The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-08-23
An Elephants sagacity.

An Elephants Sagacity.
A curious incident gave striking
proof of this animals sagacity, while
affording an index to what. were he a
human being, would be called his moral
character. 1t is customary for him,
after each of his short promenades, to
back himself into position conven-
iently close to flight of steps; and
while a change in his freight of human
ity is in process he stands for the re-
ceipt of bread, buns, oranges and bis
cults. On one of these occasions he
had taken party of adult ladies and
gentlemen, instead of his usual load of
juveniles, for short ride; and there
was some merriment between the oc-
cupants of the howdah and their
friends on foot, two of these last being
sent on speedy errand to the refresh
ment chalet to get supply of refresh
ments for Jumbo. The friends returned
laughing, with loaves under their arms,
and as many-buns as they could con-
genientiy carry in addition. This ex-
taardinary iberality, accompanied as
as it was by laughter, made an unfavor-
able impression on the mind of Jumbo
He held down his trunk, straight and
Rotionless, and would not be tempted to
take so much as bun. Though he was
never before known to refuse bread, he
eyed the half-quarterns now with min
gled suspicion and disdain. Then, with
his gaze still fixed on the well-meaning
but unjustly suspected visitors in front
of him, doflG ferer1teS, he suddenly
swung his trunk, with a graceful curve,
to the left, in front of the tiniest child,
and held the end open cup-like, as if it
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girl-whom, of course, he could not
distrust-to drop piece of bun into it.
The child was provided with a paper
bag full of these delicacies, and Jumbo,
still looking sternly at the bringers of
doubtful offerings, took from her baby
fingers piece after piece, lifting each to
his mouth with grateful relish. Nor
did he once relax in his hard opinion of
the benevolent friends, who had unfor-
tunately reused his suspicious by i'll
timed but perfectly innocent laughter.
That wonderful proboscis, with its ,, 200
muscles variously interlaced.. with its
complicated powers of mobility. of ex-
tension, and of contraction, and with
its endowment of exquisite sensibility
to boot, could have wrought terrible
vengeance on any offender, and might, in
mistaken sease ofwrong, have pnnish-
ed, the two friends with death at
single blow. But it could also be ex-
tended, rs it was, in gentle thankful
ness TO mere babe.-L0ndOg Telegraph.
How the Japanese Divide the Eear.
If the length of the shadow on the
21st day of June is divided into four
equal parts, and the length on the 21st
of December into two equal parts, we
shall have six equal measures of length
corresponding with six unequal inter
walls of time; these intervals may then
be distinguished according to the length
of the shadow. The Javanese avail
themselves of this popularity of shad-
ows in their country to adjust the diyi-
sion of their solar year, the first day
of which corresponds with the 21st of
June of the Gregorian reckoning. They
divide the year into twelve unequal
months (TrangSG), which are respect
lively Al, %, "a, 25, %, 43, 43, 20, 25,
"a, % and "a days long. Independent
ly of this division the farmer plants his
rice and other crops according to the
height of Orion and the Pleiades above
the horizon. This height is taken
either at night-fall, half an hour after
sunset, or in the morning, half an hour
before sunrise. The following are the
names of the calandar months, and the
most important observations and farm
'ers rules that are connected with
them:
First month (Kasa), forty-ope days,
from the 21st of June to the 31st of
July inclusive. Orion and the Pieiades
are visible in the east, respectively 25
and 10 degrees above thesaorizon. The
sun turns back toward the south;
mans shadow at noon reaches four feet
south. The fresh-water fish tscGE
6gttik has one spot on its head. 1t is
time to plant the second crop of rice.
Second month (Kdrd), twenty-three
Days long, from the 1st to the 2Sd of
August. The Pieiades are in the zen
it'll, Orion 20 degrees above the eastern
horizon. The i10dk 6etti6 has two spots.
The sun goes farther toward the south.
A mans shadow at noon measures two
feet SOUTH a. C. OudeDIonS, tn
Popular Science Monthly.
An eastward bound passenger train
had a narrow escape from being
plunged into the Erie canal at Lockport,
N. Y, the other morning. One the
wheels of the truck of the tender broke,
and the truck left the track near the
bridge, and was thus dragged along
until the brakes were applied and the
train brought to stand-still- The>