Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-20
STORIES ABour Ax1MA1s.
Evidences Of the Use Of Something
Akin to the Reasoning Faculty.

Evidences Of the Use Of Something
Akin to the Reasoning Faculty.
smashed by timber goes about with a cob,
stick, or stone in its mouth to facilitate breath
ing.
A buzzard captured in Logan county, KY,
had on one OF its feet steel trap of peculiar
pattern, which was identified by Mr.. Trangh-
Der as having been carried away five years pre-
v1ouSly.
A young woman in Glen Cove, L. L, has a
hen that sings, Hold the Fort" with all the
JUNCTION OF Widow Van Colt. She has only to
start the air, when the pullet joins In and
sings along with her to the end, following the
notes and minding all the rests.
Two pickerel were jumping out of the water
and only one fish was seen to fall back into the
water On rowing out to the spot it was found
that the smaller one had jumped into the
larger ones mouth and killed 1t. Both TO-
gether weighed % pounds.
Mickey Sullivan is the name Of Vallejo dog
that drinks beer and looks for his schooner
with as much expectancy as his master. When
h ms owner cannot i 20 Tor his fav0te beverage
trots to the brewery, and placing the piece on
the counter. waits for his glass, and will not be
satisfied unless 1t Is full.
Mrs. Augustus W. Brooks, of East Elliott, Me.
has cat thirteen years old which walks
around room on her hind legs only, dances,
turns somersaults, goes through the motions OF
holding jewsharp to her mouth with one paw
paw to visitors, and holds saucer Of milk on
her forelegs while she drinks 1t.
Two dogs, bull and Newfoundland, were
having fierce fight in field at Haymaker, n.
getting worsted the cow stopped the battle by
throwing both dogs over bluff. They re-
turned to the fight, and the cow hurled one of
the dogs to the top Of the bluff, and the other
sneaked away.
Eight hundred miles off the coast of New
foundland large white owl dropped on one of
the spars Of the steamship Celtic exhausted;
from cold and hunger but 1t slowly recovered
IL Is land bird supposed to have been blown
off the coast Of Newfoundland by the westerly
gales. 1t Is white, with only few Specks of
dark color, and has become tame.
After being shut up In a mine for forty three
days and nights, Devonshtre (Eng.) dog still
lives. In accompanying his master on shoot
deep, and was supposed to be killed. After
more than month howl was heard to pro-
coed from the pits mouth. A miner was sent
emaciated condition. He had lost twenty six
pounds in weight.
On the edge of a.slate quarry thrush had
made her nest 1t was so close to danger that
when the rock was blasted piece of the falling
slate came almost into the nest. At the ring
ing OF bell the bird saw the men run. She
lert her nest too, and after the explosion she
returned. This the thrush continued to do
whenever blast was fired. The men rang the
bell to hoax the bird, but she only peeped over
the nest, and, as the men did not run, settled
down again.
two-headed cat was owned in Washington,
n. j. The heads were distinct and well formed
one jet black, the other the color of a pure
Maltese. The body was divided in color exactly
like the heads. 1t had only four legs and one
TAIL over which each head seemed to have con-
head took no notice of 1t, and If the black side
was rubbed the Maltese head purred content
eddy. Both heads ate at the same time, but one
slept while the other was wide awaken z.
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