Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1889, Page 9

Written for Tue E¥gxrwe Stam. SNIPE SHOONMNG ON THE COAST. How to Take Advantage of the Bird’s Peculiar Habits. rate of speed, and as they circle over the decoys with a wild bewildered hesitation a volley is fired into the center of the flock with more or less usslaughter. Care should be taken to reload at once, as the floch will frequently afford another shot a retar almost instantly and circling, with their plaintive cries, over their dead comrades. The dead birds are often p up with sticks and added to the decoys,which completes the delusion of the survivors. The utmost watchfulness is necessary, as the birds have a marvelous habit at times of a ping spparently out of the sky, and,after wheel- iS “dintance’ “Oftentimes tho drowey shooter e distance. Oftentimes the drowsy will raise his eyes to the flash of a hundred silvery breasts which have silently swept over the scald and out of gunshot in an instant. 'Tis then he sets up his most plaintive whistling in a frantic endeavor to induce them to return. THE VARIETY OF EUPEONIOUS NAMES THAT ARE APPLIED TO HIM—TAKE A HOT DAY AND ENTER THE MEADOW FROM THE WINDWARD—NECES- SARY OUTFIT OF A SNIPE HUNTER. {Copyright 1889.) Under the title of snipe shooting may be classed all the species of bay, shore, and meadow birds which are to be found during the spring and summer months. The bird commonly known to gunners as the English snipe is hunted during April and May and is rarely the sole object of the gunners’ quest ‘gain until the autumn. A few, however, linger on the meadows in company with the great host of their kindred. MULTIPLICITY OF NAMES. There is nothing more confusing to the tyro than the multiplicity of the names which the snipe family bears, and they vary in every part of the country. Thus the common “yellow-leg snipe” is known as the telltale, godwit, telltale tattler, yelper. yellow shanks, -plover, stone snipe, ct-cu, yellow shins, and a dozen combi- nations of these names, This is also true of the curlews, willets, plover, and other bay or up- land birds, so that it puzzles even the naturalist to know what bird is really mentioned by the gunners in the different localities. They all bear a strong family resemblance and have common traits. I will not enter into any sort of description of the birds—that can ‘easily rolorme: gare give you a brief de- scription of the manner in which they are hunted. Of course the better and more sporte- manlike proceeding is with a good snipe dog, but, as good snipe dogs are exceedingly rare, there are comparatively few who enjoy that Pleasure. HOW THEY ARE HUNTED. If you can borrow such a dog you are fortu- mate, and after you have donned a tan-colored shooting suit and hat, with a very high pair of rubber boots,you need only take your 10 or 12- gauge gun. loaded with No. 8 shot, 3!¢ or 3% drachms of any strong, coarse powder, and re- ir to the chosen meadows. The hotter the day Sis none yen oom approach the birds, Enter the meadows from the windward, for the snipe invariably rises against the wind, thus afford- ing you s fine cross shot. On hot days they will tise slowly, instead of darting away like a flash of lightning. zig-eagging from side to side, as they do in the cool spring weather, and they thus are easily shot. BEACH SHOOTING. Much sport may be had upon the sea shore by digging a deep trench in the sand on the lonely Atlantic beaches where the robin snipe, the sandpiper and the curlew, and now and then astray duck come sailing over the surf, piping and whistling the whole day long. Great slaughter is recorded as having been occasionally committed upon these migratory A noted gunner residing iu Bellport to have killed 106 yellow legs by dis- charging both barrels of his gun into a flock while they were sitting along the beach. Thi is a higher number than I should have hit upon had I beem asked to venture an opinion upon the result of a very unusually successful shot. Still it is entitled to credit. 5 speaks of eighty-five red-breasted snipe being killed at one discharge of a musket. Audubon mentions that he was present when 127 were: killed by discharging three barrels. ‘These extraordinary instances occurred many years ago, but,to come down to modern days, it is on record that Mr. Harry Folsom of Eliza- beth, N. J., killed thirty-eight red-breasted snipe, one willet, three “ox eyes” and one cur- lew with two barrels, while Mr, Ed. Summers of the New York athletic club beat this record by thi have myself killed twenty-six “teeter” snipe with one barrel, but this has been beaten by others on many occasions. ‘These examples, of course, must be regarded as mere chance occurrences and are not to be looked for as likely to happen every day. Still, if the shooter tries the sport in the right sea- son, wind and weather favoring, he will not be unusually fortunate if he fills a big bag with the proceeds of a day’s shooting. Warr McDovoatt, elie a — THE SERVANT GIRL, Reflections of a Shrewd Observer on the Question of Household Help. Washington is a peculiar place as far as servant girls are concerned. There is a good supply and the proportion of competent serv- ants is probably above the average. They seem to be very accommodating and either go away with their employers for the summer or stay in the city all the year around. The ma- jority are colored, although there are a number of servants of all nationalities, They are faith- ful in the discharge of their duties and have a care for the interests of their employers, One KILLING ENGLISH SNIPE OVER A DOG, If it is impossible to enter from the win d- ward, whenever you approach a likely spot such ‘as half-dried pools or “‘slunks,” or soft, tender, SPOKES FROM THE HUB. A Railway’s Benevolent Scheme Re- garding the Extraction of Cinders. “CRISIS” MADERIA FOR JELLY—QUAINT ANECDOTE OF COL, THOMAS