Arizona silver belt., 1888-04-14
TIE FIGHTING PROPENSITY.
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 Men and animals are born with a pro- pensitv to fight. Is there in the whole range of the animal creation one animal that does not fight, if it has sense enough and powers of .Iocomotion?
 Oysters and clans cannot fight. If their organ of combativenessi is not want ing, they have no use for it. Lobsters ficht and are wonderfully voracious. They even devour each other, and may be said to eat themselves; for, changing their shell and stomach every year, these remains arc generally the first morsel to glut their new system. The life of all fishes is one of perpetual warfare. The carnage of the sea exceeds that on dry land. Bees fight savagely, both in swarms and singly. Two bees, having a quarrel, go ont armed with their deadly stings-more formidable than ten inch Bowie knivcs-go out Of the hive and fight duel. Ants fight with great ferocity. Armies of ants meet other armies in deadly battle and cover the field with killed and wounded. They also fight duels. This is the case with many other insects. Spiders not only fight, but eat each other like human can- nibals From the elephant to the mouse the quadrupeds fight, even the gentlest, under sufficient provocation.
 Cats swear and spit at each other, fur pulling and blood letting being their great delight. A long time ago, one summer night, all the cats in the city and county of Kilkenny were absent from their homes, and the next morning plain near the city was strewed with thousands of slain cats. and it was supposed that almost all the cats ill Ireland joined in the fight, as was shown by collars on the necks of some of the dead bearing the names of places ill all quarters of Ireland. There are men alive who knew persons, since dead, who actually inspected the field.
 A monkey has been known to whip large bulldog. We believe the whole monkey tribe as it approaches humanity increases in pugnacity.
 Most all birds, from the ostrich to the humming bird, are fighters. The male ostrich frequently administers chastise- ment to the female by kicking her heartily around the paddock until she is under control. Whenever it happens that two humming birds meet among the flowers they signal the encounter with shrill war cry, and dash at each other in fierce antag- onism. For an instant they close together, then give each other chase, and with the speed of meteors are lost to view. Shortly after the return of one alone announces that the victory has been quick and de cisive. Diminutive as are the puny sprites, they are heavily charged with combativeness. The entire race are pug nacious and quarrelsome, imprudently assaulting each other and birds of much greater size. Even the hawk is not safe from their attacks, and has been seen whipped by them, So excessive is the pugnacity which characterizes the game cock that broods scarcely feathered are occasionally found to have reduced them selves to utter blindness by their com bats. When two game cocks meet they have way of crouching and ''pointing" at each other; then they advance with heads erect and fury in every movement, fly at ono another, each endeavoring to drive his spur into the head or breast of his adversary. In heraldry the cock is the emblem of strife, of haughtiness, of Qllarrels and of victory.
 As to man--do we not know that his history is a history of war? In the sav- age state tribes are in continual warfare. In barbarous nations these fierce contests are prosecuted on larger scale, How seldom were the tribes of Greece at peace! How seldom closed the doors of the tenn ple of Janus in ancient Romei Read the history of modern nations, and how ire quent are the wars, how brief the inter vals of peace! It is estimated that nearly 1000, 900, 900 of human beings have per ished in the battles which man has waged against nis fellow creatuTe-man; but there is .carcely battle of the last three centuries which can at all rival i'll de- structiveness many ancient struggles.
 From rough calculation taken from the returns of those left dead on the fields of battle in which Napoleon commanded, from Mentonotte to Waterloo, we find the amount 1,611, ,500. The Crinean war caused the destruction of 784, 900 lives; the war ill Italy in 1857, 45,000; in Schleswig- $500; our own war, 800, 900; the Prussian and Austrian war, 45.OOO; the war in Mexico and China by the English and French, 65,OOO, and the Prussian and French war, 100, 900 "a grand total between 1853 and 1880 of 1850, 900 lives.
 What do people not fight and quarrel about? Is there anything that has not been the germ of a ''row!' Nothing under the sun, we believe, from pin to a new baby's name. There was Euro pean contest of twelve years arising out of the mischance of a politician having spilled a cup of coffee on the silk gown of one Mrs. Narsham, who was sort of genteel waiting maid to Queen Anne, with very great influence over the not very sensible mind of her majesty. In moment of irritation-and a spoiled bro cade would try any woman's temper she gave advice, which her royal mis- tress followed, contrary to the pacific predilections of the awkward coffee spiller, and the result was the involv- ment of England in long and costly war. Troy Times.