622 General Notes. [June, 
grocer in town, At home he never took a thing without asking 
for it, though legs of mutton have hung for days and days within 
his reach. But unfortunately we cannot say as much for “ Floss,” 
who however, will at once surrender anything taken, upon com- 
mand ; but we don’t think that he /ooks'as ashamed of the act as 
he ought to. He is no thief, however. 
We have not a doubt that early and persistent training of a 
bright dog, commencing with him when only a few weeks old, 
would cultivate the moral side of his nature, as his intellectual 
side is trained and developed by his intercourse with man. But 
beating never brings about any such results. 
The other evening we had turned “ Floss” out into the barn, 
and when he returned through the well room we have no 
doubt he gave us notice he wished for water; but we did 
not observe it. As we passed into the kitchen we turned to close 
the door after the dog, and there he stood upon the threshold, 
with such a look of intense yearning coupled with astonishment 
on his face, that we at once recognized his demand and supplied 
him with water. We thought that if there was not soul behind 
that look, the Creator of us all had surpassed Himself in lighting 
up the cold clay with the light of life. We don’t say it can't be 
done, but we do not believe it ¿s done—Brunswick Telegraph. 
ANTHROPOLOGY .! 
. ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE NEw Or eAns Exposition.— Every 
allusion to anthropology in New Orleans should begin with Dr. 
Joseph Jones, author of the Smithsonian contribution entitled the 
Stone graves of Tennessee: Since writing this contribution Dr, 
Jones has utilized his leisure from an arduous profession to con- 
tinue his researches in American archeology and in the various 
living problems which his position of president of the Board of 
Health brought before him. His splendid cabinet occupies one 
entire side of his house and contains nothing but the chef d’oeu- 
vres of American aboriginal art. Dr. Jones has in his possession 
a relic which will interest active archeologists. At Selzertown, 
fourteen miles from Nachez, is a celebrated mound mentioned by 
Sah ~ aa , covering about five acres of ground and about 
t 
The top of the mound is truncated and the sides indicate that 
the structure was formerly a regular teocalli erection. Into this 
Jr. Jones drove a trench twenty feet horizontally and fifteen feet 
leep, coming upon cedar posts and charcoal mixed with ashes. 
seneath these ashes was discovered a fragment of a French burr 
millstone weighing about eight pounds. Dr. Jones has preserved 
this Sepa an evidence of the late i at which the Nachez 
: indians erected ected thes sepcartet mound 
Edited by Prof. Oris T. Mason, Nations} Muscusi; Washington, D. C. 
