Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-11
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
Passions, Requirements, Dlstresses and Emo.
tions Alike Easily Detected by Study.


Forest and Stream.
The physical expressions which the ami
mails employ to manifest their passions
requirements, distresses and emotions,
are precisely similar to mans. They
caress with their lips and limbs, show
resentment by facial distortion, bites and
kicks, and fear by a tremor; they leap
with joy, loll with thirst, lag with
fatigue, and attack for revenge and
reprisal. Even fishes, with their poor de-
feient bodies, are able to manifet MANY
mental operations in manner intel
ligible to man as we'll as to each other
There is no ind to authenticated instances
of animal sagaeity, indicating premedi-
tation, plan, purpose, 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,
a consciousness of error, and notions of
forgiveness and reparation have seen
a brute of a man requIte the clumsy
caress Of his horse by a humping blow on
the nose. His supreme intelligence did
not comprehend the animals action
forsooth. Now some men get
yexed if they are not readily
understood. Did the horse show
temper-this noble animal whom Job
represents as imbued with the spirit of
the tempest? Did he even resent the
outrage? Not by retaliation, although
he plainly indicated his keen sense of the
indignity. What may we suppose his
emotions to have been at the treatment
so regardless and unprovoked? Yet he
presently forgave all. Do not say that
he forgot, for at all times afterward ne
shrank with apprehension when his mas
ter approached Oh, the gentleness,
forbearance and long suffering of the
brutes, who oft-times grieve in silence
speeches. and unable to utter protest or
complaint.
Animals mediate. Dogs have been
seen to sit in fit of abstraction, so that
no one could engage their attention. and
presently start off with an impetus which
showed there was mental impulse be-
hind it 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 reward of a hand
full of candy which he anticipated the
grateful parents would bestow He re-
into suspicion and disgrace, but
mis- methods showed not only
conception of the efficacy of a virtuous
act and its logical recompense, but the
advantage Of deception when successfully
practieed. A crow which l know of
slammed hunger habitually, so as to
obtain more food, which he invariably
carried off and hid in wall, and then
came back for more. In this way he
accumulated large hordes of prOvender.
A certain Java sparrow was able to dis
tinguish the click of its master s
latch key i'll the hall door from any
other person Is, and flew to meet him with
demonstrations Of JOY as soon as he ell
tered the house. He never made mis-
take. A sagacious mastiff always pulled
the door bell when he desired to enter. a
parrot i'll New Orleans seemed to answer
questions categorically, and recognized
different persons, calling them by name.
The intelligence of insects is perhaps even
more wonderful. Fishes exhibit remark
able sagacity, which has been made the
theme of writers for 1000 years.