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Fish.

An infant was recently found in the stomach of a huge catfish caught in the Tennessee River, near Chattanooga.

Pigs.

Another and terrible warning to the truant comes from Georgetown, Kentucky. A little boy, in returning from school, stopped to play with the little pigs in a pasture through which he passed, and as the old hogs did not allow her offspring to play with truant boys, they set upon him and ate him up, […]

Ants.

The death of a little colored girl in Alabama is recorded in a local paper which gives as a cause the following: While asleep the ants by the hundreds made an attack on the child, and when she awoke she was literally covered with them, and all busy biting and stinging. They were so ferocious […]

Pigs and Horses.

     This is a very dirty world in spots. Some of the hogs dead of cholera at the West have been sent as pork to the East, and dead horses in Philadelphia are used to fatten hogs for market. Pah! feed a man this pork, washed down with strichnined whisky, and he must soon become […]

Pigeons.

     Four men caught in a net on the 7th inst in Tamarah Swamp, Bloomfield township, Ohio, eighteen hundred pigeons at one haul. Besides this, they shot during the same night, 816 more, making a total of 2,616.

How the Chinese train Fighting Turtles.

     [Wong Chin Foo in Chicago News.]      Turtle fighting is very common in the east, and I am surprised the sport has not been introduced into this country. It’s quiet, nice, and very satisfactory. Two kinds of the reptiles are good for fighting-the mud turtle and the snapper. The latter is quicker and more […]

Children Killed By A Bear.

Left their home near Job, W. Va., to Gather Wild Flowers.      A Job, W. Va., special says: ‘To be crused to death in the embrace of a monstrous black bear and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly devoured was the frightful fate that befell the three young children of E. P. Porterfield, a […]

Circus Animals Die in Fire.

Gasoline Torch Explodes and Destroys Camels, Elephants and Bears.      A circus train arrived in Pawnee City, Neb., late the other night. Early the next morning one of the animal-keepers went through the elephant cars to see that all was right, when the gasoline torch which he carried exploded and the entire car was immediately […]

Dead Horses On Ground In Full View Of Trains.

Fourteen Dead Horses Lie on the Ground near Railroad Tracks at Beach. Investigation Demanded. Man Said to Buy Horses for Their Hides and Leaves the Carcasses on Ground.      The presence of the carcasses of fourteen dead horses on a knoll beside the Chicago and Northwestern railroad tracks just north of the Beach station and […]

A Horrible Affair.

     One of the most sickening affairs, if, indeed, it is not the most horrible, which it has ever been our duty to chronicle, happened last Saturday on the premises of Mr. Solon Kelly, about eight miles from Huntsville. There was a hog-killing in progress, and two colored men, Robert and Dennis Patrick, got into […]