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A Wolf In Indiana.

  South Bend [Ind.] Tribune.      The readers of the Tribune will remember our several times mentioning during the past three years the terrible depredations made on flocks of sheep on Harris Prairie by a gray wolf. The wolf was often seen, but was so sly that hunters seldom got a shot at her. Twice […]

Wolves in Alsace-Lorraine.

  London Times.      The late severe weather has as usual brought us reports of the appearance of wolves in inhabited districts in Eastern France and the neighboring Alsace-Lorraine. The unusual extent and depth of the snowfall having deprived them in great measure of their sources of support, they were rendered by hunger more daring […]

A Wolf Story.

       At Agen, France, the other night, a farmer’s wife on going to bed discovered sitting in the corner of her bedroom near the cupboard an enormous wolf. Her husband brought a spit from the kitchen, and, running it into the animal’s open mouth, pinned it to the wall, where she beat the wolf […]

Wolf Playing ‘Possum.

  Garnett, Kansas Journal      Reuben Lowry, of Walker Township, Anderson County, Kansas, was out hunting wolves one day during this snow. He got track of a wolf, and with his dogs followed to the timber, where he overtook it, and the dogs and the wolf fought in the snow. Uncle Reuben, however, who was […]

A Man Eaten By Wolves.

  From the New London [Wis.] Times.      On Monday last, as a German farmer was coming out of the woods, about twenty miles north of Perry’s Mills, he found a man’s boots with the feet left in them, particles of clothing, a few bones, a dead dog, and two dead wolves. Signs of a […]

A “Wolf Boy.”

       An interesting child, remarks the Pall Mall Gazette, has lately made its appearance at Lucknow. The Pioneer reports the arrival there of “a novelty in the shape of a wolf boy.” This young gentleman, who is now undergoing a process of taming in the lunatic asylum, was, it is said, carried off by […]

Frightened To Death.

  From the Marinette and Peshtigo [Wis.] Eagle.      On the night of the 12th inst., Andrew Manfestor, an employee of the Peshtigo Company, was up in the north branch of Beaver Creek, in company with three or four other men, and a little over a mile from camp, when it became dark and night […]

Fight With Wolves.

  Spring Valley [Minn.] Videste.      On Wednesday night last a Norwegian farmhand [whose name we can’t spell to save us], living northeast of this town, Spring Valley, Fillmore County, Minn., in the edge of the big timber, had a lively fight with three wolves. He started out after dark, with a single-barreled shot-gun, to […]

The Boy-Wolf-A Pair of Stories from Dr. Bull’s Book on India.

  London Telegraph.      From his eminently interesting work, entitled “Jungle Life in India,” Mr Ball has added good reasons for believing that the old classical story of the rearing of Romulus and Remus by a she-wolf may be founded in fact. The author cites the case of two lads in an orphanage in Sekundra, […]

Brief Notes.Wolves.

       The Russian Government has recently published statistics of the damage done by wolves throughout that country. It appears that there are not less than 170,000 wolves inhabiting the Empire, and that 200 persons were killed by them during the last year. The destruction of cattle and poultry by these marauders is enormous, almost […]