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W orld W ar
And Vaf'iiOlls
Movements on Land
!. and Sea With New
Nations In
Line. ~: .
WAR ON THE WATER.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
JANUARY. b.
l. British battleship Formidable sunk in
the. English channel by German sub
marine or a mine; over 600 drowned.
a. In German naval attack on the Eng
l1sh coast the German cruiser Bluecher
was sunk, with about 700 of her crew.
British cruiser Lion disabled.
> FEBRUARY.
4. German admiralty declared war
zone in the. English channel after Feb.
10. German war zone decree went into ef-
feet.
MARCH. --s@
ls. British battleships Irresistible and
~ Ocean and French battleship Bouvet
sunk during a naval attack in the
Dardanelles. ~ -zs5
%. German submarine us torpedoed
British ships Falaba and Aguilla in
st. Georges channel; 6S passengers
and 70 sailors lost.
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26. French steamer Leon jGambetta tor
pedoed by an Austrian submarine in
the strait of Otranto: 500 seamen
drowned
- Ano A1uoAldlld, Was tOTpeOOeO ana
sunk off Kinsale. Munster coast, Ire
land. Out Of 2104 persons on board
LOO were lost. NV ...- .[
H. British battleship Goliath torpedoed in
the Dardanelles, with loss of 500 lives
70. British 'battleship Triumph torpadoed
in the Dardanelles.
q. British battleship Majestic sunk by
torpedo in the Dardanelles.
... .z. JUNE.
II. Italian submarine Meduso torpedoed
by an Austrian submarine.
30. British admiralty steamer Armenian,
with Americans in her crew, torpe-
doed off the British coast % Ameri-
cans lost. !"
T., italian cruiser Amalf sunk by Aus
TRAN submarine in the Adriatic sea-
AUGUST. 81
8. British submarine sank the Turkish
battleship iBarbarossa in the sea Of
Marmora: 49,.
IL British transport Royal Edward sunk
by an enemy submarine in the Aegean
sea; loss Of nearly 1000 lives
19. A German submarine torpedoed the
So VVsite ~ or Cape
Clear, Ireland; q Americans on board
OCTOBER.
q. German cruiser Prinz Adalbert sunk
by British submarines; crew of 557
nearly all lost.
NOVEMBER.
Z. italian liner Ancona sunk by Austrian
submarine in the Mediterranean; 20s
lives lost. including some Americans.
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SHIPWRECKS.

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JANUARY.
~. British steamer Penarth wrecked on
the Norfolk coast; q sailors drowned.
MARCH
Is. United States submarine F-4 sunk off
Honolulu while making a submerged
run. All on board drowned
APRIL.
4. Dutch liner Maurita lost in storm off
the Atlantic coast: 40 people drowned,
JULY.
"a. Lake excursion steamer Eastland
went down in Chicago river. Out of
2,4OO (abouD on board 991 passengers
and sailors were drowned.
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Score, 49, GO, GO. .
IL. Jerome D. Travers, noted amateur,
won title Of open golf championship
Of the United States, defeating Nc
Namara, at Baltusrol, N. ].
Is. Yale defeated Harvard in the varsity
races at New Haven winning all var
s1ty, freshman and second varsity
events. 49,.
q. Cornell won the varsity race at
Poughkeepsie, with Leland Stanford
second; time, 2:36 3-5; also junior race,
in 1000 To- with Pennsylvania second
Syracuse Won the freshman race in
s:2s 3-5, with Cornell second.
JULY.
L6. Norman S. Taber Of Boston made a
new worlds one mile run record at
Cambridge; time minutes II 3-5 sec
onds.
SEPTEMBER.
4. Amateur golf championship Of the
United States won by Robert A. Card
ner of Chicago, who defeated John G.
Anderson Of Mount Vernon, N. Y, s
up and to play, at Detroit.
Z. William M. Johnston won the national
tennis singles championship at Forest
Hills, N. Y, defeating Maurice E. Nc
Loughlin with a score of 1-6, 60, rs,
10-S.
IL. women SOlI championship won by
Mrs. G. H. Vanderbeck of Philadel-
phia at Chicago, 8 up and to play:
Mrs. w. A. Gavin runner up.
Is. Directum I. made new worlds pacing
record Of 1861 for a mile without a
wind shield at Syracuse, N. Y.
%. The Philadelphia club clinched the Ma
tional league pennant at Boston by
defeating Boston to O.
%. Boston became American league cham
pion through the defeat of Detroit by
st. Louis, 8 to e. at Detroit
OCTOBER.
9. Gil Anderson won $50 mile auto race
for the Astor Cup at Sheepshead Bay.
ID. Boston Americans defeated the Phila-
delphia Nationals in the fifth and de-
Gliding game Of the worlds series, to
4, at Philadelphia.
3. Cornell defeated Harvard 10 to 0 at
Cambridge, Mass.
Princeton defeated Dartmouth 30 to z at
Princeton.
NOVEMBER.
6. Harvard defeated Princeton 10 to 8 at
football.
IL. Yale defeated Princeton II to q.
70. Harvard beat Yale Il to ct football.
u. Army vanquished Navy IA to o at foot
ball.
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Affairs the World Over.
With Obituary and
Accident Record
of the Year. -
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

