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Dogs

Story of a Dog Traveler. Was raised on farm and has since become widely known. Jack is the name of a dog that is known to everybody in Rushville, Ind., and which makes that place headquarters while he travels to all the towns within thirty miles of it, says the Indianapolis News. He comes from […]

Cows and Deer

Bovine Morals Corrupted. Catskill Cows Taught by Deer to Leap Fences. Ever since the deer were released from the State park in the Catskill mountains several years ago they have more or less become a nuisance. The law prohibits the deer from being shot for five years, and game protectors are kept busy at a […]

Apes

A large ape, which was chained to a tree in the grounds of one of the Esterhazy family, lately descended on the countess while she was driving, and tore her dress and arm. Her husband arrived in time to shoot the beast before serious harm was done.

Dogs

Remarkable Dog Story. We find the following in the N. York Spirit of the Times. It is rather tough; Some years since, in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire, there was a family a, woman who was insane, a confirmed maniac. A partition was made by upright slabs secured in the floor of the […]

Horses

A Most Extraordinary Leap-or rather, extraordinary leaps, were made on Friday evening last, by a sorrel mare, the property of Mr. Wm. Zimmerman. A lad about 12 years of age, a son of Mr. Edward Hughes, was riding the animal to water, when being bitten by a dog, she shied and ran. her first noble […]

Insects

The Cleveland Herald says the grasshoppers are doing much damage to the growing crops in Lake County; The apple orchards have been stripped of everything save the limbs and fruit.

Cattle, sheep and hogs

A freight train of the N. Y. and Erie railroad left Dunkirk the other day over three-hundred feet long and containing two-thousand seven-hundred and ninety-seven head of livestock, consisting of beeves, sheep and hogs, valued at $15,000. It was drawn by one locomotive.

Cow

Sam Patch Beat by a Cow.-A cow belonging to Mr. Davis, who lives near Portage Middle Falls, made her first leap a few days since. The place was the projecting rock on the West side of the river, a few rods below the falls, and just North of the “Devil’s Hole,” where it is over […]

Pigs

We noticed a drove of between eight-hundred or a thousand fine hogs going to Beardstown, to-day, for Mr. Tinsley, who we learn had bought several thousand to drive to this point.

Big Cats

Herr Driesbach.-The great “Lion Tamer,” Herr Driesbach, came to town a day or two since, looking as well, or better, than we remember ever to have seen him. He has been engaged in conducting or rather humanizing animals in the East, since here before, but hearing that Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Leopards and other wild beasts […]