Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-05-23
TIE ANIMAL WORLD.

oao empioy 70 menlIest their pAs
saons. requirements. distreeses ans
emotions. are precisely similar :.
mans. They caress with their lipl
and limbs, show resentment by facial
distortion, bites and kicks, and fear
by q tremor; they leap with JOY, loll
with thirst. lag with fatigue, and at.
tack for revenge and reprisal. Even
fishes. with their poor deficient bodies,
are able to manifest many mental op.
erations in q manner intslligibls to
man as well ss.to each other. There
is no end 10 authenticated instances
of animal sagacity, indicating pre-.
meditation. plan. purposes, sense Of
duty. prudence. gratitude. method.
Judgment. Animals memorize. They
cherish malice, they dream in their
sleep. they can count. they have a
sense of injustice. consciousness Of
error, and notions Of forgiveness and
reparation.
Animals mediate. Dogs have been
seen to sit in fit of abstraction, so
that no one could engage their atten.-
ton, and presently start off with an
impetus which showed there was a
mental impulse behind it. That was
a keen sense of 6nesse displayed by
the Newfoundland dog at a seaside
resort. when he pushed little children
off the pier SO that he could jump in
magnanipously to the rescue, and
thereby 6btain the reward of a hand.
full 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 concep.
tion of the efficacy of vir:uous act
and its logical recompsnse, but the
advantage Of deception when success.
fully practiced. A crow slammed
hunger habitually 90 as to obtain more
food, which he invariably carried of
and hid in wall, and then came back
for more. In this way he accumula.
ted large hordes of provender. A
certain Java sparrow was abls to dis
tinguish the click of its masters latch
key in the hall door from any other
persons. and few to meet him with
demonstrations of joy as soon as he
entered the house. He n YER made a
mistake. A parrot in New Orleans
seemed to answer questions categori.
cally, and recognized different persons
calling them by name. The intelli-
gsnce Of insects is even more wonder.
ful. Fishes exhibit remarkable saeac.
ity, which has been made tine theme
OF writers for two Thousand years.
MR. ALIENS MULE.
Il see. said representative Allen,
OF Mississippi, that Senator Hampton
has been telling about crow he owns
that can talk, and Senator Vest tells
of dog that can black boots and i'm
itate Methodist exhorter. Now, I
have mule on my place in Mississip.
pi whose favorite amusement is to 20
IN swimming with the boys; and
would you believe it, he can swim on
his back and dive headforemost like
fish. Yes. sir, he has dived at least
thirty feet and come up with his head
all covered with mud.
"That mule can counterfeit almost
any wind instrument. There is a fer.
ry man who has shot at him several
times. The ferry man has horn on
the opposite side of the river for trav-
ellers TO blow whenever they want to
come over. The mule caught on to
the racket. and whenever he gets
chance he goes down to the river and
brays like horn blowing. On foggy
days the ferry man cannot zee across
the.riyer, aud he doesn't know wheth-
er IL is the mule or a traveller. He
told me the other day that last wear
he PULLED his boat over sixty times in
answer to that "blessed long. cared
mule" as he termed it.
"On my farm ! have q large bell
with rope attached to ring up the
hands at day break. An old colored
man used to attend to this duty, but
one day about two years ago he sud.
denly died. The next morning eyery-
body was astouished to hear the bell
ring at the usual hour. went out
to see who was ringing it. and I hope
| may never get back to Mississippi
if it was not that mule. Yes, sir, and
that mule has been ringing that bell
ever since at daybreak every morning..
Not only that but he csnters down
between the negro quarters just as
the old man used to do to see that
everybody gets out on time. The old
man had way Of kicking on the door
Of hand who did not move out brisk-