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Life in the Animal World.

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A. magpie worried a toad into a hole
made for fence post, and then gath
cred pebbles and stoned it.
A Buffalo musician, George Benzino,
has canary bird that imitates,the long
drawn notes and astonisheS visitors with
his sweet melody.
A beetle was found in the center of a
loaf of bread. In five minutes it began
to crawl around, none the worse for its
nearness to cremation.
Joseph Chapman, of Geddes, N. Y,
his wife and daughter, were warned by
q cat that the house was on fire. They
had barely time to escape in their night
clothes.
A four-months old dog in Lexington,
KY, when any one sings or whistles, sits
upon his launches, elevates his head,
shuts his eyes, and howls in unison,
modulating his voice to the notes of the
music.
A singing mouse is the wandering
minstrel in the house of Joshua Griffin,
of Jackson, Michigan. 1t is seen in
different closets, and always mounts an
overturned dish or other slight emil
nence before it begins to sing.
Washington, D. c., has a pig that in
sists upon living in the kitchen of its
owner. 1t wallows in the mud rs deep
as any pig, but plunges into brook near
by to cleanse itself before asking ad-
mission to the house.
Dick is the name of a rooster that has
great affection for q Rochester dog,
which feeling is reciprocated. Dick
perchcs on the back of Sandy while he
is stretched between two chairs, and
performs many tricks.
In Pennsylvania barnyard a gander
was having fine fun Tapping his wings
in the face of a steer, when the steer got
him in the corner and cooked his goose
with one thrust of his horns, pinnins
him to the fence.
A. canary bird, in hot weather, was
trying to hatch some eggs. She dropped,
and the male bird plunged into cold
bath, then went to the edge of the nest,
and the other buried her head in his
breast and was refreshed.
A cat that had been seized by an eagle,
in Scotland, and carried to the nest Of
the bird, feigned death, and was left by
the eagle with her young ones. AS soon
rs the eagle was gone, the cat killed all
the eaglets, and, satisfying her appetite,
disappeared.
A parrot died Of a broken heart in
Ballston Spa. After it had been twenty
five years in Il family it's owner went to
Minnesota. The bird soon missed him.
and its only cry was. "Where is Joe?"
1t ate nothing, and continued its call
until it fell exhausted.
David S. Forney, of Virginia. has a
dog that saw q mln take his masters
pocketbook and 90 away with it. Upon
being allowed out doors, the dog went
to the place where it was hid, took i
from the top of high fence, and brought
it TO his master, laying it in his hand.
4 Nevada cat crushed bee on the
base of the hive. Bees by the score
darted in Tabby's fur, and she spit, bit
and clawed herself, and rolled in the
grass. Size was at length hauled away
with garden rake She could never
be induced afterward to 60 within sight
of the hive.
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was stopped by jelly fish. 1t was one
o'clock at night, and thousands of fish
.1ioated on the water. The condensers
got so stopped up that water could not
enter. They then became so hot that
stcaming had to be stopped altogether
and the strainers taken Oft and cleared.
A delay OF five hours was occasioned.
A horse in Paris remained quiet
spectator Of Il fight until its owner was
being defeated, when the horse seized
the other man by the coat and lifted him
off. The owner of the horse again went
to the attack and was getting worsted,
when the animal repeated his act, and
again the third time, until both men
agreed to settle it at some future time.
An eccentric cat of Brattleboro, VT,
brought a rat to her kittens, but pre-
vented their killing it. adopted it her
self, and brought it up. By: some acci-
dent they became separated for four
months, when the cat again seeing it
sprang for it, but is said to have in
stantly recognized it, and bringing up
hor kittens, then full-grown, enjoyed an
old time frolic.