Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — FIN, FEATHER AND FUR. [ARTICLE]

FIN, FEATHER AND FUR.

A fish with iwo tails is the leading cariosity at Madison, Ga. There is a carniverous cow in Randolph county, Mo., which devours young chickana and goslings. At Dunedin, Fla., James Barnes and BillyMarston succeeded in landing a fish called the nurse, which was estimated to weigh over 300 pounds. The Hobart Mercury reports an extraordinary manifestation of evolntion in the development of a new sort of peril in Australian rabits, in consequence of their endeavor to climb over wire netting fences. The societies for the protection of animals in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have petitioned the qneen of Italy to exert her influence in protecting the northern birds which migrate to Italy in winter and are killed there in vast numbers. A king of France once had a falcon which escaped from Fontainebleau, and twen-ty-four hours afterward was found in Malta, a space computed to be at not less than I.BSO miles, a velocity equal to fiftysix miles an hoar, supposing the hawk to have been on the wing all the time. A. rat with only three legs was caught last week by a son of J. E. Andrews, on his farm near Perry, Ga. In no other way was the rodent deformed, and the absence of tbe fourth leg In no way decreased its power of locomotion. The third leg was in tbe middle of tbe under part of tbs body.