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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-06
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Schedule in effect June Doth, 1886
ALL TRAINS DAILY EXCEPT SIJND.y
Leave Alexandria 600 a. M, 9:15 M and
800 p m arrive at Round Hill 11.o0 -,
11:14 4. nj. and 7:19 p. IN. 9" n'.'
Returning, trains leave Round Hill Cos -
lid Il. m. and BIO D. M, arrivinp: ut AL -.
drl ria at s;32 a. M, 4:40 p. m and 54O D. M. S-
The 9:l5 ~ H. train from Alexandria con,oo,,
at hound Hill with stage for Blue Ridge RerrS'
yil1c and Winchester, and at Lcesburg with Slaves
for Aldc and Middleburg. WIN ''"ses
Inc $40 a. m. train and 4:5O n. M. train from,
Alexandria connects at Vienna with stano ti1 Saa
Fairfax Court House. ''"se' iof
through tickets to Fairfax Court House. Berry.
VIile ana winchester on sale at Alexandria ticket
One thousand milo tickets S25.
je23 If r. BELL Sr,ou;.
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FOR RIVER LANDINGS,

FOX RIVER LANDINGS.
Tie steamer JOHN ". THOMPSON will leave
EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY
MORNINGS for landings aa lar down as Leonard.
town. returning, leave Lconai dtown every Tues.
Gay, Thursday and Saturday mornings
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STEAMERS.
HOE NORFOLK

1 AND -
FORTRESS MONROE.
THE POTOMAC STEAMBOAT COMPANIES
First-class steamer
GEORGE LEARS
will leave Prince ST. wharf EVERY MONDAY
WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY. at 6 n. IN. Rnturn.
ing leave Norfolk every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday. Il; 4 p. III.
Connecting NJ Norfolk with
BOSTON AND rKOVIDENCEn STEAMERS
and Steamer ARIEL FOR RICHMOND.
For further particulars enquire AT Company's
Office eth Street Wharf. Washington, D. G.. mr. TO
PHILIP Z. HOOE,
iaay.-t ASt. Prince Street Wharf
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OBJECT (NO STOPS.

The steamer LADY OF THE LAKE will leave
her wharf EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY and
SATURDAY at o'clock p. n. Fare, first class,
81; round trip $500
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A written guarantee. authorized by the Corpora
ton of Foreign Bondholdcrs of London. England,
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Any property tax. license tax. fine or other due
to the Commonwealth Of Virginia can bc SUCCESS
fully paid with coupons at Il large saving to such
taxpayers.
Full particulars by mail. Apply. stating amonnt
of your tax, to
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DRUGGISTS md CHEMISTS.
n. 81. Ior;!ct King aMd Washington Streets
dealers II. p4.cnt i'cdicincs Drugs, Cigars and
Cigarettes, Fins Tooth Brushes, Nail Brushes,
Iefm"H "a" Domestic Cologne Hair Brushes,
Srongcc. Flesh Straps &c Especial care given 10
prescriptions. ian2e-tf
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
S
"A Matter of Interest to Believers In TIM
Sea S%crpcnt's Existence.

