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Show REMARKABLE CAPTURE OF A WOLF. "In tho winter of 183ti-7," sayj a contributor to the Wide World Mor- I ivine. "I was depot agent at Duncan, I Neb , a small town on the malu line ' of the Union Pacific Railroad ninety nine miles west of Omaha. Th; weather was bitterly cold. One morning shortly after daybreak, while a man I knew, called Herman ErnsL and his assistant were hauling, hay a short distance from my station, the former's attention was attracted to a gray wolf standing between the rails on the main line, and ne did not leave the spot on approacn of Herman's Her-man's wagon. . Herman grabbed, his tork arid ran up to the wo;f, which had its head close to tho rails a? If ' in a trap. After killing the wolf, Herman tore the animal rrom the rail ; ami was astonished to loi.e that Its tongui- was R-ft attached vJ tue metals. Subsequently I Investigated this curious cur-ious Incident and evi.lved th following follow-ing explanation The rooming passenger pas-senger train hrd passed that -pint only a lew minutes boiorn Herman i-av the wolf and had run over a jack rabbit, leaving th blood on the rail. Tin: wolf had either i-en cnaslng the rabbit or had happune;; by soon 1 afterwards, and In trying to lick the ! Mood from the r:;il his torque, tnvlni j to the Imenae cold of the njeiai, ire.e I to )t, while the saliva from nfs mouth became a cake of solid ice over an inch thick, attaching Ins jaws to She rail a:; secirely as though. in. a vise. 1 alterwards bought the hldo liom Mr. Ernst, and it is i:uw in my nouae. on object of Interest to many visitors. |