Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — Animal Stories. [ARTICLE]

Animal Stories.

There are said to bo about fifty buffaloes left in Wyoming. The London Zoological Society has recently acquired a white frog. The meiluser is a fish so fragile ‘ ‘that when washed on the beach it melts and disappears,” says a noted scientist. A Lawrence, Mass., man has a petrified turtle a foot in diameter and five indies high, which was found on the shores of JLinke Champlain. A large snake was discovered milking a cow at Hagerstown, Md. The cow’s owner had been at a loss for a long time to account for the diminution in his milk supply. A Clintou, Me., man owns a bird dog that has distinguished himself the past summer by bringing home twenty-five chickens from the yards of his owner’s neighbors. A stork had a ring on his leg for identification. After two years’ absence he returned to Germany last spring with a second ring, bearing tho inscription, “India sends greetings to Germany.” The butterflies of Australia bathe. One will alight close to the water, into which it backs until tho whole of the body is submerged, the forelegs alone retaining their hold on dry land. In a moment it will fly away, apparently refreshed. A Belfast, Me., man who went trouting relates that he caught a trout tea inches long, and was looking nt it admiringly when there came a great rush of wings and something took the fish from his hands, The despoiled fisherman looked up in time to soe a big crow flying away with the prize.