The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-11-04
Stories About Animals and Birds

A gray horse used by the st. Louis
Transfer Company in one of its teams is
an habitual tobacco chewer.
A terrier dog at Americus, Ga, has for
saken his home and taken up his lot with
a herd of goats, refusing to associate with
other CANNES.
A novel fight occurred in stable in
Council Bluffs between stallion and
bulldog. The fight lasted more than an
hour, and was SO furious that no one dared
entersto interfere. After fatally bruising
the dog the horse threw it outside the stall
with its teeth.
W. B. F. Daniel, of Dublin Ga, was
deer hunting recently. His dog caught a
fawn. Daniel attempted to secure it, and
the doe came to the rescue. He dropped
the fawn to catch the mother, but after a
desperate struggle she slipped from his
grasp and got away.
A lady at Branchville, N. j., one day
fed common brook turtle that had ap-
preached her door. Thereafter the turtle
paid frequent visits This season the ami
NAL brought mate with it, and the two
make frequent excursions from the brook
to the house to obtain food.
A fight between toad and a large black
spider was recently witnessed at Merrick,
L. I. After each round the toad hoped
to plantain leaf, bit off piece, and then
returned to the fray. After this had oc-
Cured several times the leaf was taken
away, and the toad, failing to find the leaf,
soon rolled over and died.
The distasteful odor of asafetida that a
Virginia lady had placed under the caves
of the porch as disinfectant drove away
wren that had just gone to housekeeping.
For some days the bird and her mate were
observed to be very busy, and it was soon
discovered that they had moved their nest
twig by twig to the opposite side Of the
portico.
At wayside inn in the south of France
is roasting jack moved by animal power.
Two dogs turns the machine working alter,
nately. One day the dog whose proper turn
it was being absent, the other was caught and
put on the wheel. He fatty refused, howev
er, to work, and neither coaxing, threats MOI
chastisement produced any effect. Aftel
some delay the missing dog was found anC
set to the task After he had nearly com
pleted the job, he was released and the frs
tried again, and the animal SO lately recus-
ant now offered no opposition and made the
wheel revolve with hearty good will till
the roast was finished.
The blue jay is the boldest and most mis-
chievous of wild birds. Near Knoxville
Tenn, recently, one was seen to fly mum
Der of times to high picket fence to at
tract pair of kittens playing on the lawn
The kittens finally mounted the fence, an(
began cautious approach from picket t.
picket. The jay let the first get to within
eighteen inches, and hoped over between
the two. The second kitten approached
the bird hoped over it. It turned, ant
the jay hoped back and between. Th'
first kitten approached, ahd the jay hoppet
back over it, and SO kept it up till ont
kitten got disguised and left, and the othe
followed soon after. Once or twice afte
the jay tried to inveigle the kittens to an
other frolic, but failed.
aUG OiuuIOuS, VI AeOSCuudACj ~. :, AuE
a wonderful dog named Jack. Jack used
to toss silver piece placed upon his nose
and turn around once and catch it in hi
mouth, but some one put hot penny on
his nose one day and that spoiled the trick
In the winter time he is the dread of al
the school children who have sleighs, fol
he will rush out when boy is going alons
grab the rope of the sleigh, pull it loos'
from the boy and run off with it as fast a
he can 90. Finally the boys combined
against him. When Jack decides that h
wants sleigh they let him have the rope
but five or six boys jump on the sleigh
and Jack very soon tires of drawing them
Jack, when a cork is thrown up in the air
will jump up, turn summersault, ant
catch it in his mouth.
An interesting account of the afectionat'
attentions of a hen for brood of kittens Ii
given in the Scotsman. In two adjoining
nests, in loft, in Tayinloan Inn, Kintyre
were FIVE kittens and setting hen. A day
or two after the kittens were born the hel
removed from the nest in which she wa
and took possession of them, but the ca
removed the kittens from loft to small
enclosure in another house. The hen sooI
found out the place to which her adoptes
family had been carried, and took to nurs
ing them as before. On this an under
standing was come to between the real ant