THE HUNTING CITING SWORDFISH IS EX- AND DANGEROUS. Plunges at the MHunter--Frequeutly the Sharp, Slender Snout Pierces the Yaw! and Impales the Har- pooner, Some fifteen miles Island shore and a gouth of stormy Point Judith, a flock of queer, double end fishing boats are cruising briskly to and fro these days. They in pursuit of the swordfish, abound at this in the aters thereabouts, and whose the world has just becun to em. Arduous and perilous, but desperately fascinating for the tl deep, who Lae | nuts off the Rhode almost directly season flesh ext 1 : ] : this mari nunting, prowle their st: is savage their sn second best ‘Arey in lo not always come out in their fight for life. A few of the fishermen hail from the adjacent ports of Stonington and Noank, on the sout! shore, but by far the put out from the ragge Block Island, where each resident is farmer and fisherman. As quaint and old fashioned an ocean resort as the American coast affords Bloek Island. It is a miniature world, in which the custo habits are those of 100 yeur Every knoll is ith tory hose shingled walls are thickly coated with whitewash, the nly wash that will withstand the intensely vaporous, salty air, which melts the contents of the salt cell on the family lumpy mass east Connecticut largest numbers i coast of is and one s Avg, W newspaper, « Ty y i iarnisi out on * * a into heart or Lr troubie 10NI688 advance, ii uri ven boat to a point away, suddenly himself, sl . his bones glimineri yf hi rushes larely does he the luckless to evade it. waves with war horse. the waves, ane But the nex leaping into t hears the rusl marine voleano with the sound long slender, | driven through { he has gone. tant the oarsman, stern of his’ boat, waters, as of a sub- beneath him, and of ripping timbers hairy rapier is ie boat from side to if t 1ce of a galloping Cossack had cl Lucky it is, for the boatman if he be not in line with the ¢ ible straight thrust we sharp bone will pierce him as swiftly and easily as a cook skewers a chicken. An exciting wounded and was that of Henry time ngo. He had harpooned the big fish from the deck of his sailing vessel, and after waiting the usual length of time into his yawl to deal a finishing blow to the apparently dying fish. As soon as he approached his captive, however, and commenced hauling in his line, the fish suddenly awoke, and began operations by diving 80 as to spear the little craft. Missing his aim, the armed leviathan went under the surince for a second attack. It was too late for Chesebro to re- treat, and, utterly defenceless, he awaited the onslaught, the fish shot out of the water, and with deadly aim, drove his sword completely through the boat. It entered the craft about three feet from the bow, on the port side, and came out through the thin plank on the starboard side. Chesebro had retreated to the stern of the yawl in the nick of time, and thus escaped being transfixed. His plight was geen from the schooner, and the vessel hended for the scene. By con- stant bailing Chesebro kept his dis- abled boat afloat until succor arrived. ne f O 3 a 1 wv ACK ti side, as he Ia too, with a swordfish Chesebro encounter maddened some rit wy | fish, which weighed 888 pounds. { Even more perilous was the ex- | perience of Captain L. R | of the smack Bessie Fish. He had speared a large fish and went out in his small boat to secure the prize. While bringing him to the surface Stadman was turned upon like a flash by the swordfish, who drove his of the dory, it projecting into the eraft about a foot, immediately grasped the sword with both hands. The fish struggled fiercely, finally snapping off its sword, and diving for the bottom of the ocean. Keenly alive to the danger of his position, Captain Stadman ripped off his vest, and, plugging his perforated vessel, which had begun to fill with water, put back to the schooner. A canvas patch tempor- arily repaired the damage, and row- ing back to the scene of the conflict, the now defenceless but still infari- ated fish was landed quivering on the deck of the smack. The most successful trip after the great fish so far was that of the lively schooner Hattie J. Hamlin. was gone seven days, and bagged sixty-six fish, which averaged three hundred pounds each. The Hattie's captain and crew sold their harvest for $1,200, a little fortune to them, the money wasdivided equally them, The next best catch red was that of a far down boat y ), it be { 0 ing f{ifty- in number. She and among ever Fast QO ears a o SiX Priceless Bits That Have Survived All Other Art Forms. Century, In describes the of ction made aud one o Russel the 1 {ole famous lecti in > in Rome world siorhy Fie i Ss i TOUS an i ones, with here an there a |} } ich has. as it happens, a head f a head carved fn wheels own atiractiveness, «1f is the thing! Preciot v 1 ful is glass, even in frag The Awakening Tiger. Between the drowsy sleep of the nocturnal animals and the hyper sen- sleep of those which spend their lives in constant fear of their enemies, a place must be found for the form of slumber enjoyed by the large carnivora and that of animals; the former have no enemies to fear except man, and the