The Red Cloud chief., 1892-06-10
FACTS ABOUT The ANT.
Osns Specimens u the Wonderful Intelli
gence Of the Little Insect.

Bono Specimens ~ the Wonderful 1ntellb
gsnce Of the Little Insect.
The remarkable intelligence Of this
little animal has excited tho wonder
and admiration of mankind. Darwin
remarked that It's brain ''is one Of the
most marvellous atoms Of matter In the
world, perhaps more SO than the brain
Of man."
To test the power Of memory in the
ant Sir John Lubbock first tried keep
ing an n away from It's nest for more
than a year and then restoring II. He
found that it was Immediately rccog-
nized and caressed by its old friends
and associates. He repeated this ex-
pertinent a number Of times, and with
the same result. In order to deceive the
ants in the nest a foreigner was intro
duced in place Of the one taken away,
but tho ants Immediately detected the
deception and severely maltreated the
intruder.
On the duration Of memory in ants We
have the following observation of Mr..
Belt, quoted by Mr.. Romanes: In June,
1859, Mr.. Belts garden was invaded by
~leaf-eating ants. He found their nest
about one hundred yards distant from
his garden, and poured down their bur
rows a pint Of common brown carbolio
acid mixed with four buckets Of water.
"The marauding parties were ct once
drawn off from the garden to meet the
danger Mt home, and the whole formi.
carium was d~isorganized, the ants rum
ming up and down again In the utmost
p~crplexity."
Next day Mr.. Belt found them bnsily
employed bringing up the ant food from
the old burrows and carrying It to new.
~ formed ones q few yards distant
These, however, turned out to be only
intended as temporary repositories; for
in o few days both tho old and the new
burrows were entirely deserted, 80 that
Mr.. Belt supposed all tho ants to have
died. Subsequently, however, he found
that they had migrated to q new site,
about 200 yards from the old one, and
there established themselves In . new
nest.
Twelve months later tho animals
again invaded his garden, and again he
treated them to q strong,dose of carbolic
acid. The ants, as on the previous oc.
c~asion, were at onco withdrawn from
the garden, and two days afterward he
found oil the survivors at work on one
track that led directly to the old nest OF
the year before, where they were busily
employed in making fresh excavations.
Many were bringing along pieces OF
"ant food" from the nest most recently
delugcd with carbolio acid to thai
which had been similarly deluged q
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bolic acid had long ago disappeared.
"Others carried the undeveloped white
pupp and larvm. It vas . wholesale
and entire migration" and the next day
tho nest down which he had poured
sarb Ole acid was entirely deserted.
Mr.. Belt adds: II afterward found
that when much disturbed and man
Of the ants destroyed, the . urvivors mi.
gratc to o new locality. I do not doubt
That some of tho leading minds In this
formicarium recollectsd the nest of the
year before and directed the migration
TO it."
On the duration Of memory IN ants
Mr.. Romanes further quotes from .
statement Of Karl Vogt that for sew
eral successive yea rs ants from q Ger
tain nest used to 60 through certain In
habited streets to . chemists shop six
hundred meters distant in order to OBJ
tain access to a vessel filed with strip.
"As it cannot be supposed that this
vessel was found in successive working
seasons by as many successive accidents
It can only be concluded that the ants
remembered the strip store from season
to ason.-Chambers' Journal.
An Everyday Dress.
Tho dress which, during the spring
days, and, indeed, almost the entire
summer, may be quoted asa good every.
day one, has a skirt Of blue and white,
brown and white, black and white, or
green and white check suiting, made in
short bell fashion, that Is, escaping
the ground all around, but still not
awkwardly short. With this will be
worn a percalc, pique, or linen shirt and
. cutaway jacket of lightweight cloth
the color that is In the check. A this
flares away from the front its lining Is
apt to be seen, and this should match
the skirt. A black silk or q leather belt
worn about the waist conceals the skirt
binding. A natty costume like this de-
mands that a hat, rather than bonnet,
be worn with it.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
-"Do you know what Jack Senior u
0oinQ to do when he praduates?~