THE PURSUIT OF WHALES. THE PRESENT METHOD OF HUNT. ING THE MIGHTY OETACEAN, Duties of OMoeers and Crew ina Whal- ing Ship-— Equipment of a Whale- boat—Killing a Whale, Before proceeding to detail the man- per in which whales are captured it may be well to describe the duties of the va- rious members ccmprising the crew of a | whaling ship. The master remains on | board of his vessel at all times, navigat- | ing and working her through the ice. | When the boats are down after whales | the master immediately proceeds to the | crow's nest—a frame covered with can- vas built at the fore topgallant masthead | —and from that coign of vantage he di- rects the boats by means of flag signals | in what direction to pursue the whale. There are generally as many mates on | board of a vessel as there are boats. When whales are sighted the Captain designates the boats to be lowered. Each boat has a petty officer, termed among American whalemen the boatsteerer, in Scotch whaling parlance the harpooner. The work that is done by the boatsteerer is described fully in the narration relat. ing to the capture of the whale. In the | whaleboat the forecastle hands are the | oarsmen. The post of bowman, pulling the bow oar, is regarded as the most im- | portant position among the oarsmen. As a general ruie, the boats have stems, knees and frames of white ouk, | while cedar is used for planking. A | first-class whaleboat without her equip- | ments weighs from 500 to 600 pounds, | and when all the necessary articles for capture—including masts, sails and oars —are in place the total weight aggre- | gates about 1530 pounds. The apparatus used for killing whales has been im- proved from time to time. Harpoons were the first instruments used for fast ening to the whale. The modern har- poon is nothing more than en improved type of obsidian iron or copper *‘I poon™ that the Arctic Alaskan Esqu use at the present when they can: obtain a be tter substitute, The ipitial now capture of whales is identical of the early poon day taken step with days " miing, being relied to fasten the whale to the boat. been superseded killing, and boa merly used for which connect the are also displ lance. The shanks of the harpoons are forged | by hand from the best Swedish iron and | the heads, although sometimes wrought, ate usually cast from annealed or malic able iron. Some irons ne in this cit; have the shanks twisted in the been bent into s of the st lances have by body Ww ¥ strang est forms; h loop. There are at its neck be tractile force, exerted | and with an iron in appear overdrawn to ment, aad 1 scout the idea ti can be drawn out, proved by the presence vigtretche a ! + scum a: Washington. Besides the | contains as its vas, sheet lead, pork and othe taining water, containing a box, candles, and paddies, a spade to cut a hole in the whale's lip to rua a line through in order to tow the carcass, a fog-horn and other articles. Thus the boat when lowered skims over the water in quick AnCes ing i at is to say, t tt he i nen towl { make the state. many persons are inclined to wt the fibers of cold iron but the fact of three yv the whale « its It may hoat hatchets, can hard bread, provisions, a Keg con- lantern keg gear, a whale ynent r 4 be | wall a bucket, a lantern, matches, tinder sipes and tobacco, oars fitted, | time, provided the crew are well trained. | With this outfit that a school of whales sighted by the | nest. As soon as that is seen, the sing out, Then a deck rush let us now imagine or a big fish is st the whale is “raised, i duty aloft | Kout CTOW #8 n officer blows, the watch on ats to which they be long, while the sleepers or watch below tumble up on deck. Meanwhile the cap- tain is in the crow’s nest and directs the | particular boat to be lowered. ‘Star. board waist boat” is the order, and into her the officer, boat steerer and crew soon find the way. ‘‘Lower away” comes the pext command, and as the falls | slacken out, the boat touches the water, her crew are all ready at their oars, and with a strong, steady pull the vessel is soon left, When squarely in the water, if the wind allows, sail is set on the boat. The officer or boat header steers with a long oar and the boat steerer at the bow thwart pulling an oar, until at the word | of command he springs to his feet, Steadily and noisclessly the hoat ap- proaches the big fish, the men's nerves strung to a high degree of tension. Not a whisper can be heard, and no sound save the drip of water from the paddies, Then the whale, if resting or playing, as | the baleen’ generally do amid the ice ! in the spring of the year, emits a soft | yet sonorous breathing, resembling the | drawn-out soughiog of a forest of trees during a wind storm. By this time the boat is in such a position that the whale can be reached with a darting gun. The | boat steerer stands ready, sees that the | line attached Is clear of kinks and snacls, with body thrown back and right arm | on “There she " Cone ensues to the Ix {| ming port, Pe | pati | ville is to be the | ried | from charred cocoanut kernels. | carefully applied to the teeth again and boat is being towed by the whale ta quick pace. But the cetacean has to come up to breath, and as the line -y ens the crew haul it into the boat, and soon the fish is on the surface. Then comes the chanee to use the shoulder gun, and when from eighteen to thirty feet from the whale, a bomb planted in the “life” (or lungs) of the fish ends its carer, The dying struggles of the whale are almost human like. Spouting its life blood the water 18 tinged for a large area with the ruddy hue. Swim. round and round, the big fish heaves almost human sighs, and finally, with a gigantic nervous thrill and shake, gasps its last breath and turns on its side or back dead. When the whale is killed the vessel, if | a steamer, has followed her boats and soon picks them and their prize up, tho bone is taken out, and in a few hours nothing remains but a carcass for gulls | and other sea birds to feed upon.