Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
PERPETUAL LEAP YEAR THERE.
\ shipwrecked sailor Washed Ashore and
Married Before He Was Dry.

- bhipwreckod sailor washed Ashore and
Married Before He Was Dry.
News from the group of Tristan
d'Acunha, the three little islands mid
way between the Cape of Good Hope
and the coast of South Africa, arrives
here by the steamer Miowera of the
Canadian Australian line. To the Mi
owera it was given by the captain of the
ship hartford, spoken by the Mowers
in Australian waters while on the
northward course.
The captain of the hartford, in report.
ing the events of the voyage from Lon
don, announced that in about latitude
81 degrees 5 minutes south, and longi-
tudc IL degrees 16 minutes west his ves-
sci was hailed by small boat The
yards of the hartford were backed and
the boat came alongside. In it were
several men and a quantity of potatoes,
eggs, milk and penguin skins. The men
offered the fresh produce and the skins
in trade, saying they wanted clothing,
tea, rice, sugar and flour from the ships
stores in exchange for the articles they
brought from their island home. They
told the captain that they depended on
passing vessels for the provisions they
named and for clothing, and that the
inhabitants of the islands were in dire
distress, because for six months not a
boat had succeeded in hailing a ship.
The captain of the hartford lowered
into the boat some flour and rice and tea
and other groceries, and also some
canned goods. Then the men begged
for clothing for women, and particular
ly for corsets, hairpins and ribbons. As
the hartford carried no such articles
among her stores the ladies of Tristan
GAcunha must go corsetess and per-
NIT their hair to float in the breeze, not
confined even by ribbons.
The population of the Island of Iris.
tan dAcunha, as Reported to the cap
tain of the hartford by the men in the
boat, is 60, the women outnumbering
the men in the proportion of three to
one. Therefore there are Is women and
IL men-that means so minated women.
The group consists of three tiny vol
canic isles-Tristan. the largest, being
seven miles in diameter, in the center
being n mountain 1000 feet high; the
second inaccessible, about two miles
across; and Nightingale island. baby
islet, just big enough to hold two hills.
The islands have been under he British
flag since 1916. though. as the men in
the boat told the master of the Dart
ford, no European government has paid
any attention to them in the memory
of any of the inhabitants. When Ma
roleon was ut st. Helena. 200 miles dis
tant, British garrison was stationed
Oh Tristan, but was withdrawn after
the death of the exile. Corporal Will
liam Glass. his wife and family, and
two private soldiers, were permitted to
remain on the island when the garrison
was withdrawn. The population had
Increased to 60 people, some of the ac-
cessions being due to shipwreck and
some to assertions from whaling ves-
sells.
The captain of the hartford reported
to the Miowera no explanation of the
extraordinary majority of women, but
as his parting bit of information he re-
lated that the men who sought the COR
sets, the ribbons and the hairpins told
him that the latest addition to the popu-
lation of the island was the second
mate of the wrecked vessel Allen Shaw,
W no was washed upon the rocky shore.
lie was seized by the women and mar
ried before he was dry.-San Francisco
Examiner.