Shark, Earthquake, Poisoning, and Fire
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Shark, Earthquake, Poisoning, and Fire
At Lewes, Delaware, September 2, a silk parasol entire was recovered from the stomach of a huge shark caught by the Government light-ship. It has been claimed by Laura Dorsey, of Saugatuck, Connecticut. She dropped it overboard from a Long Island Sound steamer early in the summer, and it was identified by a monogram on the handle. It would seem as tho men might believe the story of Jonah. Quite a severe earthquake shock occurred in Southern Alaska, according to a despatch from Seattle dated September 21. This was recorded on the seismograph of the university at Washington, the perturbations continuing there for sixty-three minutes. The New York "World" records in three days nineteen deaths from mushroom poisoning and thirty persons critically ill, and incidentally mentions that there are one thousand varieties of mushrooms, three hundred of which are not safe. A $50,000 fire destroyed the big printing plant of Francis Valentine & Company in San Francisco September 15.