Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — How A Swordfish Can Fight. [ARTICLE]

How A Swordfish Can Fight.

Captain Amery, of the schooner Origin, which has arrived at Plymouth from Labrador with fish, reported that while on the outward voyage from England the vessel was attacked by a swordfish, whose sword penetrated the hull and broke off ns the fish attempted to withdraw it. The fish then turned several somersaults and disappeared, as if either stunned or killed by the force of tlis shook. The left in the side of the ship measured eighteen inches. Before Newfoundland was reached the vessel made oVer a foot of water, and the crew are of opinion that if the fish had succeeded in withdrawing its sword the vessel would have foundered. —[London Daily News. About one-fifth of the whole number of Gotham’* eriminUa »ro women.