The Newark Journal.
O F. CRAIG, Editor.
NEWARK- - ARKANSAS.
A POOL OF DRUMFISH.
Big Fish Placed on Exhibition in
New York Aquarium.
People with a fancy for big fish
will be interested in the drumfish
now on exhibition in one of the
pools at the New York aquarium.
There are seven of them here,
ranging in length from 1U to 4 feet
and in weight from 50 to GO
pounds.
The drumfish attain a weight of
100 pounds, but 50 and GO pound
ers are big fish, nevertheless, and
these specimens seen close at
hand, as they are, look their size
and weight. These drumfish were
taken in Sandy Hook bay and
brought to the city in a fish car in
tow of a tug.
There have been placed in the
pool with the drumfish, says the
New York Sun, a lot of small
sharks, including nine sand sharks
and one little blue shark which
peviously had been installed in
the great central pool. The sand
sharks are of about the same
length as the drumfish, but with
their more slender bodies they
look much smaller.
The little blue shark here, which
is something of a rarity in these
waters, is about two feet long.
The blue shark, which fishermen
hereabouts call the Spanish shark,
is common in tropical waters,
where it grows to be from 12 to 15
feet in length and to weigh from
GOO to 800 pounds. The blue shark
has saw-shaped teeth, instead of
teeth like horseshoe nails turned
inward, such as the sand shark
has.
Only occasionally does a littla
blue shark get as far north as this,
and but rarely a big one. This lit
tie fellow was taken where the
sandsharks in the pool were ob
tained, in (Iravesend bay.
THE “DO ANYTHING” MAN.
Is Usually the Man Who Is of No
Use at All.
My first visit to the bank is a
most vivid memory, says a bank
cashier, in Everybody’s.
‘‘Well, my boy," began my nn- |
cle. “what do you want to do?"
“Oh, anything,” 1 blurted with
the cheerful stupidity of boyhood.
“Mv boy,” he said slowly, “let
me tell you that the hardest man
in the world to find work for is
the man who says that he can do
‘anything’ or is willing to do‘any
thing.' Usually he is the man w ho
can’t do a thing.
“Now, you ought to have sense
enough to know that you can’t do j
‘anything.’ 1 don’t believe, either,
that you are as stupid as vour
father thinks, and 1 am going to
give you a chance to prove that I
am right. If you are good for any
thing, we shall soon find it out;
and if you are good for nothing,
we shall soon find that out, too."
I have never forgotten that
brief conversation. The “old
man" has long since passed away,
but even nowadays when the "do
anything" chap presents himself
with a letter of introduction, I
think of my uncle long enough to
hear witness to the truth and
force of his view.
Lord Salisbury.
The late Lord Salisbury behaved
to those about him with fatherlv
*
benignity, not unmixed with
humor. One of his secretaries
was interrupted, on one occasion,
when conversing with him over
the telephone. Hi* turned on the
intruder and addressed him with
winged words. Immediately aft
ei wards Lord Salisbury w as heard
saving: “(Jo on, please; vour last
words were—” and he repeated
verbatim the rebuke delivered to
the interrupter by the angry sec re
tary.
Figures
Figures may not lie, but a skill
ful mathematician may be able to
juggle them to some purpose.—
Chicago Daily News.
RIDING CAMELS OF ARABIANS.
They Can Endure Much and Carry
Heavy Loads.
As we have racers and cart
horses, so the Arabs have breeds
of camels severally adapted for
riding and for carrying burdens.
It is to the fast riding and racing
camels that the name dromedary
alone applies, so that the term— j
the Greek equivalent of “racer”—
indicates merely a breed and not a
particular species.
All the camels of Arabia and
Africa, as well as those employed
in India, belong to the same hump
species, which is a lightly built j
and long-limbed animal in compar
ison with its double-humped rela- |
tive. the Hadrian camel of central
Asia, says the London Illustrated
News. Not improbably some of
the herds of the latter species
which are found in the neighbor
hood of the Gobi desert are de
scendants of aboriginally wild an
imals, but the Arabian camel is
quite unknown in the wild state
and we are even ignorant of its
birthplace, although it is quite
likely that this may have been
North Africa or the neighborhood
of the Arabian desert.
