Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-12
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rsySt5 hon we're scholarly.
Thsy eal u ~ habit ~ inst which 1
Lord BaScon - :llevsr AirSd sof,cfting /
ouk 81 aScsptlpR thikRss on authority.
u lkristotl1 OF Plfnys had aid IL &c
must ~ ttue aud % mon I Nor monk
copied & ous and put It il his treatise,
thOsxh to test II would have been TO-
TSente III and the means OF testing
igers olose Is hand. This method OF
taking things On trust was the bane Of |
ths Old philosophy.
Get Holiand's translation q the
worthy Pliny il you want an afternoons
amusement He will toll yon that il
yon cut ~ the tip Of I dogs tail with.
In forty days from its birth, It will
never 70 mad, and that tho best Of
the litter u the whelp which gets its I
,eyssight last, Or that which the mother
,oarrfes first into her kennel Of the
,doG's fsithfulness he has notable in
1GonceA Il has been known to throw
ftsen into the flames when its masters
faneral-pyrs was kindled. x It viii
hroed With tie tiger, Tho Indians
cross their dogs d tAatway. The first
and second CROSSES are too savage; the
third can be trained. No matter how
6srcs s dog n, il will never attack you
4 you 1T down Homer says the same
thing IL tho Odyssey-and il may be
siloncsd by holding 70 it = brand
ssnatchod from j fnnoral-pyre. When
cremation was given up, this recipe
had 90 be- modified; and for the brand
VS. substituted tho hand Of glory
which credulous medieval burglars
used 10 carry. with the view Of keep
Ing the Watchdog quiet. The most
fighting breed was the Molossian, y
splendid sample of which tho king of
Albania gave to Alexander the Great
when he was going TO India. Alex
ander had boars,s stays, and bears
slipped to it, but the dog lay motion
less; whereat the. kings anger was
reused that such noble form should
cover 50 sluggish a spirit. and he bade
tho dog be Killed. sending q message
J to the giver that tho gift had proved
unworthy Of them both. Whersupon
another like dog was SENT with tho
warning that the drst dogs inaction in
presence of small game was not due to
slu1gishnass, but to contempt, such
dogs bsing used 70 be matched against
/ elephants aud hosa. AlexandsrAt once
. tried him with lion, whick hs slew,
and then set him at IN elephsnt. round
which he circled, baying loudly, and
With ell his ibris.les erect slipping In
and avoiding the elephant's stroke
+ whenever he got the chance At last
the elephant grew dizzy, and, falling
down, was made Q prey ~ ~ small
sized antagonist Unlike bees, and
rats, and cows, and several other
creatures pheasants, which
Norfolk poachers catch with peas
steeped in brandy--dogs can never DO
rot to drink anything stronger than
water, at least 80 PlinJ says. Hence
tho Roman nickname. ''prAndium can't
num-" Il dogs lunc..) tor = teetotal
Strangely enough, about elephants
Pliny is good deal nearur tue truth
than be IS about dogs. borrowing
from Aristotle. he explains just u
II accurately how they ars cAu-nt md
tanned as If he was = & .obc-tr"tsnr,f re.
turned from Ceylon. He is riga. loo,
III telling how certain natives wait UP
tree till the last of tho herd is pass,
\ ing under. On this they drop, and
\ seizing its tail in their loft hand, use
the other hand in han-strinxing it
He records the story OF the R,sn,an
soldier who cut of the trunk 1T one o.
Il Pyrrhus' elephants, and 50 saved the
legion from going down the third time
before the Macedonian phalaux; and
he tells, too, how Hannibal offered s
q Roman prisoner his life ii he coulc
beat an elephant in single fight, though
2 hope he Is wrong IN adding that th<
Funic general sent horselnen to way
lay the man when, after coming Of
Y avictorious he had been set at liberty
He ID certainly wrong in saying tina
African elephants assembling in troop
of1onrs And 6ves, and int1laaoing les.
Il and trunks, commit themselves TO the
waves and fost over to. the fne1
pasture Of Arabia; though not more
y wrong than Aristotle, who says tia,
the elephant can not swim, but walks
across deep rivers breathing through
Its upliftsd trunk. A scholarly error
Abont elephants was that Of the vica1
y q Ottery St. Mary, father Of Coleridgt
Il tho poet. who took the mammoths
II bones, 20 often found in the south O
England, to belong to elephant
brought over BY the Romans, quoting
Folymmus' Stratagems' to tho effoc
that Cesar used one when forcing thu
passaEe Of the Thames. .'He does MOI
msDtiol Il IN his Commemorative
sthinktug it would detract from til
81 honor Il hi Victories" Il Is remark
u able, ~ tho way. that IN elephant
head and trunk are sculptured on onl
cz tho capitals ID Ottery sc. Mary
church. One IL glad to learn from
Cicero that when Pompsy had twenty
elephants hunted % death In tho eircp.
y g dslight The people, The feeling
q r0used was not delight but pity; til
5Ss spectators thought that there was 1
kinship g man In the sagacioul
I'LL croakures. NJ NJ .Gs3s HI 4.
Pliny. who says that ..wild ross
"a leaTea reduced to q lininaent will
beax's grease, doth wonderfully make
O hAirs u grow again. " tails manJ
strange things about wolves. He be
lteyoe u tho vsrsipeliis, turnskin. 81
1Ar.wolfs and 10 holds that : wolf
snout i II counter charm against III
III aorossy, and that 4syv-Wsdd ed Fwiysa
N should anotnt III sllie posts of theil
honse with wSlf' . ~ "a that no char11
4 lnay have pover to enter. Elian add
q the queer animal IT'D sst sd6Nl
TX Pliny. y wolf. 40 ssJls. oan no
\ bond - hsad back; aud Il Il treads 81
80 squill flowef. il at once beconea
sas anEpid; therefore foxes take ears &