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New Amazonian Animal
New York. June 53—An animal with a body shaped like that of a dachshund, but with webbed feet, with a head like an anteater and with long hair, which sings…
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Saved by Swans
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Butte, Mont., June 14.—Owing to the fact that the assistant manager of Columbia Gardens, the pleasure resort of this city, has trained the swans in the little artificial lake to bring to the shore articles thrown into the water, little Gertrude Onell owes her life.
Rain of … Eels?
A Springfield, Illinois, paper has an account of a shower of what, for want of a better name, that paper calls "snakes," which fell during the great storm of last…
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In Strange Waters
Some shad fishermen while hauling in their net at the mouth of the Christiana on Saturday discovered that they had caught some creature of rather formidable dimensions, which was making…
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Mice that Subsist on Scorpions
Among the queer forms of animal life that inhabit Death Valley is a mouse that has acquired such a taste for scorpions that they form its entire bill of fare.…
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Alaska Reindeer Meat Served in Florida Cafe
George Kelly, a well known conductor on the Alaska railroad, spent the winter in Florida, and while there went in to the Comus restaurant which claims to serve any meat…
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Bessie Should Have Bought a Ticket Instead
A railroad wreck was the result of a collision of a freight train with a cow on the Rock Island at Morganville last Saturday. Two of the employees of the…
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Ground Hog in Long Trip
Animal With Wanderlust to Come by Way of Chicago on Journey Around World. Salt Lake City.—The wanderlust of small ground hog, which entered Salt Lake recently on the brake beam…
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A Large Fish
A large fish, called Hapuu, attracted the attention of a crowd at the Fish Market this morning. It was caught by a native named Kaihe, off Diamond Head during the…
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Ostriches Here for Big Banquet
One is Displayed in a Window of a West Pike Street Restaurant The three ostriches that will be cooked and eaten at the Annual banquet of the Clarksburg Brotherhood Thursday…