Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1882 — Sagacity of Animals. [ARTICLE]

Sagacity of Animals.

An Icelandic traveler tells a story of six or more mice taking a piece of dried mud, placing berries upon it and using it as a raft to cross a stream. They range themselves round the edge, their heads in the middle, mid their tails in the stream to serve as rudders. They carry potatoes or eggs on land by one lying down and holding it between his fore paws while his companions draw him along by the cars. Mr. George J. Romanes tells the story of a dog in Scotland, who, in going to church with his master had to swim a channel a mile wide. If the tide was flowing he ran north a mile; if ebbing south an equal distance, always landing at a point near the church. But then we arc prepared to believe anything concerning a dog. A bride at Portland, Me., was incensed at her husband’s conduct in playing croquet with other young ladies, and emptied seven chambers of a revolver at his fleeing figure. He has not since been seen. A gold watch has been plowed up on the battle-field at Chickamaugua, and with slight repairs Will be * good time-keeper again.