Animal Intelligence. 877 



An interesting story is related by the London Globe of a dog near 

 Manchester whose wealth}' and indulgent master gave him a penny every 

 day with which he went to a bake shop and bought a biscuit for his 

 lunch. At one period the dog all at once became impatient for lunch 

 time to come around, and by evident signs begged for his penny before 

 it was due. It afterwards came out that on these occasions instead of 

 going to the baker's, he went to a tripe seller's, where he bought and paid 

 fora "tempting skewering of paunch." This he took to an empty 

 house in the neighborhood, in the cellar of which a sick and wretched 

 stranger dog had crawled for shelter. To this poor tyke, the benevolent 

 dog gave his meat every day for a week or more. Why did he not take 

 him his biscuit, instead of transferring his custom to the tripe man ? 

 Did he ascertain that meat hit the stranger's case better? If so, how? 



The following is told by an English paper. ' ' An elephant attached 

 to Worn well's menagerie, was treated in Gloucestershire by a druggist 

 for internal spasm. The animal recovered, and duly departed from, the 

 town. This was in 1870. But in 1879, when the druggist stood at his 

 shop door to watch the menagerie again enter the town, the elephant 

 crossed the street, advanced to the man of drugs, placed his trunk on 

 his hand, and grunted agreeably to show her remembrance of past kind- 

 ness. At night, on visiting the menagerie, the elephant drew the drug- 

 gist's attention to her side, to which a blister had been applied nine 

 years before. In 1881, the elephant again entered the town. Recog- 

 nizing her chemist friend in the audience, she lifted him gently off his 

 feet by means of her trunk, and drew his attention to one of her fore- 

 legs. The keeper explained that the limb had been lanced by a veteri- 

 nary surgeon, and that apparently she was comparing notes of the differ- 

 ence between the gentle blister of her friend, and the procedure of the 

 surgeon. It is not often that services are so long and gratefully remem- 

 bered either by quadrepeds or by < the paragon of animals ' himself. '' 



Cat Sagacity. A gentleman living near Allegan, Michigan, relates 

 an interesting story of feline sagacity. Some person owning a cat and 

 three kittens, and desiring to be rid of them, took them in a bag to a 

 wood near the gentleman's house, and dropped them. In a short time 

 the mother cat was seen to approach the house with a kitten in her 

 mouth. Reaching the door, she dropped the kitten, and returned to the 

 woods from whence she soon returned with another kitten, but instead of 

 leaving it where the first was left, she took it to a neighboring house, 

 then, returning to the woods brought out the third, and last kitten, and 

 left it at still another neighbor's. The old cat then disappeared, and 

 was not seen again until it was time for the kittens to be fed, when she 

 visited each house, nursed the- kittens, and then disappeared again. This 

 course of procedure she followed until the kittens were weaned, when 



