Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1910 — Cetacean Tears. [ARTICLE]

Cetacean Tears.

Capt. H. P. Nuee of the Celtic was regaling a little group of ladles with sea stories. "One trip,’ he said, “there wa3 a woman who bothered the officers and me to death about whales. Her one desire was to ..see a whale. A dozen times a day she besought us to have her called if a whale hove in sight. “I said rather impatiently to her one afternoon: “ Hut, madam, why are you so anxious about this whale question?’ " ‘Captain,’ she answered, 1 want to see a whale blubber. It must be an impressive sight to see such an enormous creature cry.’ ” —Rochester Herald. Logical Rather Than Mathematical. In one of Boston’s primary schools the other day the head master of the district presented a problem for the scholars that would require the use of fractions. He expected the answer, ‘1 don’t know.” The problem: “If I had eight potatoes how could 1 divide them among nine boys?” One bright looking youngster raised his hand. “Well,” said the master. “Mash them,” promptly replied the young mathematician. Philadelphia Inquirer.