Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-12-11

into blind pouches considerable dimensions These
tiles have nothing do with smelling because they lined with
reflection of negumen but they may possibly
in mechanically dending the external the and
thus materially facilitate respiration during violent They
also brought into when the animal negh lower
of the no towards the edge may be the mouth
small tube which conveys the from the
of the eye opens the skin just before joins
lining membrane of the This little cavity
taken by unqualified persons ulcer ganderou
affections the poor has frequently fallen victim to the
"Their eyes large in proportion
quadpeds and the pupr opening is of obae elliptic
with long parallel increasing
field of vision Round the edges the pupil curious fringe of
deep emnence supposed be seeabe in absorb
ing the superintendent light which the
eye The horses sight excellent and although regarded
nocturnal ANIMAL he distinguish objects night with fac
N There but few horsemen who have benefited by this
power when the shades night have fallen around them
THE comparatively small but the conch is endowed
with extensive motion catch the sound coming any
quarter Their hearing quick and although blindness sodsuct
lively prevalent among horses deafness exceedingly uncommon
During sleep usually directed the other
ward when march night company has been noticed,
that those in the front direct their forward those in the
backward and those the them aeray the
whole troop seeming thus be actaed by feeling which
watches the general safety In speed the gener
ally laid backwards offer opposition the rapid progress
the animal 1t must be evdenthat the ohese
organs be presented forward they would gather the wind and
slightly impede progression.
The different vocal artculation which the horse gives
collectively termed neghing; but variety
ton may be discovered the expression its passions
stance, the cry joy recognition differs markedly that
desire and anger from payuness The females do neigh
frequently with such force the males For this is
that predatory and ware tribes prefer being
adapted from their silence for surprises accommodating Castra
ton known have modulatng effect the voice NJ Her
supposes neghng be produced by the vibration
small triangular membranes found extremity the CLOTHS
The intellectual character the horse scarcely exceed by
that of any quaruped His perceptions are remarkably clear
kindness prominent his character The which
he is often taught perform evine high intellectual capacity
Travellers the desert that horses possess the faculty
directing their the when hard pressed for that
necessary article
Horses with the greatest facility, the they
have been known perform the expectation
wrecked
m to land, and its life
There important differences in the economy
OF the equine family and other hbvoous animals which, the in
them consequence necessary briefly
notice The horse naturally requires but little Sleep
that often takes standing In state of nature when fodder
support itself properly compelled Craze twenty
hours out CT twenyOur. Illuminating animals with greater
apdty and lie down chew the cud The horse
than diges
in the horse purely herbivorou animal
under the restraint which domescation imposes his habits be-
changed and grain and dry grasses the principal
originate many
tally unknown natural state but appears have the effect
augmenng the muscular the animal far beyond its uncu
vated extent.
"Horses twenty years old
the least humanity has been bestowed their management Ec
pse died the age OF wentyfve Flying Chlders twenysx
Burns mare Maggie attained than years Bucph
as the celebrated horse OF Alexander OF Macedon lived till hr
The natural is probably between twenty-five and thirty
years faint and guide found in the register of the
ages celebrated racing stations ecOectng however,
that several of them destroyed becoming useless for the
poses the The united ages ninety these horses
amounted thousand and five years rather better than
twenty one and half years each horse