Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — Animal Life. [ARTICLE]

Animal Life.

A oommittek of clergymen li»Te been before the Senate Committee on edaca* lion and labor, and aeked for legislation abolishing all Sunday trains on rail* roads, of all Sunday mails and o! all work in connection with the mails. The committee will report the proposition adveifwjlv^^^-V^ Tub strike of miners in the Rraddock, Pa., coal regions is causing hardship among others than the strikers ont or employers themselves. Beveral'firma at Brad dock have awigned because of their inability to collect amounts due them. In the interests of the general public, therefore, arbit ration ought to be compohory. It is gratifying to learn that the United States and Morocoo have agreed to arbitrate their differences. It is gratifying for the reason that we don’t want any hard feelings. And yet the Moors treated oar oonntrvmen "contemptuously” and the ref dial of their government "to accede to our demands was coached in insulting language.” For this, notwithstanding arbitration, the insignificant Morocco ought to be spanked. Are we able to do it? Can we tan nntanned Morocoo? Is grows rather tireeome to read commercial reports as to the “Anthracite Coal Outlook.” Thit "outlook” is speculated upon as if there was soma question whether there is any more anthracite on deposit in the bowels of the earth, or as if the weather had something to do with the matter. The only place to estimate the "Anthracite Goal Ont look” is in the consulting chamber of the few men who close and open mines or railroad service as they think best fjr the interest of their own poeketbooks. It may be that Provi denoe intended its bounties to be placed under lock and key, but there are some who doubt it It is about time that this "outlook” were judged on an anti-mo-nopoly basic.

Mr. Joseph Cromwell, of Xenia, 0., Has a Pekin dock which on four successive days of last week laid fonr eggs that were all different in color. One is perfectly white, one a pale green, one an ash color, and the fourth is entirely black. Several years ago the Bod and Gun Club, of Portland, Oregon, imported a Chinese pheasants and set them loose on Protection Island. The pheasants have since multiplied until the island is well stocked with them. Tile birds are about the aise of a common prairie chicken, with a long, tail, and their plumage is remarkably beautiful. A citisen of Orlando, Fla., has a dog that aoeompanies him everywhere,even to church. One Sunday his owner concluded to break the canine of his church going habits, and ordered him home. Hie dog retreated until his master was out of sight, then promptly turned back, entered another church, and remained until the service was over. An English sea eaptain has a faithful pet pigeon. The bird fell exhausted on the bridge of his vessel while he was on a voyage to New Zealand. He picked it up, carefully tended and fed it, and it became quite tame. When the captain landed on reaching port the bird flew near him wherever he went, and even entered a coffee house with him. It is still the captain’s constant companion.

A man in Minnesota ia the owner of a steer that pumps, by the use of his horns, all the water it drinks. When turned ont of the bam the steer makes straightway for the pnmp. By placing one horn on the pnmp handle and foreing it down, and then changing and placing its horn underneath, forcing the handle np, it gets enough water to satisfy its thirst It pomps from eight to ten strokes without stopping. An employe of the Southern Express office at Atlanta, Ga-, was bitten by a rattlesnake that lay ooncealed in a crate of cabbage. The cabbages were shipped from Jacksonville, Fla.,and he was moving them preparatory to their delivery to a commission merchant. Ab he placed his hand on the crate he felt a stinging sensation in one of his fingers and saw that a huge snake had fastened its fangs in his flesh. In a few aeoonds the hand and arm began to swell. A doctor injected a hypodermic injection of permanganate of potash, a solution of two grains to a drachm of water, and saved his life. How did the snake get there? ■ - „