Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-08-24
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
Physical Expressions Employed by AM
mails to Manifest Their Feelings

AAIuANAA
mails to Manifest Their Feelings.
The physical expressions which the
animals employ to manifest their pas
sions, requirements, distress and emo
tions are precisely similar to mans
They caress with their lips and limbs,
show resentment by facial distortion
bites and kicks, and fear by q tremori
they leap with Joy. loll with thirst, lag
with fatigue, and attack for revenge
and reprisal. Even fishes, with their
poor, deficient bodies, are abbot mani
fest many mental operations in a man
nor Ineligible to man as we'll rs cach
other. There is no end to authentl-
Gated instances of animal .sagacity, III
dicating generalization, plan, purpose
sense Of duty, prudence, gratitude
method, judgment. Animals memorlze'
They cherish malice, they dream In
their sleep, they can count, they have
a sense of injustice, a conscious
ness of error, and notions of for
giveness and roparation. | have seen
n brute of a mar requito the clumsy
caress of his horse by a humping blow
on the nose. His supreme intelligence
did not comprehend the animals action,
iorsooth. Now some men get veXod it
they arc not readily understood. Did
this horse show tempor-this noble
animal whom Job represents as imbucd
with the spirit Of the tempest? Did ho
even resent tho outrage? Not by re-
taliation, although he plainly indicated
his keen sense of the i~ndignity. What
may we suppose his emotions to havo
been ut treatment so regardless and un-
provoked? Yet he presently forgavo
all. Do not say that he forgot, for at
all times afterward he shrank with APP
%prehcnsion when his master ap-
preached. Oh, tho gontlencss, for
b~earanco and long suffering Of the
brutos, who oftimcs grove in silence
spccchloss and unable to utter protest
or complaint.
Animals mediate. Dogs have been
seen to sit in u fit OF abstraction, so that
no one could engage their attention,
and presently start off with al impetus
which showed there was 4 mental i'm
pulse behind it. That was n keen
sense OF Gncsso displayed by the New
foundland dog at a seaside resort, when
he pushed tho little children off the
pier so that he could jump in magnani-
mously TO the rescue, and thereby OBJ
tain the reward OF a handful of candy
which he anticipated the grateful par
onts would bestow. He repeated the
trick so often hat he fell into suspicion
md disgrace, but his method showed
not only conception Of the efficacy OF a
yirtuous act and its logical rccompcn5e,
but tho advantage of deception when
successfully practiccd. A crow which
! know Of slammed hunger habitually,
so as to obtain more food, which he in
variably carried of and hid in Il wall,
and then came back for more. In this
way he accumulated large boards Of
proycnder. A certain Java sparrow
was able to distinguish tho click of its
masters latch-icy in the hall door
from any other persons and flew TO
meet him with demonstrations Of JOY
as o o as he entered the house. lie
never made II mistake. A sagacious
mastiif always pulled tho door.bcll
when he desired TO enter. A parrot in
New Orleans seemed TO answer qucs-
tions ca'cgorically, and recognized dlf-
fercnt persons, calling them by name.
Tho intelligence Of insects is, perhaps.
moro wonderful. Fishes exhibit
r markablo sogaci.y, which has been
made the theme Of writer's for two th.u-
sand years. Forest and Stream.