The Republican journal., 1873-01-02
The consoiousness 4f Dogs.

A dog feels anger pre- sely as we do
and after provocaton iSsometimes vim.
dicative and sometimes acable, accord
ing to his individual Nhracter. He i;
susceptible OF hatred ofIfhf bitterest kind
life becomes a burden In The presence OF
favored rival. Hi$ erty continually
leads him to eat whaS he Toes not want
least another animal shoHld take it, and
to illustrate the fabk oflthe dog in the
manager Gluttony holds out to him temp;
tations under which, evsn his honesty
sometimes succumbS; but, on the othGi
hand, from drunkenness he is nobly emah-
cipated. A dog me ntioded by the Rev
Thomas Jackson having once been made
drunk with malt LIQUOR that he was un-
able to walk up stairs, he ever after de
clined to taste the: pernicious beverage,
and growled and sharled at the sight Of a
pewter pot. Agaia, as to love, Don Juan
was a cold and uHenterpri Ing character
compared to a e. and to maternal
affection, the m9ther dog feels it with
heroic passion, starving herself to death,
rather than forsake her offspr bg. Graft
tude may almost be said to be dogs
leading principle, supplying. first the
spring of allegiance to his/m4ter, and
after reconciling him, wifi trE mag
nanimity, to tak e evil fron;the hi nd from
which he has accepted goSd. RI BRET and
grief he\ feel: so deeply that til y often
dogs exhibf, with singusr variatio some
breeds and dividualS being vel Emor-
Gus; and othSAperfeet models of c91 age,
the latter eharactar istI fs and fortitudeseem-
ingly to be more cbaf acteristically canine.
A greyhound has p known after break
ing his thigh, to r9 ~ till the course was
concluded. AS h6te, no one can OBJ
serve the dog fatchinA for his masters
step, as in Lanaseer's picltge Of expect
ation,' withoM admitting that he knows
the sentiment as well as wen Pride in
successful chase may be witnessed in
every dog; and even felt in the qMckened
heart beats Of Il greyhound when caEessed
and praised. That dogs have personal
vanity appears FROM the fact that they are
SO dejeSed and demo9alized
when dirty and rugged by aong exposure,
and recover their selt-respect Immediately
on being washed and combed. Chivalry
and magnanimity may nearly always be
calculated upon in dogs, and wife-beating
is an otfense to which the four-footed
beasts never descend The stories are
endless of big dogs generously overlook
ing the insults Of small ours, or taking
them into water and giving them good
dueking as punishment for their imper-
Thence. and thence helping them merci-
fully back to land. Sense Of property, bifur-
eating into both covetousness and avarice
is common to all dogs. The kennel,
rug, collar, water basin, or bone once
devoted TO his use, no dog can see
transferred to another without indigna-
ton. Frequently he "covets his neigh
boris house, and attempts to cnsconse
himself in it surreptitiously; and al
most universally he covets his neigh
bor's bone, and purloins it, if he dare
Even from avarice he can not be wholly
1Xonerated, observing his propensity TO
bury his treasures Shame, after trans
crossing any of the arbitrary rules i'm
posed on him a dog displays with ludic-
fous simplicity, but Of the deeper sense
Of violated modesty which in human be-
nGs accompanies the commission Of sin,
he dog evidently knows nothing what
ever. HumOr, 50 far as it can proceed
Without language, the dog catches readily
rom humorous master, and also the en-
oyment OF such games as he can under
stand. AS baby crows with glee at
$ bo-peep' so a dog barks with delight at
go-tetch." Make-believe runs and false
starts, romps and ticklings, throwing a
'all Tor him to catch on the grass, OF a
stick to fish out of lake, all supply him
With pleasure perfectly analogous in their
nature to that which boys and men find in
buff and prisoners base, lord
y cricket, and lady like croquet. lastly,
aith in beloved superior is perhaps the
most beautiful and affecting of all the at
tributes Of dog. [Quarterly Review.
The French have found a substitute for
wallpaper in painted sheets of tin-foil, a
actory for which has already been start
ed. 1t Is said to possess many advantages
over paper. While pliable, it is tough
1nough not to be easily torn, and it offers
l smooth surface for the decoration that
nay be put upon it. The paint that is
lsed is OF some new chemical compost
ion. The toll is cut into sheets of thirty
u iorty inches in width and about five
yards in length. Il can be readily applied
% the wall by experienced paper-hangers,
he difference being that, in the case OF
paper, paste is used en- the back of it,
while in the case Of the tin.foil varnish
s placed on the surface which is to be
covered. The foil is so flexible that it can
De applied to mouldings and cornices
much more neatly than paper, and it has
he farther advantage Of being water
proof.
Henry Wilson says he has made four
cen hundred speeches since he has been
mon Enlls mrnnn 90 rth ), Enonnh To