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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Instinct And Reason. [Elephants]

Stories of elephantine intelligence are numerous, but most of them too well known to repeat here. One, however, recorded by a traveler, in a paper contributed to a scientific journal, and which is vouched for from personal knowledge, is worth a brief notice. The author was on a journey, and several elephants were engaged to […]

Instinct And Reason. [Horses.]

We cannot just now call to mind where we met, long ago, with a very amusing example of memory in a horse-the charger of the commanding officer of an Indian regiment. He was an exceedingly large and heavy man, and the horse having a dislike to carrying such a burden, acquired the habit of lying […]

Fish And Muskrats.

Three hundred tons of fish have been taken from Spirit Lake, Iowa, this spring, and one man in the vicinity has bought 300,000 muskrats since January.

Horse.

The St. Charles Michigan Harald says: “J. H. Griffin, of this city, was dangerously bitten by his stallion ‘Black Hawk,’ near the house of Charles Smith, east of St. Charles, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Griffin was in the act of getting into his sulky, when the horse made a dive for him, jumping about eight […]

Cats And Chickens.

A lady at Beloit, Wisconsin, a few days since, found in the nest of a sitting hen four kittens who had not got their eyes open.

Furs.

A man lately arrived in Sioux City, Iowa, with 12,000 muskrat, 600 mink, 300 otter, and 500 wolf skins, purchased from the Indians in the vicinity.

Snakes And Bugs.

The Secretary of the Treasury on Wednesday week received from San Francisco, California, a box of dead snakes, bugs, flies, and centipedes, a grim looking collection of Chinese reptiles which had been consigned to a firm in that city, by the firm of Yo Chy Tong & Co., of Canton, to be used by the […]

Fish.

An infant was recently found in the stomach of a huge catfish caught in the Tennessee River, near Chattanooga.

Horses.

In Barbary, pacing horses are held in such high estimation that the method of making a spirited trotter shackle like a boat in a chop sea is reduced to a science. To make them rack easily, a ring of lead covered with leather is put around each hoof; a cord from each weight ascends and […]

Pigs.

Another and terrible warning to the truant comes from Georgetown, Kentucky. A little boy, in returning from school, stopped to play with the little pigs in a pasture through which he passed, and as the old hogs did not allow her offspring to play with truant boys, they set upon him and ate him up, […]