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Higher Life of Animals.

  Remarkable Instances of Language and Combination.      In Mansfield Parkyn’s work on Abyssinia is a remarkable account of language and the consequent power of combination among the monkey tribe.      “You may see them quarreling, making love, mothers taking care of their children, combing their hair, nursing and suckling them; and the passions, jealousy, […]

A Man-Wolf.

       Rev. Dr. Butler, the Methodist missionary who established the mission of that church in India in 1856, recently returned to this country. He makes the following statement of a remarkable case:      In 1859 a British soldier, while bearing a despatch from one magistrate to another in the kingdom of Onde, passed an […]

A Conflick With a Wolf.

  From the Princeton, Illinois Republican, May 6.      A large grey wolf has frequently been seen in the northern part of the county. It has killed seversl sheep from the farmers and a cow has come up missing. While in Dixon a few days ago we heard the following account:      A man named […]

Are Children Ever Nursed by Wolves?

       The Rev. Dr. Ellinwood, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, in a letter from Cawnpore, India, to the New York Evangelist, has the following paragraphs:      Our interest was greatly excited at the Secundra Orphanage by one inmate, known as the”Wolf Boy.” Within ten years two boys, said to have been […]

Two East-Indian Wonders.

  The Tomb of King Akbar, and the “Wolf Boy.” Arra [India] Correspondence Frey Times.      Here we saw among the inmates [Arra, India] a person known as “the wolf boy.” He is now about 20 years old. “The wolf boy” was taken away from a wolf-captured in a wolf’s den at Bulandshabar, about 80 […]

Nurtured By She-Wolf.

  Incident of Romans Repeated by Wild Animal Near St. Paul.      From Ewing, thirty miles from here, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press, comes a story so strange and startling that it has attracted much attention, and steps have been taken to either prove or disaprove it, for it is true a new fact […]

Dogs Can See Ghosts.

       That dogs see ghosts may be indicated by the case reported to the Society For Psychical Research: Ayecroft Hall is celebrated in England as a haunted house. In it abides the gaunt phantasm of a woman, sometimes white, sometimes black. It disappears through doors and performs other surprising feats.      “The appearance of […]

Breath Of A Wolf.

  Here’s a Persian Remedy if a Bone Sticks in Your Throat.      A new and ingenious remedy for a bone in the throat will be found in an account of a Persian pilgrimage published under the title of “The Glory of the Shia World.” The doctor was Mirza Sadik Khan, chief physician of the […]

Two Men Treed By Wolves.

       Sitting all night in a tree, tired, hungry and almost benumbed from the cold, with a pack of Wolves under them, is the experience which befell Frank and Robert Anderson of Wausau, Wis., in the woods south of Sidnaw, Mich. They were engaged in looking over the land.      Their camp was a […]

Cuteness Of The Coyote.

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 12/17/1897. Dog Drawn Into Ambush-Tricks To Make Away With a Badger.      No cuter animal is found in the west than the coyote. The coyote is to the plainsman what a fox is to an Eastern farmer; only the coyote is more in evidence. Forest and Stream tells […]