The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-02-06
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Aibllfrag recently caught at West
Chester when opened was found TO have
swallowed a full grown mouse
A, cat was sent by express, carefully
boxed. from Dansyille to Rochester. a
distance of fifty miles Not many days
.afteTward, tabby came walking into her
old home.
n When a good housewife of Kirkaldy
went for a ham that had hung from the
rafters. it had fair exterior, but was a
perfect shell. skin and bones only re-
manning to show its form, while the rat,
after living so sunptuously, had built a
nest In the centre, and was easily cap
tured.
A parrot belonging to Capt. Eichel-
berger. of Baltimore. was always present
at family prayers. One morning, when
in the garden hawk few down and
seized the parrot, when it shrieked :
a'Oh, Lord, save usl Oh, Lord, save
US 10 which so frightened the hawk that
he dropped his prize.
At Priests hotel, on the road from
CalaveIas Grove to the Yosemite, IS a
dog who one hour before the arrival Of
the stage goes leisurely down the road
to meet 1t, then bounds back to the
poultry yard, catches chickens, bites
their heads off, and takes them to the
cook. He takes one chicken for each
gentleman in the stage, never making a
mistake.
An expert in antique coins in Paris is
a poodle. The money being placed
upon 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 1t
was found the whole thing was trick.
His master took care to handle only the
bogus coins, and the poodle's decisions
were arrived at by faculty OF scent.
a wandering ''chippy" was picked up
by a st. Louis lady and placed in the
cage with her canary. In the morning
it was released, when the canary mourn.
ed as Il 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 the livel1est
notes and seemed gratifed. This was
repeated for three days. Then chjppy
failed to return. The canary dropped
and soon died.
a monkey belonging to gentleman
OF the South of France often helps the
cook. Being given pair of partridgeS
to pick one day, he seated himself in aT
open window. A hawk flew down and
snatched one of the birds, when the
monkey tricked the hawk by secreting
nluSeI, ana, waiting, soon saw Mn
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
7FTs not discovered until the game (P
yas served at table,
a couple Of seals, the property of Ma
jOr Urch, of Portsmouth, y. H., were
kept in tank, and were as tame a:
dogs. One Of them died recently, and
Major Urch concluded to give the othel
its liberty, it seemed to grieve so mucl
at its loss. He took the tank to the
river bank and released the seal. think.
Ing it would swim out to sea. 1t swan
all around the river, but soon returned
crying in distress and tapped into it
old quarters on the bank, and stubborn
y refuses TO be elected.
A spider Is a CLINTON, as was evidenc
ed by an experiment recently made.
gentleman arose at daybreak and sup
piled spider, who had an extensiv,
web, with a fly. This was at $50 o.
clock, A. NJ, in September. The spide
was then feeding on an earwig. II
came for the fly, rolled him up and re
turned to his first course. 1T o'clocl
his earwig had been demolished an,
the fy at 3 o'clock. At O'Clock b
gave it daddy-long legs, which he at
ut noon. At he greediy seized blov
hy and during the day lie counted II
green flys, or midgets, all dead and fas
IN his net