Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1876 — Quick Ears, [ARTICLE]

Quick Ears,

It is sometimes surprising to see how animals learn to pick out the sound in which they take an interest from the thousand noises of the city. In Paris a man who goes about with cheap meal for the cats rings a bell as he approaches the house of % customer. Long before the members of the household detcßf the sound pussy will spring to the door, and with eager looks await the her benefactor; for, as she lias no ideas of trade, she can only look on the “ cat-meat man” as a true philanthropist. She eta always pick out his voice and tone amidst the turmoil of the busy street. A gentleman away in a Western Seaport was down on the wharf one day, when he saw a dog spring up and prance about in ' a very joyful manner. He could see no reason for the excitement; but a by-, stander explained: “ That is Mr. Fairy’s dog. He Is mate on board the Alexandria, and as soon as the dog hears the whistle of that boat he knows ft, tad goes for it.” Sure enough, the dog started off at full speed for the dock where the vessel stopped; and as soon as it touched the wharf he boarded it, and sprang to meet his beloved master. The owner of such a faithful dog ought certainly to be a good.mafi ter.. To most people the whistle of steamboat was much like another, tuft this shaggy fellow had learned the exact tone of the one lor which he watched and waited. It is still more Wonderful that dogs, and perhaps some other animals, seem to understand conversation sometimes, and act upon the hints they get in this way. A clever little fellow, who always liked to ride with folks, bat was often that np at home, was sitting in the breakfast-room one morning, when the family planned to go to town that day. “ Shall you go with the single or the doable team, father ?” asked one. “ With the double team,” was the re-, P Shortly after Dash disappeared, and nothing was seen of him until the party had got some * four miles on their way, when he meekly crawled out from under the hack seat, and wagged his tail in a way that seemed to say: “ Yon certainly can’t send me back, now I have got so ®far.” He seemed to know which sleigh to hide in, tad could only have learned from the conversation. — Lutheran Observer. Woman's Journal , in an article on “ Masculine Physiqttfe,” warns every woman in search onlt husband not to bestow a glance on the “ lean” man, but to “shun him es she would a pestilence.” Comforting teaching this to lean men.