The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-27
H E SEES 1T ALL
Vann Takes in the Raleigh Show
and Talks.
JOuah's Whale Seems Most to Be of
Interest.
ABOUT THE ASS OF COL. BALKAN
Magician of All the Words and
All the Wards.

Magician of All the Words and
All the Wards.
The critic eye-that microscope of wit
Sees spoOks and fakes, examines bit by bit;
How parts relate to parts, or they to whole.
, The farmers good, the beaming soul.
Are things which Daniels, Patrick can't see
| Mans whole frame is obvious to flea
Skepticism may be, and probably is,
as much the result of Knowledge as
knowledge is of skepticism; but let that
be as it may, we went down to Raleigh a
few days since for the special purpose of
looking into Patrick's "inter state ex-
position" wanted to be satisfied, from
ocular demonstration, whether all that
had been said and written, by certain
class of would be critics, were true or
not. We are now more than convinced
that the exposition is ranting success,
all the reports to the contrary notwith-
standing. We, that is Colonel Boo Carr
and self, were met at the Marlborough
House by Messrs. Patrick, Chiffon and
Co-Mr. "Co" being an ebon hued des-
cendant of the patriarch Ham-who
chaperoned us out to the exposition
grounds and kindly showed US through
the spacious buildings, explaining to us
everything which our somewhat dull in
tellects failed to take in. Now, for the
special interest of THE GLOBE readers
who have unfortunately not viewed the
great show, we'll iot down few of the
main features-'twould be an utter i'm
possibility to write it up in detail-and
beg all doubling Thomases to go down
in their own proper persons and indi-
vidually scan the mighty array of facts
and figures, then 60 home and doubt no
more forever.
On entering the main building skele-
ton, 297 feet in length, met our view
following is the interesting history, as
given by General Patrick to us: While
on fishing expedition about two years
ago he, in company with some friends,
visited lake Drummond, in the Dismal
swamp; thinking that was an inviting
spot to have little fun with the finny
tribe, cast in their hooks and awaited re-
suits. Results, disastrous results, were
not long in the back ground just II Sec
onds after heaving their fishing tackle
overheard, his cork began a gyratory
dance on top Of the water, and then
bobbed beneath the vastly deep. The
boat, in which the party were seated,
started down the lake, propelled by a
fearful but invisible power; and when
about half way to the further end, the ir-
ritated monster come to the surface,
spurted up two columns of water one and
a half miles high, gave one satanic flop
with his tail, which smashed the boat
into t1inderations, killing all Of his COM
paniOns and leaving him alone floating
around at random, bat with the line firm
ly in his grasp. The cetacean then struck
a bee line for the mouth of the canal, in
which it jammed itself beyond hope OF
escape. The general then swan ashore,
s0mau hat tagged hut keenly alive to the
situation and its emOluments. He there
and then cut The whales throat from ear
to ear With his jack-knife, telegraphed to
Captain Smith, the house mover, who
went down with his apparatus, yanked
the big fish out on terra firma, where the
general had the flesh stripped from the
bones, and left the skeleton in the condi-
tion that We now see it.
General Patrick tells us that he Sc
cured % barrels of spermacetti from the
whales brain, which he sold to Captain
Polk, of the Progressive Farmer, and
that the gallant captain made his cele-
brated () diptheria cure out of that com
modify The strangest and most un-
looked for thing about that whale is yet
to be told, which is this: On the inside
of one of the ribs, just opposite the
stomach, there was carved a lot of Curl
Gus characters, one fourth of an inch in
depth. Farmer joe daniels pronounced
it ancient Hebrew, and gives the follow
ing translation; Jonah, the renegade,
1883, 4. NJ" Now if this is the correct
translation, it proves that this is the
identical whale that swallowed the
prophet Jonah several thousand years
ago. It would seem that Captain Jonah,
to beguile the tedium of lonely hour,
amused himself while in his living tomb
by cutting his name on one of the stan
cLions of his prison cell, little dreaming
that any son of prosterity would ever
gaze upon his handiwork. Now the
question arises: How came Jonah's whale
in lake Drummond: Both history and
tradition are, and will remain silent for
eyermore.
After being satisfied as TO the identity
of the whale, the general took Us over to
a table just across the way TO view
another curio from the wreck of ancient
matter On said table, and in a large
glass case, lay head which closely re-
samblpd that 0f mule or some near