Bird And Beast

During the first nine months of 1894 the United States exported to Great Britain more than 300,000 head of beef cattle, valued at $29,000,000. A Flatbush, N. Y., householder had a dog with whom he was on good terms. But he returned home at 2 o'clock one nxorning and the intelligent animal, who had never seen his master at that hour before, tried to make minee meat of him. The condor, the largest bird of prey, can devour a full grown calí inside of thirty hours, eating at intervals of three 'hours until it is gorged. lts flight then is slovv and difficult until it has gained a height of 200 yards by giding up and down aerial planes. The condor can then hover on the wing and float for half an hour in circles without moving a feather. As far as known, swallows' rnigratory flights are always carried on by day. The fact that, though warblers and other migrants are constantly found dead around light-houses, having dashed themselves against the windows of the lanterns, swallows have never been known to meet their fate in this way, furnishes strong presumptive evidence of this peculiarity of the swallow tribe. Partridges and quail will generally when accidentally caught by a high wind, close their wings and drop to the ground in a slanting direction, only using their wings to check the flight when near the earth. They frequently fail to check themselves in time, or the force of the wind is greater than they calculated, and they are dashed with treme ndous force to the earth and are wounded or killed.