The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-31

INFLUENCE OF MUSIC ON ANIMALS
We have just been reading very inter-
esting essay regarding the influence of
music on animals. The writer shows
how various animals, and even insects,
are Influenced by q concord of sweet
sounds. We have noticed the same
thing, and thought nothing PARTICULAR
about it until we stumbled on this
article.
We remember how We have seen
horses influenced by music. One OF the
most enjoyable runaways we ever ex-
perienced can be directly traced to the
influence of music on horse. We were
driving past who're band was playing,
and the music had more influence on the
horse than we had. Hs didn't keep
time though. In fact, he didn't keep
anything. harness. buggy, or anything
else he only kept running. I never
thought music could have such influence
Oh horse.
He beat time, too. That is to say, he
beat any time we ever saw him make
before, even before sulky. We would
have kept that horse to run against
time, if he hadn't run against o lamp
post and rriEed himself. Music infr-
enoe horse9 Guess not :.
Horses are excellent Musical perform
ers themselves, sometimes. We have
known hungry horse to go through all
the bars of On oat field correctly, and
never miss an oat. although the owner
of the oats missed all of his.
Dogs are singularly affected by music.
| We whistled after strange dog once,
we remember. The dog stopped, lis
tened attentively, looked moment sad,
as though the notes awoke some tender
rryno NIT hS
bounding towards Us and embraced the
calf of our leg in the most af3eotionate
manner. He could hardly tear himself
away, and wouldn't if his owner hadn't
come and choked him of.
There il q power of music in tin ket-
! tie when properly brought ont. We saw
one brought out the other day by some
boys. who attached it to dogs tail.
Talk about the influence of music on
animals! We never saw dog 80 moved
in all our life.
Cats are strangely Influenced by the
music OF q violin. It seems TO affect their
entire system. In fact. there could be
no violins without doing violins to the
cats. Even very young kitten, who
don't realize what he has got to come to,
news plaintively when q fddle-bow is
drawn across the strings. It seems to vi.
brate sympathetic chord within his
own abdominal enclosure. It is affect
ing, the news of young kitten, or to
see young kitten muse.
Birds, never brought up on music at
I'LL, are brought down by the music of a
shotgun. Many of the wild animals are
charmed with music. We often hear
music that nothing but wild animal
would be charmed with.
The TyroIians entice party OF stags
by singing, merely entices ''stag"
party. The female deer is allured by
playing the flute. We had female deer
once. whom we attempted to allure with
a flute. but the dear female said she was
accustomed to do her own "Huting."
| So we let her flute.
The elephant, huge as he is, has a
wonderful ear for music. One Of his
ears would make bass drum head. He
is fond of a march, if he don't have to
march too far. He is also partial to
gallop; if it is n gal up. We saw q
music teacher fooling with an elephant
once. The elephant picked his pocket
and marched of with whole trunk full
of sheet music.
Among insects the spider is found to
be very fond of music. His favorite vo-
calists are the Webb sisters. His favor
lite ballad "Come fly, to my bower;" it is
a right bower, and we pity any fly that
comes there.