The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-23
STRANGE TRAITS OF ANIMALS

Do dogs hate butchers? This question
xas debated in IN extended manner . num-
(bsr Of years ago in Nature. and the general
consensus Of opinion was. to put it mildly,
That there was want Of confidence exhibit
I'D on the part Of dogs In their intimacy
with butchers In general. Tho sight Ct
beef displayed on the tenter-hooks could,
however, not have been distasteful to the
Hog. II must have been the man in charge
Eof the ribs and briskets who WAS anti-aym-
pathetic to the dog. Reasoning it out, a.
would Prof. Romanes, it could not have
been primarily the particular smell Of the
butcher which was distasteful to tho ami
NAL. as association Of the man with kicks
|hnd cudgelings freely bestowed in checking
certain kleptomaniac impulses Of the dog.
\ chickens breast and milk and sponge
lake fed lapdog would have turned up its
bose at honest beef and the shambles, but
b normal dog would not have. been indifer-
,nt to the Establishments Of the hesher.
There are some very original and pathetic
he dog held in holy horror certain individ-
rals who's terrible calling it was to traffic
"a dog skins. have sometimes thought
hat the lugubrious ballad of the dog skin
lealer has yet to be written. Say he is
omlng into some mediaeval town with his
pack Of dog skins on his back. Then the
lrst lounRing street dog eyes the stranger
sorrid load the peddler carries. Then
campering off he imparts his conviction to
dog friend. Then the two track the man,
erity the facts, more dogs come up, they
ct in oonsort, bay and yelp and hound the
hanic-stricken man out of the town.
Il il 90 easy to construct your modern
acts in accordance with ancient legends.
he verification of the data Of to-day, and
10 there 10 that story of Actmon torn to
Pteces by his own hounds, which fable
night be 60 dovetailed as to make the
:u4ter the first dealer in dog-skins, and
pat would upset the legend that it was the
fengeful Artemis who 80 made away with
her assumptions lover. Sweet Una, how
een assorted to her story. A rat, q beaver,
squirrel, as rodents. become exceedingly
uncomfortable when they have nothing to
Enaw on. Il they cannot use their Rouge-
ke teeth, these grow to abnormal lengths.
our canary-bird, with no chance to wear
ut his claws, would be very much obliged
you il You would occasionally pare off q
alte OF his horny toes. Una's particular
ION, with elongated claws, ought to have
sen grateful # the young woman had
Ripped them. Feeling, az do. kindly dis
psed toward Una, and wishing by no means
dlminish the originality Of the charming
Fory, 1t might be we'll to remember that
lany of the larger animals are indebted to
eaker creatures for bodily comforts.
The African buffalo would lead an I'M
Apply life if it were not for kind of crow,
no frees the huge animal Of ticks, and
lore than that, stands guard over his four
voted friend and announces the coming of
@emX, II Is not 30 Yong aGo that q
DRY 81 Father Herodotus WIS revived and
redited, which tells Of tiny t:xds perching
the head and Jaws of Nilotic erocodiles,
allowing the huge saurians Of leeches and
Arasites.
Suppose Una had clipped the lions claws,
ow would she have managed it? What is
lion but colossal cat, and if catnip de-
gifts cat, might not something else paci-
Or mollify lionY I do not mean to say
hat the late Rev. j. g. Wood. the natural
Eve he did, but he told his son, the Rev.
theodore Wood, how he managed SO as to
At on social footing with lions and tigers,
to be at least le bien venu in menage.
:ee, where carn.vores are ut home. The
sturalist was in the habit of making ball
paper, sprinkling it with lavender water,
hsed to grow wild in their exuberant de-
Rht. They would grasp the ball with both
Are-paws, hold it close to their nostrils,' y
I'D he concludes by saying that the animals
ways aftarward remembered him, and
semed to expect more perfumed paper
alls.
There is very useful French book called
The Method Of Verifying Dates" One
hitch, alas! can never be written, ought to
entitled THE Act Of Verifying Facts. 81
ne verifcation. however, Of the printed OF
boken assertion il simplicity itself. Try
from Lavender asa Animal Tanner,
Barnet Phillips, in Harper's Weekly.