Show RARE INSTINCT jhc thc 4 of a sti dog A remarkable story is told of a dog a pointer owned by a gentleman in cincinnati who utilee times gave him away to friends at some distance from find him back again once through a blinding snowstorm snow storm very shortly rafter his banishment it wai resolved to with him in order to test the fact whether this j was the result of memory or of some keenly developed scent or other sense not known lie was accordingly dosed with morphine and taken to a town in kentucky one hundred and fifty miles away in twenty eight hours he was at his masters door it was thought however that he might have recovered from his lethargy in time tosco in what direction he was going and so had found his way back by simply keeping to the railroad trade he was therefore dosed with ether put in a closed basket and taken northeast and southeast then kept in a dark shed over night and let loose in the morning he at once set out in a straight line and on a run not at dog that had lost his way crossed iwo broad rivers and three beep mountain ranges through five large towns and a network of roads and cross roads although he had never been in that part of the country before in four days he reached cincinnati again he could not have remembered or known any thing about his journey down or hc was unconscious the whole bof the time what then induced him to start in the right direction and keep it until he arrived home this question has long puzzled the naturalists natura lists for stranger instances of animals finding their way home even than this have occurred they are however rare and suggest the ide ahat this instinct is exceptional and not common to animals mechanical wi |