The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-23
ANIMAL NOTES.

ANIMAL NOTES.
A bald eagle, with a big steel trap
hanging to one of his legs, flew over
Licking, Ky, a few days ago.
Cats and dogs cannot live at a
greater elevation than $1,000 feet above
sea level.
England has to import her pheasants
now. An order for $4,000 old English
dark-necked live pheasants has been
sent to Hungary.
r. H. Knight, of Foggy's Mills. KY,
has pigess which has had 210 pigs in
her eleven years of life. They would
average $40 each.
A farmer of South Gray, Me-. says
he has a hen that is 90 years old who
can yet scratch a good living and care
for a brood of chickens.
Johanna. the chimpanzee in Central
park, New York, is very fond of liquors
of any kind. Port wine or whisky is,
however, said to be her favorite.
An old trapper in Bethel. Me-. has in
his possession a bear trap that is $50
years old. 1t has captured a good
many bears, including one this year.
The largest dog in Connecticut is
said to be a st. Bernard, owned in
Mystic. 1t is twenty-five months old.
stands SO inches high, feet 10 inches
long, and weighs 10 pounds.
A family of sparrows took possession
Of a swallows nest in Germany, to
their sorrow, for the swallows masoned
up the entrance to the abode, and five
young sparroWs We're stified to death.
cartridges are strange birds. At
times they will fly out to sea and set
fla nf he
much unconcern as if they were on a
turnip field, although it means certain
death to every one Of the covey.
Five fat 'possums were caught by a
/ farmer in Auburn, Ca, in an odd way
recently. He cut down a tree, which
fell across a hollow log. The log broke
open and five fat 'possums were
evicted. The farmer and his dog sue
ceeded in bagging them all.
A silver-tipped sea otter was picked
UP in the surf in Willapa harbor.
Wash. last week. The skin of this
animal is one of the most valuable of
all furs, and the finder got an offer of
$500 for his prize Immediately he eX-
hibited it. An expert told him it was
worth from 5000 to $500.
A legacy to a pet animal is not a
very uncommon occurrence, but it is
not often that it takes such an elabor-
ate form as the will made by an old
lady in Paris. Nine. Dubrai, who died
some time ago, left $500 francs to the
schools of her district on condition
that her cat, which rejoices in the
name of Biff, should be cared for after
her death.
A goose was killed in England re-
| Gently that had been wearing q large
pin through its gizzard for months
without apparent inconvenience. One
| half of the pin was inside the gizzard
and the other portion (the shank end
was through the flesh and slightly out
at the external side. The point of the
pin was a little bent. The goose from
which the pin was taken was in good
condition.
Perhaps the oldest pet a man ever
had is a shark, seven feet long and
weighing probably $50 pounds, which
is owned, in a sense, by G. w. Fife, OF
! Tacoma, Wash The shark was har-
pooned in the bay off Tacoma by Mr.
Fife, and towed to his boathouse. 1t
was not badly injured, so Mr.. Fife
! passed a chain cable round its tail and
tied it up to the pier. 1t was still tied
UP at last accounts, was feeding
heartily, and was apparently becoming
accustomed, if not reconciled, to cap
| tivitV.
The biggest moose ever taken in the
ArooStook region Of Maine, the state
! best hunting ground, was killed re-
Gently by Colonel A A Barker. of
Newport, r. I. a game official meas
ured the animal, and his figures are:
| Weight, dressed and including hide
with the bobsled on which it was
hauled, 1850 pounds; spread of antlers
40 inches; from tip of nose to a point
between antlers, "a inches; from this
/ point to tail, 8 feet; extreme length OF
antlers, So inches; width of web, L
inches. The antlers have fifteen prongs
on one side and thirteen on the other
Some idea of the extent of the coyote
nuisance in the west may be got from
/ the experience of one sheepman OF
| Fossil, Ore. Since last fall, when the
sheep were brought down from the
mountains, the coyotes have killed
about 100 of them. One night, about
two weeks ago, a herder left about
thirty sheep out over night, and when
he went to hunt for them in the morn
! ing he found twenty-three dead, their
! threats torn by the coyotes, and
| coyotes were chasing the remaining
seven. In Crook county this sheepman
has lost 5000 in three months by the
coyote raids on his fiocks.
A remarkable example of the endur-
ance of fish was shown last night, says
an Anderson, Ind, correspondent OF
the Indianapolis Sentinel. when Brown
the fish merchant of this city, emptied
a barrel of fish into a big cold-watel
tank he uses in cleaning them. The
kit had been landed in Lake Michigan
last Friday and shipped to this city
in barrels. Brown and those around
the tank were astonished to see one
Of them move his eye. later swish his
tail, and after a few seconds swim off
The four FOUNDER seemed very active
when he once got started, and took in
every crevice of the tank He not only
lived four days and covered 400 miles
stored away in barrel with great
weight of dead fish, but is now as ac-
tive as ever, and has a tank all tc
himself