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Old Barney, The Mine Mule.

Thirty-five Years Underground-Brought to the Surface, He Seeks Death. Coalbrook [Pa.] Letter to New York Sun: Three years ago a mule known as “Old Barney,” having spent thirty-five successive years in drawing coal cars in the tunnels of Old Hickory Colliery, was taken out of the mine by his owner and turned out to do […]

Dog Takes Pride In Clothes.

Augusta Canine Seemingly Unhappy When Without Them. There is a dog in Augusta, says the Augusta Chronicle, who dresses just like a man, wearing the regulation coat, vest, collar and cravat, and is very proud of his apparel, being seemingly very much distressed whenever his busy master does not have time to rig him up […]

A rat! a rat!”

A gentleman, who domesticates at present with us, was awakened a few nights since by the gambols of a rat upon his bed. He arose and supposing he had ejected his unwelcome visitor, closed the door of his chamber and again resigned himself to the arms of his sleepy god. Nothing more was heard of […]

Maddened The Bear.

Ingenious Trap That Was Formerly Used by the Mexicans. The Mexicans in California had an ingenious method of trapping bears before the advent of the Yankees brought modern firearms into the region. A piece of meat was nailed to the stout horizontal limb of an oak tree. From a limb five or six feet above […]

Lightning Bolt Struck Shoes From Horse’s Feet.

Freak Bolt that Hit the Keen Stables Near Libertyville. Skin of 1,500 Horse Had Many Perforations. And the Strangest Thing is That Dwight Major, One of the Finest Horses in the Stable, is Now Recovered. Many stories are told of the curious and strange pranks that have been wrought by that mysterious something-electricity, Lightning in […]

Killed Thirty Chickens.

Thirty chickens belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Trepanier of 1024 Jackson street were killed by a dog last night according to a police report and the canine is being hunted down.

Bull Attacks An Auto Which Threw Its Lights Upon Him.

Enraged Animal Near Fox Lake Resents Appearance in the Herd. Kicks And Butts The Car. First Attack Throws Headlights Over Car-Second Is Butting of the Radiator. While driving through what is called “The big hollow” north of Volo one night recently, Fred Nader, a farmer of McHenry county, was the victim of an enraged bull […]

Mrs. Akeley Shot The two Largest Elephants.

Woman Related Here Did Remarkable Feat In Africa. Her Shot Brought Down Elephant Larger Than the Fabled Jumbo. Tale Told in Chicago. Mrs. Carl E. Akeley, wife of the chief taxidermist of the Field Museum and sister-in-law to T. E. Akeley of Third street, Waukegan, killed the biggest elephant ever bagged by an American and […]

Horse’s Bite Proves Fatal.

Causes Death of Stock Dealer Two Days After Animal’s Attack. Marion, Ill., Oct. 31.-J. T. White, a stock dealer, is dead here as the result of a bite of a horse. He was feeding the animal last Wednesday when it attacked him, inflicting fatal wounds.

Mice Destroy Field Crops.

Pleasant Bay In Cape Breton Reports Great Loss From Rodents. Halifax, Oct. 29.-Pleasant Bay, in the northern part of Cape Breton, is the scene of a great plague of mice. They have invaded the settlement and have destroyed the grain and field crops. As a result of their ravages, not more than seven bushels of […]