The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-11

....A Glendive, Mon, lady heard her
lap dog screaming frantically, and hur-
rying to the door saw an immense eagle
soaring away with the squirming black
and-tan in his talOns. Selling a shot
gun she let fly both barrels. She saved
the remnants Of the dog, while the eagle
got away with the loss of but two feath-
ers.
....H- Stuart Wortley, in Nature,
tells an interesting story of a cat he
found in the Malakotf with its foot pinn-
ed to the ground by a bayonet. For two
mornings he took her to the nearest
dressed. On the third morning the cat
went herself to the doctors tent.
scratched the canvas to be let in, and
then held up her paw to be doctored.
....A large blue heron that was prey
ing upon the young fish in the hatchery
OF Platte river, Colorado, attacked Will
liam E. Sisty, the fish commissioner,
and whipped him terribly. After the
first surprise Colonel Sistv rushed in
upon the huge heron, seized it by the
body and hurled it the ground. Then
the struggle was soon decided. Colonel
sisty simply held on until the bird was
choked to death.
1.-THE Erie Herald says: ''Think Of
one COW giving nine and one-half tons of
milk in a year. That's the feat per
formed in the past year by the imported
Holstein COW Violet, belonging to Edgar
Huidekoper, of MeadvilIe. From March
"a, 1888, to March %, 1884, inclusive,
her total yield was 1866! pounds, an
average of 5l.03 pounds a day. The re
cord is sworn to by those who did the
milking and by others"
....In the bar-room of a hotel in Den
yer sat a one-legged man named Coyne.
\ stranger hit the house dog with his
ca e and Coyne took the brute's part.
The dog followed Coyne all day. and
when he went to the attic for the night
the dog ran up stairs and crawled into
the bed. Coyne threw him off. but the
dog jumped back. In the nigt the hotel
took fire and Coync alone was saved.
the dog awakening him in time.
....In a letter left by the late Profess
sor Gross, whose body was cremated at
Lemoyne's furnace, the distinguished
surgeon wrote: IF people could see the
human body after the process of decom-
position sets in, which is as soon as the
vital spark ceases to exist, they would
not want to be buried they would be
in favor of cremation. Burying the hu.
man body, | think, is a horrible thing.
Why, if people knew what physicians
know-what they have learned in the
dissecting room-they would look upon
burning the human body as a beautiful
art in comparison with burying it.
When die | want my body TO be burn.
ed"
1.-The Welbeck Tunnel. which the
late Duke of Portland. the Invisible
Prince" created for his workmen to
pass through on coming to and return
ing from work without disturbing the
serene repose he loaged for, is one of tho
wonders of the world. During the dav
it is lighted by enormous plate-elass
bull's-eyes, superseded at night by hun
dreds OF gas jets. The floor is excel.
lently asphalted, and the tunnel is high
enough and wide enough for carriages
to pass along. Stepping into it during
the hot days OF summer, one feels as if
he had walked into an icehouse and
the whole length of its interior can be
traversed without catching the slightest
glimpse of the abbey, or the beautiful
park under which it passes.