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Foxes.

     Twenty-five citizens of Hillsboro, went fox hunting a few days ago, and returned with the glorious trophies of the chase-viz, thirty-five foxes and lots of fun.

Picture How Woman Died In Muskrat Trap.

     Algonac, Mich., March 22.-Hours of torture, in which Mrs. Joseph Sears, 72 year old trapper, struggled against a muskrat trap which held her in two feet of mud and water were revealed with the finding of the woman’s body in the flats here. One of her own traps had snared her, and a boat, […]

Fearful Experience of Buffalo Hunters.

     The Waterville [Kansas] Telegraph tells a terrible tale of suffering concerning Mr. F. M. Brower, the survivor of a party of buffalo hunters frozen to death in Phillips county, in November last. Mr. Brower was badly frozen on the morning of Sunday, November 17. His four companions went for help, and all were frozen […]

Buffalo Wages Game Fight.

Wounded Animal Gives Battle Royal to Huntsman When He is Poked in the Eye.      An exciting story is told of a party who went buffalo shooting in Zuzuland recently. During the course of the holiday a buffalo was shot early one morning. The party saw the animal drop, and as it did not move, […]

Dogs.

     A Missouri farmer, after a long calculation, presents the following facts concerning dogs:-In thirty-two counties 10,602 sheep have been killed by dogs. He estimates the number of dogs in these thirty-two counties to be 462,000; that a hog will thrive on the food necessary to support an able-bodied dog, and at the end of […]

Football, Deadliest Sport.

Shown its Casualties Are Larger Than Those of Bull Fighting.      New York, April 15,-In an effort to show that football is a more brutal and deadly sport than bull fighting a statistician has compiled a table showing the total casualties in Spain from bull fighting during 1911. There were 872 bull fights, attended by […]

On Their Sea Legs.

Cattle and Horses Do Not Get Frightened in Rough Weather.      Do the horses and cattle get frightened and make much disturbance in rough weather? asked the writer of a New York dealer who ships cattle abroad.      “Bless you, no; They’ve got sea legs that would put an old salt to shame. Occasionally a […]

Great Loss of Swine.

     Mr. Dodge, the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, reports, as the results of an investigation of the losses from diseases of swine during the past twelve months, the destrution of 4,000,000 animals of all ages, and a money loss of more than $20,000,000. One-fifth of the reported loss occurs in the […]

A Horse Story.

     The army correspondent of the Herald writes an account of the famous horse raid within the lines and without riders. He says:      Near Bermuda Hundred there is a large corral, where all the disabled and worn out horses-brought here by Gen. Sheridan after his famous raid-are confined. The poor beasts have apparently but […]

A Horse Frightened To Death By An Elephant.

A very remarkable case of the effects of fright upon a horse occured at Franklin a short time since. A horse belonging to Mr. Joseph Palmer, was grazing in the yard near the fence, when the elephants belonging to the menagerie recently in this city, were passing along. The horse did not observe them till […]