San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
A NEWSPAPER NIENAGERIE.

Some of the Interesting Animals Found in
J Our Exchanges.
From the Chicago Tribune.]
The goose with four wings at Natchez,
Miss.
The lamb at Round Prairie, in this
State, which has two perfectly formed
heads.
The COW at Fergus, Ont, in whose
stomach a stick two feet long and half
an inch thick was found on butchering
her.
The dog (Newfoundland) of Mr.. Null
ford, of Jersey City, who, when its COM
panion died, refused food and speedily
persisted of grief.
The gamecock at Nelson Furnace,
KY, which attacked Minnie Saunders,
aged II, and, driving its spur into her
head, killed her on the spot.
The swan at Mount Auburn, N. Y,
that knocked down Mrs. William
Greenough, an old lady of 80, nearly
plucked out one of her eyes, and left
her insensible.
The canary-bird of Mrs. A. F. Bush,
of Medina, N. Y, which has just re-
turned home after an absence of eight
months, sought his old cage, and taken
to singing.
The chicken of Mr.. James Harvey,
North Norwich, Ont, who remained
under hay-wow from the I'd to the 18th
of April, without food or water, but was
taken out lively and we'll.
The dog at Union Hill, NJ, the late
Mr.. Martin Singer tried to kill. The
gun missed fire, so he hit the dog with
the stock, discharging the piece into his
own thigh and severing an artery.
The sick pet dog at New Orleans
which died in its mistress arms. Ex-
hausted by sitting up with it so many
nights, and, to allay her sorrow, she
took a dose of laudanum, and came
within an ace of dying.
The turkey about which two neigh
bors in Bloomfield, Conn, quarreled,
evoked the decision by Judge Calhoun
that turkeys are not animals (not being
mentioned in the Pound laws), though
geese are.
The black cat of the Cincinnati Mu-
steal Festival who walked out before
Miss Cary, and could only be induced
to leave the stage by woman who
rushed out waving an apron at her and
yelling "Shoo!"
The COW at Urbana, o., that was
struck by passenger-train on the Gin
cinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad.
She threw the whole train off the track,
injuring three men. The dispatches are
silent as to her fate.
The sparrows which have taken pos
session of Manhattan Market, an unoc-
cupicd building covering four acres OF
ground, and turned it into a huge nest,
from which three efforts have been made
to drive them, but Intellectually.
The bees Mr.. Morris Ellis, of George
town, in this State, undertook to drive
to market. They didn't like the jolt
ing of the wagon, and so the inmates of
all eight hives sailed out, stung the two
horses to death, and left Mr.. Ellis in a
critical condition.
The turkey and partridge at Chelsea,
VT, that are sharing the same nest.
The turkey continues to deposit her egg
daily, although the partridge began to
set after laying ID. During the occupa-
ton of the nest by the turkey the par
fridge attends to feeding.
The two dogs of the Messrs. Bills, of
Amherst, N. H., who, after living peace
fully together for years, got into quar-
rel over rabbit they had run down,
fought, and were found lying dying,
facing each other, utterly exhausted by
loss of blood. They were buried in one
grave.
The dog at No. IA Cortlandt Street,
New York, which, when the house took
fire, although almost suffocated, caught
his master by the leg of his pants, and
awakened him, by dragging him to the
floor from off the table where he was
sleeping.