Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-24

Hcrow that sat on the rail of an Arkan.
sas fence was attacked by 4 rat:lesnake.
The snake struck repeatedly, but the
crow cvaded him every time, and more.
over. picked the snakes head to shreds
and killed him.
A travelling party lost their dog at Leip-
zig, and ten days afterward, when at Ber-
lin, about one hundred miles distant. the
animal joined them again. ragged and
gaunt. The dog had not before been over
the road.
Prof. Paige, of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has !: mouse eating stOrk that traps his
own food. He was brought from Mexico
by the professor, and has become quite
tame. He will watch mouse hole for
more than an hour, and is always sure of
his game.
Statistics show that in 1878 1,s05 mOles
were destroyed in Greenwood cemetery.
In 1878 7,1S6 ground mice, 81 cats, 81
dogs, 1G3 snakes and 121 rats were de-
strOyed. In 1879 3.159 ground mice, 73
cats, 90 dogs, IS moles, G4 snakes and 355
rats were captured.
An eagle carried a cat to her nest iii the
north of Scotland. Feigning death the ca:
was left by the eagle with her young ones.
As soon as the old bird left pussy sprang
upon the eagles, made meal of one of
them and effected her escape without i'll
jury.
Nellie was q handsome pony belonging
to an old negro woman IN st. Louis. She
had become very aged and seemed Sc
riOus and meditative. With few fare
well neighs recently she deliberately
dashed her head against the wall #
the house, and, breaking her neck, died.
An ant apparently sick went stumbling
along the dome Of Il nest with it's feclcrs
hanging loosely. Several other ants ap-
preached it and touched it with their feel
ers. AT last it was taken up by them and
carried to some water near by, many times
dipped in it, and with care brought back
to the ant hill
A dog got between the tracks Oh the
railroad just as two express
trains were approaching from opposite di
rections. The animal looked in either d.
rection and then did the only thing which
could have saved him. He stretched him
self out on his belly, placing his nose be-
tween his paws and remained in that ;,o-
sition until the trains had passed.
A daily visitor to the cage of Il hand
some canary in the Office OF the Philadci-
phia ITmns is Il mouse. He is welcomed
by song, and, as lie eats the seeds and
drinks the water from the cups, the bird
Civ. S evidence of his being 4 favored guest.
After his meals he frcqeuntly plays about
the bottom of the cage an hour.
A canary bird belonging to lady il
Portland, Nc, faints away as gracefully
as can be. When noticed it will stop in
the middle Of song and fall from its perch
as if dead. 1t remains in an apparently
condition for sore ten or
fifteen minutes, then rouses up and BE-
gins to warblc as though nothing had oc-
Cured.
Over three bushels of fish, mostly trout,
were found recently landlOcked in the bed
of a mountain stream ON the line Of the
Erie railroad. The brook is almost en-
tirely dried by the drought, and at the
foot of a little ledge of rock these fish were
found in pool of about two barrels of
water. They hal evidently been driven
into it a the water grew lower and lower
in the stream.
A farmer near Reading, Pa, had mon
key that was fond of running the hay cut
ter. The hired man caught him asleep
one day in the barn, and tied hay around
his tail, which was four feet long. When
the monkey awoke he found the bunch of
hay, he is said to have thrown it Oh the
hay cutter, and moment later to have
run over the rafters chattering with pain.
A New Jersey sportsman had been
shooting and had killed several birds. lie
sent his dog to fetch them. AS he ap-
preached with one of the birds his master
took a few steps forward, and catching
his foot in a grapevine, fell forward upon
his gun, which was discharged. the entire
contents lodging in the dog. The animal
continued to advance, dropped the bird
at his masters feet, licked his hand and,
looking up into his face atfectionately,
dropped dead.
A Cincinnati cat caught . mouse, and
began a series of gymnastics with it prior
to killing and banqueting upon it. Just
then another cat came up. Tom instantly
ran his nose under a tin pan that lay in the
yard bottom side up, and deposited his
prey, and then attacked the intruder.
After lively battle TOMS adversary re-
treated, Tom pursuing him out of sight.
He was gone possibly five minutes, when
he returned to tho yard, walked up to the
inverted pan, again ran his nose under it,
seized the mouse and proceeded with the
meal, the preliminaries to which had been
so impudently interrupted.
A Placer, CAL, dog fell into shaft and
was there for AZ days before he was dis
covered. During that time he was with
out food. The bottom of the shaft was
tramped as hard and as smooth as ma, bic.
and the sides as high as the dog could
spring were furrowed and torn in its fran
tic efforts to escape. A dict of warm
water and milk was administered and at
f,ct