The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1901, Page 2

" £ ¥ o As Sloanes, Gonlds e s = £ and lit fla ¥ 2 h n 1 - » th f the room e ' r the g » 3 42y ber r .-jl Ehe e S w s were J red D000 009090900 0000000009000 00009009 3 ANIMALS TP AT WEEP WHEN : 3 : < THEIR FEELINGS ARE HURT - : L e S I S PP :.a...:‘.......q,_,_,r_- painful, are disfiguring to the fine at with which their box adorned taste of the giraffe 1e disfigurement il cannot bear the s points yet lachrymal duct of the provocation. When v openg on r endowed with a si s have & - - stag is st & so been seen to weep o . G On sikabidng bk y frightened eves of w e s fo also afflicted, when alarmed, he o S with @ nervous chattering of the teeth, . be 3 : r which Very much like the ‘nervous chill” which o human beings sometimes have under sim- . ym its mother IAT circumstar have been be streaming from its Flephants, in captivity " 1 known to weep inc by elephants with little grace. All extitement % grief and o5 LTS of that case. Op &re restless most of the time, and some i other calves, under similar NeVer cease to shed-tears cir es, the fact came out that all When an elephant has been unsuccess- . ful in an attempt to escape it seems his not look to the bear Spirit is forever after downcast. Keepers v % o shed tears, how- Of elephants under these clrcumstances = sions are rare on bave found that the poor brutes cry most ~ ¥ observed to indulge Of the time, t v the fact has been Elephants have always exhibited very y: human tralts; but this one of crying ¥ on the near approach of death, brings them closer to the human family weep coplously. Thelr whole being seems than any other attribute. An elephant 1o be shaken with sorrow. They weep si- weeps practically for the same cause bear is dying it lies on which would make a man weep. On set- e mouth open, and the ting the animals free, which has been tes pour freely from the eyes. done for experiment, tear shedding im- soment of death it gives vent mediately ceases and the animal returns 105t hruman sobs, #0 its cheerfulness of dlsposition. On re. wounded, especially if the wound be slight in its nature. On deeply wounding an elk no tears are ob- | servable. It is the smarting superficial | exed an ape | especially if he is unable to re- | santly. Captivity is | ) turning to captivity it again begins to weep. When seals are tormented they weep and bellow in a way which expresses that they are in distress. They do not exhibit any vengeful feelings, like the ape. Their weeping is sad and appeals to the hearer with great force. While conducting the weeping experiments on seals the French savants were often deeply touched by the piteous pleadings of the animals. Some remarkable facts have been ob- served with regard to the dolphin. This fish, as is well known, chahges all its colors when dying, but that phenomenon THE SUNDAY CALL “THIS TIME ANMNA KNOCKED IT NEARLY OUT OF H1j HAND MAXIMILIAN LICHTENSTEIN-KOEV! PHOTO ©Y BUSHHELL offf © 18 not all; it weeps profusely. Just at the moment of death it sighs as if In great The sighing of the dolphin is not like the gasping for breath of other fish. It is deeply drawn and has almost human ————— “It's always dangerous to jump at con- clusions,” sald the careful man. liable to make yourself ridiculous, to say . “That's right,” replied the Jersey com- muter; “I jumped at the conclusion of a ferry-boat once, and missed it.”—New York Weeklv, ' > Goulds he thought, bed It was after awakened. tably ‘A message for you,” he heard breaking | in upon a dream of nocturnes and sona- proved to be from Mr Gould. Music was wanted immediate! at the hotel. “Th most disgusting,” he protested while getting into his clothes He could not go unt | correc tas. The mes d the mustache, che, curved to was br the de a nicety Then he Hestened. He was altogether displegsed at being awakened from the ate, subtle sleep which an artist needs, but he felt | it best to hasten. When be readhed the hotel he found that he was expected in its theatery Here he found a small party impatiently wait- ing for him. “Hurry up,” t dance." They hurried him almost off his trim little feet, and he wenton a trot to his place and struck up before he had gotten his bearings between A and G. Only the Gould family was present, and the little Count. This was during Bonl’s courtship and he was almost as good as one of