Sea Scrpcnt's Existence.
/ will not insist upon any OF the nu-
merors creatures such as manatces,
seven foot turtles, gigantic squids ana
huge swimming lizards, which may have
gone sometimes to make up clements IN
various sea serpents, new or Old, but
will content myself with few true fish,
quite big enough to add their mite to
the general mystitication of the ocean.
One hundred and forty different kinds
of sharks are known to DR.. Gunther. of
which the blue shark attains twenty-five
feet and the p%orbeagle ten. But the
huge c%archarodon, the most formidable
of all its family, reaches the length OF
forty feet; it is strictly pelagic in its
habits, and occurs in all tropical and
sub-tropical seas. Forty feet is Il fair
length; but the Challenger dredged up
from the deep oozc of the Atlantic the
teeth Of a still larger shark, at least
double that size; and if the owner OF
those huge fangs are now extinct, they
must at any rate have become 5 o within
a very recent period. Our w North
Atlantic basking shark reaches thirty
feet; and the hammerhead also attains
an extremely creditablc size. Nastest OF
all, however, is the enormous rhinodon,
a gigantic shark-likc fish of the Indian
ocean and the Pacific. which is known
to exceed fifty feet, and is said to have
arrived at as much us seventy. The
tunnies and sun fishes, though far
smaller, may yet some tines have
helped in forming good sea serpents.
A l%ong-nosed whale pursued by thresh-
ers has also doubtless done good service
more than once in the same fashion.
The final question is just this: In an
ocean teeming with so many known
animals of huge size, ought we to set
down any uncaught specimen as a new
species, on a cursory examination, I'M
der eminently deceptive and unsatisfac-
tory circumstances? And if we do are
we not in all probability more or less
directly influenced by surviving memo
ries of the great extinct krakcns and
tire-brcathing dragons? Are we not,
in short, trying to make a serpent out
of it: Let us rest satisfied with our big
cuttlefish and huge whales and mon
strous sharks for the present, and
whenever any body catches us IN enali-
%osaurian or a %zeuglodon or an i'm
mense marine snake, let us accept
their new addition to zoology with
all reclamation. Meanwhile let us urge
once more on all theorists, ''First catch
your sea scrpent;n then proceed to clas-
silly him. -C0rnhW Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
DEVELOPMENT OF BIRDS.
The Narrow Gap Existing Between Then
and tho Reptile Family.

The Narrow Gap Existing Between Them
and tho Reptile Family.
A birds feather was thrown on the
screen at the beginning of Prof. Bick-
more's recent lecture to the teachers.
The feather was SO magniticd that it APP
peared more than three feet in length,
showing the manner in which each barb
was fastened and braced into position,
and the nerves that passed into the
quilts. A series of colorcd plates showed
the many varieties of birds which
formed the subject of the lecture in
their natural colors.
Prof. Bickmore said that feathers were
divided into two classcs-thc contour
feathers and the down. the barbs of
which We're not braccd, but turned in
any direction. Birds, unlike reptiles.
are warm-blooded. Prof. Agassiz
taught that birds were a distinct and
isolated class in the animal creation.
In the short interval since Agassiz's
death or~nithologists have discovered,
mainly through fossil remains, that
birds are closely related to reptiles in
their structure and the gap showing the
direct connection between the two
is now small. One of these
fossil birds discovered in Ger
many was purchased by the British
Museum for a small fortune. A picture
of it was exhibited us restored by Prof.
Owens, showing 3 body heightened out
into 4 tail that without the wings closely
resembled a reptiles body. A variety
having teeth is found in the fossils in
the Rocky mountains. The teeth are
not for masticating food, but for Selling
and retaining the prey. Those species
like the ostrich have mot developed the
ability to fly, but use their wings mainly
to assist in running or swimming, have
flat breasts, while the species marked by
great power of wing have developed a
k~eel-shaped breast fora particular az
rangcment of the Muscles. Among
those of the flat breast we're the great
auks, which We're found in large num-
bers on the Atlantic coast formerly, but
within the last half century have be-
come almost extinct. They We're as
large as geese and the markets were sup
piled with them in the last century. The
museum has one OF the last that has been
captured, for which $G16 dollars was
paid.
Another species is still in existence
which is almost without wings and the
feathers are like coarse hair. The differ
ence between hair and feathers Prof.
Blckmore showed on the screen. The
museum has also q collection of moars.
q rare New Zealand bird showing two
stages Of developmcnt.-N. Y. Tribune,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
CATCHING A A
The Monsters Resolute and Terrible Strug-
gle for Liberty.

