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., SADDLE. HORSES A SPECIALTY
‘TURTLES soon To EAT.
This Country is Blessed with-No Less
.,i Than Forty Varieties.
‘J Edible turtles of the United States
{are discussed by a writer in the learned
Revue Scientifique. _He considers that
the gourmets of this country are to be
congratulated on the number of ali-
mentary reptiles at their disposal. N 0
less than forty varieties of edible turtle
are known
States. -
The “loggerhead”. is found upon the
Atlantic coast from Virginia to Brazil.
It is a giant that weighs from 800 to
1,600 pounds, especially in the south.
The eggs form an agreeable dish, but
the flesh is good only in the young in-
dividuals, since it becomes oily and ac.-
quires a musky taste in the adult.
It is the green turtles that furnish
the greater part of the true turtle meat. _
These are the turtles par excellence.
. In the Atlantic they are met with "from
New York to Florida.
Small at the north. they increase in
_ size towards the south, passing from a
weight of 8 to 15 and 20 pounds at
Charleston to from 20 to 25 at St. Au~
gustine, 25 at Halifax river, 56 to 60 at
Indian river, and 50 to 100 at Key West.
At Cedar Keys specimens have been
found that weighed 600, 800 and even
1,000 pounds.
From April to June they repair to
the shore in order to deposit their eggs.
The Tortugas islands, which are unin-
habited and which are visited only by
wreckers and turtle fishermen, are one
of their favorite haunts, but any desert
beach of the coast is equally good for
their purposes. .
The female creeps up on the shore
two or three titfles, excavates a hole,
and deposits therein from 100 to 200
eggs (about 500 during the season) and
returns to the same place nearly every
time, and. on each occasion, covers the
eggs with sand in order to conceal the
site of the nest.
The sun does the rest, but the sea-
birds devour many of the young ones,
which, as soon as hatched, open a
passageway to the exterior and betake
themselves .to the ocean. The flesh of
this species is excellent, and forms the
principal ingredient of green turtle
soup; and the amateur will tell you
that there is nothing so good as the
“calipash,” the flesh mixed with green
' fat that is found under the carapace.
The yellowish “calipee” of the, plas-
tron is good, too, but the calipash is
certainly better, either in soup or
broiled. This meat is sold in the large
cities, both in a fresh and preserved
state..'
The snapping turtle and alligator
turtle are esteemed, but the terrapins
(pseudemys) are better known, and
figure alone with the green turtle upon
restaurant bills of fare. ‘
QUITE AN ADVENTURE.-
Prince Hohenlohe Comes Within an Ace
of Killing Baron Vietinghofl'. .
It would be difficult to find on record
a stranger hunting adventure than that
experienced by Prince Hohenlohe, son
of the German chancellor, and Baron
Vietinghoif the other day, says the
Berlin correspondent of the New York
Sun. They went out together to shoot
stags and flagreed to decoy the animals
by imitating their call on a special
horn. The hunters separated, each ac-
companied -by a gamekeeper, and went
in different directions. During the
course of the day they approached each
other, and each heard the other’s decoy
call and believed a stately stag was be-
fOI‘L him. Imitating the heavy steps of
the .axiimal, they noisily drew still
nearer. The imitation of the steps and
call was so well done that they finally
arrived within ten paces of each other
without perceiving their mistake. The
thicket was so dense that they could
not {see through it. Both stood still,
repeating the challenge from time to
time. Each still firmly believed that
he was within a few paces of a real
stag. At last the prince, tired of wait-
ing, fired thrice rapidly in the direction
of the supposed game." The first bullet
glanced off the cartridge belt of Baron
Vietinghoff, the second struck his
watch and sprang off, and’ the third fell
dead from his pocketbook well filled
with papers. The young baron, though
hit three times, stood unwounded. He
was so convinced that not his fellow
hunter but a stag stood before him that
he attributed the shots to the explosion
of cartridges in his belt, and busied
himself unfastening his belt for the
purpose of throwing it away. The as-
tonishment of both, when they"at last
found out what had happened, was
great.
ELECTRICAL DESPOTISM.
The State Custodian of the Dynamo Holds
the Whiphand in Cores.
