The Newtown bee., 1880-03-03
Life in the Animal World.

A magpie worried @ toad into hole made for fence post, and then gath cred pebbles and stoned it.
 A Buffalo musician, George Benzino, has canary bird that initiates the long drawn notes and astonishes visitors with his sweet melody. ...-.5
 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. r., his wife and daughter, were warned by a 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 l music.
 A singing mouse is the wandering minstrel in the house of Joshua Griffin, of Jackson, Michigan It is seen in different closets, and always mounts an overturned dish or other slight emi- hence before it begins to sing.
 Washington, D. O., has a pig that in sists upon living in the kitchen of its owner. 1t wallows in the mud as deep
 as any DIE, Dub pluuSoS liibo ss pl ooh hSe.h
 bv to cleanse itself before asking ad
 mission to the house.
 Dick is the name of a rooster that has
 great affection for a Rochester dog,
 which feeling is reciprocated. Dick
 perches on the back of Sandy while he
 is stretched between two chairs, and
 performs many tricks. In Pennsylvania barnyard gandel
 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, pinnlnG him to the fence.
 A canary bird, in hot weather, wa! [ trying to hatch some eggs. She dropped and the male bird plunged into colt t bath. then went to the edge of the nest l and the other buried her head in hl
 breast and was refreshed.
 9 A cat that had been seized by an eagl - in Scotland, and carried to the nest ( e the bird, feigned death, and was left b e the eagle with her young ones. As 500 : as the eagle was gone, the cat killed a : the eaglets, and, satisfying her appetlt
 disappeared.
 Il A parrot died of a broken heart = Ballston s pa. After 1t had been twent; e five years in a family it's owner went | }, and it's only cry was, "Where is Joe: l. It ate nothing, and continued its ca
 until it fell exhausted.
 e- David S. Forney, of Virginia, has \, dog that saw Q man take his master Il pocketbook and go away with 1t. Upt se~ being allowed out doors, the dog we IT to the place where it was hid, took Ln from the top of high fence, and broug a- it to h; ssstssT es,U lerisqiitl ia ish3Rdn dn y base of the hive. Bees by the sco " darted in Tabby's fur, and she spit, S. and clawed herself, and rolled in u lg grass. She was at length hauled aws st be induced afterward to go within sigl ot of the hive.
 A ship crossing the equator recent e, was stopped by jelly fish. It was oi of o'clock at night, and thousands of ii: ;k t1oated on the water. The condense CT got so stopped up that water could n IS enter. They then became so hot tn a steaming had to be stopped altogeth a and the strainers taken off and cleare,
 A delay of five hours was occasioned.
 A horse in Paris remained aui
 spectator of fight until its owner w
 being defeated, when the horse seize re the other man by the coat and lifted hi
 off. The owner of the horse again we " to the attack and was getting worste y when the animal repeated his act, al 1o again the third time, until both m, !e de agreed to settle it at some future time.
 An eccentric cat of Brattleboro, VI w brought rat to her kittens, but p1 W vented their killing it. adopted it he :, self, and brought it up. By some ac, IL dent they became separated for fo
 months, when the cat again seeing SC sprang for it, but is said to have h. stantly recognized it, and bringing
 her kittens, then full-grown, enjoyed h. old. time frolic.