FEATS OF ENDURANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5951, 23 March 1880, Page 6

FEATS OF ENDURANCE.

A female stowaway was found on board a cotton ship at Liverpool, 47 days out from New York. She presented a most woe-hegone and emaciated appearance. She had been wedged in between two bales of cotton, and during the whole voyage had been unable tb move or obtain food or water. Her head was flattened, and one of her legs twisted over her back. After a few days of careful nursing she recovered her appetite, but poor pussy’s beauty is probably gone for ever. The occupants of an office at a mine near Duluth wore .last, spring surprised to hear some curious noises under the floor beneath, and began investigating.' At last the boards nailed to the house-posts bn the lower side of the slope were knocked off, and! the author of the noises walked forth. His eyes looked out from his deep sockets with an expression of profound melancholy; his ribs;met; his hip joints stood up gaunt and angular. No one recognised the phantom. At last a woman with tears in her eyes came running, and seizing the pig, which she knew by a peculiar twist in itg tail, carried him home. He had gone to sleep under the house when it was building in the fall, had been boarded in, and slept 114 days without food or water.. Some time sinbo the ma,mmoth head and horns of a Rooky Mountain ram were found imbedded in a pine tree. Whether the ram was; caught by the tree when it was, a sapling, or was amusing itself by butting at the youthful pine which sprung its trap on it, or was placed there as a punishment by some Indian with whom it had been taking liberties, e not clear. It was not, however, as luoky as iuss apd Piggy. ' ‘ ‘ ’