Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-02-27
Dogs, Birds, and Other Animals is
STORIES 10vs1Atx6 9f4rrs TRAITS

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Ast:sas seM byze1prs.s, ss.efull,
boxed, H6m Dansviffe to Rochester. q
distance of fifty miles, Not many days
afterward tabby oame walking into her
w Ms5a soSaAbxlaSfe 81 s:Ks.sMH
went fol, a..ham that hung from tie
rafters 1t had . fair exterior, but il was
. perfect shell, skin and bone. only re.
mai Gnglto1 Edw Il sfbrA, #ENE 5! rat,
after living so sumptously, had builtsa
nest IL the center, and was easily cap.
A rpsrot, be}on8ing TO Eapto EiehS.
berger Of Baltimore, was Nlways praS.
emit at family prayers. Ono morning,
when in the garden, hawk flew down
and seized the parrot. when it,shrieked,
"Ok Lord. save us = 0h = Lord, save
us !" which so frightened the hawk that
he dropped his prize.
At Priests Hotel, ON the road from
Calayerss Grove 10 tina yosemite isa
dog who one hour before the arrival III
the stage goes leisurely down the road
to meet it, then bounds back to the
poultry yard, catches chickens, bites
their beads of, and takes them to- the
cook. He takes one chicken for each
gentleman in the stage, never making
mistake.
An expert In antiqne coins 10 Pdris
is poodle. The money being plac ed
upon a table, the dog is introduced,
and after nosing among them will
knock of the, table all the bad pieces
with his paw. After acquiring great
fame, it was found the whole thing was
a trick. His master took care to handle
only the bogus coins, and the decisions
were arrived ut by faculty OF scent.
A wandering" chippy" was picked
up by st. Louis LAZY and placed in
the cage with her canary. In the morn.
lug il was released, when the canary
mourned as if it had lost its mate. In
the evening the chippy returned, and
was allowed to nestle on the cage, when
the canary struck up one of its livliest
notes and seemed gratitied. This was
repeated for three days. Then chippy
failed to return. The canary dropped
and soon died.
A couple of seals, the property of
Maj. Urch, Of Portsmouth, N. H., were
kept in tank, and were as tame as dogs.
One OF them died recently, and Maj.
Urch concluded to give the other its
liberty, it seemed to grieve so much at
its loss. He took the tank to the river
bank, ana released the seal. thinking it
would swim out to sea. 1t swan all
around the river, but soon returned,
crying in distress, and tapped into its
old quarters on the bank, and stubborn
~ refuses to be elected.
A monkey belonging to gentleman
of the South of France often helps the
cook. Being given pair of cartridges
to pick one day, he seated himself in
IN open window. A hawk flew down
and snatched one OF the birds, when the
monkey tricked the hawk by secreting
himself, and waiting, soon saw him
come for the other, when the monkey
caught the thief. Plucking both the
hawk and the remaining partridge, he
took them to the cook, and the change
was not discovered until the gams (?)
was served at the table.
An enormous eagle in Georgia swept
down upon two little girls, aged two and
three years, throwing them TO the
ground. 1t buried its talons in the
face and arm of the elder. and attempted
to carry of the child, bnt was prevented
by her struggles. \ little brother
seven years OF age came to her assist
ance with carving knife, slashing the
eagles legs, when it turned upon the
boy, who was soon released by the APP
pearance Of Joe Betzler, u neighbor,
upon the scene. who shot and killed
the bird. 1t measured seven feet from
tip to tip of Wing.
A spider is u glutton, as was evil
denced by an experiment recently made
A gentleman arose at daybreak and
supplied spider, who had an extern
sive web, with a fly. This was $50
o'clock, A. ~, in September. The spi-
der was then feeding on an earwig. He
came for the fly, rolled him up, and
returned to his first course. AT Z
o'clock. his earwig had been demolished.
and the fly at s o'clock. At 8 o'clock
he gave it - daddy -long-legs, which he
ate ut noon. At l he greedily seized
blow fly, and during the day he counted
l20 green flies or midgets, all dead and
last in his net.
A story comes from Tenbury, Eng
land, where q menagerie has been pay
ing a visit, which illustrates the we'll
known character of the elephant for
humane feelings in a remarkable de.
gree. Among the animals was a very
fine female elephant, called g. Lizzie, +"
which was attacked with violent tit Of
collie, and suffered intensely. A local
chemist, whose success rs an animal
doctor is we'll known, treated " Lizzie"
and saved the animals life. On the
procession passing the chemists shop
on Friday, the elephant Immediately
recognized her benefactor who was
standing Mt the door of his shop. and,
going to him, gracefully placed her
trunk in his hand. The chemist visited
the exhibition at night, and met with
an unexpected reception from his for
NOR patient. Gentlyseizing the "doc-
tor with her trunk, the elephant en-.
circled him with it, to the terror OF the
audience, who expected to see him
CRU shed to death, but " Lizzie had no
such intention, and after having thus
demonstrated her gratitude by acts
more eloquent than words, she released