Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1889 — Page 8

An Intelligent Newfoundland Dog.

Mr. Thomar Shanks, the mechanical engineer, 305 West Lombard street, is the possessor eff a large, intellectual Newfoundland (log, who goes by the name of “Bonnie.,, Mr. Shanks walked into The American office, and the dog lay very still upon the floor. After Mr. Shanks had finish ed his business at the counter he said to the dog. “Bonnie, are you ready to go home?” The dog immediately arose and stood beside his master. Mr. Shanks then told the dog that this was The American newspaper office, and after they had walked down to Holliday street he wanted him (tlie dog) to come ba uk and get an American. The dog shook his head, as to say. “1 under stand.”

Mr. Shanks left, so did the dog; but in about two minutes the clerks were I surprised to see the noble animal enter tlie door, place his fore paws on the counter, open his large mouth, and stand in this way until one of the clerks placed a paper in his mouth, which lie bore safely to his master, who waited on the corner of Holliday and Baltimore streets. The dog is well known as the newsboys’ iriend. At night his master will tell him to go to the first newsboy and purchase a paper. He always throws five cents on the ground, which the dog picks up, runs off, and jumps on the first newsboy he finds, and, after dropping the nickel in the boy’s hand and receiving the paper, he runs off, never waiting for change. It is tor this generosity that the “Newsboys friend.” He also mails letters. Mr. Shanks says that it is unnecessary for him toj have an alarm clock, as the dog regularly rings a bell and wakes the family up.—Baltimore American.

Distribution of Seeds.

Mr. Darwin found thaf the small portions of earth attaching to the feet of migrating birds contained seed. Nine grains of earth on the leg of the woodcock contained a seed of the toad rush. From six and a half ounces of earth rolled into a ball and adhering to the 1 eg of a wounded partridge lie raised eighty-two separate plants of five species. Migrating birds often frequent the edges of ponds ere their departure, and in six and three quarter ounces of such mud he raised under ghss 537 plants. Seeds furnished with crowns hooks, or prickles readily stick to the plumage of birds, which allsuchbirds, and especially such wanderers as the albatross, might carry long distances. Applying these facts to the case of the Azores, Mr. Wallace found that most of the Azore an flora are well adapted to be carried by the methods just suggested—4s of the 439 flow ering plants belonging to genera that have either pappus or winged seeds; 65 to such as have minute seeds, 30 to those with fleshy fruits which are greedily eaten by birds, some ave hispid seeds, and 84 are glumaceous plants well suited to conveyance by winds and currents. The only trees and shrubs of this isolated group are bearers of small berries, such as the Portugal laurel, myrtle, laurustinus and elder, while those with heavy berries which could not be conveyed by the means suggested —oaks, chestnuts, hazels, apples, beeches, alders, firs —are absent, common as they are in Europe. The character of the flora is that of the soutnwest - ern peninsula of Europe, and, if we assume that one-half of its species is indigenous, the other introduced by European settlers, there is still a rich and varied flora which' Mi Wallace thinks has recently been carried over 900 miles of Ocean by the means just indicated. There is probably no better example of ocean migration than ft at offered bytl e Azores and it is believed that the phe

nomena m question are still in progress, and that 900 miles do not form the limit of the distance to which this same ocean carriage of plants extends.— Edinburgh Review.

The Parrot and the Bat.

On a sultry evening last week a bat flew into the setting room of a house at Scranton, Pa., and dashed against the parrot’s age. It struck the cage with force enough to drive it between the wires, and it began to creep around the bottom of the cage and fit p its injured wings. The parrot was asleep when tlie bat flew in, but it got awake in an instant, and it screeched and screamed and yelled “Oh my!” so many times that the lady of the house ran in from the piazza to see what the trouble was with the family pet. The moment she entered the room the parrot told the fluttering little creature to &et out in, a very shrill tone, repeating the command a number of times. The bat didn’t get out, although it tried very hard to do so, and the parrot got mad, bristled up and dived from its perch at the puny intruder. For a few seconds the parrot had such a lively tussle in the bottom of the cage that it upset even thing and scattered seeds all around the room and then it hopped back to its perch and began to scratch its throat with its right foot as though it had been bitten by the bat. ‘‘Gracious! how that hurt!” the pafrrot yelled, after it had stopped scratching, and smoothed out its wings and feathrs, the bat still waddling about and trying to find a place to crawl out. It couldn’t find one, and the parrot sang out: “I’ll fix it!” and pitched. at the oat again. The little thing squeaked and tried to defend itself when the parrot tackled it, but the ugly bird used both claws and bill, and it soon had the bat’s wings torn into strips. Then it gave tlie bat a pinch on the neck, shook it up and down dropped it suddenly and hopped to the top of the and shrieked, looking down at the dying creature. When the parrot saw the bat was dead, it looked at its mistress, jumped from its perch to its ring and back again, laughed, and yelled out; “What is it, mother?” The value of the parrot had

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