Ants With Pluck And Brains

To the intellectuality of auts, whicli men like Sir John Lubbock have always delighted to poiut out, a new proof has been added by the observations of a well known scientist, Professor Bonatelli, who has conimunicated it to th? Venetian instituto. He noticed that the ants used as a bridge the twig of a tree which touched a house they were desirous of reaching. He accordingly cut off the end of the twig so that it was iinpossible for them to get across and then watched. After the lapse of half an hour, however, he found that the procession which he had stopped had reformed itself. He proceeded to investígate the matter, and he found that the little ants had discovered that there was another twig which, when it was blown by the breeze, touched the wall now and then. The army of ants had formed up in line to this twig, and whèSever the breeze blew it against the wall the foremost member8 of the band took advantage of the opportunity to get across. Man, with all his boasted genius, could do nothing more, for not only did the operation require clever timing, but absolute confidence in making what, under the circumstances. must have