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T. Carranza's forces defeated Villas
trooDs a Pueblo; Villa lost 700 killed.
II. Gen. Rogue Gonzales Cara chosen
provisional president of Mexico by the
convention at Mexico City.
II. Provisional President Cara and his
cabinet abandoned Mexico City as
capital.
%. Mexican First Chief Carranza reoccu-
pied Mexico City.
~. Gen. Cara renowned the office of
provisional president Of Mexico.
FEBRUARY.
4. Gen. Villa proclaimed himself presi-
dent. D.
10. Carranza, head of the Constitutional
list party in Mexico, expelled the
Spanish minister.
APRIL.
9. Villas forces defeated at Jrapuato by
Gen. Obregon's army.
l6. Villas army defeated by Obregon's
forces at Celaya.
JUNE.
z. President Wilson warned the Mexi-
can revolutionists to make peace.
70. Carranza troops occupied Mexico City.
r. Former President Huerta arrested at
Newman, N. M, by United States
marshals on charge Of conspiracy
JULY.
8 Gen. Orozco, colleague of Gen. Huerta
and with him under bail to the United
States. jumped his bail and escaped
from Ell Paso to Mexican soil.
AUGUST.
D. Conference of A. B. G. powers and the
United States over Mexico, met in
Washington.
II. Gen. Carranza resented President Will
sons attempt to restore peace in
Mexico and was officially notified that
armed intervention in Mexico by the
United States would not be approved
by the A. B. G. powers.
IA. The United States and Argentina.
Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and
Guatemala, jointly, appealed to Mex
lean parties to make peace
H. Carranza's generals announced that
they would support his objection to
engage in q peace conference.
SEPTEMBER. =
H. Pan-American conferees on Mexican
affairs postponed decision three weeks.
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RUSSIAN FRONTIER.

JANUARY.
5. Russian forces were south of the Car
pathian mountains invading Hungary.
9. A large Russian army was advancing
on the Russian border against Koe-
nigsberg, a German fortified city in
East Prussia.
FEBRUARY.
3. Germans checked in a. desperate at
tack on Russian lines at Bolimow, be-
fore Warsaw
Z. Germans, by forced march, turned
the Russian flank at Johannesburg, in
East Prussia, forcing the enemy to re-
treat back to Russian territory.
8. Germans in Russia cut the railroad
behind the retreating Russian army.
North of Augustowo the Russians de-
serted their positions east Of the Ma
surian lakes.
A. Germans stormed and captured Przas-
nysz, Poland, an important Russian
post north of Warsaw.
t. MARCH.
y. The Austrian fortress Of Przemysl, in
Galicia, surrendered to the Russian
army after gallant and prolonged
defense. About $4,000 armed Austrians
were among the trophies.
s. Russians recaptured Przasnysz, in Po-
land. north Of Warsaw.
8. Russians advanced through Bostok
pass, piercing the Austrian lines in
~ the Carpathians. r. Slas = ae< So, -
4. Austro-Germans recaptured Jaroslav,
on the west bank of San river, Cali
cha, forcing the Russians to abandon
the Carpathian mountains.
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Campaigns
Minor Events
Battle Front In Poland,
France, Belgium, Aus
tria, Gallipoli, Ser
via and Egypt.


