The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-05-11
STORIES OF THE DAY.
Humorous Account Of a Whale Soon to BE
Exhibited In New York.

IOHIES Or HE OAY.
Humorous Account Of a Whale Soon to BE
Exhibited In New York.
Cctaceum, late of tho Whales School
Of Oratory and Acting, arrived i'll New
York the other day. He didn't look hale
Or rosy or e respectable. He is 60
ing to get full of barrels, and i'll that
beastly condition u shrewd Yankee tug
boat agent will make u show of him.
Cetaceum is hardly Il specialist in
feats of strength. He is getting stron-
ger, though. AS he lies swinging back
and forward with the tide out near Bed
loe's island the masters of passing YES
sells note his increasing strength. He is
rather uncvenly developed. At least the
captains who go to windward seem to
think he is much stronger than do those
on the lee side.
Cetaceum left his school off Chatham,
Mass, and died. He rolled over OIL his
back and drifted. A shark came along
and ripped off several square feet Of his
waistcoat and was leisurely chewing it
when the tug Taurus hove in sight and
chased INC evil lSn away.
Tho whale was drifting in shore when
the Taurus saved him from being hope
1essly stranded. He passed a line around
the monster and tied it. He was SO
strong even in death that some of the
crew did not care to go near him.
All sorts Of craft saluted the process
sion. Cctaccum passed Hunters point
E%nheedcd. His presence was perccptible
when he got farther down stream, and
lie had not been brought to rest for half
sn hour before the dcnizens of Liberty
and Ellis islands knew that something
new had come into their lives.
Cetaccum, as he lay on his back astern
Of the Mcrccdita, looked like a big strip
ped bedtick or an overturned clinker
boat. From head to tail his white un-
derbody was marked by longitudinal
corrugations. He looked something like
a washboard.
If he had a trunk full of press notices,
he could not have been more pulled up.
He was swollen to one-third more than
his normal size. man." rs Captain
O'Bricn remarked, "a Yarmouth bloat-
er is not III the same class"
A very large sand scow will be push
ed into q dry dock and sunk. The whale
will be slid upon it, the water will be
drawn off, and Cetaceum will be raised
high and dry.
On board the scow Professor Smith
and his assistants will put Cetaceum in
condition and fill him up with barrels
Of d~isinfectants. Professor Smith is sure
that Cetaccum will then give q perform
:ncc which will be entirely ~unobjection-
able even to the most refined and dis
eliminating.
The whale will then be towed to an
East river pier, where a tent will be
built around him.
Several bold men with large feet
walked over tho whale and tried to
measure him. 1t is estimated that he is
about 70 feet long.-New York Herald.
Not Looking For Him.
A woman was standing in the front
door Of the West Virginia cabin when
I rode up to it, and saluting her she
saluted mo in return.
"Docs William Mixlcy live horc?" !
asked.
Eyes," she replied "What do you
want NV him?"
Hasn't he q walnut tree for salc?'
"Ycs, II that's about all he's got"
"Is he at homer"
"No."
"When arc you looking for him?"
II amt lookin fer him"
"He hasn't left the country. has hc?"
"Not as 1 know Nv"
"Where is he?"
"He's gone down to papa's."
"Tllon Of course you're looking for
him back. Old man Guilion is your fa-
ther., isn't he, and he only lives u mile
Or so down tho road?"
eyes, but l amt lookin for him
back"
"Why not?" And by this time I had
begun to think the woman was a little
daft.
"Caze hos gone down to see pap
about a hog he says pap stole from him
night afore last, an pap is the shoot
in'est man in these parts. Detroit
Free Press.