For traversing desert tracts
camels are absolutely'indispensa j
ble and for this purpose they have !
been introduced into A listralia and
Arizona, where some of them have
run wild. Their broad, cushion
like hoofs proclaim them essen
tially animals of the desert, and a
camel is absolutely helpless on a
wet and slippery inclined road. As
if conscious that man cannot do
without them camels are some of
the worst tempered and ill na
tured brutes in creation, and, save
for their endurance and the heavy
loads they can carry, no one has a
good word to say in their favor. If
a camel can bitea mounted passen
ger whom he may be passing in a
narrow road he will never fail to
avail himself of the opportunity
and the bubbling noise made by a
“mast'’ camel at night will de
stroy the rest of an entire camp.
MONKEY DISCIPLINE.
Mother Gives Youngster a Good Spank
ing in Approved Style.
One of the monkey cages in the
New York "Zoo” contains a
mother monkey and her baby.
Some visitors one day gave the
mother a chocolate peppermint.
She tasted it. smacked her lips,
winked, and put it all into her
mouth—only to remove it at once,
and smack and wink much harder.
After a second she repeated her
experiment, and again hastily re
moved the peppermint, says the
Youth's <"ompanion.
Once more she put the dainty in
her mouth, but once more she took
it out. Then, with watery eyes,
she laid the candy carefully on the
ledge of her cage, turned her back,
walked over to the opposite side,
seized the rails with both hands,
and gazed out as if she had never
seen a peppermint.
Meanwhile the baby, who had
been engaged with visitors in a
corner, had returned to the front.
Seeing the peppermint, he picked
it up and tasted it. Hut his moth
er’s three experiments had left
only a nibble for him. That dis
posed of. he, too. walked to the op
posite side, seized the rails, and
stood gazing out with the same air
of utter absorption as his moth
er’s.
As soon as the latter had cooled
down she came back again, and
looked for the peppermint. Not
seeing it, she swept with one paw
all along the ledge where she had
left it, but in vain. Suddenly she
ran to the baby, and twisting his
head to face herself, put one hand
one each side of his jaws, pulled
his mouth wide open, stuck her
head in, and gave a big sniff. Then
she turned him over and spanked
him soundly.
Th* First Person.
Teacher—Johnny, you may de
fine the first person.
Johnny — Adam.—Town and
Country.
CHAIN OF SUGGESTION.
Oar Birl/rr After the Other Ifnil *3
Idea to Offer the I'ertiuaeioua
Customer.
“A man up in my country had a melan
cholly experience. ” declared Senator
i'rye. of Maine. “This man determined to
pet a shave every other day and to let
every burlier cut his hair who suggested
it. At the end of a week three ditierent
barbers had intimated that the hair need
ed trimming and were told to ‘go ahead
and trim.’ As the hair was now beyond
the trimining stage, the fourth barber's
advice, ‘that clipping would be beneficial,'
was accepted. ‘Now,’ thought the man,
"the next barliar will be satisfied that
when 1 say ‘shave/ 1 mean ‘shave’ and
nothing more. Yet when the fifth barber
mentioned ‘singeing’ he permitted his close
ly-cropped hair to be singed. The sixth
night was 011 a Saturday. He went to still
another barber, now satisfied that when
lie said ‘shave’ no barber would have the
temerity to hint at an attempt to reduce
the length of his hair.
‘“Did you ever try Dr. Comeup’s hair
restorer?’ questioned the barber as he took
up a bottle.
"The Indians had a quicker way of get
ting at a man’s scalp than these barbers,”
commented Senatoi Chandler.
"Yes,” said the Maine statesman, “but
we ere living under modern, not ancient
barbarism.”
Wliy Sot f
"Here’s an account of a big landslide,”
said the new reporter. "Under what head
•hall I put it?”
"Put it with the real estate transfers,"
said the city editor, as lie wrote: “Con
tinued on the fort\ lust page” 111 the mid
dle of a four line paragraph.—Y’ouths
Companion.
Wantanno—"I wonder if Gabskv will re
cite for me at my little party this even
ing?7 Duzno—"ife will unless you know
some as yet undiscovered way to prevent
him. ’—Baltimore American.
