Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-28
cuUpuEPnSTOWN w Va FRIDAY JUNE 2S 1889.
A pRoFANELY EDUCATED PARROT.

A PRoFANELY EDUCATED PARROT.
The Chicago Mail relates that a par
rot was recently bought by south
side lady upon the assurance of the
man who sold it that it had only a
moral education. The bird had real
'ly been the property of saloon keep
er, and its cage being near the crack
er bowl, everybody made free TO give
it crackers and teach it tough words.
Its new mistress had hardly got it
hung up when a lady friend called.
and, of course, went into ecstasies
over the parrot When she began to
poke her fingers through the cage
and call out, Polly, Polly, Polly
the bird opened one eye, cooked his
head sidewise, looked ar the visitor
and said with great gravity: Now,
for Gods sake don't ask me TO have a
cracker. I've sworn OFF,
SQUIRRELS NURsED By CAT.
An exchange says that Russell Rice,
a farmer of Scottsburg, Ind, found
nest of five young squirrels in the
woods. and took them home and
placed them in care of the family cat.
The cat at once adopted the squirrels
and raised them in the same manner
as she would have done her own
young. The squirrels are now half
grown and deeply attached TO the fos-
ter-mother, and when separated from
her the other day and placed in the
courtyard park they acted almost
like kittens, but are now fast learning
to climb the trees in the manner of
their nature.
A HUNTING CAT.
A gentleman down in Worth, Ga,
has trained large cat to hnnt squir-
rels. and it is said that he can tree
more squirrels in a day than the best
dog. When the squirrel hides from
the hunter Tom is sent up in the tree
to find it. He rarely ever fails to run
him around so that his master can
shoot it. When going on long eX-
pedition the cat will climb up on his
masters shoulder or run along at his
heels like a dog.
The employees at Hartung's meat
market We're greatly mystified and
somewhat alarmed by strange noises
in the large refrigerator attached to
the establishment, says the Honesdale
PENN He, aid Upon opening the
doors large silver eel was found in
possession, floundering and Hopping
around as if he was the owner of the
ranch. He was no match, however,
for the butcher boys, and in a few
minutes his four feet lineal measure
ment turned the scales at seven and
a-half pounds. Upon examining the
ice the perfect imprint of the coiled
eel was found in the largest crystal
block. 1t is supposed in some way,
frequent occurrence, the fish became
imbedded in the block and escaped
the notice of the handlers until liber-
ated by thawing out as described.
Some Maine lumbermen got an
empty molasses keg and filled the
sides of it full of sharp-pointed nails,
inclined toward the bottom, poured
little molasses into it, and set the
whole arrangement out in the bushes
near a pig-pen. The next morning it
was found some distance from the
camp with bears head inside. He
had stuck it in and couldn't draw II
out. A rifle ball ended his misery and
his thieving.
IA piece of pump stock, which was
planted in a spring at Naversink, Pa,
several years ago, was taken out the
other day and found to contain live
eel two and a-half feet long.
School Teacher Benfeld, of Allen
town, Penn, says a white robin is
nesting in the school-yard The rob
in has made the yard its home for sew
eral years.
Andrew Mertz, of Butler county,
Penn, has trained a pet squirrel to
catch rats The squirrel is kept in a
stable, and averages two or three a
day.