SCOTT—BOSTON’S APPETITE YOR THINGS SCIENTIFIO—WHY LOVERS FEAR TO DO THEIR TRYSTING ON THE CHARLES. Special Correspondence of Tae EvENrxe Sr, Bostox, August f, 1889, It is reported that a New England railway is about to adopt a new filea, not less original in its conception than humane in the object it is intended to accomplish, The notion is simply that every conductor in the employ of the road shall acquire, through as many lessons from a first-rate oculist as may be necessary, a knowl- edge of the best process for extracting a cinder from the eye. The amount of real misery arising from this cause on passenger trains in the course of a year is positively incalculable. Think how many people there are who endure hours of torture thus occgsioned before they can get tothe end of their journey and take measures for obtainingrelief. Is there a single — that reads this letter who has not been rough at least one experience of the sort? But now something is to be done, on this road at least, to mitigate the pangs of the cinder- cursed unfortunate. In future, it is said, the passenger thus sadly afflicted will be able to sppeal with confidence to the conductor, who will say in reply: “If you please, sir,”—or “madam”—*look down a moment.” REMOVING THE CINDER. Whereupon the impromptu patient will have the lid of his eye turned quickly inside out by means of a leadpencil and a delicate grasp upon the lashes, and the ticket-punch expert will castan investigating glance over the exposed conjunctiva membrane through a small but powerful magnitying glass. Having ascer- tained the precise location of the cinder hi will deftly remove it with the corner of hi handkerchief or with the moistened end of a toothpick, if the obstructiow is particularly ob- stinate, and the victim will experience a relief the intensity of which only those who have en- dured such torments can appreciate. To the conductor also it will doubtices be most grati- fying to apply beneficent ministrations of the Kind to the people whose bodily safety while traveling is intrusted to his care. THE CINDER THAT MAKES TROUBLE is almost invariably caught in the little folds beneath the upper lid of the eye. Unless so detained any foreign substance is at once “winked out,” nature having constructed the organ apparently with a view to accomplishing this ps ay A sharp, jagged thing like a minute scrap of burned ‘coal, however, is apt to lodge in the folds aforesaid, and then there is distress at once—even the most microscopic bit of calcined carbon occasioning immediate and violent inflammation—the only cure for taste for matters scientific. At any time of the day just now you may see gathered 's windo’ wa crowd of ——= gerly watch the operation of simple in- struments, each ht which illustrates what be called the action of a sun’ at of these contrivances is a circ’ disk twelve inches in diameter, divided by spoke-like lines into several different-sized parte, each of which is tinted some color of the rainbow—blue, red, green, yellow, and the rest—in order as they scone in the solar spectrum. By the action of a small electro motor the disk is made to whirl around at intervals, the result being that to the eye of the observer ite surface appears perfectly white. This, of course, is int a to illustrate the fact that the white light of the sun is made up of all the colors of the rainbow mixed together in due proportion. ‘THE RADIOMETER, The second instrument referred to is 4 “radiometer,” the most important part of which is four tiny copper plates revolving after the manner of a weather vane on a pivot. The plates are set at a slight angle, so as to catch the sun’s rays coming through the show win- dow, and accomplish their little performance within a glass-surrounded vacuum, which offers no resistance worth mentioning to the move- ment of the apparatus. On one side each of the little plates is painted black, so as to absorb the light; on the other side it is brightly sil- vered, in order to reflect as much as possible. Thus the energy, of which the light and the accompanying heat are merely modifications, is exerted on the black surfaces, and, being she off the bright surface, the pivoted plates are made to revolve. Even ina moderately well lighted room they will keep going all the day- time, while in the sun of noon they whirl around like everything, as if impelled by some invisible and mysterious force. Philosophers have thought that like principles might be use- fully applied by employing a vast extent of surfac@ exposed to the sun for the running of machinery; but so far the notion has exhibited no more promise of being successfully utilized than the scheme for extracting gas from water wherewith to keep the earth agoing. A NIGHT AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER. There is an amateur photographic crank here in town who has developed a morbid passion for a most unusual pastime. If his identity were ascertained—up to date it is a mystery— he would be apt to suffer from various kicks and, other unpleasant things inflicted by per- sons who have undergone annoyance at his aon The Charles of the year is favorite trysting place for aquatically disposed lovers, who paddle about on the calny waters after sundown and spoon and spoon and spoon until the very fishes come up to the surface and gasp for breath. Naturally, the dark of the moon is considered the most appropriate time for these amatory pursuits, He 5 it is at such periods of lunar obscuration that the crank photographer above referred to gets in his ighly reprehensible work. Armed with a camera he paddles a light canoe silently about over the still surface until he finds himself un- river this season a at short grass, make a circuit to get to windward. hot and allow you to approach and fi ing” or whistling birds in this kind of hunting. Everything depends upon your dog and your good