The Monsters Resolute and Terrible Strug-
gle for Liberty.
Our captain, being q man of caution
and prudence. us this incident clearly
shows, determined to cast anchor on the
banks that night, as we had not yet
reached deep-sea room in the gulf, and
there might be somewhere along the
edge of the banks bad places the hydro
graphers not set down in the charts.
Sails were furled, the anchors cast, and
u vessel lazily swung around stern
Cuba-ward. 1t was a glorious tropical
evening. The sea was like a plain of
marvelously colored shell, polished and
luminous. Ocean and sky were alone
visible, save where the sailor-dreaded
Orange bays thrust their gruesome black
shoulders out of the sea half a score of
miles to the northwest. Suddenly one
of the crew sang out:
ga shark! A shark, sir!!"
''Where away?"
"Port-amidships, STRIP
There was n lively scramble of us all
down the port side to the main rigging.
The rays of the setting sun reflected
from the ships side lit up the water
strangely to the white coral bottom but
three fathoms below, giving every OBJ
ject in the sea a weird, unnatural size
and appearance, and there, not a foot
from the vessels side lay a monstrous
shark, resting just underneath the sur
face of the water, perfectly motionless,
looking at us with almost human eyes
of unctuous, sublimatcd malcvolence.
The cook bounded to the lazarete for a
piece OF pork and the mate for the
shark-hook-a murderous iron hook
like an ordinary iish-hook, but as thick
as your thumb and fully two feet long
and in less than u minute the bait was
placed alongside the sea-fiend tempt
ingly. He retreated a Bit, seeming to
contemplate both is and the fine piece
of pork musingly. Then. as if rumi-
nating: 81 would have preferred that
whitehead, literary gentleman, or even
that fat, chubby little Nova Scotian
sailor, but pork is pork anywhere, and
commands a sea price in these lati-
tudes!''-he advanced leisurely.
''Stand by!!n said the mate, quietly.
Eight Of us ''stood by with the line,
H'u1 do DiS do yOu1 Wllst, SIdSpcu
firmly. Then the shark moved a little
closer, and of a sudden turned belly
upward Immediately under his antici-
pated evening meal, and instantly his
awful under jaw rose and fell
with a crash on that pork and
tremendous barb. Then what q iloun-
dering, and pulling, and hauling and
cursing were there. We pulled like
heroes, but could scarcely get him out
of the sea. No description could con-
vey the sharks fury. We got him
alongside finally, and then began
drowning him by bringing him into the
air and dropping him open-mouthed back
to ill him with water. Then how grand
he struggles again! Fully q quarter of
an hour elapsed before we landed him
on deck; and the greatest care had to
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
,e taken lest he cut away rigging,

| be taken lest he cut away rigging,
braces or guys with his terrible jaws, or,
for . change, snapped off Il mans arm
or leo. A scantling from the ships
dunnage was found and thrust in his
mouth. This two-inch pine piece was
snapped in twain like a match. Then
one of the great iron pump-bars took
its place and the sharks Jaws set upon
| it like q wise. At short intervals he
cavorted the deck with this iron bar
crashing against things promiscu-
ously, all on board sud-
denly finding it mor agreeable
| alongside the rails, or fore and aft. In
time he was made fast to the tife-rails
and then subdued by a tive-hundred-
pound "skid being got across his back
with a couple of sailors at either end OF
the timber, as the old boards were
mounted in the 'see-saw' time of your
vouth-tide. Then the rest Of the crew
quickly dispatched the monster with
their sheath-knives. and L never wit
messed such qualification and Joy as We're
shown by the sailors in taking the life
of this their deadlicst enemy. 1t APP
preached delirious human ticndishncss,
and the cutting and slashing were sick
ening. The shark-which measured
sixteen feet in length, its liver alone
tillingaten-gallon cask-beingd done for,
its remains were cast into the sea-, save
the backbone, which, on being boiled
and cleaned, was divided into precious
souvenirs of a victory whose kind no
one on board had previously happened
to share.-E. L. Waken1an, IN Chicago
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
A
A Black Crime Illustrative of the Use Of
the Knife in Sicily.

the Knife in Sicily.
A horrible deed of blood committed
near Girgenti gives an illustration of
the use of the knife in the island of .sici-
ly. Two butchers, father and SON, of
the name of Inde!icato, who kept a shop
in that town, not long since took two
brothers named Alfonso and Giovanni
Cannetoni into partnership. Before
long the Cannetonis began to trade in
lambs carcasses separately on their
own account, and dislgreemcnts arose.
which ultimately led to a collision be-
tween Baldassare Indclicato and Alfonso
Cannetoni. They drew their butchers
knives from their belts on each other.
Alfonso aimed q well-directed blow at
Baldassare. He parried it with his left
arm, which was chi to the bone, and at
the same instant drove his knife into
the heart Of Alfonso. who fell dead on
the spot. At that moment a young son
of Alfonso, aged nineteen, came up
with a bludgeon to his fathers assist
ance. Baldassare struck him to the
ground, and then cut his throat across,
''as he wouldhave slaughtered a Sheep
Mad with rage, Baldassare then rushed
into the shop, and taking Giovanna, the
brother OF Alfonso, by surprise, killed
him with a slash across the abdomen.
Turning then to leave the shop, he in
t1icted a serious wound on a person lust
entering. All this occurred within the
space of four minutes, the result of the
collision being three persons killed and
| two wounded IN. Y. Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
A RAGING RIVER,
The father of Waters Overfiows, Break
ing Levees and Inundating Rich Farm
in. Lands.

