Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — OUR MENAGERIE. [ARTICLE]

OUR MENAGERIE.

A stout comes -freta N«w England of a mouse which wta so charmed by a gentleman’s tinging that It ran np to hu shoulder and sat motionless for a few moments until the singing was finished, then trembled violently, mil to the floor, and dldd. ;, A Kjnjropxr farmer boy found-a crow’s nest, which he robbed of the eggs, and placed them under a hen. When hatched, the chicken mother oared for them tenderly until they got big enough to fly. Then they took to the high timber, which so exaaper r ated the (fid hen that she went crasy. .< A monkey was given a lump of sogir hu tide of a closed bottle It worried htseif sick trying to get at the sugar. Fits of the most ludicrous melancholy, followed by spasms of delight, as a new idea suggested itself, followed by a fresh series of experiments. Nothing availed until one day a Jar of oliges fell from the table with a crash. The result was noticed by the monkey, who instantly hurled his bottle te the floor, and was soon in possession of the lump of sugar. —Nen York Sun.