The Dickinson press., 1889-03-16
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
Requirements and Emotions Alike Easily
Detected by Study.

Requirements and Emotions Alike Easily
Detected by Study.
The 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 a treinor
they leap with joy, Toll with thirst, lag with
fatigue, and attack for revenge and rcprisal
Even fishes, with their poor deficient bolies,
are able to manifest many mental operations
in a manner Ineligible to man as well as to
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 mcmorize. They cherish malice.
they dream in their sleep. they can count.
they have a sense of injustice, a CONSCIOUSNESS
of error, and notions Of forgiveness and
PREPARATION. | have seen a brute of Il
man requite the clumsy caress of
his horse by a humping blow on
the nose. His slprcme intelligence
did not comprehend the animals action, for
sooth. Now some men get vexed if they are
not readily understood. Did the horse show
t~emper-this noble animal whom Job repre-.
sents as imbued with the spirit of the tem.
pcsta Did he even resent the outraged Not
by retaliation, although no plainly indicated
his keen sense of the %indignity. What may
We suppose his emotions to have been at treat.
ment so regardless and ~unprovoked! Yet he
presently forgave all. Do not say that he
forgot, for at all times afterward he shranI
with apprehension when his master ap
preached. Oh, the gentleness, forbcaranct
and long suffering of the brutes, who oft.
times grieve in silence-speechless and unable
to utter protest or complaint.
Animals mediate Dogs nave been seen
to sit in u fit Of abstraction, so that no one
could engage their attention, and presently
start of with an impetus which showed there
WIS a mental impulse behind it. That was q
keen sense of finesse displayed by the New
foundland dog at a seaside resort. wher
he pushed little children off the pier 81
that lie could jump in ma%gnanimously to the
rescue, and thereby obtain tho reward of !;
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
q conception of the efficacy of a v%irtuous ac1
and its logical r%econpense, but the advan
tage of deception when successfully prac
ticed.
A crow which | know of slammed hunger
habitually, SO us to obtain more food. which
I've invariably carried off and hid in a wall
and then came back for moro. In this wa,
be accumulated large boards Of provender
A certain Java sparrow was able to distin
guish the click of its masters key in the hal
door from any other PERSONS, and flew t.
meet him with demonstrations Of joy as sool
us he entered tho house. He never made
mistake. Asagacious mastif always pulle'
tho door bell when he desired to enter. !
parrot in New Orleans seemed to answe
questions categorically, and recognized diff
ferent persons, calling them by name. TIL
intelligence of insects is perhaps even NOR
wonderful. Fishes exhibit remarkable sa
gacity, which has been made the theme g
writer's for two thousand years.-Forcst an
Stream.