The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-28
NATURAL HISTORY.
A Few Further Hints to Interested
Parties.


Parties.
Nobody knows when the wolf first
came to North America, but he was
on the ground long before the time OF
Columbus, and has been hanging on
ever since. While he has found things
TOO hot for him in many states, there
are others in which he is at home
every day in the week and twice On
Sundays. His natural food, before Fhe
white man came, was SIcn wiz game
as he could pick up, with an occasion
al Indian papoose as "a relish, Dut lateI
on he discovered that white folks We're
juicy eating, and he has stuck 10 thSlH
ever since.
In the void districts inhabited oy
the wolf school ma'ams start Tor me
school house at eight O'Clock IN me
morning and are never heard OF noie'
Perhaps an old pair OF SHOES oL q
bangie-brace1et may be found yer
or two later, but that is all. AT sol4.e
lonely point in the road she encou'ltz
cred a wolf, and he ate her up Wll WING
giving a thought as to now heI
ars would feel about it. ,+
Boys have been known 70 stalt - -
in high spirits to hunt RADIUS anu y
be missing when supper Tune ~
and for q good while a1teI; 49,
afterwards some hunter mas coih0
acrosss an old cat-skin cap hanging Oh
tho ffrob of tree with the name %
willie" in it, but there was no $50 80,
as to how a wolf sprans upon - ~.
from behind rock and cheWeu Alli
~ 1l,itb relish one old wolf has been
known to finish up fourteen boys "! "
fore she got tired out, and anolIel
5a.,o,,rad seven women and an Gu
maid before he was finally shoI.s 7
If left alone to enjoy hlmseM am
have his regular sleep, the Vol WI
live to be twenty years ola anu uIS
wishing he had eaten hair a uoZell
more boys but if chased ana narI'eu
Nv dogs and made constantly anxious
as to what will happen next, ms udys
are cut down one-third- The man WAC
wrote the story about George w assn
ington and his Ratchet was first goihs
to have him cut down a VOL put
knowing that he would lie about II 1ne
wolf was told to go back to the Wooas
and the cherry tree was brought loi-
ward. +t,a
grocery with a quart of N Q. molasses
Ia lug needn't be fearful Of meeuilS
= wolf and being deVoured' puL a. - -
same time he should realize lhal IL. ltS
meets too many boys and oftefS etcl
pne a "gurgle," he will unGeIso z
woodshed experience that will be al
most as bad.
If the parrot had been permitted to
have his way about II, ne W0uIu. nt1NS
remained in the forests of the warm
countries and kept as quiet as pos
sible but man has carried MN from
place to place until he can now DC
found almost everywhere on the 80
Of the globe The first idea was thaL
a bird of such gaudy plumage oughi
to be able to sing ravlshlngly' anu
he had been Gagged up for months pc
fore his harsh voice was hearo- men
mankind hung on to him just to nave
something around that would squawk
louder than dinner horn
The parrot has been the pet OF
kings, queens, princes and lords, out
the end of him, III captivity has al
ways been the same. He has mace
such a nuisance of himself IN every
direction that the hired man has
finally been sent out with the crow
bar to knock him on the head. It
was known as far back as the year
$50 that parrots could be taught 70
talk but up to the present year OF
1904 most of his language has been
confined to sWear-words.
Darius, king of Persia, had a par
rot who could repeat five, verses OF
the Bible, but after getting away and
living on board of an English man
of-war for six weeks he replaced the
verses with two hundred cuss- words |
and had to be killed to stop his CLOCK.
In some countries there are laws
which will not permit an old maid to
have over three parrots in the back
yard at the same time, whilst in 9TH
ers the policeman on that beat simply
gives Tommy Jones the wink, and
Tommy reduces the number to one
In the tropical countries the parrot
is sometimes eaten for food. but only
when there are no green persimmons
or burdock roots to be had. His flesh
leaves a taste in the mouth something
like turnip that has been lying at
the bottom of a goose pond FOR three
or four years. A parrot confined in
an English geological garden livec 10
be sixty-twO years old, but the aver
age age is only about forty They
get tired of hearing their own voices
after that time.
If the arrot was as large as the
ostrich his voice could be heard a dis
lance of seven miles on a still night,
and it would take three farmers and