Connecticut western news., 1889-09-04
RATHER PECULIAR.
FUNNY FACTS ABOUT DETERRENT
 ANIMALS.
Why Red fingers the OK Tribe--0dd
 Stories.

tribe is because red is the complement tary color of green, and the eyes of oxen, being long fixed upon the green herbage while feeding, when they espy' anything red it impresses their sight with greatly increased intensi- ty. The same effect is doubtless pro- duced upon all grazing animals by red color, but oxen, being more pug nacious than others, show greater excitement, and often attack that which surprises them.
 All animals which chew the cud have eleven feet.
 Sheep have no teeth in the upper jaw. In some parts of the world there are sheep that have most of their fat in their tails. These tails weigh so much that they have to be tied on small carts, which the sheep draw after them when they walk. The carts are made of flat boards on two wheels. The fat of the tail is very soft, and is used as butter.
 Whalebone is found in the mouth of the whalebone whale, where it forms the substitute for teeth, of which otherwise the animal is destitute.
 In the hottest climates the animals are found most to approach man; those in each great geological division pos sess the organization the most complex and the faculties most developed; while in the polar regions are found only beings occupying a rank but little elevated in the geological series. The apes, for example, are limited to the hottest parts of the two continents; it is the same with parrots among birds; the crocodile and tortoise among rep tiles, and with land crabs among the crustacea-all animals the most perfect in their respective classes.
 The owl has no motion in the eye, the globe of white is immovably fixed in it's socket by strong elastic, hard, cartilaginous case, in the form of truncated cone; but in order to com pensate for this absence of motion in the eye, it is able to turn it's head round in almost a complete circle with out moving it's body.
 There is no country in which the ra- ven is not found native. The margin of the desert, of the jungle or of the forest, in the hottest climates; the heights of alternate cliff and copse in temperate climates, or the rocks and heaths, and even the. ichen-clad mar gins of the inhabited regions near the poles, are all equally its abode.
 Both mandibles of the parrots beak are movable, but most birds are able to move only one.
 The stork is partial to kittens as an article of food, and finds them an easy and wholesome prey; and the cats reciprocate by love for young storks.
 The frog, owing to it's peculiar structure, cannot breathe with the mouth open; and if it were forcibly kept open, the animal would die of suffocation.
 Fishes swallow their food hastily and without mastication, because they are obliged unceasingly to open and close the jaws for the purpose of res piration, and cannot long retain food in the mouth when quite shut.
 Persons turn pale when effected by fear because the respiration and the afnux of arterial blood are diminished.
 The ticking of watch may be heard distinctly when it is placed against the teeth, because sound is capable of be- ing produced by the vibration of solid bodies without the intervention of the atmosphere, and in this instance the sound is conveyed from the teeth through the bones of the face and head to the auditory nerves.
 The eyes of hares are never closed, as they are unprovided with the eye lids. Instead thereof, they have thin membrane, which covers the eye when asleep, and probably also when at rest. This membrane folds like curtain in the corner of the eye, and by an in- stantaneous action flies back when sight is required, and leaves the eye imme- diately and fully open for the exercise of sight.
 Pigs are poor swimmers, their fore legs being set closely under them, and when they sometimes fall into the water they cut their throats with the sharp points of their cloven feet. The horse has no eyebrows. The appearance of much white in the eye of horse indicates vicious nature, because high-tempered horse looks constantly about, apprehensive of danger, or desiring to do mischief. The quick motion of the eyeball in opposite directions exposes an unusu- ally large surface of white, which thus becomes an evidence of the temper of the animal.
 The lump on the back of the drome- diary is an accumulation of a peculiar species of fat, which is store of nour- | ishmant henaficentlv nrOvided aUainst the day of want, to which the animal is often exposed. The dromedary or