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A FEW WORDS ON DOGS.

Nee ribi cora cannon fueris postretaa.
Virgil, Georg. ill. 404.
Dogs wero employed in Rome to guard the temples, and
because they failed to give warning when the (huls attacked the capitol,
• certain number were annually crucified I—Pliny, 29,4.

On the death of a dog, the Egyptians were wont to shave their heads
and every part of their bodies—Herod. Euterpe, 66; and the females
were buried in consecrated cheats.—l 6. 67.
Tritantechmes, son of Atabasus, had so immense a number of dogs,
that four great towns in the vicinity of Babylon were exempted from
every other tax than that of maintaining them-414 Cho. 192.
Thee is a fragment from An es, preserved by Atheneus, u.
which occurs the following line;—" You worship a dog, I flog the
rascal, and particularly when I find him stealing my dinner."
See a curious account of a dog turned player, in Plutarch's Treatise
on Land and Water Creatures.

The howling of dogs was considered as an ominous circumstance
among the ancients.—See Virgil, Georg. L 470; &Reid, vi. 255 ;
Ovid Metam. xv. 796.

English dogs formed a considerable article In the ancient commerce
of this couny. English hounds were carried to Rome long before
Cwear's expedition to Britain. Strabo, and the poet Orotius, cited by
Ovid, make mention of them, and speaks of the use the Gauls made of
them In war, and the Romans in the chase.

Paulus Jovlus, in Elogiis, ch. id. tells us that " Agrippa always
had a devil attending him in the shape of a black dog." Wiens,
Agrippa's domestic, however, assures us, that this black dog was areal
dog, for, says he, " I remember very well this dog, who was black, and
of a moderate size, and culled by a French name 'Monsieur, and I have
often led him tied with an hair.cord, when I waited upon Agrippa."—
Dc Magi,. ch. v. p. ill.
The great civilian Baking, while caressing his favourite dog. re.
ceived a bite on his lip, which caused his death, the dog being mad at
the time.

Gullet, in his "Lacedemone Ancienne et Nouvelle," p. 232, speak-
ing of dogs, "these animals sometimes slip into private houses, when
they find the doors of them open; but as to the mosques, they need not
be shut at all, for the dogs never enter them."
This the Turks explain by a miracle, but the shrewd Gullet more
philosophically attributes it to a hearty drubbing having been formally
given to the old dogs, who ever after shunned such inhospitable quarters,
and the young dogs, observing that their seniors religiously abstained
from approaching the mosques, prudently adopted the same wise
course.

Useful and necessary as this animal really is to the inhabitants of the
he is yet deemed by them an unclean beast. There is, notwith.
standing, no part of the world in which a greater number of them is
kept than in the Levant, where, as they seldom belong to any particular
master, even legacies are often left for their general support.
In 1715, there was a dog near Zeit:, In Misnia, which could " tall:
Getman I" The celebrated Leibnitz says, he both saw and heard him !
—Thispkasax's Curious Remarks iu Physics, p. 3.

Dogs arc very generally used in Holland for draught. "It is really
astonishing to see what weight these animals will draw after them ;
nothing can exceed their docility ; and for their labour, the Hollaadet,
who is remarkable for their humanity to the dumb creation, feeds them
well, and lodges them in hie house very comfortably."—Carr's Tour
through Holland in 107, p. 170.
Cairo like Lisbon, is invested with troops of dogs that have no mas-
ter, and the jealousy with which each party guard their diffirent divi-
sions, is remarkable. "It is curious to:see the dogs of Cairo divide the
city among them into quarters, like officers of police, and not permit
any dog belonging to another quarter to pass the boundary. Such a
violation of the established rules generally produces a bloody war, and I
have seen these animals, in spite of the laws of hospitality, cruelly bite
an unhappy deserterAwho has dared to transgress his limits."—Baroness
Von Minutoli's Recolketions of Egypt, p. 42.
The following epitaph on her favourite dog is a specimen of the Fan.
press Catherine's poetical talents
" Ci-glt la Duchene Anderson,
Qui mordit Monsieur Rogerson."
The dogs in Ramtschatka have socks on their feet, to preserve them
among the snow.—Beckman't Inventions, voL IL p. 274.
According to Lord Monboddo, dogs are capable of making compari-
eon ; this however is denied by Johnson, who says, " a dog will take
a small bit of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him."
J. J. W.

