New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-25
Whale Fishing Business Diving for q
Wife.
From the Cleveland Times.] s

From the Cleveland Tmes.l W. 81
We observe that nearly all the children born
lately in one of the eastern counties of Ohio are
boys. At this rate, in a few years the girls will
utterly disappear from the region, and it will be
necessary for the young men to remove to Nan
tucket and Martha's Vineyard and marry the
to be careful, however, not to get into such box
as young man found himself in few years ago.
Determined to embark in matrimonial specua-
ton, he journeyed to the Vineyard and found
charming widow" who at once captured all that
was mortal of him, and the twain became one flesh.
Alas! however, for human hopes The gallant
sailor, who it was known had been wrecked in the
Northern seas, swan to the coast of Kamschatka
where he was Hospitality entertained by the fox
hunting population of the peninsula, and finally
placed on board Russian ship, by which he found
shores of New England. His surprise can better be
imagined than described when he found his little
home occupied by clever New York chap
who had taken the responsibility, moreover Of ap-
appropriating the sailors fishing boat!
The woman didn't swoon-the bue-eyed, bloom
ing girls of New England are not of the swooning
family. The "Yorker's" eyes, however, opened
to an amazing Width when he discovered the con-
dition of affairs. But the transaction was legti-
mate one, and the sailor was not long in deciding
upon plan The woman was willing to take
either of them and the sailor proposed that the one
| who could remain under water the greater length
of time should be considered the fortunate man.
Both were regular watermen," but the sailor
had travelled Sharks are not common in the har-
Dor, but they sometimes stray into the vicinity,
| and Divers imagination always embraces pos
sibility of coming in contact with saw teeth"
| The two went under Simultaneously but from
| positions considerably separated-the sailor from
| the bow, the Yorker" from the stern. The
former, who could hold his breath like pearl
fisher of the Persian Gulf, was not long in finding
his way along the bottom Of the fishing craft to the
vicinity of " Yorker, whose legs he contrived to
| jostle.
from fboE Ey,,,ir Gtn{o II
most bounded out of the water, and was pulled
into the boat by the dear woman, who also shouted
most vocferously to alarm her early spouse. The
latter, however, cautiously wormed his way back
| to the bow, and deliberately rose to the surface
when his two companions pulled him in with un
surpassed energy.
"Did'nt you hear us? You like to have beer
swallered! You may have the woman; wouldn't
| go in them waters agin for daughter of Queen
| Victoria! !"
They say there is sharks in these waters, and
think shall keep out Nv 'em.''
"Sharks sir I felt one hold o. my leg"
"Then we better quit swimmin' here"
The Yorker readily endorsed his judgment
and prepared himself to leave the Vineyard fol
the "Chenang country s-remarking casually, tina
he "mght get drunk sometime, and forget to keey
out of the harbor." Just as he was about to leavi
with his little bundle-with tears in his eyes, an,
claiming the privilege, which was readily granted
of kissing her whom he had
Loved not wisely, but too WELL"
and from whom he was about to part forever-th
sailor, who could not suppress his feeling, steppe
| forward, and remarked:
mistakes will happen; my wife's got sste
that amt bad looking; might speak to her; it viii
do no harm, anyhow" 0.
That was bright idea which had never strucl
| the "Yorker."
"1'll study about that"
He did study, married the blooming sister, and
the two men went into partnership in the fishing
business. About six months afterward the sailor
incidentally remarked:
"That shark that bit you used to catch whales in
the 'Schatka waters, and git swindled ev'ry year
out o. his part O. the ile' by the United States
Consul at Honolulu: that's the reason they all want
that Office"
The news was not little astounding to the EN-
pire man, whose dreams of sawish had caused him
several times to jump out of bed in the night.
Everything went on smoothly, but it was observed
that the sailor never went to sea again.