Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — OUR MENAGERIE. [ARTICLE]

OUR MENAGERIE.

A noted “dude” has died in Philadelphia. He was a baboon in the Zoological Garden. His postures and gait were exactly like the current American imitation of the London swell’s, and he showed just about enough Intelligence to complete the likeness. Camilla (Ga.) Clarion: A young lady passenger on the railroad the other morning had as pets two live chamelion lizards One was fattened by a ribbon to her shawl-pin, and rested on her bosom and shoulder. The qther the held on the back of her hand. When these die the boys propose to give her a gopher. Be it said sire was not a Georgia girl Georgia girls have good sense. Newman (Ga) Herald: Mr. John B. Goodwyn brought to our office some black duokeggs. Careless of George Washington’s hatchet-lesson, he asserts that his ducks have been in the habit of laying colored eggs for several years; some of them are biack, some drab and some pale blue. The ducks have not yet attained to perfection In the coloring art, as the colors are easily rubbed off. In Paducah, Ky.. the other day, two sparrows got into a light and tried to drown each other in a stream flowing down a street gutter. After a long and desperate struggle one got the other’s .head under and kepi it there until life was extinct A large number of birds gathered around the victor and chattered to it as it sat on a limb rearranging- its toilet The fight was witnessed by more than one hundred people. We have In Cartersville, Ga (says a correspondent), a cow who lost her calf some mouths since, and it seems that she does not like the Idea of being childless, consequently she has, unfortunately for her owner, taken under her wing of adoption an animal in the shape of a gott rged 6 months, ra sed up motherless, and from appearances it seems tnat tte cow Is in full sympathy with the poor little motherless goat, and permits it to follow her around and par.ake of the lacteal fluid fresh from the teats. She caresses it by licking it with her tongue with as much care and tenderness as if it were her own, and one of the most prominent features about the goat is, that if any one try to separate it from its adopted mother it will bleat as if it were crying after its mother. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Jake Barringer, a tenant who was plowing on Mr. John Wadsworth’s farm recently, turned up with the plow share one of those curiosities—a jointed snake. The reptile was about a yard n length and was nut together in four sectiona The darky did not know what sort of a snake it was when it first turned up, and hit it with a stick to kill it At the first blow the snake fell all to pieces, the head going one wav and the tail part another and the two body pieces jumped off in different directiona The amazed darky resumed Lis plowing, went to the end of the furrow, and on his return was surprised to see the snake all together again except the tailpiece, and, watching a few minutes, saw the tail coming up to join the body, taking sharp, quick little jerks. It came nearer and nearer until within a few inches of the three-fourths snak \ when it gave a sudden jump and hitened on in its pro* er j lace, with a tms resembling the pepr ing of a cap. The darky knocked it to jloces several times, and ea sh time it cametoge heraga n. He carried his amusement a lit le too far, however, in throwing tine tad i art of the snake a ro‘s the cre< k.-just to s e, as he ea d, “how 1 ng it would take it to catch up " but it never caught up. The make wit. its three joints was earned to the house, and the tail Is no doult still going about the woods hum. ng for a snake to hitch onto.