Widnes Examiner. — 1887-05-21 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

COLOURS OF FIGHTING ANIMALS.—It is during the "What is the matter with the baby?" asked a lady of a moinent of battle, and just before and after it. that the little girl, whose baby brother she understood to tie ailing, colours of all fighting animals become invariably most 'Oh, nothin' much,' was the answer. "He's only hatchin' intense. The reason is plain; battle is joined during teeth." • . I the mating season, and" before the face of maidens and ' - A little boy came to his mother and said: "I should of dames"; and, as in human tournaments, the ladiei think that if I was made of dust T would get muddy in- stand by to applaud the conepierors and to reward their side when I drink." 1 prowess. They are themselves the prize of the enDoes hanging prevent murder? It is a matter of his- counter they stimulate. Pesides, the highest physicals • tory that cases are rare where a man is known to commit vigour and the highest excitement bring out the greatest murder after being thoroughly hanged. 4 i beauty both of men and animals. The angrier you make * Mere than eight million umbrellas were manufactured a mandrill, the more vividly tinted are his cheeks and in this country last year. We don't ask what has become callosities. The frilled lizards and flying dragons glow of this vast number, but we would like to know Where with all the brightest colours of the rainbow when you three of them went to. tease or annoy them. 'The turkey cock swells his cnmTendenhearted young lady: "Oh, you cruel, heartless son wattles and spreads his ruffled feathers to the little wretch! to rob those poor birds of their eggs." utmost at sight of a mischievous boy. There is-a little Wicked little boy: "Ho! That's the old mother bird that hot-tempered fish known as Betta puynax, and kept as a yeu've got on yer bonnet. Guess she won't care." ' . sett of domestic pet by the Siamese (much as the Little Charlie was having a wordy war with his nurse. Christian English gentleman of forty or fifty His father sang out, "Now, Charlie, are you going to be years since kept fighting cocks) to display its prowess quiet, or shall I come with a. rod ?" "Never mind the rod, for the _edification of the Mongolian intelligence. papa," responded the youngster; "I can set her right when: in a state of quiet," says Cantor, "its dull without whipping her.' . , colours present nothing remarkable; but if two be A distinguished diplomatist from the United States of . brought together, or if one sees its own image in a lookAmerica; a very genial and social being, soon after his ino-glass, the little creature becomes suddenly excited, arrival in London made the round of the sights—Madame the raised fins and the whole body shine with metallic Tussaud's among the number. "And what do•you think, colours of dazzling beauty, while the projected gill-naems of our waxwork?" asked a friend. "Well," replied the ' brine, waving like a black frill round the throat; adds, General, "it struck me as being very like an ordinary something of grotesqueness to the general appearance. English party." In this state it makes repeated darts at its real or The school text-book gives "Milk" as a perfect example' reflected antagonist. But both, when taken out of each other's •of a food which contains all the essential ingredients of a sight, instantly become quiet." The fighting . mixed diet The example of a mixed diet oncagiven by fishes, as the Siamese call them, are kept in globes like i a boy; at a written examination, was "A sausage." The: gold-fish and fed. from time to time with the larvre of example given by a girl at the same examination was i mosquitoes. The Siamese are as wild _after their corn" Roast duck, potatoes, and green peas, and a little jam- I bats as the Malays are for cockfighting, and'eften stake , tart afterwards." I large gums, or even the freedom of themselves and their "Pompey, I hear you are a great preacher ?" "Yes, I families, on the prowess and skill of a particular Betts. rna.%B., sometimes." "Well, Pompey, don't you think the i The license to exhibit fish-fights is farmed by' Governniggers steal little things on the plantation?" ' I'se i ment, and brings in a considerable revenue to the Ring . mighty 'f raid they does, massa." "Then, Pompey, I want .0f Siam.—Cornhill Magazine. -you to preach a sermon to the negroes against stealing:, i HE