The following anecdotes, which we find in the Methodist of Jan. 18, are to be read in connection with the article on the first editorial page, headed, Claims of Philosophy. A shepherd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house in which we were talking, said to me, in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, “I’m thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes.” Though he purposely laid no stress on these words, and said it in a quiet, unconcerned tone of voice, the dog, who appeared to be asleep, immediately jumped up, leaped through an open window, and scrambled up the turf roof of the house, from which he could see the potato field. He then (not seeing the cow there) ran and looked into the barn where she was, and finding that all was right, came back to the house. After a short time, the shepherd said the same words again, and the dog repeated his lookout; but on the false alarm being a third time given, the dog got up, wagged his tail, and looked his master in the face with so comical an expression of interrogation, we could not help laughing at him, on which, with a slight growl, he laid himself down in his own warm corner, with an offended air, as if determined not to be made a fool of again.