The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-07-23 00:00:00

AN OLD DOG.

It is rarely that a dog lives to be twelve years old,
and Chou Chou, for several years the favourite dog of
Admiral Sir Henry Neppel, will go down to poaterity
in dog li3tory VA au egrearclinary animal, for he has
lately died at the altogether exceptional age of thirty-
one, to the sorrowful regret of a numerous circle of
attached friends (remarks the Evening Standard).
Chou Chou, according to a sporting contemporary,
was given to the Admiral in 1852 by the Japanese
authorities in Japanese Tartary as a rare specimen
of the true eflible clog of Tartary, Cbqu Chou
signifying edible, and hence the name. Sir Henry
resisted any slight inclination he may possibly
have felt to turn the iittle animal into a ragdet, pre-
ferred him as a pet, and kept him for many years;
and he was then handed over to the proprietor of the
Basset Hotel, near Southampton, on condition that a
home WIVS provided there for him till is cleat,b, For
ten year's the little creat4a Ima done such gcod
service as a dog can do to his master and the
children. By disposition he is said t o have been
very amiable and good tempered, and showed
strong affections. He became much attached to
the landlord's children, accompanying them to
school of a morning, and always going unbidden to
fetch them home of an afternoon. 01 course 'hi So
long a long a life he had many "hair-breadth 'scapes,"
the most severe being that he was once run over at
Bassett by a coal cart, when both his forelegs were
broken. The injuries were healed, however, and in
1877 Chon Chou tcok a prize at the Portsmouth Dog
Show. Like most of his race he was of a blue-black
colour, and stood about 22in. high, and when in good
condition weighed 471 b. One remarkable feature in
him was that the inside of his month and his entire
tongue were perfectly coal-1340z,

DEATH OF AN EMINENT DANISH
ARTIST.

In an obituary notice gt the poists pallater, Mra. Jerlchau,
Baumann, who died from a congestion of the lungs on July
11th, at the age of 62, l'he Times says :

The pictures of this gifted artist are spread all over
the world, and, without any claim to a place among
the great masters, she exhibited most remarkable
talent, and has left works that will long preserve her
name. The etery of her life ie a very rormyntip one,
recalling, to a certain degree, that of her friend and
countryman by adoption, the poet Hans Christian
Andersen. Born in 1819 of German parents living
near Warsaw, the first impressions of her infancy
and youth were connected with the unhappy Polish
insurrection and its pitiless oppression. When
eighteen year old ohp trot 410 her hand at paint-
ing after some hesitation between the stage and the
brush. After a few years, she was fortunate enough
to sell to an English friend of art a picture repre-
senting Polish peasants returning to their burnt-down
and pillaged farm. With the proceeds she hastened to
Italy, and here she made the acquaintance of the
Denieh seulptpr Adolph jerichau (who executed the
Hunter with the Panther's Cube," Hercules and
Hebe," Adam and Eve,' at lfarlborough Howie, and
other plastic works). As his wife she game to Copen-
hagen in 1846, became fully naturalized as a Dane,
embracing with all the fervour of her generous mind
the natienality of her husband. Besides a great many
figure of Denmark,' several scenes from rustic life,
portraits *she painted in the following years the allegoric
the Icelandic Girl,' now in the possession of Queen
Victoria, and the great picture, 'Domestic Prayer,'
which she had to repeat not less than nine times,
and for which she obtained numerous prize
medals, as well as the membership of the Copenhagen
Royal ,Aoederey. In later yearn she travelled much
abroad, received everywhere in the highest pircles of
society, and finding in all countries warm admirers of
her talent as an artist and rare qualities as a woman.
In Rome she had her etudio at piazza del 'epole,
Palazzo Tlovatti, where she saw as
Visitors all the
strangers of distinction spending the season in the
+Aerial City, and was herself a constant guest at the
British Legation. From the sunny south and from
the Orient, where, as a lady, she was able to penetrate
into the innermost secrecies ef the harems, she brought
numerous piptures, all full of life and of splenaid
colouring, and her works Amid ready buyers of all
nationalities. Some years ago she had the great
sorrow to lose her eldest son, Mr. Harald Jerichau,
'hp, though hardly ?3 or 21 years old, had already
given prod of very extraordinary tahnt-as a landscape
painter, and who died in Rome from typhoid fever.
She has written several clever things in Danish and
Gem isian. Her last work was a portrait of the Danish
Queen, just finished before her death.