The Father of Waters Overfiows, Break
ing Levces and I%nundating Rich Farm
ing Lands.
HELENA, Ark, April 29.-The river is
now above the highest point reached in
1882, but both the ST. Francis and Missis-
sippi rivers lave ceased to rise. There was
a general breakup in the Arkansas levees,
rom the break, ten miles below here, down
to where the levee ends at Old Town, ads
tance OF twenty miles. All efforts to hold the
remaining parts OF the levee have been
abandoned, and the water is now sweeping
through in numerous places, the breaks
ranging from 100 feet to half a mile in
width. Every acre OF land subject to an
overflow from Helena to Laconia will be
inundated. The back water is now coming
INTO the city slowly, but it will probably
only fill the bitches.
The levee a mile below Austin has been
swept away for several hundred feet. This
will result in the overflow OF a large por-
ton OF Tunlca and Coahoma counties.
The loss from this crevasse will be great,
because all the crops had been planted and
were growing. Portions OF the track of
the Iron Mountain railroad between He
lena and Mariana are ten inches under
water.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The bridal dress of the Princess Eu-
ialie, of Spain, cost $50, 600.
Experiments in steering balloons
are to be made in all the fortified places
in France.
Queen Victoria's household, in
which there are 1000 persons, cost near
ly 50 1000, 900 Il year.
An inventor in S%olothurn, Switzer-
land, has patented a steam velocipede
which attained a speed of about twelve
and a half miles an hour.
"A lady in the Queens service, who
made the mistake of wearing a cherry
ribbon during a recent term of court
mourning, has been deprived of her po-
sition for two months.
An English paper, speaking of the
launch of a new vessel, says: 1.-THE
christening ceremony was performed by
Lady Campbell. Her tonnage is 1,S10,
and she can carry six guns"
The largest pharmacy in Europe,
says the Vienna Me0isinische Zeliung, is
ut Moscow, and is that of Woldemar
Ferrein, where about seventy or eighty
assistants are employed and seven to
eight hundred prescriptions are prepared
daily.
Arrangements are being made in
England and Scotland to establish dam
ger signals, in connection with the
weather service. for the purpose of MAX
ing known such atmospheric changes
as may affect the working of the mines.
The massive iron chest in which the
manuscript of the Doomsday book was
formerly kept is still preserved in the
British office of public records, and it
will be an object of curiosity at the
coming Of the eight hundredth Dooms-
day anniversary.
In London %thoproblem of disposing
of snow in the streets is said to have
been practically solved at comparatively
moderate expense. Pits are provided
with steam coils at the bottom, and the
snow is shoveled into them, when it is
rapidly melted and run off by the
sewers.
Among the advertisements in q late
German paper appeared the following:
The gentleman who found q purse with
money, in the Blumerstrasse is rcquestcd
to forward it to the address OF the loser,
as he is recognized" A few days after
ward the reply was inserted: "The
recognized gentleman who picked up a
purse in the B]umenstrasse requests the
loser to call at his house."
The Danes do not propose to have
any receptions in the butter supply. A
law enacted in Denmark last year COM
pels all makers and sellers of adultcr-
ated imitation, and bogus butter to pack
it in clliptical tubs, conspicuously mark
ed ''margarine," and Furnishes in
fractions of the law by fine of
from 200 to 1000 kroners (about
S54 to $500. The enactment was forced
by the agricultural element of the country
despite the opposition by the bogls but
ter people.
There is a stir among musicians in
Europe at a little story from Naples.
When Bellini died his brother Carmelo
came into possession of all of Bellini's
autographs. Carmelo kept the writings
shut up in a chest, and never even into
the day OF his death, last year, so much
as lifted the lid. But the other day
Carmelo's heirs, more curious, opened
the chest and there found the original
''Ernani''-a precious gem in the eyes
of the famous musicians admirers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
p,TH AND POINT.

