The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-03-27

old. called Marie Delix. was playing
with one Of her cnmpsnions on . mossy
slope OF the mountsin. when all q,
once % eagls swooped down upon her
and carried hee away in spite Of the
cries and the preseuce Of her young
friend. Some psanstx hearing the
screams. hastened to the spot. bu,
sought in vain for the child, for they
found nothing but enc OF her shoes on
the edge Of . pTeeipice. The child.
however. was not carried to the eagle "a
nest, where ooly two eaglsts we're seen,
sar,eunded By heaps Of goat and sheep
bones It was nok I'll two months after
this that . shepherd discovered the
corpse Of Marie Delix. frightfally mu-
ftilsteds and lying upon . rock half .
3ssgue from where she had been borne
An instance Of this kind, which oc-
feurrsd in the ssutumn Of 1867, is thus
narrated BY D. stsacher in county Tippah
10 Missouri. "A sad casualty occurred
Bat my school few days ago. TIE es-
Tles4pWb0n vayfrOahleeougin the
hefy 6Sosho6d ftr some time paSs. car
rying of pigs. lambs. &c. No one
f.1hought they would attempt to prey on
childroa; but o. Thursday. 8. t,ess,
fthe little boys we're out some distance
fsom the school house. when an eAgle
Was seen sweeping down aud picking
up aliasIe Jennie Kenney, a boy of
Eeisht, and flying away, with him. The
children cried ont. and when I got out
Of the house. the eagle was 90 high
that could just hear the child scream
ling. The, alas9 was given. end from
sereamlaG rad 1kouiing in tho Dir, &C.,
the eaehs1nS 60uced to drop his VIC
tim; but his talons had been buried so
deeply in Kim, aud the fall was SO
great. that be was killed-or either
wsuld have been fatal"
Some birds attract attention by the
lsize Of their constructions, asd by Nss
inates nUtione they .eesu to have Of cer-
tail cheNicaf phenomena which We see
them make exactly the right use of
A little hill in an English garden
astonishcs US byits diueast'us. and the
lab which h dchauds Many hands
and much time have been occupied
with it, and yet if we compare tue
work With the mesns. Of himswhs Or
detsikse b f6rmed che Aas4of Sarth
seems but . little matter. A bird. the
mound building Mesapodius. accom-.
plisbes by itself . task q thousand times
greater. 5@T -
It has the carriage and size of part
ridge, and Its modest brown robe re-
calls tie sember colors ot,slmost all the
birds at it's country. Australia. that
land of geological marvels. but its labor
and its intelligence soon make rs forget
the moofufut aspect OF the workman.
The immsuse structure built by the
Negapedise Eests7 on tho ground. 1T
begins byss sSitiny 4ossthsr . Tuck bed
Of leaves. branches sud plsnts; then it
heaps up. earth' .snd atoneR and strews
then rOuad .ahput in such . way as to
form an enormous crAter-likc tumulus,
coucave in the middle; the place where
alone the materials drst collected re-
usin uncoyoeod. One of thsss meats,
the 6meu1ois OF ,thich .6rs given by
illustrious ornstholooist. Gould, was
fourteen fest high, and presented q
cifooD oD9ssenee ef Que hundred aad fifty
feet. Compared to the size of the bird
the Dimensions of such Q mountain arc
almost prodigious. and We ask how,
with its sbsaks apdl claws onlysf sfor .
| pickaxe and entire means of transport,
it contrives to get together such mass
Of msterislsi The cslebrated turnulps
Of Achilles. and that nf ratroclus. sure.
" demanded less labor.