The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-19
FACULTY OF ANIMALS.

In the current number of the Pebnkv
Science M0nkiiy there is very interest
ing article, which details the expert.
ments made by certain Ohio physicians
to ascertain whether the faculty which
some animals possess of returning to
their homes by nearly direct course
after being carried great distance by
circuitous route is TO be attributed to
scent, memory, or to any other intclli-
gible cause. Everybody, of course, is
aware of the fact that cat may be put
into a bag and taken never so far away
from its accustomed hearth, and by never
so roundabout a journey, and yet turn
up again in due time at the old place
its ability to get back being apparently
limited only by insuperable physical OBJ
stacles. The ~sdssjcct- of tse .oaiS- ex-
perimenters was dog. The way they
went to work and the result is thus de-
scribed:
A dog was made insensible with ether
at Cincinnati, put into wicker basket,
started on n train of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad first southwest to Dam
vile Junction, thence east to Crab Or
chard, and finally northeast to a hunting
rendezvous near Berea, in Madison coun-
~ This circuitous route was taken be-
cause on a former occasion, when the
dog hat! returned from point 100 miles
distant from his home, il was suspected
that he might have found his was back
by simply reversing his course on the
railway by which he had come. At
Bcrea the dog was shut up securely over
night and well fed. The next morning
he was taken out to a clearing on the
top of grassy knob at some distance
from the railway, and let loose. With
out any preliminary survey he skunk Off
into a ravine, scrambled up the opposite
bank, and struck first on a trot and then
a swift gallop, not toward Crab Orchard,
!. G., southeast, but due north, in bee
line for Cincinnati. He ran not like an
animal that had lost its way, but "likc
a horse on tra,nway," straight ahead
with his nose well up, as if he were fol-
lowing an air line toward a visible goal.
He made a short detour to the left to
avoid lateral ravine, but further up he
resumed his original course, leaped
rail fence and went headlong into cop
pice Of cedar bushes, where they finally
lost sight Of him. The report Of the
experimenters was forwarded to the own
er by rail and on the afternoon Of the
next day after receiving this report the
owner met the dog on the street in Gin
cinnati, "wet, full Of burrs and remorse,
andapparently ashamed of his tardiness.
p0'Of clergyman in Massachusetts,
whose pugilistic propensities caused him
to be called behind his back the eight
ing parson," il is told that one Of his
parishioners asked him to preach from
Matthew v, IS: "Whosoever shall smite
thee on the right cheek, turn to him the
other also" Certainly he would, the
next Sunday. And there was a great
crowd to hear how one Of his tempera-
ment would treat such a subject. After
giving out the text he said the meaning
was very clear and the doctrine very
satisfactory. "If man smite thee on
thy right cheek, il may have been mis-
take; it may have been in sudden pas
sion and repented Of at once. You
should bear it, and turn to him the other
cheek in order to learn what his inten-
ton is, but il he smite you again, let
him have it.; for there is no scripture
against thati"
pO-Professional curiosity: Ayoung
lady slipped on the ice and lay there
recklessly waiting to be rescued. Aclerk
in q hosiery store, who was standing near
the scene of the disaster, viewed the
spectacle with professional curiosity
moment or two, and then exclaimed:-
"Pre,ty, very pretty, but they only cost
thirty-six cents a pair"
nw"I never saw such tenderness in
my life. Whenever De Smith comes
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