Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-03-05

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EXpEgIENcEIS AyrMA1s-WHAr AVERSION II
| PRODUCES. Animals are prompt at using theiI
experience in reference to things from which
they have suffered pain or annoyance. Grant
mentions an Ourang Outang which, having had
when i'll, some medicine administered to il in an
egg, could never be induced 10 touch one after
wards notwithstanding its previous fondnoss for
them.
\ tame fox has been cured from stealing eggs
and poultry, by giving them to him scading hot
from the saucepan. lie Naillant's monkey was
extremely fond of brandy, but would never be
prevailed on TO touch it again after lighted
match had been applied 10 some it was drinking.
Two carriage horses which made point OF
stopping at the foot of every hil and refused to
proceed in spite OF every punishment, were con-
sdcred beyond cure, but it was suggested at last
that several horses should be attached to the
back of the carriage, and being put into trot.
be made to pull the refractory horses backwards.
The result was perfectly successful, for thence
forth they faced every bill at speed and were
not to be restrained till they reached the sum
nit.
a dog which had been beaten Vile some
musk was held to his nose always fled away
whenever it accidentally smelled the drug, and
was SO susceptible Of it that il was used in some
psychological experiments to discover whether
any portion of musk had been received by the
body through the organs of digestion.
Another dog, which Ind been accidentally
barnt with luciler match, became angry at the
sight of one, and furious if the act of lighting it
was fegUed.
There are, besides, so many instances record
ed of even higher degrees of intelligence, that il
is impossible to deny that animals arrive at a
knowledge of cause and effect
Strend, Of Prague, had cat on which he wish
ed to make some experiment with an air-pump ::
bat as soon as the creature felt the exhaustion
of the air, it rapidly placed its foot on the valve
and thus stopped the action.
\ dog, having great antipathv to the music
Of violin, always sought TO e! the bow and con
ceal It,
The well known story recorded by Plutarch
proves the application of accidentally acquiring
experience; he says, that a mule, laden with
salt, fell accidentally into a stream, and having
perceived that It's load became thereby sensby
iightened, adopted the same continuance after
wards pu-poseIy; md that &c cure Il of the trick
its pauniers were filed with spongc,under which
when fully satuTatedit could barely s;aggcr
a Coon SHoT-A bear, for some tive past
i''E va an lilti'lldCI " INl bt young
hogs belonging 70 the settlers in Queen's Bush
closed his career last week in rather singular
manner. From litter Of nine in an indus.ri-
Gus mans hog-stye, the bear had at divers times
abssracted four, and one night on repeating his
visit, the hogs screamed 50 furiousiy at the alb
straction Of Of their BRETHREN that the settler
became alarmed. and loading his gun in all ire
pijation, has:anad ont to the s,ye and seeing the
grizzly monster few PAGES from him, with the
Porker in his tushs, he let fy With the nnsket,
and the recoil was 50 violent tina; it threw him
several feet backward, with his head under the
fence. Believing Tat the blow had been dealt
y the bear and lha: the monster was upon him.
he roared ont hilaously, and was, Of course, i'm
mediately Joined by his wife, who disa5used him
Of the iiea that anything else but herself was
near him. He then got mp, and found that his
monster antagonist was pierced through the neck
70 the hog-stye hy the ramrod Of the gan, he ha-
wing forgotten in his hurry 70 abstract it from
the weapon, and thus the rcco.l became 50 great
as to upsa, him. The bear died Immediately,
and his carcase amply repaid for the loss Of the
pigs, and the fright Of being turned into grease
in the bowels of grizzly bruin.-G4h Can
ada Reporter