The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-08
Curious Pets.

Nothing in human nature is perhaps
more peculiar than the practice of adopt
ing some representative of the animal
world rs an intimate. 1t may be conjec-
tured that the first pets were those ami
mails which had already proved themselves
useful in the service of man. such as
horses and dogs, says the London Stan
came domesticated, they were admitted to
degree of intimacy which. while not,
perhaps exactly that of the modern pet,
was step i'll that direction. The an
clients as well as ourselves are known to
have lavished no small amount of affec-
ton upon their favorites. Did not Alex
ander grieve for the loss of Bucephaius,
and endeavor to console himself with Peri
tas, the lion-fghting dog. which cost him
something over f300 in India q And had
not both horse and dog cities named after
them? Did not the dog Xanthippus swim
beside his masters galley to Salams:
The mares of Cimon, with which he was
thrice victorious at the Olympic games
We're buried beside his own tomb We all
remember how 1.-The Young mans dog
accompanied the son Of Tobit and the
Angel Raphael ON their remarka BILE jour
| ney.
But the ancients had singular pets as
we'll. Pythagoras tanned an eagle so far
that by pronouncing certain words he
could instantly check it iii its flight and
make it return to the ground: Alcibiades
had dog OF uncommon size and beauty,
which cost large sum Of money. and yet
he had the animals handsome tail cut off
i'll order. as he said, to give the Atheni-
ans something to talk about. Besides
his dog. Alcibiades was fond of his fight
ing quails. and rewarded the restorer of a
lost bird by giving him command of the
fleet. SertoriuS. when in LuSitania, re-
u procnpt IF mill. U-hi4o hind y-hi<.b
became so attached to him as to come
when called and followed him about. and
learned to bear the noise and hustle of
the camp and the battlefield. Cardinal
Wolsey. it will be recollected, was ia
miliar with a venerable carp. Cowper's
only relief from melancholy was to play
| with his pet hares. Give owned a pet
tortoise. Did not Mr.. Parnel on one oc-
casion interrupt an important conference
Of the Irish parliamentary party while he
| saw to the feeding of favorite retriever ::
Loc-Ha uling Steam Engines.
| From the number of steam engines be-
ing shipped to logging camps in various
parts of the state, it is evident that the
lay of the bull team and bull puncher.
with his rich vocabulary of profanity. in
| the logging camp, is passed. Every day
or two the big jumbo truck is seen haul
| shipment. They are now made altogether
of steel, and some Of them are very
heavy. The Bridal Veil laundering Com
pany has a very large one. carrying two
| miles of steel rope. Weise Brothers, at
Oak Point. have put OH one of 1OO-horse-
power carrying mile of steel rope. One
was shipped to Seaside a few days ago,
and big one was shipped to Pc Ell,
Washington. \ very large engine is or
| dered and will be shipped at once to a
| company at Coos Bay. The way these
| engines snake logs out of the timber is Il
caution to all cattle. Think of $4,000
| feet of logs being snatched along up a hill
so steep that if they broke loose they
would slide back of themselves! When
the ground is too soft for cattle to work.
the wire cable brings the logs out of the
woods a-skipping, knocking the tops off
the cradle piles, and fairly grading the
ground. Weidler & Ordway were the
first to put on logging engines in this re-
gion, and have been using them success
fully fol. several years-Portland Orego-
MAN.