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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1892)
A MODERN JONAH. The Champion Fish Story Re¬ lated By an English Paper. A Well-Told Yarn of a Sailor’s Alleged Experience. Gnst February the whaling ship Star of the East was in the vicinity of the Falkland Islands searching for whales, which were very scarce. One morn¬ ing the look-out sighted a whale about three miles away on the starboard quarter. Two boats were manned. In a abort time one of the boats was near enough to enable the harpooner to send a spear into the whale, which proved to be an exceedingly large one. With the shaft in its 6ide the animal sounded and then sped away, dragging the boat after him with terrible speed. He swam straight away about fiye miles, when he turned and came back, almost directly towards the spot where he had been harpooned. The second boat waited for him, and when but a short distance away from it he rose to the surface. As soon as his back showed above the surface of the water the harpooner in the second boat drove another spear into him. The pain apparently crazed the whale, for it thrashed about fearfully, and it was feared that the boats would b e swamped and the crews drowned. Finally the whale swam away, drag¬ ging the two boats after him. He went about three miles and sounded or sank, and his whereabouts could not be exactly told. The lines attached to the harpoons were slack, and the harpoouers began slowly to drag them in and coil them in the tubs. As soon as they were tautened, the whale arose to the surface and beat about with its tail in the maddest fashion. The boats attempted to get beyond the reach of the animal, which was appar¬ ently in its death agonies, and one of them succeeded, but the other was less fortunate. The whale struck it with his nose and upset it. The men were thrown into the water, and before the crew of the other boat could.pick them up one man was drowned and James Bartley had disappeared. When the whale became quiet from exhaustion the waters were searched for Bartley, but he could not be found, and, under the impression that he had been struck by the whale’s tail and aunk to the bottom, the survivors rowed back to the sliip. The whale was dead, and in a few hours the great body was lying by the ship’s side, and the men were busy with axes and spades cutting through the flesh to secure the fat. They worked all day and part of the night. They re¬ sumed operations the next forenoon, and were soon down to the stomach, which was to be hoisted to the deck. The workmen were startled while laboring to clear it, and to fasten the chain ab >ut it to discover something double up in it that gave spasmodic signs of life. The vast poncli tvas hoisted to the deck and cut open, and inside was found the missing sailov doubled up and unconscious. lie was laid out on the deck and treated to a bath of sea water, which soon revived him; but his mind was not clear, and he wa9 placed in the captain’s quarters, where he remained for a fortnight a raving lunatic. He was carefully treated by the captain and officers of the ship, and ho finally began to get possession of his senses. At the end of the third week he had entirely recovered from the 6liock and resumed his duties. During the brief sojourn in the whale Bartley’s skin, where it was exposed to the action of the gastric juices, underwent a strik¬ ing change. His face and hands were bleached to a deathly white.ie.s and the skin was wrinkled, giving the man the appearance of having been par- boiled. Bartley affirm, that he woold probably have lived in.ide h,» house of flesh until he starved, for he lost his senses thiough flight and not thougli lack of aii. He sa_\ s t iat ie remembers the sensation of being Ufted into the by the nose of . the , air whale and of falling ° into the water; then there fearful rushing . wa» a Bound, which he believed to be the beating of the water by the whales tail; ’ then he was encompassed by a fearful darkness, and , , he felt .... himself slipping along smooth . passage of a some sort that seemed to move and earrv him forward. This sensation iiistetl but an instant, then he felt that ho had more room. lie felt about him, and his hands came in contact with a yielding slimy substance that seemed to shrink from liis touch. It finally dawned upon him that he had been swallowed by the whale, and he was overcome with horror at the situation. He could breathe easily, but the heat was ter¬ rible. It was not of a scorching, stifling nature, but it seemed to open the pores of his skin and to draw out his vitality. Ho became very weak, and grew sick at the stomach. He knew that there wa> no hope to escape from his strange prison. Death stared him in the face, and he tried to look at it bravely; but the awful quiet, the fearful darkness, the horrible know¬ ledge of his environments, and the terrible heat finally overcame him, and he must have fainted, for the next he remembered was being in the captain’s VUOt noK! ti.J n | Bartley is not a man of a timid na¬ ture; but he says that it was many weeks before he could pass a night without having his sleep disturbed with harrowing dreams of angry whales and the horrors of his fearful prison. The skin on his face and hands has never recovered its natural appearance. — [Great Yarmouth (Eng¬ land) Mercury. Higher Than Niagara. “When we come to the Victoria falls on the Zambesi we arrive at one of the most remarkable sights which any river in the world has to show,” 6ays II. M. Johnstone in “African Explorations.” “The broad Zambesi flowing nearly due south and 1900 yards wide, is cleft by a chasm—a crack in its