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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11

Told by the Owner of the Fish Which Trav-
eled Over the Country by Rail.


When they first took the whale it was on
the point of being cut up by some fishermen
who had just found it floating dead in Cape
Cod bay. The idea was to make show of it
In Boston, but IL was soon decided that such
a show would not be of long enough contin-
uance, and the embalmlng process was de
clded upon. 1t was not a success, $50, says
with spades We dug his inside out and
sold the blubber and scraped the skin off
clean on the inside Then we threw into
him tons of lime and pounds of arsenic,
bales of hay, brickbats, everything to make
him full, deodOrize him, and give
him weight. Outside of him we put
on fine linen cover, very strong
not sewed, but pasted, and when
this was done we had complete whale. We
put him on a car about fifty-five feet long,
and, with a train of one sleeping-car and a
baggage van, we started. About the first
stop we made was Washington. Well we
brought our embalmed whale right under
and got Professor Beard to come and see
HIM. We fooled him completely. The most
wonderful thing he ever saw. The minute
he said anything we had it down in our note
book, and when he went away we went down
to the newspaper offices and printed what he
had to say. We used to get doubters in,
with whom we made rule to get very much
offended Not always with success though.
If man would insist on touching him, we
would cry out My God, don't do that;
you will get poisoned sure; blood poison!'
For a time we made a good deal of
money, but the whale got very shaky. Riding
on the car he used to get shaken up very
much and break out in pieces, and you could
see the hay and dry goods boxes inside of
him. used to lay awake at night and won
der what l would do if the train went off the
track. Well, as soon as we would get to the
town we would patch him up with plaster of
paris and linen. 1t used to show but we
would say, when questioned, that that was
the place where the bomb struck. Finally
he got all over bomb wounds, and we had
TO say it was decay. Finally in New Or
leans, he wouldn't hold together any longer,
but we worked up a boom for him. We
got piece of muscle from an animal and
had it made into a circle about the size
cricket ball could go through. 1t was then
put in alcohol and exhibited as the size of
whales throat Then we got the preachers
to explaining how it was a miracle that
Jonah was swallowed by the whale, and it
didn't matter what kind of throat the whale
had, he could swallow whatever God willed.
I'VE used to get our strolling preachers
to give their discourses on Jonah and the
whale somewhere in the vicinity of the tent.
They used to do it, too. Finally the sheriff
got the whale, but he couldn't realize on
him"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11
Great Empires of the Earth.

London Echo
Appropos of the 'land-hunger" which APP
pears to be troubling more than one nation
at the present time few figures may be of
interest, The five principal nations of the
world at this moment in point of territory,
are the British, the Russian, the Chinese, the
Brazilian, and the United States, in the Or
der above mentioned The British Empire
according to the last edition of 'Whitaker'')
covers $685. 1T square miles of the earths
surface, Russia may be said to stand alone
with England in the first class of States en-
braeng large areas. Hers amounts to
1926, 1893 square miles. The Chinese En-
pire is said to cover, in round numbers
4,540, 900 square miles. For Brazil and the
United States the figures are, respectively,
3,2S8, 900 and 1909, 851 square miles With
respect to population the British Empire
still comes first, with 305. 400, 0oO the Chi
nese, according to the latest estimates would
come second, with about go, 100000; the
Rdssian'thir with 100038 ,342. The popu-
lation of the United States in 1888 is reck-
oned at so, 100000 In this particular race
Brazil is nowhere her population number
ing about 10, 100000. New Guinea is not in
cluded in the foregoing estimate OF the su-
perfices of the British Empire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11

good as those to be found in factory boarding
houses, and the women's rooms were tritle
more cheerful. and some primitive decora-
tions were visible. As instancing the social
Democracy of a quiet Massachusetts, town,
let me record the fact that in this poor-house
superintendent and matron sat down in the
same dinipg-room at the same table with
their charges, ate the same food and felt it
no disgrace. The food was simple but fairly
nourishing, and the matron's theory Of the
needfulness of pies and doughnuts was
carried out in practice. Bless her heart the
kind but misguided woman! Happy the
pie-fed paupers of Blanktown Let these
facts be copied by those cynical journals
which can find no kind word to say of Mas
sachusetts charities.
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PAUPERS AND PIE.
An Almshouse Which the Yankee Fondly
.t Believes Is Typical.
Letter in Boston Herald.

