The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11
FUNNY ANIMAL r
objected by St. Louis Globe Democrat.


The captain of a steamer that plies along
the New England coast, and that was pass
ing che of the rugged, lonely islands Off the
Maine shore, pointed to an enormous flock
OF gulls that whitened the rocks, the sur
face of the sea and the branches of the ce-
dars that cling to the hard soil. There.
said he. what do you think of that? And
yet, IL you turn to a book on natural his
tory they'll tell you that gulls. won't perch
on trees. Some fool sailors believe that the
alight, even on the water. but are always
on the wing. They don't use theirs eyes;
and some OF these scientlhc Ieliows are as
bad as the sailors."-Ne York Sun.
A SPIDERS APPETITE.
Observing the voracity of spiders, Sir John
Lubbock concluded to determine the guam
tity of food which one Of these creatures
consumed. He caught a large one. and.
weighing 1t carefully, supplied it with in
sects, the weight Of which had been accu-
rately determined. He carried the expert
ment through a considerable period OF time
and here is his summing up OF the extraor-
binary results: At a similar rate, OF con,
sumption a man Weighing leo pounds would
require a whole fat steer for breakfast, a
steer and five sheep for dinner and for sup
per two bullocks, eight sheep and four hogs.
This would hardly suffice. for the twenty
four hours, so, Just before retiring, he
| would cali for and consume nearly four bar
rels OF fresh fish.
PARROTS FONDNESS FOR VIOLIN.
About nine years ago a sea captain
brought from Honduras a gorgeously plu-
mayed poll parrot, which he presented to
Charles Drew, an old resident of New Or
leans.
Mr.. Drew has since smoved 70 Covington.
La. where he is known by everybody as
Uncle Charley" The parrot Is very much
attached to her master, who, however, has
but one sure method Of inducing her to come
Polly spends most of her time out in the
garden, and when = Drew want her to
| come in he plays a a otes on the violin.
Before he has contil very long Polly
| makes her appearance I'd gravely takes
her place close to the players chin.
No matter what music Mr.. Drew plays,
the parrot will sit there contentedly until
he has finished, when she will peremptorily
demand a lump of sugar.
The parrot always sleeps on the violin
case, and just before closing her eyes usual
ly sings "Peek-a-boo."
LOST THE BEER AND GOOSE.
A Montana hunting party, among whom
were Justice w. II. w. Dewitt. of the SUI
preme Court. and Percy K-nnett, returned
home recently from a trip to the vicinity
of Cascade. While there Dewitt shot and
slightly wounded a goose. Having captured
the bird, and not wishing to finish it just
then, Judge Dewitt anchored the goose to
party. He tied the bottle to the goose's leg.
They had not gone far before they heard
a "whir-r-r," and, looking up, saw the sup
with the Beer bottle hanging to Its leg.
Judge Dewitt didn't want the beer, but he
wanted the goose. The Others r wanted 1 the
down the bottle by killing the goose. So he
hit the bottle and shattered it, and the
| goose went off with the fragments hanging
| to Its leg. So the Judge lost the goose and
the others of the party lost their beer.
MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.
Many of our readers are familiar with the
story of the fondness of MARY for her little
lamb, that followed her to school one day."
but all Of them may not know that there
really was such a Mary and such a lamb.
The original Mary was Mrs. Mary Z. Tyler,
who was still living at Somerville. Mass,
some years ago. hale and vigorous at the
it. 1t followed her everywhere she went"
gored by a cow. Mrs. Tyler did not write
the now famous verses; three of them were
neighborhood, and the other two were alter
ward added by a Mrs. Townsend. Mrs. Ty-
Ter knit two pairs of stockings from the
later years were unraveled and sold in Small
bits, tied TO a card with Mary's PatoG raph
old South Church Of Boston, and The sum
realized amounted to S2O0.-Harpsrs Young
People.
1 EST lNDIAN SPORT WITH
"a gentleman was telling a party of
us about the way visitors are entertained
down at Nassau" said a well-known corre-
spondent at Wizards. "They have a species
Of sport down there that makes bull fight
ing as insipid as noodle soup. 1t is nothing
less than ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
a-inish events between sharks. The harbor
of Nassau abounds in sharks OF the man
eating variety, ranging in length from four
\ 4 tan fnaf nnA fhnU nFa olur0N ready nnd
there are always fellows loaffng around the
1uays for a scrap on a hint of provocation.
the quays who are willing to give strangers
the delectable pleasure of watching a shark
fight. The way they do 1t is interesting.
cure a live pig and take it out in the har-
Dor and tie it to the top of one of the
wood are then thrown irfc the water to at
tract the sharks, and the boat, which is al
ways one of the harbor tugs, steams off a
chance 10 see what follows. The sharks
come from all directions and proceed to leap
H td r ref the the P1ff Ihflg 1 poTRer set tb a5IeW WERIds
times as many as three hundred Of the vc-
racious fish are engaged in a battle royal,
and numbers are killed."-Washington Star.
ANIMAL WAITS.
A white panther from the Pamirs. the gift
of Prince Gagarin, is on its way to the Jar
din des Plantes, Paris.
New Zealand has set apart two islands for
the preservation of it's remarkable wild
birds and other animals. Thereon all hunt
ing and trapping are forbidden.
A Maryland man is said to have a hunting
terrapin. He has taught it to lure his fell
lows cut of the soft mud, and he says that
by its assistance he made Sc, 200 last year.
a woodcock with a broken wing fiuttered
into the house OF farmer Bolger, near Cape
May, n. j., and hid in a cupboard. Its
pinion was set by the village doctor, and
Mr.. Doodle Bird has become so tame that
he will let the younger BolgerS stroke his
plumage
A WAGNER at a farm near Cardington,
England, was surprised the other day when,
on reaching down his coat from a pei in the
stable, where it had been hanging TO- a few
days, he discovered that a swarm of bees
had established themselves in one Of the
pockets and deposited a quantity of honey.
For ten summers a land tortoise has lived
in Robert NJ. Doolittle's garden, near ia
maica, l.. l.. In winter he sleeps in the Gel
lar. He is singularly fearful of rain. The
moment the drops begia TO fall he waddles
as fast as he can to the shelter of the
porch, where he stops till the shower is
over. If a little water is dropped on his
cover the tortoise scuttles away to cover.
Though often tricked in this fashion, he
never grows wiser.
ELEPHANT TRAGEDY IN VIENNA.
On the occasion of the famous centennial
fete at Munich in 1883 Carl Hagenbeck had
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