Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-05-03
Animal Statistics.

Cats are affectionate; they love young
chickens, sweet cream, and the best
place in front of the fireplace. -
Dogs are faithful; they willstick to a
bone after everybody else has DESERT
ed It. EJ5R9 oI-t.i ~ I uaLT@
Parrots are easily educated, but they
will learn 10 swear in half the time
they will anything else. Il
!. The birds eat bugs and worms for
plain victuais, but their dessert con-
sists OF the best cherries and gooseber-
ries, in the gariien. CO..
The owl Is only picture of wisdom
by daylight,swheBh he can't see any
thing. When Il comes night his wis
dom wholly consists. in catching field
mouse IL he caB.oJ sal - asials5 "a al ~
- - The donkey is an emblem of pa,
.tiapce, but If you study them closer
you will find that laziness is what is
the matter with them. '1-.5i-.
1.-The eagle is the monarch of the
skies, but the little king bird will
chase him to his hiding place. sssI
- The0 knoweth his masters crib,
sand that is all he does know or care
about his master. GaaI 1.s s-iiI
Monkeys are initiative, but If they
can't initiate some mischief they ain'l
happy. 80. -sA Z. ~, a. = .. .
> The goose is like ali other fools-al
ways seems anxious to prove it.
II mules are ever meek it is simply
because they are ashamed of them
selves. n y - 81 f.E " = Z
THE bees are busy peoples rather
than be idle they will rob each other o.
their honey.
Ducks are only cunning about one
thing; they lay their eggs in such sly
places that sometimes they can't finu
them again themselves. tsst VI /
The muskrat can foresee q hard win
ter and provide for it, bat he can'l
zkeepfrom getting cangh in the sillie.t
kiud of a trap.
Hens know when it is going to rain
and shelter themselves, but they will
try to hatch cut a glass egg just as hon.
est as they will one of their Own.c3
91i Mud turtles are the slOwest of any
four-legged creatures, and yet they are
always on the move, trying to gel
somewhere else.
Hornets have more fight In them
than anything Of their size, but there
is no method in their ma 1ness; they
will pitch into Westinghouse when
they are furious Just as anxious as they
will into sleeping baby in its cradle.
the crow Is the most natural of all
8 thieves; they will steal, and hide, what
is no use to them, nor loss to anybody
else, -7o3-it-s
Ants are the busiest of all the little
cor big bugs, but large share of their
time is spent In repairing their houses,
which are built where folks cannot
help but step on them. sEsE
Flies toll not, neither do they spin,
yet they have the first taste OF all the
best gravies in the land.
The cuckoo is the grea atest econobo-
mist among the birds;she lays her eggs
in other birds nests and lets them
hatch them out at their leisure.
Rats have fewer friends and more
enemies than anything of the four-leg-
ged persuasion on the face of the earth,
and yet rats are as plenty now as in the
palmiest day of the Roman Empire.
OF all things lazy the sloth wears the
belt, and yet his laziness is all there is
interesting about him. HFE
! The frog dodgeth when 1t lightens
and the toad gapes when the thunder
bellows.
,;- The crow builds her. nest of sticks,
the swallow of mud, the squirrel of
leaves, the wren of feathers and wool,
and the woodpecker digs hole for his
eggs in the rotten trees. ia
The serpent and the crab change
their clothing each year, and the rae
coon lives all winter long on the men,
ory Of what he eats in the SUMNER
Josh Billings. 1os a5rais 5-Sss