The Washington times., 1894-06-17
Stories About Animals;
A Menagerie in Type

The fashionable sport in Pennsylvania now
is race between a COW and bicycle, says the
New York Sun. The machine has the start,
the rider wearing red suit to encourage the
COW. The object of the COW is to dump
the rider, as they say on the Isis. II the COW
develops the proper speed there is no dispute
as to the result of the race; the rider goes
down without amendment, and not infre-
quently in dilemma. 1t is said to be excel
lent exercise for the COW and is found stimu-
lating by the rider.
Tony Perry. of Rockland. had game roos-
ter that, being a great fighter, was the pride
of his heart 1t came to pass, however, says
the Kennebec Journal, that this rooster lost
a leg, and TO see him hopping around on one
leg moved Tony's heart to pity and his hands
to making a wooden leg, which, being
attached, the bird soon learned to use with
great proficiency. He is once more in the''pit''
brandishing a spur on either leg, and ready
TO defend his title Of the champion one
legged rooster OF the world"
Some snake stories were being told in the
corridor CT Hurst's last night, says the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat. when b. Fl. Winter
bower. OF Meade county. Ky., said: Il can tell
you one that is true to the letter, and quite as
SURPRISING as any OI your yarns. "A eiStcE-lu-
law of mine living in the vicinity OF Garrett,
Ky., had 4 girl baby hardly years old and
not able to talk plainly. She contracted q
habit of taking a cup of bread and milk every
morning and stroliing Off into some high
weeds back of the horse pond. Her mother
thought nothing of it, until finally her curl
osity was aroused, as the child could not be
prevailed on to sit in the house and eat, and
would say in infantile prattle, give pretty
sing some One day her mother followed
her, and the sight she beheld almost caused
her to swoon. She screamed, grabbed the
child and ran to the house.
She was too agitated for time to speak,
and then only in disjointed sentences, until
she had torn the child's clothing off and care
fully examined it. Finding she was unhurt
she became calmer, and told what she had
discovered. She saw her child sitting in the
weeds with her bread and milk in her lap,
and in front of her big black snake. She
was feeding the snake with the bread and
milk. The child showed not the slightest
fear. On the contrary. she was in high glee,
and seemed to be delighted with her strange
pet. The snake was killed the next morning.
The child seemed to miss it, and for a week
or more she had big cry at not being al
lowed to go out rs usual to feed it."
Twenty pigs is good many for one litter,
and it is of still more interest that they were
all raised. 1t takes the Scotch farmer to do
such things. 1t is related OF one of them that
last season n SOW had such litter, says the
Orange County Farmer. the Scotchman was
tempted by the good prices prevailing for pigs
to take the pains necessary to save them all.
He selected large. roomy pen and divided it
into two compartments by a wooden partition
with 4 door of communication between them.
He then divided the litter into two lots, put
ting half into each division OF the pen, and
drove the sow alternately from one compart-
ment TO the other. In this way, with great
care, and with the help of plenty of cows
milk, he managed to rear the entire litter Cor
rather, two litters), and sold them, at the age
of nine or ten weeks. at the average price of
S7.20 each.
Ever since Apollo twanged his Tyre on high
Olympus the world has been delighted with
the outpourings of the tunetul souls of prodi-
gies in music. Nor has the soothing infiu-