Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-17
THE ST. BERNARD DOGS OF ROME.

In Rome there is as fine COLLECTION OF
four-legged dogs as can be found in any
city of Europe. A certain tourist SAID he
would "rather be specimen OF the canine
family in Rome than the Mayor of Birm-
ingham !" Chacun q son govt. 1t is pro-
posed to have a dog show in Rome! Wen,
we have had worse shows. But we are
pleased that the st. Bernard dog is to have
a local habitation and name in it. There
is but one place where we know the simon
pure st. Bernard. This is the Canton Vaud
The race Of this fine dog is kept vigorous
and pure there, though all throughout the
canton we have noticed q number OF these
animals which evidently have strains of
other blood. In fact, excepting from the
st. Bernard Monastery itself, the Valais,,
ians say you can not procure.a th0r0ughbred
dog, and not always even there. Their pc
culiar training for the assistance OF way
farers begins, of course, only on the noun
tains, and it was from the Monastery on
the st. Bernard that the PRINCE OF Wales
obtained, when passing there, the fine ca
nine specimens which are the ornaments of
his kingly kennel at Sandringham. These
dogs are fed three times a day with vegeta-
BILE and animal food. The Christian dog
there, contrary to some "dogs of Christians"
elsewhere, observes the mOnastic regime,
and is limited on fast days and days of abb
stinence in his food. Next to London joint
stock companies we never saw canine crea-
lures with so much "limited liability"
There are about POO dogs held there in
training orders for the final lessons in hu-
manitarian seeking and finding on ST. Ber-
nard's bleak top. These dogs have most
attractive names, and respond to them as
intelligently as corporaPs guard on roll
call. A sort of stud book is kept, which,
for it's details and accuracy, would draw
tears of envy from the racing authorities
of New Market and our Roman "Jockey
Club" and so learned in dog pedigree that
they would amaze Darwin in a Herald
College. The first family of dogs here are
as proud of their lineage as if they belong
ed to the bluest blood of all dogdom
chronicled in the "BoW-wow Peerage, or
the canine Who's Whow or "Almanch Gle
Gotha!"
One old family traces its origin to the dog
days of the celebrated Bishop of Leon, who
was hurled from his palace windows in the
fourteenth century by a spendthrift nephew,
who was the ro1te cur of the canton.
We may mention on the subject of these
dogs and their sense Of smell that it is Keen
er than in dogs Of the smaller and more do
guided in their chief works. 1t has been
said that "pet dogs" lap dogs, and dogs IN
doged, if we may use the term, by silly
fondling and female nursing, are less strong
in their sense than the natural dog, pure,
sure and simple. A dog deprived of smell
ling poWea ceases to be a dog. Schltf, IN
his treatise on dogs and their faculties, says
the dog with a loss of smell loses its
faculty of attachment for its master whom
it recognizes simply on account of his indi-
vidual perfumer. He caused some young
dogs to be deolfactorized and forever after
they forgot their cunning and knew no mas
ter, be he ever so kind. The OlfactOry
nerve in the st. Bernard Mastitf is particu-
larly large, literally containing sinuses for
increasing the olfactOry surface, and you Go
not discover it so developed in small dogs.
GIRLS AT THEIR STUDIEs.-Did you ev-
er see girls get together to studyo an even
ing? / have, and it generally goes like
this:
"In 1873 Marquette discovered the Missis-
sippi. In 1878 Marquette dis. What did
YOU say, Ide? You had ever so much rather
see the hair coiled than BRAIDED? Yes, so
had /. It's much more stylish, and then
it looks classical too but how do you like
O, dear! | never will learn this lesson! In
1863 Lafayette discovered the Wisconsin,;
In 1863 Lafayette discovered the-Well!
1873 Marquette discovered the Mississippi.
| don't care if he did. | suppose the Mis-
sissipi would have got along just as well if
Marquette had never looked at it. Now,
see here, Ide, is there anything about my
looks to give you to understand that |
know when Columbus discovered James
town and how George Washington won
the battle of Shiloh" Ofcourse there isn't.
History is a horrible study anyhow. No
use either Now French is ever SO much
nicer. | can introduce French phrases very
often, and one must know | have studied
the language. What is the lesson to-mor-
row? Oh, yes; conjugation of parle. Let's
see how does it commence? Je parle, tn
parie, il par-il pa-Il-well. ill., thenn'
"Conjugation don't amount to anything
l know some phrases that are appropriate
here and there, and in most every locality;
and how's anybody going to know but what
l have the conjugations all by heart;
"Have 1 got my geometry? No, Pm just
going to study it. Thirty-ninth is it not:
"Let the triangle A B c, triangle a B.
say Ide, have you read about the Jersey
Lily and Freddie? think it is just too ut
terly ut, and Freddie is simply gorgeous.
Pm completely crushed on him."