Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — In Fair Preservation. [ARTICLE]

In Fair Preservation.

One winter, some yean ago, a large whale was killed near one of the Atlantic seaports. Its carcass was taken ashore, loaded on two flat can, and transported far inland, to cities where a whale was a curiosity that people wocdd pay to sea. It was necessary, of course, that the exhibitions should be given in unheated halls, and as it was a cold winter, the whale kept in a fairly good state of preservation for a considteaMe number of weeks before it became imperative to close the amusement season, ae ter as that particular cetacean was concerned. While it was on exhibition in Chicago a merchant from a tittle town in southern Illinois, who happened to bo in the city on bostasss, went to see it When he returned home ho could talk of nothing else.

“Ton may think you’ve seen Mg tab." he said, “but unless you’ve some across a whale somewhere you haven’t.”

“How long was it, Jett?" somebody asked him. “It was mighty close to ninety feet, and about fifteen feet thick. It was the biggest thing I ever saw out of the water tat swims tn the water.* "Well,** said the village doctor, "you didn’t expect to find it a smelt, did you?”

“No," he answered, hesitatingly, “bat It did, just a little. **