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THE HATHRALISTS’ COMPANION. 
Snow-slioveling, it is said, is still 
indulged in near Montezumi, Col. 
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plants, minerals, fossils, planets, etc. 
As we have not received enough 
subscriptions we could not illustrate 
this number, but will try to do so 
in our next issue. 
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what in this issue, andAve shall keep 
on improving it with eech issue un¬ 
til it is perfect. If we receive a suf¬ 
ficient number of subscriptions Ave 
will begin to use illustrations in our 
next number. 
One of the greatest curiosities of 
the present day, found among the 
pines of central Wisconsin, was dis¬ 
covered near Knowlton a few Aveeks 
ago. It was in the form of a petri¬ 
fied squirrel, about the size of the 
common squirrel.it was taken from 
the heart of a tree by some woods¬ 
men. It Avas ofabroAAmish color, as 
hard as a rock, and AA^as ‘^as natural 
as life,” even to the kink in its long 
bushy tail. The curiosity was care¬ 
fully packed and sent by William 
Mulhellen, its OAvner, fo President 
Cleveland, from whom a personal 
letter of thanks was received by the 
sender, saying it Avould be carefully 
preserved and placed in the public- 
museum at Washington— Telegram 
While out on a collecting trip 
recently, accompanied by a few of 
our friends,we obtained four Black¬ 
billed Cuckoo’s eggs, six Am. Gold¬ 
finch’s eggs, four Summer Yellow- 
bird’s eggs and three bats. We 
found the bats clinging, head doAvn- 
Avard, to the leaf of a chestnut tree. 
After much trouble we succeeded 
in capturing tAvo of them. These we 
fed upon flies, of Avhich they ate an 
astonishing amount. Their color 
Avas a mixture of broAvn and yellow, 
except on the under parts, which 
Avas of a pale yellow, and the wings, 
which were nearly black. The bats 
were three inches long. On another 
trip, about a AA-eek later, accompan¬ 
ied by J. W. Shepherd, AAm found 
some fine deposits of fossil coral and 
fossil shells. ■ ' 
