Creation's Lower Orders

The largest cow in Dakota is reported f rom Cass county. She stands 6 feet high at the shoulders, and, thbugh thin in flesh, weighs 1,800 ounds. The weatherwise of Maine say that the recent capture of an immense Arctic owl near Pish Point presages an early winter. The bird measured 6 feet f rom tip to tip. A handsomo buck was recently shot near Rock Springs, Ky., which for the past tea 3'ears had been a target for the rifles of the , hunters of the neighborhood. He weighed 175 pounds and his antlers were of umisual size. In many portions of Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming the rabbits are so numerous that they are beeoming almost as great a plague BS in Australia. The proprietors of a largo ranch are giving boys five cents apiece for killing them, and some of the boys earn as much as $5 each per day. The dead rabbits are fed to hogs to fatten them. Levi Campbell, of Kingsbury, Me., set a bear trap and a bear got into it. He dragged the trap a good distance, until it was caught in a log. Then Levi came up and struck the bear with an axe. The animal turned suddenly, wrenehed tho trap loose, grabbed Levi, and was in a fair way to make an end of him when liis dog pitched in aad attracted the bear's attention until Levi could drag himsolf ixway. Justice Jaunasch, of Kalamazoo, Mich., lias a parrot that he wouldn't sell for its wcight in silver. On five different occasions has tuis intelligent bird sa ved the house from being burglarized. The lust time was on a ; night. Tho burglar got the door unfastened, but when he opened it the parrot ftsked, in a stern and harsh voice: "Helio, therel Whftt's the matter?" Tho burglar lidn't auswer, but feil over himself in his desperate eiïort to get away.