West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-11-13

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Asnake about two feet long lad a
lively light lately with n chipmuuk OF
the Wollkiil river. The snake coiled
around his antaeoniat soveIal times, bat
the little fellow slipped out of the folds
and turned again, biting the snakes
body. Soon tho snake wax unable %
crawl, and the chipmunk killed It,
a mule in tho Newark cement compa>
ny's works refuses TO do seryice after the
ben sounds the hour of noon. ssIr heis
hosting load no deliberately allows il
TO settle back. After feeding he allows
! himself to be hitched up, bat no amount
ofcoaxifig or beating win induce him to
work until after the one O'clock whist @.
a lnrge number of black ants being
driven from sugar bowl, soon returned.
TO try their ingenuity tho housokoeper
suspended the bowl by a string from the
ceiling, Thesnts tried 10 reach IL b,.
standing on each others laciss, but The
pyramid fell down as fast rs II was raised
Soon afterward she saw them descending
the string and dropping down upon the
Jumps Of sugar.
4 slightly wounded blackbrd in
Remsen was put in cage within a few
iaet of a robins nest. The robins know
that the blackbird was a despoller O.
birds eggs and they rer'ched near the
cage and signihed their disapproval i'm
earnest and noisy tones. But in z few
days they seemed to comprehend the
helpless captivity If their ononly, and
they began regularly feeding tho blacks
bird astaithfully rs they fed their young
in the adjacent nest.
The owner ola three year-old colt at
Blooming Grove, Wis. having occasion
to drive the marc, hitched her up, an
shutting the colt in the barn drove of.
just before l eaching tho gate he looked
back, and to his astonishment saw the
colt jump out of an open door in the S, c
ond-story of the barn and run OF a. j..
nothing unusual had happened. Inves-
iigation proved that the animal had
climbed flight Of steep stairs In order
10 reach the upper part of the barn.
Nashville parrot lost his mistress
her sweetheart The young man called
at her home and pulled the bell. The
parrot, sitting in an upper window, call
ed out; $50 tho window 90 The young
man was startled. Ho looked a. all the
windows and found them closed. lie
pulled the bell again. Next door %
shouted the parrot, initiating tho voice
of the young lady. hut the young man
know he was right and pulled again.
"Go to the workhouse!' shrieked tho
parrot, and the young man went away in
a rage.
An English naturalist, while preserv-
ing ants and spiders In alcohol met with
touching exhibition that caused him To-
forogo further experiments. he wished
TO preserve large female spider and
twenty-four Of her Young ones that he
had captured. He put the mother into
bottle OF alcohol, and saw that after "a
few moments she folded her legs upon
her body, and was 40 rest He then pnt
toto tho bottle the young ones, who. OF
course, manifested acute pain. That
was his surprise 10 see the mo'hor arouse
herselffrom her lctEerpy, dart arosnd.
and gather her young ones TO her bosom.
fold her legs over them, again relapse
into insensibility, until zoo last de4th
came TO her relief aud the limbs, 10
longer controlled by this maternal i'm
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