the other. The female rhinoceros 

 with one horn guides her calf with it, 

 causing him to move ahead of her, but 

 the female of the kind with two horns 

 does not use them upon her offspring 

 at all except in anger, and her calf is 

 content to follow her in feeding. 



On the coast of California is a large 

 seal called the sea elephant which is 

 notable because the adult male has a 

 proboscis fifteen inches in length when 

 in ordinary temper, but under excite- 

 ment it is noticed to extend itself con- 

 siderably beyond its ordinary length. 

 The shrew, the tapir, and the horse 

 also possess something of a proboscis 

 which is useful in feeding. 



But the elephant is the greatest ani- 

 mal as to the development of this or- 

 gan. Insect-eating animals have snouts 

 of gristle, but the organ of prehension 

 of the elephant is composed almost en- 

 tirely of muscles of the most varied and 

 curious structure. Cuvier counted 

 twenty thousand muscles in an ele- j 

 phant's trunk, and then gave up his un- 

 finished task. 



This great mass of muscular endow- 

 ment McCloskie says has improved his 

 intelligence which is not so great as is 

 popularly supposed. "Observation 

 shows the elephant after all to be rather 

 a stupid beast; it is the monkey, the 

 fox, and the crow which are credited 

 by the Hindoos with brute-cuteness, 

 whilst the highest measure of ration- 

 ality evinced by the elephant is when 

 he plucks off the branch of a tree, using 

 it as a whisk to drive off flies that tor- 

 ment him. It seems that he is very 

 much afraid of flies, will take fright at 

 a mouse, and is always timid and sus- 

 picious, none of these being traits of a 

 large mind." 



The nose has been connected always 

 with the highest emotions of man. As 

 cats are transported into the seventh 

 heaven by the presence of their favor- 

 ite weed and rats are similarly affected 

 by rhodium, so man carries a perfume 

 in his pocket-handkerchief for his own 

 delectation or that of his friends, and 

 in many instances weaves into his wor- 

 ship certain rites in which the burning 

 of incense and the offering of a sweet 

 savor has a prominent part. The Es- 



kimo shows his appreciation of his or- 

 gan of smell by putting it forward to 

 touch that of his friend whom he meets 

 on terms of special endearment. 



Antony Van Corlear's large and ru- 

 bicund nose is gravely recorded by Irv- 

 ing to have been the means of bring- 

 ing a great boon to the early inhabit- 

 ants of New Amsterdam because when 

 he fell asleep in a boat one day, the ef- 

 fulgence of the sun at high meridian 

 fell upon his shining feature, was re- 

 flected into the deep with such an un- 

 diminished power that the beam came 

 into violent contact with a sturgeon, 

 and, by causing the death of the fish at 

 a time when the Dutch were willing to 

 experiment a little in the matter of gus- 

 tation, thus introduced the habit of eat- 

 ing this excellent fish to the founders 

 of a great commonwealth. 



That the near neighbors of the Amer- 

 ican Dutch also held the nose in high 

 esteem is attested by the fact that 

 when among the American Eng- 

 lish any of their divines in one 

 of their interminable sermons came 

 upon a series of unusually great 

 thoughts and carried the congregation 

 into the heights of sacred felicity they 

 acknowledged the divinity of the oc- 

 casion by "humming him through the 

 nose." Much of their singing also was 

 given an unction otherwise impossible 

 to it by their peculiar nasal attitude 

 while worshiping by use of the psalms. 

 While the nose is a most prominent 

 feature of the countenance and the 

 beauty of the face depends largely 

 upon that member's appearance, there 

 s no one who can say just what shape 

 the nose should have to be most beau- 

 tiful. Socrates proved his nose to be 

 handsomer than that of Alcibiades be- 

 cause it was better adapted to use. As 

 the nose is used for smelling and the 

 eye for seeing, Socrates maintained that 

 the handsome eyes and nose of the 

 polished young Greek were less useful 

 and less adapted to the purposes for 

 which such organs exist, and therefore 

 the bulging eyes and violently turned- 

 up nose of the philosopher were held 

 ' to be more beautiful than those of Al- 

 cibiades. 



