Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-01-28
BROUGHT TO THE TAxIDERMlsT.
Thingi Familiar and Curious in Greas
Variety and from All Parts.

ThineI Familiar and Curious in Greaa
Variety and from All Parts.
There are brought to the taXidermist,
to be mounted, birds and animals and
other things in a great variety. A boy
may find in the woods turtle that
catches his fancy; he takes it to the tax
idermist, gets it mounted, and puts it
in his cabinet. Sometimes turtles are
mounted for paper weights. Horses
hoofs 70 be mounted are brought in by
horsemen. A woman whose pet horse
died had one of it's hoofs mounted with
silver bands for use as paper weight.
Bears paws are often mounted as let
ter weights. The hunter may have shot
q bear at q season when its fur is poor
and its skin is not worth mounting as
a rug or as an animal, but the paws
are ali 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
higkholders, robins, blue jaysand hawks.
Among animals the most ccnmon is
the squirrel. A boy who shoots line
squirrel with nice tail likes to get it
mounted, sitting up holding q nut in
its paws. Fox tails captured in the
chase are brought to the taxidermlst,
and so are fox heads.
Many pet dogs and cats and monk
eys and canaries 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 remarkable,
are brought in to be mounted. Not
infrequently small alligators are
brought to the taxidcrmist, and some
times larger ones. Awhile ago bust
ness man of this city requested 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 q ton, and length,
II feet, and sent that north. In the
course of time it died, and then its own
or sent it to the taXidermist, had it
mounted, and suspended it from the
ceiling of his store.
There was brought to the taXider-
mist recently, for a social club in whose
title the word lobster appears, lob
ster weighing % pounds. To the same
taxiiermist there was once brought
lobster weighing SO pounds. Many
fishes are brought to the taxidermist;
trout, black bass, muskalonge, tarpon,
and many others, large and small, of
both fresh and salt water. There
was lately brought to New York tax
idermist q striped bass weighing As
pounds. Usually the smaller fishes arc
mounted entire; of the big fishes gen.
orally but half the fish is mounted. In
the hunting season the taxidermist re-
ceives many specimens to be mounted,
including vide variety of game and
game heads from many regions. Many
hunters have horns mounted in the
usual manner, or perhaps, for hat
rack or some article of furniture. Horns
have been mounted as candelabra.
Hunters often have skins mounted as
rugs.
Sea captains bring to the taxider-
mist to be mounted, for themselves, or
perhaps to give away to their friends,
strange and curious things from all
parts of the world, including sea birds
and tropical birds.-N. Y. Sun.