s. Greece protested against the landing
of troops at Saloniki to defend Servia.
l. Austro-German forces under General
Won Mackensen invaded Servia. Bull
garia sent "a hour ultimatum to Servia
g. Germans recaptured Belgrade, capital
Of Servia.
H. Bulgaria declared war on Servia.
%. general attack by Italians at Goritz
failed after an all day struggle.
- NOVEMBER.
g.. Bulgarians. captured Nish, great rail-
way center in Servia.
a. Germans and Austrians captured Mi
: trovitza and Pristina, Servia
DECEMBER.
j. British defeated by Turks near Bag
dad, Mesopotamia.
Germans and Austrians captured Mon
astir. Servia.
TO- Balkans: Allied troops in Greece fell
back on Saloniki.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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JANUARY.
L Panama. California exposition opened
s.. at San Diego.
London Stock Exchange reopened
united States supreme court ruled that
the Danbury hatters must pay s252, 900
fine for boycott set up in 1902
Is Fire in Roebling's wire plant at Tren-
ton caused loss Of s1,5OO,0OO
FEBRUARY.
Ii Frank James,, last Of James brothers
noted in the civil war and later as
desperate men, died near Excelsior
Springs, Mo-; aged "a. ..-rs5ss
20 Panama-Pacific Information exposi-
UOn at San Francisco formally opened
i!sse.;. MARCH
3. Anarchists caught in an attempt to
explode bombs in St. Patrick's cathe-
dral, New York
5. Harry Kendall Thaw placed on trial
IN New York for conspiracy to escape
the asylum at Matteawan.
Ii ThaW and four alleged conspirators
acquitted on charge Of conspiracy.
a Lincoln Beachey, the American avi-
ator, killed in flight at the Panama
Pacific exposition: in San Francisco.
APRIL. 81.
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New York Stock Exchange, where b.
3O0 shares were dealt in. ,-. r. -
q. Public library Of St. Paul destroyed by
fire; loss $4,000. International peace
congress met at The Hague. Name of
Culebra cut, in the Panama canal,
changed to Gaillard cut
SO.R Colon, Panama, swept by fire; loss
$35OO,0O0 in the business district, where
465 buildings were destroyed.
MAY. r~. IN
u. Naval fleet arrived at New York.
q. New government proclaimed, by revo-
>lutionists in Portugal The new pre-
mier, Joao Chagas, shot by senator.
9. President Wilson protested to Ger
many in the Lusitania case. Naval
parade at New York. -. ..~
JUNE
l.. United Confederate veterans met at
Richmond
3. Georgia prison commission reported
against committing sentence Of Frank,
alleged murderer.
o. Second United States note to Ger
many sent to Ambassador J. w. &C.
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MINOR WAR EVENTS.

4* ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
&. The German government ordered the
seizure of private stores of corn.
wheat and -four.
FEBRUARY. Il
Is. Germany informed the United States
that she would insist on maintaining
the war zone in the English channel.
MARCH
l. England announced her intention to
stop all ships to and from the sea-
ports Of Germany.
IA. The German cruiser Dresden, which
survived the battle Of Falkland is
lands, sunk in battle with a British
fleet near San Juan Fernandez island,
off Chill.
Is. Great Britain issued a sweeping order
in council cutting of all outside trade
with Germany and refused to modify
the war zone blockade.
JULY.
8. Germany replied to note Of the United
States Dune 10), promising to safe
guard Americans under their own flag.
AUGUST
4. Great Britain sent notes to the United
States upholding her blockade.
"a. Berlin informed Washington that the
killing Of Americans on the Arabic
was not intentional.
SEPTEMBER
!. German ambassador announced that
liners would not be sunk by subma-
rines without warning unless they re-
sisted or attempted to escape.
8. German airships raided London, in
juring 81 persons and killing 20.
OCTOBER.
5. Germany disayowed the sinking of the
Arabic and agreed to pay indemnity.
Is. Fifty-f1ve killed and LA injured IN
London by Zeppelin attack.
DECEMBER. II
II, London recruiting Offices crowded with
volunteers under the Lord Derby plan.
which was to end Dec. II.
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What's Your Resolution?

