New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-28

Ill blistered grievousy. The KING chamDerialhe3
Did him arise and COME to the king. II will not
luoth he, !" will go make my grave" See how
things CHANGED; he spoke truel than he was
aware. For the chamberlane going homewithoqtI
him ready, takes his horse, and rides to the church
yard in the high towne, where he found the sexton
las the custom is there making nine graves.three
for men, three for women, and three for children
Lend me thy spade, says Jenny, and with that
digs hole, which hole he bids him make for his '
grave; and doth give him French crowne !; the
man willing to please him (more for his gold than
his peasure,) did so; and the foole gets upon his
horse, rides to gentleman of the towne, and on {
sodaine within two houres after dyed; of whom
the sexton telling, he was buried there indeed.
Thus you see fooles have guesse at wit sometime,
and the wisest could have done no more, nor so
much. But thus this fat fooe fills a leane grave
with his carkasse; upon which grave the Eing
caused stone OF marble to bee put, on Whlch
poets write these lines in remembrance OF him
Jenny Gambler he iigges here
h5sI haS hsFs fer s s fss ss
A wise end of folly! .... ~. ...r. i
CURIosIrIEs OF ANIMAL TRAIS1NG.-When one
takes comprehensive view of what has already
been effected in the way of animal training, 1T |
would really seem as though much more VIII yet
be accomplished than has as yet been thought
possible. The dog, besides being trained to hunt
to fight, to swim, to ride, to draw, to guard and
drive, to fetch and carry, to smugge, to steal, to
defend to abstain, to eat, waltz, to fegn death
and thousand and one other things, at the beck
of his owner, has even, according to the testimony
OF no less an authority than the illus trous phlos
opher Leibnitz, been also taught to speak, at all
| events SO far as to utter words resembling
mamma I" and papa That was some two
hundred years ago. But within the present
decade talking seal" doing as much as that
has been exhibited in London to the great wonder
of cockneydom. Granted, that in both cases the
talking consisted of nothing more than n,odifea-
ton of the natural cry of the animals, still it is
not little to produce that modification, and to
cause it to be uttered at command. Ii 80 much
can be done, how much more may not be !!
Granted that the learned dog and the learned pig,
who spell and figure by picking up cards appro-
priately marked, do by hating at the sign of
click of the nail or light flip of the fingers, and
picking up the card at which he may then be. If
that can be accomplished, how much more may
; not be? If the Chinese can govern i'm
mense focks of ducks which they keep
in vast swamps and fens so as to
command them to come home regularly at one
appointed time, if the cormorant can be trained to
fish for his master man. if the falcon can be trained
to hawk for him, if the cockatoo and the parrot
can be trained to talk till they often appear to use
, | their chattering as signs of ideas-to mean what
thew say-if the blackbird and the mockng bird
| can be taught to whistle musical compositions and
the magpie under the influence Of domestcation
becomes greater thief than ever, what may not
be done with birds? Is it anything more wonderful
that canaries and perroquets should prove capable
of being trained to remain by their cage though at
:, liberty to fly off, and to perform all the antics we
= now see them perform about our streets! why
what is all this to the Harvesting and driving OF
team of feas as has been done? Or to the training
V of fish to come to the signal of whistle, and feed
: from the hand, as has also been done? Or to the
charming of serpents with whstling and the sount
70 of musical instruments and with the eye, is I'M
doubtedly done, quite irrespective OF the JugglerJ
W and deception often accompanying the feat? II
- MANY RESPECTS Improvement in the training of ami
mails has been great as in other matters, although
~ uotin al Nodoubtthe elephant has been trained II
t. more astonishing performances than were dreamed
70 of as possible, at least in the western world,
'e hundred years ago. The horse and the mule hav
- been trained to much more remarkable feats thai
H. those Of Banks's horse Marocco, which in Shak
- spere's days furnished him with an allusion fo
10 Moth in .Loye's Labour Lost" 1t may perhaps, b
III question, however, whether training of dogs an
monkeys has advanced so much, if at all. In l75s
1t. for instance, Mrs. Midnight exhibited traine
dogs and monkeys far superior to anything to b
er seen now.
te The following is from the account Chambers
,t. j" Book of Days" gives Of them: There was
lis MONKEYS entertainment, two Of these animals b.
ing seated in full dress at a table with wine an
,o- cake, while another Of the same species attende
on with plate under his arm. Two dogs. accoutre
20. like soldiers showed their agility by jumping ov
| 80 I,,pI ,ofg ;ot-a Ttrao ran
ated Harlequin, Pero ~ and Columbine, the la
On, attired in prodgious hoop. Two monkeys,
y. cloaks and cooked hats, were exercised upon IL
backs of couple of dogs. Another monke
In In mounted on dog.back went through q series
ega quasi-equestrian performances, mounting and
mounting with the greatest propriety. There W
I'M also grand ballet dance of dogs and monkeys
rk, the formal dresses of the PERIOD powdered ha
etc., and lady is brought in sedan. G.
81 tainly, however, the principal performance wal
nner siege. The stage in this instance presented
p exterior of a fortified town. Monkeys manned
hold walls and fred at multitude of canine besiege
Ba6 The army of dogs, under their brave commando
came forward with unflnching courage, and
me- couple of ladders being planted, they mounted
ton rampars with the greatest agility, and entered
ige- city, sword in hand, disregardng snch casual
as the fall of two or three of the storming pc
:, into the ditch. The simial defenders, as we I
ton, suppose' easo . u'.e''nneu ios's.'nee pus
Ianf flag of the assaiants waved upon the battleme
ulen When the smoke cleared away, the besieged
and besiegers observed in friendly union on
M Lit top VI thS ioio-"aii, sahihS va 'nei ".' "
iisid tune of God save the King, and humbly salu
&c the audience.'' 5 ias
SsIh Esbp, That monkey which attracts such crowds
lel Canal and other streets OF TINS CITY IN our ua,
j Nj markahIe as his training is vet does not appro
ain AMI 4 his predecessors of last century.
wine STILL on the whole, animal training has lmpros
k and it is difficult to conjecture to what eA.en
WIGS may be ultimately carried. The negroes nave
.% idea that the monkey talk if it chooses, as
Ana. will not, because it knows man would mmeda.
put it to work if it dd; and Ihaaaees o5eva' \
Fow. rhetoi ~ it.is ;hia daed that would be
others ever OF WAaI d noiii"is w. ~ 10 -.f