| Show I DOMESTIC FET PITS OF OP FAMOUS PEOPLE and potentates have hae been quite noted for tor their love loe of pets anti some somo of th m have peculiar favorites among animals Tho The of or fa ta favorite a anImal Is U tt IS huge baboon A wicked ed animal It U Is 18 and cx ex fond ot or strong drink t the same lime tihit It Is 18 x ry r droll especially i after arler It II has line taken a n drop droll too much Cockatoos Cockatoo parrots nn an ona humming birds nrc rc the th pets of the king of lId Del glum end and many Inn I of ot then arc are to be seen In lit the tho aviaries of ot his Th The sultan It nn of ot Is 18 fonder t on d er of OL guinea d pigs than th n of or any Rny other animal For years yearn tIeh h of ot hal Hol land hits hat hind had n a 1 colony of ot white while mice For tor l or a herd of ot she goats the tho queen regent gc of ot Spain reserve rl rell nil all her lier favors favora and the reason re son U is because she cannot forget these did good rood work as nurses toward preserving the life lite of the lie sickly II kl Infant who Is fa now Alfonso mr Pope lope L JA Leo 6 Is I especially fond of ot birds There The art nr no hatter around me he hc recently to a for ehm than Ihan my cay birds My Iy visitors after otter I have 1100 given them th m audi f once ence t tto fo away awny m me for Cor my affa bill V hut but the he truth IB Is they the cannot jear half what I say sn since my m voice oi l l is frequently drowned by the th warbling of ofray my ray little pets VERY EIty STRANGE PETS lETS There It Is no accounting for tor taste In tho the selection of at creatures of which to tomake make pets pet Lady Constance Macken ale zie and Lady Elena Wickham have sent Homo sonie curious favorites to be bo cared for tor In their absence from home In Greens Oreon terrace garden Covent Garden ord n market London Lady Mae Mac pets are aro two baby boa con Call stricture about They The are ore beautifully mottled In brown bron and buff burt and being tame tamo their shining whining eyes oyes do donot donot donot not have havo the malicious gleam of the serpent erpent In his hili native jungle Lady taste In pets runs to toads and her favorite Is In tin nn Italian toad which sho eho has owned for Cor twelve years Among several others othora Is 18 ono one big blue tongued toad oad from tron that elIot Is 18 very sociable nail anil Intelligent lIt and has line been taught a Q t number of ot tricks Now New NewYork York women are following the lead load In Inthis inthis this queer fad fa 1 and several of them have havo pet Jet Snakes or toads ond ono one having havinga a IL pet that coIls collo about her Iler sowing table shows evident delight lit In her com company pany pony PROUD OrD OLD BEAVERS A vory very proud old family ot of beavers live In III Ullie Scotland where they Ulcy have hare acres of ot beautiful woodland of their theiron own oun with a n river running through It Lord flute Bute Introduced them there thero a along along long lOllS time ago and nobody but them themselves themselves themselves selves lg Is l allowed to enter cater or build there They The have havo Increased tI ll to forty Carty families family having a It hOUM houe three toot feet high bight of ot Its own building with the front door Under water wilier They Thoy havo hare the tho of felling tim timber ber bor Jor on the thie estate anti and havo horo cut down downa a great ninny many big trees tree which they the slice up for building purposes Il and ond to make macho dams dame across the tho river They Thoy Tho keep out weasels teasels rats rate anti and Other vulgar ular outsiders ers crR and altogether are ver very ery select The fhe land Is worth about and tho the beavers b themselves I possibly 1000 more but they are arc not Mr for f t sale anle cab and never novel will be he chief amusement Is IB en engineering bad and tho the dams they build and the tho he houses they Ule ore arc wonderful PIGEONS NEST That pretty home hOIn pet pct the pigeon does doell not always care caro no io 0 much for n a soft nest n nil as we think according to the tho following where ft it 1 curIous preference of certain tho the use uso of or metal metallic lit lie objects In buIlding their thell nests Is noted nol by M itt MaurIce In the tho Revue Ho Ito asserts alS that several pairs of at these thello birds that he hI has hall observed t In Paris have raised their young In nests mad mado entirely of ot hair hairpins hairpins pins which they collected In the tho paths of the tho Luxembourg The Tho young pigeons grew up normally ns as they would In lit a n softer sotter nest M be ho believes lUves that there thoro Is In n a useful suggestion In this for Cor persons ns who are often over ovel overanxious overanxious anxious to see that their charges have soft materials tar for their nests tl A LOVER LOVEn OF ANIMALS Puss Puce lost n II faithful friend In Gustav Fern n a 1 mute who ho died In Now York city recently aged 75 IS years Ho was welt well Known In III tho thu Federal build buildIng Ing of at that city as all the dumb cat feeder Ceeder and everybody who knew kness him marveled nt at hi i kindness toward animals There were vere thirty cats In the cellar uellar of or tho the big building and hl gao them meat and milk every Ills His home was shared by birds and Small domestic ani male mals One Ono of or the birds a n parrot Is III 32 3 years old and has hall refused to eat inco Us lis masters death |
