Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-10
ANIMALS, STRANGE TRAITS.
Naturalists Still Puzzled over Many q
Their Mysterious Habits.


Naturalists still Puzzled Over Many OF
Their Mysterious Habits.
DO dogs hate butehers2 Teis question
was debated in an extended manner a
number of years ago in Nature, and the
general coneensus of opinion was. to put it
mildly, that there was want Of 15hfidence
exhibited on the part of dogs in their init
macy with butchers in general The sight
Of beef displayed on thetenter hooks could,
however, not have been distasteful to the
dog 1t must have been the man in charge
of the ribs and briskets who was anti
sympathetic to the dog.
Reasoning il out, as would Professor
Romanes it could not have been primarily
the particular smell of the butcher which
was distasteful to the ani-sial us associa-
ton Of the man with kicks and cudgel
ings freely bestowed in checking certain
kleptomaniac impulses natural to the dog
a chicken ; breast nJi-inilk-and-sponge
cake-fed lap dog would have turned up its
nose at honest roast beef and the SHAMELESS
but normal dog would not have been
Indifferent TO the Establishments of tho
llesher
There are some very original and pathet
ic stories due to Pierquin lie insisted
that the dog held in holy horror certain in
dviduals whose terrible calling it was to
traffic in dogskins. | have sometimes
Thought that the lugubrions ballad of the
dogskin dealer has yet to be written. Say
he is coming into some medieval town
with his pack of degskins on his back
Then the first lounging street dog eyes the
stranger over, and shifting assures himself
of the horrid load the peddler carries
Then scampering off he imparts his con
viction to dog friend Then the two
track the man, verify the facts, more dogs
come up, they act in eonsort, bay and yelp
and hound the panic stricken man out OF
the town.
II is so easy to construct your modern
facts in accordance with ancient legends
1t really does not make so much matter rs
to the verifcation of the data of today,
and so there is that story of ActRon torn
to pieces by his own hounds, which fable
might be so dovetailed AS to make the
hunter the first dealer in dogskins, and that
would upset the legend that it was the
vengeful Artemis who so made away with
her presumptuous lover Sweet Una, how
prettily q nail pairing incident might have
been assorted to her story. A rat, a bea
yer, squirrel, us rodents, become exceed
ingly uncomfortable when they have moth
ing to gnaw ON. If they cannot use their
gouge like teeth these grow to abnormal
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 Una's
particular lion, with elongated claws,
ought to have been grateful if the young
woman had clipped them. Feeling, as
do kindly disposed toward Una, and wish
ing by no means to diminish the originality
of the charming story, it might be well to
remember that mango the larger animals
are indebted to weaker creatures for bodily
comforts.
The African buffalo would lead kind of
unhappy life if it were not for kind Of
crow who frees the huge animal of tikcs,
and, more than that, stands guard over his.
four footed friend and announces the
coming of an enemy. 1t is not so long
ago that IA story of Father Herodotus was
revived and credited which tells of tiny
birds perching on the head and jaws OF
Nilotic crocodiles, relieving the huge
saurians of lceches and parasites.
Suppose Una had clipped the lions claws,
how would she have managed itP What is
a lion but colossal cat, and if catnip de-
lights a Cat might not something else pac
fly or mollify II lion? do not mean to say
that the late Rev. j. G. Wood the natural
list, solved the Una mystery. do not be
lieve he did, but he told his son, the Rev
Theodore Wood, how he managed so as
to get on II social footing with lions and
tigers or to be ut least 10 bien venu in
menageries where Carnivores are at home
The naturalist was in the habit of making
II ball of paper, sprinkling it with lavender
water and throwing it to the animals
They used to grow wild in their exuber
mt delight. They would grasp tho ball
with both fore paws, hold it close to their
nostrils," and he concludes by saying that
The animals always afterward remembered
him and seemed to expect more perfumcd
paper balls Phillips in Harper's