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Show Snakes Fond of Music. Science has recently been studying the question as to whether or not snakea have really an appreciation of music. This applies particularly to the cobra, which responds to the piping pip-ing of a gourd instrument played by the East Indian fakir with a rhythmic movement suggesting a dance. The conclusion seems to be that it answers an-swers to the' musical notes much In tbe same way as a dog does that is to say. through a special or nervous sympathy. When the whistles blow at noon In the Zoo the wolves set up a great howling In concert. Whether or not tbey enjoy this sort of muste Is disputed, though probably they do. for some dogs undoubtedly take pleas-ore pleas-ore In harmonious strains and will run a considerable distance to sit np In front of a hsnd-orgsn and "sing," while other dogs unquestionably suffer suf-fer from certs In kinds of music and express tbelr pain In lugubrious howls |