Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14
THE NATURALIsTs' WORLD
Some Freaks OF Nature and Facts
About Animal Life

About Animal Life
A cat caught q mouse on lawn and
let it 90 again in her cruel way in or
der TO play with it. when the mouse,
inspired by despair, and seeing only
one hole possible 10 escape into, name
" the round, red throat of the cat
very visible through her open mouth,
took bold spring into her jaws, Just
escaping between her teeth, and strug-
gled and stuffed himself into her throat
with the result that the cat was sutfo-
Gated.
There is q negro woman In Marietta
Ga, who is gradually turning white
white spots over her face and other
parts of her body. The bleaching pro-
cess of nature has been going on for
some time. The woman is working Tor
one of the best families in the place.
She is apparently in good health, and
the white spots, which keep growing
and spreading over her body, cannot
be accounted for upon any other ny
pothesis than that she has q peculiar
skin disease that is working out this
wonderful transformation. 1t gives
her no uneasiness whatever, because it
is painless.
A very good spidsr-and-fiy story is
told on the authority of Mr.. Thomas
Bell, the naturalist who witnessed the
act "a very strong, loud, clustering
fellow of bluebottle fly bounced acci-
dentally into q 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 battered and tore the web
into holes, and SO got loose. The spi-
der would not let loose his hold, and
the fly few away with the spider"
When snakes are shedding their
skins they will not eat at all, as they
90 blind, and snake will not eat any
thing it cannot see. When they are
about to shed their skins, they give q
great blow at their mouths, and this
Ioosens their skin, 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 crowd looking on.
In the 'sTravels in Spain," by the
Marquis of Zangle, he speaks of 8 par
EOG Iudb ICLhAAOO VA
an incredible number of stories and
anecdotes-which it related and articu-
lated without hesitation. 1t spoke
Spanish, murdered French, knew some
verses of Racine. could say grace, re-
peat the fable of the crow and count
thirty louis. They dared scarcely to
hang the cage at the window, for when
he was there and the weather was fine,
the parrot talked necessarily. L. said
everything it knew, apostrophised 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 that he
kept repeating: 'Alas! my master Le-
on" and the sorrow of the bird made
such an impression on the brutal father
that he released his son.
The Albatross has brought North
quite curiosity. 1t is double turtle;
or, in other words, two turtles connect
ed Ia Siamese twins. The two ami
mails are Joined together at their pos
terror extremities, and where the con-
nection is made the fieshy part is near
ly as thick as at any other part OF the
body. There are two separate, nearly
circular shells on the back, and at'each
extremity of the combined animal lit
lie head projects, while there are three
legs on eacn side, making six in all
The entire length of this monster is
about four inches. and it is, approx
mately, two inches wide.
A three-legged kitten, some twenty
p five days old, is living curiosity at
Marietta, Ga. The front shoulder
where the fourth leg should naturally
appear is perfectly smooth.