.- What's Your Resolution?
That swishing sound echoing through
out this fair and happy land is the
busting of the New Years resolution.
Here's what we purpose doing:
Save money-perhaps
Stop smoking-maybe.
Quit swearing-we hope so.
Become so good that-not SO we can
notice it:
What is your resolution for the new
year?-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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: POLITICAL AND PERSONAL :


JANUARY.
II. President Wilson's\ daughter, Mrs.
Sayre, gave birth to son in the
White House.
g. President Wilson vetoed the immigra-
ton bill.
4. The Sixty-third congress closed.
IL. General Victorano Huerta arrived in
New York from Spain.
Il. Mrs. William Cumming Story re-elect-
FED president Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
4. Italy denounced the triple alliance, of
which she was a member, with Ger
many and Austria
Z. Japan delivered an ultimatum to Chi
ma demanding concessions.
s. China accepted Japan's demands with
out qualifications
II. President Wilson reviewed the fleet on
Hudson river.
Is. President Wilson proclaimed United
States neutrality in the war between
Italy and Austria-Hungary.
Japan and China signed treaties to car
ry out Japan's demands.
JUNE.
z British Field Marshal Kitchener dec
Grated with the Garter. Gilbert Par
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JULY. General Won Mack
5. Germans again ensen'
captured the post of Przasnysz, 50
miles north Of Warsaw
o. Austrians captured Radon. ST miles
south of Warsaw.
y AUGUST.
5. German army captured Warsaw, after
campaign which lasted over eight
months. The Russian garrison re-
treated east of the Vistula.
3. General Won Mackensen's German
troops captured Siedlce. cutting the
Warsaw-Moscow railway.
3. Novo Georgievsk, the second greatest
Russian fortress in Poland, with it's
garrison, estimated at from 10000 to
$1,000 men, captured by General Won
Beseler's German army.
SEPTEMBER
4. Germans captured Grodno and ad-
vanced on Riga.
NOVEMBER.
8. Germans abandoned important posi-
lions in front Of Riga.
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A Presidents New Year Task.

At one New Year day reception in
the White House President Taft shook
hands with 5,575 visitors in, three
hours. This is about the rate of one
person every two seconds. President
Roosevelt once shook hands with 6,O53
visitors in two hours and thirty min
utes, but his greatest record was in
LOG, when he shook hands with 9,O52
persons in two hours and forty-four
minutes. or at the rate of one person
q second.
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Herman Rid
der, German
American edi-
tor, in New
York; aged GA.
B o ok er II.
w a shington,
n e g 70 leader
and educator,
at Tuskeegee,
Ala; aged 81.
Susan E. Dick
lnson, journal
ist, at Scran-
ton, Pa; aged
"a.
DR.. Solomon
Schechter, not
ed authority on
the II e b r e W
Scriptures, in
N e W Y or k;
aged &c,
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rard IN Berlin. pro-
testing against sub
marining oce a n
liners.
Yaqui Indians de-
clared war on the
U n / t e d States.
Fleet ordered to
sail for Lower Cal
ifornia to protect
Americans.
Harry K. Thaw
granted a jury trial
to test his sanity.
The Arizona battle.
ship, biggest United
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OCTOBER.

