Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-07-29
RATHER PECULIAR.
FUNNY FACTS ABOUT DIFFERENT
ANIMALS.
Why Red Anglers the Ok Tribe--0dd
Stories.

oASh, ICING IoliS HAtu upon Tue green
herbage while feeding, when they
espy anything red it impresses their
sight with a greatly increased intensi-
ty. The same effect is doubtless pro-
duced upon all grazing animals by a
red color, but oxen, being more pug
nacious than others, show greater
excitement, and often attack that
which surprises them.
All animals which chew the cud
have cloven feet.
Sheep have no teeth in the upper
jaw. In some parts of the world there
are sheep that have most of their fat
in their tails. These tails weigh so
much that they have to be tied Oh small
carts, which the sheep draw after them
when they walk. The carts are made
of fiat boards on two wheels. The
fat of the tail is very soft, and is used
as butter.
Whalebone is found in the mouth of
the whalebone whale, where it forms
the substitute for teeth, of which
otherwise the animal is destitute.
In the hottest climates the animals
are found most to approach man those
i'll each great geological division pos
sess the organization the most complex
and the faculties most developed; ;
while i'll the polar regions are found
only beings occupying a rank but little
elevated in the geological series. The
apes, for example, are limited to the
hottest parts of the two continents; it
is the same with parrots among birds;
the crocodile and tortoise among rep
tiles, and with land crabs among the
crustacea-all animals the most perfect
in their respective classes.
The owl has no motion in the eye,
the globe of white is immovably fixed
in its socket by strong elastic, hard,
cartilagiDous case, in the form of a
truncated cone; but in order to COM
pensate for this absence of motion in
the eye, it is able to turn its head
round in almost complete circle with
out moving its body.
There is no country in which the ra-
ven is not found native. The margin
of the desert, of the jungle or of the
forest, in the hottest climates; the
heights of alternate cliff and copse in
temperate climates, or the rocks and
heaths, and even the Iichen-clad mar
gins of the inhabited regions near the
poles, are all equally its abode.
Both mandibles of the parrots beak
are movable, but most birds are able
to move only one.
The stork is partial to kittens as an
article of food, and finds them an easy
and wholesome prey; and the cats
reciprocate by a love for young storks.
The frog, owing to its peculiar
structure, cannot breathe with the
mouth open; and if it were forcibly
kept open, the animal would die of
suffocation.
Fishes swallow their food hastily
and without mastication, because they
are obliged increasingly to open and
aln 10 FOR tho Of
piration, and cannot long retain food
in the mouth when quite shut.
Persons turn pale when effected by
fear because the respiration and the
affiux of arterial blood are diminished.
The ticking of watch may be heard
distinctly when it is placed against the
teeth, because sound IS capable of be-
ing produced by the vibration of solid
bodies without the Intervention of the
atmosphere, and in this instance the
sound is conveyed from the teeth
through the bones of the face and
head to the auditory nerves.
The eyes of hares are never closed,
ds they are unprovided with the eve
lids. Instead thereof, they have thin
membrane, which covers the eye when
asleep, and probably also when at rest.
This membrane folds like a curtain in
the corner of the eye, and by an in
Simultaneous action flies back when sight
is required, and leaves the eye imme-
diately and fully open for the exercise
of sight.
Pigs are poor swimmers, their fore
Iegs being set closely under them, and
when they sometimes fall into the
water they cut their throats with the
sharp points of their cloven feet.
The horse has no eyebrows.
The appearance of much white in
the eye of horse indicates vicious
nature, because high-tempered horse
looks constantly about, apprehensive
of danger, or desiring to do mischief.
The quick motion of the eyeball in
directions exposes an unusu-
ally large surface of white, which thus
becomes an evidence of the temper of
the animal.
The lump ON the back of the drome-
dary is an accumulation of a peculiar
species of fat, which is store of nour-
ishment benefcently provided against
the day of want, to which the animal
is often exposed. The drcmedary or
camel can exist for long period upon
this lump without any sher food.
The deer is furnished with suppse-
mentary breathing places in addition
TO the nostrils, and this would appear
- be an extraordinary provision OF