Coreans appear to be a happy go lucky
people. Their wants are few, and they
buy little, but the one object of their
life is to defer the evil day of payment
as long as possible. The coin of the
common people is the copper or brass
“cash” or sapek, athousand of which
go to the Mexican dollar. .These little
coins have a square hole in the center
and are strung on cords of straw, and it
is said that when a tra eler journeys
into the interior of the country he has
to take along an extra horse to carry
his money. It is related that Dr. Scran-
ton, a medical missionary, sold to the
Corean government eighteen hundred
Mexican dollars, and the “cash”'he re-
ceived in exchange required the serv-
ices of fifty-six stout men for its re-
moval to the mission. house. Under
such circumstances it appears rather a
misfortune to be paid one’s just dues.
There is an ofiicial, however, who suf-
fers no inconvenience either from the
national shiftlessness or the unwieldi-
ness of the common currency. In Corea,
at all‘ events, the state electrician has
the whip hand. Not only is he the only
Europan not paid by the customs Who
gets his pay regularly, but he is paid
either in :bullion or gold dust." The
secret of his “pul ” is that the king and
all his court are all so afraid of ghosts
that they sit up all night. There are
sorcerers, and the electric light, also,
to keep off the ghosts. If the electri-
cian’s pay falls into arrears thelight
apparatus breaks down, and cannot be
repaired until he is paid up.
.‘,:,1iffiE§IIituf
to exist in the United.
ACCORDING TO"HIS' CRE‘ED. '
How Li Bung Chang Paid Revel-once to
His Mother-fa Memory.
A Chinaman, be heflking crpcoolie, is
devoted to his father and mother.
When. either parent dies, custom or- .
dains that the sons shall resign all hon-
ors and employments to, repair to the
ancestral tomb and mourn there for a
long period. '
Our former minister to China, John
Russell Young, tells in the Review of
Reviews how the Chinese premier. Li
Hung Chang, was prevented from punc-
tiliously observing the cuStom by an
imperial decree.
The aged mother of the great Chinese
statesman died, and he hurried to cele-
brate the rites at her grave, accom-
panied by his brother, the viceroy at
Wuchang. Everyone was expecting _,
the premier’s resignation, and his en- ‘
forced retirement from all official posi-
tions. His enemies thought that Li
had gone finally; his place would be
filled by another, and his power become
a memory.
Suddenly there came a decree from
the throne commanding Li to lay aside
mourning and, at the end of three
months, resume ofiice.‘ His brother was
permitted to remain at the tomb and do
the filial reverence. The decree was
without precedent; but the emperor
was sacred and his command Supreme.
Li Hung Chang returned to Tientsin,
his home.
When Mr. Young saw the premier’s
yacht anchored in the harbor of 'Chefoo
he went on board to pay his respects.
The premier‘looked like a starving beg-
gar. He wore the coarsest raiment.
His beard and forehead had not been
shaved, and his queue hung down from
a clotted mass of hair. Lines of sorrow
streaked his face, and his hands were
grimy. '
The first man in the empire, noted
for his carefulness in raiment and clean-
liness of person, appeared as the mean-
est subject, that he might, by privation
and penance, do reverence to his
mother’s memory, according to the
creed of his ancestors. A few days
later, when Mr. Young met Li at
Tientsin, the beggar’s mien had van-
ished, and he was again the well-
appointed nobleman.
WHITTIER AND HIS POETRY.
John Vance Cheney Says He Was the
Burns of America.
“The homespun work of John Green-
leaf Whittier will outlast the finer fab—
rics of Longfellow, Lowell, Bryant and
Emerson,” was the belief voiced by
John Vance Cheney the other night, in
his lecture on the Quaker poet. Despite
Whittier’s occasional crudenesshand
stiffness of style and diction, notwith-
standing he had essayed to make
“banner” rhyme with “Susquehanna,”
“cotton” with “fortune” and had at-
tempted to force “onward” and “look-
ing” into rhythmical juxtaposition in
the same line, yet his spontaneity, sim-
plicity, strength, enthusiasm, warmth
of color, humanity and granitic in-
tensity dowered his muse so richly as
to make these minor blemishes but as
spots upon the splendor of a sun. More
than any of America’s native bards he
had the gift of the lyric muse. He was
and is the American Burns, singing
songs to the hearts of .1 the plain folk.
