The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-08

is that which remains awake longest,
 and to which the brain most readily responds. But in sound and heavy sleep hearing often suggests a long train of thought in dreams before the brain awakens to a sense of reality. In most
 sleeping animals its warning is instan-
 taneous, and the faculties obey the call for action with no apparent interval of inertia. A sleeping fox will rise, gallop
 off, and dodge the hounds with as much
 coolness and knowledge of the ground
 as if it had been surprised on the prowl
 with all its wits awake. It may have allowed the pack to approach fatally
 near; but when once reused it is who'll
 ly awake-not drowsy, bewildered, or
 confused.
 flares seem never to sleep; however closely they may lie in their forms, the eye is alert and vigilant. Stags sleep
 soundly when watched by their hinds.. But solitary stag, sleeping on hill- side, retains the two senses of hearing and scent in full vigor Deer-stalkers have discovered by experiment that the sleeping senses of the stag are sensi- tive up to a distance of at least two hundred yards on the windward side. Between the drowsy sleep of the noc- turnal animals and the Representative sleep of those which spend their life in constant fear of their enemies, a place must be found for the form of slumber enjoyed by the large carnivora, and that of domestic animals; the former have no enemies to- fear except man, and the latter protected by man, enjoy to the full the blessing of natural rest. Tigers are frequently found fast asleep in the daytime. Native hunters have been known to track them after "kill'' to the place in which they were lying fast asleep and gorged with food, and to shoot them as they lie. When taking its midday repose in districts where 1t is little disturbed, the tiger does not al- ways retire to a place of security like tn ebear, or even the leopard, which usually sleeps on the branch of tree, It just lies down in some convenient spot, either shady or warm, according to the weather, and there sleeps, all most regardless of danger. They have been found lying in dry nullahs, under trees, and even in the grass of the hill- sides, unobserved, until their disturber came within a few yards of them Gen. eral Douglas Hamilton, when shooting in the Dandilly forest, came upon q ti- gress and two cubs lying fast asleep on their backs, with their paws stick up in the air under a clump of bam- boos, When he was within a few yards of the group one cd its head, and, without moving it's body, quietly looked at him along the line of its body be- tween its paws.
 Dogs, which are at once the drowsiest and most wakeful of domestic animals, according to their state of mind and circumstances, seem to sleep lightly or heavily at will. Nothing can be more slow, reluctant, and leisurely than the enforced waking of a petted house-dog when it does not wish to be disturbed. It will remain deaf to a call, twltch its feet if ticlIled but not unclose it's eyes, and finally stretch and yawn like a sleepy child. But mention something to the same dog when sleep ing, such as the word walk" or click the lock of a gun, and it is on it's feet in an instant, and ready for enterprise Thus animals seem capable of three forms or degrees of sleep-one the deep stupor of the nocturnal creatures; a second the semi-human slumber of car nivorous and domesticated animals, which have a power of vigilance at and lastly, the vigilant sleep of the persecuted ruminant and rodent tribes. .--London Spectator