The sun., 1895-05-20
BALD EAGLE HAZES OWL
AND MINERALS BIRD GETS sQUARH
WITH THE BTRD OF JOVBs

Ienominiousiy Assaulted while He slept.
He Consuits tho whole Family OF Owls
and Takes n Delicious Revenge Tho
Surprising Sneezo OF the Hippopotnuu..
The bald eagle in Central Park made one of
the mistakes of his life yesterday. Tho bald
eagle lives In cage with collection of other
eagles and vultures. and In the back of this
cage Is n small cage where the horned owl and
his family live. The horned owls family spend
their time on a perch, but the head of the FAM
lily usually sits on the ground in easy reach Of
the wires. Yesterday he got nearer to the wires
than was his custom. and the bald eagle set OUT
TO Jolly him. At least that's what 1t would have
becn called II the eagle had been a city man
and the owl Ia countryman. Tho game was be-
gun by the eagle stepping down from II pile OF
rocks and wnddling over To- the owls house.
The owl was sitting with his back to the side
wires. The eagle stuck his bcak between the
wires and picked az the owls tail feathers. He
got hold Of one.
Up to this time the owl had been dreaming.
He gave jump, and out came feather. The
owl let out n howl that would have done credit
to his hoot-owl cousin. His whole family came
III the perch. The other eagles and the vultures
hoppcd down and waddlcd up and down appar-
ently very much excited. The bald eagle held
OH to tho feather, and a lot of people In the
crowd said that he laughed But of course
eagles don't laugh. so that couldn't be true. At
any rate he appeared to be happy.
The horned owls hoot hal drawn crowd ten
deep around the cage. The owl family huddled
together in the far corner, out of harms way.
for fully fifteen minutes. They just looked at
each other. They didn't seem to be talking. yet
later developments would indicate that they had
in some way agreed on plan. The family
finally retired to the perch. Then the head of 1t
deliberately walked over to the exact spot ho
had occupied when he lost his feather and sat
down again. He closed his eyes and apparently
possum The bald Eagle eagle " watched him ABOUT out
two minutes and then he wMldled up to have
he looked at t he other eagles and the vuitares.
He seemed to invite them to watch him. They
seemed to understand, for they all did watch
him.
He hopped along. close to tho wires. He put
it through nicely when the owl hitched. 1t was
| hitch that broug hit his right foot into play. 1t
how, he did it. but in an instant he had a grip
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the head tha, reached from his eye to his beak.
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again. He waddled all around the outside look
ing for an opening. The owl family came Off
eagle. The other eagle and the vultures got
Esry much excited again i tS long while
back on the pile OF stones and nursed his hurts.
The hs wasn't IL the only Interesting thing that
| was W oe oetu III ScnlTul INhTk yesterday lncT0
was o row between two OF the sacred cows, and
they tried to punch holes in each other. without
success. Then. when the crowd in the lion
house was the biggest. the head of the hippo
potamus family lifted his head out Of the water
just ruined lot of spring hats. 1t doused as
many rs ten women, to say nothing Of the chill
dren and the men. The attendant apologzed
for II and said ii wash I a common thing.
The whole Park was full of interesting things.
The most interesting of all was the music. The
Seventh Regiment band gave the first concert
of the season the Mall. Thousands of peo-
pie came out to hear it. There not as
many as are seen on summer day because the
weather was raw and stiff cold breeze
blowing. But all the seats were taken, and the
walk Us far rs the eye could was mass Of
moving heads bright with flowers.