Letter in Boston Herald
l drove out to-day to a poor-house In the
peighborhood of this town, hoping to find q
typical, old-fashioned New England aims
house. l was not disappoint ted. The matron
whose name l refrain from giving at her re-
quest, had visited Tewksbury year ago, and
she was very anxious to see the full testi-
mony. When asked for her impressions of
the famous institution, she said: 81 shouldn't
like to be mixed up in the matter, but | am
free to say that | thought the old people
there were not kindly treated. An old
woman whom we called Molly went from
this poor-house to Tewksbury, and that was
what took me there. 1 wanted to see how
she was treated | really pitied poor old
Molly. When she was here we gave her tea
plenty of milk, butter on her bread, and
she had pie and doughnuts. You know
old folks set great store by piece
of pie or a doughnut. But l found
kind was permitted to be given to the old
folks, They told me, when said to them,
Aunt Molly has been used to tea and can't
live without it,, that no tea was served to the
women except in special cases. | saw that
they served sort of Cruel to the old people,
and at dinner there was kind Of meat and
fish stew, not very reishable. Now here, al
though our fare is very plain, we give our
old people apiece of pie, and tea twice a day.
Old folks prefer such things to meat and
soup.ns -. -...,
All this the brisk matron, a wide-awake
New England woman, said in earnest fash
jon. 1t was quite pathetic, her Yankee en-
'phasis on the desrabiity of pies and dough
nuts as articles of food. She honestly felt
that, without doughnuts and tea and gen
erous slice of pie, life would be a burden,
even to pauper.
"And what became of Aunt Molly, with
out her pie and tea-did she die?" l asked.
81 hear that she did" was the matror's re-
ply. 81 told 'em she couldn't live on cruel
alone"
And then the kind soul expressed her wish
to go to Tewksbury and bake enough pies to
give every one of 900 inmates a good big
slice, Just for oncel Who shall say that Pie,
with capital up" has no hold on the allec-
tions of our people?
An aged man. sitting near at hand on q
bench, heard the matron talk, and nodded
approval of her sentiments. He and the rest
OF her pauper family looked well fed, and |
made an impromptu investigation of the
premises. The poorhouse was a large two
btory house, with big l.. II had been the
house OF wealthy farmer before
being converted into an almshouse.
The rooms were spacious and lighted
with quaint little panes Of glass. The rooms
Tor the male paupere were clean, the beds as
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a Cool Tramp and Cool Maiden.

Elmira Advertiser.
A well-known printers family met with a
singular experience on Monday. The daugh-
ter answered knock at the door An old
tramp asked for "a bite" She didt like his
looks and told him so. and he left. Shortly
after his disappearance neighbours daughter
came in and told the printers daughter that
the latter's clothes IAN entire washing) had
just been stolen by the man she had turned
from the door, that he had taken them all
down and done them up in bundle before
asking for the bite, and lugged them off at
his leisure. The two young ladies started
in pursuit. At the Southport depot they
learned that the bundle and the man went
down the railroad. They followed and soon
overlook him.
1--WE want those clothes you stole from
usl" said the printers daughter.
HIM! Well, l don't know but you can
have EN-" said he coolly turning over the
bundle.
''There's a shirt or wrapper missing" said
she, after looking them over; NOW, what
have you done with that"
''Got it on!'' said the tramp, opening his
vest to prove it.
well, off with it, them" said the plucky
maiden.
What! here?'
The maiden paused in predicament.
A gentleman friend was near and she
hailed him, telling him about the trouble.
The gentleman friend took the tramp into
the bushes near the engine-works and got the
shirt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11
PULITZER'S PLANS.
The Kind of Paper He Proposes to Make
the New York World.

