The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-11-13

the aged philanthropist, who cheer
fully paid 1t, as the jury on a former
trial disagreed, and he came near be-
ing mulcted in ten times the sum for
damages.
The reporter goes on reporting.
When the celebrated case of TiltOp
against Beecher was being trie,i, a
Sun reporter discovered, through an
evasive answer to q question he put to
one of Beccher's counsel, that an at
tempt was going to he made to prevent
Theodore TiltOn from testifying in his
own behalf. Austin Abbott, tireless
legal bOOk-wOrn, had found law.
which William NJ. Evarts was to ex-
pound. 1t was designed to complete
ly surprise the opposite counsel, and
to Overwhelm them with the Abbott
collection of legal Precedents, and
Evarts' serpentine sentences. The in
timatiOn, the first received, was
given to Gen. Roger A. Pryor, in
return for a kindness previously done,
and he labOred night and day in his
library, and prepared the argument
which demolished Evarts' speech. and
destroyed the plan to keep the plaintiff
from telling his grievance under oath.
The Greenland Whale and the Grampus.
A late number of the Scientific
american contains an engraving rep
resenting combat between the Green
land whale (Bdtsgad Baystic,ss) and the
grampus (Deil1hin.s grdmpus). the
most vOraciOIs of the inhabitants Of
the ocean. Ii does not devOur one
third Of the animals it kills. 1t is the
greatest enemy of the whale, and dead
bodies of whales have frequently been
found having large pieces Of flesh torn
from the body, and the lips mutiIated
or destroyed. As soon rs the whale
opens its mouth to defend itself the
grampus darts at its large soft tongue,
tears it of, and causes the death of the
animal.
1t is said that the grampuses are
fond of amusing Themselves by mob
bling the Greenland whale, and that
they prosecute it by leaping out of the
water and striking it sharply with
their tails as they descend. In cOnse-
quence of this it has been called the
thrasher or killer. The swOrdfish is
reported to join the thrasher in the
amusement, and to attack the whale
from below to prevent it from diving.
Whatever may be said of the latter
part of the story, the former is certain
ly true, and is cOrrObOrated by Capt.
Scott, who has often seen this strange
sight.
The grampus is from twenty to
thirty feet in length and from ten 10
twelve feet in girth. 1t has fnrty-four
conicai, strongly made, and slightly
carved teeth. Its color is black on the
upper part of the body, suddenly
changing to white on the abdomen
and part Of he sides, and there is gem
orally a white patch of considerable
size behind the eyelid.
Although it sometimes wander5 to
more southern regions, its favored
home Is in the northern seas that wash
the coast of Greenland and Spitzber-
gen, where II cOngregates i'm small
herds.
The Greenland whale, northern
whale, or right whale, as it is inditf1r-
iy termed, is All inlabitant Of the
northern seas. 1t is. when full grown
about sixty or seventy feet in length.
and its girth about thirty or forty feet
Its color is veivety black upon the up
per part of the body, the fins, and the
tail; gray upon the junction Of the
tail with the body and at the base of
the fins, and white upon the abdomen
and fore par. of the lower jaw. The
velvety aspect of the body is caused by
the oil which eXudes from the epider-
mis-, and aids i'm destroying the fric-
ton of the water. The jaw opens very
far back, and in Il large whale is about
sixteen feet in length, seven feet wide,
and ten or twelve feet i'm height. The
most curious part Of the jaw and its
structure IL the remarkable substance
that is popularity known as whalcbOne,
which is found i'm series of plates,
thick and solid mt the insertion into
the jaw, and splitting ut the extremity
into multitude OF hair-like fringes.
On each side of the jaw there are more
than three hundred of these plates,
which, i'm fine specimen, are about
ten or twelve feet long and eleven
inches wide mt the base. A large
whale furnishes about one ton Of
whalebOne. These masses of whale
bone are placed along the sides of the
mouth for the purpose OF aiding the
whale In procuring food and seDarat-
ing II from the waiet.