bed—running athwart its course. The whole river plunges precipitately down this chasm about 360 feet, or counting the depth of the water, say 400 feet. Tiio entire vol- ume of water rolls clear over quite unbroken, but after a descent of 400 feet the glassy cascade becomes a seething, bubbling, boiling froth, from which spring upward into the air immense columns of steam-like spray. “On the extreme edge, on the very lip of the chasm, there are four or five raised lumps of rock which have be¬ come islands densely covered with trees. Beginning on the south bank there is first a fall of thirty-six yards in breadth and, of course, uniform in depth of descent to the rest of the river. Then Boat uka, a small island, intervenes, and there is only a thin veil of water descending over the rock in front of it “Next come9 a great fall with a breadth of 573 yards; a projecting rock separates this from a second great fall 325 yards broad; farther east stands Garden island; then comes a good deal of bare rock of the river bed, uncovered by a descent of water, and beyond that a score of narrow falls, which at the time of flood con¬ stitute one enormous cascade of nearly half a mile in breadth. Those falls, however, which are between the islands, arc the finest, and there is little apparent difference in their volume at any period of the year. “After the Zambesi has descended into the gulf, which is nearly twice the depth of Niagara, its wonder does not cease. Garden island, almost in the center of the falls, divides the cas¬ cade into two main branches at the bottom of the gulf, which flow around a vapor.hlddeu mass of rock, and re¬ uniting in a boiling whirlpool find an outlet nearly at right angles to the fissure of the falls. This outlet is nearer to the eastern end of the chasm than to its western extremity, and is no more than thirty yards wide.” Mak ,. s Fat Churchyards. Tbc Lodon ld , y . iriail , soy ^ E 1#nd wi „ probabi , ^ yisited bv i the cho|ert MaM „. Tbe pres denl ^ Roya , CaII 0 , p by6icia „ s j, . communication . with the chairman of . in ^| ie local government l>oa.rd fortbe par- p/jg e 0 f appointing a royal commission of ....... inquiry into the cause and . perven- t|on of |nflueM%> In all the Surrey churchyards , made . new _ graves are as lian ,g rbl8 aa j, a babde had been lately , be ao , sbborhnod . At <evera , of , |ie ce „ ie tcriM grave dig. gers are . kept . at . work , the whole . . night . . . l° n &* A child that does not laugh is sel¬ dom healthy. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The range of naval guns is roughly one mile for every inch of caliber for guns less than ten inches, but last year a 9.2 inch breech-loading rifle attained a range of twelve miles. The pneu¬ matic gun has fired a dummy shell two miles and a half. Herr Paul Iliehm has invented a mist or foe ball by means of which an enemy may be wrapt up in a deep mibt so that it will be impossible for enemies to find their range or to reply to an attack. It is an easily broken sphere charged with ammonia and cer¬ tain acids. The migratory birds of the Eastern states have a curious habit of follow¬ ing established routes of travel. Countless thousands of water birds, for instance, cross the Mexican bor¬ der near the mouth of the Itio Grande, probably to avoid the broad sand wastes that skirt the upper river val- Rocks are disintegrated by minute animal organisms as well as by atmos¬ pheric agencies, Professor Win, O, Atwater says: It is well known that plants of the higher and lower orders, growing on the surfaces or in fne fis¬ sures of rocks, tend to disintegrate them by the action of acid or other secretions, as well as by mechanical means. A new pow’dcr for coating the in¬ terior of steel and other molds lias been lately patented. It consists of a silicious rock known as “Dinas” silica stone, and contains 98 per cent, of silica, 1 per cent, of aluminum, 0.5 per cent, of oxide of iron, and 0.5 per cent, of lime. It is washed and calcined, then ground until it is of the consistency of wheat flour. A new kind of porcelain has recently been made in Paris in the following manner: Asbestos is ground to a fine powder, freed from oxide of iron by means of sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, then made into a paste, molded and dried. It is then baked for seven¬ teen or eighteen hours at a tempera¬ ture of 1200 degrees centigrade. It appears from Carl Lumholtz’s explorations among the ruined towns of the Sierra Madre in Northern Mexico, that the dragon fly was in former times deified by the people who built the pueblos near Granados. Among certain petroglyphs or rock inscriptions near this place occur figures which evidently represent the patolochl or deified dragon fly, and which occur almost universally among the ruins of Arizona and Northern Mexico. Canine Jealousy. I am not versed iu dog-lore, writes Charles Morris Addison, and it may be that my love for the animal nukes me an ill judge of the importance of the following story; but a friend vouches for its truth, and to my mind it lias its importance, not from its display of jealousy, but from the dog’s leliberate acceptance of the undoubt¬ edly changed condition, and the clearly metaphysical character of his motive. The story is this. A young man had owned for some years a dog who wa9 his constant companion. Recently the young man married, and moved with his bride and his dog into a house on the opposite side of the street from liis father’s house, his for¬ mer home. The dog was not happy, for the time and attention whicYi had formerly been Ills was now given to the young wife. In many ways he showed his unhappiness and