Aquatic Sport on the Virginia Coast.
Wheelers break records in the six-day contest in Madison Square Garden, New York.
Puck's American Phrenological Chart for the Season.
Two female athletes at Virginia City, Nevada, indulge in a wrestling match for the championship.
Great baseball match between the Atlantic and Boxford Clubs of Brooklyn.
"Who wants to pway me a couple of wattling stwong games?"
Athletics
John Walters, of Richmond, Indiana becomes a victim of his love for the national game.
Winter Pastime – A Skating Scene.
The great game recently played between teams representing the colleges of Princeton and Yale, on the former's grounds, Thanksgiving Day.
Perhaps the most successful bicycle tournament ever held in this country was that which opened at Springfield, Mass., on Tuesday, September 18th, 1883, and continued for three days.
Yachting.
Winter sports in the metropolis—a skating scene in Central Park.
Water witches who frolic with Neptune, no matter how cold his embrace.
Cigarette cards, 1880s, 1890s

Upon her approach, her sister, a large masculine woman, fired at the monster, and put a ball through his head; but such is the abstract ferocity of these animals that he did not let go his hold, until her daughter had put a rifle ball through him, and her sister shot him in the head with her pistol, when he relinquished his hold and fell to the ground, where he yelled and rolled about till a man finished him with an axe. The poor woman fainted and fell from loss of blood. She has borne into the house, and her wounds were carefully dressed; but it was several months before she was able to attend to her ordinary occupation.
Davy Crockett's Almanack, 1838 Vol 1. No. 4.


