Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1884 — A Daring Wolf. [ARTICLE]

A Daring Wolf.

Ifcjwould not bo strange if the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” should bo found tojyave originated in India, the native place of so many of the legends which English and Gorman mothers delight to tell their children. The following illustration of a wolfs cunning and" daring recalls the one who deceived the charming favorite of the nursery. “Wolves were numerous and daring,f writes Dr. Munroe, of the British Army, in his “Reminiscences” of his life in India, “coining close to, and even into, our camp. One, more daring than his companions, carried off the little girl of one of my servants, from under a tent pitched in the midst of a number of others. “3ly servant, with his wife and his little child of tw o years old, occupied a small teht pitched close to my own. The wall of his tent could not be pegged close down to the ground, so that the wolf was able to push his head under the tent, seize the child by the back of the neck, and walk off with it.” “Fortunately, as the animal with its prey was stealing ont of the camp, the sentry saw and charged it, when it dropped the child and scampered off. The little thing was brought to me, not much injured and not- much frightened The wolf must have taken a secure hold, for there were four deep wounds in the neck made by the large canine teeth.” A standing jobe in the marriage service is the part where the bridegroom says*: “With all my worldly goods 1 thee endow.” Sometimes he after wards finds bread and board for lib wife, and after he dies she gets a third of his estate, The endowment is a fraud from the start.A NEtv derice has Been patented ir London for generating electricity at sc small a cost that it will be cheaper that gasPolicemen in various cities in Europt receive pay ranging from #6 cents ir Constantinople to $1 in Edenburg. Harvard university has 1,52: studoota and 167 teachers, and tht libraries oontain 276,706 volumes.