Sarah Bernhardt
killed
by tearing out its whalebone for her corsets.
These are made by Madame Lily Noe,
who lives,” etc. etc.
Some of the other sandwich-men carried posters with these words:
“The whale is just as flourishing (sic) as
when it was alive!
It has five hundred dollars’ worth of salt in its stomach,
and every day the ice upon which it is resting is