Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — KANSAS’ NEW SENATOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KANSAS’ NEW SENATOR.

Bishop W. Perkins Is the Lste Senator Plumb's Successor. Bishop W. Perkins who has been appointed by Gov. Humphrey to the vacancy caused by the death of Sena-

tor Plumb, was born at Rochester, Ohio, and was 59 years old Oct. 18 last. He was educated in the public .schools and at Ivnox College at Galesburg, 111. After leaving college he went to Colorado and on his return in 1862 enlisted in Company D, Eighty-third

/isnoe W. PERKINS. Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He served as sergeant and lieutenant and in December, 1863 was appointed Adjutant of the Sixteenth Colorado Iniantry. Later he was assigned to duty as Captain of Company C, of the same regiment. He was mustered out at Nashville in May, 1866. He returned to Illinois and resumed the study of law, reading with O. C. Gray, at Ottawa. After being admitted to the bar he located at Oswego, Kas., in April, 1869. The same year he was appointed County Attorney and the following year Probate Judge, which office he held till Feb. 1, 1873, when he was elected Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District. He was re-elected in 1874 and 1878, and in Nov. 1882, was elected a member of Congress as a Republican. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1880. He was re-elected to Congress for three successive terms, but met defeat a year ago at the hands of the Farmers’ Alliance. He was editor and proprie•tor of the Oswego Register from 1871 until appointed District Judge in 1873.

One day in October last, while walking through a public park, I came suddenly on a remarkable sight. A reddish animal was careering in FRTiid circles around a wood-pigeon Btationeu il '“ orround, and which, in a dazed fashion, kept tur n *n<r slowly round and round to watch the whirligig performance; in fact, the procedure was almost exactly that

which I have seen when a stoat, before killing a rabbit, proceeds to mesmerise it by cutting circles around it, except that the stoat accompanies his citcles by wonderful somersaults, which were lacking on the present occasion. The wood-pigeon’s behavior was almost an exact repetition of the rabbit’s. Arriving so suddenly on the scene, I unluckily startled the principal performer, who stopped; and, to my surprise, I then saw that it was a squirrel. The bird was at first so utterly bewildered that it was several seconds before she sufficiently recovered to fly away. When at last the wood-pigeon had flown off, and not till then, the squirrel also left the scene and betook himself up a tree. It would be intcresing to know whether such conduct on a squirrel’s part has been noticed before, and what would have been the upshot of the affair had It not been interrupted? Is it to be supposed that the squirrel intended to kill the ringdove? —Mechanical News.

Strange Conduct of a Squirrel.