The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-03-28

travelling by balloon is at best an act of
extreme danger and temerity. In order
to utilize balloons, it is evident that
some sure means of guiding them must
be invented. and this discovery or any,
thing approaching to it has yet to be
made. In fact, balloon is still, after
about hundred years experience, lit
tie better than 4 toy.-Chambers' Jour-
nal.
How SMILES inundated the Dog.
SNIFFLEs, who lives in the Third
Ward, read in some book, that in the
Himalaya Mountains, where the dogs
are extremely ferocious, travellers pro-
vide themselves with 4 pair of huge
goggles, and when they see a dog in
the way they put them on and walk
steadily toward the animal, without
saying word. The dog bristles up
and stares hard for moment, and then
all ut once it willis and sinks away
Now, Snitfles, in going to and from his
home, was compelled to pass a house
that had Il savage bulldog among its
regular boarders, and it had often
chased him a block or two, late at night,
baying 6eep-mouthed welcome as he
drew near home. Once he left quite a
hunk of coat-tail in the dogs teeth as
he jumped his own fence, and Sniffies
swore that the next coat he had made
should be ornamented with dog-but-
tons, against similar experience.
The expedient Of the goggles struck
Sniffles as an exceedingly happy one,
and he determined to try it. So the
first time that he went downtown he
invested in the biggest pair of goggles
he could find, and green ut that, in case
he might meet any green dog. in his
travels, that needed quailing. Sniifies
went home earlier than usual that after
noon, so anxious was he to try the new
method on that dog. He met several
inferior pups on the route, and, putting
on the goggles, they Immediately scam
percd away, but they might have done
that any way, you can't tell. Where
one dogwood another dog wouldn't.
Reaching the vicinity of the house
where the bulldog put up, Snitfles adj
justed the goggles and moved cautious
ly along, keeping sharp eye-in fact.
a big pair of goggle-eyes-upon the
well-known spot in the fence where
there was picket gone Che could
picket out in the dark), through which
he had seen his canine adversary so
often emerge. He paused about twen-
ty feet away, fearing that if he was too
near when the dog bounced out, he
wouldn't observe the goggles at all, and
would be far along in his repast before
he could call his attention to them.
Sniffles waited and waited, but no
dog appeared. At length he grew
weary of watching and waiting,
and began to Whistle 70 him.
Then he said "Come, doggy, doggy.
doggy" in low, gentle tones, and final
ly, as there was no response, he yelled
out, "Come out of there, you son-of a
gun barrels" AS this failed to fetch
him, Snitfles walked boldly up to the
fence and looked over, and there lay
tie dog on the front step summing HIM
self, with both eyes shut AS Snitfles
contemplated him in languid repose,
he wondered why he had been afraid
of him at all, and felt ashamed that he
had been such a coward as to run away
from him in the first place. "But I'll
give the brute scare, anyhow"
thought Snitties. So he walked boldly
through the gate, all goggled rs he
was, and gave a little yell to rouse the
creature up.
The dog, awakened suddenly from
pleasing dream of tearing the watch
dogs honest bark off some wayfarer's
leg, seemed confused for moment.
His first impression was that he was a
performer in some amateur dog show,
and that big pair of opera glasses
were leveled at him from the gallery.
Then he didn't know but that pho
tographer with double camera was
endeavoring to take his dogarytype.
But it wasn't long before his intellect
came to his rescue. In the meantime
Sniffles was staring as hard as he could
through his goggles, trying to concen-
trate in his gaze all the stern intimida-
ton of which he had ever read. But
to his dismay he saw a green bulldog
of enormous size rise slowly up, fixing
pair Of green eyes, in which there
was concentrated ferocity softened by
a CLEAN of subdued exultation, full
upon his own. Everything appeared
green to Sniffies at that moment,
especially his attempt to brighten such
a dog. He rapidly made up his mind
that there wasn't any such q breed of
pups in the Himalaya Mountains, or
they would never have Dragged over
the success of the goggles game. He
tried to 60 out of the gate, but it fast
cned with spring when he stepped in.
The dog seemed to appreciate that fact;
for he smiled grimly. showing double
set of teeth that appeared to Sniffies'
excited fancy like the upper and lower
set he had seen hauled around the city
on a dentists wagon. The cool DELHI
Grafton of that dog was something
awful. The brute finally raises up on
his hind legs, and sort of whips his fore
paws around his body, as if to warm
himself up for the work he has in hand.
Then he slowly advances with regular
butcher-boy air, and Sniffles is unable
to make any impression upon him,
though he goggles ever SO goggly.
Then came a sudden bound, a low,
hungry growl and shrek, and the air
was Immediately filled with fragments
of clothing, old boot legs, suspendcr-
buttons, strips of paper collar, green
goggles and bulldog. 1t would have
been all up with Sniffies had it not been
for the timely arrival of the owner of
the dog, who rescued what there was
left Of him and sent it home. While
the doctor was fixing him up he raved
continually about green goggles. and
wanted to whip any traveller from the
Mountains of Himalaya. But they
thought it was only delirium on the
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