The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-04
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
Some Don'ts For Every Day-Horses
That Can Count--Her Old
Rubber Doll.


the ceiling. 1t may amuse you to see
the paper boy swinging up there, but
It seldom amuses the teacher, and she
may make you get up on a stepladder
an hour after school is out and all the
other fellows have been having a good
game of baseball
Don't foolishly think that all small
girls are only worth teasing. Small
girls very often grow to be big ones,
and they may get right back at you.
They have wonderful memory for
just the things you want forgotten
Don't yell at the policeman Just to
annoy him and then run. No one likes
to be disturbed when they are asleep
or resting, and you may need the po-
iIceman's friendship in week.
Don't try to fool your father, There
is a great deal in heredity, and there is
every reason to believe that your ia
Their could give you a large handicap
and beat you at your own game.
Don't try to look innocent when you
have been caught in some mischief at
school. The combination is not a good
one, and there are some teachers who
add Is minutes after school to the orig
inal punishment for just this sort of
thing.
Don't ever forget that your mother is
the best woman in the world and that
her good name is much too good to
fight for You can honor her much bet
ter by refusing to be mean and de-
ceitful.
Don't brag. If you have had square
set to with another fellow and got the
best of it, just try to forget 1T. The
"other fellow" often grows strone
and Dragging never helps mans mus
Gle.
Don't tease your older sister You
really can't afford to. She knows too
much about you if she wants to tell,
and if she isn't that kind of a girl, then
she deserves the very best treatment
you can give her.
Don't take mean advantage Of your
size. This is a crime that boys won't
stand for, and a bully" always gets
his just deserts even If 1t Is sometimes
long in coming.
Don't forget that a gentlemanly boy
is sure to be the most popular fellow
on the playground, as well as In the
reception room There is no better hab-
it to get into than that of being gentle
manly at all times.-New York Herald.
Eyes are popularity considered to be
quite necessary to sight, but this is an
error, if we are to believe DIR. Nagel, a
recent German experimenter. Many
creatures without eyes can see; at least
they can distinguish perfectly well be-
tween light and darkness, and even be-
tween different degrees of light. This is
the lowest degree of seeing, to be sure,
but still it is really sight and differs
scarcely more from the vision of some
insects that possess eyes than this does
from our own clear sight.
Creatures that see without eyes see
by means of their skins. All skins, says
DR.. Nagel, are potential eyes, that is,
they are sensitive to light. In animals
that have eyes the sensitiveness has
been rightly located and greatly in
creased, so that man, for instance, has
a retina very sensitive to light and an
expanse of ordinary skin which pos
sesses a sensitiveness to light SO slight
that it is hardly conscious of it. Yet his
skin is sensitive in some degree as is
proved by the fact that it sunburns-
that is light may cause disturbance
in the pigment of the skin just as it
does in that of the eve
But in many eyeless creatures the
lack of eyes is in part made up by in
creased sensitiveness of the whole skin
surface to light. Darwin long ago no.
ticed that earthworms, although they
have no eyes, will suddenly withdraw
into their holes at the approach of a
lighted candle. Some creatures seem
most sensitive to sudden increase of
light others to sudden diminution. If
a number of oysters kept in vessel to-
gether are found to be open, they will
shut all at once if dark object comes
between them and the light Another
bivalve called psammodia has long
whitish tubes, which protrude from the
sand in which it lies buried. If these
are suddenly illuminated, they con-
tract, and the brighter the light the
greater the contraction. If number of
them be carried into direct sunlight,
they hasten to bury themselves in the
sand, or, if there is no sand, they move
restlessly to and fro in the water until
they are exhausted Boston Journal
Horses That Count.
Russian doctor has spent a great
sleal of time finding out how much ami
mails can count and has found that
horses can count more numbers than
any other animals. He has found that
q parrot can count four, a cat six,
crows 10 and some few dogs 20. But
lie found horses that could count more
than this. One would plow across q
field 20 times and would then stop and
rest, but it never stopped at 10 or 81.
Always just 20. Another horse always
counted the miles along the road by
the white mile posts that Were set up,
and stopped every % miles, as it had
been taught to do, to be fed Another
one was always fed when the town
clock struck II. When the clock struck
IL, it would lift up its head and listen,
but when the bell had stopped would
again droop its ears But when the
clock struck II it always neighed