fortune. All hours of the day may be utilized, although early or late hours are rather preferable. A steady dog is necessary—that is, a dog staunch and immovable on his point and a close hunter—for birds seem to fear dogs more than manand will rarely allow a near approach. One should shoot a little ahead of the rd, as he is a fast flyer and the shot must be delivered the instant he rises. In alighting the snipe takes ashort pitch and dives to earth witha motion which once seen cannot be mistaken. ‘This is essential in marking down birds which have been missed or wounded. BAY AND MEADOW BIRDS. But for summer snipe shooting, by which term I mean all bay and meadow birds of the snipe family, the most successful and pleasant method to pursue is that of “blind” or “bower” shooting, with the aid of “stools” and whistles. Plover, willet, curlew and snipe are all easily shot in this manner in the great salt or fresh water meadows of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island, and the sport is one that calls for skill as wellas patience. A ten, or at least a twelve- guage gun is necessary, and the usual shooting suit of tan or brown and high boots. The stools are for sale at all sportsmen’s stores and represent arather large species of bird, more or less resembling the snipe. Tenor a dozen are necessary. Arriving on the meadows select a “scald” of some extent which is not too deep. A “scald” is a shallow pool of water lying in the open and sunken places where no grass grows and where the mud furnishes the Fich and succulent worm so relished by the ‘WAITING FOR THE BIRDS. The first essential is the building of the “plifd” or “bower.” This should, in fact, be done if possible the day before, to avoid alarm- ing any birds which may be loitering in the Vieinity. The more carefully the blind is con- structed the better are the shooters’ chances. Branches of trees, say an inch in thickness and four or five feet in length, must be cut and earried to the spot. These must be driven into the mud in a semicircle facing the scald, the rear being open for exit. Select the driest spot, of course, and if the shooter is luxurious he will take a camp stool or some other seat to the grounds with him, othe: wise an old portion of rail fence will serve, or moist mother earth herself. Meadow grass gathered and piled up in front of the blind adds to the deceptive effect. Care should be taken to give the blind the appear- ance of @ natural growth, “It should also be built to face down the wind if possible and to be within 15 or 20 feet of the scald. Now wade into the gald with your “stools.” These should be set in the water in a shallow spot, artistically grouped about 5 feet «sticks upon which they stand should be driven ‘well into the bottom, so that the stools will be ‘They should about 6 inches above the water. y from the blind. All these be about 30 feet preliminaries should be effected very —— the morning, before dawn if possible. Principal objection to blind shooting in very =e localities and one that arp seme almost city sportsmen is the it of mosquitoes, Upon arrival at the grounds they swam in elouds, but after the shooter has taken his seat behind the blind, lighted his pipe or cigar and SS SEs enem, isa A lit yw pect at iudereeks aneuit the blind al ighted will also have the immediate effect ef clearing the immediate neighborhood of mosquitos, CALLING THE SIRDS. "Tis now, we will suppose, growing light, and afar off, against the dusky, dawning sky appear a few dark specks.. Now comes into piay the shooter's skill in imitating the call of the birds, It is im le to set down in pri of the di is If the dog is good he will stand within e ash irds yourself. “There is no use in “call- servant will do ail the work or she will confine herself to some special department, ‘They are neat and quick and seldom out of temper. A good many sorely-tried housekeepers will object to this description of the Washington servant girl. They can cite instance after in- stance of servants in their employ who were quite the reverse. They can tell tales of in- competency and ingratitude that excite com- passion and stir indignation. They will not admit that there are any good servants. They denounce the entire class and wish that there was some way invented of cooking, dish wash- ing, cleaning, &c., that would do away with all servants, ‘WHAT LADIES TALK ABOUT. It is said to be in bad form to talk about your servants in society. However that may be, whenever the ladies come together no conver- sation of any length is carried on without some reference to this absorbing subject. It may be in bad form, but it is human to talk of the sub- ject that is uppermost in the mind. There is no doubt that with the majority of ladies who keep hoase this isa matter of supreme im- portance. It is not like politics, or missions,or temperance, or the affairs of others. They are outside of the home and can be kept there if so desired. But this is a matter that forms a part of the daily life. It rises up in the morning with ouand it lies down again with you at night. ike babies and clothes, it is something that demands, and imperatively, too, a large portion ofthe time. It is singular how little unanimity there is on the subjett of the virtues of serv- ants. It may be that the class who claim that servants have no virtues is in the majority; still, the other side is heard to protest. You hear what an excellent servant one has and how everything goes on like clockwork, and then again you hear a dismal chorus of the in- competency and bad temper which is found to characterize the servant-girl class, WHAT DOES THE SERVANT GIRL THINK. It is seldom, in all the discussion that prevails and in all the diversity of opinion on this ques- tion, that the servant girl is heard to express her opinion. It would be interesting to known what the servant girl thinks. There