Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-07-18
A LIVELY OLD SHARK
HE MADE RAPID TIME FROM MONTE
VIDEO TO PERNAMBUCO.
The Feat Sounds Incredible, hut the
Orator M the Liars Club Told n
Circumatantial story and Display
ed n Souvenir of the Event.

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| ed n Souvenir Of the Event
1.-THE speed attained Ivy south Allan
tic sharks in their efforts to arrive at
desired points within the least possible
space of time. said No. 1S, who used
to be in the navy and is now clerk in
the navy department, addressing the
last meeting of the Washington Liars
club, "has long been subject of scien-
tific investigation don't know the
exact number of knots they have been
found to make within the space of an
ordinary four hour watch, but if
south Atlantic shark can beat an alba
tross when il. comes to speed III eat my
bag and hammock and dirty box.
"Now, there are some sharks down in
| the south Atlantic that don't like to
| find themselves too near the equatorial
waters and yet they want to have plen-
ty of room to prowl. They've got the
| temperature of water that suits them
best figured out to nicely, and they
know that on the other side of the equa
toral line there's just as good water,
and water of the same degree of tenn
perature, as that in which they re fool
ing around when they get to thinking
on this subject.
"Well. what do they do when they
get to worrying over the cramped space
in which they find themselves on one
side of the line or the other? Why
they just make a dash across the line
That s all. They know that the equa
torial line is trocha of water that's a
heap too hot for their constitutions and
that they can stand monkeying around
in the water on that line too long, and
so they just hop over it, licketty cut so
fast that You can't see their fins for
dust
81 remember once, when | was on
the old Ticonderoga, thing happened
that gave us line on the speed of
sharks when they take it into their
heads to get speedy We got into the
port of Moltevideo one morning at 10
o'clock 1t was on a Monday, April 2
Montevideo harbor is full CT sharks, and
the men forward got to fishing over the
side for them in order to get their spines
to make walking sticks of them. One
huge man eater was landed after great
difficulty with the combined strength of
the whole watch on deck. and he had to
be dubbed with Delaying pins and cap
stan bars for an hour before he gave up
and cashed in
"Well, we cut him open, and. gentle
men, what do you suppose we found
inside of him? Why, as fine a gold
watch and chain as you ever saw in
Your life Not an ordinary minute and
second hand watch, but one of those
watches that give the date. the day of
the week, the phases Of the moon and
the whole thing. Well, sirs. you can
imagine our establishment when we
snapped the case of this watch open
and found that it had stopped at exact
ly 4 p. NJ. April II, the day before we
get into Montevideo.
1.-THE sipper of our ship reported
this fact to the townspeople of Monte
video when he went ashore, feeling con-
fdent that some prominent citizen Of
that town had inadvertently permitted
himself to he made A meal of by an
ed that the victim must have been a
prominent citizen to pack such Il swell
timepicce H.,und with him, Nobody
was missing out of the population of
Montevideu, and the thing looked al
mighty mysterious,
"Well, we remained in the harhor of
Montevidco fer six weeks making, re-
to-,
watch incident was practically forgot
ten. We were just npun the point of
pulling our for northern waters when
the British snip Cardiff, from Pcrnum
buco Brazil, put into Montevid@o The
Cardiff. : mate was in command. ard
he had q queer story to tell of h"w the
CON n.aNd had fallen to him 1t -, MS
that on April the skipper returning
to the ship from pernamhuco in his
long boat had Slipped in stepping IN
to the float leading to the ships gong
way and fallen into the water Before
the boats crew had chance to pull
him back into the stern sheets there
was swish and the skipper was E>ing
packed off in the jaws Of a gigantic
shark
"You II remember that this happened
on the afternoon OF April II Np.l
there wouiun' t have been al. ,thlN5 re
markablc about this if the mate in G. N
mand OF the Cardiff hadn hHi, prucd to
mention that the skipper rs! IA vain
able watch on his person WlitE the
shark got him Our commanding ",trpr
heard about this. and he looked ny 'i.e
mate and asked him what kind IF d
watch it was The mate exactly lie,
scribed the watch that we had taken
out of the shark stomach in MrEtp, ,
vidoo on the morning of April II, and
when our skipper showed it to him he
instantly identified it
"Now. all that anybody who Doubts
This has got to do in order to find ont
how many thousand miles Pernambuco
is from Montevideo is to measure the
scale on the atlas of South America
That shark only hit the high places in
jumping from Pernambuco to Monte
video, and if there S any doubter Of this
narration here present why, here's the
sharks spine. and No Is of the Liars
club held up % cent malacca stick.
The quarterly medal was bestowed |
upon No Is by unanimous VOTE
Washington Star
The Widow.
It is said by IN Atchson cynic that
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