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porpoises Por poles in nw new york harbor new york harbor was treated to a strange visitation one night recently A school of numbering cum bering as many as and headed by a venerable patriarch in gray whiskers swam in took a leisurely survey ct their sur rounding soundings roun dings s and then returned to the open something for which the oldest inhabitant could chuh recall no precedent says the boston transcript the visitors camo came in through the hie new ambrose ambroge deep water channel perhaps they assumed that it had been prepared expressly for their accommodation at any rate they seemed to approve of it this phenomenon occurred on en the night which a soothsayer had appointed for the submergence of 0 manhattan by a tidal wave hut dut the skeptical public did not take alarm on the contrary the old eld water wa termen Llen said it betolie betokened ned flee fine sea weather |