may be two sides to this problem. The servant girl might be able to tell of ignorant, incompetent mistresses, of a lack of consideration and of a lack of system. They could throw some light on the house-keeping methods of young wives, which the lover husband happily only sees through the enchanting medium of a love's glamour. They could also tell of women who have mastered the art or, rather, the profession of keeping house and mak- ing a home—women who have taught and trained them in ways of economy and in skillful management. They could speak of women who were equally at home in the kitchen or in the parlor and who instructed their daughters in the knowledge of how to make a home. The fact is that servants could throw a flood of light upon the various and perplexing phases of what is known as the “servant-girl question.” A BACHELOR'S REASONING, ‘This is the way an old bachelor reasoned as he sat talking with a Stan reporter the other evening. He is taking his summer vacation on a matter about which he probably maintains a discreet silence when his friends return to the city and he begins his rounds of social calls, he says, he then hears the problem thor- hly discussed from the parlor standpoint, and during the summer vac he evi- dently has taken advantage of the absence of the family to hear what the authorities in the kitchen had to say. He, how- ever, confessed to the reporter that he had been only partially successful in obtaining a candid expression of opinion, But from hints and suggestions dropped now and then he has been able to get a glimpse of the other side of the servant question, which he confesses has been sufficieat to leave him poised, as it were, on the fence, ——_—-—_ Bugs That Laugh at Heat. . From the New Haven Palladium. A few days since Frank Woodward of Albany, N.Y., who was visiting Mr. and Mra. Thomas B. SS of Mr. Stanford’s om; 2 ford sent them east. The bugs the 3,000 miles withou dandruff, falling i Gi FE ¥ which is the removal of the disturbing cause. In big factories there is usually one man who fs nacilled atectour (a this ext. and say.em- loye who gets something in his eye goes to Bins for help. Asa rule such assistance is well rendered, for the matter is simple enough when once understood. SHE USED IT FOR JELLY. The most disgusted householder in the mod- ern Athens just at present is a Beacon-street gentleman whose family in the summer time reside at Nahant—that ‘slice of cold roast Boston,” as the exclusive watering place in question has been appropriately called. The other day, upon returning to his seashore villa from his daily avocation in the city, he re- marked to his wife with some alarm that, hav- ing had octasion to visit his town house for the purpose of asstring himself that everything was safe, he had sought in vain for six bottles of priceless old Madiera which were stowed away in aemall cupboard by themselves for safe keeping. “The cupboard in the corner by the book shelf?” inquired the lady. perceived in the neighborhood of some small eraft, the suspicious immobility of which be- trays the presence of CUPID AT THE HELM. Then, without making the slightest noise he trains his instrument upon t’ a unconscious victims, springs a little magnes' \ flash light and jerks simultaneously a sp..ag that exposes a dry plate for a fraction of a second. This, at any rate, is supposed to be his method, thougif the astonishing swiftness with which he skips away down stream after performing an operation of the sort has thus far pre- cluded all possibility of investigation. The outrage has been perpetrated so many times that the owner of the canoe must now have quite a gallery of lovers afloat, in goodness knows how many photographic phases of ama- tory progress, ail ready for exhibition at so much a head to the thousands of curious peo- ple who would undoubtedly be willing to pay liberally for a view of the collection. And meanwhile it appears that engaged or “court- ing” couples who go out in boats to spoon upon the Charles are rapidly becoming fewer, owing to the fear of being “took” unawares by this scamp with the magnesium light. Renz Bacne. soe IN SALT AND FRESH WATER. Swimming Described From the Stand- point of a Physician, THE CURATIVE AND HYGIENIC ADVANTAGES OF THIS EXERCISE—GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IN CONSEQUENCE OF IGNORANCE OF THE ART—THE DANGERS FROM HEART FAILURE AND SHARKS EXAGGERATED, “Yes, indeed; that was the place.” “I'm sorry, my dear,” said she, “but the fact is that I used those six bottles to make jelly with just before we came away. It was un- commonly good jelly, too, though of course I regret it very much if I have taken any wine that you desired particularly to keep. But, in- deed, there was none other handy.” . “Could you not find some for your jelly that was worth less than $1,000 a bottle?” asked the husband, with a groan. “A thousand dollars a bottle! Why, what can you mean?” “Simply that I cannot replace those six bot- tles at that or any other price. They were my especial treasure, never intended to be drunk, save, possibly, as events in a lifetime. It was a brag of mine to say that I had that quantity of real old Madeira in m: ouse; now it is gone, and for jelly, Ye gods!” “It was remarkably good jelly,” was all the poor woman could think of saying by way of apology. SCARCITY OF OLD MADEIRA. And itis no wonder that the gentleman of Beacon street was distressed. How many bot- tles of old Madeira do you supposed there are at present in these United States? About 100, perhaps, and connoisseurs in wine can tell you who owns pretty nearly every quart of’ it. Years ago a dreadful bug attacked the vines and exterminated them. The insect was sub- dued at length and slips of the same varioties were planted; but, alas! the new grape pro- duced a different juice. ‘The Madeira of to-day comes from the same island