W y
Pan = American
cOnferees voted
to recommend
t h e Carranza
party in Mexico
as the de facto
government.
T h g U / t e d
States. Brazil,
Chile, Argenti-
ma, Guatemala,
Bolivia, Uru-
quay, Colombia
and Nicaragua
formally recog-
nized Gen. Car
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Come in, new year, come in!
Tighten tho footstep in the furrow;
Soften every pang Of sorrow;
Soothe the brow that is ever aching;
Comfort the heart that with pain is
breaking.
~ Come in. new year, come in!
Come in, new year, come in!
Deal gently with those that wander
From the fold Of the Good Shepherd.
With tho bread Of life, oh, feed them,
And in the light, oh, kindly lead them !
Come in. new year, come in!
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THE YEARS DEATH ROLL,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

JANUARY "
2. J. M. Wright, civil war veteran and
military annalist, in Washington
b. Il. w. Shurtleff, civil war veteran and
noted artist, in New York; aged rs.
III. Marshall p. Wilder, humorist and au-
thor, at st. Paul, Mimi; aged IS.
IL. Mrs. John Wood, once noted actress
on the English-American stage, in
England: aged 80.
II. Gen. A. M. stoessel noted in the de-
tense Of Port Arthur in 1904-5, at Pet
'rograd; aged 81.
IL. Gen. G. H. Tompkins, u S. A., re-
tired in Washington; aged "a.
l9. Col. j. A. Joyce, Federal veteran, au-
thor and poet, in Washington; aged rs.
6. B. rockingham, noted light opera
star, at Burlington, VT; aged Is.
FEBRUARY.
4. Alban j. Conant veteran artist, in
New York city; aged 90.
IL. James Creelman noted Journalist, in
Fanny Crosby, blind hymn writer, in
Bridgeport, Conn.
ID. Simon Brentano, head Of noted New
York firm Of booksellers in New York
city; aged IS.
20. Frank Fuller, war governor Of Utah
under Lincoln, in New York city;
IA. Samuel Bowles, editor and publisher
of the Springfield Republican,, at
Springfield, Mass; aged 3d.
20. Charles Francis Adams, historian and
publicist, in Washington; aged 80.
"a. Mary Ann Jackson, widow Of Gen. T.
J. (StonewalD Jackson, at Charlotte,
N. c.; aged a. -,...
6. Curtis Guild. statesman and diplomat
In Boston; aged S.
Z. F. Hopkinson Smith, author and ar
tist in New York city; aged rs.
49, w. R. Nelson, editor Kansas City
Star, in that city; aged a.
Is. Ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury. of Vermont,
at Burlington; aged II. .
16. Nelson w. Aldrich, former senator
from Rhode Island, in New York city;
aged 73 [
Is. Frederick w. Seward son Of secre-
tary Of State w. H. Seward and who
was wounded in defending his father
when attacked April H. 1865, at Mon
trose. N. Y; aged SO.
.... .. MAY.
2. Olive Harper, author and translator,
in Philadelphia: aged 70.
81. John w. Alexander, portrait artist,
former president Of the National
Academy of Design, in New York
city; aged &c.
-... ~. a JUNE. -r.
70. Gen. E. L. Molineux, noted civil war
officer, in New York city; aged g.
b. Col. c. E. Woodruff, U. S. A., noted
surgeon and anthropologist, in New
Rochelle, N. Y; aged 65.
o. Rafael Joseffy, celebrated pianist, in
New York city; aged 63.
a. Ellen Hardin Walworth, historical
writer, prominent in the D. A. R. in
/. Washington; aged a.
%. O'Donovan Rosa Jeremiah O'Dono-
van), Irish patriot leader, in New
York city; aged a.
JULY.
2 Cen. Porfirio Diaz, former president
OF Mexico after
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9. Robert Lansing appointed secretary Of
state ad interim. #
II. Political revolt against President
Guillaume Of Haiti to avenge the exc
cution of 160 political prisoners. Gull
laume took refuge in the French le-
cation.
AUGUST.
2. Germany refused to consider the w.
P. Frye damage case a matter for
negotiations with the United States.
Great Britain insisted upon her pol
icy of restricting neutral trade with
Germany.
6. United States forces took forcible pos
session Of Port au Prince: resisting
Haitians fired upon.
10. United States declined to put an en-
barge on the sale Of munitions to
belligerents and agreed to accept pay
from Germany for the sinking Of the
ship Frye.
u. Haiti elected Dartiguenave president /
sEPTEMBER.
IL. Naval advisory board appointed, with
Thomas A. Edison chairman.
rs. The United States recognized the new
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JUNE.