latter, protected by man, enjoy to the full the blessing of natural rest. Tigers are frequently found fast asleep in thedaytime, Native hunt- ers have been known to track them after a ‘kill’ to the place in which they were lying fast asleep and gorged with food, and to shoot them as they lie. day repose in districts where it is lit sitive domestic Jike the bear, or even the leopard, a tree. It just lies down in convenient spot, either shady or warm, according to the weather, and there sleeps, almost regardless of danger. They have been found ly- ing in dry nullahs, under trees, and even in the grass of the hillsides, un. when { upon a tigress and two cubs lying fast I nsleep on their backs, with their | paws sticking upin the air, under a | clump of bamboos. When he was within a few yards of the group, one | raised its head, and without moving | its body quietly looked at him along | the line of its body between its paws. | Tigers kept in captivity awaken | r adually, stretching mtd yawning | like a dog. | | He Was Deluded by His Sympathy for Beauty in Distress, | A man had to to the { Union depot yesterday afternoon to meet his wife, who had been out in the country for a time. When he got to the station he found hig train wus half an hour late, and he bought a paper and sat down on one of the benches. Not long after he had seated him- | self a rather pretty girl, who worea pink waist and had nice red cheeks and clear blue eyes, and who looked to be not over seventeen, came and sat down next to him. The man who was waiting for his wife took a casual look at the girl and went back to his paper, Pretty another pretty girl who also wore a pink waist and had blue eyes and a fresh complexion and all that sort of thing came along and stopped in front of the first girl. The second pretty irl looked if she wanted to ery. She said with trem- ulous voice, ‘Why, Nettie, what do you think? The fare’s a dotlar.” “A what?’ gasped Nettie. “*A dollar! And she told us only 50 and 1 get the tic I don't occasion go soon yr 1 t us it haven't kets: and, what we was got oh! will cents to know Nettie and 1 floor witl Presently Net- » looked up and said: “I'll take a walk around the room, Perhaps there is someb wy here | know.'' She yur of the room and ca er face gl than ly | ever saw be- The other She sank down beside the two looked at the tile faces. y sclemn ’ made back witl fore. Ini gioomier be. fore" girl to tell sprangt the tic ry pe | * what we've go the rest.’ Si 5 She Meant Business rife engaged a strong coun irl, & It gi and careless about t On two or three big the newcom the doors at nigh occasions 1 came down stairs to fin i or was very a window up or the back door unloek- ad I cauti but i good. I t determined frighten her. 1 false w kers, and night o'clock I crept down the to the kitchen, where she was had turned down the gas, and was in her chair by the fire fast asleep, as | could tell by her breathing, but the moment [| struck a mateh she woke I expected a great yelling and sereaming, but nothing of the sort took place She bounced out of her gent with a ‘You viliain!’ on her lips, seized a chair by the back, and be- fore I had made a move she hit me over the head, forcing me to my knees. [I tried to get up, tried to ex- plain who I was, but vain. Be- fore I could get out of the room she and it was only af. ter I had tumbled up the back stairs that she gave the alarm. Then she came up to my room, rapped at the door, and coolly announced: ‘Mr up. I've killed a ned her it did n : f herefore $ got some hi about back stairs She one it burglar.’ ”’ Extensive Peat Bogs. The peat bogs of the United King, dom are roughly estimated by Mr. P- F. Nursey at 6,000,000 acres, having an average depth of 12 feet, and be- ing cupable of yielding 8,500 tons of dried peat per acre. In Ireland are 2,880,000 acres, or nearly one-seventh of the entire acres of the island. More than half of the Irish peat is of the best quality, and, reckoned at one-sixth on value of coal, the total supply in Ireland is thought to be equivalent to 470,000,000 tons of coal. ~Trenton (N. J.) American. Roman lamps were ot gold, silver, bronze, iron, copper, lead and earth. enwarae. UNCLE SAMS AGLN] HUNDREDS OF SECRET ONE? INTHE STATE DEPARTMENT, Trained Diplomats Sent on All Sorts of Missions--The World Never Hears of Them or Their Labors. The activity of American diplo mats in the affairs of world of late, both regarding our own inter- ests and those of other countries suggests some information and inter. esting facts about a branch of the diplomatic service of which little is known to the general public. This is the secret of the State De. partment more especially, which millions dollars have been expended in bettering our relat with other parts of the world, but which the people usually know very little until the of years of nounced Every few months, or more frequently, the ecoantry is treated to a by the nouncement that a treaty ountry mercial relation of some so onsummated, Sometime hed theough the to the country in question and the service through Of Ons of result months or labors un sometimes surprise or tnat, or some ACCoImpiis by a special secret