That's What It Was To Do, but It Escapes and
Astonishes Folks in Oceanic, N. J.
DRIFTS UP THE SHREWSBURY
IT WILL CRAWL FIVE MILES WITHOUT COMING UP TO BREATHE
WHEN INVENTOR LAKE COMPLETES IT. FUN
FOR MERRY MERMEN.
"Red Bank, N. J., Jan. 8, 1895.—Strange things come in with the tide in the ungodly hours of the night, and in the stillness of the night strange things follow them, but the strange thing which came up the North Shrewsbury a day or two ago, and which lies high and dry on Barley Point, is a 'new one' on the good folk of Oceanic. Now that they have fairly discovered it, they are sorry that it didn't wobble ashore in the summer, when Normandie-by-the-Sea below the Point is crowded with curious persons from the city. Any enterprising Oceanic man might have fenced in the queer thing and charged every one a quarter to see it."