The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-14
RARE INTELLIGENCE Of OUR
UNSPEAkINC FRIENOS-AN
ELEPHANTS GRATITUDE
"A WISE OLD DUCK
Spiders InteIIlgence---Cou1d
See the Back Of His Neck!
An EAGLES APPETITE


Read ng Eagle.
j. II. Welkner, proprietor Of the Joe
! ii Joker House, Oh Robinson street, has
an eagle which Is fond of f%easting on
cats aud rats. Boys living 10 the north
ern part Of the city. upon learning that
the birds was fond of cats. carried some
there every day to zee the eagle destroy
them. The report was circulated that
the proprietor paid lib rally for eats, and
i gre Il many NOR. were brought than
the { lie could devour. 1t wa not as
unuSu Il thluu To- zee the b ,ys after >caun
with halt a Il z ~ cats in "a bag, some Of
which had been stolen from the neigh
b RS. Finally fr. Welder refused Ia
allow the boys to feed any more cats to
the bill. aud now buys rat, paying
fifty cents Ter hundred. How man,
ats yiu purchased during the past
week. asked the reporter Of Mr.. Wei
ler, and he replied, Seven dozen ;
The rats are thrown into the cage alive,
md the eagle grabs them or the buck.
pierce. them through the v%itals, aud
Kills the the same "a 1t did the cats.
The rats must be perfect, without be
ing manned, else the eagle will not
touch them.
AN ELEPHANTS GRATITUDE.
hereford ,Eng.) Times
During last week Bestock e Womb
we'll > mcnagerle again visited Tenbury.
Our readers will remember the elephant
Lizzies wonderful recognition of Mr..
Finley, chemist, of Teme street, when
on a visit to that town about two years
since. The animal came out of the
procession to greet him at his shop door,
remembering him as her deliverer from
immense pain caused by an attack Of
collie brought on through drinking cold
water when journeying to Tenbury.
Mr. FINLEY. on visiting the menagerie
the other evening, was at once seen by
trunk in such a manner as to cause
alarm to her keepers, but an eff
tectionate hug for her preserver was all
the poor creature intended. Doubtless
the remembrance OF her friend will
never be effaced, since this is the sec
ond time she has greeted Mr.. TiDley
in such a surprising manner
A SPIDERS INTELLIGENCE.
E1chenge.
Almost all spiders leave a cable be /
hind as they travel from point to point
The common geometric spider (epetro
dtddemd) shoots out lines with great
as a correspondent found out :
one day. He says Zone day, when {
holding an epeira suspended to my fin I
ger by its cable it disappeared as if by
TO discover its modus operanh. .
[ tried another in bright sunlight, aud t
observed that while it was hanging thus |
suspended and perfectly motionless it [
shooting out threads in various di- =,
r%ections. These threads foated on,
spreading out into three or four rata, a
and covering about sixty degrees, but {
in d common direction. AT length !
came in contact with IA post and ad- t
nereG it. As soon as the spider found i
anchorage, it cut the one by which I {
held it captive, ran up this cable of hoI 6
and regained its liberty. {
GUILD SEE THE BACK OF ITS NECK. :
'olorado Springs Gazette. :
The lamb came from the ranch of ,
& Buzzard, and was found to !,
possess only one skull, which, however, F.,
was unusually large, and contained too /,
we'll developed brains. Upon the up 5
per part of the rear of the skull was a :
arge prefecture, at the base of which .
was found a perfect eye, so hat had the ;
creature lived it would have found little :
difficulty in performing that alleged i'm =
possibility of seeing the back of its =
neck. Two eyes occupied the usual ;
position, which gave the lamb the un >
usual possession of three eyes. Just :
before the rear eye were two ear-fapS. !
we'll developed, except near the skull, +,
where they united into one. There was j
one orifice in the skull at that point. :
Two ears were found in the normal POI
thus giving the animal three per
feet ears.