Interview with Gath.
l saw Joseph Pulitzer, to-day. Said he: 81
suppose you want to know about the pur-
chase OF the World newspaper. Well, come
along and sit down somewhere, and you shall
have the first news. presume have bought
it, and that 1 will be in control tomorrow,
Thursday. 1 understand that Mr.. Hurlbert
will announce the sale tomorrow. am not
yet in possession, so 1 will go no furthur
than that"
What do you estimate the Associated
Press franchise to be WORTH"
For paper of that class and in this city,
1T is worth great deal of money, [ believe.
L considered it to be so in making the pur-
chase. regard the growth of the city as sure
to be enormous In the home of the Asso-
ciated Press place init is of consideration, if
anywhere
Shall you publish the Morning Journal
now from the World Officer"
mot at all. have nothing to do with the
Morning Journal, except that 1 lent my
brother some money, or put some money in
his paper The World will be the only news
paper issued from its office, or in any way
connected with it."
Are you going to make personal changes
there2 -
Gas vet, know very little of the inside of
that office. am going, however, to make it
an American newspaper and not European
one. l shall notice European events only as
American references. The aristocracy of
Europe shall not find the World a court
journal for them. Indeed l am rejecting
about calling the paper the New World, to
emphasize its Western tone and change. Yet
such a compound word may be an embar-
rassment to quote from it. l wish the paper
to be understood Immediately as not con-
trolled by any corporation, capital, or social
aristocracy. To see two New York editors
capering at the Vanderbilt ball satisfied me
that the Democratic press here had got some
what fat and overfed. l shall take the popu-
lar standpoint, and publish a Democratic
paper yet an independent one. Democratic
monopolists and great millionaires shall not
be my gods"
81 suppose you will keep a correspondent
at all the aristocratic centers of Europe?'
About the first thing l shall get rid of
will be the Jennings letters from England,
and Whiteing's letters from France. L shall
publish paper for New York and the United
States"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11
"HANGMIAN, FOOTE.
How the MississippiaD Regretted His Hasty
Words to Hale.

Washington Correspondence Philadelphia Record.
Everybody knows that on day before the
war Senator Foote, of Mississippi, remarked
to Senator John P. Hale, of New Hampshire,
on the floor of the Senate, that if he should
repeat in Mississippi the abolition speeches
he was then making in the Senate, he would
be hanged to the nearest tree. And" went
on the hot-headed Mississppian, sin lieu of
anybody else, ! myself would act as hang
man." Perhaps everybody don't know that
Foote was sincerely sorry for his unfortunate
utteranccs THE words were scarcely out of
my mouth, he said, before l would have
given worlds to recall them. / saw at once
what an opportunity they gave my enemies
for merited castigation Next morning
when letters and notes of ali
sorts began to arrive, addressed to
'Hangman Foote, many of them containing
pictures of that person in the performance
of his ghostly duties, found my worst fears
realized. Then came the newspapers. never
heard the end of it. And all the time, after
had apologized to Hale, whom ! liked very
much, and he had forgiven ME, like the gem
erous, Jolly old soul that he was, | was on
the best of terms with him" 1t was Just after
Hale had forgiven Foote that a beautiful
girl came down from New Hampshire to beg
for the pardon of her brother, who had been
led by bad companions into the commission
of a crime, for which he was being punished
under the sentence of a Federal court. There
were extenuating circumstances, his parents
were old his health was bad, and the Judge
who tried him. the jury, the grand jury and
the district attorney put their names to the
petition that the brave sister carried to WASH
ington. She laid the facts before Senator
Hale, and implored him to intercede for the
boy. He told her that he had no influence with
the administration, and was therefore power
less to help her Nevertheless she came to
his room again and again on the same err
rand. Finally his heart was touched, and
he made it his business to see Senator Foote
of Mississippi, to whom he explained the
case. Now, Foote, said he, II know that
you're on excellent terms with Robert J.
Walker, the ecretary of the Treasury. Go
to him for me, and see if You can't get this
boy off" 'I'll go to-day" said the willing
penitent And he did. At the end OF Il
week Senator Hale placed the boys pardon
In the hands of his sister. Then he intro
dqced to her another gentleman, who was
quietly enjoying her joy. This is my
friend Senator Foote," said Hale. Hang
man Foote he's called up our way, 1t is to
him we owe your brothers pardon. When
you get back to New Hampshire tell them
that even the DEVILS not as black as he's
painted"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11

