The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-20
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE VILLAGE.
Instinct Of animals.

uUW ICSlucS DIT DilSillOI, plCktu u Hate
ly, a dog at sea, more than twenty miles
from land. This circumstance may
throw some light on the fact of dogs,
which have been sent to France or Ire
land from England, finding their way
back The present Earl of L--sent
some drafted hounds from his kennel in
Cumberland to Ireland, where they were
safely received and receipt given tor
them to the person who brought them
over. Three weeks afterward, two OF
these hounds made their appearance at
Lord LIS kennel, though in very ex-
hausted state. A gentleman also inform
ed me that a pointer dog, which had
been left at Calais, made It's way over to
England. But the most amusing fact
of this kind that [ know of is one that
was related to me by gentleman On
whose veracity l can place most implicit
reliance j; and though it may appear to
some Of my readers to border upon the
marvellous, think it too entertaining to
withhold it. He informed me that a
friend of his, an officer in the 44th regi-
ment, who had occasion, when in Paris,
to pass one of the bridges across the
Seine, had his boots, which had been
previously well-polished, dirtied by a
poodle dog rubbing against them He
In consequence went to man W no was sta
toned on the bridge and had them clean
ed. The same circumstance having oc-
Cured more than once his curiosity was
excited, and he watched the dog He
saw him roll himself in the mud of the
river, and then watch for person with
well-pollshed boots, against which he
contrived to rub. Finding that the shoe
1aot- ~ CAT I L.
him with the article and after little
hesitation he confessed that he had
taught the dog in order to procure Gus
toners for himself The officer, being
much struck with the dogs sagacity,
purchased him at a high price, and
brought him to England. He kept him
then released him The dog remained
with him for day or two, and then
made his escape. A fortnight afterward
he was found with his former master,
pursuing his old trade at the bridge.
Nor is the dog the only animal which
has shown an extraordinary faculty in
finding his way home. The following an
ecdote is mentioned in note in Messrs.
Kirby and Spence's Entomology, who
state that they had it from Lieutenant
Anderson, of the Royal Engineers who,
was personally acquainted with the
facts
La March, 1916, an ass was shipped at
GIbralter on board the lister frigate, Cap
tain Forest, which was bound for Malta
The vessel struck on the sands off the
Point de Cat, at some distance from the
shore, the ass was thrown overheard, to
give it q chance Of swimming to land-a
poor one for the sea was running so high
that boat which left the ship was lost
A few days afterward, however, when
the gate of Glbrater were opened in the
morning, the ass presented himself for
admission, and proceeded to the stable
which he had formerly occupied, to the
no small surprise Of its former owner,
who imagined that from some accident
Il animal had never been shipped on
board the lister. On return of this yes
sci to repair, however, the mystery was
explained, and it turned ont that Va ian
tie $50 was the ass called had not only
swan safely to shore. but, without guide,
compass, or travelling map, had found his
way from Point de Cat to Gibralter, a
distance of more than two hundred miles,
which he had never trayersed before,
through mountainous and Intricate
country, lntersected by streams, and in
SO short a period that he could not have
made one false turn. He not having
been stopped on the road was attributed
to the circumstance of his having been
formerly used to whip criminals upon,
which was indicated to the peasants, who
have superstitious horror Of such asses,
by the holes in his ears, to which the per
sons tiogged were tied
| have also been assured that favor
lite cat belonging to a nobeman, and who
had been conveyed to his country seat
more than a hundred miles from London,
found her way back to his house in town.
Nothing can be more extraordinary than
the way In which bees find their way
back to their hive Place it amongst
hundreds OF others, exactly similar in
outward appearance, or at the top of a
house In London, or conceal it in the
thlckest wood, and the bee will regain it
without the slightest apparent difficulty.
Huber says they fly to it with an ex,
IRENE fapldlty, and Gs straight as ball
from musket. Nothing can show more
itorclby the wonderful instinct which has
been gwen to these insects. IF they ex-
perlence any difficulty in finding their
homes, low much time would be lost,
ana how inadequate would all their la
bors and industry be, to furnish a suei-
Gent store OF honey to exist upon during
the winter L have always observed
that when a fresh hive has been brought
TO my garden from distant place; the
bees employ themselves on first leaving
1t, not IN collecting honey, but in making
themselves acquainted with all the neigh
boring objects, and these objects may
possibly serve to guide them to their re-
spect!ve homes. Some naturalists are
OF opinion that this recognition of home
by animals Is the result of memory.
Perhaps IN some instances it is so, but
memory could not have guided poor Va
hante over two hundred miles Of country.
which he had never passed before; and
the same unexplained instinct which
brought him back to his stable at Gibral-
tar. may guide the bee to his hive.
Inns Instructive sagacity appears in
some animals TO whom we should have
been less disposed to attribute it. Some
pigs winch had been brought in a sack
Iiiteen miles through an American wood,
by me next morning found their way
PACK, from their new to their old home
have also been assured that Welsh
sheep have been known to find their way
pacS' from the nelghhorhood of London
to their native mountains. 1t is no an
common thing for dogs who have been
taken a great distance in carriages. to
make their way home again, and n at in
very short space of time. A gentle
man took pointer dog in his carria oe To
some shooting ground in Scotland moro
than hundred miles from his hons
Upon receiving some correction from his
master, he left him, and made his way
back to his kennel
A friend of mine had noodle doc