The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-04-22
CURIOsITIEs OF ANIMAL
LIFE.

Monkeys never abandon each other
when in peril.
Parental love is marked charac'
teristic of the whale family.
The rhinoceros can only see what is
nearly in direct line before him.
The roes of various kinds of fish
contain from 10000 to 3,6S6,oOO
eggs.
The lions teeth are formed rather
for destruction than for chewing his
food.
The finest thread in a spiders web
is composed of no less than 1000
strands.
When an ourang-outang dies, the
others cover up the body with great
branches of trees.
There is no animal, however strong
and powerful, that the tiger will not
venture TO attack.
The most acute pain will not pro-
woke an elephant to injure those who
have not offended him.
On a wing of butterfly have been
founi 100,000 scales, and on that Of
silk worm moth 100000.
The cavity containing the brain of
the rhinoceros is only about half as
large as the human skull.
With a piece of wood in their hands,
or with their fists only, orang-outangs
are able to drive off even elephants.
The lions tongue is furnished with
reverse prickles so large and strong as
to be able to lacerate the skin.
In China there is fish that crosses
the meadows at his pleasure from one
creek to another, often a mile apart.
In wild state, baboon can easily
overpower two or three men if they
are unprovided with weapons of de-
tense.
Monkeys are generally peaceable
enough among each other, but men,
bers Of one tribe will drive off intru-
ders from another.
The elephant, the rhinoceros, the
tiger and the hippopotamus, are the
only animals that are not afraid sing
ly to fight the lioD.
If the armadillo is in danger of be-
ing attacked, and happens to be near
precipice, it will contract itself into
a ball and roll itself over.
The fat-head hussar, fish found
in Essequibo, will march in droves
over dry land as fast man ordinarily
walks, using its serrated fins for legs.
There is in Tanquebar species Of
fish that not only go upon shore but
climb the fan-palm and seek their in
sect food upon their leaves and
branches.
M. LIE Guat saw in Java a female
chimpanzee that made her bed very
neatly every day, lay upon her side,
and covered herself with her clothes.
A four fingered monkey in its ma
tive state, has been seen to go down
to the edge of a stream, rinse its
mouth and clean its teeth with one of
its fingers.
Bats possess some additional sense,
which enables them, when deprived
Of sight, to avoid obstacles as readily
as when they retained the power of
vision.
The horn of a rhinoceros, when cut
through the middle, is said to exhibit
on each side the rude fgure.of a man,
the outlines being marked by small
white strokes.
Orang outangs, in a state of domes-
ticatIon, will sit at the table like men,
and eat every kind of food, using the
knife and fork; and they will drink
wine and liquors.
The herring viii travel for weeks at
the rate of sixteen miles an hour with>
out resting. The salmon out-strips
the swallow in speed, and the shark
out travels the eagle.
The slow lemur Gan animal about
the size of the cat) when asleep is ex-
ceedingly sensible to all impressions
from without, and will seize whatever
prey comes onsiicrately within its
reach.
The sloth, unequallei for slowness
and inactivity, generally lives in the
top. of tree. If its tree isat all lofty
it sometimes occupies two whole days
in crawling up and as many in get
ting down agaip. )
In deep seas the whale has been