Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-02-26
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
Requirements and Emotions Alike Easily
Detected by Study.

Detected by Study.
Tho physical expressions which the animals
employ to manifest their passions, require
ments distresses and emotions, are precisely
similar to mans They caress with their lips
and limbs, show resentment by facial distor-
ton, bites and kicks, and fear by tremor;
they leap with joy, loll with thirst, lag with
fatigue, and attack for revenge and reprisal
Even fishes with their poor deficient bodies,
are able to manifest many mental operations
in a manner ineligible to man as well as d
each other. There Is no end to authenticated
instances Of animal sagacity, indicating pre-
meditation, plan, purpose, sense of duty, pru-
dence, gratitude, method, judgment.
Animals memorize. They cherish malice,
they dream i'll their sleep, they can count,
they have sense of injustice, consciousness
Of error, and notions of forgiveness and
reparation. / have seen a brute of a
man requite the clumsy caress of
his horse by humping blow on
the nose. His supreme intelligence
did not comprehend the animals action for
sooth- Now some men get vexed if they are
not readily understood. Did the horse show
temper-this noble animal whom Job repre-
sents as imbued with the spirit of the tenn
pestl Did he even resent the outragea Not
by retaliation, although he plainly indicated
his keen sense Of the indignity What may
we suppose his emotions to have been at treat
ment so regardless and unprovokeda Yet be
presently forgave all. Do not say that be
forgot, for at all times afterward he shrank
with apprehension when his master ap-
preached Oh, the gentleneSs, forbearance
and long suffering of the brutes, who oft
times grieve In silence-speechless and unable
to utter protest or complaint.
Animals mediate Dogs have been seen
to sit in fit of abstraction 50 that no one
could engage their attention, and presently
start OH with an impetus which showed there
was mental impulse behind it, That was a
keen sense Of finesse displayed by the New
foundlAd dog at a seaside resort, when
he pushed little children off the pier so
that he could jump in magnaninously to the
rescue, and thereby obtain the reward of a
handful of candy which he anticipated the
grateful parents would bestow. He repeated
the trick SO often that he fell into suspicion
and disgrace, but his method showed not only
conception of the efficacy Of a virtuous act
and its logical recompense, but the advan-
tage Of deception when successfully prac-
ticed.
A crow which know Of slammed hunger,
habitually, so as to obtain more food, which
be invariably carried off and hid in a wall,
and then came back for more In this way
he accumulated large boards of provender.
A certain Java sparrow was able to distin-
guish the click of its masters key in the hall
door from any other persos's, and few to
meet him with demonstrations Of joy as soon
as he entered the house. He never made a
mistake. A sagacious mastif always pulled
the door bell when he desired to enter. A
parrot In New Orleans seemed to answer
Questions categorically, and recognized diff
fereut persons, calling them by name. This
intelligence Of insects is perhaps even more
wonderful Fishes exhibit remarkable sa-
gacity, which has been made the theme OF
writers for two thousand years. rs.-Forest and
Stream