Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1893 — Don’t be Afraid of Your Whale. [ARTICLE]

Don’t be Afraid of Your Whale.

James Temple Brown, In February < entury Approaching a whale at all times is like going into battle, notwithstanding the abandon of the fishermen. Have no fear that the right whale will swallow you; he could not do so even if so disposed, as his gullet is only large enough to admit a good sized herring. The sperm whale could swallow a man if he desired to do so; but he is no more inclined to swallow a man, particularly with his clothes on, than you would be to swallow a small bird with its feathers. But ho will crush you in his ponderous jaws, if he is a fighting bull, and eject you in detail. He will also chew up and spit out pieces of the demolished boat, break up the wooden utensils floating upon the water and fight every piece of wood until more than seven baskets of fragments may be taken up; and having tired himself out in this way, he vnll lay off, angrily slapping the water with his fins, and challenge some other boats, or perhaps, in rare cases, afttack the vessel. “Yes.” said the waiter, “everything first class. Our steaks and wines are rare old articles, sir.” The police force in all parts of the country bear uniform testimony to the great value of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup as a remedy for cough.cold and incipient consumption. They all emphasize the fact thatno one should be without it. A little boy was asked what the Sunday school text was. He answered,“Many are cold, but few are frozen.” The Throat.— ‘‘Brown’s Bronchial Troches" aot directly on the organs of the voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat. The collector will come round unless you keep him squared.