Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-31
the ANIMAL KINGDOM.

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M the ANIMAL KINGDOM.
Al Huntsville Ala, a pink and Whito
chicken was matched q short time ago.
society lady Of East Liverpool, O., puts
her pet poodle dogs hair up In curls papsss
every night
Middetown, Del, duck mingles with
chickens and endeavors to conceal its iden-
tity by making attempts at growing
Henry Wilson, Of Jefferson county. O., has
q COW that is years old and weighs less than
800 pounds. The animal is about 81 feet
high
A small boy killed blue racer at Benton
Harbor, Mich. the other day by cutting of
his head with n Ratchet The snake was fully
six feet in length.
Two ten foot black snakes were killed at
sawmill Run, Ligonier township, Westmore
land county, Pa, recently, by Candas Mer-
shon and George Zeltner.
A farmer in Belmont county, o., states
that "A woodchuck and black snake nhabit
the same hole in his clover lot and are appar-
entity OH the best of terms.
A live toad irnbe'ided in a seam of coal has
been found in a north Of England mine. The
creature has no mouth, but appears to live
upon air 1t is three inches long and can hop
aud crawl freely.
Capt. Haskell. Of San Francisco. recently
witnessed a terrific battle between sword
fish and a whale in the harbor of San
Francisco The sword fish was finally vic
torious, killing the whale.
There is a fish pond at Delano, Cal, which
is supplied from an artesan 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 gvmnotus, 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 Hawknsville Ca,
bought hen from a chicken trader. The
hen was killed Tor dinner recently, and in the
gizzard of the fowl were found twenty seven
brass pistol cartridge hulls. six buttons and
piece Of lead.
Catching frogs to sell them to restaurants
is a brisk industry around Chambersburg,
Pa The hunter carries torch which he
flashes IN the stream, aud if frog is there 1t
sits daaei, and with dexterous thrust Of q
spear he pins 1T.
The jawbone Of huge monster has been
unearthed recently at tho 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 Sylvana, Ca, recently, Frank Nc
Crimmon found turkey nest on which an
old gobbler sitting On examination he
found that the nest was filed, not with eggs,
but with apples. Mr. McCrimmon has found
it a difficult matter to undeceive the gobbler.
A crab that climbs cocoanut trees is the
birgo latis. or robbeA crab, Of the Tanning
Island 1t cracks the nuts with its claws 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
lad by the name of John Devan, while
picking ''huckleberries" near Uniontown, Pa,
recently, was freed by rattlesuake which
coiled itself at the foot of the tree and con-
tentedly awaited the boys descent His out
,ries attracted some persons to the spot and
the reptile was killed.
All the birds Of the swallow kind fy high
At the advent of or during fine weather, and
.ow before storm These facts are account
II for by another. When the weather is
saln, the emphemere upon which the swal-
'ows feed fly high in air, but just above the
arth or water il it he rough
An alligator and an English sparrow en-
gagged in battle near Darien. Ga. recently
The 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 a standing offer
Of $40 for partridge nest containing more
than twelve eggs, the records at the Smith
sonian institation giving that the greatest
number of eggs of that species to a nest A
PARTY Of Worcester girls recently won the
money by finding a nest with fifteen eggs.
John N. Boyer. Of Strahan township.
Adams county. Pa, has a 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 five feet
from the ground and Mr. B. had to use 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 heritage on
which both feed, have a considerable share
in mparting that peculiar favor to which
South Down mutton owes 20 much Of its ce-
lebrity.
trotting horse was sold in New Yerk re-
Gently for 81, $50 which couldn't make a mile
in FIVE minutes II Is considered valuable
horse, because it can trot at ali under the cir
cumstances It Was born with only three
legs, but has made the most Of its limited
facilities, and is the only three-legged trotter
in the country.
Tom Fuller. Of Geneva. Ga, Ays that be
saw rabbit whip and kill q make The
make had caught . young rabbit and was
trying to swallow it. The old rabbit rushed
by the snake and bit at it as il passed Il
then ran by the snake aznin and bit it, and
repeated the run several times. biting the
snake each time. Tho snake finally dropped
the Young rabbit. crawled OF = short distance
and died
Albert chtei, Of Akron. while fishing at
Turkeyfo& lake. hal rather peculiar ex-
perisnce. After catching several blue g,lIs
his supply Of bait became exhausted, and,
taking piece Of common chewing gum. he
rolled IL into an oval wad and stuck it upon
tie naked dsh hook near the top. He threw
in the line and was struck speeches to see il
snapped up by bass weighing about three
pounds, which he succeeded In landing safely
Some boys Of New Wilmington, Pa. chased
rabbit into hollow log. In getting the
rabbit out they came across Q sheep, the
property Of r A. Crawford The sheep ID
supposed to have backed into the log and
could not exsricats itself Ii bad been los
from the Aock about . week, and in al prob
ability had been confined there that time.
From the end Of the log to vhss it wss cut
cut was fifteen feet What induced it TO back
into The log is not known
4 babe b nothing but . bundle Il puuk
pilisies -Heury WaEd Rapehor.