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Dogs-Sheep.

Col. Robert Allen, within a few days past, has had forty-three of his fine sheep killed by dogs. This is really lamentable. These were the finest sheep in the county. There are many useless and worthless dogs kept in this city, who live by pilfering and plunder. A proper regard for the interests of the […]

Oxen.

The imperial academy of China has issued a text under the auspices of the emperor, cautioning the celestials against the wickedness of slaughtering oxen and dogs for food, as they possess immortal souls and are gifted with reason and intelligence.

Prairie Hens And Quails.

The Detroit Tribune says that during the past winter, Messrs. Bowe & Co. of that city, have sent to the Eastern cities twelve thousand nine hundred forty-four Prairie Hens or Grouse and forty thousand four hundred and thirty-three Quails besides Partridges, wild Turkey in large numbers.

Fuddle Among The Hogs And Fishes.

The Medina Citizen is responsible for the following: “We understand that about 150 of the 2000 hogs belonging to the Oak Orchard Distillery, when it was burnt a few days since, got on a regular “bender,” and succeeded in acting almost as silly as do their biped neighbors when in a similar “fix.” They partook […]

Fish.

At Oquawka, Illinois, at a single haul of a seine, five thousand pike, bass, perch and sun-fish were taken, last week, and this was but a very small part of the day’s work.

Rats.

They are killing rats at the rate of ten thousand a day in New York city, and selling them to Genin, to make of them sables, etc.

Horses.

The Chicago Journal says: The Dixon stage was capsized in the Rock River, near Grand Detour, one day last week, and the horses were drowned. The driver, who could not swim, was -lucky man-kicked ashore by the struggling horse.

A Bear Ride.

A day or two since, as Mr. Solomon Reed, of Dorset, Vt. was cutting wood, at some distance from his house, a very large bear stole up behind and ordered him to stop. He let fly his axe at Bruin, but it missed, and Bruin, in turn, let fly at him. Solomon then seized a […]

Deer

It is said that one of the bands of the Medwakantodwad Dakotahs in Minnesota, have delivered to their trader, fifteen hundred deer skins, which they have taken this season. If this is correct, the band must have killed at least two thousand deer during the fall and winter, for five hundred skins or more are […]

Crocodile In A Tree.

An African hunter once found a large crocodile hanging in the fork of a tree about ten feet from the ground. As the place was fully half a mile from any water, it was difficult to account for the crocodile’s strange position. When questioned upon the subject the natives explained that it was put there […]