The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-12-18
Traits OF Animals.

A cat was sent by express, carefully
boxed. from Dansville to Rochester, II
distance of fifty miles. Not many days
aiterward, tabby came walking into
her old home.
When a good housewife of Kirkaldy
went for n ham that had hung from the
rafters, it had fair exterior, but it was
a perfect shell, skin and bone only re-
naming to show its form, while the rat.
after living so sumptuously, had built a
nest in the center, and was easily cap
tured.
A parrot belonging to Capt. Eichel-
berger, of Baltimore, was always present
at family prayers. One morning, when
in the garden, a hawk flew down and
seized the parrot, when il shrieked:
"Oh, Lord, save us! Oh, Lord, save
us!" which so frightened the hawk
that he dropped his prize.
At Priests J s,-In,the road from
Calayeras Yosemite, in
California, lisa dog who che hour before
the arrival Of the stage goes leisurely
| down the road to meet it, then bounds
back to the poultry yard, catches chick
ems, bites tbelr heads off, and takes them
| to tho cook. He takes one chicken for
each geptleman in the stage, never max
ing mistake.
A expert in antique coins in Paris is
apoodle. The money being placed upon
a table the dog is intro duced, and after
nosing among them will knock off the
table all the bad pieces with his paw.
After acquiring great fame it was found
the whole thing was trick. His mas
ter took care to handle only the bogus
coins, and the poodle's decisions were
arrived at by faculty of scent.
A wandering chippy" was picked
up by St. Louis lady and placed in the
cage with her canary. In the morn
ing il was released, wlfen the canary
mourned as if it had lost its mate. In
the evening the chippy returned, and
was allowed to nestle on the cage, when
the canary struck up one of the liveliest
notes and seemed gratiiied. This was
repeated for three days. Then chippy
failed to return. The canary dropped
and soon died.
A couple of seals, the property of
Major Urch, of Portsmouth, N. H., were
| kept in Il tank, and were rs tame us
dogs. One of them died recently. and
Major Urch concluded to give the other
its liberty, it seemed to grieve So much
at its loss. He took the tank to the
river bank and released the seal, think
ingit would swim out to sea. 1t swan
| all around the river, but soon returned
crying in distress and Tapped into its o ID
| quarters on the bank, and stubbornly
refused to be elected.
A monkey belonging to a gentleman
of the south of France often helps the
cook. Being given pair of partridges
! to pick one day, he seated himself in
an open window. A hawk flew down
and snatched one of the birds, when the
monkey tricked the hawk by secreting
himself. and, waiting, soon saw him
come for the other, when the monkey
caught the thief, Plucking both the
hawk and the remaining partridge, he
took them to the cook. and the change
was not discovered until the game (p)
was served at table.
An enormous eagle in Georgia swept
down uron two little girls aged three
and five years, throwing them to the
ground. 1t buried its talons in the face
and arm of the elder and attempted &c
carry off the child, but was prevented
by her struggles. Alittle brother sever
wears of age came toher assistance witt
a carving knife, shshing the eagle:
legs, when il turned upon the boy, who
was soon released by the appearance O.
Joe Betzler, a neighhor, upon the scene
who shot and killed the bird. 1t mea
sured seven feet from tip to tip of wing
A spideris gluten, as was evidenced
by an experiment recently made. 4
gentleman arose at oaybreak and sup
piled spider who had an extensiv.
web, with q fly. This was at 5 80 o'clocl
A. NJ. The spider was then feeding ol
an earwig. He came for the fly, rolle'
him up, and returned to his first course
At seven o'c,ock, his earwig had beel
demolished, and the fly at eight o'clock
At nine o'clock he gave it a daddy-long
legs, which he ate at noon. At one h
greedily seized blue-fy, and durin
the day he counted 100 green, fys, o
midgets, ali dead and fast in his net.