The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-08-27
QUEER Norss ABOUT. ANlMALs.
Remarkable Beasts and Remarkable Acts
by Beasts Not Issmarkablc.

A pet cat owned by New York
family is fond of expensive playtllings,
says Harper's Young People. Tho wife
of its owner missed $l00 diamond a
fey days ago. and after notifying the
police and advertising largely for it,
offering suitable reward for its re-
turn, the cat was found playing with
it on the floor. Whether the cat re-
ceiyed any portion OF the reward or
not the papers failed to state.
A horse, while drinking from mill
pond the other day. swallowed an eel
and ever since that time has SHE'D at
everything. The animals owner does
not know whether to attribute the GU
rious wriggling of the horse to sud.
den growth of timidity or TO the eel,
which is, presumably, still alive.
There is a dog in Yonkers belonging
to friend of the writer that is over 25
years old. 1t has never barked, it
never moves from sitting posture.
and for the last eighteen wears it haa
eaten nothing. 1t is II cast-iron dog,
and has just had new coat of paint
to keep it warm during the summer.
There is a curious-looking animal in
South Africa that looks for all the
world like a piece of toast with four
legs, head, and tail. 1t resembles
q pussy cat about the forehead aud
ears. but its nose is distinctly that of q
rat, while its tail is not very dissimiur
to that of a fox. This strange animal
is called the aardwolf, and doubtless
dwclls in South Africa, because, Judged
by his looks, he would not be admitted
into good animal society anywhere
else.
1t is said that German family liv-
ing out west have in their possession
tame fox with beautiful, bushy
Tail, with which the animal has been
trained to dust the parlor furniture
every morning. Itwould certainly bo
great saving in time and strength OF
many overworked people if dogs with
long tails and cats with soft furry sides
could be trained to do similar work.
A great many years ago, when our
grandfathers were very young,and be-
fore the flood, there used to be a
strange-looking animal called the
glyptodon. He was called glyptodon
because he had huted teeth, and per-
haps because the people who named
him hadn't heard of tarts. We should
doubtless have called him tartodon,
because his back, in the pictures we
have of him, really resembles tart
more than anything else, though it
weighed somewhat more than most
tarts do before they are eaten. The
glyptodon also had four feet, and could
always tell his hind logs from his front
ones by the singular fact that his hind
feet had five toes each, while the front
feet had to get along on four. This
animal does not exist at this present
time. and it Is just as well that he
doesn't, because he could be very dis
agreeable if he wapted to, as YOU can
very we'll imagine when you remem-
Der that he was really nothing more
than q turtle, and he was quite as
large as an ordinary elephant in his
stocking feet.
A useful South American animal is
the kinkatru, which. as The dictionary
will tell You, is procyoniform quad.
ruped, with a protrusile tongue nd &
| prehensile tail. Under ordinary cir
cumstances. if you Were to meet kin.
kajou on TIE street, you would look
for an Italian with hand-organ,
though should be inclined to look fo1
a policeman, because know how un-
pleasant the animal can be. particu.
larly in the fruit season, for the kinka.
jpu loves fruit, and eats all he cal,
find. The chief reason for asserting
that the kinkajou is useful is, that in
addition TO his fondness for fruit-he
has great liking for insects for lunch
and when tanned is a valuable assist
ance in southern homes, where tly-pa.
per is unknown and whore mosquito
net is more expensive than silk dress
1t has always seemed strange to me
that some cnterprising person has moi
imported q few thousand OF these in.
sect eaters from South America for use
in North American summer hotels