech. In them the
faculty of imitation is more highly de-
veloped than among the other mem-
bers of the feathered world. There
are a score of speciesy that are able
to imitate sounds made\by other ani-
mals. Bluejays, caught early and
properly trained,. can be taught to
speak as well as most parrots, and the
same thing can be accomplished with
a crow if he is caught young and his
tongue slit. M. H. Coupin, a well
known naturalist, tells some curious
stomies regarding the imitative powers
of certain birds which are generally
supposed to lack such attainments. He
tells of a sparrow which learned to
imitate the strident noise made by a
wasps and bees it contains essentially
of formic acid. Cases are on record of
the death of human beings as a result
of the injection of poison with the
sting of bees and wasps, as well as
with, the bites of spiders. Such cases,
however, are rare. A number of cases
are on record of death from a multi-
tude of bee stings. I know of a case,
well authenticated, of the death of a
middle-aged woman from a single bee
sting. The physical condition of the
patient undoubtedly had much to do'
with the fatal result. Another case
of similar nature came under the ob-
servation of Dr. William Frew of Eng-
land, in 1896. The patient, a young
lady of 23, was stung on the neck,
just behind the angle of the jaw. by
a wasp, the sting of which was ex-
tracted by a servant. A solution of
arnica was applied and, as the patient
felt ill, she was assisted to bed. She
complained immediately of a horrible
feeling of choking and of pains in the
abdomen. The neck swelled rapidly,
agonizing, and she died fifteen minutes
after being stung. Dr. Frew saw the
body about two hours after death, and
found the neck and lower part of the
body much swollen. The tongue was
swollen to such an extent that it filled
the mouth. The young lady was of a
nervous, excitable temperament, and
had shown symptoms of weak action
of the heart.
The stings of'bees and wasps have
very different effects on different peo-
ple, and without doubt persons who
habitually handle bees become im-
mune to their poisons. Herbert H.
Smith, who is a professional collector
of insects, catches bees and wasps in
his net and removes them with his
thumb and forefinger. In his case, the
forefinger is stung so often that it
has become thoroughly inoculated, and
stings upon this finger produce no
effect, but if he is stung on the back
of the neck or in some other part of
the body the sensation is as painful as
it is with another person. Authentic
cases of death from spider bite are
rare, although case’s reported are of
almost weekly occurrence. I have in-
vestigated more than a hundred such
reports in the United States in the
grasshoppers. At that time the spar-
row took no notice of the noises made
by his neighbors, but the next spring
when he found himself again in the
company of grasshoppers, he seemed
to consider that it was "up to him’’
to take part in their daily serenades.
He made several attempts to sing af-
ter the manner of his neighbors and
was moderately successful. For the
rest of his life, long after the grass-
hoppers were dead, he would every
now and then give vent to his feel-
ings in a strain composed partly of the
notes of the grasshoppers and partly
of the notes of other birds.
benefit-to-the public.-Late in August
while camping on the Micmac river he
had the misfortune to cut a deep gash
in his leg, which bled copiously and
caused him much pain and trouble
until he was so fortunate as to receive
a visit from Chief Oku, a great medi-
eme mat of the tribe, whose fame is
known among all the Indians of the
Eastern states. The cut was badly in-
flamed when Oku arrived, but he at
once reduced the swelling by bathing
his leg with a decoction of elm bark
and tying up the wound in fresh clay
from a brook. When Dr. Doud asked
the Indian to take some stitches in the
cut Oka replied: “Heem no good.
T’read heem mak’ heem swell up, so
be-sore. See w‘at Oku, heem do.” The
echiefewentto a clearing andrreturned
with a dozen large and very lively
brown ante. Then, grasping the two
sides of the cut between his thumb and
finger and pinching them together, he
caused an ant to bite at the edge, put-
ting his paws through both sides of the
cut and closing them as firmly as if
they had been in a vise. When he
had applied eight ants in this manner
he coolly pulled off their bodies, leav-
ing nothing but their heads attached.
"Nog heem bin stay there ’til heem
sore geet well," said Oku, winding a
bandage of soft cloth around the leg
and fastening it as neatly as a trained
nurse could have done. “In nine day—
12 day, maybe—take off cloth; find
him all well.” Dr. Doud followed in-
structions and came out cured. The
heads of the ants1 had held on as firm-
ly as pincers. and although the insects
were long dead, it required consider-
able force to pull away the locked
jaws. Dr. Doud also believes that the
formic acid which the ants secrete
from their mandibles has antiseptic
qualities which are unknown to medi-
cine, and proposes to make a few ex-
periments along this line on his return
to Boston.
A Wonderful loek.
To the list of remarkable clocks in
the world that just completed by a
Bohemian in Chicago, who has been at
work on it for nineteen years, will
have to be added. It is more than
eighteen feet high, and is fifteen feet
square at the base. A miniature earth
circles around the dial, and turns on
its axis every twenty-four hours, while
the sun, moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn
and other planets are represented in
their proper relative places. When
the clock strikes a door opens, and a
POISON OE INSECTS.
about spider bites is totally unfound-
ed, while the stories about scorpions
and centipedes are grossly exaggerat-
ed. The effects of intense nervous
fear, following a physical injury of
an insignificant nature, are well un-
derstood by the medical profession.
Hence it is not difficult to understand
cases of severe nervous prostration,
and even death following a sting or a
bite from a comparatively harmless
insect. The truly poisonous insects,
that is, insects which possess poison
gland and secrete poison with their
bites or stings, belong in the main to
two classes. Either they sting for
protection, as with the bees, certain
ants and certain wasps, or they use the
poison to assist, in the capture of
their prey, as with the digger wasps,
certain pedaceous bugs and all spiders.
The mosquito belongs to a third class,
and the purpose of the poison which
it injects is not fully understood. In-
sect poisons, as a rule, were undoubt-
edly developed for use against other
insects. Therefore, they are small in
quantity, and. generally speaking, are
serious in their effects only upon other
insects. The exact nature of the poi-
son is not well understood. In ants,
Bee Stings May Cause Death. But the
Fatal Cases Are Rare—Formic Acid
in Polson of Ants. Wasps and
Bees.
The Clerk Spoke English.
The ambitious attempts of the for-
eign tradesman to speak English to his
American customers have been de-
scribed by Mrs. Gillespie in “A Book
of Remembrance” as part of her
amusing experiences in Berlin. Sup-
plies of linen were to be brought, and
we went again to the shop where we
had essayed to speak German and the
shopman had answered us with ef-
fort in English. We found him af-
fable as before, and although we told
him in German that we wanted to look
at towels, he brought out some and
said: “I have found it very difficult
to become such a towel as this.” We
agreed with him, and then asked for
some other articles, which he was
obliged to look for in some distant
part of the store; he bowed and said:
“Execute me in an instant.” My com-
panion, Dooli, bought twelve dozen
children’s napkins, and the young man
said: “Have you, then, so many
young sisters and brothers?”—Youth’s
Companion,
SoUT AMERICAN ARMADILLOS.
South America has been from time
immemorial the home of armored i
giants. During the last century an En-
glish naturalist, in wandering over the
pampas country, came upon an Indian
family, the children of which were
using as a house a huge shell fauceted
like a boiler. It was large and com-
modious enough to hold five or six. In
another camp he found what appeared
to be a huge trumpet, similar to those
used today on yachts, but evidently a
part of the curious house. Investiga-
tion showed that the latter was the
Ants’ Pincers Are Used by an Indian
Sargeon to Bind Together the Sides
of a Wound—Armadillos of South
Amexles.
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