Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1890-05-31
Asevr ANIMALS.
iAtGs sSd Mig Dogs sctees " Young
Mask rats.


iAtfis sId BIs Dogs sctees n Young
Mask rats.
e. w. Abbott, M officer Of the
Massachusetts Reformatory, bwns the
lafEtH Dog iii the country. II 10 tho
lion breed IL issstfff5; weighs 1852
pounds, Is thirty-three iiieffss high and
SIX feet eleven inches In length.
4 Californian who carried horned
toad to England atfa seld II for fifty
dollars, has sent home for I've hundred
toads, and says that he proposes TO re.
main In England until be has supplied
every family with one Of these delight
fal pets,
Squirrels have passion for found
ing ! jOtno Of their own, snd after
they have icsn provided with the
Warrnest possible net-cags continue
to steal fags snd scraps Of paper, ~ II
their very lives depended on their eff
forts TO forestail ffs ffgU Of the
coming winter.
Most ali monkeys which one sees
| in the United States CONS from Gor-
g6na; q little village which ID situated
Z short distance from the Panaif,s
Railroad. Tho inhabitants Of this
district are mostly native fissrces, for
no white man could bear the clittfsts
without drinking plenty Of whiskey
and almost continually swallowing
chinin.
During q summer tour In the
Austrian Alps an American gentle.
imam bought q young shepherd dog and
brought him 10 suburb OF Cincinnati, ,
where sheep are seen only I'D the form
Of mutton; but every little while the
young hertier would try to earn his
board by collecting troop Of stray
geese. and In spite OF their Kissing
protest, drive them along the street
like flock of restless sheep.
Young Jcrvis Slater chased q weasel
under his fathers lumber pile, in
Frost Hollow, Pa, the other day. The
lad had cross-gun that carried an ar
row with . sharp spike In the end Of
II, and when he got down ON his knees
and peeked under the pile two bright
little eyes gazed at him. Young Jer-
Wis took good aim, and let his arrow
fly. Tho spike pierced the weasel be-
tween the eyes and killed it.
A Moscow pal hunter lost quail
the other day, even after he had shot
and killed It. The bird fell ON the
opposite side Of q rivnlet, in plain
sight Of the shooter, and he leaped
across the brook after it, having no
dog with him. He had his eye on the
dead bird, but just then mink darted
ont of It's hole In the bank, seized the
quail in its mouth, and skipped back
into its burrow before the sportsman
had time to file his objections,
Hereditary instincts somehow con-
tinue to assert themselves under cir
cumstances that seem 10 make their
assistance rather superfuons. There
was o time when the ancestors Of the
dog found IL q useful precaution to
bury the remnants Of good meal, and
thus provide against possible times of
scarcity, and that old race habit still
prompts their descendants TO hide
bones and old crusts, even where the
bounty Of their masters supplies them
with regular and abundant daily meals.
1.-TWO Hollowell sportsuen," says
the Portland (Me.) Press, 'ssaw an in
teresting family in the Cobbosseecontee
stream the other day. They suddenly
found their boat surrounded by young
muskrats, who were as playful rs kit
tens, diving and coming to the surface
again, swimming around the boat and
looking up to it with eyes that did not
betray the least suspicion of danger.
For some minutes the gentlemen
watched their manGuvers until two old
muskrats made their appearance. The
latter came from the shore and dove
with splash that seemed to be the
signal for the younger ones to follow,
which they quickly did,"
Sixteen-year-old Harry Spencer, of
Ransom, Pa, Is q successful crow
trapper. Young Harry's guinea hens
got in the notion of laying their eggs
in the bushes back Of the house last
summer, and every now and then the
crows would swoop down and carry
off the eggs. At first Harry was at
loss to account for the disappearance
of the eggs, but one day he caught two
crows in the act Of stealing them, and
he straightway went to work to out
wit the black thieves. Out in the
field he built little well Of sods, with
an opening on one side wide enough
for crow to pass through, and in the
passage he set steel trap. Then no
placed an egg in the center Of the well,
and the first crow that saw it alighted
on the outside of the circle of sods,
tripped into the opening after the egg,
and got its foot in the trap. The crow
began to flutter like fury, and Harry
ran out and dubbed 1t to death. He
has caught nearly two dozen Of the sly
birds in that way this season.