Wichita eagle., 1889-09-08
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.

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her pet poode dogs hair up in curls papers
every night.
A Mddlstown Del, duck mingles with
chickens and endeavors to conceal its iden-
tty by making attempts at growing.
Henry Wilson, of jefferson county, O., has
a cow that is years old and weighs less than
300 pounds The animal is about 31S feet
high.
A small boy killed blue racer at Benton
Harbor, Mich, the other day by cutting of
his head with a Ratchet. The snake was fully
six feet in length.
| Two ten foot black snakes were killed at
sawmill Run, Ugonier township, Westmore-
land county, Pa, recently, by Candas Mer-
shon and George Zeluer.
| A farmer In Belmont county, O., states
| that woodchuck and black snake inhabit
| the same hole in MS clover lot and are appar-
emily on the best of terms.
! A live toad imbedded in seam of coal has
| been found in north of England mine. The
creature has no mouth, but appears to live
upon air. 1t is three inches long and can hop
and crawl freely.
Capt. Haskell, of San Francisco, recently
fish and q whale in the harbor Of San
Francisco. The sword fish was finally VIC
torious, killing the whale.
There is fish pond at Delano, Cal, which
is supplied from an artesian well. The fish
are spurted out every day and belong to the
same species as those at Owens lake, on the
other side of the coast range
The gymnotus, or electrical eel, is common
in the tributaries of the Orinoco, and is gen.
orally captured by causing the fish to expend
their shocks upon horses driven into the
stream until exhausted, when they become
an easy prey.
Mrs Jacob Pearce, Of Hawkinsvilie Ca,
bought hen from a chicken trader. The
hen was killed for dinner recently, and in the
gizzard Of the fowl were found twenty-seven
brass pistol cartridge bulls, six buttons and a
piece of lead.
Catching frogs to sell them to restaurants
is brisk industry around Chambersburg,
Pa. The hunter carries torch which he
flashes on the stream, and If frog is there it
sits dazed and with dexterous thrust Of a
spear he pins it.
The jawbone of huge monster has been
unearthed recently at the Wauchula, Fla,
phosphate beds 1t measures eighteen inches
in length and about seven in width. Some
of the teeth are six or seven inches long and
two or three inches in diameter.
At Sylvania, Ca, recently, Frank Nc
Crimmon found a turkey nest on which an
old gobbler was sitting. On examination he
found that the nest was filed, not with eggs,
but with apples. Mr.. McCrimmon has found
it difficult matter to mdeceive the gobbler
A crab that climbs cocoanut trees is the
birgo latis, or robber crab, of the Tanning
Island 1t cracks the nuts with its clawe and
wakes fat on the milky elixir found therein
A fine specimen has recently been added to
the shell fish collection in the State museum
of California.
A lad by the name of John Devan, while
picking ''huckleberries" near Uniontown, Pa,
recently, was freed by a rattlesnake, which
coiled itself at the foot Of the tree and con-
tentedly awaited the boys descent. His out
cries attracted some persons to the spot and
the reptile was killed.
All the birds of the swallow kind fly high
at the advent of or during fine weather, and
low before a storm. These facts are account
ed for by another. When the weather il
calm, the emphemere upon which the swal-
lows feed fly high in air, but just above the
earth or water if it be rough.
An alligator and an English sparrow en-
gagged in battle near Darien, Ga, recently
Tie gator provoked the fight by swapping at
the bird, which in turn few furiously at its
ugly antagonist, aiming with precision at the
saurians eyes. The gator finally gave up
the contest and took to the river
For several years there was standing offer
Of 80 for partridge nest containing more
than twelve eggs, the records at the Smith
sonian institution giving that rs the greatest
number of eggs of that species to nest A
party OF Worcester girls recently won the
money by finding nest with fifteen eggs.
John N. Boyer, Of Straban township,
Adams county, Pa, has hen that made
nest in the branches Of large oak tree near
his building and Matched out brood of young
chickens. The nest was about thirty-fve feet
from the ground and Mr.. B. had to use a lad
der to get the young chicks from the nest.
1t is affirmed that the large quantities of
snails which appear IN the chalk pastures
after rain, and which are devoured by the
sheep along with the short sweet herbage on
which both feed, have a considerable share
in imparting that peculiar flavor to which
South Down mutton owes so much of its ce-
lebrity. Il
A trotting horse was sold in New York re-
Gently for So, $50 which couldn't make a mile
in five minutes It is considered valuable
horse, because it can trot at all under the cir
cumstances 1t was born with only three
1ac,- hut has, fba of "a iypi tod
facilities, and is the only three-legged trotter
in the country.
Tom Fuller, Of Geneva, Ga, says that he
saw rabbit whip and kill snake. The
snake had caught young rabbit and was
irving TO swallow it, The old rabbit rushed
BY the snake and bit at it as it passed It
then ran by the snake again and bit it, and
repeated the run several times, biting the
snake each time. The snake finally dropped
the young rabbit, crawled off a short distance
and died
Albert Beehtel. of Akron. while fishing at
Turkeyfoot lake. had a rather peculiar ex-
perience. After catching several blue gllls
his supply of bait became exhausted, and,
taking pieoe OF common chewing gum, he
rolled It into an oval wed and stuck it upon
the naked fish hook near the top. He threw
in the line and was struck SPECIFICS 70 see it
snapped up BY bass weighing about three
pounds, which he succeeded In landing safely.
Some BOYS Of New Wilmington, Pa, chased
a rabbit into a hollow log. In getting the
rabbit out they came across a sheep, tbs
property Of R. A. Crawford The sheep is
supposed TO have hacked into the log and
ror,li not eytric,ta itself Ie hsd been lost