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entirely removed by the well-known facts of discontinuous con- 
sciousness. There is a form of brain malady in which persons 
whose consciousness is clearly continuous to outside observers, 
lead two or more distinct conscious lives, the one of which knows 
nothing about the other. This is caused by the abolition of the 
memory of a part of the conscious existence. Now it is far more 
probable than not, that in a transfer of consciousness from one 
physical basis to another, the molecular structure which is the 
condition of memory is lost in whole or in part. Hence the ab- 
sence of prenatal memory. If the mind ever learns of its for- 
gotten life it must be by a process of exploration and unraveling 
of records. Such a research would be a paleontology of mind, 
and its materials are doubtless as abundant in the universe as are 
the records of the physical organisms which we now excavate 
from the rocks.—&. D. C. 
A Horse's Memory.—Our sagacious little family horse—“ Joe” 
—was kept at our place a few weeks one winter several years 
since, and then taken back to his owner, thirty-five miles away. 
wenty-one months later I purchased him. He was led to town 
by the stage-driver, where I received him a mile and a half from 
my farm. I saddled and mounted him and told him to “ go,” 
leaving him, however, to take his own course, with a view to see- 
ing whether he remembered the way home. Several turns were 
to be made in the village streets in getting out of town, but Joe 
made every one as correctly as he would to-day, after having 
traveled the same little journey daily for years. We finally 
crossed a bridge over Boone river, at the west end of which a 
gate opens into a grove, the house being forty or fifty rods off to 
the north. Joe stopped at the gate of his own accord, waiting 
for me to dismount and open it. He seemed to know every rod 
of the way, both to the barn and the stable, though he had been 
away about a yearand nine months. He was a little disconcerted, 
however, upon going into the stable, appearing lost fora moment, 
but the cause of his embarrassment was sufficiently apparent 
from the fact that the stalls had been changed to the opposite 
side. It was perfectly clear, however, that he had not forgotten 
a single detail of his daily life during his first brief sojourn with 
us.—Charles Aldrich, Webster City, Lowa, Nov. 21, 1884. 
TRAINING ELEPHANTS.—African elephants, said Forepaugh to 
a reporter, are more intelligent, imitative and cunning than the 
Asiatic. In training elephants the best method is to win them 
over by petting and feeding them with something nice. Ialways 
have a cake or some delicacy to give one of them when I take 
him out for practice, consequently the beast is always glad to see 
me, and is more attentive and docile than he otherwise would be. 
Elephants never forget anything—they recollect “their stage 
business ” and “situation,” and do not vary an inch one evening 
