The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-14
JANUARY "A, 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 shr that it hash It any effect
the human at ALL and another sound low and soft
that no human ear hear it. Yet weasel hear
gun, and soundregistering machine, the phonauto-
graph will show them both, with of other sounds
which it good deal while at work under ground,
and it also shout at the top of its voice hurt
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
paper, gives the quality of both sounds.
weasel, too, which is of the moles enemies,
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
plainly enough if he is hurt death shead moth, too,
squeak, but that is done by rubbing his wings TO-
creatures for good hearing and that can hear
sound that is 100 degrees beyond limit is the
common thrush, and you may often amuse yourself by
watching him at it. He can hear a lobworm moving
underground locate him by the noise and haul him out
Often thrush stand perfectly still
lawn cock his and listen ntenty, then make couple
Of steps and haul out fat lobworm Even the starting
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 soon they caught AS for the smells you
and if you want example, 60 knees in field
where there cartridges and if smell them
six yards away-or freshly dead
inch from your
They have no scent to you. But if you own pointer
dog you may watch him canter field at full
speed and suddenly stop if shot tail 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 as WE'LL can smell
lark far partridge But if you choose you
make yourself smell so per cent better by wetting your
finger and drawing it under your nose With dampened
nostris-ke the dogyou will detect scents that did
not reach you before Coming the feeling you cannot
feel, perhaps it is well they numerous. You
feel gnat settle your skin, but not lake nudge,
fifty of them, and you cannot feel their bite
tho they stick quiverful Of and files into youtl
the irritation begins.
But watch of those mdges light a horses
fank-tho they do not weigh the 5OO0Oth of drachm
and 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
alght 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 natural barom
eters in their brains. When FROST for instance, has
lasted week two and all the meadows bound up
you will find insectfeedng 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.