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Show A SENSIBLE ELEPHANT. It Boon tetetd That tlio t'ump Trough Wsa Not I.erel. In India domesticated elephants nro usually given drink from largo woodon troughs filled with well water by meanH of a pump, and it is commonly an elephant that tills this trough.' Every morning ho goes regularly to hts task. Whllo visiting a friend at his flno residence, In India a correspondent correspon-dent of tho Manchester Rxamlncrsaw a largo elephant engaged In pumping such a trough full of water. He continues, con-tinues, "In passing I noticed that ono of thn two tree trunkB which supported tho trough nt either end had rolled from Its place, so tho trough, still elevated nt one extremity, would begin to empty emp-ty Itself ns soon as tho water reached tho level of tho top at tho other end, which lay on tho ground. I htoppwd to sco If tho elephant would discover nnythlng wrong. 8oon tho water began be-gan to run off at tho end which had lost Its support Tho nnimal i.houed signs of perplexity when ho saw this, but as tho end nearest him lacked much of being full ho continued to pump Finally, seeing that tlio water continued to pass off, he left tho pump handle and began to coi.r,Kl..r tho phenomenon phe-nomenon lie Bccnicd t" II nd it dlfll-cult dlfll-cult to oplnin. Ilmr tlimo ho returned re-turned to Ida pumptr ; nnd thrco times ho exnml ted tho tiotiTi "I was nn absorbed loo'.fi on. Impatient Im-patient to eoo what vcuhl W dono. Soon n lUoly llnpplmf t tho enrs In U-cuted U-cuted tho davtniug of light. I(u?nt and smollod of tho tro trtinlt ulilcli hod rolled from under tho truiifh. I thought for n moment l!.t lie was going go-ing to put It In Us place ngnln lint It was not, as I soon understood, tho end which ran over that disturbed his mind, but tlio ond which ho found Impossible Im-possible to fill. Raising tho trough, which he then allowed to rest for ui Instant on one of his hugo feet, ho rolled away the second supporting log with his trunk and th'on set tho trough down so that It rosted at both ends on tho ground Ho returned to tho pump and completed hts task " |