Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-11-13
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At Least So Indicate the Prairie Dogs and
the Big Hear at Providence.
Providence Journal.
The coming winter will be a hard
one. This is not the idle statement Of
an alarmist, nor is it a political canard.
1t has its formation deep in the realm
| of science, for the prairie dogs at Roger
Williams Park hare made the prophesy
| and their arguments are iIrefutahle.
Having given all tbs testimony they
| deemed necessary on this point, the
prairie dogs retired from public view
on Sunday to the warm bottoms of the
holes they have dug in their pen at
| the lark and refused to be interviewed.
| Not so much as a nose was seen
| above the ground or pair of beady
eyes cast heayenward for further prog
nostication, for these importations from
the West make up their minds and are
immovable by any argument mere
human can present as the operator of
/ a GOAL mine,
Their prophesy as to the severity Of
the winter now near at hand is found,
according to Max Sloman, head keeper
of the city's menagerie at the park,
in the huge mounds of earth they have
thrown up in front of their burrows
i
winter, is the way Max reads the
omens, the height of the mound de-
pending, of course, on the depth of the
burrow, and those who believe with
| him that a. prairie deg can forecast
more accurately than the best govern
| ment sharp, with barometers, anome
ters, and other intricate paraphernalia,
will do we'll to make up their minds
| without further delay for chilly days
to come. Included in this class will be
all who have studied the ways of the
far-sighted prairie dog. The little ami
mails get down in their burrows and
stay there until the good summertime
comes round again. Then they climb
up, throw back the blinds, and ask IL
the coal strike is over.
If the word of the prairie dog is not
sufficient on this subject with which
they claim to. be as oonversant as any
member of the animal kingdom, Jack,
the black bear, has something to offer.
Since Jack made an attack several
months ago on little girl at the park
he has been confined to one of the
barred cages of the main animal house.
Jack unquestionably looks prepared.
Whereas a few months back he re-
sembled furrier's sign which has seen
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vided himself against cold weather
with a new cat of glossy, thick, black
fur, and this covers two or three
inches of solid fat which Jack has
taken on lest the bread supply falls
short. 1t is we'll known that when
bears are at large they select in the
fall hollow tree or secluded nook Of
rocks and there go to sleep for the
winter. If they awaken and hear the
blizzard bowling outside their retreat,
they suck their paws and doze of
again. When they turn in for their
winter sleep they are as fat as roll Of
| butter and by spring they look as much
, like junk Dealers horse as anything
, in the animal line. During their long
, sleep without food the fat with which
their carcasses are inorusted is COM
pletely consumed, and the more severe
, the winter, according to their autumnal
forecasts, the more fat they take on.
Jack certainly looks Just at present
, like hard winter. If any one wants
to back up counter prediction to those
Of. Jack and the prairie dogs with gooo
exln of the realm, takers are to be
found at the park.