and the same grape, but it is no more like the original than chalk is like cheese. Hence the enormous value possessed by the small remnant of the ancient product. It cannot be said that there is any quotation in the market for it. Simply, it is not for sale, The few bottles of it that still exist are owned by persons in well-to-do circumstances, who do not care to sell it at any price. “Bathing and boating accidents” was the subject of an interesting paper which was read by Dr. Irving C. Rosse, professor of nervous diseases, Georgetown university, at the recent meeting of physicians at Newport, R. L “As a physician and practical athlete,” he said, ‘I may show more than ordinary en- thusiasm in making a plea for the educational, hygienic and curative advantages of an exer- cise that I have practiced ut many different places over the warld, from the tropics to the Arctic ocean, and in such places as mountain lakes, the mid-Atlantic aad even in a volcanic crater some 2,000 fect deep. The frequent ac- counts of drowning that one reads constantly in the daily papers at this season, aside from those carne in the late floods, instesd of dampening rather rekindle an ardor, to which is added a tinge of regret conseqnent upon the reflection that most of these accidents arise from inability to swim, for with only a moder- ate knowledge of this easily acquired art, many lives may be saved and much bereavement pre- vented. Philanthropic motives, if no other, would therefore prompt one to give the matter more than passing notice. In view of the sur- prisingly great number of deaths from drowning it is lamentable in this prac- tical age that the useful art of swimming takes such small part in the trainin, of youth, Young minds are crammed with al! sorts of useless information to the neglect of what is essential to the preservation of sonal health and the saving of life. Legisla- tors vote large sums of money for doubtful jobs, yet refuse to countenance the establish- ment of swimming baths in our cities. The police regulations of most of our large towns, conceived in the interests of extreme prudery, virtually tend to make swimming qne of the lost arts. Those of the District of Columbia, for instance, were evidently framed in the same spirit of protest which caused a former governor of Maryland to object to midshipmen swimming from a certain wharf in the naval academy because the ladies could see them with their opera glasses, THE IMPORTANCE OF SWIMMING, “That people do not fully realize the impor- tance of swimming is a trite observation, but a truth none the worse for frequent repetition, and allowing it to lie fallow will never bi about the desired information. Long pe experience with swimming so convinces me of its usefulness that if it came to a choice between knowing the higher mathematics or how to swim I should choose the latter ev: time. At many of the large schools in England HE MADE IT LAST HIS LIFE TIME. A generation ago there was an old gentleman in Philadelphia who had the good fortune to possess half a pipe of this precious wine—prob- ably the largest amount owned at that time by any individual living, for even then its value had grown to be fabulous. He figured it up that the supply would last him, if he used ono pint at dinner daily, precisely so many years, months, and days. ‘So, like a mariner in dis- tress for water, he placed himself on an allow- ance of that much per diem, never on any ac- count to be exceede: Life was not worth liv- ing, he said, without Madeira at dinner, and when his little stock should come to an end it was his intention to die with as little delay as possible. And so, curiously enough, he did, within twerfty-four hours of the time when the last small bottle of the “Crisis” vintage was wiped out, COL. SCOTT'S WINE. The late Thos, Scott of Pennsylvania railway fame, with no notion of offending in any man- ner, bought in, ata price no one else could afford to pay, the stock of old Madeira which had been the special pride and joy of a dis- tinguished Philadelphian, at that time recently deceased. Nor, so far, was Col. Scott guilty of any breach of the proprieties, But it seems that, having occasion to give a large ball at his house soon afterward, he thought it would be Y a AX AID IN MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT. “Inaddition to being generally tonic and ing the effect of swimming, considered in itself, is to develop the muscular system and to exert & favorable influence on the great bodily func- tions, as the digestion, nutrition, respiration, circulation and enervation. No other exercise with which I am familiar gets the heart and rt in better working order, and none is bet- ter for getting one in what sporting men call “condition.” After t weeks’ daily swim in salt water I have run measured mile on a beach with very little more embarrassment to circulation aad respiration than if I had walked the same distance. Aside from the physical another advantage of a high order accrues in the way of happy moral influences. Boxing, sword play and several other manly pastimes will do much to develop courage, prudence and cleverness; but the cold-blooded quiet and presence of mind which aid us to avoid danger or to conquer it, or to lend ourselves to an act of devotion, are best cultivated by the exercise of swimming. What, for instance, is a more brilliant and commendable actof devotion than that of a dauntless swimmer, who, regardless of self, plunges overboard at the risk of hisown life to save a fellow being from drowning? swimming also comes in for praise. In this re- spect it is superior in many conditions to the so-called “tent cure,” to massage, electricity or drugs, and may be employed with benefit scrofula, chlorosis, convalescence, insomni and many other nervous diseases, as chorea and Ciamiag The latter malady, especially, I have known to be cured