The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-10-30


3 ways. Colorado was the scene of ac-
ton of the shepherd dog who was left
. 70 collect and bring forward 500 sheep
that sudden snow storm had separ-
ated from the main drove of {, 900 and
scattered in packs Of from twenty to
/ 100 in the mountains vest of Denver
and ne did recover more than 400 OF
/ them, and drove them up to rejOin
I the main column at the close OF the
third day, having been observed by
/ teamsters to camp with the flock each
night, to allow them to Craze when
necessary, and to slaughter one of
them daily to appease his own hunger.
Less extensive but still notable was
I the exploit of the Canaan Butchers
! dog who swan around the miIl-pond
with an obstinate and suicidal pig,
and finally brought him safely to
shore at the appointed spot. A refer
enee to the persistent fighto a thirty
pound bull terrier with a horse at
/ Oldham, Eng; to the destruction OF
zone hundred ground-hoas by an in-
dustrious dog in Chester County, Pa;
and to the remarkable success OF Balti-
mOre's professional rat-killer, with
his trained ferrets and one-eyed, bob
tailed, SCARED bat ihdOmitable Skye
! terrier-may be accepted as eOmplet-
/ ing the summers record in this di-
rectiOn.
] Misfortune, disaster, and sudden
death have, Of course, troubIed the ca
nine as well as the human family.
The earliest notable case Of the year
was, perhaps, that in April of the dog
who was stranded on q rock in the
Niagara River, where the assembled
spectators, after vainly trying to OshOOt
him, decided to throw him food,
whereby his life was sustained until
the subsiding floods allowed his escape
to the land. Similarly, in Portland
I the other day, q dog wedged himself
into the vault pipe of newspaper Of
| flee, and, as he persistently refused to
be drowned, an agent of the society
i with the long name employed force
of men to exhHme the pipe and rescue
him. A Buffalo coach deg tumbied
out of third story window upon the
stone pavement, but was so much dis
eomforted at the thought Of the enjoy
ment felt by the other dogs at his
downfall, that he walked away with
out any expression of physical pain.
| Likewise the little dog that Jumped
into the LehiSh eolliery, near Shenan-
dOah, after his descending master,
and got to the b5ttom in advance OF
him, was entirely unhurt, though the
drift through which he fell was 33C
feet long, with = pitch OF fOriy-five
degrees. A DslrJIt man, who lett his
dog carefully fastened to the wheel Of
a farmers wagon, returned to the
scene in time to see the animal de-
scribe several swift circles in the air,
and gasp his last breath as the fatally
unsteady hitehinR post released him.
| Another resident Of That city painted
| his dog red, in the belief that the law
required all licensed dogs to be thus
4 distinguished; but the record does not
say whether the result was the same
as in the case of the notorious Paris
wOman's poodle. who, after being col
ored brilliant blue at great expense,
licked off the eerulean dye and died.
The dog OF Troy, who last spring be-
came notorious by drinking the waste
beer in his masters saloon, has been
eelipsed of late by one of Peoria,
whose indulgence in malt beverages
has brought on delirium tremens; but
the dead dog of Norwich, whose pres
ence on the street for two days so fill
ed the air with the odors of decompo-
sition that the health officers, on com
plant OF q resident, ordered his re-
mOval as a nuisance, but who walked
briskly away from the touch of the
undertaken, is absolutely without q
rival. A unique case alsn is that oi
the woman with pcn1le who insist
ed upon riding in the smoking car OF
a train running into Cleveland, and
who there snatched a cigar from q
gentleman's mouth, with the remark,
''If there is anything do hate, it is
tobacco smoke" only to have the out.
ragged smoker pitch her dog out of the
window after his cigar, with the re-
jOinder, ''If there is anything / dc
hate, it is a poodle dog" The cars
likewise were the death of the dog o.
frotnni OF; one Train only to be crushed by
another; and of Springfield cur, who
was too proud to move from the track
of an approaching engine, and was
consistently vicious enough to fasten
his expiring grip on the hand of the
urchin who tried to sOothe his fina
agOnies.
The railways, however, have giveI
special opportunities for the display o
canine accomplishments. The pOpu,
lar enthusiasm over the successful
fOur-mile race which a pointer dog
made with Boston and Providence
locomotive on Sunday morning in
May had hardly subsidized when it'd
ings came from Minnesota Of a medi
um-sized shaggy dog who kept up fol
fourteen miles with a passenger train
running at ordinary speed, on th'
Lake Superior & Mississippi Railway
and was then taken on board and Civ
en- sofa in the saloon car, on its be
ing discovered that he had served a
4 the escort Of a lady passenger from
her friends house to the station, anG
then, without her knowledge, gallant
ly attempted to continue his protec
ton to her journeys end. OF less he
rOic nature was the crafty dog of De
troit, who, in May, "deaG-headed it Il
that city from Chicago, beneath th,
headlight of locomotive, getting OF
once at Jackson for rest and refresh
ment." Then there was the huntini
dog who was transported by eOacl
and car, last autumn, from Westfield
in Massachusetts,, to Milford, in New
Hampshire, and who always SCENE,
contented in his new quarters unit
one day in April, when he became ag
grieved at his masters refusal 20 TAX
him on a hunting excursion, and s.
made his way back, by route OF hi
own, to his former home. In Illinoi
has figured another indignant dog O
Of the shepherd species, who resente
the insult Of whipping by runnin
away, and when discovered, som
months later, by refusing to accep
any overtures from his master, who's
face he first showed that he reeOg
nized and then deliberately turne
his back towards. The tenacity c
the canine memory has been furthe
shown by the dog who belonged I
the clerk of one Of the Sound steam
boats, and was lost at Fall River i
the spring of last year, and who, whel
: he heard the whistle OF his old steam
er at New Bedford, this September, In
sisted on going aboard and riding Z
Nantucket, where be at once Iushe
to the house of his old master. Yer
similar is the case of an Irish sette
dog, belonging to vessel sailing bt
tween this port and New Orleans, VIII
was given to a planter and taken 80
miles up the Mississippi River, but es
capped and leaped aboard a boat bOun
: for New Orleans, and finally wa
brought on a schooner to New YOrH
where one afternoon, he singled ou
) his own ship OH the Brooklyn side {
the river, and at once swan over TO
: and received a joyful welcome fror
the sailors.
The town of Nashua boasts Of do
: who, when he heard his master eX
press regret at having left his dool
key hanging in his shop, went bae
of his own accord tO where the ke
was hanging among others an
brought it safely to him. Washing
ton has a dog who always carries
7 muzzle in his mouth whenever b
: promenades the streets during the be
: season; and San Francisco man re
7 joiees in an English setter, who wi
eat nothing save what is receive
from his masters hand, and will re
ply to the question, ,=sWhat happen
to dogs from eating poisoned meat {?
: by falling on one side with eOHvulsiv
Jerks and stidening out at full lengt
in counterfeit Of death. In anothe
: part of California is a clergyman
dog who invariably goes to church
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