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Second St., Next to Hospital
Real Alaska Jewelry
can be had at Osborne Bros., Manufacturing Jewelers, who make jew
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MAN-EATERS IS
NOW AT HAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 27.—As
the “open season” for sharks ap
proaches, South American liners ar
riving in New York report the sight
ing of these monsters, a fact which
lends interest to the following commu
nication to the National Geographic
Society by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, emi
nent authority on fish:
“When great fish are mentioned
most people will at once think of the
shark, among which, indeed, are
found the largest fish now existing,”
writes Dr. Smith. “Of the many species
of the sharks noteworthy on account
of their size there are about half a
dozen which are pre-eminent. Theso
differ much in their disposition, some
being as harmless as doves and others
the incarnation of ferocity.
“The sleeper shark (comniosus mi
crocephalus). whose scientific name
fits so admirably, appears to have de
veloped its body at the expense of its
brain, for it is a sluggish, stupid glut
ton, about six times as long as an
average man. At home in the Arctic
regions, it sometimes visits as far
south as Cape Cod, British Isles and
Oregon. It is most often observed
lying quietly on the surface, apparent
ly dozing and easily approached, but
at times, when hungry, it rouses it
self and fiercely attacks whales, bit
ing huge pieces out of their sides and
tails, and when feeding on the car
cass of a whale which has been killed
by hunters it is so voracious that it
permits spears and knives to be thrust
into it without seeming to take any
notice.
i une ot the most prodigious and
i perhaps the most formidable of the
sharks is the ‘man eater’ (carcharo
don carcharias). It roams through all
temperate and tropical seas and every
where is an object of dread. Its max
imum length is 40 feet and its teeth
are three inches long. While there are
few authentic instances of sharks at
tacking human beings (prior to the
recent tragedies), there have un
doubtedly been many cases where
sharks simply swallowed people who
had fallen overboard, just as they
would swallow any other food. How
easy it would be for a man-eater to j
devour a person whole may be judged
from the finding of an entire 100
pound sealion in the stomach of a 30
foot shark on the Calaifornian coast.
“A man-eater 36% feet long had
jaws 20 inches wide, inside measure,
and teeth 2% inches long. This may
have been the ‘great fish’ of the
scripture narative, and it is possible I
that at that time much larger man
eaters existed than are now known,
as shark teeth with cutting edges!
five inches long have been found cn
the sea-bottom, and these are believed
“ by naturalists to have belonged to
sharks not long dead. The phosphate
beds of South Carolina yield very
large fossil teeth of sharks which are
related to the man-eater of the pres
ent day—judging from the compara
tive size of these teeth. Professor
Goode thought that sharks 70 and 80
feet long must have been common.
“Many years ago a Narwegian bish
op in a learned paper brought to the
attention of the scientific and theo
logical world a shark which he at
tempted to prove must have been the
’great fish’ that swallowed Jonah.
This was the basking shark (cetorhi
nu maximus), known .also as the ele
phant or bone shark, which is an in
habitant of the polar seas, but oc
casionally strays as far south as Vir
ginia or California, and in former
years was not very rare in the United
States and British coasts. The species
has the habit at times of collecting
in schools at the surface and basking
in the sun with its back partly oat of
water.
“It reaches a maximum length of &0
feet, and is exceededi?TsTz^b^onTy
three or four animals extant. Pro
vided with small teeth, it feeds on
fishes and floating crustaceans., and
is not of a ferocious disposition. It
is dangerous only by virtue of its
great bulk and when attacked its
powerful tail easily demolishes boats.
“In former years the basking shark
was hunted for its oil on the coast of
Norway and Ireland; it was also har
pooned on the shores of Massachu- •
setts in the early part of the last
century, and as many as 12 barrels of
oil were sometimes obtained from the
liver of one shark. There are many
records of basking sharks 25 to 38
feet long, from the coasts of New
York, Massachusetts and Maine, but
the species has not been common in
our waters in recent years.
“The largest of all fish, the largest
of all cold-blooded animals and the
largest of all existing animals, with
the exception of a few species of
whales, is the whale shark (rhine
odon typicus). originally described
from Good Hope, but now known from
India, Japan, South America, Panama,
California and various other places, a
small specimen having been obtained
on the Florida coast a few years ago.
This shark has a very broad and ob
tuse snout, and an exceedingly wide
mouth armed with numerous minute
teeth; the dark-colored body is
marked with many small, whitish
spots.
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length of 70 feet, and is known to ex
ceed 50 feet. Notwithstanding its
immense size, however, it is harmless
to man, unless attacked, and feeds on
the small creatures for which its
teeth are adapted. Its huge bulk
makes it dangerous in the same way
that a whale is dangerous. Years ago
it was reported that the sperm whale
fishermen on the island of Saint
Denis in the Indian ocean dreaded
to harpoon a whale shark by mistake,
and stories are told of a harpooned
fish, having by a lightning-like dive
exhausted the supply of rope which
had been accidentally fastened to the
boat, dived deeper still, and so pulled
the boat and crew to the bottom.”
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