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B Y THE WA YSIDE 
BY the: wayside 
Published on the tenth of each month except July and 
August. 
The official organ of the Wisconsin and Illinois Audu¬ 
bon Societies. 
Twenty=five cents per year. 
Single Copies 5 cents 
All communications should be sent to Mr. T. R. Movie. 
Appleton, Wis. 
The department of agriculture calcu¬ 
lates that the quails of North Carolina 
and Virginia consume annually 1341 
tons of harmful weed seed. 
According to a recent postal regulation 
it is unlawful to send monthly publica¬ 
tions to subscribers more than four 
months in arrears. Will vou kindlv 
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look up the matter of your subscription 
so that we will not be compelled to drop 
your name from our list. 
The first national movement in favor 
of the protection of birds was originated 
in 1886 bv Dr. George Bird Grinnell, edi¬ 
tor of Forest and Stream. The Audubon 
Society is now organized in all except 
eleven states and territories. 
Pulling a Leopard's Teeth. 
The spotted leopard, Alice Roosevelt, 
of the Central Park Zoo, had twelve 
teeth pulled recently by “Bill” Snyder, 
the head keeper. She fainted in the 
most ladylike manner under the opera¬ 
tion. 
Alice, who is only nine months old, 
had been ailing for some weeks and ap¬ 
peared to be in such low spirits that 
Keeper Snyder bought her guinea hens 
and tender quail to tempt her appetite. 
In gently thrusting a piece of quail on 
toast down her throat recently the keeper 
discovered that Alice had not shed her 
puppy teeth on the lower jaw and the 
other set had grown in front of them. 
He decided to remove the earlier set and 
looked for a dentist. 
Several were telephoned to, but when 
they were asked to enter the leopard’s 
cage and extract her teeth they were all 
too busy to attend to it, and Snvder had 
to do the job himself. 
The teeth were successfullv taken out, 
and as the last one left her jaw with a 
jerk, the leopard fainted and had to be 
dosed with three stiff' drinks of brandy 
before she came to and in the leopard 
language asked, “Where am I?” 
Alice appeared to be very comfortable 
in the afternoon and according to Bill 
Snyder she will be herself again in a few 
days .—New York Times. 
A No Account Dog. 
A man in Missouri recently sued a 
railway company for damages for the 
death of a hound killed on the track. 
The company defended itself upon the 
following points: 
Said dog was chasing a rabbit up de¬ 
fendant’s track in violation of the game 
laws. 
Said rabbit lived on defendant's right 
of way, and was therefore the propertv 
of the defendant. 
Plaintiff’s dog was a trespasser, and 
was hunting defendant’s property with¬ 
out permission. 
Said deceased was not much of a dog, 
anyhow, or it could easilv have kept out 
of the way of defendant’s trains. 
And having fully answered, defendant 
Prays to be discharged.— Youth's Com¬ 
panion. 
