The Indianapolis journal., 1885-06-14

the beaver of 1874 by its tracks. showing it had
lost one leg Nothing was heard or seen of it
again for nearly four years. In 1912 Benjamin
Patterson was fishing in the Tioga river, near
Painted Post, and was surprised to see beaver
crawl out from clump of willows near by him
and draw itself up the bank. One of its hind legs
was gone, and Patterson felt that he was once
more in the presence of the charmed beaver.
de picked up club and sprang toward the
animal, bat it quickly disappeared in the water.
Patterson ran to a house near by and got rife
| When he returned to the river the beaver was in
the middle of the river, swimming toward the
the other shore. Patterson took aim and fired
| at it. 1t disappeared beneath the water Pat
| terson, believing that he had killed the beaver
at last, jumped into boat and started out to
look for its body. Before he had gone far he
saw the beaver climb up the bank on the other
side and disappear. All sign of the mysterious
tramp was again lost. In the spring of 1914
there was an unusually large freshet
in the Chemung. In corn shock above
the waters edge was discovered a
beaver, which on being killed was found
to have but three feet and the con-
clusion was that this was the identical animal
manned twenty years before, as no beavers had
been seen in that region since that time
| But Pittsford, N. T., goes even better than
this with brand new 'possum story, Of one
forty years old. George Hart, of that town,
forty years ago, received female opossum and
some young ones from South Carolina, the gift
of friend. They were quite different
| from the indigo nous kind and
easily distinguishable from them. Well, the
short of it is that they escaped one night and
made for the woods. During the next ten years
five of this kinds Of 'opossums were shot in the
woods near that place. None were then seen
| for twenty years Ten years ago, however, one
opossum bearing every evidence of great age
was killed there. This was thought to settle
the business; but few days ago the remaining
| opossum was captured, and, as might
have been expected, he was quite old,
having lost half his tail, of his feet and an
| ear or two, to say nothing of damaged eyesight.
Such fables as these, while instructive, may not
| be wholly bad. They teach US that the effete
East is not nearly so effete as it might be, but,
| like the opossum, it may all these years have
been simply feigning modesty that now ill
| becomes it.
! ONE member of the graduating class of Vas
sar holds that the President should be elected
| by Congress, which body should be chosen by
| the untranimeled votes of men and women. An
other damsel Of nineteen holds different opin-
icn, believing that the chief executive should be
elected by the direct votes of the people-the
people, of course, including the now down
trodden women. The man politician, who
fondly hopes tc retain his command of the ship
of state, should take need which way these
| straws blow.
| The fish that gets away has always been big
one. This time it is a very big lot of them. j.
| Church 81 Co., of Tiverton, r. l., constructed
| trap across the mouth of the Seaconnet river, at
| the commencement of the season. and great
run of bass and soup literally packed the trap,
when it broke, letting them all out. The owners
estimate that not less than 800 900 those are the
| figures presented) of fish were lost. 1t is posi-
BILE that the fellow who reports this thing set
down naught or two in malice
| AS the Fourth of July approaches, the seasons
| fatalities caused by the toy pistol begin to be
| chronicled. The Pennsylvania Legislature,
which has just closed, passed Law prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of this deadly little
| weapon in that State. The Legislature held
very long session, and did little work of benefit
| to the community, but for the sake of this one
| act the people should be willing to forgive a
| multitude of sins.
| THAT pauper family shipped to Washington by
| the Pittsburg guardian of the poor is being
treated to the longest free ride of the season.
| From Ireland to Boston, from Boston to Pitts.
| burg, thence to Washington, and from there
back to Boston, and, probably, to Ireland, makes
round trip which should satisfy any reasonable
| family in search of summer outing
| PITTsBURGERs are not satisfied with the dis
| sipation Of dime museums and roller rinks but
| have become addicted to the game of s'Copen-
| hagen to such an extent that anxious mothers
are carding the papers in protest against the
| ''pernicious evil"
| A PRINCETON student has brilliant future.
| He is the best pitcher in the Intercollegiate
| League, and will rank well with the professional
| men.
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