The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
THEY MAKE SOUNDS
THAT YOU CAN'T HEAR
Many Animals Possess Far More Acute
Senses Than Man.

Most people suppose mole to be
dumb, but it is not says the Chicago
Record-Herald. "A mole can give a
sound so shrill that it hasn't any effect
on the human ear at all, and another,
sound so low and soft that no human be-
ing can hear it, Yet weasel can hear
both these sounds as plainly as you can
the report of gun. and a sound regis
tering machine, the sphonautograph, will
show them both, with scores of other
sounds you are deaf to-
The usual note Of the mole is low
purr, which it useshA Tgood zeal while at
work underground, ahd,Sit can also shout
at the top OF its voice. if hurt or alarmed:
but though it shouted and purred in your
lister, however. with IFS delicate pencil
that marks the volume Of sound on a pa
per. gives the quality of both sounds.
A weasel, too, which is one of the
through couple of sinches of earth, and
often catches the IAole9 when he throws
up his hillocks of earth. The common
held mouse. too. has purr that is alto
him squeak plainly enough if he is hurt
A deaths head moth, too, can squeak,
but that is done by rubbing his wings to-
gether, and IS not voice at all.t
But the champion of, all crea lures for
good hearing. and one that can hear a
sound that is over 100 degrees beyond oul
Onu 1liIlll. is Iu0 thrush. and Won
may often amuse yourself by watching
him at 1t. He can hear lobworm moving
underground, locate him by the noise ana
haul him out.
fectly still on your lawn, cock his ear and
listen intently, then make a couDle of
steps and haul out a fat lobworm Even
the starting, which is about the size of a
thrush, cannot do this but he knows the
thrush can, and being a disreputable per-
son with no common honesty. he follows
the young thrushes about on their worm
hunts, and steals the worms from Them
as soon as they are caught
AS for the smells you can't smell. thew
are more numerous than those you can
and If you want an example, go on your
knees In field where there are partridges
and see if you can smell them six or seven
yards away-or even a freshly dead one
an inch from your nose.
They have no scent to YOU But if Won
own a pointer dog you may watch him
canter across a field at full speed. and
sudaenly-Stop as If shot, tail outstretched
ana pody rigid, nose in the air, all be-
cause ne caught the scent of covey Of
BIRDS some yards away waited to him by
the wind. He-and most other dogs-can,
smell lark as far as a partridge
But If. you choose you can make vol1r-A
self smell so per cent better by Wetfine
your finger and drawing it under your
nose. With damp nostrils-like the dog
you will detect scents that did not reach
you before
Coming to the feelings you cannot feel
perhaps it is as well they are so numerous.
You can feel a gnat-settle on your skin,
but not lake nudge, nor fifty of them.
and you. cannot even feel their bite
though they stick quiverful of saws and
files into. Youth the irritation begins. -
But watch one of these midges light on
q horses no Sc. fank-7though they do not weight
10000 of dram-3nd you will see the
horse give his whole@slSin a twist. round
about where the midge is, and try to
shake 1T off. Even though he has a shaggy
n fpnl hot II
Besides these limits to your everyday
senses, however. there are several senses
which you haven't got at all, but which
plenty of other creatures have one is the
sense of weather. You cannot tell by any
sense-except newspaper reports.wfiat
the weather will be the day after tomor-
row. but animals cam for they carry nat
ural barometers IN theiE brains When
frost, for instance, has lasted week or
two. and all the meadows are bound up,
you win find insect feeding birds that
nave gone to the mudbanks of estuaries
moving. back in ffocks to the fields thirty
hours before the first sign of a thaw."