tive I'ake, forinstance to Hawaii the and Walker Blaine sent for Or to Peru and y . ir the ssion of Foster t special mi eX » Spain, a few vear commerc rial and se- ¥ of | 3 Deane sent by the Continental Cor a political nt to France. the revolutionary war, to try tain the recog of the United Colonies by that country. He was lirected to go disguised ns a mer- shant. He was to talk about trade in tobacco or ier matters of this sort, and to upon such busi. speculations as would verisimilitude,” so to speak, to his “otherwise bald and uninteresting narrative He carricd out in- structions, and later was joined by Franklin and by Arthur Lee, and the result was the treaty by which France recognized the struggling colonies as an independent power—our first treaty. Another and a very interesting secret mission was that of Gov. Mor- ris, to London, who was sent there shortly after the close of the revolu- tionary war to see that the terms of peace were carried out. There was was as age to OD- sit Hon Hess give his don certain forts, which Morris was to look into this, and at the same time see if the British gov- ernment would facts developing from day to day would be more easily adjusted. mission of Morris was successful, and the first British minister to this country, Hammond, was appointed. Another important secret mission was that of Theodoriec Bland, Cae- sar Augustus Rodney and Mr. Gra- ham to South America in 1834 Prior to that time we had no com- mercial treaties with any of the South American countries. They ti reported to the of facts of and which are day the admiration of those with their and The of wns ne bt Department a treme value, Heries for instracliveness their mation of a with Colombia basis for nearly treaty since Sintes Another important secret undertaken that time that of A. Mann to gary that wis for independence. He was i ucted to the conditions and surround ol i hieror not the cou them result the treaty served ns a mission for commercial which y every made by the mission about Dudley time learn whe probably maintain i pendent nati and political prosgpet 14 and matter p were, become operative of certain log BE gram The doors open of the ticke come out of their | barriers A lon ticket ofl carry lug out of the into engine stops. A riage 1 with a water After the whistles and disappears in thie opposite the station master and his leave the platform, and the do the waiting room close behing the pointsmen return ing has given a shrill g workman from goes carriage and tests thie axies hammer Another into the boller of wiriiel yi § 1 the 1 engine pumps h sneine the engine, bell iran noes with the the tu hird signal hem ; and perfect stiliness prevails, till, in a quarter of an hour, the whole repeated.~New York Advertiser. : is A Washington Relic. Mr. George Henry Rattenbury, of Detroit, believes that he has a unique of one of the ancestors of deed written in Norman with the Washington seal, from been derived. Relics of the Wash. ington family in England prior to 1657, ginia, are scarce. deed is said to be unquestionably au« thentie, and he believes it to be valu. able, especially on account of the pression of the old Washington family seal in existence. SAD MARRIAGE BELLS, An Occasion for Lamentation in Western China. For the bride and her friends to regard marriage as an occasion for rather than rejoicing is not A few years ago a paper Baber, describing, irs, the marriage the independent it an almost unexplored corner tern China, was read } } before ne Oyai cographical So- BOrrow HECOINInONn, by ¥ Colborne among oth of Cero~ monies Lolos, children fam just as s weading ies obtain this part Baber table tree 3 family ihe ung je. gine rels in EivVes a at salt ood of the i ob- of the most my an iiRe 108, ehborh H« 108 On¢ Says ever been and that looked eaily sal deposit, fille ¢ hollow in has 00K On was mense sea of what but whic which entirel) the toward the stretched away far ould reach on ¢ith the sun like a Ih was plains as er side, i in of zi i sat for hours looking at this strang spectacle through my field glasses, and in to the tales of my guides regarding the peculiarities of its and the dangers to be yuntered in traversing it. Ac- cord to their account, this vast deposit of salt was of the consistency of ice, and, like the latter, formed a cont of varying degrees of thickness sipon the surface of the water which was underneath it, so that in places where the coat attained a thickness feet, as was the case in sheet composition i enc Pavey Ne could cross this plain with perfect safety. while in others, where this is not the case, this crust of coagulated salt would break beceath their weight, and they would be engulfed in the morass beneath.” An Old Railroad Bond. In 1856 Bath county, Kentucky, issued a lot of thirty year railroad bearing ¥ per cent. inten est. The road was never built. The bonds, amounting with interest to some $300,000, were compromised and paid off, with the exception of one $1,000 fellow. A few days since this one, which had been held in.Eu- rope, turned up for collection. With interest it now amounts to nearly $3,800,
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