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- 
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- 
I up nose of the philosopher were held 
to be more beautiful than those of Al- 
| cibiades. 
