Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-22
nrerions year for FIVE years.

er of his late tGdncee, completely battles
the argus-eyed emissaries of the press,
and although it was reported to have
come off on the 9Th. no has yet been able
to find out any of the particulars of the
occurrence, or even to know certainly
that a hostile meeting has taken place.
The most conflicting reports prevail Mr..
May is wounded and Mr.. May is not.
Mr.. Bennett is here and is lying con-
cealed outside of the city, and has gone
to Europe, and is nobody knows where
else beside. DR.. Phelps, the surgeon
in attendance at the supposed meeting
has been cited before the Grand Jury to
testify regarding the performance, but
refused to say one word about it and
was therefore promptly committed to
Jail for contempt. Resort to habeas
corpus has got him so far out that he
can visit his patients under guard of a
deputy sheriff, but it is proposed to
hold him till something definite is
learned regarding his course in the mat
ter. Nothing has so completely got
the better of the newspaper men in years
unless perhaps the destination of Tweed
at the time of his escape. The whole
thing is about as badly mixed as the
elections.
Our novel and fascinating resort, Che
New York Aquarium continues to bear
witness to the untiring energy and en-
terprise of its management through its
steadily increasing popularity and at
tendance. People in this country have
got so accustomed to exhibitions of an
finals that only the younger portions of
the community can get up much enthu-
siasm over menagerie, but here the
most hardened sight seer experiences
all tbs keen delights of novelty. We
have all read Verne's Twenty thousand
Leagues under the Sea-" and sighed
with vexation to think that we could
never enjoy the thrilling sensations of
these fabulous navigations who walk at
pleasure OF the bed of ocean, and saw
the wonderful teemlng life Of the depths
as Familiarity as we see that on the earth
surface But the miracle has been
1 '-=--~L4 "a slaass-and riaht har0-4 ON
, Broadway, in this big, busy city. one
( can have in some respects even greater
t advantages than those envied passenger:
n of the Nautilus. They had to veal
their cumbrous diving dress, and coulC
see but very little at time, while The
visitor to our Aquarium can in an hour.
time behold the wanders of rivers, lake
arctic seas and tropical waters, anC
q that without so much as wetting hi.
-, shoes.
The Aquarium is large, we'll Lighted
! structure, occupying the site of the irol
: Coliseum" (now in PHILADELPHIA OF
the corner of Broadway and 35th street
4 Once inside its broad portals, the visito
finds himself face to face with sight
which, if he has drop of fisherman
H., blood in his veins. will set it tinglin
% 49," wy ""sv1 orus. -
>, about him, within easy reach were
not for the thick plate glass which pre-
, tects them, he poised in lazy securit
r. such trout, pickerel and other game a
- he has only seen in dreams. How the
Q wave defiance at him with their fannin
" fins and stare it at him out of their III
winking eyes What would he give ft
a chance to throw hook into clear W;
= tiers That an angler is aroused to sue
- improper feelings by his first look ;
! the scaly attractions of the place l ca
\ testify from personal experience; b,
these soon wear Of ami become lost
the intense interest which further il
:. spection awakens.
~ In an immense tank 60 feet lor
swim some of the most interesting den
= zens of the ocean. Slowly traversir
= and retraversing the length of his d
:, micile glides shark, whose dull eye
A. horrible half-open mouth and ghastl
:, white belly hold the Observers gaze
g. sort of shuddering fascination. NJ
: tionless, in the partial obscurity of Il
bottom of the tank, may be discernt
the bony armor of an immense sturgeo
- Up and down the sides of the gla
- walls travel with grotesque springs al
~ wiggllngs, small army of skates, su
-. rounded by an amused crowd like tn
:. about cage of monkeys, which indie
- the long tails and antics of these que
:. fat-fsh in some degree recall.
~ The two most recent additions to t
collection are queer looking unwiel
- hippopotamus with mouth like that
his own river Nile, and a marvelo
japanese fish with the eminently CHI;
s.. acteristic name of Kinglyo, having
49, body like FURNISHED gold, and 10
&c triple tail looking as though of VIII
- silk and fringed. This latter pher
"a menon is said to be the product of 10
a. years of patient culture.
So rapid has been the growth of
;nn Aquarium since its opening in Octol
w. that the proprietors have commenc
IT, the publication of an illustrated sci