the family already, although he had not yet made himself thoroughly at home with the family bank account. “A waltz,” Anna cried. “No, that isn’t lively enough. A two-step—hurry up—a two-step.” The little Hungarian was so confuseq that he wavered between a schottische and a polka, but the party didn't seem to notice the difference. They danced a variation of a Sunday picnic two-step angq were well pleased. The variation grew, before long, to he ey cried. “We want to ight when he was | |1y o the artistic hair | evident that a select group of the Four Hu ellane gaz his mouth the premier se cried | that George lev ah e was >t the n sob Astor was king. Be ed they had a slig it was seen Mr. and Mrs. S cook and coachmar looked beau were t orches about th tra as I wi: t Maximilian er was look- f Prince Al- Duchess Marle ese people, grandfather?” se are the Belgian heirs,” replied the professor.—Chicago Tribune. R+ 90000067 000i00 600000000000 000000ebeQ . HE PROVED HOW LONG A . TOAD LIVES DITREROUT HAIR ° Boiosiededededesded s s inclae within to t common bell can live without alr. Toads frequently been fou in trunks of trees, and have ofte heen found by miners deeply imbedded In strata of coal. With a view to ascertal ng just how do not re- , late pro- ord, recept- ents, u was the notion that quire air, the Rev. W. Buckl fessor in the Untversity of O de some teresting exper! He first secured a large block of coarse oolitic limestone and prepared twelve cir- cular cells in it, each about one foot deep and five inches in diameter, and having a groove or shoulder at its upper margin so fixed as to receive a circular plate of glass and a circular piece of slate to protect the g the margin of this double cover was shut up tightly, o as to render it perfect- ly impenetrable to air and water. He then prepared twelve smaller cells, each six inches In depth by five in s In diam- eter, in a large block of silicious sand- stone, these cells also being covered with gl and slate and fluted around with soft clay. The object of the glass covers was to allow the toads to be seen without having to remove the lids and thus let In air and insects. The limestone was porous and was not impervious to water, and prob- ably allowed air to get in also. The sand- stone, however, was very compact. One live toad was then placed In each cell, the covers were placed on and ce- mented down. The weight of each toad was carefully ascertained by two physi- ‘cians, the smaliest of the toads being found to weigh 115 grains and the largest 1185 grains. The large and small toads were distributed equally between the lime- stone and the sandstone cells. Both stones were then burfed under three feet of earth. After thirteen months nearly the real thing, and ‘finally it wax | had elapsed the professor exhumed the LR An ok 2 toads and foun ry one of those ells was dead. Thelr v lacomposed, they must have been dead for months. A majority of the larger toads in the block of limestone were altve, in every instance the glass covers e cracked. The toads were welghed, and 1t was nd that No. 1 had decreased from 92¢ ! No. 5, from 1185 to 723 9 had Increased from %3 sects had got in- de, so that the toad had found plenty ot food. In the case of the other t wo toads, hile th while th P of glass was not crackes the clay had fallen off and had left an aperture, The con at which the professor arrived were these: That toads ca live a year totally excluded fro pheric alr, and vears when th food. of course they ¢ deprived of Four toads were also placed in a block of plaster of paris in cells f deep and five tnches In dlamet end of one year the toads near: face were alive, the other two professor cor inches icluded from this that plaster of paris is porous and admits air ‘When a miner or a farmer finds a toad in a piece of coal or In a tree he naturally Pays more attention to the toad than to the cavity, and as no examination is ever made until the toad is discovered b breaking the mass in which it Is contai —Wwhen it is too late to ascertain with g cision whether the cavity was alr tight no satisfactory results coud be obtain The professor’s experiments, howev er, re- move all doubt as to the remarkable vital- ity of toads. Some toads placed In a spectally pre- pared cavity of an apple tree by the pr fessor at the same time were all found te be dead at the expiration of a yeam