Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — The Survival of Ear Wagging. [ARTICLE]

The Survival of Ear Wagging.

Darwin says that the ear-wagging characteristic is the survival of a power once possessed in common by both men and the lower animals, but he does not even hint that the accidental crossing of two muscles or cords and their subsequent adherence to each other in such a manner as to make the movement of one impossible without that of the other would or should in any manner affect the intellectual faculties or moral status of their owner. Slater says that but comparatively few persons possess the power to wag the ears, but Prof. Aaron has proven that the majority of men “will exhibit a slight instinctive movement of the muscles of the ear” if the remark, “What was that noise?” is suddenly pronounced in their presence.—[St. Louis Republic. The Pennsylvania Company gets its ties from West Virginia.