The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-14
JANUARY IA, 1905.
THE EVERY DAY SENSES
Animals Have the Five Faculties Developed Surprisingly
and Some More, Too.

Animals Have the Five Faculties Developed Surprisingly
and Some More, Too.
Chicago Record Herald.
Most people suppose mole to be dumb, but it is not
mole give shri that it hash It any effect
the human at all and another sound low and soft
that human hear it. Yet weasel hear
both these sounds plainly hear the report Of
gun, and sound-registering machine the phonauto-
graph will show BOTH with scores Of other sounds
deaf to. The usual of the mole purr
which it good deal while work under ground,
aarmed but tho it shouted and purred in your you
wouldn't hear it, The sound register however, with its
delicate pencil that marks the volume Of sound a
paper, gives the quality of both sounds
weasel too, which is of the mole's enemies, can
hear these sounds thru couple of inches of earth and
often catches the mole when he throws his hocks Of
EARTH The common field mouse, too, has purr that is
altogether beyond you, tho you hear him squeak
plainly enough if he is hurt death shead moth, too
squeak, but that is done by rubbing his wings
gether and is not voice at ALL But the champion Of all
creatures for good hearing and that hear
that is loo degrees beyond our own limit is the
common thrush, and you may often amuse yourself by
watching him at it. He hear lobworm moving
underground, locate him by the noise and haul him out
Often may thrush stand perfectly still your
lawn cock his and listen ntenty, then make couple
Of steps and haul out fat lobwom. Even the starng
which about the size of thrush cannot do this but he
knows the thrush and being disreputable person
with honesty, he follows the young thrushes
about in their hunts, and steals the from
them they caught. AS for the smells you
can SMELL they than those you can,
and if you want example, 60 your knees in field
where there partrdges and if you
inch from your
They have scent to you. But if you pointer
dog you may watch him canter field at full
speed and suddenly stop if shot, tail oustretched and
body rigid in the air, all because he caught the
scent of covey of birds yards waited to him
by the wind. he, and most other dogs WE'LL smell
lark far partridge But if you choose you
make yourself smell so cent better by wettng you.
finger and drawing it under your With dampened
nostrsike the dog-you will detect scents that did
not reach you before Coming to the feeling you cannot
feel, perhaps it is well they You
feel gnat settle your skin but not lake nudge,
fifty Of them, and you cannot feel their bite
tho they stick quverful Of and files into you-till
the irritation begins
But watch of those midges light horses
fank-tho they do not weigh the 5O000th of drachm
and you will the horse give his whole skin twist,
round about where the nudge is and try to shake it off
Even tho he has shaggy coat, he feel that nudge
aght Besides these limits to your every day senses,
however, there several which you have not at
ALL but which plenty of other creatures have One is the
of weather. You cannot tell by except
newspaper reports what the weather will be the day after
tomorrow but animals for they carry natural barom
eters in their brains When FROST for instance, has
lasted week two, and all the meadows bound up,
you will find insectfeeding birds that have gone to the
mud banks Of estuares moving back in focks to the
fields thirty hours before the first signs Of thaw.