Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-11-04
4 pesprrale FIghl WA a BIafk Bear.

The Portland .3JsGs contains the following ac
count oil Bear fight which trans pred IN Audover
North surplus, Oxford coanty, Maine, on the I'D
ult:-
As Erastus Bean, young man of twenty years,
was hayng in his field, accompanied by a Young
boy of Twelve named Damn ne los zed up, aud saw
near him d large black bear. o. the white laced
breed. (the most savage OF tine biacK variety -
Having ta>eu out his gun with nm 10 shoot part
ridges. ne caught IT zap and ire the brute bat
win little effect upon hlrn. Bean fell back slow
". loading his gun Ia the meantime, when, just as
he had got bis charge n, has heel caught Ia a tyIg.
and he fell backwards, ana brun eapcd upon him
HIS situation was now iTighiiul Gne bot his
GOODNESS du} not iorsake him. aud he Imm diateiy
fred again, but with no visible effect. The bear
al once went 10 work SEEING MS lett arm biting
through 1t and laceratIng 1t severely. w Whhe thus
amusing himself, ne was tearing, with MS fore
paws the clothes, and scratching the flesh the
young mans breast. Having dropped his arm he
opened his huge mouth 10 MAKE PounCe al nIs
face Then II was that the young man made the
dash tha. saved his lie. As the bear opened his
Jaws Bean thrust his lacrated arm down the brute
throat. as far as desperation would enable him
There he had him. The bear could neither re=reat
nor advance, though the position OF the beseIsed
was any thing but Agreeable, on so warm day
as Thursday last.
Bean now called upon the lad to come andtake
! from his pocket jick-lnife and open 1t The
/ boy mas a IL companion for this brave young
man He marched up TO the work boldly. But
before he could gel at the pocket, he had 10 crowd
/ the bears head over a lTtle-the beast meanwhile
not being at all easy with such huge mouthiul
/ in his throat. Having got his knife, Bean with
/ his untramneled hand, cut the bear throat from
ear 10 car killing MIN stone dead, while he lay on
( ms body! lie then threw the beast of, notified
( his friends. had his wounds dressed and IS now
comfortable Itwas Judged the bear Nveg ghed near
10 4 D. g,4t t.5cr MIN
our informant saw, weighed pounds 1 ounces
+ Az FxeLrsH TRAvELER N AMERICA "A citi
zen recently returned from London, tells, with q
good deal OF humor. OF some equIvoque that rnn
ged n a conversation he had with an English o.!
/ ficer who unknown to him had served III Packen
/ ham army.
). You have been, then, in America -
" For a very short time, and that was long ago.
J Were YOU ever in New Orleans
Not exactly IT. it-but once very near IT,
IS And did you not visit the city3
80 No they " vouid not let me.
:. Not let you! why how, and when, could tha
Il was in 1914 and there was large compa
ny OF Us too. that intended to eat our ChTlstma'
dinner III the city; bat though we were Fer5
I warmly received yve could not accomplish Oul
, wishes So we turned round and went TO Mobile
Point; but though we sraid there some time, VIZ
50 we all concluded 20 return; and, on the lst o
Of April 1919. we left tor home-the day selec
ted ior eIubarRat forming an appropriate unlsl
1 10 our fool ; erraud. Here a sudden spasm o
recollection str4c the enquirer with the lorce o
gaIvanlc bat,ery-Nel9 Orleans Delta.
P,rrRxoE CT BtRDs-We have all heard ant
marvelIed at the patience OF job but what eai
exceed the patience "a birds when harchIng Du
ring a period which continues from three 10 eigh
weeks neither the approach OF danger nor the cdit
of hunger can drive them from The nest. beoT
incub ltiou however II completed the female, no"
ever plump al the beginning. = generally en- tcta
tel 10 a sSelirfon Among some tribes the ~ il'
and fem,je sit alternluveIy, the more equally T.
DIVIDE The labor; among others the male pFotlde
ioad Tor us mate while hafcHlHg. or allsvfaies ne
tolls bv his meiody from neIgnoorHg busn =
some iln together "a the operttioHs and oy lucFe
sing me heat eudeavor 10 acce.eFate rs pfogFes,
Az times. however the eggs acquire a heat Ina
seems hur,tul TO infant life; on these occasion
tbev are let 10 cool; and the hen aiter shorie
or ioager 50 zee OF HFlc. according 70 the weather
farsi1 resumes her occupation with fnrmer Pe-se
verence and plessure.-hiaa Clca Jo'TaaL
Rv,,,px.zIr FcHoEs.-The best echoes az
produced By parallel walls. af a little villa Hei
Milan there extent two parallel wIuSs about II y
eirht paces from each other the surfaces o. whlo
are uabroken either by doors or windows In
sound Of the human yoIce or FaineT a "oIa tl'iica
lv pronounced. IS repeated above forty times, an
the report OF a p stoi from fifty 10 SKY times
The repslitoas hoyyeV Ioiios IN sl.eh rapid su'
reSs;on rnar 4 Is dlfhcuIr 10 them. unies
early n the morning, before the equal temper.
ture OF the air Is disturbed, or IN cain sti ev'
Iring. DR. Plot mentions an echo 10 "ood51oc
Park. which repeats seventeen sysia0ies by dall
: and twenty by night. An echo oa the norih SD
OF skipley church. IN Sussex, reFea's twenty on
svlIables There IS also q ren11r@sbie eeno II u
venerable abbey church Of s.. Albans