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Show BRIET STOniES ABOLT.AM1ULS. A clergyman traveling la Turkey, having pased tiirougb a part of the country where the plague was raging, rag-ing, -was obliged to remain In a village, vil-lage, for fomo days. -The-place was very wretchod,timt bung heavily on his hand, anil every body kept at a distance frqpi blm through fear of the Infection. One morning, while at breakfast, a woodpeckeritlew in at the window of his room, and soon made itself quite athome,iiopplng ou the table and picking up the crumbs. It bad belonged tflallttlo girl, she was just buried, and by a singular Instinct it had left the bouse of the dead and flown Into bis room. IU habits wire w curious, curi-ous, 'and it Was so familiar, that the clergyman was quite pleased with It. It climbed up the wall by any H'iik or cord near it, devouring dies. It fcornitintts began at bis boot, nud at one rare would run up bis arm or leg, or round bis neck anddownlhc. other arm, and bo to the 'able. It v ould there tap with its bill as loud as a hammer: w hen it lid.x, It would look intently at tbo place, and dart at any ily or Insect It saw running. THE JRU2.DIA, JjlWRKgW. A lady had a canary which was a great favorite, but the loudness of hU notes obliged, her ofUn. to put htm ouLeido. tlie window among nma trees w hitii were trained up In front of Uer house. One morning "while the cage was thus placed a oparrojv was observed' to fly round and round It, to stand on the top anJtotwittertOrtbeblrd within as Ifdesliojs' of forming a friendship. After a few 'moments he Hew away, 1Ait returned In -a abort lime, bearing bear-ing n'wonn lu his bill which be dropped into the cage. Day after da) tho, sparrow; continued his friend! acu, and at length the two birds became so Intimate that the canary"vi.rj often received the food thus bioaght Into his own bill from tbafof tho sparrow. Some' of the neighbor de-lrous loses how far the sparrow's generosity would go, hung out- their canaries- also, when he hkewis- brought them worms, but lila flrstand Iorge-t visit was al-wajspald al-wajspald to but earliest acquaintance. acquaint-ance. rrnn ivntrsjsto bicrc. A jouns duck, by .some accident, liad its leg broken, and tLe fc eunded limb having been put In splints, the duck was placed unUira small crate, cr ndlcd coop, to preymt it, for a time, from running about. The poor prbonerlooked very forlorn In the cage, and, was evidently nn object ob-ject of pity to its brothers and sisters sis-ters around. They tried fo releae their companion by forcing their tu-cksunderthotrateand so lift it, bbt tlie eflbrt .was beyond their strength. Onawrtalujngthia they lielda consultation and then the marclicdjiway Ina body. Presently Present-ly they reappeared with all the ducks belonging to the farmyard, amounting tqabout forty. AfUr a great deal of quackjpg, they surrounded the crate, and every nock ras Inserted under the lowest rail, they then made a united ellbrt to raise the crate, but alas in vain, their strength -was not Hifllclent Another consultation was now held, and, after anotberstorm of quacking, the wholeof them came to one tiu o of the prate; as.roauy as po&iibly cauld now thrust their necks beneath be-neath the rally the rest pushing tbetu forward from behind. TbUtiu.e Ibey succeeded, lheeratewas rabed, their imprisoned friend was liberated, liber-ated, and noiy wcrethe greetings she received as she limped, once more free, into their juidtt. A TimEUNQ DOO. Mr. Edward (look, after having lived some time with hli brother George at Tuj3tcn, In Xorthumbtr land, went to America, and tyok 'with hi-n a jointer dog, wlikh he lost soon afterward, while shooting in the. woods near italtimore. S?ome time after, Mr. George Cook, who continued to reside at Tugsten, was alarmed at hearing a dog in the night. Ho admitted It Into the htuM-, and found that it was the amc ids brother had taken with him to America. Tlie dog lived with them until bis mailer returned n om . v.iicii they mutually ncog n'.it-J each ether. Mr. Cook wis jevraMeto trace by what ttth.! the dog had left America, or In whit nart of Hugbnd it had bttm landed. TIlEELKMrATADTnE SESTIMTU A .sentinel belonging to a me-oagene me-oagene at Paris was always Vi rj careful in requesting the jct.Vors not to sive the elephants nn tiling to taL This conduct very much displeased, the. female, whom had several tloica endeavored tohiiiler tjlm from so doing by sprinkling his h end with -w iter from her trunk. One day, when seviral pi.rora were collected to iew Uieoe animals, a btanderoflered the female a -bit bf bread. The tuntincl perceived It, but the moment jhe, oH.ncd hi uioutli to givo his utual ad-monitiori, ad-monitiori, I cite, placing herself her-self immedUu.ly before him dmharged In his fare a violent stream of watcf. -A general laugh entued; but tbo sentinel, having calmly wiped lus face, fctood a little t one fide, and continued as watchful watch-ful as before. Soon afterward he foq ml himself under tho necessity of repeating Ills admonition to the stuctatore; but no sooxer was tills uttered than the female laid hold 6f hli mu-ker. tvrlrled it round with her trunk, trod it under iter feet and lid not restore it Ullsltebad twltI it nearly Into the -kirui of -a cork' screw. ( TltE DOO ASDTItnSIIOErLACi;. An KnglLihClcer, who was in Paris in IMS, mentions the, case ot a dog belonging to a shreblack, which Irought customers to its -mter. Hits It did in a very ingenious, in-genious, though scarcely honcet, mauner. The ofllcety having occasion oc-casion to cross one. of the bridges over the Seine, hid bisboote, which had been pre vioualy polished, dirtied by a poodle deg rubbing against them. Hey iu consequence, wentlo smau who was stationed on tbe bridge and had tbeni cleaned. The same circumstance having occurred more than once, his curiosity was excited and ho watched tiio dog. Hu taw-the. dog- foil himself in tbe mud of the river, and then waUh forajiervm with well polhdied boob-, against which he contrived to rub himself. Finding that tlie shoeblack shoe-black was the owner of the dog, the nfllctr taxed him with, the artifice: and, after a little hesitation,- the man confessed that ho had taught the Uog Jhe trick in order to procure customers for hlm!K Tho officer, being' much tlriick with the dog's sagacity, purclUAed him at a high pneeaad brought-him to-England. ro kept him tied up far tome time and then released him. The dog remained with him a uy or two and then made bis, ecApe. A fortnight fort-night aHcrw ard bo was found" with his former master, pursuing his old trado of dirtying gentlemen's boots on the bridge. |
