Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-14
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srnR1Es ARnuT ANIMALS.
% EE Is sa Z-- 1E - a g
illustrating Their Friendship as wei
as EmmitY to Man.

Their Friendship Is wei il
as Kmmity to Man. 0
A hen belonging to a gentleman of L
Raleigh, n. c. had bee n missed for =
DAYS; When She made her appear t
ance. it was with twelve little terrap- I
ms. It-was found that the terrapin !
that laid the eggs deserted them, and =!
thelfowl converted them to her own
use and sat on them. !
ia A candy-eating horse. is the prop
erty of DIR. Pratt, of Albany n. I.
Everyrmorning he.is driven to the
banking house of Henry R. Pierson, !
and as soon as his master leaves hum 81
he bolts across the street, and from a
woman keepmga stand gets q stick +
| of candy, eats it, and waits the arrl-
| val Of his MASTER who pays the ven
der + ! e .t4res at N Mayor rorvoQd2
dwelling in. Chester, Pa, a sparrow
hatched four. pretty birds. While a
storm was raging one evening, and I
the wind whistling through every
branch of the trees, the mother bird
carried the little sparrows from the
Inest-to the corner OF q a window sill,
away from-the severe weather, and
then carried thenest down, put the
little ones in it, and rested safely /
from the storm all night. She and
Eher Young were web cared for. IF this |
had not been done, the young spar
rows would no udbubt have been
drowned.
. A Colchester,z Conn, woman was
| awakened ats3 O'clock at night by her
cat. which had forced it's way into
her room and was crying Justify. She
got up, turned the aniInal~out,s and
again laid Gown and slept; but soon
the cries Of the cat were worse than
ever. Her son. who WAS IN an adj
Joining room, opened door to turn
! the cat out when flames bust in up
I OF him. He c osed the door and
screamed to his mother to escape.
She ana her four CHICKEN had barely
time to jump out Of tie second story
windows in their night clothes before
d TIE whole upper story OF the large
farmhouse was in flames.
A box containing two monkeys was
brought to San Francisco from Pc
taluma, and as there was no one to
ceige them, the box was stored
away and the animals forgotten.
When the owner call and the box was
opened, it was found that one of the
monkeys had died of starvation and
thirst, and the. other sat bugging the
body clo.ely. At intervals it would
= lay the corpse down, dance around 4
and paw it as if to awaken it, and fail
: ing in that would again clasp the
q the dead monkey in it's arms and give
q vent to piercing whines and shrieks
= Again it would chatter furiously, as
> if Rexpostulating wines its senseless
companion for it's quietness. Evl-
IDENTIFY death was an unknown com
dition to the puzzled, bewildered anC
: grief stricken joclzo, who fought say
! agely when the corpse was taken iron
: INN. eas-. 0r-.EeE.- ~ar-
~ Hannibal Roe, Of Helena, Monta
ma, went cheerily over to the noun
tains with his gun. On turning
:, / sharp point Of rocks he was suddenl.
act and without warning prostcated b
ar a huge she bear, which reached TO
o. HIM from the bushes, in which he wa
d nursing two cubs, 90 She sstruch Ro
o. on the-topsof the head, taking tn
= scalp with it and drawing it over hl
4eyes. AS he felt tie bear cinch hin
and in the scru5 gle they both tumble
over a precipice, where the bear bl
q and tore her victim, and would hav
AH killed him outright but for the cryln
81 of the cubs, which called the mothe
u off. Roe seeing the coast clear, an
y with one arm tore from its socke
blinded with his scalp hanging owe
MS. eyes and his back nearly broker
ess one ear off, and otherwise blttel
:. Lcratched and torn, got up and wal
airy ed to the stage road. where he WI
:. i i9 taken to shelter, ''-'+
and A blind beggar was III the habit
Frequenting the Pont des Sis Pere
~ France, where he used to station hli
ing self with clarionet and very int
, .ss lfgent poodle. Contributions pourt
freely into the little wooden bo
which the dog held nhis mouth. Oh
;;iieG9ss day the blind man, who had reach
heir an adv anoed age, was not to be see
ny IN He -had fallen Ill. His companiC
however. continued to frequent t
accustomed spot, and the passers
' oGfy to whom he was familiar, understo
n Of that his master was unweil, al
touched by his fidelity, drop ped tn
,1ity, P 5nce into his bowl III increased nu
bn 9ae oers. The beggar went the way
ID re- all hesh, an event which the W
taken poodle carefully kept to himself III
: an he also became an absentee from
es Of Pont DIES STs. Peres. The poor a
mo e mai was found wing dead in eel
|. and near his former masters abode, a 81
doe doe Of 10000 francs in bonds on I
with Orleans railway being discovered
e PeI- der the litter on which be was street
acelpt ed sac ss.-s e-es
book, At the Marshall house, Savann
~ OF L. 8o.oi 10 Il