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Show mall vibration la tha prallanlnary ataara of tiia aa lam la motion. Pro-Maaor Pro-Maaor Oanort aaya. It la known that earth a hack a ara pracadad by pra-llralnary pra-llralnary tramors that ara ao alight aa to ba hardly racordabla. That tha phnant ahould ba vary sanal tlva and taka alarm at tha a Us hi -at dlaturbapca, althatv natural or artt-f artt-f fetal, la probably condition pacta aary tri Ita ailataacs, tba oclantlat Wlsraa. aa tha bird with Ita Ions potntad tall and comparatively small wlnsa. hue no feign flying capacity and neayaa on tia ground among tha thick undargrowtn. It wan abaarvad, howarar, that tha pheasant did not taka alarm and crow when tha ground wit ahakan by tha paaalng of earn, heavily-loaded trucks or was an, ar athr artificial means. In Japan, Profaaeor Otitort writes, tbera la a general belief that pheas-ante pheas-ante percalva earthquakes much earlier than humane. Certain other animate enow symptoms of terror at tha tlms of, or previous to, aa earthquake, be a (Ma, and altaa several sev-eral occaelons whan tha mualoal croaking of froga In ft pond caaeed luat before or at tha moment af a ! eanalble tremor. If tha a hock ba atrong there Is caused a general nolaineaa, cooks crow lag and doga barking A certain abbot waa riding a be tea near a town that was via I red by a atrong quake, when suddenly the animal dropped flat an tba ground. Tha rider, who bad not yet per-oelvad per-oelvad tha shock, attempted ta Urge the horaa to kla feet, but all hie whipping was la vain until lbs shaking waa aver. - PHEASANT HAS EARTHQUAKE SENSE WASHINGTON. ,- Aug. IT. (By A. P.) Have you a little earthquake-predictor earthquake-predictor la your hornet if not you ehouM get a pheaaant, aays Prefes-eor Prefes-eor V. Omort, a Jaaaaea eelerao logiat, writing In-a reo-nf bulletin of the Imperial earthquake Investigation Investi-gation committee, for th'a bird Is exceedingly senaltlve to earth tre-more tre-more even when so alight as ta be unobervable by humane. Observation of a pheaaant In Japan Ja-pan during a period of about three years, in which twenty-throe earth quakea were recorded on delicate ln-etrumenta, ln-etrumenta, ahowed that It crowd either before or during, every slight hock In 84 per. cent of the caaeS the bird crowed before the scien-tlat'a scien-tlat'a machine recorded tha quavre? beating the Inatrunaent as much aa elerht aeconds. In 10 per, cent af the oocurrencea the bird crowed el multaneoualy with sensible earth ouake motloa; and In another t9 pir cent of caaea the bird crowed when the motion waa too slight to he eanalble ta the obaerver. In only five caaea did the pheaaant arow after the motion waa recorded, and only once did he fall to, erew al all. - , - The keen perception of earthquake occurrence by the 'bird as ne doubt due to Ita acute aebae, by which It In niiMH .mechanically to feel the , |