Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — OUR MENAGERIE. [ARTICLE]

OUR MENAGERIE.

A Georgia dog got shut up in a church, but was equal to the occasion. He pulled the bell rope till the frightened sexton rushed to see what the matter was. Boston Herald: A lady had a ret dog and cat that were very fend of each other and never quarreled. When the dog wished to go into the kitchen, he would stand by the door, and puss would jump up, oaten one paw over the ’atoh ana press the other on the thumb piece, and as the door swung open she would dropdown on the dog’s back and ride in in triumph. A Hartford (Ct.) paper contributes 'the following to our menagerie: Mr. C. Dunham has been troubled with rats for some time Mr. Dunham thought he would see if he could get his cat to kill a rat. He caught one and shut it in a barrel with a cat The second day after he looked in, and the cat was sitting on one side of the barrel and the rat on the other. The next day, in the afternoon, the cat was sitting very contentedly with the rat perched upon her back, apparently enjoying himself. A cat belonging to a family in Roseville N. J., crept upon the cross timber above one of the trucks of a car attached to Conductor Chittenden’s train on the Delaware, Laclcawana and Western railroad, at the Roseville station, and when the train stopped at the Broad street station was the object of much curiosity. At Hoboken the trainmen drove off the venturesome feline. When the train started back for Newark at 8::.0 p. m., the cat was found snugly ensconced on the same cross-beam, and she remained there until Roseville was reached, when she jumped off and made a bee-line for home The Providence Journal tells the follow- . ing crow story: “A few days since a man living in a town just over the Connecticut line went hunting for crow-. He discovered a nest in a tall tree, and climbing up found therein eggs, which he secured, putting some in his pockets, but one he placed in his mouth, descending the tree very carefully lest he break his fragile store He s ipped, his jaws came together and crushed the egg in his mouth, and oh! horrible, it contained a very young crow. Report doth not say whether the man ate the crow or not, but it is safe to bet he does not hanker after it” Franklin (N. H.) Transcript: B. M. Prescott is the owner of a large mastiff' dog, which possesses a great degree of sagacity and intelligence. One day recently a domestic employed in his family wentrinto the woof -shea for some wood, and in returning dropped a stick, which the dog pioked up In his teeth, and, walking up to the liberately placed his paws on the hearth and placed the stick in the stove as well as any person could have done it On another occasion a young man, in passing through Main street, Accidentally dropped his handkerchief and passed on and entered his house The dog, which must have seen the incident, picked up the handkerchief and proceeded to the door which the young man had entered, and, after making his presence known by several raps, the young ,man opened the door ana the dog presented him with the lost article A thunderbolt played a strange freak .in Montgomery, Ala A large oak, th.ee feet in diameter, and about twenty-five feet from the ground to the first limb, was struck • few feet below the bushy top. 'J he trunk was split in two, and the top descended perpendicularly to the ground, the small portion of the trunk remaining imbedding it-. self firrnlw in the exact spot from which the rools had been torn.