The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-08
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.


PASSIONS, Requirements ana Emotion.
Easily Detected by study.
The physical expressions which the mi.
mails employ TO manifest their passions, re
qurements, distrossas and emotions, mr.,
precisely similar 20 man's, observes a write.
III Forest aud Stream. They earcss wit,
thelr hps and limbs, show resentment b,
iacial distortion, bites and kicks, and feai
ny tremor; they leap with Joy, Ion with
thirst, lag with fatigue, aud attack for re
Venge and repusal Even fishes, with thoh
poor deficient bodies, are able to manifes
many mental operations in a manner intel
hgiole to man los &ell as to each other
There is no end to- authenticated instance
OF animal sagacitS indicating promedita
uon, plan, purpose, sen1sof duty, prudence
gratitude, method, Judgment. Animals
memorze. They cherish malice, they dream
IN their sleep, they can count, they have q
sense of injustice, a consciousness of error,
and notions of forgiveness and PREPARATION.
l have seen a brute of man requte the
clumsy caress Of his horse by humping
blow on the nose, His supreme intelligence
did not comprehend the animals action
lorsooth. Now some men get vexed il they
are no treadlly understood. Did the horse
show temper-this noble animal whom Job
represents as imbued with the spirit of the
tempests Did he even resent the outraged
Not by retaliation, although he plainly iudi-
Gated his keen sense of this indignity.
What may we suppose his emotions to have
been at treatment so regardless and unpro.
vokeds Yet he presently forgave all. DO
not say that he forgot, for at all times
atterward he shran1 with apprehension
when his master approached OH the gem
ueness, forbearaRce and long-suffering Of
brutes, who ofttimes grieve in silence
speeches. and unable to utter protest or
complaint.
Animals mediate. Dogs have been seen
to sit in u fit Of abstraction, so that no one
could engage their attention, and presently
start off with an impetus which showed
there was ii mental impulse behind it. That
was keen sense of finesse displayed by
the Newfoundland dog at seaside resort
when he pushed little children off the pieI
50 that he could jump in magnanimouslJ
20 the rescue, and thereby obtain the re-
ward of handful of candy which he an
liclpated the grateful parents would be
stow. He repeated the trick so often tina
he fell into suspicion and disgrace, but hi.
method showed not only a conception Of tht
efficacy of virtuous act and its logca
recompense, but the advantage of decep
ton when successfully practced. A CROW
which know of slammed hunger habitu
ally, so as to obtain more food, which h
invariably carried off and hid in a wall, ant
then came back for more. In this way h
accumulated large boards of provender. 1
certain Java sparrow was able to distiu
guish the click of its masters latch-key Il
she hall door from any other PERSONS, an
dew to meet him with demonstrations Q
Joy as soon as he entered the house. II
never made mistake. A sagacious mas
Gtf always pulled the door-bell when he de
sired to enter. A parrot in New Orlean
seemed to answer questions categorically
and recognized different persons, calm
them by name The intelligence of insect
is, perhaps, even more wonderful. Fishe
exhibit remarkable sagacity, which ha
been made the theme of writers for tw
thousand wears