Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-05-07
NUMBER 81.

you sent me seemed to come from God. I
was on the brink IT despair. With it put
my wardrobe in repair, and made applica.
ton for the post Of companion to wealthy
lady. / fortunately obtained it. had
been with her but two years when gen.
tleman i'll her circle, immensely wealthy,
offered me his hand in marriage. esteem
ed him lie was satisfied with that
married him. A year since he died, leav.
ing me this house and an immense fortune.
| have never forgotten you, having acc.
dental'y learned that the timely succor
came from you. | resolved. if ever for
tune put it in my power, would befriend
you as you befrienied me. That time has
come. have paid the instalmen, Of my
debt Helen Eustace remembers the OBJ
legations of Helen Morris
John Wilbur advanced, and respectfully
took her hand. "Iou have nobIy repaid
me-" he said. "W;ll you also award me
the privilege Of occasionally calling upon
yor?'
Il shall be most happy,' said Mrs. Eas.
tace. cordially.
John took hurried leave. and returned
to lis store as the clock struck one lie
showed his delighted partner the check
which he had inst received. II haven't
time to explaio,' be said, this must oe at
once cashed'
Two o'clock came and the firm was
savel-saved from their last peril Hence
forth they met with nothing but prospcri
t.. What more?
Helen Eus:acc has again changed her
name. She is now Helen Wilbur, and her
husband now lives at No, Fifth Avenue.
And all this came of a valentine.
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Curiostties of the Ocean Bottom.
Mr.. Green, the famous diver tells sing
u!ar stories Of his adventures, when maxi
ing search in the deep waters of he ocean.
He gives some new sketches of what he
saw a, the "Silyer Banks" near Hay,i:
The banks of the coral on which my
divinss were made are about forty miles
in length, and from ten to twenty in
breadth. On this bank Of coral is presented
to the diver one Of the most beautiful and
sublime scenes the eye ever beheld. The
water varies from ten to one hundred feet
in depth, and is so clear tha, the diver
can see from two to three hundred feet
when he is submerged, with but little OBJ
structlon to the sight The bottom Of the
ocean, in many places, is as smooth as a
marble floor; in others it is studied with
s.,
feet in height, and from one to eighty feet
in diameter. The tops of those more lofty
support myriad Of pvramidaI pendents,
each forming myriad more: giving the
reality to the imaginary abode cf some
water nymph. la other places the pen.
dants form arch after arch and as the
diver stands on The bottom Of the ocean,
and gazes through these in the deep Wind.
lns avenue, he finds that they GIL him with
as sacred an awe. as if he were in some
old cathedral, which had long been buried
beneath 'old oceans wave Here and
there the coral extends even to the surface
Of the water, as if those lo!tier columns
were towers belonging to those stately
temples that are now in ruins There
were countless varieties Of diminutive
trees, shrubs and plants, in every crevce
Of the cora!s, where the water had depos.
i;ed the least earth. They were of a faint
hue owing to thc pale Iish, they received,
although Of every shade, and entirely diff.
terent from plants am familiar with, that
vegetate on dry land. One in particular
attracted my attention it resent h!cd q sea
fan of immense seize. Of varie.a.ad colors,
and the most brilliant hue. Tie ti>h which
inhabited these Silver Banks ! found as
different in kind As the scenery was varied.
They were OF all forms, coors and sizes
from the symetrica! goby, to the globe like
sun fish from those oil the dullesl hue TO
the chanGah.e dolphin: from tue spots Of
the leopard 10 the hues &! the sunbeam;
from the harmless minnov to the vora-
cious shark. Some had heads like SOUR.
rels, others Ike cats and dogs; one OF The
small size resembled the bull tarrier--
Some darted through the water like mete.
ors, while others could scarcely be seen to
move. 70 enumera,e and explain all the
various kinds Of fish be!eld while diving
on these banks, would, were enough Of a
naturalist SO to do, require more than my
limits will allow, f.: am convinced that
most of the kinds of fish which inhabit
the tropical seas, can be found there. Tho
suniish. sawiish, s,artish, white shark, blue
or shove!nose shark, are often seen. There
were also fish which resemble plants, and
remain rs fixed in their position asa shrub;
the oaly powers they possessed we're to
open and shut when in danger. Some Of
them resemoled the rose ia full bloom,
and were of all hnes. There were the
ribbon fish, from four to five inches to
three feet in length; their eyes are very
large and protude like these Of the frog.
Another fish was spotted like the leopard.
from three to ten fee, in length They
build their houses like beavers, in which
they spawn, and the male or female watch.
es the egg until i, matches. saw many
specimens Of the green turtle, some i've
feet long. which should think would
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