Elephants Know Things

Miss C. F. Oordon-Cumming, iu her recent book on Ceylon, gives a few linea o a pet elephani. who mms to hiiTe ioen a creature oí much amiability and intelligence. He had been captured youug, and was tnown as Kuruneg'alia Jack. He used to go the hospital rounds with his master, a medical officer, who had taught him to be generally useful, and even to administer pills! A Malay soldier one Hay aropped nis piu, wnereupon Jacn picked it up and dropped it into the man's open mouth, with a puff that tlew it solely down! Jack learned to go out shooting with tiis inaster, combining thè work of stalking-horae and retriever. He could dicern the game from afar, and wander toward it in the most casual manner acting as cover for his inaster , anc when the gun was fired he woulc scamper off quite delighted, and return with the jungle-fowl or peacock in his trunk.