The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-30
had been rolled over the ground. -Er-

Grunge.
The writer of an Indian letter in Ma
tire says, when ploughing in Illinois
before the war, he used to turn up rat
tle-snakes in the burrows. One day he
ploughed up a rattler fourteen inches
long and, instead of killing it, he teased
it with his whip, not permitting 1t to
escape. After fifteen furious minutes,
the snake turned and bit itself in the
tail, dying in few moments.
This is the reason why cats wash
their faces after meals: A cat caught
a sparrow and was about to devour it,
but the sparrow said: mo gentleman
eats till he has first washed his face. "
The cat. struck with this remark. set
the sparrow down, and began to wash
his face with his paw, but the sparrow
flew away. This vexed Puss exceed
ingly, and he said: ''As long as / live
l will eat first, and wash my face after
ward. Which all cats do to this day.
-EGchange.
John Connors, of Split Rock, was
hunting woodcocks in the vicinity of
Mud Lake. On nearing clump of
bushes near the edge of the lake, his
pointer dog, Lulu, came to point on
what he thought was bird. He told
her to go on and put the bird up, but
she could not start it. He walked
around on the other side of the bushes,
and there sat boy. He had been fish
ing for bullheads. The dog on coming
near one of the largest of the fish again
came to point. Connors asked the
boy to let him open the largest of the
fish. 1t weighed about two pounds,
and in it was hen woodcock, partly
digested. Syracuse Herald.
A gentleman from Socorro has set
ter pup named Jack, that is gifted with
almost human sense. Two anecdotes
will serve to illustrate its capacity for
reasoning, and if anyone has smarter
deg let them trot him out. Jack daily
accompanies his master to the butchers
shop, where piece of meat is bought
for him, and which he carries home be-,
fore being allowed to eat it. The other
morning the package was too large to-
admit of a passage with it in his mouth
through a hole in fence the dog was
accustomed to go through, but the in-l
telligent animal laid the package at
the hole, jumped over the fence and
pulled it through lengthways. Another
time, while carrying paper sack of
peaches, the sack became torn and a,
single peach dropped out. Jack set
the peaches down went back and got
the one that dropped, and replaced It,
in the,sack.-Socorro N. N.Y. Chieftain.
1t appears that in the ''bill'' of the
little mosquito alone there are no fewer
than five distinct surgical instruments,
These are described as lance, two
neat saws, suction pump, and small
Corliss engine. 1t appears that when
"skeeter" settles down to his work
upon nice tender portion of the hul
man frame, the lance is first pushed
into the flesh, then the two saws, placed
back to back, begin to work up and
down to enlarge the hole, then the
pump is inserted, and the victims
blood is siphoned up to the reservoirs
carried behind, and finally, to COM
plete the cruelty of the performance,
the wretch drops quantity of poison
into the wound to keep it irritated.,
Then the diminutive fiend takes fly,
around just to digest your gore, and
makes tracks for a fresh victim, or if;
the first have been of unusually good
quality he returns to the same happy
hunting ground. The mosquitoes mar
velous energy combined with his porta-
BILE operating chest, make him at once
a terror and pest.-London Sports
man.
DR.. Parker went hunting some
lime since, and, seeing a squirrel poke
his head out of hole in the tree, he
ired, but not seeing the squirrel drop,
10 came to the conclusion that he had
missed it. Almost instantly he saw
what he supposed was the head of the
ame animal, and again fired. Still
he squirrel head appeared at the same
,lace. He fired thirty-four shots, and
IS he did not see the game drop, he
ame to the conclusion that it was
Useless to continue the bombardment
nd started to go further into the
rove. Lo, and behold, when he had
assed the tree on which he had seen
he one squirrel, he saw thirty-four
wing in a heap upon the ground
Mdrter's VALLEY Herald.
The Nerve Age.
The nerves and their di seases are