Nature. A Monkey College.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 29 August 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Nature. A Monkey College.

"Thi latest thing in educational news," said a nataralilt to an Enquirer writer, " it tho collogt of monkey* ia London. Half a dozen evelcttioaiita aad naturalists of the very advaaeed aeheol are attempting to teach neiikfyi to talk or expreii thtir wants. The mathod ii at trst by ltttor blocks. A block alphabet, in which the letttra are all distinctly ««I«rei, it arra*K«4 before tba monkey ■talent, which is first taaght to stleot iome •frapl* word, at «te, aaft whea he picks out the Ittten and ferrai the word he is Riven a ft*«« «f tie, to there it a eeastant incentive te leara, tht jriCTi all being bread and butter, to U tpeak." •< Aad what are the results ? " aiked the visitor. "They have not been divulged yet," wat the reply; " but on« of tho authors ef tht ithome ttatot that there it ■eoa to be a public exhibition, when tha meaktyt o»n be hoard fer themielvet. If a fig eaa be taaght to many wonderful things, ■m ac rtason why a monkey thould not. It it aeknewltdg«d , that antt have a language aad talk te one another, and that the light of ternt inneett it nsed at a meant of eommnnieatioa bttveen them, ao why not other and higher animal* ?"— Cincinnati Enquirer.

Whim? Mr. Alexander Shaw, at Ktnotra, wai ia the ieldt the ether day, he heard cries ef a bird apy&rt&tly ia diitrest. Looking up he lay a lark hotly puriued by a hawk, which, by a atriet ef flaret dashei, tried to ttoura hit prey, but the lark was successful in evading the attaekt. The hawk, however, wai gaining the mastery, and tht lark, terror •track, seeing tht ma* below, came down like as arrow aad tattered actually into his hand, vhtrt it eowtrad trembling. Tht purtuer followed aatil Within six yards, but, seeing what had eetirrtd, he fltw efl in ditguit. After a tint tht lark wai libtrattd, when it soared apward, slagiag, doibtltu, a long ef gratitude to iti dtlirtrtr. Tht tlreumttanoe ii remarkable ai ihewiag hew the greater terror e«nqutrtd tht leu — tht iaitiaot ef preiervation ia tht biri triumphing over its natural timidity.— Elgin (Btetland) Courier.