St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-16
Nntes0ri AaitnIIs.

Union Springs. Ala.
In cities in India pigeons are often numer-
Gus enough to darken the air.
Squirrels are so numerous and tame in
the woods of COncOrdia, La, that they can
be killed with sticks.
Henry S. Carpenter of Osce0la, n. Y,
says he has caught 26, 900 brook trout dur
inc the past twenty years.
4 hen at Hampden, Conn. was placed
on a dozen quail eggs and Matched out eight
quail, which she afterward reared with
care.
An oyster weighing three and one-quarter
pounds and measuring ten inches by six
was taken at Huntington, l.. l.
Mice carried OFF S105 in paper money be-
longing to Mrs. Lucy Cain, of Hannibal
Mo-, and after tearing it into small pieces
made a nest of 1t.
While man named Conklin was lately
fishing in Duchess county New Yorll)
pond wild dnck few down. dived, sWall-
owed the hook, and was caught.
Sacramento river fishermen say that al
though the water is full of salmon they
cannot be caught because the weather has
been so warm that they lie at the bottom in
still water and die.
The 800 French army cats. whose duty
| it is to catch mice in the clothing store
houses. are to have their ratiOnS reduced
since they have become too fat and lazy to
capture the offending rodents.
Trained dogs were employed to convey
messages along the OCtpOstS at the German
military maneuvers this fall. The dogs
also did duty with the sentineS. and were
50 prompt in giving alarms that their use
is to be extended.
A shanghai rooster on the farm of Will
lam II. Arnold IN Woodstock, Conn, has
adopted four maltese kittens. whose mother
was mangled in trap and had to be killed
The rooster gathers the orphans under his
sheltering wings every night, and the kit
tens appear well satisfied with their new
home.
A. B. BeIcher, of Decatur county.
Georgia, owns a ten-y earOld OK having
and wearing three fully developed horns
two at their proper places. and the third
growing out of his shoulder near the
wthers, and probably fourteen inches in
length. Mr. Belcher has owned him Gall
his life. and this third horn made its APP
pearance several years ago.
a Napa, Cal, man thought he saw sea-
serpent in the river there. but it was only
solid mass of little fishes, each about all
inch and half long. The school was
about fifty yards long and yard wide. and
headed up stream. The commOtion they
| made was caused by hundreds of large
| fishes that were continually throwing them
selves among and eating up the little ones.
Michael Fresmuth, of Wheeling. W.
| Va, a pigeon fancier, sent two homing
| birds to Wichita Kan. to test their quail
ties. They were released. and one arrived
| in Wheeling in fifty three hours and forty
| one minutes from the time of release. The
| distance in an air line is estimated to be
200 miles. The actual flying time is SUD-
posed to be about twenty-four hours, the
bird having done fifty miles per hour while
on the wing. This record is one OF the
best ever made. An offer of 500 for the
bird has been refused.
Asa freight train on the Erie railway
was approaching Pond Eddy, in Pike
county. n Y, the engineer saw buck
deer leap from one of the highest points of
the lofty wall of rock that runs along the
| road in the Delaware valley. The deer
alighted at the side of the track and did not
| rise. The engineer stopped his train and
found that two of the deer's legs and sew
eral of its ribs were broken. He cut its
| throat. loaded the unfortunate animal on
| his engine and took it to Port JervlS. As
he started his train two dogs appeared at
the point where the deer had taken its
fatal leap.
Indian joe" a SaybroOk (Conn.)
worthy, recently killed two foxes at one
shot. His dog got Oh the trail of fox.
and Joe. making up his mind that the
quarry would travel over certain route,
stretched himself out behind bush.
lighted his pipe. and awaited develop
ments. His calculations proved correct,
and when the dog came in sight fine fox
was little ahead of him. There was an
other fox running close beside the first,
and as the two passed a pair of bars, almost
neck and neck, Joe blazed away. When
he ran up to the fence he found two foxes
living dead on the ground.