after a course in the swimming baths of Alameda, Cal., and my ex- perience as a neurologist leads me to recom- mend swimming as one of the best adjuvants in the treatment of nervous diseases, THE SHARK MYTH. “The danger to be apprehended from sharks is more a figment of the mind than a reality. Ihave no personal knowledge of shark bites, although Ihave done much swimming in such infested places as the gulf of Mexico, the harbor of Cadiz, the Azore Islands, Bermuda, Tybee, the mid-Atlantic and other places where these voracious animals are reputed to gobble up such small bait as a man at a single mouth- ful. For years lhave made it a point to ques- tion sailors and fishermen in various ‘ts of the world as to their actual andpersonal knowl- edge of shark bites,and though the inqui has called forth some remarkable fish stories, have met but two people with any personal knowledge of the matter. ‘Admital 1 Porter tells me of an instance in which he saw a man attacked; the other person. ilot at Bermuda, knew of a man that had his hand bitten by a shark just.as he was pulling in a hooked fish from the water into his boat. Sharks often collect around the carcass of a whale while it is wom | “cutin,” and men sometimes slip overboar among them, yet after a long residence in New Bedford ands somewhat extended experience with the Pacific arctic whaling fleet, I have never met a whaleman who could tell me of a man that had been bitten. My friend, Mr. Truxton Beale, of Washington, a short time since, when a passenger on the Pacific mail, showed his unbelief in shark ries by swim- ming across the shark infested harbor of Acapulco, although warned by the captain of the ship that he would be eaten up before he got a hundred yards away. THE STORIES LACK CONFIRMATION “Tradition’l accounts of the rapidity of sharks are as extravagant as the records of some of the old writers who tell of dead sharks cast upon the shores of the Mediterranean of such size that men walked into the mouth and down the throat in order to inspect the stomach. Even Rondelet in his ‘History of Fishes’ speaks of these animals as having swallowed men in entire suits of armor. Documentary evidence as to shark bites is also very scanty. During the last fifty years soldiers by the tens of thou- sands have swam at Fort Monroe, Va., yet there is no record of one having been bitten by a shark, nor have I been able to ascertain any accident of the kind has occurred at Malta or Gibraltar. There does not appear to bea record of any one ever having been bitten by a@ shark off the Isles. I have been unable to ascertain that a single bite of the kind is reported among the medical records of our War or Navy departments or those of the Marine hospital, In book about the West Indies Mr. Charles Ives says it is singular that 80 few facts are reported which indicate the danger from Bahama sharks and that the divers continue to be so numerous and bold. He has heard of but one instance in which a Nassau shark has dined apn. ® negro, and the report in that case is not well authenticated. ‘The New York Herald, a few years ago, gave an account of a boy who was bitten while swim- ming in East river and afterward died in Belle- vue hospital. BUT FEW CASES IN MEDICAL LITERATURE, “Medical literature has but few reports of shark bites, After ten years’ diligent search I have found but seven references, the earliest in the London Medical Gazette, 1828, and the latest in tho London Lancet, 1886, ‘The bites occurred in Australia, South Africa and India, The Hooghley and Ganges rivers are the worst places in the world for sharks and alligators. A partioular kind of shark, the "pe ee Gangeticus, which is very fierce and bold, sometimes dashes among the crowds at the bathing ghats, and has been known to bite a boy in two feet of water. All persons bitten at these places generally die from the bite, for the reason that the shark, living on carrion, portions of which stick between the teeth, carries infection to others whom it may after- ward bite. The former habit of throwing the dead in the river is supposed to account for the boldness of these particular sharks in attacking the human species. THE DAMAGE IS SLIGHT. “Even admitting the occasional accident of shark bites, the danger therefrom is almost in- finitésimal compared with railway travel or even accidents from horses; and neither this unimportant drawback; nor any other that I have mentioned should have the least weight in preventing the cultivation and spread of an accomplishment that everybody should counte- nance with a view not to the renewal of the legendary exploits of Leander and Byron, but asastep in that branch of social evolution which better physical development and im- proved health tend to promote, eae oe If so, pause and rest awhile, You need go no further. You've struck s Corner AS IS s Corner, which UN- LOADS for YOUR benefit; s corner which is the avowed and implacable enemy of any and all TRUSTS. No matter if one is as sweet as SUGAR and another as bitter as Quinine. We are extremists, ‘tis true, but not exactly in the line of TRUSTS. We trust you'll be- 8, 1889-TWELVE ‘PAGES. AUCTION SALES. FU SUSPEN: Rigas AND CH’ M KERCHIE. NG Gloves. AND A VARIETY OF OTHER 8 \ ALL FRESH GOODS, AT AUCTION, WI OUR SALESROOMS, MONDAY, AUG! FL TEN A.M. aud-2t OBERT VOSE & CO. AUCTION SALE OF pee Ane BUILDING LOTS ON E STREET SOUTHEAST. Qn MONDAY, AUGUST FIFTH, at SIX 0% CK P.M, we will offer for sale, to the highest bidder, Six Choice Lots. 20x170 feet’ to a 30-feet alley, situated on north side of E street, between 1th and 14th streets southeast. Au excellent opportunity for im provement or investment. ‘Terms at sale. JEAN Stations 120.308 apd Local So am, T1090 am, 13:00 Rm u TREE TS Sa A mw . ux Ay oe B.30e m, 1 $ ‘Traine i tame wi week dave, 5:10, 6 a6 3a Tay 3. Swe as, 0-15. 19 20 « PROPER’ “Od 0-00, 6:0, 7. 