The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-12-08
Our Brute Friends.

Our Brute FRIENDS.
A dog named Carlo Is SAID to be one oil
the most efficient Custom House officials Of
San Francisco, and his services in detecting
opium smugglers among Chinese immi
grants are invaluable. An uneasy-lookinp
Celestial is instantly spotted by Carlo and
his baggage has TO be searched and con-
traband articles are almost always found.
Half dozen young fellows who had just
returned from y shooting excursion were
talking of the merits of their dogs One
was faithful, another intelligent, another
could almost talk. "Oh," said one Of them,
"my dog Medor is still more wonderful than
that. Yesterday forgot to give him his
breakfast Suddenly he disappears, goes
into the garden, and returns with a sprig OF
torget-me-not in his mouth
At the Marshall House, Savannah, Ca,
the barkeeper, on going to draw glass OF
lager for customer, spied a large rat on
the 1oor, directly under the beer tap, stand
ing on his hind legs with his mouth wide
open catching the dripping beer. The rat
remained unmoved, looking wistfully into
Tommy's face Tommy laughed at him.
took u small bar glass, drew 1t full of beer
and set it before the rat, who Immediately
drank, after which he walked off leisurely,
slightly staggering. The next day the rat
reappered and took his place under the tap.
Tommy drew a small glass of beer and set
it before him, together with a small piece of
cold meat and bread. The rat leisurely
drank the beer, ate the lunch and staggered
off to his hole. For nearly year the rat
came precisely at IL o'clock for his beer and
lunch.
A gentleman in the southern secti n of
the city has new kind of u squirrel-csptur-
ing continuance. AS gentleman was wan
dering through the woods in quest of squir-
rels, he saw approaching another gentleman
with something in his arms which at first
he took to be baby, and as he seemed to
be working cautiously along, peeping into
every tree he came to. h, began to think he
might possibly be about to witness "myste-
rious disappearance" or something of that
sort; but all at once the gentleman stops,
down and away scampers his bundle. up a
tree it goes with lightning rapldity. makes u
Jump and returns. Our informant hHstened
TO see what the thing could be, and found ID
cat with squirrel To the inquiry wv hat
are you doing with that cat7'' the answer
was, Catching squirrels; he's my gun, trap
and dog, and we catch all the squirrels we
come across" Lewiston Me- Journal
In the leading journal of Geneva we'll
known Alpine tourist publishes an account
of the proceedings of raven tribunal in
the Swiss mountains. Descending from the
regions of glaciers, he came upon a small
secluded glen, surrounded with thick cover.
From sixty to seventy ravens had
formed circle round one of their fellows
obviously a culprit, whose case they were
discussing with much croaking and wing
tapping NV and then they interrupted
the debates to listen to the energetic rep
reservations of the prisoner, who conducted
his own defense with amazing fervor, tie
judges breaking out into deafening chorus
of comments and refutatiOns after bis every
statement. Presently, having arrived at
the unanimous conclusion that the arraIgned
bird had failed to exculpate itself, they few
upon HIM from all sides, and tore him 10
pieces with their beaks.