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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Do More Than Guard Sheep.

Dogs of Scotland Are Also the Companions and Protectors of the Crofter Children.      The sheepdogs of Scotland are guides and defenders not only of the sheep flocks, but also the children of the crofters. Were it not for these shaggy, intelligent fellows, born shepherds of the weak and defenseless, it would be unsafe for […]

Dog Makes 1,800 Mile Trip.

     A Newfoundland dog taken from Omaha to Portland, Ore., when his owners moved there a year ago, has returned to his old home. His blistered feet and shaggy coat are sufficient evidence that a large part of the 1,800 miles was covered on foot.

Dog.

     A noble Newfoundland dog once went with a mother and her child to the village. Soon after their arrival, the little girl was burned so severely as almost to produce convulsions. A physician, an absolute stranger, was summoned, under whose soothing remedies the girl was quieted and fell asleep, when the doctor took his […]

Dog Saves Little Mistress.

     An Albany dog dragged his 7-year-old mistress from a fire occasioned by a gasoline explosion, saving her life and summoning help by barking. All the hair on the dog’s back was burned off.

Catching Turtles.

  Methods Used by the Fishermen of the Tropics.      Turtles are always captured at night and usually on moonlight ones. This is the time they go on the shore to lay their eggs. They select a smooth, sandy beach, dig holes in the sand, deposit their eggs there and leave them to be hatched […]

Animals As Despots.

  Tyranny of the pampered sacred Beasts of Asia.      In Benaras the Person Who ill Treats a Monkey Runs the Risk of Being torn to Pieces-How the Holy Bull Victimizes the Bazaar Man.      Readers of Kipling’s “Kim” which gives a better picture of Indian life than anything else in print, may recall how […]

Man Goes into Lake.

     As a climax to the work of cutting ice on Round Lake, an accident occured Tuesday afternoon which gave all of the ice cutters a shock and completely unnerved them for their remainder of the day’s work.      Peter Bowers, a well known farmer near Round Lake, was on the lake and the ice […]

Horse Deserts Wagon.

    A crowd of people around the post office were vastly amused yesterday afternoon by a horse desengaging itself from a wagon and leaving the wagon and driver in the middle of the street. Something gave way on the harness and the horse tore up the street at a terrific rate of speed the onlookers thinking […]

Won’t Eat Possum.

     A human being is a queer animal after all. We eat possums and pay fancy prices for them, yet a vulture will not touch one. During a long season of snow years ago a farmer said the buzzards in his locality were almost starved, and to rest the matter he killed a possum and […]

Boy’s Head is Pulled Off.

     Oconto Falls, Wis., Aug. 19.-Fred Schiller, the son of Gottried Schiller, a farmer, while leading a horse was dragged by the animal for many rods. The chain which held the horse wound round the lad’s head and tore it from the body.