Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-03-23
FREAKS OF NATURE.
rHERE ARE ALBlNos AMONG
AL KINDS OF ANIMALS,
Il hite peer, hite HATS, White Trout,
and Evsn White Huekleberrieh to say
nothing Of white Elephants, White
Nice and white Blaekblrds

Young white thing she claims TO be,
There are other alblnOs besides the
men and women in the side show and
museums. You may not believe IL,
but there are white deer white bats.
white trout, and even white huckle'
berries.
Mr.. Barnum did not sxaggerate the
yeneratiOn in which white elephants
we're once held, both ia Burmah and
siam. According TO his account, tho
white or albluo elephant Is worshiped
because il is supposed 70 contain the
soul OF some dead king. White ele-
infants are like white mice. white rab.
bits and human albinos they are apt
10 d. weaklings, and easily become
the victims ot all SORTS 81 diseases
Perhaps this very fragility helped the
Samese 10 form IA notion that they
had q certain spirituality about them
So-calted sacred white elephants are
Kept Ia siam to-day Each one Ol
these has separate table and tau
sery ants 81 its own Thr tasks " this
males are decorated with small bells
made % gold chain with golden
LINKS surrounds the bead Of each and
4 cushion O2 embroidered velvet j,
upoa each elephants back
Albluas utner than elephants are
frequently found III the animal king
dom John " Bredt % table sill
lagc. Wis last ar klilgd an alD.uo
deer I, was without ,lngle mark
Oh It's body III eyes were pink u
Was 3 feet 5 inches III height aud
icct Inches to the tip % ils horns
Its age Was years
During last summer sp0rBmen Ia
Connecticut hal luck baggius
albln0 beasts and birds. ami they arv
al loss 70 account Tor ths pho
nomena Perhaps tho most remarks
bio specimen belongs 10 Dr u O
Main u North Stouingt0a II i
pure whIts squirrel cha, vas cap
tured by Clarence Palmer Ia dense
swamp IN that tOwn Il fnanifrstly
belongs % the gray Squirrel RAGS. b.
cause /. has all the characteristics ~
this spectrs except 81 eolurs 4, has
pink nostrils AMI toos
White biarkbirls arr not extremely
rare. ones ia a while au alblno bobl.
link. robin or crow I. ,trn. aud three
white red Squirrel. have bison shot Ia
Norwich 10 the past two or thrvs
years. but to onr hld ever heard ~ 4
perfectly whit" graF spiirrel before
Mr Palmer gaze hia squirrvI 70 DR.
Main. who hAs ID In a handsome Gags
ia his Olice and IL very proud 81 IL
Willis occurring tha woods on Hall
hill. near Portland tn the Connecticut
valley -orne time ago. frank Gould
and friend flushed an almost PER.
tsetly white partridge, the second btryl
pf The kind over started hy i Connsc-
ticut sportsman fhN partridge. =
big, fat fellow was durnu ru.iH away
frnm the hunters IN thick Under
brgsh, anil they didn't got i shot AZ
him. III was ~ llka q shot aud The
booming sound hn made Ia h,a blight
convinced Gould that b. vas 4 real
ltgG partridge and not fhe ghost ~ 4
grouse The sportsman xurw mu.
SCUM man ID Hartford who 81 WA
-4ra Would give 81 pr s4H 'ur that
bird dead ~ alive. ~ H. hunted him
for two hours bn, vaiuIy Iha hrad
neck and bod ~ the 9artrtd n, wprr
entirely white. whtlo his wings ana
tail we're ~ the rich brown color com.
mon % the ntlird grouse.
Mrs George Il BcutI"y. 81 Maple
Valley y H. ono day aaw what aho
thought waa on ~ tn uewIy Matched
brood 81 white lrgbOru chickens lost
to the grass. She wont To- got Il and
restore II 10 tho brood, and ~ 4he
approached II she was flriOGsty
attacked by pair OF robins
She had great difficulty In lighting
them away from her face and when
she picked UP her supposed lost chick
she discovered that II was 4 Young
robin n white as snow. She carried
y 70 The house, pursued by tho two
enrayed parent birds. The robin ta
doing vol In cage. There "a not n
colpred feather on II. and ia ayea are
bright mink
An old farmer named Williams
drove into Norwich. Conn. last yoar
with basket Of albino hurkiebcrrios
The berries Enthusiastically were genuine
albinos. They were 81 pale, trans.
parent hue, end had tho same flavor
perhaps triho swcetor. a. that Of
their ict black kith and kin. Neither
are they new thing
There are. may be-. half a dozen
places in tho Nutmeg state. with
few in other New England states
where they have thriyed ycar aitor
year for century, but in every i'm.
lance in contracted little place
that Is rarely more than a rod in
diameter. Sometimes they grow ON n
small, rounded knoll top. and then
aEain on awanpy land They are
ionnd growing in ordinary buckle.
berry thickots. and yet a ittle apar,
from them
a Rray-hared fisherman AZ DING.
man = creek tolls this strange story Of
white trout: u was .pokinv around
among the sticks and alders. when. 10
my astopishment caught sight Of n
white fish hooked.
lit was not over five inchea lono
ana as | saw ID M H. rnn,,, a.. III