Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-26
AN UNPRoyoKEp ASSAULT.


 the "tooth for tooth" principle The team started, but he ran them down and be- labored the offender till she dropped with her jawbones knocked into splinters
 Well, we'll, Abe, you did it now,' said a neighbor who had come up in time to witness the'last act of the tragedy. What the mischief did you do that forS"
 Here, look at me, J said the farmer, re- moving his hand from his mangled mouth. Heaven knows I'm poor man, but I'd killed that beast if shc had been worth $l,000."
 Frank Buckland however, contrived to control his temper when his pet monkey tore up stack of his examination papers on the eve of the critical day and content- ed himself with chucking the culprit into bag to keep him from further mischief. His resentment was probably modified by the fact that the kind head master con sented to file tho fragments of the MS. with an explanatory indorsement, and it might be questioned if his philosophy had been proof against the talents of young chacma baboon of my acquaintance. Dur ing temporary absence from home left that versatile pct in charge of Dr. Robert son of Atlanta, who soon sent him back as ''the greatest rascal ever heard of in sa- cred or profane history" One cold night Mrs. R. had quartered tho young African in a snug basket behind the kitchen stove and almost tainted when she entered the kitchen the next morning. Besides break tng the basket and tearing every shred of his bedclothing, her guest had smashed 47 bottles of fine preserves, set of plates and saucers, lamp, a thermometer, q bushel bag full of miscellaneous crockery, upset big coal oil can after removing the stopper and filtered the floor with frag- ments of wall paper
 A billygoat in a garden can bo relied upon to destroy the most valuable plants with complete disregard of their digestible qualities, and similar penchant for gra- tuitouS mischief is often observed in deer and pet squirrels.
 Pet beavers are incorrigible thieves, and if given the freedom of the house will cram their bedbox with all sorts of stolen miscel- lanios, slippers, towels brushes and Jumps of coal, and if taken in the act show no sign of repentance, but fling themselves pros- trate, snarling and hissing like angry cats. Their matrimonial habits, however, are unexceptionable, while several species of salt water mammals practice polygamy and are as jealous as Turkish pashas. An old male of fur seal tribe will corral some half hundred females in some cavity of the shore cliffs and not only try to kill tres, passers of his own sex, but mutilate any of his plural wives whom he should catch ill the attempt to wriggle back to the seal
 It would bo n mistake to suppose thatC any creature on earth--an obstructionist congressman perhaps excepted-can sur pass an old horse in the obstinacy of it's baking fits. Under shower of blows that make the hair fly at every crack, or with tho rush of an approaching express train ringing in its ears, the preposterous. brute will dig it's hoofs in the ground and stand like rock, glorying in its martyras dom like Brahman fanatic. There are cases on record of horses standing their. ground against tho shocks of an electric battery or moving forward just enough to pull wagon across the bundle of blaz- ing brushwood that was seorching their hide though tho Flemish method of cure is somewhat less easy to resist. When horse or a mulo is guilty of baking, they hitch two heavyweight nags to stout rope, slip the other end around tho throat of tho sulker and pull him along unless he prefers to be dragged along and get I strangled.
 In beasts of prey aggressive humors seem excusable, but there arc carnivorous animals that abuse an opportunity for wholesale slaughter far beyond the limits of any possible business xigcncy. No one that has not seen sheep killing dog at