Show NEWS BY MAIL the portland see of august says on tuesday last a tuna siT out among tho timber near the gli camo upon a coons trail and followed it to the animals hiding place after considerable digging ando arking the coon was routed and took to tho wa and after it went the dog the fight was for life and death but the coon was too cunning As the dog approached him ho seized him by the nose and sank beneath the surface pulling the dogs head under the water tho process was repeated until the dog was drowned and his coon ship swam to and disappeared uninjured DAKOTA the chicago times says A curious thing about the fish in alie yellow itono stono is related by whipple below alio falls the trout aro fine fellows for table use but above tho tails the fish are wormy it Is no trick at all for a fisherman to land trout in ten hours provided his arm does not become tired and the bait holds out but the fish aro unfit for use after they have been caught no trout has ever been caught above the falls that did not carry a worm somewhere under its scales the general examined a large number of trout and every ono contained the worm when examined it was found to be in most cases about eight inches long and resembling apiece of white tape this reptile when freed from its bed in the meat would wriggle and turn as if suffering from an attack of colic some think the worms breed in the fish and then cat their into the flesh millions of these fish die of the worms and float over the falls and the gulls can be seen feeding upon them almot any minute in the alizona An iZONA the maquis indian number 1700 live in eaven villages on abo topa of three aliffi or headlands that rise more than tee aboyo iboyo the plains why they chioso these unhandy places is mystery on reaching the villages bays a recent visitor one finds ones solf on rock which extends out from the main table nearly half a mile long and from ten feet to perhaps three hundred feet in width the side arc almost perpendicular the most populous of these villages wal la pi is on the extreme end of these rock where the width is not over feet all the water for all purposes is car ried in earthen vessels on the backs of men and women from a spring near the foot of the moun bin a distance of nearly ft mile while the wood it brought eight miles here these people havo ifred longer than they can tell oven from their tradition and hitherto they havo been averse to a change of location notwithstanding the difficulty of obtaining their necessary supplies and abo long distance from their fields and herds guillaume alphonso do forbie an eminent french physician and medical writer ie dead A dispatch from st louie pays nothing haa yet been beani of the missing balloonist the triko of the cabinet maker at louisville ky has ceased the employers yielding to their hand many companies of infantry are being in order to frustrate tho demon et ration of the ut vi |