On the St. Lawrence River.
Two female athletes at Virginia city Nevada, indulge in a wrestling match for the championship.
How a Doctor Kept a Morphine Fiend from Killing Him With a Long-Bladed Surgical Instrument.
A ruffianly brawl at Haman's Hotel, Greensburg, Ind.
Alleged bout between Annie Russell and Elizabeth Sullivan, two pretty clerks in a Buffalo, N. Y.
An Irishman and a Yankee Settle a Dispute Across the Breakfast Table at their Boarding House in New York.
Bayonets and Knives—A Sister’s Influence and Prevention of Murder.
Two of the charming girls who pose as "living pictures" in Rice's "1492" have a wordy war, which ends in a hand-to-hand conflict.
Pete Baker thrashes H. J. Jenkins for trying to flirt with the actor’s daughter in Dayton, O.
Miss Sallie Utterback, of Shoals, Near Vincennes, Indiana, knocks out a man with a waggin' tongue.
Two Little Gem Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y., Soubrettes have a scrap on account of a man.

Lafayette, Ind., Girls Enjoying their Daily Bath in the River—An Inducement for Young Men to Go West.
The Lafayette (Ind.) papers are complaining in right earnest because troops of girls go swimming in conspicuous places in the river near that town. Many people suppose the paragraph is probably merely a device of Lafayette newspapers to draw the attention of clergymen on vacations and other pleasure seekers to the charms of Lafayette as a watering place, but the journalist do not exaggerate the matter at all, as we are reliably informed that any fair day, scores of beautiful maidens enjoy a bath, regardless of the comment of the admiring crowds who watch their movements from the shore.
Illustrated Police News, August 8, 1873.


