1884.] — Psychology. ~ 97 
weeks we examined her mouth and to our surprise every tooth 
had dropped out. We thought we should have to kill her, but- 
she seemed to be growing better, so we let her live. Always a 
great mouser, after this she could only catch the mice and rats, 
and conscious of her inability to bite. them, brought them to us: 
to kill, scratching at the door and ‘making a certain mew which 
indicated she had something. The man used frequently to take 
her to the oat bin, and she would catch the intruders there as. 
fast as ever, bringing each one to him to finish. We kept her for 
two years after this serious experience, always feeding her bread. 
and milk, and bread and coffee and cutting her meat up very fine 
for her. She then sickened and soon was consigned to the gar- 
den Necropolis of the “ happy family.” 
© not these facts further demonstrate a goodly degree of. 
intelligence in the cat ?—Mary. É. Holmes, Rockford, Ills. 
Sense Discrimination.—In a chapter on sensitivity, Galton, in’ 
his “Inquiries into Human Faculty.” concludes that contrary 
Experimenting on a number of boys at a large educational 
blind asylum, he found that the blind lads who showed the most 
delicacy of touch, barely reached the mediocrity of the various 
Sighted lads of the same age whom he had previously tested. He 
inds that the guidance of the blind depends mainly on the mul- 
titude of collateral indications, to which they give much heed, and 
not in their Superior sensitivity to any one of them. Those who 
see do not care for so many of these collateral indicatioas, and 
habitually overlook and neglect several of them. 
Notwithstanding many travelers’ tales, Mr. Galton has thus far 
been unable to obtain satisfactory evidence of any general large 
Superiority of the senses of savage over those of civilized men. 
Own experience, so far as it goes, of Hottentots, Damaras. 
and some other wild races, went to show that their sense discrim- 
Lanon was not superior to those of white men, even as regards 
ĉenness of eyesight.” 
A PAIR oF CatastRopHEs.—Prudential killing by a Cat—A cat 
peg Red Bank, N, J., last month had a litter of kittens, one of 
which was a monstrosity. It had seven legs, of which one had 
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