YOUTH AND AGE.
Th?r? Is n Muterinl Fiiifrrpnrr That
la Sot AIhbj i Ap
par«nt.
Maitre Labori. the noted French advo
cate who defended the Humberts, is not
remarkable in Paris so much for the elo
quence ns for the neatness and the polish
of his speeches.
An American journalist heard Labori
in court one day. lie says the advocate's
address was full of grace, wit, tenderness.
He quotes a passage relating to old age
wherein Labori, with a smile, said:
“Old age—we shall none of us quite un
derstand that until we have attained to it
—for no one ot us, here, is old. Hut the
other day 1 visited my uncle, a very aged
man.
“ ‘What is it like, uncle,’ 1 said, ‘to be
old?’
"And my uncle answered:
“ ‘It is like this: When one is young,
one's polite attentions to women are taken
for declarations of love; but when one is
old, one's declarations of love are taken
tor polite attentions.’ ”
The Germ Theory.
The discovery of the germ theory is per
haps the most important in the history;
of medicine, the discovery of the stomach
of course excepted.
Exhaustive experiments on guinea pigs
have made it clear that mankind cannot
be well without serums.
Hut such is the character of serums that
nobody will take them unless he is
frightened.
And the germ theory has thrown more
scares into more people than all otiier
theories put together.
Thus it is not easy to see how we should
manage to have any health to speak of,
without the germ theory.—Puck.
May—“Alice isn’t at all nervous."
Clara—‘‘Not in the least. I’ve known her
to keep cool in a bargain-counter rush.”—
iiiowu and Country.
The wind blows nothing off but with
ered leaves.—Kama Horn
A thletics Not Beneficial to IVomen
By H. B. MARRIOTT-WATSON.
During the last twenty years and more we have
never ceased to plume ourselves on the supposed
fact that with the improvement of modern conditions
and the increasing attention to physical exercise our
women have greatly added to their health and beauty.
Gymnasiums have been annexed to every girls’
school, and our daughters and sisters have been en
couraged to bicycle, fence, shoot, ride, play tennis
and golf. Even football has been added to the games
which the sex may practice, not only with impunity
but with advantage. Now that we have enjoyed this
curriculum for nearly a generation, it is time we took
stock and reckoned up the debit and credit balances.
Have women been benefited by the revolution in their education
and training?
In view of the falling birth rate and the many feminine problems
that flourish like weeds to-dav it is an important question for the race.
It is remarkable how the type has changed during the last sixty or
seventy years. W hen our grandmothers were celebrated and toasted as
beauties, a different ideal reigned. The toast was then something
petite, of a pink complexion, of a delicious plumpness, and animated
by a lively and natural emotionalism. With the introduction of athletics
and open air exercise—admirable in their way—we developed a differ
ent type.
The result is that our women have deteriorated physically.
Bicycling is not a suitable exercise for woman; riding and fenc
ing and the rest of the gamut do her no good. The one exercise which
is not only natural but stimulating and healthy, walking, women have
abandoned.
i he modern girl begins earlv and continues till her marriage, and
often afterwards, the unnatural athletics which ruin her figure and fre
quently her health. She shoots up tall, flat chested, colorless, and lack
ing in reasonable proportions. Wried and atrophied bv rough wear
and unseemly habits, that delicate form shrinks and withers from the
norm of health and beauty. Xo longer have our girls the pleasant con
tour and healthy lines of muliebrity. They tend to conform to a stand
ard which is not theirs, but man’s.
This inherent vice in the training of girls is in even greater evi
dence here than across the Atlantic. Charles Dana Gibson weekly de
ludes us into the belief that the American girl is as he draws her. There
are practically no Gibson girls in America, and there are no Du Maurier
girls any longer in England. The race is extinct, and in its place is the
gaunt, flat chested young woman who may be seen in her thousands in
the street or at any public gathering.
Exercise, in short, is not the necessity to woman that it is to man,
and when women not only are encouraged to take too much cxeici.se
but are also encouraged to take it in objectionable forms, it is evident
that the decay of the sex must set in.
The chief charm in woman, as well as die end nature had in view
for her. is her femininity. When that goes she loses her birthright.
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