The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-11
Some Fraaks of Nature.

A cat had caught a mouse on a lawn
and let it go again in her cruel way IN
order to play with it, when the mouse,
inspired by despair and seeing only one
hole possibly to escape into, namely, the
round red throat of the cat, very visible
through her open mouth, took q bold
spring into her jaws, just escaping be-
tween her teeth, and struggled and
stuffed herself into her throat with the
result that the cat was suffocated,
There is a negro woman in Marietta,
Ca, who is gradually turning white
white spots cover her face ard other
parts of her body. This bleaching pro-
cess of nature has been going on for
some time. The woman is working for
one of the best families of the place She
is apparently in good health, and the
white spots, which keep charging and
spreading over her body, cannot be ac-
counted for upon any other hypothesis
than that she has peculiar skin disease
that is working out this wonderful trans
formation. 1t gives her no uneasiness
whatever because it is painless.
Avery good spider Lily story is TOLD
on the authority of Mr.. Thomas Bell, the
naturalist, who witnessed the act. "a
very strong, loud, clustering fellow of a
bluebottle fly bounced accidentally into
a spiders web. Down rushed the old
spider and threw her long arms around
his neck; but he fought and struggled,
and blew his drone, and batted and tore
the web into holes, and got loose. The
spider would not let go his hold, and the
fly flew away with the spider!"
When snakes are shedding their skins
they will not cat at all, as they go blind,
and snake will not eat anything it can
not see. When they are about to shed
their skins they give great blow at their
mouths and this loosens their skins, and
it comes off from the head and they
crawl out. Then they are very hungry
and will eat anything Some snakes
won't eat in the daytime; Others won't
eat when there is a crowd looking on.
In the Travels in Spain, by the Mar
quis of Zangle, he speaks of a parrot that
retained a quantity of things-an incred-
ible number of stories and anecdotes
which it related and articulated without
hesitation. 1t spoke Spanish, murdered
French, knew some verses of Racine,
could say grace, repeat the fable of the
crow, and count thirty louis. They dared
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for when it was there and the weather
was fine the parrot talked ceaselessly. It
said everything it knew, apostrophized
all passers. by, except women, and talked
politics. To one of these birds Prince
Leon owed his life. He had been con-
demned to death by the father, and the
parrot took it so much to heart he kept
repeating, ALAS! my master Leon, and
the sorrow of the bird made such an i'm
preston on the brutal father that he re-
leased his son.
A vessel has brought North quite a
curiosity. 1t is a double turtle; or, in
other words two turtles connected, la
Siamese twins. The animals are joined
together at their extremities, and where
the connection is made the tleshy part is
nearly as thick as at any other portion of
the body. There are two separate, nearly
circular shells on the back, and
at each extremity of the combined
animal a little head projects, while
there are three legs on side, max
ing six in all. The entire length Of
This monster is about four inches, and il
Is, approximately, two inches wide.