48,50 206, ‘ EST AT AUCTION Me . RT ete) |, 1Ss¥, AT FIVE See. am, 12 $9 “ wins Pobock YM. Tat u front of the preauinen, | $:19,5-00, 6:30, 7: 8:00, 10:05, jib square’ 308, tmproved. by % ‘Waste story-and-basement ‘brick dwelling, with ail wodera © Bas Ridge, trains leave Band O. “4d ‘Oue-third cash, balance in oneand two years, | Sundays bU am, P3 and Bhs. ego jerest, and secured Uy adeed of trust on the days, O-10 od S80 p.m Leave Bay Kidge week Y. OF all cash, A deposit ot #100 required at +3 40, 8-00 and 1m. sn sree Sats ewe Ee a Bt Sa Maat ro VALUABLE IMPROVED TREET NORTH ESDAY rt Sund imme of Yor Annapolis, 6:40 pure sul d&ds y and 6:30 pm On Auctioner. Lea pots, USCANBON BROS, ifs ve 6:40, 8 K HOUSE, NUMBER NORTHWEST, NEAK m, train Iéaves Washington on Sunday . Stopping at all stsuons op Mc tab "Prvierick, 7045, 10.0 ans 19-00, 12300 m, Sundays.1:15.0: S5 Pm. a 1590 x Hagerstown, 110:30ai. nm 11-45 am, ‘daily 3 Trains arrive from « 7) n and Pam. ; from Pittsburg 7:10 am. = EW YORK AND PRILADELPHL 0} 0:30 vp. a SS, al a ~~ LOC '. M., situated in the City of W: bia, to-wit: All that certain piece premises) known and distt = of, numbered teen three bundred and sixty-four (364), same at the southeast corner of said lot fifteen (15), thence running west on the south line of said lot one hundred and thirty-eight feet nine inches (138 ft, 9 inches) to the line of alley, th seven aud one-halt inches (16 ft, 7g inches), thence eant to the west line of Ninth street northwest, thence south to the place of bewiuning. “The same beime a as pl Bumbered 1612 Niuth street nort rent. ‘Terms: One-third cash, balance in one and two years, for which the notes of the purchaser, secured by Geed of trust on the from day of sale at six per cent per annum, will be taken, or all cash, at the option of the pur: chaser. A depomt of $100'will be required at time of sale. All conveyauciux. &., at purchaser's cost. Terms of sale to be complied wiy days from the day of sale,othe: ve the right to resell the propert ud cost of the d faulting purchaser alter five days’ public notice je in some Lewspaper published in Washing- CHAS. C. DT CHAS, W. DAKK. ington, Di and being: juare forthe as) 4 am. 6:50 Buffet Parlor Care ou all on the 10:30 aie Sons ast a ia, New RZ) ‘ork for Wasbir 2:30, *3:15, 500 p. us “11 ene ete ee 10 aan, TL For Xulantic City 4:00and 30am. 124 and 2.30 p.m. Stindaye 4-00 mareat Le Somes, For Long Branch and Gcean Grove t¢:00, t8.00 ~ m.,. 112-00 noon ; $9.30 am, tExcept Sunday. *Ii . oe tExcep= onders “SON,! Trustees, PE VILLE, By virtue of the power contained in s mortgage from Ediond V. Lawrence and Mary A. Lawrenc to Kichard P. Evans, dated the 19th ¢ recorded in liber J. W. B., No. 9, foli the land records of Prince G " assigned to Georve N. Waike: be 1 April, 1SSY, which sssigument 1x duly recorded in liber J. W. B., No. 9, folio 792, of said landr sicned, as assignee as atoresaid, will sell at tion, ih the town of Hyattsville, on PIL SIXTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST, 18si, hi ces OF parcels 7 and 38 of KP. fect June 30, 1889, Mail, day for Warrene aie. — +a — bd Lynchburg, Roane aud Memphis Pull an hesapeake ald ULIO Denville aud Stee cam Atlaute mery to rieans. nsboro’ to Columbia and Augusta. Pull- Gi eepers Washington to Cincinuati via C. andy P. m—Daily, except Sunday, for Manassag, rg aud intermediate stats: « ebb provements Cousist of a two-story six-room welling, of sale: One-half cash on day trom day of sale, to be pond of chaser with surety or sureties to satisfactio siguee, or all cash, at option of purchaser. ‘sucing at purchaser's cost. WALKER, Assignee, er Express, daily for, Manaseag, ‘GEOL ey Charictiosvilies Staunton, Lows: IRE BEALL 6505 E BRANDI | Solicitors, Pullman Vestibule train W _ ytd HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, twomery, New Ork Ei Saiule Car Wankington Ub California. “Pullman TRUSTEES’ SALE_OF¥ FRAME DWELLING NO. | New Orleans, vie AUauta and Montgomery. Pullman 1739 T STREET NORTHWEST Sleeper Washinwtou to Birtuinghane Als; vie Atlanta, and Georgia Pacitc Kailway ‘Trains on Washingt ington 9:00 am. dail dally, arrive Round Hill i. 0 pn. leave Kound Hill 8-06 aa. daily and 18 2 t Sunday, ce Dan- By virtue of a deed of trust dated the 10th day of September and duly re Liber No. return p.m. daily am. and» india, secured thereby the undersigned Trustees will offer at Public Auction in front of the premises on MONDAY, TH DAY OF AUGUST, TV ni Willard’s subdivision of sq 151, toget the Improvements, which consist of a Two-story Frame House with Fraiue Stable in rear, situate on the north side of T street between 17th and 15th streets uorth- rns of sale: One-fourth cash, the residue at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months, with notes bearing interest at six arriving Washington a. and Ohio route a1 713 pm. am. Ticket furnish 35 pam. local at 9:1 Slee; eeping-car reservation and ry inf rage Checked at office, 1300 Penn= Pounsylvae JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agent. cent per apnuim uvtil paid, and secured by a deed | * Ivania aver.ue, apd at Passenger Station, Of trust cn the property esld, 7 ha Watroad, Gil ant ates recording at purchaser's cost ; conveyancing ani t required at the tine of sale. efou dopo JAMIN P. SNYDEK, ER GREAT 3 t Be 7,f Trustees. PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE, jy19-d&ds ALBEKI L. STURTEVANTS TO THE NORTH WES A Bore ——|S—a—oao———SS ePOUBLE TRACK. a NDID RCERERY, WOOD AND COAL, Te EN TEFECT JUN = ————— —= | TRAINS LEAVE W JORKEST DODGE. Se i EQ INGTON, #1 (Uae STATIO ASD B STREETS AS POLS COAL, COKE AND WOOD OF ALL KINDS, — FAMILY COAL A SPECIALTY. For Pittsburg and the West, Jamited Best quillty George's Cocsk Cumsbarend Cont Sor | qf Feieae Vechten eabee Raen Line, 9:50 a.m. daily to Cincinnat! and St. om Lous, Pittsburg to Cincinnath, and Harrisburg to St. Louis. daily, except Saturday, % - Office, 1214 Bist st: Terhune, 056 : st.: Teer bone, 956- ee ee to Chicago, with Sleeping Car Alioona, to Ci 2, st., Telephone, 954-2. Miestern Express, at 7 40'p an. daily. with Sloot = = = = Cars Washington to Cl "aie, AN “ting daily at Harrisburg wi rae, PIANOS AND ORGANS. _ = Lotierite ana Memphis Paeide aire 108 — = im. daily, a ECKER BROS’. PIANOS REPRESENT ALL r \oeper teburg, and Piteebare that iebest in ‘the art of Fiauoforte making. | Cineake ie a - on Bold on easy terms. WEBER, FISCHER and it i han ESTEY OKGANS.