Whittier’s anti-slavery poems, his
lyrics of New England, his songs of
labor were reviewed by the lecturer,
their faults pointed out and their clus-
tering beauties commended. Not so
finished in his style as Longfellow, not
gifted with as lofty imagination as
Bryant and not showing such dazzling
flashes of genius as Lowell, still Whit-
tier surpassed them all in pathos, sim-
plicity and that indescribable w1tchery
of melody that leads captive the hearts
of the people.
A M lXED-UP FAMILY.
Story of a Man Whose Son Is His Broth-
er-ln-Law. ’
Here are the raw materials for a
headache:
Dr. King, of Adelaide, a widower,
married a Miss Norris. Shortly after
the doctor’s honeymoon the doctor’s
son married a sistei; of the doctor’s
wife.
Then a brother of the doctor’s wife
married the doctor‘s daughter. In
other words, the doctor’s son became
his stepmother’s brother-in-law, and
the doctor’s daughter became her step-
mother’s sister-in-law.
The doctor, by the marriage of his
son to the sister of the doctor’s wife,
became the father-in-law to his sister-
in-law, and the doctor’s wife, by the
marriage of her sister to her stepson,
became stepmother-in—law to her own
sister.
By the marriage of the brother of
the doctor’s wife to the doctor’s daugh-
ter the doctor became father-in-law to
his brother-in—law, and the doctor’s
wife became stepmother-in-law to her
own brother.
What relations, asks Picaroon in Pall
Mall Budget, are the children of the
contracting parties to each other?
A Good Omen.
‘Not long ago there was a Frenchman
who had a large family, and who was
haunted by the idea that when he died
there would be no one to look after his
children. While thinking of this, one
spring day, he noticed two nests in a
hedge ”close by each other. Each con-
tained half-fledged birds, whose par-
ents were lying dead. He went away
sad, thinking that the young birds
must die. What was his surprise, how-
ever, a few days after, to see them
quite happy and apparently well fed.
He stood apart and watched, and pres-
ently he saw the parent birds of other
nests come to the young birds and feed
them. They had adopted the little
orphans—a fact which the Frenchman
naturally accepted as a good omen
with regard -to his own little ones.
_v Difference in'Voices.
One’s surprise in the fact that no two
person’s voices are perfectly alike ceases
when one is informed by an authority
that, though there are only nine per-
fect tones. to the human voice, there
are the astonishing. number of 17,592,-
115,044,415 different sounds.
fourteen direct muscles produCe 16,382,
and thirteen indirect muscles produce
* 178,741,823.
Of these,
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RANGE CO: ,
' g, OF NEW'YORK.
. RICHARD A. MCCURDY president
' men for eYear ndingfleu 31. Ill
$221,218,721 83
194,347,157 58
$26,866,563 75
$48,597,480 51
828,126,728 45
Assets, ' . . - .
Liabilities . .
Surplus _ . .
Total Income ._ ..
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, .
Insurance and Annuities in force, . $899,074,453 78
Net gem 1n 1895 ' , . $61,647,645. 36
(If. NOTE—Insurance merely written Is dlscar I‘ '
actually issued and paid fdr in cash?§ljn¥l?ir3etd‘.ls Statement as wholly misleading, and only Insurance
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. '
' CHARLES, A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
5 Report of the Examining Committee.
Office of the Mutual lifu Insurance company of New York,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held. on the 18t h day 'of
December last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-
parison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby
certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are in possession of the Company.
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of
the investments of the Company andexpress their approval of the system, order and
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
general transacted.
H. 0. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson",
James C. Holden,
Robert Olyphant,
Wm. P. Dixon,
J. H. Herrick.
Committee
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER «R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Sccy.
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy.
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. ,
I TOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trea‘s
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier . EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier
. EMORY MoCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
JOHN TATLOOK, .13., Asst. Actuary. ' WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, .Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN , Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Aggnciee,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
GUSTAVUS 3. WINSTON. M. D. ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. D;
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