The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-08-12
ANIMAL INrELLIGEScE.

new, are all to the point. We take
an example or two of what the smallest
aud the du!lest of them, us well as the
biggest and cleverest--fleas and fish as
well as elephants--can do. e@' 'it
There were Industrious fleas before
our time. Baron Walckcnaer (who
died in 1859 saw with his own eyes,
for sixpence, in the Place de Ia Bourse,
Paris, four learned fieas perform the
manual exercise, standing upright on
their hind legs, with q splinterot wood
toserve for pike. Two other feas
dragged a golden carriage, with third
Ilea, holding whip, on the box for
coachmn. Another pair dragged a
cannon. The flea horses were harness
ed by golden chain fastened to their
hind legs, which was never taken oil.
They had lived in this way two years
and a half, without any mortality
among them, when Walckenaer saw
them. They took their meals on their
keepers arm. The feats were per-
formed on a plate of polished glass.
When they were sulky, and refused to
work, the man, instead of whipping
them, held a bit of lighted charcoal
over their backs, which very soon
brought them to their senses.
But ofwhat use is cleverness with
out a heart? The flea has strong ma
ternal affections, She lays her eggs
in the crannies of floors, in the bedding
OF animals, and on babies night
clothes. When the helpless, transpa-
rent larv@ appear, the mothcr-hea feeds
them, as the dove does its young, by
discharging into their months the con-
tents of her stomach. Grudge her
not, therefore, one small drop of blood.
For. you, it is nothing but ilea-bite;
for her, it is the life of her beloved
ohspringl
While pleading, however, for the
flea we cannot do as much for the bug,
though he is gifted with fuller devel-
oped intelligence. Aninquistive gen
man, wishing to know hav the bug
became aware of u human presence,
tried the following experiment. He
got into a bed suspended from the
ceiling, without any tester, in the mid
die of an uniurnished room. lie then
placed ON the floor a bug, who, guided
probably by smell pondered the means
of reaching the bed. After deep re-
Election be climbed up the wall, trav-
eled straight across the ceiling to the
spot Immediately over the bed, and
then dropped plump on the Observers
nose. Was this, or was it not, an act
OF intelligence? The fish belongs to
the great fathead family. One iel-
low, with mnz2le prolonged into a
long narrow tube (Which he uses as a
popyunJ prowls about the banks OF
tidal rivers. On spying iy on the
water-weeds he slyly swims up until he
gets within five or six feet oft. He
then shoots it with water from his
proboscis, never falling to bring down
his game. A governor of the hospital
at Batavia, doubling the fact, Though
attested by credible witnesses, procur-
ed some Of these fish, to watch their
pranks. He stuck a ily on pin at
the end of stick, and placed it SO as
to attract their notice. TO his great
delight they shot it with their water
guns, for which he rewarded them
with a treat of insects.
The pike has proved himself not
only intelligent but even capable-dis-
believe it who will-of gratitude.
"W lie living at Durham" SAYS
Dr.. Warwick, II took a walk one
evening in Lord Stamford's park. On
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