The Washington herald., 1911-06-04

HA and proud. It's cage hangs in
room, heated by large coal stove.
One afternoon the lady was going
out for short visit, and, US the fire was
low, she filled the stove and opened the
draught. She was gone much longer than
she expected, and when she returned the
stove was red hot and the air Of the room
was like that of furnace. Her first thought
was Of the canary. She glanced up, at the
cage. The bird was nowhere. in sight, and
she stepped on chair, expecting to find the
little fellow lying on the floor, Of the cage,
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with nothing out but his head, and even
that he was ducking at intervals.
In Manchester, NJ H., factory there is
a Maltese cat that is quite pet One morn
ing she strayed into the engine room a short
time before the machine started. She be-
gan playing around the floor and finally took
her position in the big fly-wheel, where, with.
Cut being noticed, she nestled down and fell
asleep. Soon the machinery was put in
motion. the wheel moving 80 rapidly that
the poor cat could not escape-indecd, it is
probable that puss was soon unconscious from
dizziness. In the wheel the cat remained
for five hours, and, as the wheel was twenty
feet in diameter, she travelled more than
turned at the rate OF one hundred per
minute for five hours, covering total dis.
tances oi more than three hundred and for.
ty miles. When the cat was discovered and
taken on. she was insensible, but soon recov.
cred, and although she has remained about
the factory, she gives the fly wheel wide
berth. .
One Of Uncle Sans most faithful servants
in Maine. but one that draws no salary. lives
ut the Portland Head Lighthouse. 1t is
large gray parrot, brought from Africa some
time ago. and presented to the keeper Of the
light. The bird soon noticed that when the
fog began to blow in from the ocean some
one would cry out, Fog coming in. blow
70 come in thick. and the men. did not notice
it. But Poll did, and croaked out, "Fog
coming in; blow the horn!" Ever since then,
whenever fog is perceptible, Poll never fails
to give warning.
A Louisville man has a hen that he thinks
Is as good as rat terrier. One morning
large rat tried to get at the hens nest, and
instantly Biddy was all feathers. When
the rat tried to run under her, she pecked at
him viciously and when it came at her bold
y. she dropped her wings and met it more
than halfway. Once the rat pulled out a
little bunch of feathers in an attempt to
seize the hens neck, and this made her furi
ousiy angry. She went at the rat in ear.
nest. and the two fought for half an hour,
until the hen killed the rat. ~
Dick Is the name of a pony owned by a
Baltimore man. and he is one of the greatest
of pets. He is small enough TO 60 through
the little door cut in the big stable door, and
he prefers to enter that way. Sometimes he
tries to take the carriage in with him, which,
OF course. results in failure. Dick will not
have his harness put on in the stable, but
must be taken in the office for that purpose,
and at the same time given at least six pep.
permint drops. When out driving, he goes
along scdately enough, but when his owner
stops and aEghts, Dick put his forefeet on
the pavement and occasionally walks up to
the door and enters the shop as far as the
carriage will admit If it ia a CANDY shop. he
viii not retreat until he receives a handful
OF sweets: then he gravely backs into the
street. These are only few instances of
Dicks almost human intelligence.
Dogs have most acute ears in detecting diff.
ferences in the quality of sound. A musi-
cian has fine Newfoundland, which always
mes close to the piano when it is being play
ed But the musician also has an old organ,
dog seems to enjoy this antiquated instru-
ment, ali but one stop. The musician says:
:Whenever ! pull that stop out he rises to
his feet suddenly and commences to bark
ana growl at me in q most vicious manner,
sometimes biting at the organ. Now, to my
ear, that stop makes no difference in the
sound Of the organ. l have tried hard To de.
tect the distinctive quality which aggravates
the dogs nature, but without success.
have tried TO fool the old fellow by com.
menc'ng the tune upon one stop and suddenly
fails to detect this though the sound to me
is just the same"