New YORK, May 1O.-The World of to-day
contains the following:
The undersigned has this day transferred to
MIR. Joseph Pulitzer, well known the founder
and editor of the st. Louis POst-Dispatch, the
entire control of the World newspaper, which
will be issued under Mr.. Pultzer's editorial
management on and after tomorrow morning,
May IL, 1888
Mr.. Pultzer's experience as a journalist, and
his loyalty and sound Democratic principles
warrant the confidence and good will with
which the undersigned cordially commends the
World under his direction to the public of New
York. WILLIAM HENRY HURLBERT,
NEW YORK, May 8, 1888,
Each member of the working force of the
World also received to-day circular from
Mr.. John Gilmer Speed, manager of the
World, informing him of the change in the
propretorship of the paper, and asking the
employees to remain in their present positions,
at Mr.. Pulitzer's request, for the present at
least
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Retrlbution.

ATnnT1 CONSTITUTION.
A strange affection has been visited upon
young man who resides in n town not
many miles from Atlanta. Several years ago
when he was boy he was accustomed to
passing through passenger trains that stopped
at his town and soliciting aims, representing
that he was a mute. He did so, not so much
to defraud as for the pleasure OF perpetrat-
ing Joke. lie is now in Atlanta for treat
ment for deafness and cannot hear word
that is spoken TO him. The deafness is due
to disease which attacked him while in
Texas some weeks ago. He spells on his
fingers as an ordinary deaf mute does
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11

be seen in the bench show. 1t would be
pleasant to know what the dogs think about
it. They certainly and obviously think some
thing for their bark is not an unmeaning
noise alone. On the contrary, degree OF
intelligent infection and significant empha-
sis is noted by all who listen with care. Some
OF the neghbors whose ears are filled with
black-and-tan bark are quite certain that the
dogs have a purpose in their madness, and
that purpose is determination to get as
square with the human race as possible, and
TO destroy all rest and comfort as far as they
can during the reign of the exhibition.
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Poor Qualifications, for Discussing Great
Evil.

A man who would whipsaw the ace and at
tempt to call the turn by putting Gas we have
often seen him) 81 (his weeks salary on q
card that was as dead as Thompson's colt, is
hardly the person to discuss this great ques-
ton inteligently.
Stockton (Cal. } Herald.
A. man who would LET his money (bor-
rowed from us) lie on the jack until said
jack has passed to the silent majority, and a
drunken check guerrilla appropriates the
swag, while the player, with his eye on an
other mans bet, fondly supposed he was
coppering the queen, enters this important
argument considerably handicapped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11
An Easy Way to Raise Strawberries.


A new self-tending strawberry bed is the
invention of Californian Fill with earth
any sort of barrel that has been bored we'll
all round with inch holes. Plant strawber-
ries in every hole and in the open top. root
downwards and top outwards. 1t is a great
success. 1t is quite ornate, and will keep for
several months in bearing. Every child can
have keg, or several can cultivate a half
barrel in common. besides industry and
economy, to say nothing of fun and health
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Ready for the Season,

New York Mail and Express.
Spurious Red Clouds and bogus Sitting
Bulls are congregating at Niagara Falls pre-
paratory to the opening of the season, and
will soon have all their bows and arrows and
bead knickknacks spread out on the grass for
sale at price higher than one can purchase
q real, live Indian for on the Mains
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To Our Patrons,

We say, while our loss by fire to-day is very
large, we were fortunate In saving a portion of
our patterns and shall replace those destroyed
as soon as possible. We have now on hand the
largest stock of stoves we ever had-Over A. ZOO
and can fill all orders without delay. We
shall have ready for the fall trade many new
novelties. Thanking all for former liberal pat
ronage. and soliciting continuance OF the same
we are yours truly.
INDIANAPOLIS STOVE COMPANY,
BY Deloss Root, President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11

DURKEE's Salad Dressing is the best thing oil
the kind ever sold With it superb salad of any
kind can be made without any delay or trouble
1t ia also one of the best sauces for cold meats.
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COUGH, blOod-spitting consumption, death
This Is the usual sequence. Avoid 10 by curn
the cough with Hale's Honey of HorehOund an
Tar
Pixies Toothaehe Drops cure in one minute.
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WELLS CROUCH on Corns." I5c. Ask for it
Complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bun
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CoRrCELLr Sewing Silk, smooth, strong, full
length.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-06-09