-—San Francisco Chronicle. SELECT SIFTINGS. —— ground, get $1 Ny Artificial coffee is gaining Schaller (Iowa) aldermen year. Three hundred and ninety-eight mil- lions speak English. An orange wine factory is soon to be started in Jacksonville, Fla. A clock owned by a resident { Trappe, Pean., has ticked since 1766. There were 1500 different orchids the New York orchid show, of at and no two | alike, It is claimed that sheep furnish the most profitable live stock industry in | North Dakota. expenditures for 3 of the Government £600,000,000, A picking" Neb. , soc The Ind dian school have the first fifty amounted to sive tato called ) ! rage in North Platte, game is all the ial circles po In- deposit ia boys and girls at the $11,000 on 1X8, an man Rivyn Dail afl New York City, Japan ese lnss A man arrested at Willi nn... fe , i as that Ash and Georg N. C. ilt's palace near Mie, £10,000, 000, finest ever built, than 3 officials suf. ner, 1ina less rule, in a one-third of the In Ct flee to most perfect man world's inhabitants {4 ng a boat | air! girl 4 5 hi i ¥ \ SW a8 a witness in 8 Usmnden, ON. murder one Bible before Logan, few days ag the ™m * said she had ne n she entered the court room. died y, had f i first man to b in that town, the FCIMOnY place in 1554. The hottest is Calcutta, India, temperature of 8 Petersburg, wl ver who in Omaha, the distin mar aking of the ‘big foreign cities” with mean sanusl 2.4; tl sidest is St. 36.6 round, wie year The full name the Sandwich Islan late King of the was David Laamea umaukapur Makinulani Nalviachuokal Kalakaua, aod they called for short. army of the Pope for 1801 is ip as follows: Two generals, two y lieutenant-colonels, a major, ns and four lieutenants and This number includes the iss Legion, In K ma Lumiolani him “Calico” The made colonels tw two capial sixty men famous Sw Since the railway the one per cent. reduction in , Burliogton sod Quincy dividend, the market value of the stock has shrunk more than £9,000, to pay years, The blacken of the Malays and Siamese are not produced, as has been supposed heretofore, by coating them with a mixture of betel and lime, but by rubbing the teeth with a paste made This is Chicago 000, or an amount sufficient the extra one per cent for twelve lid ed teeth again, until & black varnish hides the | natural white, Bountiful South America. By virtue of its most valuable com- | bination of continuoss heat with abusd. ant moisture, South America possesses a wonderful wealth and variety of vege- tation. able vegetable productions, its immense pasture plains and its rich mines of gold, silver and precious stones, give to South America natural advantages over all the | other countries of the globe. It already supplies the world with immense quantities of coffee, sugar, cotton, to. bacco, caoutchoue, cattle products, dye | wood, drugs, spices, fruits, minerals and | | precious stones, and all that it requires | whole world with the | to sstonish the varisty and profusion of its productions is a perfect system of interior communi. ! cation, as well as available and am facilities for exportation. — Maul and with the heavy darbing gun, feet | pres. ly planted, he awsits the supreme moment to hurl the deadly bomb lance, Up comes the whale, and irith great dexterity the arung gun is thrown, striking the an expert boat. steerer is on duty, in a vital spot. The is fast and the whale soon feels the instrument of torture mn its vitals, Sometimes, but rarely, does the first bomb kill it, an comes the orders and “Wet line,” and fifi EE — Most Startling Fact In Astronomy, Professor Charles A. Young, the emi- nent Princeton astronomer, recently sat chatting in the court of the Palace. One of his listeners could not refrain from aki him in an off-hand way: iz to you the most wonderful wr, startling fact of astronomy” “The fact that your Lick telos- pe reveals about 100,000,000 of stars, that every one of them is & sun, the oretically snd by an | the African, Its fertility of soil and innumer. | Properties of the Kola Nut, The wonderful stories that have been | told of the properties of the kola nul are more than confirmed by the British Consul at Bahia, who has written @# special letter to Lord Salisbury on the subject. The west African carriers at that port, who use kola and carry the bean wrapped in banana about their persons, are not physically speaking superior men to the Brazilian negro; yel though constantly mastic cating kola, can, it is said, endure fa tigne which no Brazilian traveler can withstand. Where it takes eight Dra zilisn negroes to carry a load with diffi- culty, four African porters carry il cheerfully, singing and chanting as they trudge along, each with a bit of kols bean in the mouth. As a rule the kola eating African gangs who labor at the hard task of unloading vessels earn twice ns much as their competitors, The beans, which are described as intoxicat ing and in no way injurious, are said te act as a nutritive, and quench the thirst, vet they are not strictly a stimu lant. The supply of Bahia comes from Lagos, It is best soon after it is gath ered, and is sold, according to fresh ness, at two-pence and three-pence for each bean, It appears that the atten tion of the Government of India has al ready been called to the extraordinary properties of kola nuts, and practical information has been supplied to them from the authorities at Kew, Copyright, 180, He who waits for an inactive liver to do its rk, exp self to all the diseases that come f tainted blood. 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