Germans, led by
G e n er al Won
Ma.ckensen, re.
captured Prem
y 81, G alicia,
which the Rus
slams had occu-
pied March %,
after a siege Of
20 days.
Lemberg, Cali
= cha, recaptured
by Austriansaft-
er ten months
occupation by
Russians.
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FIELD OF SPORTS.
APRIL.
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Az II
+. Jess VILLA I'd
defeated J a. c k
Johnson in Is
rounds at Ha-
vana, Cuba.
. League baseball
season opened.
JUNE.
J. Walter J. Travis
won his fourth
Metropolitan golf
CHI a pions hip,
defeating J. G..
Anderson 2 up In
the final, at Rye,
N. Y.
i. Women's nation
al tennis cham
pionship won by
Molla Bjurstedt
at Phi1o1o1rbio
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ker, the novelist,
created a baron.
General Bennett
H. Young re-elect-
ed commander in
chief United Con-
federate Veter-
ans.
'nited States petit
ton to dissolve
the United States
Steel, corporation
denied by court
of appeals.
William Jennings
Bryan resigned
the portfolio Of
state in Wilson'S
N.H.. L.
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rama head Of the de facto govern
ment at Mexico.
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Photo by American
Press Association.
Robert Lansing.
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2 British Field Marshal Kitchener dec
Grated with the Garter. Gilbert Par
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-17

1ht8 &ftIHA
The National Geographic Society, oi
Washington. has issued the following
Interesting bulletin on sharks. the
reading OF which is most timely:
The tragic depredattons OF man-eat.
ing sharks along the Atlantic seaboard
lend an especially timely interest to
a communication from DR.. Hugh NJ
Smith, the foremost American author
ity on fishes, addressed to the Ma.
tional Geographic Society and releas
ed today as a bulletin.
When giant fishes are mentioned
most people will at once think Of the
shark. among which, indeed, are found
the largest fish now existing" writes
MIR. Smith. OF the many e~species Of
sharks noteworthy on account Of their
size there are about half a dozen
which are prominent. These differ
much in their disposition, some be
ing as harmless as doves and others
the incarnation of ferocity.
The sleeper shark (sommiosus
microcephalus), whose scientific name
hts 1T 50 admirably. appears to have
developed its body at the OF
Its brains for it is a sluggish. stupid
glutton, about six times as long as an
average man. At home in the Arctic
regions, it sometimes makes visits as
Isles and Oregon, 1t is most often OBJ.
served lying quietly on the surface,
apparently doing and easily an,
proach, but at times, when hungry, it
rouses itself and ~iereely attacks
whales, biting huge pieces out of their
sides n tails and when feeding on
the of a whale which has
been killed by hunters it is so vora-
eious that it permits spears and
knives to be thrust into it without
seeming to take any notice.
One of the most prodigious and
perhaps the most formidable of all
sharks is the 'man-eater' (Carharodon
c~archarias). 1t roams through all
temperate and tropical seas and ey.
erywhere is an object of dread. It's
maximum length is 40 feet and its
teeth are three inches long, While
there are few authentic instances OF
SHARKS attacking human beings (prior
to the recent tragedies), there have
undoubtedly been many cases where
sharks simply swallowed people who
had fallen overheard. just as .they
would swallow any other food. How
easy it would be for a man-aater to
devour a person whole may be judged
from the finding of an entire hundred.
pound sea lion in the stomach of a
30-foot shark On the California coast.
A certain man-eater 36A feet long
had jaws 20 inches wide, inside meas