Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Shark and Dolphin Fight. [ARTICLE]

Shark and Dolphin Fight.

I saw a fight between a fourtcen-foot shark and a he dolphin. The sea wo* incarnadined with blood. The equal battle raged because each scavenger of the sea had been predatorily feeding or poaching on the other’s moss-bunker preserves. It takes four bushel baskets of moss-bunkers , for one he dolphin’s breakfast. The fight raged fifteen minutes. The shark had to turn over to use his mouth. I know some lawyers who make profitable and golden use of the mouth in debate and don't turn over at all. When the shark was trying to get in its fine work the dolphin eviscerated the sen scavenger and that ended the fight, and the porpoise danefed up and down and leaped over the body of its dead foe, as a New York lawyer doeswhen he gets an extra $250 allowance for costs or counsel fees!—[Forest and Stream. Most of our perfumes come from flowers or are made in imitation of the scents of flowers, so attar of roses, by a common consent, ranks at the head of the list of perfumes. Other preparations from roses, too, hold a high place and have long been esteemed. Rosewater is historic. When Saladin entered Jerusalem in the twelfth century, he had the walls of the Mosque of Omar washed with it. But attar or oil of roses is by far the most precious and most prized of all. An Eastern prince will present to an honored guest rich jewels, rubies, and diamonds, and then add as the rarest of all a crystal bottle filled with this priceless essence.