Ball of lunatics at the Asylum, Blackwell's Island, East River, N. Y.
Such is Boston morality and such is woman's fidelity.
Burning of Steamers on the Ohio River at Cincinnati May 17, 1869.
Scene in a velocipede riding-school, New York City.
On the Beach at Newport, Rhode Island.
Great baseball match between the Atlantic and Boxford Clubs of Brooklyn.
In consequence of the new liquor law, this is the ingenious manner in which a worthy teuton friend of ours takes his family out for their Sunday rambles.
With open mouths and protruding tusks, they warn the intruder agents too near an approach.
One of the most thrilling disasters at sea that has happened for many years.
An extraordinary account of a mathematician, mechanician, and musician named Alix.
Startling accident at the draw bridge of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, Federal Street, Troy, N. Y., Saturday, Sept 23.
Traveling through fire—Fearful peril of a railway train, at Cedar Swamp, on the Eastern Railroad, Maine, Sunday, Sept. 17
An employee of the Boston Gas Works boasted his ability to kill a rat with his teeth.
Styles for the Month.
The original and daring aerial representation by Thomas Hanlon, now performed by him every evening at Niblo's Garden.
Mdlle. Carlotta de Berg, at the New York Circus, Fourteenth Street.
Faahee, or surf-swimming, is a favorite pastime with the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
We give in our present number a correct sketch of one of the largest specimens of the Porpoise that has ever been seen.
A simple schoolgirl prank spawned a new belief with millions of followers.
Kate Warne, America’s first female detective.
The Eye that Never Sleeps.
Cardiff, New York, October 16, 1869.
One of the most deplorable features of the skating rink boom is that many of the worst of the concert gardens and dance houses in and near the Bowery have been turned into rinks, wherein the skating has all the evil environment characteristic of the places.
The interior of one of the ten•cent skating rinks in Chatham Square was formerly used as a low dance hall. A visit the other night showed that the tables and chairs for drinkers remained in place; so did the placards relating to beverages, along with fresh ones, stating the rental prices of skates; and the bar held its accustomed place in a front corner, while on a platform a pianist and cornetist made unimproved music. The girls who formerly danced and drank with the visitors who would let them, now had roller skates on their feet, but the bibulous customs of the resort remained undisturbed. There were two fellows who did fanciful and grotesque skating, and were seemingly employes, beside a dozen who apparently skated for fun, but most of the men in the assemblage were spectators of the girls' feats, some of which were gymnastic in character. The most graceful of these was a swift approach to the bar, a short stop in front of it, and then a gliding off with the hands beer-laden. The most popular, however, was a fall, provided it had spontaneity, and seemed to hurt the faller. It has been suggested as a good measure of reform in the roller skating business that teachers employed in the rinks be ladies instead of gentlemen.
Illustrated Police News, May 16, 1885.


