The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-10-30
DOGS OF SEYEYTY-rHREE.
4 Summary OF SagseiOas Canine Ex'
pIOIfS BIZ Land and Sea.

DOGS OF SETENTY-THREE
A Summary OF Sagsei0Hs Canine Bx-
plOIts By Land and Sea.
Lives Saved and Property Recovered
interchange Canine COurtesies
-Ine Tricks, Manners and mishapS
OF tae Intelligent Dog.
A writer in the New York EUsIliRg
Post complies the dog stories Of the
season as follows:
Not only does ''eyery dog have his
day" as certainly now as in the old
time when the fact passed into prov
ero, but "his day" now has a far
greater likelihood Of securing general
recognition and notoriety than it ev-
er could have had in that ante-news-
paper period. The modern dog, like
the modern man, his master, is con-
4 ttinuaiiy appearing in print and ehal-
lenging share of the public interest
in all manner of connections, credita-
BILE or otherwise, as the case may be.
He forms, indeed, as essential. If not
as inevitable, a feature in a complete
and satisfactory newspaper as do its
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or accounts of the troubles in Spain.
That the statement is not overdrawn,
a reference to the record of the pres
ent year-which has not been a par
tieularly good one for dOgs-Will con-
clusively show.
The traditional acts of fidelity, to
begin with, have been we'll exempli-
fled by the Patterson bulldog who
Jumped into the water for the first
time in his life, one August day, and
saved his masters child from drown
ing; by the Illinois dog, of low repute,
who was inspired, last July, to seize
by the nose COW that was about to
toss a baby upon her horns; by the
Nashua terrier, who, after watching
beside his little playmate, sleeping on
the lawn in May-day, barked to the
passers-by to come and wake him as
the evening shadows fell; by the
Newfoundland, of the same town, who
interpOsed between a creeping child
and an open fireplace so as to be
singed and blistered when the mother
of the child appeared; by the dog of
the Atlantic House who distinguished
himself in a somewhat similar way at
the August fire on Mount Deseret; by
the Newfoundland who saved the son
of the lighthOuse-keeper on the sam e
island, first dragging him from the
water and then attracting aid for his
resuscitation by the display Of his wet
and muddy cap; by the Nevada mas
tiff who rescued three-year-Old girl
from the grasp of a panther, and fl
nally killed the beast after il had been
wounded by q rifle shot from the
chiId's mother; by the dog of Penns-
grove, New Jersey, who, in June, at
tracted seasonable aid to his baby
playmate drowning in a well; by the
dog, who, in July, fought the murder
ers of the McBrides, in Lycoming
county, Pennsylvania; by the New
foundland, who defended the children
of San Francisco lawyer from an as
sault of a crazy woman; by the terri
er, who tried to wake up workman
on East Eleventh street, n. Y, one
Saturday night in May, for the rescue
of his brother, who had risen from his
bed and hung himself; and by the
bulldog of Huguenot, New York, who
last month, with his teeth and paws,
tore off from little girl part of her
burning garments, and would have
saved her life but for the ill-judged in
reference of her frantic mother.
| Canine faithfulness, however, is
sometimes misapplied, as at Scran-
ton, last March. where the dog of an
A6hg kept kidtN at ID Bay yf1IIlsn Ilisn fE2ma ae8ed and
euers until ne was nearly dead; and
at Manchester, New Hampshire, where
q new watch dog mistOOk the master
of the house for the imaginary burg.
lar at whom he was firing his revOlv-
er, and received him warmly with
open mouth. Oregon, ILL.,, is the res
idence of the Newfoundland who was
so active in the digging up Of potatoes
and other vegetables that his industry
had to be checked by a chain; and
Lawrence, Mass, claims the dog that
erept back to a shoemaker's shop
where some boots had been left for re-
pair, and refused to allow them to be
touched by the terrified repairer; but
it remained for the California climate
to develop, in King Charles spaniel,
at Oakland, a propensity for stealing
from the doorsteps Of his neighbOr.
hood all the morning papers and bury
ing them carefully in a convenient
rubbish heap. Less innocent than be
was the New Orleans terrier that reg.
ularly stole laces and jewelry from the
! shop-keepers, under the instructions
of his mistress, who finally took poi
son and died when the dead body o.
her pet was thrown into her prison
cell by his unfeeling captors,. An off
set to this was found in the case OF the
Richmond poodle who shed genuine
tears, and finally died of grief ovel
the removal of his mistress to Oregon
and in the troubles of q Boston eler
gyman, whose dog, once the property
of a London thief, snatched the port
mohnaies from his lady parishioners
and proudly handed them to him al
the very entrance to the church. INT
Troy saloon-keeper's black-and-tar
terrier, who can distinguish counter
felt paper money from genuine, and
who has, within a few years past
picked up and brought in from the
streets more than $500 in currency
perhaps deserves naming at this place
: while, as q final example of over
faithfulness, may be mentioned the
dog of Binghamton, who followed ul
the cloak and umbrella lent to hii
masters guests who went out to pas
a night at a neighboring house, anC
kept guard beside the property, with
out food or drink, until he saw 1t safe
ly returned.
OF dogs dealing with one aEOtheI
and with other animals the seasOI
has given many examples. In Rum
! ney, Vt, the chaser of woodchuck
/, after being frequently baffied by thu
escape of the latter through drain
|, stationed another dog at one end of j
and then himself entering as usual a
the other end, triumphantlv captures
, his victim. In Pittsfield, Mass, also
dog, after long fight in a Glove
: field with a woodchuck of about hi
, own size and strength, finally VOL
! the victory by dragging his antagOn
ist to a brook near by and holding
him under water until drowned. tn
July exploit of Mr.. s. l.. NJ. Barlow
Scotch deer hounds was characteristic
One of them having casually ventur
!. ed inside the yard of a farmhouse
! was pOunced upon by the mastif VIII
kept guard there, and severely pun
r ished. For five days the injure,
! hound stayed at home, in a hole whiel
! he had dug in a shady spot where b
! could keep his wounds IN cOntae
with the moist earth and discuss wit
> his mate the most promising plan
for revenge. Then the pair quietl.
, advanced to the quarters OF the mas
: tiff and tore him to pieces before hu
man aid could arrive. The lordl.
: Newfoundland dog has appeared a
a peacemaker at Buffalo, where b.
; serenely seized and carried off one o
pair Of contesting ours and as
: murderer OF Portland, where he de
! liberately drowned a small dog VIII
had pestered him beyond endurance
J as the protector and friend of a mini
; sture terrier at New Orleans, wher
he captured similar terriers to serv
: as companions to his own and as al
humble suppliant at Manchester II
this State, where an obliging shepher
!, dog pulled him up the steep ston
wall of the canal. One dog in thI
. city has been made a sort Of 1shma
: among his fellows by the actions Q
: . his master in attaching needles to hi
muzzIe and another in Massaehus
!. etts villagehas lost his ears, by hi
indiscreet zeal in thrustiDg his hea
between the stats of q picket fence, I
!, snap at a passing rival, for when th
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