APRIL 28, 1906.] 

Beavers in Michigan. 
THE Calumet (Mich.) News says: “Report 
has come from people who have traveled in the 
woods that there is evidence that the fur-bearing 
animals are largely on the increase. Especially 
is this true of the beavers, a fact no doubt due 
to the protection given this animal by law, which 
prohibits killing it before 1910. Fear is expressed 
that long before that time the animals will have 
multiplied to such an extent as to become a nui- 
sance. They have already flooded a large area 
of land by damming up the streams in which 
they have built their houses, and lumbermen have 
been put to considerable trouble and expense in 
breaking these dams where the logging roads 
have been inundated by the water backed up by 
them. In the district about Horseshoe Lake, 
below Eagle Mills, Marquette county, the evi- 
dence of their work is very marked, and all the 
roads which pass near the streams in that vicin- 
ity are now impassable because of being flooded 
with water which has been backed up by a series 
of dams thrown across the net-work of streams 
in the vicinity of the old Sweitzer Mill. Report 
comes from down the line that the beavers have 
already become a nuisance, particularly in the 
woods in the vicinity of Lathrop and Little Lake. 
They have worked great havoc to the timber 
which borders the streams and small lakes in that 
district, and the logging contractors doing busi- 
ness there assert that instead of protecting the 
animals from slaughter there should be a bounty 
placed on them. It is very certain that they have 
multiplied rapidly in the woods to the south of 
Negatnee within the past two years, but only 
within the past few months have their depreda- 
tions been considered of any consequence.” 
Fish Catches a Fisher. 
Tue Australian mail brings an account of an 
exciting experience which befell a lighthouse 
keeper last February. The keeper is a clever 
harpoon fisher, and while following his hobby in 
the harbor he saw a monster kingfish in the 
water, lunged at it, and struck it behind the head. 
But the fish proved a match for the fisher who, 
having the harpoon rope around his right arm, 
and being unable to disentangle it, found himself 
dragged off the stone wall of the harbor into the 
water, where the fish, maddened with pain, swam 
desperately about, with the harpoonist in tow, 
until rescued by two men in a boat. The king- 
fish was hauled on board and found to measure 
five feet six inches. 
Cigar Colors. 
Few cigar smokers are aware that all cigars 
are named according to their color and shape. A 
dead black cigar, for instance, is an “Oscure,” a 
very dark brown one is a “Colorado Maduro,” a 
dark brown is a “Colorado,” a medium brown 
is a “Colorado Clara,’ and a yellowish light 
brown is a “Claro.” Most smokers know the 
names of the shades from “Claro” to ‘Colorado,’ 
and that is as far as most of them need to know. 
As to the shapes, a “Napoleon,” the biggest of 
all cigars, is seven inches long; a “Perfecto” 
swells in the middle and tapers down to a yery 
small head at the lighting end; a “Panatela” is a 
thin, straight up and down cigar without the 
garceful curve of the “Perfecto”; a “Conchas” is 
very short and fat, and a “Londres” is shaped 
like a “Perfecto” except that it does not taper 
to so small a head at the lighting end. A “Reina 
Victoria” is a “Londres” that comes packed in a 
ribbon tied bundle of fifty pieces instead of in 
the usual four layers of thirteen, twelve, thirteen 
and twelve. 
Tourist (visiting an ancient castle)—Are there 
any legends connected with this old castle? Guide 
—Oh, yes. It is said that in ancient times a 
stranger once visited this castle and gave no tip 
to the guide. Thereupon the latter threw the 
visitor over into the moat. But don’t be fright- 
ened. Of course, it’s only an idle legend—Lon- 
don Tit-Bits. / 



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