The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-05-17
DOGS OF GREATSAGACTTY
INSTANCES SHOWING THAT THEY
USED THEIR BRAINS,

tions of Reasoning Powers In Animals.
''The physical expressions which
inimals employ to manifest their pas
lions, requirements. distresses. and
emotions" said naturalist III the New
York Sun, ARE precisely similar to
mans $: They caress with their lips and
limbs; show resentment by facial dis
tortion, bites, and kicks, and fear by
tremor; they leap with joy, Toll with
thirst, lag with fatigue, and attack for
revenge and reprisals. Even fishes,
with their poor, deficient bodies, are
able to manifest many apparent mem
tai operations i'll manner intelligible
to man as well as to one another.
There is no end to the authentica-
ted instances of animal sagacity indi-
eating generalization, plan, purpose,
sense of duty, prudence, gratitude,
method, judgment. Animals memoir
ize. They cherish malice, they dream
In their sleep, they can count, they
have sense of injustice, conscious
ness of error, and notions of forgive
ness and reparation. Animals medi-
tate. Dogs have been seen to sit in
lit of such abstraction that no one
could engage their attention, and pre-
sently start off with an impetus that
showed plainly there was mental i'm
pulse behind it. A friend of mine had
setter dog so intelligent that at GER
tain hour every day he carried coin,
lnclosed in an envelope by his master,
to the butchers shop, deposited the
money on the counter, and got in re-
turn meat for his dinner. One day
the dogs master, being very busy, did
not put up the coin as usual, and the
dog, after aiting some time and seeing
chat there didn't seem to be any chance
of his getting his dinner, went away.
An hour or so later the butcher came
into my friends store and told him
that there was no money in the enve-
lope the dog had brought over that
day The dogs master informed the
|! butcher that he hadn't sent tie dog
with an envelope that day, and was
astonlshed to hear that the dog had
visited the butchers carrying an en-
velope as usual. The dog had put
down the envelope, got his meat and
scampered out of the store as if in n
great hurry, something he had never
done before. Every time before that
HS '"' piouSht IlcdU InUO Ills mas
ter's store and eaten it there. This
time he had not been seen since he
went away. His master looked him
up, and found him lying in. the grass
behind the store, and in response to
his masters call the dog came to him,
q most shame-faced looking animal.
his hanging head and dropping tail
betraying the guilty feeling he had.
The dog, having seen that his master
wasn't inclined that day to give him
his usual envelope inclosing the coin.
had picked up one somewhere about
the store, taken it over to the butch
er's, and, getting his meat, scampered
| away before the cheat could be dis
| covered. He knew he had done wrong
thing, and that if he took the meat to
the store as Inc had always done be-
fore he would be found out at once.
and when his master called him he
hadn't the face to try and hide his
guilt.
81 had Newfoundland dog O
that one day bravely rescued ci cot
from the water at n seaside reSSed
where [ was stopping. The act ,Ne'
rewarded by much carressing hmm
petting of the dog, and by his be
fed generously with candy, of wiz
he was extremely fond. This cea
after day or two, and then ono ~ =,
the news came to me that a little ,no
had fallen from the end of the pier of la
| that Ponto had rescued her. Acle Il
the dog became for time n great hN. '
and the best of boubons came az
This in turn became thing of Ina
past, and then, the very next week hd
! ell, So my 'ii"' lond
candy followed this third noble ,rr
md when they again ceased on5oner
couple of days passed before Pc our
had brought safely ashore anotmd
child that had tumbled into the wdrcd
from the pier. Now, it began :
strike me as something odd that Teri,
dog should happen TO he so Opt
timely present on these critical ot
| sion, and when he ceased being
! petted hero after this fourth life Ierk
ing effect / kept n sly eye on him. - Oh
pier was a favorite play spot for
children, although so many of IL
had fallen into the water, and one
j saw Ponto strolling down there
| Join them. / followed without ,ccry
knowing it. He mingled with
children, aud before long saw
deliberately, in apparent play, ed,
little boy toward the side of the
and actually pushed him of into
water. Then ne jumped in after
boy and easily carried him the 81
distance to the shore. The scoun
was actually making n practice Il,
tumbling children from the pier mt
magnanimously saving them, iusl Pc
receive the homage and praise -
sweetmeats of the grateful and al of
ing guests. I shipped this Jekyll y, sal
Hyde dog back TO New York that ,cy r.
lay. Now, il he hadn't reasoned, the
That sly business out and acted ON Use ''
conclusions, I don't know wha.o,c
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Cost Of the Paris Exposition. pas
Twenty millions Of dollars is the Pi
which the French Government ~
| poses to- devote to the Paris exhibh,;s
Of 1900. Nearly SO, 900, 900 will IRA
consumed by tho construction of from