displeas- uve, in spite of the fact that the master tried to reconcile him, and the bride to wiu him. One day when the master came home, his wife sat on his knee, while Jack was lying by the fire, lie rose from the place, came over to the cou¬ ple and expressed his disapproval. “Why, Jack,” said the master, “this is all right, she’s a good girl,” and as he spoke he patted her arm. Jack looked up at him, turned away and left the room. I• a moment they heard a noise, and going into the hall, the found Jack dragging liis bed down stairs. When he reached the front door, lie whined to he let out, and when the door wad opened he dragged his bed down the steps, across the street to his old home, where he scratched for admittance. Since then he has never been lack to his master, refusing all overtures. —[London Spec:ator. An Untruthful Boy's Work. Pretty Teacher (severely) — “Did your mother write this excuse?” , Bad Boy—“Yes’m.” Pretty Teacher—“Humph! It looks very much like one of your scrawls.” Bad Boy—“Mamma wrote it; but, please ma’m. she had s : ster Jennie in one arm, crying with a bumped head, am> brother Willie in the other, with a cut finger, and a lot of sewing on her lap and she was rocking the cradle with her knees, and she had to write with her toes. ” Pretty Teacher (in the evening)—“I am very sorry, M-. Toorchapp, but I hive changed my mind. I shall never marry.”—Street & Smith’s Good News. Facts Worth Knowing, Q, Is Alabastine expensive ? A. No, it is the cheapest article for the pur¬ pose on the market. Q. How at is few that cents ? Cannot pound I ? purchase kalso- mines a per A. Yes, kalsomines can be purchased at almost any price. 0- A. Why In then is Alabastine less expensive ? the first place a package of Alabastine, costing a few cents more, will cover double the surface that a package of kalsomine will. that ..0- kalsomines What other do advantage has Alabastine A. not possess ? Alabastine is entirely different from all kalsomines. It is manufactured from a base in itself a cement, and when applied to a wall sets hard. Q. A. How do kalsomines differ from this? Kalsomines are made from whiting, clays, chalks or some inert powder for a base and are entirely the waif. dependent on animal glue to hold them on Q. What are the results ? A. In one case the Alabastine being a cement v wardens with age, and the kalsomines as soon as the glue, which constitutes its binding nothing quality, decays, hold it rubs the and scales off, as it has to on wall. Q. Does Alabastine require washing and scraping off before recoating? A. No, Alabastine wl n once applied to a clean surface can be recoated for any length of time without having to wash or scrape the walls. Q. Does this feature count for much? A. Ask any practical housekeeper, who has been driven from home to have walls washed and scraped, whether it will be desirable to have all of this overcome, and walls improved instead of -p iih>d by coating them. A. Q. How can I get Alabastine? From your local paint dealer. If he does not keep it in stock, and tries to sell you some¬ thing Alabastine, else, tell him you are determined to wifi try and if he will not keep it you get it elsewhere. Asbestos Cloth. Asbestos rolled cloth packing is made both with and without India rubber core. Asbestos block packing consists of »n India rubber back upon which there are built up edgewise a number of layers of asbestos clot.h. Sufficient elasticity is thus imparted by the rubber back, while great durability and protection to the rubber is insured by the use of asbestos. —India Rubber World. Foil Impure or thin Blood, Weakness. Mala, ria N uraigia. Indigestion, and Biliou-ness, take Brown's Iron Bit feel ers—it gives*strength, making old persons young—and young persons strong; , leasant to take. We must tramp on our feelings wj^en prin¬ ciple is at stake. If you suffer from sick, nervous, neuralgic, spinal, billious, or dyspeptic headaches, Brady- crotine will cure you promptly. Fifty cents; drug stores. __ One dose of Beecham's Pills relieves sick headache in 2.) minutes. For sale by all drug- cists. 26 cents a box. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬ son ’s Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. HI I A l ■0 Jill V :;!!•* s» ■sSi- 0 m 7 rvj 73$ Willie Tillbrook Sou of Mayor Tillbrook of McKeesport, Pa., Cured of Scrofula in the Neck By Hood's Sarsaparilla All parents whose childreu suffer from Scrofula, Salt Rheum, or other diseases caused by impure blood, should read the fol¬ lowing from Mrs. J. W. Tillbrook, wife of the Mayor of McKeesport, Pena.. ‘*C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: "My little boy WlUle, now six years old, two years ago had a Bunch Under One Ear which the doctor said was Scrofula. As It contin¬ ued to grow he finally lanced it and It discharged for some time. We then began giving him Hood’s Sarsaparilla and he improved very rapidiy until it ; healed up. Last winter it broke out again and was followed Erysipelas We again gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla with most excellent results and he has had no further trouble. His cure is due to the use of Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla. He has never been very robust, but now seems healthy and daily growing stronger. The doctor seemed quit? pleased at his appearance and said he feared at one time that we should lose him. I have also taken Hood’s Sarsapar lla myself and am satisfied that I have been helped by It.” Mrs. J. W. Tillbrook, Fifth Ave., McKeesport. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, do not gripe. If you have no appetite. 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