FRIENDLY ANIMALS. ODD FRIENDSHIPS THAT DUMB ' CREATURES CONTRACT. Xlories unit liiva FiJetniently llecnme In tlmnta Queer Tat That Cnnlnri ' DUplay In Chnonlng Companion, ftnme llemarkaUla Caw. Tlie jinrtlrnlnr frli-mlslitps ocriHon . ally formed by nninml nmnng tlictn selves are clinrnrtrrizeil. )y the virtni-J and fnilinp: Incident to lmmntj nttncli merits. Vc nro freqnriitly JiMmnded ol mnn's elfifliiip? and inconstniicy in tlit vrnyn of the lirito creation, nor is it peculiar to iiiiininls that they unmHImr enter into nllianres of ft rnrion kind. Naturally emmiri:. limwa often make friends and couirmVs ntnnng their own race, as dog do still nftenev, but n clout friendship and nnderstandinif between horses and do(S is apparently more fre quent than any similar rolationshir between the individuals of tho saint species. Perhaps the most remarkablt attnehments are those shown by animal! thrown together by enforced circum stances and separated from others ol their kind. Horses liavo a positive dread of soli tude, and when this happens to be un avoidable will mako friends of tlio most tuilikely creatnres. Tho hours which a carefully tended favorite passes in his box are often relieved by tho companion ship of the stable cat, which the nobler quadruped speedily adopts as its own, and to which it often becomes genuinely attached. The abei;co of tho cat is at onco remarked by the borne, who mani Ifesta impatience, r.ml plainly asks for the restoration of its favorite. Ouo of tho iT.nr.er in tho Derby, a colt named (luleopMs, had for somo time before tho race shown symptoms of distress and niiisines. nmounting to positive melancholy, and not attributa ble to any physical i'iiukc. A ffoat and kid wero procured and judiciously in troduced to tho stable, the result beinn thus described by an eyewitness: "(ia loopsis seemed to take much interest in them Tintil tiin j;oat died: bnt tho kid re mains, and the liorso now vastly diverts himself by lifting tho little creature np by the back of its neck with its teeth, putting it down in tho manner, careful ly placing it on the ground again after awhilo, and then repeating tho opera tion." There is an interesting record of the strange dislike entertained by a pony for a particular horse with which it was brought into daily contact, and the ex traordinary friendship formed by it for a calf in the samo meadow. The pony and efflf became inseparable, show ing their mutual regard in many divert ing ways, greatly to the annoyance of tho calfs mother, who not unnaturally fivinced tho utmost jealousy ami resent ment. Gilbert White relates bow a horse, und hen, spending much of their timo together in a lonely orchard, also becamo tho fastest of friends: "Tho fowl would approach tho horsn with notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his legs, while the horse would look down with satisfaction, and move with tho greatest caution and cir cumspection lest ho should tramplo on his diminutive, companion." Dogs liavo so much larger n share of personal liberty than horses or cattle that their friendships obviously lie more at their own disposal. Cut notwith standing thin fact they constantly mako friends of the most "unlikely birds'" and tr the most inexplicable reasons. No doubt somo temporary alliances are formed for. tho attainment of n particu lar object, not always of a creditublo kind. Attachments hetweeu members of the same race are of course common, but attract the less notice on account of their obvious reasonableness. Dogs, howover, ore greatly addicted to queer company, and constantly go out of their way In quest of It. The numerous friendships formed between dogs and geese, and even poultry In genoral are quite remarkublo. It is not generally recognized that the goose is a bird of ex traordinary sagacity it has even been described us of great intellectual capaci tyand thin mutual regard of fur and feather may proceed on nn understand ing that overrides lliedistiuctioiiHof race. The species of gyoso known as the "gray lag" is especially remarkable for its strong and frequent attachments to tlm dog. Ouo that was rescued by a mastiff from the insidious attack, of a. fox showed a consciousness of its obliga tions and a desire to return them that were touching in their obvious feeling. The goose entirely abandoned the soci lety of its kind, roosted in the dog's ken nel and followed it in its duily wander ings over a large farm and through the neighboring village. The dog happen ing to fall ill the goose would not leave him night or day, and wonld to all ap pearance have been starved had not a pan of corn been placed for it every day near the kennel. The French naturalist Houzeua also relates how a Chinese goose made friends with a dog at first sight, uttering threats of vengeance against any person or an imal offering to interfere with its favor ite, in whose occasional absence it was Inconsolable. Dogs and fowls also enter Into amicable relations for reasons much teas apparent to oulookers than to them selves. A hen and a retriever became so strongly attached that the former laid her eggs and hatched her chickens in his kennel, an interesting observer remarking how, on the hen leaving or entering her nest, the dog would move from the threshold to make way, while any attempt to touch the eggs in the ab sence of the hen was met by his imme diate dlspprobatiou. Another remarkable friendship grew cp between a spaniel and a young cock, which