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Runaways Dash Through Coal Shed.

Wagon Smashed and Two Horses Belonging to Bert Stevens Killed at Spring Grove in Fierce Dash of Two frightened Animals Down Road to structure.      A serious accident happened in Spring Grove Saturday which cost the lives of two valuable horses belonging to Bert Stevens.      The affair was a double runaway. A team belonging […]

Eagle’s Cruel Sport.

     The golden eagle sometimes captures ptarmigan almost it seems for the mere pleasure of doing so, and then has a little game with its luckless prey. Soaring to a great height it drops the ptarmigan from its talons and soars away as if paying no attention to its then, suddenly swooping earthwards with terrific […]

Fight With Wildcat.

  Little Boy Has Exciting Encounter With Vicious Animal.        Perry Maxfield of Bloomfield, N. J., brother of Theodore Todd Maxfield, a well-known horseman, and nephew of Thomas Oakes, millionaire cloth manufacturer of Bloomfield, had an exciting encounter with a wild cat at Nashua, Fla. Maxfield was severely clawed by the animal, and his hunting […]

Dogs Saved Boy From Bear.

     Two small pet dogs saved the life of their thirteen-year-old master, Bruno Westerman of St. Paul, when Teddy, a pet black bear, attacked the boy.      As the bear seized the boy the dogs gave battle and Teddy dropped the child and sought refuge in a near-by tree.      Carl, the sixteen-year-old brother, finally […]

Catching Turtles.

  Methods Used by the Fishermen of the Tropics.      Turtles are always captured at night and usually on moonlight ones. This is the time they go on the shore to lay their eggs. They select a smooth, sandy beach, dig holes in the sand, deposit their eggs there and leave them to be hatched […]

Animals As Despots.

  Tyranny of the pampered sacred Beasts of Asia.      In Benaras the Person Who ill Treats a Monkey Runs the Risk of Being torn to Pieces-How the Holy Bull Victimizes the Bazaar Man.      Readers of Kipling’s “Kim” which gives a better picture of Indian life than anything else in print, may recall how […]

Man Goes into Lake.

     As a climax to the work of cutting ice on Round Lake, an accident occured Tuesday afternoon which gave all of the ice cutters a shock and completely unnerved them for their remainder of the day’s work.      Peter Bowers, a well known farmer near Round Lake, was on the lake and the ice […]

Won’t Eat Possum.

     A human being is a queer animal after all. We eat possums and pay fancy prices for them, yet a vulture will not touch one. During a long season of snow years ago a farmer said the buzzards in his locality were almost starved, and to rest the matter he killed a possum and […]

All Meat for Paris Lane.

     A street sign that amazes American visitors in Paris reads: “Butchery of Horse, Ass and Mule a Specialty.”

Swallowed Six Inch Snake.

     Thomas Jefferies, member of the Rough Rider club of Cincinnati, who had been camping on the Ohio river near Lawrenceburg, Ind., got up in the night and took a drink from a spring near by. This was at 1 o’clock, and in a few minutes after he retired he awoke his companions with his groans. […]