The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
DOGS.
The Emotional Nature of Tray, blanche
and .Streefhearf.

| | approaches man much more near
in the matter of feeling than either {
: physical or mental characteristics.
is startling fact, well brought out b
Jessie in synopsis of the dogs attr
butes, that there are very few huma
passions which dog does not share.
A dog feels anger precisely as we de
dictive and sometimes placable, accord
ing to his individual character. He
susceptible of hatred of the bitteres
kind. He is so excruciatingly jealou
that his life becomes burden in tn
presence of favored rival. His env,
continually leads him to eat what h
does not want, lest another ANNA
should take it, and to illustrate tn,
fable of "The dog in the manger.'
Gluttony holds out to him temptation
under which even his honesty some
times succumbs; but, on the othel
hand, from drunkenness he is nobly
emancipated. A dog mentioned by the
Rev. Thomas Jackson, having beer
once made so drunk with malt liquor
that he was unable to walk up stairs,
ever after declined to taste the PERM.
cious beverage, and growled and snarled
at the sight of n pewter pot. Again,
as to love, Don Juan was a cold and
unenterprising character compared to a
dog; and as to maternal affection, the
mother-dog feels it with heroic passion,
starving herself to death rather than
forsake her offspring. Gratitude may
be almost said to be dogs leading
principle, supplying first the spring of
allegiance to his master, and ever after
reconciling him with true magnanimity
to take evil from the hand from which
he has accepted good. Regret and grief
he feels SO deeply that they often break
his heart. Fear is passion which dogs
exhibit with singular variation, some
breeds and individuals being very tim
orous, and others perfect models of
courage; the Mtter characteristic and
fortitude seeming to be more character
istically canine. A greyhound has been
known, after breaking his thigh, to run
on till the course was concluded and in
the excellent new volume "On the
Dog" by Idstone, is a frightful story of
a fOx-hOund whom its ferociOus master
fogged so savagely for babbling" as
TO cut out its eye with his whip. The
animal continued to hunt with the pack
till the end of the chase, whereupon the
human brute, certain Col. Thornton,
took out his scissors and severed the
skin by which the dogs eye had hung
pendant during the entire rum" AS to
hope, no one can observe the dog watch
ing for his masters step, as in Land
;eer's picture of Expectation" with
,ut admitting that he knows the senti-
nent as well as we. Pride in success
Jul chase may be witnessed in every deg, |
md even felt in the quickened heart
Yeats of greyhound when caressed
md praised. That dogs have personal
,anity appears from the fact that they
ire SO demoralized when dirty and rag
ed by long exposure, and recover their
elf-respect Immediately on being washed
nd combed. Chivalry and magnanim-
ty MAY nearly always be calculated
lpon in dogs, and wife beating is an Of
ence to which the four-footed beast
lever descends. The stories are endless
f big dogs generously overlooking the
insults of small ours, or taking them
nto water and giving them good duck
ng as a punishment for their imperti-
ence, and then helping them merciful-
Y back to land. Sense of property, BIZ
Ircating into both covetousness and av.
rice, is common to all dogs. The ken
ell, rug, collar, water-basin, or bone
nee devoted to his use, no dog can see
to another without indigna-
on. Frequently he "covets his neigh
or's house." and attempts to ensconce
imself in it surreptitiously; and al
lost universally he covets his neigh
or's bone, and purloins it if he dare.
ven from avarice he cannot be wholly
observing his propensity to
lry his treasure. Shame, humor, graf
ude, in fact, nearly all other emotional
tributes not above enumerated, are
so to be noted in dogs.
WHAT PRoToPLAsM Is.-The term
rotOplasm, from first and form, is, says
rofessor Haeckel, applied to the sup
,sed original substance from which all
wing beings are developed, and which
the universal concomitant of every
1enomenon of life. All that is compre-
ended for brevity under the term life.
neither the growth of plants, the flight
birds, or train of human thought, is
JUS supposed to be caused by corporal
gans which either themselves consist of
rotoplasm, or have been developed out .
it. Wherever nutrition and propaga-
on, motion and sensation exist, there is,
their material basis, this substance de-
gnated in a general sense as protoplasm. !
he proof of it is held to be furnished
: the protozoans called moners, the
hole completely developed body of
hich consists solely of protoplasm.
hey are not only the simplest organisms 7
it'll which we are acquainted, but also /
e simplest living beings we can con- v
i've of as capable of existing; and p
ough their entire body is but single, t
rmIess, small lump of protoplasm, and b
ach molecule of it being like the other) p
thout any combination of parts, yet p
ey perform all the functions which in il
cir entirety constitute in the most /
ghly organized animals and plants b
nat is comprehended in the idea of life, r
mely, sensation and motion, nutrition -
d propagation. !,
RUssIA.-The Russian empire, at the t
sent moment, comprises one seventh O
the land of the globe, and one-twenty- n
lth of its actual surface. Its area in d
nglish square miles is s, 4O4,766, or a n
tie short of the united empires under g