Opening out of the ticket office is Sunset Theater, a replica of The Little Theater, in New York City, where stereopticon scenes and motion pictures are presented. The company has engaged lecturers, and their talks are interspersed with musical selections rendered on the great Kimball pipe organ.
It’s Fish, Snake, or Lizard.
A strange creature, presenting anatomical characteristics which might be attributed to fish, snake, or lizard, has been placed on exhibition in a business house in Bicknell, Ind. No one has found a name that seems to fit the animal, or reptile, which was caught by Grant Hooper and Carl York, fishermen.
The body of the creature is twelve inches long, and in shape resembles the old-fashioned four-cornered dart kite. The head, in form, is like a snake’s, but the resemblance ends there, for four sharp tusks protrude from the mouth. Apparently the creature breathes through gills similar to those of a fish. The horns and ears, which follow closely the forms of the human ear, give a peculiar appearance to the head. The skin or hide is black and white in color.
Big Gun Crumples Car.
So heavy is a great fourteen-inch gun just completed, to guard New York City from hostile attack, that it broke down one of the two flat cars conveying it along the West Shore Railroad, near Cornwall, on its way to Sandy Hook, to be mounted.
It is said to be the most powerful fourteen-inch gun ever made. It was on its way from Watervliet Arsenal when the journal of one of the cars, overtaxed by its excessive weight, wore out and had to be replaced. The gun extends almost the length of the two cars, the breech resting on the rear one.
Old Man Hangs Up a Walking Record.
Becoming peeved over the fact that the Big Four Railroad did not have a train scheduled to leave at a time when he desired to return to his home, Benjamin Yentzer hung up a walking record for one of his age. Although eighty-seven, he walked from Tiffin to Adrian, Ohio, twelve miles, and made the journey in two hours. He was feeling fine at the end of the walk, too.