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HUNTING THE KANGAROO.
A QUEER ANIMAL THAT IS PECU¬
LIAR TO AUSTRALASIA.
He Has Four Legs, but Uses Only
, Two in Traveling—A Bijr Jumper
and. Swift Runner.
\
f In speaking of the peculiaf ’ * . of the of
Australasia fauna, says a correspondent
ihe New York Times , I cannot do better
than begin with this remarkable animal
(the kangaroo). He is one of the best
persecuted of living things, is hunted
with dogs, with the shotgun and rifle, and
“rounded up” in great drives like those
by which war is waged upon the jack
rabbits of California. His hide makes a
beautifully-pliable leather, which is used
for boots, leggins and countless other
articles; his flesh, too, is esteemed alike
by “blackfellows” and squatters, and the
soups and ragouts that are made from his
tail might agreeably vary the ambrosial
feasts of tiie gods. His pelts are a regu¬
lar article of commerce, are quoted in the
daily paper at as full length as the skins
of cattle and sheep, and bring large
revenue to the station owners in the back
country; altogether, he is the most im¬
portant object of ferce naturoe in the col¬
onies and abundantly deserves the promi¬
nent place he occupies upon the Austra¬
lian coat of arms, where, opposed to the
emu, he holds the position given to the
lion in his association with the unicorn in
the heraldic crest of England.
The kangaroos which appear in every
Well-equipped menagerie in the United
States are a faint and feeble parody upon
the animal as he appears in his native
“bush,” which, by the way, is a term in¬
discriminately applied not only to under¬
brush and thickets, but also to the lordli¬
est forests and the broadest stretches of
plain that lie between them. There are
a dozen varieties of kangaroo proper, the
largest of which, even when squatted
upon their haunches, are nearly seven
feet in height. Besides these are others
in the form of wallabys, which vary in
size from rabbits to creatures three or
four feet high, and below these, nature
continues her joke in the production of
kangaroo rats—sharp-nosed, keen-eyed
creatures, with ail the movements of the
kangaroo. however
The kangaroo is a joke, you
look at him. He has four legs, but uses
only two in traveling, and he employs Ms
tail, not, as is generally supposed, as a
sort of supplementary leg upon wliich to
alight after his long jumps, but some :
■what as Biondin utilizes his balancing
pole in his perilous promenades on the
tight-rope.
The movement ac¬
complished with his body bent well for¬
ward, his forelegs curled up, and his tail
projecting in a graceful curve astern. At
a single bound lie will cover a distance of
thirty feet, and soar over bushes ten feet
high in the midst of it as lightly as a
bird. His powerful hind legs seem made
of springs, which are compressed by Ms
weight when he strikes the ground, and
immediately released to give momentum
for a new flight; his progress is without
apparent break, and resembles that of a
highly-elastic rubber ball that is thrown
along a smooth pavement. He will out¬
run the fleetest horse, and only the best
kangaroo dog (a specie of greyhound espe¬
cially bred for the purpose) can tire and
overtake him. The favorite -way to shoot
him is to lie in wait near his haunts, and
send in beaters and dogs to run Mm out.
As he comes springing over the bushes,
you let drive at Mm with shotguns loaded
with buckshot, and if you are good at
“rocketing” pheasants, or ducks as they
spring from the water, you may bring Mm
down. The excitement of this sport is
great and peculiar, and combines the
shooting of large game with the exhilara¬
tion and uncertainty of shooting on the
wing. It also tests the hunter’s nerve.
The noise made by a herd of frightened
kangaroos tearing through the under¬
brush is startling, and as the beasts go by
the sportsman's covert with the speed of
ight, their killing makes no slight de¬
mands upon alertness and presence of
mind.
Kangaroo chasing by horses and dogs
is a sport which throws English fox
hunting into the shade, and is attended
with as frequent tumbles and broken
bones as the most ardent votary of hunt¬
ing could desire. Timid, inoffensive and
fugitive as the kangaroo is when pursued,
he is a bold and dangerous beast when
wounded and brought to bay. Nature,
wMch leaves no animal entirely defense
less, has equipped him with a weapon
wMch is the dread of dogs and men alike,
His powerful Mnd legs terminate in feet
which are set with three strong black
claws, of wMch the central one is long
and sharp with the cutting surface of a
chisel or gouge.