—Two 210,000) Est BALTIMORE AND POTOMA( ILROAD. ESTEY PIANOS. A few oan Oe at very low prices. mndred and ten thousand g 7 Organs have bean made and sold, lew styles for Farlor, Church and School use. Sold on eas: rms, PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR RENT. falo wind Jisgara daily, exo m., with Sleeping Car Washington to For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elinire 5 Bs, daly, except 8 Old instruments taken in part payment for new | FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORE AND ‘Tuning and Repairing. 7:20, 9:00,°11:00 and 11:40 am, . SANDERS & STAYMAN, 10:00 aud 12 20 pam, On Sunday, 0:00, 11:40 054 F st. aw. Be eee td, 1090 3120 pm 13 N. Charles st., Baltimore, Md. (press Of Pullman Parlor © 40 am. daily, 1217 Main st., Richmond, Va. aul-3m except Sunday, and 3:45 p.m. > with Dantas * FOR PHILADELPHIA ONLY. Fast Express 8:10 am. woek days, aud 8:2 4 Express 2:10 }. im. dally. “cane 8 pa ‘or Boston, without cl 2:50 p. m. every day. Ae or Brockipe Be tirouch traiua connect PIA UNEQUALED IN TONE, TOUCH, WORKMANSHIP _ AND DURABILITY. © 5 attention of “Purciasers” is invited to thelr “New Artistic, Styles,” finished in desks of HIGH | ¥°, EST DECORATIVE _Pianos for rent. For Atlantic City 9:00, 11:00 and 11-40 «. m, week SECOND-HAND PIANOS. —A days, 11°20. me dally. ost For 2 40,9 itimore, 6:35, 7:20, 8 10, 9 11:00, and 11:40 a. m., 12% i Ry oh, 4:10, 4:20, 4:40, 6-00, i Wt O31 F i 20. 3:85, a0, 6:00, 73 For Pope's Creek Line, 7:20 aim. For Auuapolis, 7/20 an@ 9:00 am., 12:05, 4:20 200 p-m. ‘daily, ‘cacept Sunday. Sundae V:0k ALEXANDKIA AND FREDERICKSBU! WAM AAD ALEXANDKA AN. WADHINGTOR a6 R. LEON, Dine Oilsst-zetatiisned and only Reliable Ladies’ Physician in the City, Sabena aCe. eee 434 and 6th Prompt treatment. Correspondence and consulta- tion strictly confidential. Separate ee au UIRE THE SERVICES OF AN emale Physician should consult M: re. 4 IN, 1105 Park P nc. bet. Band C, 11th CE and 12th sts, ne. Ladies only. Remedy 85. jo24-Ow" | 9,804 0-21 B. m. daily, enegpt Sunday. 39% " - be ¥:10, 10:15, 11:07, E ne ‘ME. DE Lor uONG Seana AND Bb Fb, Budd bese. 40: oe ‘Ladies’ be ited a rey ¥ ‘ ¥ ther Haldeace OOL Pak ae Ones tears road | Suseuday at BAU and 1-07 ¢ ms 00, Baldy only. 3y22-1m* Tickets and information at the ‘T HAS NEVER BEEN CONTRADICTED THAT Dr, BROTHELS is the oldeet-c eavertio: Bh B vt. ew. = oo a 3. R. WOOD, >: General Passenger (CATSEILY, MOUNTAINS, lads are obliged to pass in swimmi before they are allowed to go out in boats. This rul established at Eaton in 1840, has been offectual there in the prevention of ywhing, rer one case having ocourred since that time, although the swamping of boats has been frequent. A yearly average of 150 boys learn to swim and pass the test. It ett loci ible to en- the proper thing to open the precious nectar from bug-destroyed vines by wholesale on the festive occasion, in order that every one might have as much of it as he wanted to drink. A GUEST WHO FELT INSULTED. It was in the midst of the festivities, while supper was in progress and a throng of youn; sea pcbedes dhs mstnrmy ste orowding with eager appetite around the tables in the salle-a- manger, struggling for fried oysters and salad and gul, wn the wine as fast as the wait- ers could supply it in bottles, that Col. Scott, who had remained conversing with two or three other railway magnates in the half- deserted ball room, saw approaching him a gentleman well known to as a person of social distinction. The colonel hastened to ad- dress him, saying: “My dear Mr. B., you look warm.” “Sir!” exclaimed the new comer, whose fam- ily name is to this day an aristocratic in itself, “I consider that I have in your house and I shall leave it at once.” ‘Insulted in my house?” echoed the astonished, “Grossly insulted, sir,” reiterated Mr. B. . “I found a crowd of young men about the supper tables just now swilling madeira, I ventured to take a glass and taste it, sir, taste it!” “Well, wasn’t it good?” asked Col. Scott, “Good!” fairly shouted the was ‘‘crisis” madeira, and in the army. naval academy, but at West most of the cadets are lament this respect. The statisti late war show the strongest reason WHY 4 SOLDIER SHOULD KNOW How To swmx, “The aggregation of killed in action is shown to be 67,058, while there were drowned 106 officers and 4,838 men. The small regular army Jost 5 officers and 89 men from this cause; the ted | United States colored troops 6 officers and 289 -| men; and the volunteers furnished a con- tingent, the state of Ohio alone having lost 14 and 770 men from drowning. Just think of a number amounting to five regiments from easily preventable cause; majority of these men were such circumstances as fording AT 87.50 A SUIT. And yet another agreeable surprise follows close upon the heels of the first. Here we find Imported and Domestic Worsteds, Cheviots, and Cassimers, fashioned by the tailors’ art into perfect-fitting Suite for Men, worth from $14.25 to $20 a suit, Take your choice, neighbor, AT 10.75 A SUIT, VICTOR E. ADLER'S PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE, 10 927 and 929 7th at. n.w., Corner Massachusetts avenue, STRICTLY ONE PRICE, Open Saturdays until 11 p.m, ‘HEKs, and for the c. 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