IA nan can not get alono :,
world without a fair ALLOWANCE ta
check, There are times when oi
ponderance of chin will serve him PIE
wcll.-M 7. Independent. az
At a cheap restaurant: "Will w,
have a twenty-five cent dinner. sir s"a
thirty-five cent one?" 'sWhat is tbo ia
ference between the two?" 'Tcn cen W.T.
sir ."-Chicago Mail. s'
A lawyer of large experience
some observation defines the art Of "aN
ilization rs getting your neiehhoMSh''
money out of his pocket and into vow
own without making yourself amenaWs
to the law.-N. Y. Ic 'cgram.
A Washington correspondent WIZ.
refuses to share small bits OF news w il
his fellow-correspondent, is appronr;
ateiy called an item-miser.-PHtsIunrnns
Telegraph.
-"What and When to Eat" is tbo
title of an exchange. The "when'
never gave us any trouble in our eatjnc
but we have been compelled to do ,
sight of skirmishing after the s.whatS
-Bur3ingtom Hawhcye.
The impudence of these poets /,
alarming. One of them has the cheet
to complain because the Chicago 1rb.
mae misplaced a part of his poem. get.
ting it under the head of "The PorL
Market."-Tc1as .,SJitings.
A black cat, we are told. bripcs
good luck. A man at Pinedale WHO
owned a black cat for nine year had
such good luck that he spent the last
years of his life in idlencss and had his
board paid by the county. He died in
the Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Female life-insurance agents ought
to do a good business. Almost any man
would be impressed with the uncertainty
of life when one Of them began to talk,
and, if he had any prudence whatever.
would insure himself right away against
immediate dissolution.-Somc7UiIe jour.
nal.
-Edith-Aunt Hannah, there's some
thing l can't understand. You are al.
ways talking about Mrs. B. and yet You
continue to call on her once or twice a
week. Aunt Hannah-Of course, Edith.
You wouldn't have me for ever repeat
ing the same things against her, Ionly
call upon her to get fresh evidence Of
her disagreeablcness.-N. Y. Telegram.
Yes, my son, it is true that molasse;
catches more flies than doth vinegar
But it is also true that as q rule yor
don't want to catch flies; you want tl
drive them away. Argyll; don't smear
yourself with molasses when you are LA
BILE to be exposed to flies. There is onl,
one kind Of flies you want to catch, an,
molasscs isn't sweet enough nor stick,
enough for that. Time flies, my son
time lies.-BMrUette.
civilian, dear, Mrs. Smith has neve,
received that letter of mine which / CAV
you to mail a month ago. You postet
it, didn't you?" "Why, Of course,
did, my love-" And far down in tn
most sulphurous corner of the inferna
regions a chorus of red-legged fiend;
blew a pecan of JOY on B-flat comets a
they heated to incandescencc a brim
tone pit labelled Reserved for William
w. Jones."-N. Y. Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
HEARING UNDER WATER.
Effects of a Blew Felt at the neptb =,
Eight Feet.

E.AShC Teet.
Some years ago 1 made, a practical
experiment by diving to a depth of
some seven or eight feet, and remain
ing below while a party of friends upon
the bank shouted us loudly as they
could. Net a sound was. audible. Then
l went below again, when Il blow was
struck upon the surface of the water
with a walking-stick. The effect w,s
most startling, and Ircally thourht th,t
something must have struck me vio.
lently on both ears simultaneously. In
y America, when the lakes are cav
cred with a thick coating Of ice. the In.
alans can Kill the beaver, even THOUGH
1t 5e swimming at considerable lenth
The hunter, who can see the animal
through the transparent ice, merely
strikes violently on the frozen surfaco
with his club The Vibration is cnm
mun1cated to the water. and thnnna
through the ears TO the beaver. WHOM
rolls senselcss on it's back, thus oilnw
ing time fer the hunter to cut . hnl lo w
me ice and pierce the animal with lie
pear before it can recover its scnsas
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