was for some reason perfectly os tracised by his fellows and not allowed to feed with the other poultry in the farmyard. The spaniel was constantly observed keeping the fowls away, in or djr thai its persecuted friend might ob tain food, the cockerel obviously reoog r'ng and reciprocating the good wUl r own by its four footed proteotor. I -.138 CUndard. THE ABSENTMIefDEO WOMAN. avcral Ars;otnnt lrtr That fce Is Not, m Fears, Iuim A lady who hastened to explain that she is "not a drinking woman," that she is "not addicted to the nse of drugs," in short that she has no habits that would tend to impair the intellect, cites an ex perience that has caused lier much dis quietude. Briefly told and In her own language, she "went down town and forgot to put on either hat or bonnet." This bit of mental aberration lias so haunted, worried and generally upset her that she appeals for relief some thing In the nature of citation of similar cases that may convince her that she I not a glaring exception to the world i sensible people and that her performance is not to be taken as An indicatioa that sho is losing her mind. It ought to lio the easiest thing in th" world to convince this needlessly nla rul ed lady that in the light of the many and notable examples of mental lapse her experience is rather a pleasantly distinguishing characteristic and not terrifying malady. If she has followed the daily papers or lias read the floating bits of biography she must have noted the ninny strange stories of great men and women remarkable for their absent mindedness. In fact, the preoccupation of the mind has led people into many absurd experiences and has made them the subjects of many oft told justs. But nobody would think for a moment of accusing such people of n marked tendency toward insanity or of intimat ing that tho brain was softening. The explanation would be that the mind is so concentrated on what happens to be occupying it at the moment that all other things are subordinated. For ex ample, people wrapped in thought will be carried lieyond their railway KtutiuiL will walk several blocks out of theit way, will even pass their own door. A further interesting and consoling thought is the fact that the profoundesl thinkers afford tho most numerous illus trations of abseiitmindeilness. Heidi lists, literary men, college professors, lawyers in short, nil classes of people who nro of a studious profession art noted for such eccentricities. Tho wise professor, with his head crammed full of the inspiration of t lie study, is the butt of the students and the practical folk that enjoy the bewilderment into which his preoccupation leads him. Professor Sophocles, of Harvard univer sity, was iv man of this kind. Professot Snell, of Amherst, was another. Pri fessor Walter Houghton, the historian, is a third. It is related of Professor Houghton that in leaving his room tc pass down a long corridor ami thence to the street he invariably raised his um brella unconscious of tho smiles of the amused spectators. Samuel T. (ilover, for many years the bright ornament of the St. Louis bar. was notoriously absentminded. lie would enter a restaurant, order n luncheon and fall into a brown study over n law case. After the luncheon hud been served ho would pick tip the cheek, pay tho cashier and walk out, leaving the food untouched, entirely un mindful of the fact that his Htoiiiach wnf still unsatisfied. Mr. Beechcr has related stories in which thought preoccupation has played him pranks, mid has laughed ns heartily as anybody over the misfor tunes. In view of tin thousands of experi ences that might be cited in evidence n( the extent of iibsentiuiudediiess, it wonld apM ur that the lady who pranced down town bereft of her bonnet has no reason to fear that sho is also to be bereft of bet reason. A thousand Blooniiugdalc could not accommodate the lunatics in her stage of disease. New York World. A rrlniltlve Klieltiir. While attached to a military expe dition against the Sioux in Wyoming, in 1877, 1 saw those Indians construct at the various camps we made what I take to be the most primitive form of house built by human hands. It was simply iv shelter, or tepee ns they called it. mado with tho green boughs cut from the cottonwood trees. Without any especial pre paration of the ground, they implanted the cnt ends of tho limbs in two parallel rows about eight feet long and fivo feet apart. Tho tops were adroitly bent over the inclosed spaco and fastened together along the middlo line, thus creuting a seuiiryliudrical sheltet open at bulh ends. These tepees were merely iuteudeft for two or three men tc sleep in, all the Vooking and other ar rangements being performed outside. R. W. Bhufeldt. M. D., In Popular Sci ence Monthly. Clever Pnga. Notwithstanding the doubtful state ment of Leibnitx that hto heard a shep herd's dog utter no fewer than thirty words, it may be assorted that nc quadruped lias been tuught to talk any lunguuge spoken by man. Certain learned dogs have been taught a kind of speech. But tliia consists merely of differentiated tones of the bark. Pro fessor Beneden, of the University ol Louvain, had a dog which could ac company with his voice a tolerably complicated air played on the piano. Another dog, belonging to a different man, could sing in unison an air c "La Favorita" when a contralto friend gave him the keynote. Atlanta Con stitution. 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