Telegram-herald., 1889-06-01
The AMI NAL KINGDOM.
PASSIONS. Requirements and Emoions
Easily Detected by study.


The physical expressions which the AMI
mails employ 10 manifest their passions, re
quirements, distresses and emotions, are
precisely similar 10 mans, observes awrlter
in Forest and Stream. They caress with
their lips and limbs, show resentment by
facial distortion, bites and kicks, and fear
b. IA tremor; they leap with JOY, loll with
thirst, lag with fatigue, and attack for re
yenge and reprlsal Even fishes, with their
poor deficient bodies, are able 10 manifest
many mental operations in manner intel
hgble 10 man well as 10 each other.
There is no end 10 authenticated instances
OF animal sagacity, indicating premcdita-
ton, plan, purpose, sense OF duty, prudence,
gratitude, method, judgment. Animals
memorize They cherish malice, they dream
in their sleep, they can count, they have
sense of injustice, a consciousness Of error,
and notions of forgiveness and reparation.
l 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,
forsooth. Now some men get vexed il they
are no readily understood. Did the horse
show temper-this noble animal whom Job
represents as imbued with the spirit OF the
tempesti Did he even resent the outrage.
Not by retaliation, although he plainly indi
Gated his keen sense Of this indignity.
What may we suppose his emotions 10 have
been at treatment so regardless and unpro-
vokedi Yet he presently forgave all. Do
not say that he forgot, for at all times
afterward he shrank with apprehension
when his master approached oh the gen
tleness, forbearance and ong-sufering OF
brutes, who ofttimes grleve in silonce-
complaint.
Animals mediate. Dogs have been seen
TO sit in III of abstraction, so that no one
could engage their attention, and presently
start off with an impetus which showed
there was mental impulse behind il. That
was keen sense Of finesse displayed by
the Newfoundland dog at seaside resort
when he pushed little children off the pier
so that he could jump in magnanimously
TO the rescue, and thereby obtain the re
ward Of handful of candy which he an
ticlpated the grateful parents would be-
stow. He repeated.the trick so often that
he fell into suspicion and disgrace, but his
method showed not only a conception of the
efficacy OF vlrtuOus act and its logical
recompense, but the advantage Of decep-
tion when successfully practced. A crow
which know OF slammed hunger habitu-
ally, so as TO obtain more food, which he
invariably carried of 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 latch-key in
the hall door from any other persons, aud
few to meet him with demonstrations oA
ioy as soon as he entered the house. He
never made mistake. A sagacious mas
tiff always pulled the door-bell when be de
sired TO enter. A parrot in New Orleans
seemed TO answer questions cstegoricslly,
and recognized different persons, calling
them By name. The intelligence OF insects
is. perhaps, even more wonderful Fishes
exhibit remarkable saCacity, which has
been made the theme Of writers for two
thousand years.