Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-08-17
AB0UTi ANIMALS.
BETTER THAN A FISH STORY.

found 70 contain a tiny gold ring in
scrlbed Pet A newspaper note
was made of the matter. which
brought ont the fact that the ring
was lost last summer by a child OF
Mr. Dell Cobb, foreman of the Silver
City .SoHfhrcSt, \. NJ, while travel
ing through Kansas.
TIE VALUABLE DOCS OF \ DUCHESS.
The Dnchesse d'Uzes. who is
probably the only lady in Western
Europe who is the actual mistress OF
a pack Of hounds, sent thirty six of
the animals with which she hunted
last winter i'll the Forest of Ram
houillet to the French bench show,
amt these hounds have been awarded
a prize. The Duchesse dues can
boast of having killed every stag she
has nted-for in the Forest of
Nambouillet, as everywhere else in
France, they hunt the wild deer
Paris Dispatch to London Times.
KANGAROO HUNT IN VIENNA.
a novel pastime is in preparation
for the Nirnnese public. Mr.. Henri
Burkhardt has brought from the
colony of Victoria thirty kangaroos
for the purpose of royal hunt. The
Prater is the locality selected, and
dogs and horsemen will be engaged
in the sport. Some of the kangaroos
are Of great height and proportionate
strength, and will give the Austrian
hounds that may be courageous
enough to tackle them considerable
trouble. The hunt is to come off in
the course of month.-ISt. James
Gazette.
AN ADVENTURE WITH A DEER.
The mailcariier from Newberry
to Grand Marais. Chippewa county.
reports an adventure with a buck
deer One day while going through
the wood. he saw the buck at a little
distance in the woods, and shot.
wounding him. The buck immedi
ately started at the man with his
bead to the ground The man started
to get over a big log, but before he
was on the log the buck struck at
him. running his horns into and pin
ming the man tight to the somewhat
rotten log, and as the buck could not
loosen his horns, the man was obliged
to wait few hours for the buck to
die and then cut Off the horns.-TDe-
troit Free Press.
A CATS REASONING POWER.
When paraifine lamp was being
trimmed some Cf the oil fell upon the
back of the cat and was afterwards
gnited by ii cinder falling upon it
from the fire. The cat. with her
back III a blaze. in an instant made
for the door (which happened to be
Dpen) and sped up the street about
loo yards, where she plunged into the
village watering trough and ex-
tlnguished the flames. The trough
had eight or nine inches of water and
pnss was in the habit of seeing the
tile put out with water every night.
The latter point is important. as it
shows the data Of observation on
which the animal easoned.-I From
Nature
\ CAT STORY.
An old white cat belonging to a
'anlily residing on Milwaukee street,
iled recently. and an interesting
story is now related about it. One
inc morning, after having received a
,aucer of milk fresh from the family
,ow-the milk wagon-it left the
sitchen and walked toward the barn.
1t was soon attracted to a rubbish
pile at the side of the barn, and be-
gan to gnaw at some small pieces of
meat which lay strewed around the
place. An old rat soon made its ap-
pearance, and also began to gnaw at
he meat. Not being satisfied with
he piece at which it was gnawing,
he rat walked over to the cat and
to eat the piece of meat
1t which the cat labored The cat al
owed him to share her meal undis-
.mbed, and when he had finished he
picked up small piece of meat and
quietly walked away. On being
watched, subsequently, she was found
n the same place in the company of
several rats. although she had often
caught and killed rats in other parts
of tie yard. 1t is said that this
story is entirely true, although it
seemed to have been slightly col
)red.-!! Milwaukee Wisconsin.
CANINE cURIOsITIEs.
The education of dogs was a COM
mon diversion in early times. In an
of 1874, to be seen in the
Bodleian Library. a dog is repre-
sented sitting on its launches, and in
Ben Johnson's play of Bartholomew
Fayre,' acted in 1914, he mentions
'doggies that dance the morice." In
.he last century n theatrical troupe
entirely of dogs appeared
in England. The exhibition was
called "The Ball of Little Dogs"
The Snowman states that they per
formed by their cunning tricks
wonders in the world of dancing, and
adds, You shall see one of them,
named Marquis Of Gillerdain, whose
lexterity is not to be compared; he
dances with his mistress, and the rest
Of their company at the sound of in
all of them observing SO
well the cadence that they amaze
everybody" At the close of the bill
he declares that the dogs had danced
before the Queen (Anne) and most of
the nobility of England. But many
other cunning tricks" and greatly
to those practised by Craw-
ley's company, have been performed
by dogs some few years ago, at Sad
ler's Wells, and afterward at Astley's
to the great amusement and disport
of the polite spectators. One of the
dogs acted the part of lady, and was
carried by two other dogs; some of
them We're seated at table and
waited on by others. and the whole
concluded with the attack and storm
ing of fort. entirely performed by
dogs. New York Post.
Things have come to pretty
pass" remarked Fogg as a young
lady walked by the window where
Brown and Black were sitting. The