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Caption: Sophograph - 1889
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* ewPUrs. The latest college yell—"Hi Hi! Hi 1 Hi! " M. E to C. E.—" Say, Bill, do you know in what part of the Bible that remark, Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace/ occurs?" C. E.—" If I remember rightly, John, it is in the first epistle of Patrick Henry to the Americanos." Prep, to Senior.—"Ah there! what makes you look so tough this morning?" Senior.—"Just got home from Urbana, you poor, little fool." Why is an oyster-dealer like a suction pump? Because he works bi valves. A good question for debate—" Is a man hatching chickens with an incubator a manufacturer?" A STRANGE FISH. In the warm waters of the Indian ocean, sailors say, a strange fish, is found that has given rise to many curious tales among the natives of the coast. They tell of a great sail often seen in the calm season preceeding the hurricanes that race over those waters. Not a breath disturbs the water, the sea rises and falls like a sheet of glass; suddenly the sail appears, glistening with rich purple and golden hues, and seemingly driven along by the wind. On it comes, quivering and sparkling, as if bedecked with gems, but only to disappear as if I magic. Many travelers had heard with unbelief this strange tale but one da toward evening the phantom craft actually appeared to the crew of an Indian steamer, and as it passed by under the stern of the vessel, the queer "sail" was seen to belong to a gigantic sword-fish, now known as the sailor-fish. The sail was an enormously developed dorsal fin that was o i ten feet high, ml wi richly colored with blue and iridescent tints; and as the fish swain long near the surface of the water, this fin waved to and fro, so that it »uld eas mistaken for a curious sail. A it approached the st mei a light featl i\ was emitted at regular intervals from the head, a 1 as no two could agree upon the cause of this phenonemon, the captain leveled his unfailing telescope upon it, and discovered, to the amusement of every one, that the fish was nail smok % one of Allen & iter's K hmond traighl ( ut (No, i ' uett
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