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The Exchange Menagerie

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
June
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The goose with four wings at Natchez, Miss. The lamb at Round Prairie, 111. , which hastwoperfectly-formed heads. The cow at Fergus, Ont. , in whose stomach a stick two feot long and half an inch thick was found on butchering her. The dog (Newfoundland) of Mr. Mulford, of Jersey City, who, when its cornpanion died, refused food and speedily peri&hed of grief. The game-cock at Nelson Furnace, Ky., which attacked Minnie Saunders, aged 11, and, driving its spur into her head, killed her on the spot. The swan at Mount Auburn, N. Y., that knocked down Mrs. William Greenough, an old lady of 80, nearly plucked out one of her eyes, and lef t her insensible. The canary bird of Mrs. A. F. Bush, of Medina, N. Y., which has just returned home after an absence of eight months, sought his old cage, and taken to singing. The chicken oL Mr. James Harnoy, North Norwich, Ont., who remained buried under a hay-mow two weeks, without food or water, but was taken out lively and well. The dog at Union Hill, N. J., the lato Mr. Martin Singer tried to kill. The gun missed fire, so he hit the dog with the stock, dischargiüg the piece into his own thigh and severing an artery. The sick pet dog at New Orleans which died in its mistress' arms. Exhausted by sitting up with it so many nights, and to allay her sorrow, she took a dose of laudanum, and came within an ace of dying. The tnrkey about which two neighbors in Bloomfield, Ot., quarreled evoking the decisión by Judge Calhoun that turkeys are not animáis (not being mentioned in the Pound laws), though geese are. The sparrows which have taken possession of Manhattan Market, New York, an unoccupied building covering four acres of ground, and tnrned it into a huge nest, from which three efforts have been iiade to drive thom, but ineffectually. The bees Mr. Morris Ellis, of Georgetown, Ill.,undertook to drive to market. They didn't like the jolting of the wagon, and so the inmates of all eight hives sallied out, stang the two horses to death, and left Mr. Ellis in a critical condition. The turkey and partridge at Chelsea, Vt., that are sharing the same nest. The turkey continúes to deposit her egg daily, although the partridgo began to sit after laying thirteen. During the occupation of the nest by the turkey the partridge attends to feeding. The two dogs of the Messrs. Bills, of Amherst, N. H. , who, after living peacefully together for years, got into a quarrel over a rabbit they had run down, fought, and were found lying dying, Eacing each other, utterly exhausted by loss f blood. They were buried in one grave. The dog at No. 14 Oortlandt street, New York, which, when the house took fire, although almost suffocated, caught his master by the leg of his pants, and awakened him, after he was overeóme by the smoke, by dragging him to the floor from off the table where he was sleeping.

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Old News
Michigan Argus