A WAY OUT OF A DLEMMA.-Cornt,y
man by Gosh, them saspenders air
too short. They pull my pants up so
tight I can't work my legs. Haven't
you got longer suspenders :"
Nose Schaurlburg Mine fren. you
wash mishdaken. Dose Subscribers
wash de longest kind-;mborted goots
You keeps dose subscribers. nnd shoost
you puys for dree toller uud a hallaf a
bair Of bants, vat comes down more on
der giound, und dot will fit dose imbor
ted braces."-Texas Siftings.
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| || H-
, The DEATH OF ToMpKINs' MOTHER.
The gentleman Of this city who was
SO absent minded that he put his UNI
brel!a to bed and stood in the corner
himself all night has furnished another
illustration of wool gathering. He
came home late the other evening. and
his wife asked him where he had been j..
''Been down to Tompkins, house /: his
mother is dead" said he, sleepily.
This was accepted as a sufficient exc use
at the time, but was hardly regarded as
such the next morning at the breakfast
table. when the wife alluded to poor
old Mrs. Tompkins. whats the mat
ter with her said Dreamthorp. paus.
ing. with his coffee cup half raised to
Ills mouth. why, she's dead. you ST,
~ fellow" answered ,his cis-a-v us. ais
she?" replied the unconscious hu ashland
''When did she die :"
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~ aL- |
Long before our present movement
to call insane asy!oms Hospitals for
Mental Diseases and to teach people
70 guard against insanity by avoiding
its approaches, Shakespeare put the
same idea into King Lear's exclama
ton ''Oh, that way madness lies /;
let NE shnn that And if men wouli
resolutely turn from self-torment,. re-.
fuse to dwell On disagreeable topics
and by right use of a healthy vii,
cast care aside and enter into action
there would be less insanity, and with
in the limits Of what we call sanity
there would be more happiness and con
tent. s..
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A Nsw SroRY or LlxCoLN.-When
Lincoln was practicing IN the old San
CANON Courthouse, in the days Of the
Old fashioned settles, q tall, slim lawyer.
noted for wearing n very short coat,
slid along on tho seat to he nearer the
advocate addressing the jury. A pro-
trndiug mil tore the seat end Of the
lawyers pantaloons. Obliged to follow
his opponent immediately there was
no time to sew up the rent in tho gar.
n,tnt. A legal wag present wrote a
subscription paper: ave the undersign
ed, agree to pay the sums set opposite
our So veral names for the purpose OF
purchasing brother Edwards a new
pair of pa%ntaloons." Several of the
lawyers est down sums ranging from
81 cents to 10 cents. The paper was
presented to Lincoln, who sat opposite
the rear Of the advocate who, bending
over in gesticulation made quito an ex
posure. Lincoln took out his pencil
and wrote upon the paper: 81 have
nothing to contribute to the end in
view The lawyers roared with laugh
ter; the Judge asked to see the paper,
when he, too in turn had to roar. All
this time the unconscious victim of the
fun was ignorant Of the cause Of the
laughter, and at last joined in the mer-
riment. .G
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ii A CONsIDRRATE DuLCJSA.-An Aus
tin colored servant was told to bring
some refreshments into the parloe. To
he amazem-nt of the guests, she came
into the parlor holding the tray in one
! and carrying the house dog Under
.in'e aiu'ft}y snlh
What do yon mean by bringing
that deg into the .parlor r. ssrb
"1ou seem. darsta eeloredl gempan
out in de ok.tchea. and he am skeered
ter be lef alone alone wild dis heah dog, SO 1
had to brung him 1ong."-Texas Slit
'ings. fIblaa ap lc7aa3 ID
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A Leon County, Texas doctor adver
tises publicly that he makes 4 special
ty oftreating children. That's wrong.
II is against the law to treat miners.
The doctor who treats children when
there are editors in the country yearn-
ing for stimulants 10 deserving Of the
harshsst kind Of eriticism.-Texas Silt.
ings. .saa