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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Doggish Sympathy. A correspondent 

 of the London Spectator writes that he 

 owned a large dog Rose, and a smaller and 

 less beautiful dog Fan, of different breeds, 

 but both passionately attached to a member 

 of the household who was commonly called 

 their best friend. A shawl of this friend's 

 was especially sacred to Fan, and jealously 

 watched, especially as against Rose ; and 

 when the best friend was in bed Fan would 

 lie in her arms, opposing with growls the ap- 

 proach of all intruders. One day Rose in 

 jumping over a gate spiked herself badly 

 and was committed to surgical treatment for 

 ten days. " On her return she was cordially 

 welcomed by Fan and myself ; but when she 

 rushed upstairs to the room of her best friend 

 (then confined to her bed), my mind fore- 

 boded mischief. We followed, and I opened 



the door. With one bound Rose rushed into 

 her best friend's arms, taking Fan's very 

 own place, and was lost in a rapture of lick- 

 ing and being caressed. Fan flew after her, 

 but, to my amazement, instead of the fury 

 I expected, it was to join in heart and tongue 

 with the licking and caressing. She licked 

 Rose as if she had been a long-lost puppy 

 instead of an intruder ; and then, of her own 

 accord, turned away, leaving Rose in posses- 

 sion, and took up a distant place on the foot 

 of the bed, appealing to me with almost a 

 human expression of mingled feelings the 

 heroic self-abnegation of newborn sympathy 

 struggling with natural jealousy. The bet- 

 ter feelings triumphed (not, of course, un- 

 supported by human recognition and ap- 

 plause) till both dogs fell asleep in their 

 strangely reversed positions. After this, there 

 was a slight temporary failure in Fan's per- 

 haps overstrained self-conquest ; but on the 

 next day but one she actually, for the first 

 (and last) time in her life, made Rose wel- 

 come to a place beside her on the sacred 

 shawl, where again they slept side by side 

 like sisters. This, how-ever, was the last 

 gleam of the special sympathy called forth 

 by Rose's troubles. From that day Fan de- 

 cidedly and finally resumed her jealous occu- 

 pation and guardianship of all sacred places 

 and things, and maintained it energetically 

 to her life's end." 



Protoplasm for Hot Stars. A new sub- 

 ject for speculation has been suggested by 

 Sir Robert Ball's observation that life on the 

 heavenly bodies materially hotter or colder 

 than the earth, or differing in other important 

 respects, is exceedingly improbable if not 

 impossible for beings of the forms and com- 

 position which we associate with life. But 

 is protoplasm composed of carbon, hydrogen, 

 oxygen, nitrogen, and a little sulphur the 

 only physical basis on which life can ex- 

 ist ? May there not be protoplasms of other 

 compositions adapted to hot stars or to cold 

 stars, upon which life as vigorous as that 

 upon the earth may exist on such bodies ? 

 Prof. Emerson remarked two or three years 

 ago that silicon, when the earth was in an 

 intensely hot stage, played much the same 

 part that carbon does now ; and that under 

 the conditions then prevailing the silicon com- 

 pounds, now immobile, may have been active. 



