Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-21
TRAITS OF ANIMALS.
Dogs Have no Condolences I'm Butche org.
Other Interesting Facts.

Other Interestina Facts.
Do dogs hate butchersp This ques-
tion was debated In an extended man
her Il number of years ago in Ma
t0re, and the general consensus of
opinion was to put 1t mildly, tina;
thore was want of confidence exhibited
on the part of dogs In their intimacy
withSbutchers in general. The sight
of beef displayed on the tenter-hooks
could, however not have been distastc-
full to the dog. 1t must have been the
who was anti-sympathetc to the dog.
Reasoning it out, as would Professor
Romanes, it could not have been
primarily the particular smell of the
butcher which was distasteful to the
animal. rs association Of the man with
kicks and cudgellings freely bestowed
In checking certain kleptomaniac i'm
pulses natural to the dog. A chickens
breast and milk and sponge-cake fed
lapdog would have turned up its nose
at honest beef and the smambles, but II
normal dog would not have been in
different to tho Establishments Of tho
nesher.
There are some very original and pm
thetio stories due to Pierquin. He In
sisted that the dog held in holy horror
certain individuals whose terrible call
ing It was to traffic in dog-skins. have
sometimes thought that the lugubrious
ballad of the dog-skin dealer has yet to
be written. Say he is coming into
some medieval town with his pack of
dog-skins on his back. Then the first
lounging street dog eyes the stranger
over, and shifting assures himself of
the horrible load the peddlcr carries.
Then scampering OF he imparts his
conviction to u dog friend. Then the
two track the man. verify the facts,
more dogs come up, they act in con-
sort. bay and yelp and hound the
panic-stricken man out of tho town.
1t is so easy to construct your mod
ern facts in accordance with ancient
legends. 1t really does not make so
much matter as to the veriicatlon of
the data of to-day. and so there is that
story of Act@on torn to pieces by his
own hounds, which fable might be SO
dovetailed as to make the hunter the
first dealer In dog-skins. and that
would upset the legend that it was the
vengeful Artemis who so made away
with her presumptuous lover. Sweet
Una. how prettily nail-paring Incl
dent might have been assorted to her
story! A rat, a beaver. a squirrel, as
rodents, become exceedingly uncom-
Portable when they have nothing to
gnaw on. If they cannot use their
gouge-like teeth, those grow to abb
normal lengths. Your canary-bird.
with no chance to wear out his claws.
would be very much obliged to you if
you would occasionally pare off mite
of his horny toes. Unn's particular
lion, with elongated claws, ought to
have been grateful if the young wo-
man had clipped them. Feeling, as l
do. kindly disposed toward Una, and
wishing by no means to diminish the
originality of the charming story it
might be we'll to remember that many
of the larger animals are indebted to
weaker creatures for bodily comforts.
The Afr lean buffalo would lead an
unhappy life if it were not for kind
crow, who frees the huge animal of
ticks, and more than that, stands guard
ONti has lIIcuNl. anu I'LL
nounces the coming of an enemy. 1t
is not SO long ago that II story of Fa-
Their Herodotus was revived aud cred
tied, which tells of tiny birds perching
on the head and jaws of Nilotic croco-
dies, relieving the huge saurians of
leeches and parasites.
Suppose Una had clipped the lions
claws. how would she have managed
ftp What is lion but II colossal cat,
and If catnip delights cat. might not
something else pacify or mollify q
lion? do not mean to say that the
late Rev. j. G. Wood. the naturalist.
solved the Una mystery. do not be-
lieve he did. but no told his son. the
Rev. Theodore Wood. how he man
aged so rs to get on social footing
with lions aud tigers, or to be ut least
le bien venm In mcnngcrics, where car
nivores are at home.
The naturalist was in tho habit of
making ball of paper. sprinkling It
with lavcnder-water. and throwing it
to the animals. They used to yrow
wild In their exuberant delight. They
would grasp the ball with both fore
paws. hold it close to their nostrils."
and he concludes by saving that the
animals always afterward remembered
him. and seemed TO expect more per-
fumed paper balls.-Barnet Paitkps, in