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PAPETEBIES.
A complete and handsome line of Note Papers,
in all popular tints and colors. They are die
stamped “Newport, Arkansas,” but sell at regu
lar prices of Fancy Stationery. It is something
new and very popular.
We would be pleased to show you this line, be
fore the neatest tints and designs are exhausted.
We carry a Full Line of
Wedding and Party Invitations,
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Program Cards and Folders,
Ladies 9 and Gents9 Visiting Cards.
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Engraving Orders
Taken at Regular Prices and Fall Line of Samples carried to selectTfrom.
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We are agents for f
Lambert-Deacon~HuH, 1
of St. Louis, Stationers and Engravers, who
have made a reputation by their neat and §
artistic work. I
NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
®. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
a?n Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
ead the daily Independent
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COLONY OF SEA SQUIRTS.
Curious Form of Life with Which
Bathers and Small Boys Have
Much Amusement.
Most of the tanks in the aquari
um have now been relined with
roekwork, says the New York Sun. j
An advantage of roekwork for this i
purpose is that it affords places of ;
lodgment for various forms of
marine life, both vegetable and
animal, which may be introduced
into the tank either by accident or
by design, to make a further addi
tion to the tank’s attractiveness. j
Already in some of the tanks
here these lesser forms, either
planted or of accidental growth,
are beginning to appear; a notable
example of the last-named kind
being found in the salmon rock
fish tanks, in which there may now
be seen, attached to the rocky lin
ing of the tank, a great colony,
some thousands in number, of
the familiar ascidian commonly
known as the sea squirt.
Everybody that has been much
about the water knows the sea
squirt, a leathery creature some
what resembling a rubber water
bottle in shape, with two siphon
tubes like stubby little slightly
curved bottle necks projecting
irom its top. me sea squirt tuKes
its nourishment as the clam does.
It absorbs minute forms of ani
mal life of various sorts, along
with quantities of water, through
one of its siphon tubes, and after
extracting the nutriment it expels
the water through the other.
The sea squirt clings to the
rocks along shore, and to sea
grass, and it is found in man}’ wa
ters. It may be of a dingy white
or gray in color, like those now at
the aquarium, though some sea
squirts are of a dark rich brown,
and there are others of a brilliant
red. The largest of those here are
about an inch and a half in length.
Sea squirts attain a length of two
or three inches or more.
Bathers who know about them
pick sea squirts from the rocks and
play tricks with them by collaps
ing them and so spurting the wTa
ter on fellow bathers. Boys liv
ing by the water as in fishing
towns, carry sea squirts to school
with them, in their pockets, and
there squeeze the water out of
them. To collapse one in that man
ner means the end of the sea
squirt.
A sea squirt left out of water by
the receding tide might lie col
lapsed and flat, but it would be
more likely to have taken in wa
ter enough to carry it until th<*
tide covered it again, and it would
be most likely to be found, be
tween tides, in places where it
would get more or less moisture.
If one should be left exposed for a
longer time than usual on some
bare rock, as it might be by an un
usually low tide, it would be
burned and shriveled and de
stroyed by the sun’s hot rays.
They were probably introduced
into this tank with shrimp put
into it as food for the roekfish.
Natural Soap.
German papers report that
steps are being taken in Algeria to
manufacture natural soap on a i
lage scale from a tree known as
“Sapindus utilis.” This plant,
which has long been known in
Japan, China and India, bears a
fruit of about the size of a horse
chestnut, smooth and round. The
color varies from a yellowish
green to brown. The inner part
is of a dark color and has an oily
kernel. The tree bears fruit in
its sixth year and yields from 55
to 220 pounds of fruit, which can
easily be harvested in the fall. By
using water of alcohol the sepona
ceous ingredient of the fruit is ex
tracted. The cost of production is
said to be small and the soap, on
account of possessing no alkaline
qualities, is superior to the ordi
nary soap of commerce.
Pigeons as Smugglers.
A curious utilization of carrier
pigeons was recently attempted in
Belgium. This was making them
carry contraband goods into
France. For a short time 24 pi
geons were let olf regularly from
the Belgian dovecot, each bur
! dened with a small coil of tobacco.
They arrived at their French des
tination rather exhausted, and
doubtless glad to be relieved of
1 their load. In one case, however,
a pigeon, in making the flight,
proved unequal to the effort, fell
into the Seine and was picked up.
The system was thus found out
i and suppressed. .
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