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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2001, 3 June 1875, Page 3

Fooling ■with a Beak. —The captain of the propeller Benton, in -winter quarters at the foot of Griswold street, has a half-grown bear on board, and the animal Hs^-been annoyed so much, that he does _j£3i<3t 'hesitate to "use his claws whenever occasion offers. Saturday morning a lanfey stranger from Sandusky happened to 139 going along the wharf and saw the ho&v in the gangway. 'He stopped and began teasing .the bear, and by and bye the captain said—"Look" out, mister, or lou'll get dreadfully tickled." " I guess 're seert bears afore now !'-' replied the man indignantly, and he kept on cuffing the-bear; spitting-'at him, making false motions, &c. Finally, when about ready to leare, he thought- he.'d scare Bruin by " pretending to throw a water pail at him. The force of the false blowithrew Sandusky off his feet, and he rolled down to the bear. Bruin uttered one growl and went to business, and the way the broadcloth, suspenders, and white and red shirt flew was handsome to behold. " Call off yer bar—-help ! police ! police!" yelled Sandusky, but the police vrere far, far hence, and. the captain had a lame foot and couldn't get around very fast. The whole back of the man's coat made only .one mouthful for the bear, and .he wasn't a minute in ;getting down to hide and blood. "Oh! oh! Marcy—whoop—gracious—stop—yelp! yelp !" howled' the man as he rolled around the deck, but the bear would have been playing with him but for the captain and a handspike. i When Sandusky was hauled out of the way and jerked to his feet he-was all blood and rags and bites and scratches. • f Didn't J[ tell you not*to fool with the bear?'"' asked the captain as he stood back and surveyed the man. " Yes, capt'tain, you did," replied Sandusky, " and the next' thing is to lend me an army blanket ancL show me a first-class hospital ! ''-—Detroit Free Press. A Milwaukee man is bent on going to sea.."-He has reading the Enoch Arden class of stories till his soul is fired with anVambition to be wrecked and come . home and find his wifo married to some - 6'fcherifellow; - Disappointing.—Fifteen years ago, says the " Washington Stars," a gentleman of this city scratched his name on a good dollar and sent if on its travels. But it disappoints the anticipations of curious people by "adding, "He had never seen it since.'.'- . • A IITTI.K girl, reading the History of England with.her mother, andcoming to the statement that Henry I. never laughed after the death of his son, looked up and said, " What did he dp when he was tickled." . ' ' . . ,