The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-05
FISH, FLESH, FOWL.
RECENT CURIOsITIEs IN THE
ANIMAL WORLD.
A Batch ofItems About Animals and
Fish, Large and Small. that Are
Something Out Of the
Common Run.

Maine still pays out about $4,000 a
year in bounties for bears killed in that
State.
&c. Hudspeth, of Early County, Ga,
has killed 255 wild turkeys in the last
seven years.
Jack-rabbits are swarming through
Nevada, Utah and Idaho, and doing
much damage to crops.
During one week at Blandville, Bal
lard County, Ky, eleven mules were
killed by buffalo gnats.
A shoal of whales, eighty in number,
was recently driven ashore on the Shet-
land Islands and captured.
A hawk trapper at Swatara, Penn, in
eleven days killed 112 hawks. He gets
a bounty for their scalps.
Mr.. Barr, of Dixon, ILL.,, caught
twelve pound pickerel in Rock River
and found in its stomach a snake ten
inches long.
A housewife in Napa Valley, CAL,
killed q chicken, and in preparing it for
cooking found q, gold breastpin two
inches long in its gizzard.
At Stevens fishery. Denton, Md, a
rock fish was caught that weighed twen-
ty-seven pounds and measured thirty-six
inches in length.
A dog caught gray eagle near Wash
ington, Kansas, which measured seven
feet from tip to tip. The bird could not
get into the air away from the dog on
account OF a heavy wind and rain.
A fisherman caught five-pound pick
erel in the Mississippi River. In its
stomach was pickerel five inches long.
In the stomach of the second fish was a
pickerel fry two inches in length.
A writer in the Southern Christian Ad-
vocnte says: II once broke hen egg, in
the yolk of which was small, green fig.
perfect and entire, with stem, All to
whom I ever told this think it most won
derful."
Over a hundred live trout of good
size were found in hollow tree cut down
in California. The tree stood near W a.
terfall and occasionally water dashed into
It. 1t is supposed the fish were washed
in from the waterfall.
A tarpon weighing 40 pounds and
! measuring six feet five inches in length,
was caught with hook and line by
William H. Wood near Punta Rassa, Fla.
This is believed to be the largest game
fish ever caught.
A young man of Clyde, N. Y, shot a
muskrat and waded into the water to get
it. He intruded upon the spawning
ground of shosl of pickerel and was at
tackled by large number of old males sc
fercely that he was glad to get away.
A Missouri River fisherman says: 81
took from trot line that had been baited
with paw-paws three channel cats, aggre-
eating 10 pounds. The largest one
weighed ninety pounds, and was five feet
four inches long, and when dressed
weighed sixty pounds"
Several kinds of quadrupeds in the
London Zoo suffer from corns on their
feet, due to the hard floors, and these
produce boring ulcers, which may extend
clear through the foot. Hernia occasion
ally af1licts the monkeys, and tiger has
lately been killed by an accumulation in
his intestines of sawdust, swallowed with
his food. These are new diseases in men,
ageries.
A pack of dogs started up deer in
/ the woods near Champaign, ILL.,, and
chased it into the city. The frightened
animal ran into the open door of Trevett
& Green's hardware store, the dogs fol
lowing closely at its heels. The deer
stopped at the proprietor's private Office
and stood there trembling. Mr.. Trevett
put his arms around its neck and led it
to side door, whence it fed down back
street and escaped from its pursuers.
Millions of wild pigeons are nesting in
the woods on the borders of Forest and
Warren Counties, Penn. They are be-
ing slaughtered in great quantities and
shipped to market. This is the first time
since 1880 that pigeons have gone to
those woods to rear their young. At
that time they filled five miles square of
the woods. Their number was esti-
mated at 1000, 900. The colony this
year is much smaller than that of 1880.
Several negroes recently captured a
large sturgeon in Big Creek, Ga. It had
been seen swimming around in the creek
for more than q week, and that day they
went prepared with spikes and axes to
capture the monster. The water was
three or four feet deep, and it took con-
siderable work to bring him to shore. 1t
was taken to Waynesboro, and weighed
eighty-fve pounds. and measured six and
one-half feet in length. It is the first
sturgeon ever captured in the creek.
The Reese River (Cal.) Reueilzs is re-
sponsible for the following: "Hank En-
sign was showing to number of gentle
men on the street about as curious o
monstrosity as one often sees. 1t was a
pretty little kitten, having two we'll de-
ve!oped heads on one body; there are
four eyes, two mouths, two ears and two
perfect nostrils. The creature ought to
be subjected to the knife of the anatom-
list or preserved in alcohol. It lived but
two days.. being unable to take nourish-
ment."
Mosquitoes and Rattlesnake Poison.
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