Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-08

III 4 l0hu VI StA tASNtS.
Nothing mysterious about that
remarked a British critic, "Coons,
he explains. are naturally great
rovers, nosing about and proving as
restless as hyenas and by simply
roaming in overwhelming circles, the
distracted eXiles soon came across
each others trail. The rest was stiIl
easier"
That explanation may really hold
good, and proving she-wolyes solve
more difficult problems any summer
day of the year. Where game is
scarce, as in the treeless uplauds "a
Syria, the mother of seven starving
whelps range all over and area with a
diameter u so or TO miles, but return
in bee line, alter conuiying to
break her fast.
The hounds have found their way
back to the kennels OF an eNpeu-
menter who had temporarily handl-
capped their faculty OF scent A
dimes worth of musk will do that ii
well ruled in with an oiled rag The
victim OF the procedure will rub his
nose on the ground every few mo
ments, but tail to break the spell OF
the drug, and for days after will be
able to hunt only by sight. A rabbit,
dashing into patch OF Woodlands
under such circumstances has effect
ed its escape tor that day. The
pursuer may try here and there,
staring about in a hapIess way, but
Will soon relinquish the Job in dis
gust.
Yet under the disadvantage of that
same prediCament kidnapped hound
will get back home as last as a
straight run OF 10 or u hours could
take him.
The sixth sense then, cannot be
a synonym of keen scent, nor has il
anything to do with sharp eyesight
There is an old-world species OF
migratory hawk ltalso porigrInus)
that follows swarms of smaller birds
on their way to the tropics-and over
takes them, too, in time for dinner,
but loses its appetite at sigh OF the
sea, and has been known to cross the
Mediterranean in a dense fog. \
trained specimen owned by Henry ~.
of France accomplished that feat
after having been sent as a present
to a friendly prince Of Morocco AT
home the bird could be trusted to
hang about as roosL all day, but the
moment the African opened its cage
it darted out and away and was back
home in IS hours, though the weather
had been damp and foggy all that
time. The French chronicle mentions
that meteorological circumstance, ana
both Christians and Moors suspected
that El Sneyton, the prince OF the air,
must have aided the deserter.
A we'll attested case of a giant
turtle returning to its Matching place
in st. Helena CATER being branded
and flung over board in the British
channel precludes all ordinary ex-
plantations OF "telepathy; the strange
instinct is clearly Independent of
our five senses, yet it is shared by
saVages, and now and then manifests
itself in civilized men
The poet-philosOpher, Goethe, in his
conversation with Prof. Eckermann,
related a memorable experience OF
his own that made him suspect the
existence of all sorts OF dormant and
soultaculties, more or less akin to
animal magnetism A few years
ate" his arrival at the court of
Welmar he made The acquaintance Of
a young widow who had renounced
the habit of matrimony and, indeed
of Irritation, but encouraged his
visits and shared his delight in
battling the spies of gossipdom
Finding her room beset with
relatives, one evening, he turned
Lack at the threshold, and, for nearly
an hour, wandered about in the dark.
then Getraced his steps and found
her home dark and deserted. He felt
greatly disappointed, and was on his
way to his own lodging when he sud
denly became conscious OF a present.
ment; nay, certainly, of finding his
friend turning into a certain street.
There was nothing of a preconcerted
rendezvous about it-he had never
seen her on that street, and at the
time could, in fact, not see anything,
the cross road lamps OF the poor
little city being train-oil fed and
shrouded with SCOT His reasons for
suspecting her outdoors at ali were
not very cogent, as she was in the
habit of spending her evenings with
female friends, unless he had met her
before a certain hour.
But, as one of his biographers oh.
serves, second sight impressions
take no account of first sight prob.
abilities" and the prOwling poet
turned into that side street under
an impulse so oyerruling' that he felt
pleased, rather than surprised, when
he really met his platonic inamorata,
who admitted that she had bceu
guided by a similar presentiment
The night was moonless. but that
very circumstance. by keeping normal
vison in allegiance, perhaps gave an
elder faculty a chance to assert itself,
as stars shine out more clearly in the
dark.
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