1883. | Anthropology. 987 
not present himself for commendation as he did when he had 
caught a gopher. Plainly he had learned something of the prin- 
ciples of right and wrong. In the capture of the bird he exe- 
cuted a deliberately formed plan, which manifested a very consid- 
erable degree of reasoning powers beyond that of inherited 
habit—/. D. Caton. 
keeper for water. This being given to it, it eagerly swallowed 
quantities of the fluid. “Ha!” cried the delighted joker, “I . 
guess those nuts were a trifle hot, old fellow.” “You had better 
e off,” exclaimed the keeper, “unless you wish the bucket at 
your head.” The fool took the hint only just in time, for the en- 
raged animal, having finished the sixth bucketful, hurled the 
bucket after its tormentor with such force that, had he lingered a 
moment longer, his life might have been forfeited. The affair was 
not, however, yet concluded. The following year the show re- 
Visited the same town; and the foolish joker, like men of his 
genus, unable to profit by experience, thought to repeat his stupid 
trick on the elephant. He took two lots of nuts into the show 
with him, sweet nuts in one pocket and hot in the other. The 
elephant had not forgotten the jest played upon him, and there- 
fore accepted the cakes very cautiously. At last, the joker 
proffered a hot one; but, no sooner had the injured creature dis- 
covered its pungency, than it seized hold of its persecutor by the 
Coat-tails, hoisted him up by them, and held him until they gave 
way, when he fell to the ground. The elephant now inspected 
€ severed coat-tails, which, after he had discovered and eaten 
all the sweet nuts, he tore to rags, and flung after their discomfit- 
ed owner.—Chambers's Journal. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. * 
Tue Cuarnay Correction IN WasHincton.—The following is 
from Mr. A. Thorndyke Rice, editor of the North American Re- 
vew, to Professor Baird, May 31: 
“From advices received from Mr. Désiré Charnay, and dated 
Paris, ay 12, I learn that casts, taken on the spot by means of 
the proces Lotin de Laval, of many of the most notable inscrip- 
tions and bas-reliefs existing in the ruined cities of Mexico and 
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