The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-06
BROUGHT TO THE TAxIoeRMsST.
Things familiar and Curious In Great
Variety and from An Parts. /.

Things FAMILIAR and Curious In Great
Variety and from An Parts :
There are brought 20 the taxidermist,
to be mounted. birds and animals and
other things in great variety. A boy
may find in the woods q turtle that
catches his fancy; he takes it to the tax
idermist. gets it mounted. and puts il
in his cabinet. Sometimes turtles ere
mounted for paper weights. Horses
hoofs to be mounted are brought in by
horsemen. A woman whose pet horse
died had one Of its hoofs mounted with
silver bands for use as paper weight.
Bears paws are often mounted as iet-
ter weights. The hunter may have shot
q bear at a season when it's fur In poor
and its skin is not worth mounting as
o rug or as an animal. but the paws
are all right, and he has them mounted
and keeps one for himself and gives the
rest TO his friends. More birds than ami
mails are brought TO be mounted, and
the birds most commonly brought are
highholders, robins. blue jaysand hawks.
Among animals the most common is
the squirrel. A boy who shoots q fine
squirrel with nice tail likes to GET il
mounted. sitting up holding a nut in
its paws. Fox tails captured in the
chase are brought 10 the taxidermlst,
and so are fox heads.
Many pet dogs and cats and monk
eys and cana-ies are brought to
be mounted. Often, when it dies,
the hunter has his favorite hunting
dog mounted in an attitude pecul-
lar to it; if pointer. for instance,
pointing. Other dogs. ratters. or fight
ers that may have been remarka ole,
are brought in to be mounted. Not
infrequently small allisators arc
brought TO the taxidermist, and some
times larger ones. Awhile ago busi-
ness man of this city requested n friend
who was going to Florida to send him
little alligator; visitors often bring
or send north little alligators of foot
or less in length. The friend bought
the biggest alligator he could find in
Florida; weight, about a ton, and length,
II feet. and sent that north. In the
course of time it died. and then its own
er sent il to the taxidermist, had IL
mounted. aud suspended it from the
ceiling of his store.
There was brought to the taxider-
mist recently. for social club in whose
title the word lobster appears, lob
ster weighing % pounds. To the same
taxidermist there was once brought
lobster weighing 80 pounds. Many
fishes are brought to the taxidermist;
trout, black bass. muslalonge, tarpon.
and many others, large and small, OF
both fresh and salt water. There
was lately brought TO New York tax
idermist striped bass weighing IS
pounds. Usually the smaller fishes are
mounted entire; of the big fishes gen.
orally but half the fish is mounted. In
the hunting season the tSxidermist re-
ceives many specimens to be mounted,
including a wide variety of game and
game heads from many regions. Many
hunters have horns mounted in the
usual manner, or perhaps. for a hat
rack or some article of furniture. Horns
have been mounted az candelabra-
Hunters often have skins mounted as
rugs.
sea captains bring TO the tnxider-
mist to be mounted. for themselves, or
perhaps 70 give away 10 their friends.
strange and curious things from all
parts of the world. including sea birds
and tropical birds.-N. Y. Sun.