The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-20

It's glad mother, and there was lOy
throughout the whole family. As a result
of this incident Lady Jane and her baby
Rosina, were transferred later in the day
by Head Keeper Byrne TO a special cage,
where there are only three or four other
monkeys. The baby was christened Rosina
by an admirer of RosiEa Vokes, the dra-
matte star.
FAMOUS DOGS.
The Greeks raised statues to their dogs
says the GO0isOa Gazette, Socrates swore
by his dog, and Alexander the Great
honored his by building a city with mag
nificent temples. which he dedicated to its
memory.
Plutsrch mentions a sagacious dog that
King Pyrrhus found beside the murdered
body of his master Afterward it spraug
f1ercely upon two of the kings soldiers thus
pointing them out as the murderers.
The memory of 1.-THE dog of Marathon
lives with the memory of the Grecian heEoes
who fell with it in that famous battle
against the Persian hosts.
A monument was built over the remains
of the dog owned by Xantippus, the father
OF Perlcles. Denied admission upon his
masters ship, he swan alongside Of it from
Athens to Salamis, and fell dead from exS
haustlon At the feet of Xantippus the mos
ment he stepped upon shore.
Homer erected beautiful memorial to
Argos, the dog owned by Ulysses-not out
Of marble, but in fervent verse that is far
more enduring. When Ulysses, after his
long wanderings, returned to his home dis
guised as beggar, his dog, then 20 years
old, blind and feeble, was the first to
recognize him.
There was a dog named Softer, so noted
among the Corinthians for his fidelity and
watchfulness, that he was voted a silver
collar, on which was the inscription,
"Corinth's Defender and Dellverer"
Another dog famous in history is the dog
of Aubry," that belonged TO De Montdid-
der, brave officer under Charles V. of
France. He saved his master from drown
ing, and, finding his body some time
afterward in the forest, watched beside 1t
for days until reduced almost TO skeleton
from hunger. During a game of tennis
Montdiddier had dispute WITH a brother
officer named Macaire, and the latter way
laid and murdered him in the forest. One
day the dog met Macaire III the streets of
Paris, and actuated by some rare instinct,
sprang upon him, and would have killed
him had not the people interfered.
Macaire was Suspected Of being the assas-
sin, and Charles the Wise ordered the issue
to be decided by battle between the dog
and Macaire on the Island of Notre Dame.
The man was allowed a club and shield,
and the dog a cask to which he might re-
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the place Of refuge, and in the second en-
counter fastened his teeth in his antagonists
throat. Macaire confessed his guilt, aud
was afterward executed.
THE WATER BEETLE.
Lately kept for a few days for inspec-
ton that very beautiful insect, the water
beetle. says a writer in Science. The specl-
men was large and splendidly colored, gold
banded and displaying brilliant iris hues on
its legs. placed it in glass jar of water.
On the surface Of the water some leaves
were laid. On one side of the jar, at the
bottom, was pasted square of paper. and
to the shelter of this the beetle often retired
1t seemed to take the greatest delight in
darting, swimming and diving. rising from
the bottom Of the jar to the top of the water
by long, vigorous strokes of its hind legs
Then joining its second pair of legs before
it, like a swimmers hands, and stretching
the hind pair out nearly together, it would
dive to the bottom. 1t slept hanging head
downward under the leaves. with the tip of
the body above the water to secure air
1t showed the pleasure of child in blow
ing bubbles. Rising TO the surface, it
would put the tip of its body above the
water, part Of the elytra, and take in air;
then closing its case. it would dive to the
bottom, stand on it's head, emit the air but
hle by bubble until 1t was exhausted, and
come up for new supply. 1t seemed to
need the daily renewal of the water in the
jar. When 1t was hungry or the water was
not fresh enough it became dull and sulky
and hid behind the paper. After the beetle
tasted twenty-four hours, | laid on the top
or the water wasp, mosquito. blue
bottle ty and common fly, all dead The
beetle, being at the bottom of the jar, did
not seem to see or smell these insects.
Rising presently he came up against the
mosquito, seized the body in its Jaws and
sucked it dry with one pull He then found
the blue bottle, carried it down to the shel>
ter Of the paper, trussed it neatly, cutting
off the wings, legs and head, and letting
them float to the surface He then held the
body In his hands. or short front feet,
pressed it to his jaws, and sucked it dry.
After this he rose to the surface, fonnd the
other fly and served it in the same fashion.
Next he found the wasp. large one Car
rying this below, as he had the flies, he
clipped off the wings and legs, but took the
precaution TO suck the head aad thorax be
fore turning them adrift. He also grasped
the body in his hands, pressed the part that
had been cut from the thorax TO his mouth,
aud, holding it exactly as if drinking out Of
bottle, he drained it dry.
found that he could eat all the time. ex-
cept when he was asleep or playing, and his
activity was in proportion to the quantity
VI Lis AOOu bOOkSu Uledb ne would none
of. Raw beef he did not greatly like, but
raw veal he priced even above wasps and
blue bottles l cut an ounce of raw veal
into dice and dropped it in the bottom of
the jar in heap. He did not seem to see
or smell it, but after awhile happened to
dive into it.
He appeared to be full of joy at the dis
covery. One fragment after another he
took in his hands, held it closely to his laws
and sucked it dry by strong pulls. At each
pull could mark the receding red juice Of
the meat. When the veal was reduced to a
pale fiber be let it go and took a fresh bit.
he always retired to the shelter of the
paper to eat with the sole exception Ct the
mouthful he made of the mosquito. Like
the King Of Dahomey, he would not eat in
public.
THE COoN-BATING-RABBI THEORY.
Some winters ago l arose one morning to
ind the snow had melted all night, says "a
Forest and Stream writer, and the first
thing that popped into my head was to go
coon-hunting, and after an early breakfast,
accompanied by colored man with a good
ak and two good hounds, we started. We
bad no trouble TO find plenty Of tracks of
different animals, and when about a mile
from home we ran across large coon
track. We had no trouble to follow this
fellow, for he soon left the woods and made
for a thicket; we followed through this
thicket, about 200 yards wide, and came to
a clover field. just at the edge of the
thicket we came upon a rabbit about half