Year: 1866

50 says lady who has tried it.


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The Intelligence of Brutes.


From "The Harmonies of Nature" an
interesting volume just published by the
Appleious, we extract the following para.
graphs Cd the intelligence of animals:


As the napmala are mans nearest rela-
tious in physical point of view, they are
also endowed with an intelligence superior
to that of the other animals, and not seldom
prompting them to actions which seem
rather to belong to the sphere of reason
than to that Of brute instinct. The chin
panzee, for instance, will lock and unlock
door or drawer, will thread any needles
and cannot be taken in by the same thing
twice


A dog in monastery, perceiving that the
monks received their meals by rappiug at a
buttery door, contrived to do so likewise,
and when the allowance was pushed through
and the door shut, ran off with it. This
was repeated till the theft was detected.


Another dog, belonging to Mr. Taylor,
clergyman who lived at Cotton, near VOL
sely Bridge, was accused of killing many
sheep. Complaints were made to his mas"
ter, who asserted that the thing was impos-
sible, because he was muzzled every night.
The neighbors persisted in the charge, the
dog one night was watched, and be was seen
to draw bis neck out of the muzzle, then
to go into field and eat as much of
sheep as satisfied his appetite He next
went into the river to wash his mouth, and
returned afterward to his kennel, put his
head into the muzzle again, and lay very
quietly down to sleep.


Mr.. Moreland, a surgeon in Paris, had
taken into his house the dog of friend
which had broken its leg, and good natu-
redly cured it. Some time after the dog
scratched at the door of Mr.. Morelaud's
study, and, on being admitted, introduced
another dog to whom some accident had
happened, and who could hardly crawl a.
long after his guide. The first dog plainly
showed by his caresses what he wanted,
and the surgeon admiring his sagacity, took
charge of his protege and cured him like
wise.


As the elephant surpasses all that breathes
on dry land in bulk and muscular power,
bis mental faculties also assign to him one
of the first places in the animal creation
When tanned be becomes the most gentle
and obedient of all domestic quadrupeds,
and In most cases is exceedingly fond of his
keeper, and soon learns to distinguish the
various tones of the human voice as express
sive of anger appreciation or command.
His strength is rendered doubly serviceable
to man by the intelligence he evinces in its
use He will load boat with amazing
dexterity, carefully keeping all the articles
dry and disposiug them where they ought
to be placed In propelliug wheel carria.
ges heavily laden up dec'ivity, he pushes
them forward with his forehead and supports
them with his knees.


In Ceylon, where the elephants are fire.
quently employed in dragging and piling
felled timber, they manifest an Intelligence
and dexterity which is surprising to stran
ger because the sameness of the operation
enables them to go on for hours, disposing
of log after log, almost without hint or
directions from their overseers. Sir E
Tenneut mentions two elephants thus em
ployed in the yards attached to commissariat
stores at Columbo, who accomplished their
work with equal precision and with greater
rapidity than if it had been accomplished
by dock laborers. When the pile attained
a certain height, and they we're no longer
able by their coDjoint efforts to raise one of
the heavy logs of ebony to the summit,
they had been taught to lean two pieces
against the heap, up the inclined plain of
which they gently rolled the remaining logs
and placed them trinity on the top


MANUFACTURING TO show unmistaka-
bly, the importance of devoting more atten
tion to cotton manufacturing at the South,
it is only necessary to refer to the immense