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Show SOME EDUCATED GRUNTERS Pigs Tha,t Have Acquired a Jlcgree cf Intelligence Truly Astonishing. A young friend ot my acquaintance at Kcnneuunkport, Me., has a couple ot trained tiles which uro believed to he the most intelligent nnlmnls ot the kind in tho state. He yokes them up mid driven them the same as steers, snya a writer in the Associated Sunday Sun-day Magazines. Charles F. Holder, who through his power over all kinds ot animals has uttractbci the notice of psychologists from many Institutions, declares that the hog 1ms Intelligence fully equal to Unit of any other animal, except man, .and a disposition tdngulsirly tractablo anu doclla whun treated with kindness. lie has trained a group of grunt-crs1, grunt-crs1, and what he cunnot make them docan hardly bo mentioned. Tlicso aro not blooded, sleek pedigreed swine, but are tho rough, ugly, frlcndless.wnn-derlng frlcndless.wnn-derlng kind, against whom is every num's hand., They hnvp" been trained to sep.Hute, at a -certain command, Into two squads, as boldlers, Spanish and American. There Is u stono fort, over which tho Bpantsh Mag Is Been to tioat. An ofHcer ot tho "American forces appears ap-pears to order- an advance. Tho "fort Is stormed, tho flag falls, the dead and wounded are carr.cd Out, tho stars and stripes aro run up, guns nro Hied, and everything usual In such n scene Is transacted with fidelity. t Mr. Holder drives n team or racing hogs at good spczd over the country roads. About 1815 a London mail created a sensation by driving a four-ln-hnnd of pigs through tho streets; and 30 years Inter an old farmer caused much amusement to a fereat crowd In tho market place of St. Albans by entering It In a chaise drawn by four trotting hogs. There have alRO been sporting pigs. An old account of a black onn which Diehard Tooraer, ono or the royal keepers In tho New Forest, broko to find game, and to buck nnd stand, sajs: "Within a fortnight sho would find and point partridges or rabbits, and'her training was much forwarded by tho abuflance of, both. Sho dally Improved, and in a fow weeks would retrieve birds that had run as well as the best pointer; nay, her nose was superior su-perior to the best pointer." l'lgs on tho clear-water rivers of British Columbia learn to dlvo after tho salmon lying dead on tho bottom of tho streams, ni.d tho Interesting slghl may bo witnessed of a female diving for a salmon, and having obtained ob-tained it, taking it nshoro for her little ones. |