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An Old Soldier’s Fight With A Wolf.

       Three young girls were minding a flock of sheep a few weeks ago at Vergt [Doudognel], when a large wolf suddenly appeared, and, separating some of the sheep, drove them before it. The cries of the girls irritated it, and passing near one of them, Marie S., it flew at her, knocked her […]

Wolves In Russia.

  London Daily News      Russia is still a good deal behind the rest of Europe in the matter of wolves. These animals, whose heads used to be a source of income to the borders of Wales, and of which the last were slain in Scotland by Cameron of Lochiel, make a considable figure in […]

Desperate Encounter

  A Wisconsin Farmer Kills Seven Wolves After A Terrible Struggle.      Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.      Waupaca, Wis., Aug. 12,-Report comes from the town of Dayton of a terrible encounter of a man with seven wolves. He is a farmer, and owns a large herd of sheep. He went out to drive […]

Two Remarkable Women.

  The Philadelphia Times describes a couple of remarkable women who are connected with the centennial Exhibition. One of these is Miss Emma Allison, of Ontario, who has the entire charge of the Baxter portable engine of six-horse power. She is by no means a soot-be-grimed and oil-covered amazon, but, on the contrary, of neat, […]

The Diseases Of Wild Animals

  The Diseases Of Wild Animals. While First Surgeon of the thirty-first Regiment of the line, then stationed at Alabers, in Algeria. I dissected the carcasses of about fifty lions. The lungs of twenty of them were affected; one half of them were almost gone, showing that consumption [tuberculosis] is prevalent among the lions of […]

Boa Swallows A Young Lion.

  But Help Came, the Cub Was Rescued and the Boa Was Slain.      A boa constrictor will swallow anything at all when it wakes up hungry and finds that dinner is not ready. This is the story of a boa which swallowed a cub lion whole. The cub was recovered by an operation, but […]

Fatal Snakes and Beasts in India.

       Wild animals and snakes in India seem to kill more human beings than all our punitive expeditions taken together. The statistics of the loss of  human life and cattle by wild animals and venomous snakes in the Central provinces of India have been issued. Although the totals show some decrease from last year, […]

Animal Sagacity.

From the “Boston Traralier”      Col. Rice, now of Gen. Miles Fifth United States Infantry, was in company on Tuesday last with a gentleman of our acquaintance, and the conversation naturally turned on Indian warfare and frontier experience, the day being the anniversary of the Custer massacre. Col. Rice, who has seen services in the […]

Wild Animals In India.

       A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, reviewing the many good works done by the English for the people of India, notes among other things, the almost total extermination of wild animals in that country.      As the rural communities relinquished their hamlets and drew closer together toward the centre of a district, he […]

Wolves Invade A Big City

  Residents of Minneapolis driven to trees by the animals.      Timber Wolves are causing a reign of terror in the northeastern portion of Minneapolis, where several of the brutes have been killed during the last few days. The animals have been driven in from the outlaying districts by hunger and several persons out late […]