Woe be to the sanguine hound who,
seeing an “old man” kangaroo, winded
or wounded, backed up against a tree and
unable to go further, rushes in to catch
him by the throat and finish him! The
hitherto useless forelegs catch and hold
him, and the terrible Mnd feet, playing
up and down like the walking beam of a
steamboat, tear Mm open and scatter Ms
sntrails over the ground. The like fate
has sometimes happened to hunters who '
have attacked a wounded kangaroo with
a knife in order to save their ammunition, j
and gruesome stories are extant in which
some huge beast, seizing his enemy in Ms 1
arms has sailed off bodily with him over
brake and brier to put him to death with
unknown however, tortures in evidently some secluded legends lair, in- j
■These, are
vented for the admiration of the “new ,
chum,” as the “tenderfoot” is locally■
called,
The kangaroo of ancient times was a
monster well worthy of association with
the giant “moa”—that bird of fifteen
feet stature, of which I shall have some¬
thing to say presently. In the admirable
Australian Museum at Sydney are the
fossil remains of this mammoth mar¬
supial, with a skull as large as that of the
present, elephant and bones which in¬
dicate that he was as tall as a telegraph
pole. He fed on flesh, this creature, and
if his strength and agility were com¬
mensurate with his size he must have
been capable of covering a hundred yards
at a bound. The remains of this <*reat
beast have beeu discovered in consider¬
able quantities in a series of caves in
Western New South Wales, together with
the skulls and bones of the Australian
bear, who also appears as an Anak
among the present degenerate race.
WISE WORDS.
Keep your temper.
Gain a little knowledge every day.
Make few promises, and always speak
the truth.
Fortune ne’« r helps the man whose
courage fails.
Talk is cheap in this world, because
the supply is so much larger than the de¬
mand.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a
time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet
were shod with wool.
Talents are best matured in solitude,
character is best formed in the stormy
billows of the world.
The reading of good books lifts up the
despondent and points out the way to
happiness and contentment.
There is no witness so terrible, no ac¬
cuser so powerful, as conscience, that
dwells in the breast of each.
It is better to fall among crows than
among flatterers; for they only devour
the dead, but the others devour the liv¬
ing.
Be careful in >ur promises, and just
_ better do
in your performances; it is to
and not promise, than promise and not
perform.
We part more easily with what we pos
sess than with the expectation of what
, the of itis, that
we wish for; and reason
what we expect is always greater than
what we enjoy.
,*Vr. Steam Whistles.
Steam whistles are made in great
variety, from the little tin pipe that is
attached to the street peanut roaster to
the big foghorns that announce the
approach of ocean steamships. They have
displaced bells wherever it is necessary to
send a warning to a long distance. With
a strong and favorable wind the loudest
steam whistle may be heard twenty miles.
They are much used iu factories and on
Southern plantations. record
The biggest steam whistle on
hereabouts was made for a Canada saw
mill. The mill was located in a sparsely
settled locality, and had had several fires,
which resulted disastrously on account of
the difficulty of summoning assistance.
The proprietors sent to New York for
the biggest whistle that could be got. The
result was a steam whistle about two feet
in diameter that could be heard twenty
miltes. It took a 600-horse-power $150. engine
to blow it. This wMstle cost
It is not unusual to make factory and
plantation whistles that can be heard ten
or twelve miles. Big ship whistles are
made of ten or twelve inches diameter.
A much-used whistle is what is known as
the Crosby chime. It consists of three
whistles, one above another. These
three-story whistles are much used on
ships. The smallest of the three whistles
is about five inches in diameter. This
pattern can be heaid a longer distance
than any other.
Varieties of tone are procured by vary¬
ing the shape in the same way that a boy
changes the tone of the wooden whistle
that he makes.
Railroad whistles are sharp and
piercing; not intended for long distances,
but rather for immediate alarm, especially
for cows and other animals that get on
the track. The latest idea for railroad
whistles is to have a different pitch for
passenger and freight trains so switch¬ as to
afford an additional warning to
men.
There is a very ingenious fog whistle
which is attached to buoys and lightships
a^d js worked by the motion of the waves
by the aid of bellows. This is, of course,
not so piercing as a steam whistle, nor
can it be heard at as great a distance,but
R j s a very useful invention and con
tributes much to the safety of coast travel
in the fog.
Steam whistles cost from $10 upward,
and are generally made of brass. Of late
years they have been nickel plated.—
New YorTc Sun.
A New Spy.
It is an interesting fact, which might that
become important in case of war,
the telephone furnishes a simple and
ready means of intercepting secret tele
grapMe dispatches without the knowledge
of the operators. All that is necessary is
to run a wire parallel with the telegraph
line for a short distance, when the eur
rents induced in this wire as the message is
sent reproduce the signals in the telephone,
The plan is attended by one difficulty,
wMch is that the signals would become a
confused medley of sounds if dispatches
were transmitted simultaneously from
both ends of the line. This matter has
attracted the attention of the Austrian
Government.— Trenton (N. J.) American,
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