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About Animals

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The sea otter produces the most valuable of all furs. A single skin has brought as high as $1,000'. A Mis. Weston has been sentenced in London to two months' imprisonment, with hard labor, for cruelty to animáis. She was an omnibus proprietor and was convicted of cruelly overworking her horses. Ladies who kiss their pet dogs are warned by no less an authority than Dr. Megnin of the Paris Acedemy of Sciences that the little beasts are one of the great agencies in spreading diseases, especially consumption. The Russian war office has decided to use henceforth exclusi. ely gray horses for artillery purposes, the reason given for the innovation being that animáis of this color have been found by experience to be stror.ger ai:d more enduring than the brown ones now used. A writer on trout has put forth a theory that the salmón and freshwater trout are simply three varieties of one and the same species. The principal arguments presented in support of the theory were: The f acts observed in the fish reared in captivity and the changes that they exhibit; the changes that occur when the surroundings are changed; a study of the individuals that live entirely in fresh water; a comparison of dwarf forms, and a comparison of the variation in the different species.

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Ann Arbor Courier