A PURITAN'S DESCRIPTION OF THE FAIR
Extracted from a pamphlet entitled d Brief Anatomy of IVomen.
London, 1653.—" The golden tresses of their amourous baire (which
being curiously kept suitable to their outward apparel, and according to
the newest fashion), cloth manifestl ex the true performance ot
their duty to their lord and master er in observing so well his li-
verye ; and that they more reallie appears to be his, and their beauty
seems more gloriously light to other, they path up their visages with
pieces of deritnesse, which are as so many seals of Sathan to binds them
ot his pleasure and will. Their roling doglike shining pearle seems to
be the baits that haws men in their love, whose fruit is destruction.
Their cares delight to:entertain frivolous discourses, especially if it re-
late to their praise and commendation, which is to them a thing most
plausible. Their tongue (that stirring and active member both offen-
sive and defensive) defensive in upholdinge their own supposed credit
though ever re bad ' • offensive in scolding, abusing, and detracting from
their neighbours though ever so good. Their yippee are the posterns
whence issueth lying, deceit, and all manner of disaimulation. From
the crowne of their head to the sole of their foots there is no good
member, no, not one. That they are a helpe unto man is indisputable,
but in what sena ? To exhaust his estate, divulge his secrets, and bee a
continual) trouble and vexation to his spirit all the dales of his life.
They are fickle, changeable, and various as the weatheroocke, constant,,
in nothing but inconstancie, and human creatures meerly tnetamor.
phosed seeminge to bee that which truly and reallie they are not, and in
a word, it is most apparent that they are only the greatest and most
powerful) temptations to cvill of all others ; the very gulphe when_
nuns reason, governance, and discretion, is often swallowetrup, and the
the adamantine rocks whereon many have been shipwrackedl.
A young man fell in lore with the daughter of a rich
citizen of Paris, and his affection was returned. The father of the lady
obliged her, however, to renounce her lover, and to marry another. A
short time after the nuptials, the young wife fell ill and died. She was
buried at Paris twenty-four hours after her decease. Her first lover, in-
capable of resisting the desire he felt of seeing her for the last time,
succeeded in gaining the sexton, who consented to open the tomb the
same night. The young man threatened the latter to kill him if be
committed the slightest indiscretion ; after which he carried off the
body, conveyed it to a neighbouring house, placed it near the fire,
rubbed it with warm cloths, and tried all possible means of restoring to
life the woman he adored. After some hours, he had the happiness to
discover signs of life appear ; she first began to emit gentle sighs, and
ultimately returned entirely to herself. As soon as she was en-
tirely re-established in health, the two lovers, thus re-nnited by death,
set out for England, whence they did not dare to return till several yews
had elapsed. At first, a stand was made against recognising the young
female for the pretended defunct ; but her new husband found means to
prove that she was really the same as had been interred, and demanded
restitution of the fortune which belonged to ha. The consequence was
a most extraordinary lawsuit. The lint husband persisted in asserting
that she belonged to him : whilst the second affirmed that she was dead
as far as he was concerned, and that without his measures, and his ex.
actions, she would never have been restored to life. The Parliament,
however, seemed to lean towards the tide of the first husband ; and this
circumstance urged them to return to England, without awaiting the
decision of the law suit. The particulars of this remarkable process are
yet to be found in the Journals of the Parliament.

BIRTHS.
On the 13th instant, in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, the wife
of T. Watson. 31. D. of a son—The 10th inst. the lady of Mt. W. H.
Nodding, of Uppet Oloccster.street, Dorset-square, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 14th inst. at St. Mary's, Bryanston.square, Sir E. 131onat,
Bart. of Sodington, in the county of Worcester, and of 111awley, Shrop-
shire, to Mary Frances, eldest daughter of E. Blount, Esq. M.P. the
ceremony having been performed on the preceding evening, according to
the rites of the Catholic Church, by the Night Hey. Dr. York Burns-
ton.—The 14th inst. at Trinity Church, St. 31arylebone, the Rev. C.
Bigeby, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. to Jane Christina,
youngest daughter of the late J. Watson, Esq. W.S. Edinburgh.—The
14th inst. at Paddington Church, J. C. Loudon, Esq. of Porcheata-
terrace, Bayswater, to Jane, only daughter of the late T. Webb. Esq. of
Sitwell-house, Worcestershire.—Yesterday. at St. tieorge's, Blooms.
bury, W. Dunlop, Esq. of Bury, Lancashire, to Miss Hannah Beasley,
daughter of the late R. Beasley, Esq. of Radcliffe and Manchester.

DIED.

The 11th inst. at Actompark. Denbighshire, Harriot, wife of Sir F.
Cunliffe, Bart.—The 13th inbtant, at Catnberwall. in her 12t=
Lavinia, the youngest daughter of W. Sims, Esq. of the War
The 13th inst. at Albemarle-street, B. Carpenter, Esq. of Monkeys.
house, near Taunton, Some/shire, aged 39—The 7th last. at Green-
wich Hospital, Mary, widow of the late Capt. A. Hunt, R.N.—The
14th inst. at Blackheath, Mr. G. Charles, of Mark.lane—The 12thInaL
in her 72d year, Mary, the will of Mr. Sew, of Oust Ocaral-aimsa,
Euston-square—At 3l ate, on the 10th inst. Rawlins arced
24., wife of T. F. Cobb, Eaq. and eldest daughter of the late CoL
of Snydall, Yorkshire—The 13th of August, at Madeira, in the
year of his age, Mr. H. B. Stance, son of Mr. Janus Saws, at Publ.
ham Rye, Surrey.

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