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Monthly Archives: May 2012

A Valuable Cat.

     Howard Reed, of Milford, Pa., started out hunting for partridges and woodcock and was followed by the house cat. All efforts on the part of the young hunter to drive the cat back home was futile; it was bound to go with him, and it illustrated its ability as a hunter by it’s “pointing” […]

How the Ancients Rode Horses.

[Exchange.]      The Greeks and Romans did not know stirrups. The ancients had no saddles like ours, although a Monsieur Ginzrot tries to make out from Julius Caesar and other Roman writers, that they did sometimes employ a kind of frame like a saddle-tree, which was stuffed with wool or cloth, and then covered over […]

A Police Force Of Ants.

[Popular Science News.]      A queer way of employing ants is reported by an English gentleman who has been traveling through one of the provinces of China. It appears that, in many parts of the province of Canton, the orange trees are infested by worms; and, to rid themselves of these pests, the natives bring […]

Impaled on the Barb.

   [Exchange]      Im Maricopa county, Arizona, there is considerable barbed fence, and the vast flocks of wild ducks which frequent the valley often fly low, and, stricking the barbed fences, become impaled thereon. It is said that tons of ducks are gathered daily by boys from the fences and sent to market.

Origin of the Rat.

[London News.]      The origin of the rat, like the birth of Jeames Yellowplush, is wrapped up in mystery. The ancients, according to a learned writer by M. Eugene Rolland in his “Faune Sauvage,” knew not the rat. Their condition was more gracious. But it is hard to be certain about the fauna of the […]

A Dog That Could Understand.

[Baptis Weekly]      A sheperd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house where we talking, said to me in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, “I am thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes.” Through he purposely laid no stress on these […]

Arabs Catching Sharks At Aden.

[Gentleman’s Magazine.]      The way the Arabs catch sharks is very curious and interesting, and is somewhat similar to playing a heavy salmon, only no rod is used. A hook of soft iron wire is made very sharp and baited with a lump of garbage of some kind, usually a piece of shark too rancid […]

Millions Of Black Ants.

An Ohio Farmer Attacked by Them and Overpowered.      Dayton, Ohio, July 29.-Mr. Isaiah Burncrat, a farmer living near Chambersburg, a small country village a few miles from here, had a most wonderful experience Tuesday, narrowly escaping being killed by ants. He was picking blackberries in a wild patch in a dense wood, when suddenly […]

Wolf-Catching in Scandinavia.

[Chicago Journal]      Capt. Lloyd has been traveling in Scandinavia, where wolves are abundant. The animals are very fond of pork, and his plan of enticing them in order to shoot them was th keep a live pig in his sledge, and to pinch him in the night-time. In order further to deceive the wolves, […]

In An Eagle’s Talons.

A Little Babe Carried Off Before Its Mother’s Eyes.      Montreal, Can., Oct. 16.-Thursday morning as the wife of Jean Baptiste Romilly, a farmer in St. Vincent de Paul, a village about ten miles from Montreal, was feeding her fowls, while her child, about 2 years, was playing around, suddenly a large baldheaded eagle swooped […]