The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-22 00:00:00

A DOG'S ANTIPATHY.

A correspondent in the lent number of Nature writes
that he possesses an Leglish mast If by use Keyder,
a 11011 Of the celebrated Turk out of Venus. He brought
the dog, when six weeks old, from the stable in which
he was born. The first time he took him out he
Trade in the Leeds district is seriously affected by
started back in alarm at the first butchers shop he had
the scarcity of coal, and there are fears that marry firms
ever seen. He soot, found be had a violent antipathy
will bt compelle I to run short time if the supplies Are
to butchers and butcher's shops. When six months
not rsplenished. At several of the principal coal
old, a servant took him with her on an errand. At a
estuary.; there is none to he had. The colliery pro-
short distance before coming to the house, she
prietore of the West Riding held a special meeting at n. .
ad to pass a butsher'e shop; the dog threw
the "Queen's.' Hotel, Lee is on Tuesday af tensoon,
himself down (being led with a string), and
and agreed to make no change in the present prices,
neither coaxing nor threats would make Lim pass
the shop. Tee dog was too heavy to be carried ; and
being appreheneive that if they made a further advanue
the colliers well' demand higher wages. as a crowd collected, the servant had to return with
Considerable sensation was created in very many the dog more than a mile, risad then go without him.
branches of trade in I.iverpool on Tuesday by the This occurred about two years ago. The antipathy
aunouncement from the Wigaa and other Lancashire still continues, but the dog will pass nearer to a shop
coal fields that the pie lietore hail further advanced than he formerly would. Ab .ut two months ago, in a
all kinda of coal by no less than from 2e. to 3s. per ton, little book on dogs published by Dean, Nagre's cor-
It was also etated that the prices now reached were not respondent discovered that the some strange antipathy
likely to be the maximum during the present month. is shown by the father, Turk. He then wrote to dr.
The railway and great eteamehip companies are in a Nichols, the former owner of Turk, to ask him for any
lit .te. of comparative coasternation, AB even those who information he might have on the point. He replied
are protected by 1 irge contracts cannot get their orders —" I can say that the same antipathy existe in King,
exicnted, owing to the attitude of the miners on the the sire of Turk, h. Turk, in Punch (Kos if Turk out
short time question. The effect on some branches of cd Meg), and hi Paris (eau of Turk out of Juno). Peri*
. trade was on Tuesday most depressing hare the greatest antipathy, as he wiiu!d hardly go into
' The Correspondent of the Daily News, writing from a street whore a bntcher's shop is, and would run
Wolverhampton on Tuesday 25, says :—"Cisculais are away after passing it. Wirer. a start with a butcher's
hen' iseued by the Earl of Dudley announcing advances man came into the place where the doge were
in the price,. of the different descript iota rift-nal su ed k Ppliept,' alsliough' Mier' tohnid .isee She ides, they ail
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from his lordship's celebrated mines in and around were ready to be sk their <keine. A mantes-butcher
I) ill Hie lordabip'e Lest previous circulars were dreased privately, called ore evening on Parileli =liter
dated June 28 and 29. no circulars apply alike to to eon the dog. He had hardly entered the house before

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(belief( (though shut in) wae us utuah excited that he
had to be put into a shed, and the butcher was forced
t• leave without seeing the dog. The same dog at
Hastings ma is e, sprinz at a gentleman who c .me
into the hotel The owner caught the dog and apolo-
gized, and said he never knew him to do so before,
except when a leAcher came to his house. The gentle-
can at once said that was his bovines.. So you see
hat they inherit these antipathies, and show a gre A
leal of breed." Mr. Herbert Spencer could hardly
wish for a stronger case of "organized experience'
whatever its original cause may have been.