Extinct Animals. " J^ 



long and twenty-lour inches in circumference. It weighed 145 

 pounds. One of the tusks measured twelve feet and nine inches 

 in length and twenty-seven inches around. It weighed 295 pounds. 

 The jaw weighed sixty- three pounds. The molar teeth weighed 

 eighteen pounds each. Some of the ribs were eight feet long. 

 The pelvic arch was six feet across, and an ordinary man could 

 walk erect through this opening. Thtt huge and antique monster 

 was eighteen feet and six inches high, and was estimated to weigh 

 twenty tons. 



Just imagine far back in the misty by-gones of antiquity, prob- 

 ably before the appearance of man upon the earih, that Washing- 

 ton Territory was the home of these monstrous animals that 

 roamed over the great prairies, traversed the Columbia river, 

 and made the genial climes of Puget Sound their haunts in 

 winter. It matters not what the theories may be in regard to 

 these embedded bones of such huge proportions; why so many 

 of them were piled together in these springy places; what period 

 or age the animals lived; at what time the great change took 

 place w^hich made them disappear from the continent; whether 

 they first made their appearance in this part of America and 

 whether or not it was then a tropical climate. — Tacoma Ledger. 



NATURE'S COMPASSES. 



Look at this delicate plant, that lifts its head irom the meadow ; 

 See how its leaves are turned North, as true as the magnet ; 

 This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted 

 Here in the houseless wild to direct the traveler's journey 

 Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert. 



— Evangeline. 



The compass -plant of the prai"ies, Silphium laciniatum of bot- 

 anists, is not unlike a small sunflower. The leaves always turn 

 their edges to the north and south, choosing this position because 

 the two faces of the leaf are about equally luminated by the sun. 



The leaves of the prickly lettuce also have a tendency to point 

 north and south. 



A tree abounds in the forests of Nova Scotia, known in some 

 secdons as the hunter's compass, which almost invariably indi- 

 cates the points of the compass. 



A promient real estate man in San Diego, relates that some 

 rats gnawed through a brass faucet in an eartbern water jar, in a 

 warehouse in New York, many years ago, for the sake of getting 

 at the water. Could that have been their sole object? " \j 



